skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As some others have mentioned in this thread, the most important problems are often not the most interesting.

For example, Code for America has several "civic tech" projects where volunteer software engineers can make apps to make it easier for recipients of government benefits to navigate the system. These kinds of "civic tech" apps make government more efficient. They have a direct and measurable positive impact on poverty and inequality.

But these projects are not particularly interesting from a technological perspective. They are not rocket science. They are just web apps. A lot of the time, solving important problems is not particularly complicated or difficult. You just have to care. In other words, you have to be able to prioritize your values over your ego. Will you be able to put on your resume that you learned a fancy new technology? Probably not. But will you be able to say that you had a positive impact? Probably yes.

If you are a software engineer looking to make a positive impact, you should search for terms like "civic tech" or "humane tech" to find projects that are driven by humane values, not profits. Or you should reach out to a nonprofit organization and ask if they need help with their website. They could often use help with making it easier to get donations, communicate their message, contact a politician, or do other stuff related to their website.

The other thing to remember is that solving the most important problems is not just thankless, most of the time. It also doesn't pay well, because it often involves serving people and communities who don't have the ability to pay much. But if you are one of those patient people who prioritizes your values over your ego and your finances, I respect you, and even though I don't know your name, you are my favorite kind of person.

I think the world would be a beautiful place if the most important problems were also the most financially lucrative to solve. But we don't live in that world. We can't expect the financial incentives to line up with what's important. If you serve a nonprofit that aims to make the world a better place, you probably can't do it for the money. It has to be because you care.
For the record, my post above made no value judgment about which medias are better or worse or ragged on “kids these days”. I just wanted to emphasize that the forum behavior which the quoted person claims to have aged out of, is actually being kept alive by his very generation.
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This is a very nasty comment. I was wondering if I could find some things that could lead to an exception.

But I'm pretty sure that millions of users aren't using stuff like w3m pager ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34175754 )

We're all technical here, we are the edge cases. We use exotic software / combos. Let's not get carried away here

The PM of cloudflare uses Firefox, I sometimes use Firefox and I don't notice any difference ( concerning this use-case at least).

If you want help, perhaps describe the actual use-case that is blocking you to him. He shared his email.

- country

- software ( VPN, ... )

- browser

- OS

- traceid

- ...

Either way, buying shady proxies as you mentioned is already a warning flag.

While using Firefox is not :)
I don't think I'm stuck on anything, I just noticed that bit and mentioned it.
you dont pay 20 usd/month for google
>without it other computers can [...] lie about their identity

That's the point, I think. I own my computer, which means I decide whether it lies. If I want to serve "This website only works in Chrome" when it's actually cross-platform, that's my right. I might want the client to open the page in Chrome automatically, and I would have more control over the connection if I could do so, but that control would be over the client's computer. It's not a question of getting more or less control in general, but of getting rightful control over my own property.

> both operators want not just control over their computer but also what the other computer can do

Are you saying that my demand to not have a server control what my client does is an act of control over what their computer does? Like if I told you not to use your forklift to take my stuff, I'm asserting power over your property?
The particular syntax being used an example is more verbose than it needs to be, so I don't know why you're making this argument.
Flagged per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37054408
ProPublica's Machine Learning Model for Future Ebola Outbreaks
Why leave the blog post up without any disclaimers, then?
AIEO is a thing, baby. Did you not think a system that gathers effectively all its input from the web would just be left alone by hostile actors with almost zero costs and millions to billions of dollars of upside?

Welcome to the big leagues, OpenAI. Google (search and display ads) has basically lost the war against adversarial input, maybe you can do better.
Ironic considering Jobs conspired to fix prices with media partners including News Corp. Either way, network TV isn't the only news. There's plenty of non-profit news and non-predatory news in the world besides network TV.
If so, all people relying on (often limited even with html that contains text) accessibility features will have to sit in a corner and cry.
Nowhere did I say anyone needed to be cheerful, only that ignoring basic social courtesy is rude. Going up the thread a bit, we're talking about "no greeting, no thank you, no smile" - now I can't speak for @coldtea but IMO all it takes to not be rude is one of those things. A single "hello" or "good morning/afternoon/whatever," a single thank you, literally any form of acknowledgement. Nobody is talking about making people dance or "actively smiling" except the people trying to willfully misrepresent others' opinions.

