skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I use ChatGPT heavily for all sorts of things (code, brainstorming, helping me understand different topics) but I hardly ever copy and paste its output directly into writing that I'm doing."

My experience is similar. I think ChatGPT's main flaw as a writer is that it lacks personality and a compelling voice. It may have excellent grammar and sentence structure, but that usually isn't enough to hold someone's attention or make them really enjoy a piece of writing.

The tricky part is that developing a voice is an advanced writing skill and takes a lot of practice. So I suppose the downside of this boost that ChatGPT can give to people who aren't strong writers is that ChatGPT could also easily become the ceiling of their writing abilities if it causes them to stop practicing and improving.

Of course, this all becomes moot if AI improves to the point that it can fully emulate an authentic human voice and produce content at the level of the best writers. I used to think this was really far off, but with the current pace of progress, I'm not so sure.
Slots are designed by psychologists to maximize take. One of the things they do is make sure there's a decent payout every 80 spins on average. Also slots in well viewed spots pay out more because they get more attention. There are a number of strategies that are more detailed, such as the one Mitnick mentions.

People do make money playing slots, but it's real work.
Perhaps not? He was a priest after all… not that that meant anything at the time, since many had children despite purported vows of celibacy.
> running a chess AI is teaching a person to play chess.

Chess AI is exactly why today's GMs are so young and so strong compared to earlier GMs. It commoditized high-level matches.
A webserver like nginx hosting a static (files in folders) website is incomparably more secure and less of a risk than say, opening your web browser and going to a website without disabling javascript execution. The number of nginx remote exploits in the last decade could be counted on one hand, probably without using all the fingers.

The mistake many make at the start is trying to run a complex web application backend with php or databases or whatever. Or using some "easy" container all-in-one containing these complexities. Maintaining the security of that is a neverending diffcult task. Whereas maintaining nginx installed from your OS repos literally requires no work at all. KISS and you'll be perfectly safe.
The power to completely cut off someone’s access to a service without recourse or explanation, be it email or food delivery or something else, is one of the most horrifying and dystopian realities we as an industry have willed into existence.

Glad to see municipalities finally taking some territory on this, it’s long overdue.

Edit: typo
With me, it was around 5 years ago although first inkling started w/JSON support 8 yrs ago.
> Who in tech works on a clock?

In the US and in the tech career field but outside of the tech industry (and maybe even inside it in places that aren’t paying top dollar) in places like California which have a higher-than-federal salary floor for wage/hour exemption in the field, even if nominally reimbursed on a salary basis, plenty of people at junior levels, because they are subject to wage/hour/overtime rules.

Probably also a lot of people in places that have stronger worker protections than the US (which covers, well, most of the developed world.)
Oh i totally agree! It’s just unfortunate that it means a tui slack is not a possibility, even for slacks that are fully public.

My company also does not restrict slack on unmanaged devices so its not like they’re mitigating data exfiltration meaningfully. But, even with such a lax policy, officially sanctioning a third party app has implications.
Smart to delete old content.

Very few people use it.

And it costs resources to keep up and crawl.

Better to prune content that doesn’t get a lot of traffic to keep your domain authority high.

Also 50k page limit on sitemap.xml.

Also… stop hoarding. Delete everything you can. As often as you can. Clinging to the past isn’t healthy.
The law reads something like

>statute that prohibited the deposit of unstamped “mailable matter” in a mailbox

I assume the outgoing mail, if stamped, is ok.
Edit; UPS may even be able to use it if the item has postage paid, but in that case they would just have USPS deliver it.
Isn't stealth updating TOS illegal in the EU ?
Looks like a hit piece planted to build momentum to oust the CEO.
But MongoDB is webscale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

Edit: what happened to highscalability.com?
They should get ccTLDs for each country they operate in, or maybe a .auto domain.
It's a garden-path sentence [1]. Garden-path sentences have ambiguous parses that typically require backtracking to correct earlier misinterpretations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
Strategies like these (and kernel schedulers) are often as applicable in life as they are in computer science.
"Employee benefits? No no, they aren't employees, they are contractors who operate with a dramatically higher degree of autonomy... Except when we fire--er, unilaterally sever relations, because they are being autonomous in ways we wouldn't accept from employees." /s
It definitely depends on your definition of extreme weather. I've been more of a "take the train unless the weather is nice" or "cycle unless the weather is bad" person at various stages/places. So I admit I am biased. In my defense I have been shopping for commuter bikes recently and I don't see any compelling options (actually no options from most brands) compared to 1x10 and 1x12 bikes this year. I've also seen noticeable efficiency loss in my old Nexus 7speed bike compared to others and never considered getting another IGH bike after that one.
Sorry - I said functionality but meant performance. Doesn't look I can edit my post anymore. I don't know if that was even true, but that was what the wisdom of the crowds said at the time.
It’s possible they examined the server logs for requests from GoogleBot and found it wasting time on old content (this was not mentioned in the article but would be a very telling data point beyond just “engagement metrics”).