My point, and I think @coldtea's point, is that if you basically ignore customers, you're rude and shouldn't be in a customer service position. I grew up in the northeast US and it was rare to have any customer service interaction where you received no greeting, no thank you, nothing - precisely because it's rude, and most people aren't.
FYI... last time I tried, I could get the equivalent of a HTML <PRE> block by putting two spaces at the beginning of every line. Here's an example. Each line was indented two spaces:

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
printf( "Bonjour, totes le monde!\n" );
return( 0 );
}

Looks like it worked. It looks like it's rendering with a mono font.
Key words: "in this scenario"

Is Cloudflare using an as yet unshipped API as part of DDOS protection?
How does it compare to GitHub Copilot?
But what does this have to do with whether the fictional world of "A Song of Ice and Fire" is more or less realistic in their depiction of "medieval society" [1] than the epic romances that came before, and that he compares to "Disneyland Middle Ages"? [1, again].

We are discussing GRRM's fictional depiction of a "realistic" middle ages, with a focus on Europe but some side-dishes of Asian steppe cultures -- which according to ACOUP he also gets wrong. Which wouldn't matter if GRRM didn't assert his depiction was more realistic!

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[1] George Martin's words.
I had a similar experience. It's unfortunate since I hear it get praised constantly for being a masterpiece and I am a big fan of puzzle games, but it just would not click for me. I think it's also to do with the nature of the puzzle being kind of abstract (and at times almost subjective since I think multiple answers can potentially be correct for some causes of death). The game tries to handle this with the evidence book that you can refer to, but it's a massive thing that just feels clunky to use due to the sheer size of it.
It is a description of an interesting project, but I don't see any source or binaries to download. (Please correct me if I am wrong!)

The name is trademarked, and the latest update is about getting a patent (2019). I would love to play with software implementing this idea, especially if it let me build custom modules, but I am not optimistic about this specific project.
> These are not the same thing. Afaik, most “vCPU” are hyperthreads, not physical cores.

OP didn't say otherwise. They are saying that public clouds do not let work from different tenants run on the same physical core (on different hyperthreads) at the same time.

This doesn't prevent you from selling 1 hyperthread as 1 vCPU, it just means there are some scheduling restrictions and your smallest instance type will probably have 2 vCPUs if you have SMT-2 hardware (and that's exactly what you see on AWS outside of the burstable instance types).
If the Android and iOS simulators are lightweight compared with their native counterparts I'm all in. Android Studio's adb stopped working for me recently and the Android Studio emulator is just too heavy for my 2013 Macbook Pro which works just fine for everything else, eg. JS, Python, Clojure and Golang.
> The influx of money into the region could reduce the disparity.

Money in the region would help but I don't see it happening since Poland is just a few km away and a more lucrative target for attracting investments from west Germany due to having less red tape, and lower taxes and regulations.

East Germany can't compete with that so it seems it be forever be this "desert" in between west Germany and Poland where nobody wants to live and invest.

I see this as a fault of the German gov for not making east Germany an attractive place for investors.
Because I, for now, have the ability to make my computer say what I tell it to say, I have developed a small Firefox extension [1] that tells it what to say.

Silly? Yeah. Petty? Yeah. But sometimes it feels good to exercise your rights.

[1] https://github.com/rogual/wei-gfy
Previously known as GamerOS, it's basically arch-based clone of SteamOS 2, which came around between Steam Machines becoming irrelevant, and the Steam Deck showing up.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=WkIGUuVLrn8
Remember the Line25 "realistic shadows" pack??

(I cringe when I look at some of the emails I had with them back when I was 11, though...)
I don't think you can really say anything is to blame for this: people follow incentives and the incentives are to yell higher and higher to be heard over all the noise of everybody else and to create the most insane headlines to be hear over all the other insane headlines.

The solution to this tradegi of the commons is to ignore it all and read up on the various candidates a few weeks before the election.
Not a very substantive article. First reason is that the Brave founder doesn't 100% align with the authors political/ideological preferences (author disabled comments to prevent expression of disagreement), second is that Brave had a different plan for its advertising system but changed due to internal and external pressures to their current optional model, and third (the only reasonable section) relates to the affiliate scandal alongside various sketchy crypto-related promitons (FTX among other things).
Considering that several people have tried and failed to reproduce this, and there's a warning at the top of the shared conversations about the creator's Custom Instructions, and that as others have pointed out this is pretty obvious and would destroy a lot of goodwill for ChatGPT, I think it's overwhelmingly likely that the author put in some custom instructions to try and elicit this behavior from ChatGPT in order to drum up controversy for clicks.

I don't know anything else about this author - do they have a history of similar behavior?
I get decent performance with my 4090, enough that LLMs with exllama at 30B quantitized are very usable. But we're severely VRAM limited, especially on lower end hardware which rarely sees > 10GB of VRAM.

I don't know how much slower it could be and still be useful though. The big thing is we need more VRAM, 30B is context length limited with only 24GB of vram, I've only barely made it above 3.2k tokens before running out.

I hope you're right, that it becomes common for systems to have either dedicated TPU type stuff similar to smartphones, and that they absolutely load the crap with VRAM (which I don't think is even that expensive?)