There’s some methodology to trying to direct Google crawls to certain sections of the site first - but typically Google already has a lot of your URLs indexed and it’s just refreshing from that list.
Working at a hardware company with a software company founder (which I’ve done multiple times now) can be a frustrating experience. People used to being able to casually say “hey I want to add this new feature” and getting “$40,000 and 12-week shipping delay” as a response are generally not happy. One project I worked on shipped board v2.17; the requirements were changing so quickly that we often needed to do significant board redesigns before we’d even sent the current design to the prototyping shop. It was… fun.
Worth highlighting that the keylogger was imposed on the employee after they had missed deadlines and showed poor performance... Presumably as an incentive to actually work, which I guess wasn't effective.
Were this to be true, and they intended immediate death for this whole layer, then a) "Windows Services for UNIX" would never have existed, and b) the famous argument with David Korn over the quality of their port of his shell would never have happened.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX

https://m.slashdot.org/story/16351

In any case, a "userspace personality" such as NT exhibits is not added quickly. The NT design began in the late 80's, and I think that something like a POSIX layer existed from the beginning.
> First, blockchains are terribly limited capability-wise. You'd be much better off with a raspberry pi.

Blockchain = horseless carriage

Raspberry Pi = horse

A Raspberry Pi has a number of disadvantages compared to a blockchain. It needs power. It needs an internet connection. It degrades over time. The advantage of the Raspberry Pi is, as you mention, the clock speed (so to speak) is faster / cheaper. But that doesn’t mean it will always be so. Someday, I believe blockchains will be more efficient and have fewer downsides than a Raspberry Pi.
Since everyone's reacting to the headline and hasn't read The Fine Article... Please let me call attention to the linked tweet from Google explicitly saying don't do this.

> Are you deleting content from your site because you somehow believe Google doesn't like "old" content? That's not a thing! Our guidance doesn't encourage this. Older content can still be helpful, too.

https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/1689018769782476800
Agreed, better Postgres local testing would be amazing!

I've heard about testcontainers [1] before, which can be used for Postgres. I've used it a bit, but the Elixir library for it is still under development [2] so I haven't been able to try it at work. Elixir's Ecto library is pretty good at wrapping Postgres for tests though [3].

[1] https://testcontainers.com

[2] https://elixirforum.com/t/excontainers-throwaway-containers-...

[3] https://hexdocs.pm/ecto/testing-with-ecto.html
Google will give you advice on how to not be penalized by Google. They won’t give you advice on how to game the system in your favor.

The more Google helps you get ahead, the more you end up dominating the search results. The more you dominate the results, the more people will start thinking to come straight to you. The more people come straight to you, the more people never use Google. The less people use Google, the less revenue Google generates.
FreeBSD SVNWeb
Kotlin extension methods are basically just type classes but without the theory.
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Religious people are far from model citizens. From the perspective of non-religious people they deeply believe in something without any evidence.

But specially the more fanatic atheist has this aura of superiority around him. There is this sense of liberation when you free yourself from bunch of lies or when you oppose a bunch of lies. (or think you do)

But then we are stuck with these annoying christian values baked into our culture. Annoying since you cant just get rid of them because they are good ideas.

We've basically uninstalled the proprietary application because it was bad but now we have to implement the protocol ourselves. This is considerably harder than bowing to some god king and doing as told.

As a religious man told me, if god is not real you can just go around killing and robbing people? We are not in a hurry living up to his expectations but gradually we are getting there. So far robbing everyone is working out nicely.
> What would you consider a high information density program?