Models will also get smaller but I'm skeptical we'll get GPT4 performance with any useful context length under 24GB VRAM any time soon.
Have you considered that some billionaire always gets a cut because theyre an important part of the ecosystem? Why is it you can't find a business stream without a rich guy there? Who do you think pays those construction workers to build the factory before it will ever produce a single dime of revenue?

You talk about billionaires and corporate taxes. You know billionaires are individuals, not corporations, right? And you know that they pay taxes? Also did you know that corporations don't actually make any money, the people that work there and own shares in them get the profit, and pay taxes when they do? At least the rich ones do, the not rich people who own these companies are people like you and me who have 401ks and pay no taxes on our share of the profits these companies generate, and that accounts for most of the ownership in them.
Do you check the profile of users before commenting?

I don't think that is feasible, do you?

It seems my strategy of defaulting to gender neutral pronouns no longer has a 100% success rate and may need modified.
> An ambulance in the UK is never more than 8 minutes away from you, an ambulance in the US can be miles from you.

Most US road traffic deaths happen in cities and towns. Time to ambo is a factor, but it's not nearly as significant as you say.

> The default position to keep people alive hell or high water is order of the day!

This is a bizarre claim and it is untrue, and evidence free.

> I have certain metrics, that if they occurred, I'd like to be euthanised on the spot, but the govt via the NHS and ambulance service wants to carry on experimenting with me and millions more, like a preface to the story and film Terminator.

Most countries in the world do not allow euthanasia. I'd recommend you look at Advance Directives which is currently the closest you'll get in England. https://compassionindying.org.uk/how-we-can-help/living-will...
Right and people gravitate heavily towards the bad. The most watched cable news by far is FOX which has been caught dead to rights conspiring with government, with campaigns and telling intentional lies in furtherance of propaganda goals. And they don't suffer any loss in loyalty. That is 100% the faults of the viewers who elect to be deceived in ways they enjoy.
You mean more?
The guy literally called it “severe repression and human rights abuses” and you somehow twisted your thoughts to think he’s justifying it…you like outrage huh?
Thar was the original complaint (and a valid one) at the start of this comment chain, but a further complaint was given about the UX, stating that it had terrible design as links were hard to recognise as links.

"How did you even know that? That honestly would not have occurred to me. What terrible UX."

That's why you're seeing discussion about UX right now. A different subject is in focus.
This sounds like a feature I've wanted for a while. I'm seriously trying to decide if deleting my watch history is worth the major benefit of disabling the YouTube homepage and recommendations area.
The continuity of knowledge transitioning from one generation of production to the next shouldn’t be underrated. If you started in 1987 with state-of-the-art knowledge and kept up with the advances, your knowledge would have transformed over the years.

Of course, if you’re just getting started now, the knowledge from 1987 is of little use (not entirely useless though) and indeed drastically different from 2023 SotA.
Yes but none of those things sound like they needed to be first-class built-in parts of git and instead could've been just plug-in tools built on top of git. Like stashes could just be a set of branches named stashes/<stash name>, with external scripts handling the stash/pop mechanic.

And given the choices in things that get first class support in git, "which branch was this commit originally made in" or "no you don't need to care about that intermediate commit" or "what commits were derived from this commit" or "what branch is this commit in" seems like they would've been more useful problems for the freeping creaturitis to solve.
I don't visit fringe news sites or echo chambers.

I mostly just eyeball the headlines of various news orgs and then try to deduce "what really happened if you strip away the clickbait, sensationalism, and fearmongering".

apnews.com is pretty good.

I'll even visit bullshit places like foxnews, not to find actualy news or facts but instead to see what is currently being planted into the smooth mushy brains of many Americans.
Its not about the games. Its about how much effort it takes to play the games using ChimeraOS. Kinda nice to have an idea what you are in for before you spend some time installing and testing a new OS build.
Adding the disclaimer now.
Things are likely just going to change. At one point you could make a living writing HTML/CSS. I remember ~20 years ago right when I started getting into the field of software, that was a job title, and it paid well.

Now days I don't think that's really a thing, and very much automated away. But there are front end jobs that require expertise in crazy frameworks that pay 3x what anyone ever made doing HTML.
Software as rugpull model
> Let me tell you about family members that have a mac because "they don't want the hassle of a windows laptop".

They are not wrong. E.g. It amazes me how much pain and suffering Microsoft expects users to endure just to use a printer. It is not lost on my stepmother that her Windows machine has endless problems setting up and printing to her Brother laser printer, but her iPhone just sees it without having to be told.
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>he was in theory the most powerful person on the planet

You need to provide a practical definition of "most powerful" before your phrase can be evaluated.
thanks for the feedback. I'll check with the developers.
and someone's come and done it again
> To act as a closely connected team that is able to sort things out and deal with the unforseen, helping each other out

To a point, but it is generally understood that unskilled members of a team will bring down a team to unsustainable levels. A team can only compromise so far. If you have a medical team, for instance, you're not walking the streets to see the first hobo join. If you have a sports team, you carefully ensure the members are skilled at the game.