Meet Renoise, love of my life.

https://i.imgur.com/yxekqbW.png

Though that's probably more high knob density than information density, I wouldn't want to have it any other way. For me, subtle gradients and borders and such are not just a matter of being prettier (to me), but they really help the eye along. e.g. this is my HN stylesheet: https://i.imgur.com/XRPuhNc.png

Flat design is Workbench 1.3. Okay for 1985. Then came Workbench 2.0, then 3.0 with Magic User Interface Icons, a clear progression. Why would I want to go back from that? Speaking of Amiga and continuous progress, for me the god king emperor of interfaces is Directory Opus. As long as that only exists on Windows, I'll always run windows, if even just in a VM with access to the host filesystem. But one that is hard to show off in screenshots because unless you show 50 screenshots of custom configurations, you'll sell it short. Instead, maybe click around in the docs, don't read so much but spend 5 clicking on all the pages, and skim them, you'll see what I mean. To me it is the gold standard for everything.

https://www.gpsoft.com.au/help/opus12/index.html
A Dead Simple File Upload System
how does anti-competition law apply to that kind of situation though? I think anti-competition law would only apply when they bought waze, so while it may be disadvantageous for users if they discontinue it, I don't think there's anything in anti-competition law stopping them from killing waze now that they own it
The Economic Case for Generative AI and Foundation Models
Ask HN: How long will your personal website likely survive if you die today?
How long will it likely still be reachable via https?

Is the Internet Archive at least saving some of it for now?

Do you not keep anything interesting enough on your site for it to matter anyway?

I love when I stumble upon personal websites from the old days (or not so old days), and I feel melancholy about them winking out of existence.
Right. The job the police is actually not to help you or defend you or protect you or to recover your stolen stuff or anything like that.

Their job is to maintain order and protect all of society. They track down the guy that robbed you because society doesn't want robbers on the loose, not for you because you were injured.
why are you recommending the book if you're not sure how good it is?
Targeted Minecraft server backdoors do happen every now and then.
> Judges really do not want you to waste their time.

That's kind of funny, given that it's small claims court. I mean, I understand that it's a fee for littering, and not causing physical harm -- but... What else are you supposed to do if someone is habitually littering?
ILEC telco service mandates are due to the regional monopolies that tend to form around them. IP transit providers are not in a similar situation; you can typically find several of them competing for your business in any carrier-neutral datacenter. The Washington net neutrality law being referenced in relation to the AGO complaint was developed in the context of residential Internet service and applies only to broadband providers, which is a term defined in the law, and which Hurricane and most other IP transit providers do not qualify as.
Article mentions mental health issues were a factor.
> how does this work with outgoing mail?

A more complete (but still not fully so) statement is that it is generally illegal for anyone but you and the postal service to put anything into your mailbox, and it is also generally illegal for anyone but you and the postal service to take anything out.
LK-99 Isn’t a Room Temperature Superconductor After All
You should try writing a smart contract and it will become clear how it works.
AlphaZero was pretty huge news. I’ve seen videos on YouTube of its play being analysed and wowing chess players.
What's "AI" and what "impresses people" are always moving goalposts.

Is Facebook's face recognition AI? Is it impressive? Most people probably say no today.

However if you show it to someone from Turing's era they'll be 99.9% convinced that we implemented AGI or on the brink of it.
We bought an A6000 48GB ( as mentioned by someone else ) and it’s works great for $3800. The power requirements are modest as well compared to consumer GPU’s. We looked at the ADA version but even used they are a lot more and your buying speed not usability. I would rather buy another A6000 and have 96GB of ram to fine tune with. That’s just me though and everyone needs to rank their needs against what they can afford.
Our bottleneck was serialization of objects to bytes to send to etcd. Etcd cpu should be about 0.01-0.001 control plane CPU, and control plane apiserver CPU has been dominated by serialization since day 1 (except for brief periods around when we introduced inefficient custom resource code, because of the generic nature of that code).
I was looking for something to get a file out of a qemu image and this was faster than trying to get ssh set up inside tiny core linux.
Agreed.

But there is something we can learn from the Bible as it deals with wealth redistribution.

There was a Jewish fellow on here some years ago who proposed in a thread that modern societies consider a jubilee year as mentioned in the Tanakh or Laws of Moses.

“The Jubilee is the year at the end of seven cycles of shmita (Sabbatical years) and, according to biblical regulations, had a special impact on the ownership and management of land in the Land of Israel.

According to the Book of Leviticus, Hebrew slaves and prisoners would be freed, debts would be forgiven, and the mercies of God would be particularly manifest.”

SOURCES:

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_(biblical)#:~:text=T....

- https://bibleproject.com/podcast/jubilee-radical-year-releas....
> Jesuits were founded to combat the heresy of Protestantism.

If following the Word is heresy, then light this Baptist up.
The users. Each transaction in a blockchain has associated fees. Those performing the transactions have to pay the fees. It’s not dissimilar to how you pay for EC2 instance time or AWS lambda invocations.
Might want to read about proof of stake.
They do(conference calls), but that is a stretch, until you raised the point I too would have not lumped traditional conference calls with internet based conference systems.
Note that's not strictly speaking what this article is about

This article is about cutting off the workers' employment with the delivery/etc app, not the end users' ability to use the app
Isn’t mass redirecting 404s to the homepage problematic SEO-wise?
This is just comfortably outside your bubble. Or maybe it's just more in my bubble than normal HN discourse... ok, it's pretty uncommon discussion.

Interestingly, I normally see references in Duns Scotus in works by Nouvelle Theologie Christian Platonists, where Duns Scotus is quite strongly condemned for his univocity eventually precipitating nominalism in medieval consciousness. Prominent theologians from that movement, like de Lubac and Balthasar would influence Wojtyła and Ratzinger, influencing at least interpretation of Vatican II.

Edit: better terminology
Since you're discussing Teratonnes, I'll link a discussion from X which is about what a 10GT nuclear warhead ignited at 80km altitude would do just thermally. Crossed my timeline just recently and has a link to https:// apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA 383988.pdf if you don't like https://twitter.com/ToughSf/status/1689305541422575623
I'm obviously only referring to the billing aspect, since, I didn't mention anything else.
I’m wondering if the biggest problem is that at some point in history, losing access to an email account wasn’t the biggest deal - fast forward 20 years and I’d prefer to lose access to my physical mailing address, anything important is sent electronically.

I’m still not sure if there’s anything preventing TLD providers from revoking your domain for any purposes (higher bidder, etc).
Microsoft fanboi with lots of certifications lectures us how open source works and soft-peddles how slimy this stunt was.
You can be broke and upper class; rich and 'working'. Economists/historians/et al. call it socioeconomic class: I think the latter dominates in the US, and the former in the UK. If I (British) thought of or described someone as being of a particular class, it would be far more a comment on their actions or behaviour than their job or salary. To the point that it's weird to me how it's discussed here when we basically don't know either of them; if anything we know more about DJ D-Sol and it's a slightly (but certainly not definite) downward hint.
The US does not have a sterling reputation for getting their people out of sticky situations in foreign countries... Oh but when they do, they expect to be paid for it.

One would have thought that continuing to pay tax to the motherland despite living overseas would help cover the cost of one's evacuation, but I guess not.
MySQL was easy to install and had some notable footguns which you could work around.

PostgreSQL was more esoteric and lots of stuff wouldn’t directly support it or would only do so half heartedly.

So MySQL took off. But people programming against a database would lean towards pSQL.
I guess it depends on your climate and habits. If you ride in the rain a lot, belt drive is a nice feature.

But overall I think the benefits are not worth the extra cost/lack of choice in models, and other demerits.
I’ve seen enough blatant gaslighting about this on Twitter (and here) to just ignore you.
If there's a lot of thankless, mundane work for the majority of projects that seems rather routine from what I've seen described thus far across multiple decades, so this seems quite ripe for some form of automation sans projects that seem to keep requiring changes constantly. C extensions, interop across languages, and ABI considerations are certainly much more complicated and require a lot of complicated work but given that 90% of the issues even power users run into are things like "the lxml library I installed won't get detected by package X when I run autoconf, please help."

There's nothing sustainable as an industry about something like software dependency management and versioning being so critical for things "just working" while people are sticking their heads in the sand saying "not my problem" as a rule. I'm so tired of solving the same problems that were already solved in the past because of developers wanting to work on "more interesting things" and doing the bare minimum to get stuff compiling and running again regardless of the package format. In fact, Docker may have made this situation even worse with so many Dockerfiles that will basically be unable to work. This is part of why I'm interested in the Nix ecosystem because there's so much work being done to make software installations repeatable and easier to manage. Unfortunately, it's squarely aimed at developers and is way, way too complex for most sysadmins to put the time into understanding, especially when they're so overwhelmed like everyone else with so many tasks.
I think both you and the comment above you are assuming that the person on the other side of the phone isn't an ass. If they are, they're likely to make up things about renters and they're likely to be abusive to the person doing the deliveries.

I usually try to charitable when interpreting other people's actions, but... There's always a possibility that someone's just mean.
"Bug" and "fork" are industry standard terms, "stories" are not. Plenty of frontend developers exist who don't know the term.

Overloading is fine. Ambiguous use of an overloaded term is not. What is one to think of when they see words like "write", "stories", and God forbid, "book"?

Storybook stories, of course.