Same applies here. COVID brought extenuating circumstances, of which accommodations were made, but those who haven't developed the necessary skills at this point can go back to the office. They are not a good fit for these particular teams. And that's okay. There are many different teams for them to find a good fit.
I don't know anything about MacOS. Normal users don't have r-x on /Users ? How do they access their own /Users/whatever homedir then?
It's a bad question.

1. This question just exploits GPT-4's inability to count accurately, which is some combination of how the attention mechanism and tokenization works. But counting isn't reasoning. If you go around the counting and ask what the value of p is negated 27 times, it will give you the right answer every time.

2. A reasonable human would probably make mistakes counting tildes at a pretty high rate. Most people would probably paste that into a word processor or otherwise use a program to find the number of ~ signs, which GPT-4 will do if you use the code interpreter.
Does Digital Ocean count as a major cloud player?
I do not doubt the severity of the flaw, but most practical attacks end up being far more mundane. Consider SolarWinds, for example. No dazzling tricks needed, whatever gets the job done.
This is also my problem. I have no issue with private jets, but I have huge issue with people who are flying on them and then start virtue signaling about climate change. Like could you clean up your house first, before you will start lecturing other people how they should clean their houses?
> What if you were a couple weeks away from laying everyone off and a shady partner sidled up to you and suggested such a move. I believe it would be a moral crisis for any entrepreneur: shaft your customers or shaft your business, its investors and its employees.

That is the difference between ethical and unethical operators
I sort of accept the apathy and ignorance argument for individuals (though crowds would get worried, even enraged if they were to receive warnings from institutions they trust, so one still needs to explain why there are none).

But the list of affected entities involves far more than addicted consumers. Digital gatekeepers interfere and reshape the information flows which form the fabric on which all economic, cultural and political activity takes place. There is already plenty of evidence of the potentially dramatic impact. Highly trained and responsible individuals in the corporate world or the public sector cannot possibly be ignorant or detached from this extreme and unprecedented concentration of control that affects their very own roles and power bases.

I didn't really want to speculate as to what perpetuates this (by historical standards) rather extraordinary situation. There is clearly some accommodation taking place. E.g when the entity now known as Meta attempted to introduce a digital currency it was summarily pushed back into its corner.

The mind control possibility was a joke, but - mind you - conspiracy theories thrive in the lack of transparency.
Why would they load balance based on user agent? I can’t think of a scenario where that was a reasonable solution.
Sure, but it’s rather convenient that the route from the airport also takes you up and down the main drag.

Let’s say I’m staying at circus circus and I’m seeing a show at the MGM grand.

It’s an hour walk, 24 minute bus ride plus the wait for the bus (15 minutes divided by 2 on average), or a 12 minute drive.

The Vegas monorail exists but it isn’t anywhere near the actual street where the pedestrians are, and the station locations are so far from where you want to be that you might as well walk.

Therefore, if I’m a typical tourist I’m taking an Uber or a taxi for this trip.

That’s why the strip has so many lanes of traffic. I’m incentivized to get in a car and I haven’t even left the “theme park” boundaries.
If we introduced regular cars for the first time in this political environment, we'd never allow them on the roads. Our existing cars on the road severely impede emergency vehicles, through regular stand-still traffic, double-parking without anyone in the car, parking in front of hydrants, etc.

We have learned to ignore and work around those issues, but it's hard to do the same with novel issues that we give people the power to block and delay.
a bit difficult and controversial in Data Science, but okay. I’ve taught data scientists to use docker, I might be able to teach some Rust !

For anything that is not related to DS/ML/Opt, yes, start with Rust. I had tremendous success with distributed Rust microservices using ZeroMQ for backbone communication.
My wife co-owns and runs a small retail clothing store, so she receives a lot of packages. UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL, etc. etc. Even occasionally Amazon, because for various reasons it's easier to receive personal packages there sometimes than at our home.

UPS is not just the best run package delivery, it is not at all a close contest. It is the only one without frequent missed deliveries, misdeliveries (as in the package was delivered to the wrong place), packages obviously water-damaged or otherwise messed up. It is also the only one where the drivers can figure out, routinely, what the store's hours are (even though they are publicly posted on both webpage and front door). A big part of this is that UPS drivers seem to stay around on the same route a lot longer.

UPS may or may not be aware of it, but in a situation of labor shortage, their near-monopoly hold on the good drivers is a serious competitive advantage.