skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tell that to Republicans. If 50% of the population does believe that. Then I'm forced to make the point, to address it in that way.

I know this, but there is 50/50 chance that whoever is posting on the internet does not know it.
Cue the "America bad" crowd on how Russia is great.

> US is no better than Russia. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37113866
Each page loads 40 megabyte of images, it's best to invest in an image resize service or software to create smaller size thumbnails.
I was reading somewhere that most Americans have an extremely limited working vocabulary of emotions. For instance "I feel bad" can mean guilt, disappointment, abandonment, sickness etc etc.

There are dozens and dozens of possible emotion words but very few actually used in practice, which supposedly limits people's ability to introspect and manage their emotions.
Some of these are just laughable: https://web.archive.org/web/20230719150950/https://boards.gr...

Principal Engineer, DevOps

The expected salary range for this position is $130,000 to $155,000.
> he seems to be a very careful scumbag

I would say that he is not. Going in person to a country that has been invaded and shilling for the invaders is not a very careful thing to do. Neither is getting out on bail and telling on social media that you're making a run for Hungary before you've actually done it.
ChatGPT in GPT-4 mode can help you. Just created this example.

USER:

I want you to create two questions and give answers for the text below:

Meteors are fragments of space rock that enter the Earth's atmosphere and burn up as a result of the friction created when they pass through, appearing as bright streaks of light in the sky.

As well as light, this friction also creates sound, with some meteors creating a 'sonic boom' as they break the sound barrier, in a similar way to a fast-moving aircraft.

ChatGPT:

Question 1: What causes meteors to appear as bright streaks of light in the sky when they enter the Earth's atmosphere?

Answer 1: Meteors appear as bright streaks of light in the sky when they enter the Earth's atmosphere due to the friction created as they pass through. This friction causes the meteor to burn up, resulting in the visible streak of light.

Question 2: How do some meteors create a 'sonic boom' as they travel through the Earth's atmosphere?

Answer 2: Some meteors create a 'sonic boom' as they break the sound barrier when traveling through the Earth's atmosphere. This is a result of their high speeds, and it occurs in a similar way to how a fast-moving aircraft might produce a sonic boom.
No disputing that. Though the days of not having AC are numbered. Summers have been having many hot days. It’s 86F today.

Anyways all this really shows is to compare inflation what matters is price per kWh over time right? That excludes variations in usage.
I don’t know if it’s still the case, but it used to be that the cartridges that came with a printer were way underfilled. If so, you’re likely much better off buying the new cartridges.
Britain’s Landlord Selloff May Be Much Bigger Than First Thought
I tell people that we do great work for its own sake; without parental affection; knowing that, brilliant or bogus, the underside of the bus beckons.
Art: skill acquired by experience, study, or observation

"an occupation requiring knowledge or skill"

Neither skill, nor experience, nor knoledge, nor observation is needed to make AI Art.

Eventually its pretty pictures that amuse the man at the prompt that no one can relate to. Or music that seems interesting to the man at the prompt, but no one picks up a guitar to play. Or ideas that no one can relate to.

Maybe it is art to the artist but there is no love for you to do it. Besides, there was no love for Vincint Van Gogh for his art except a tiny number of people that enjoyed it and saved it when he was alive. It can already be an unhappy affair done the hard way. Art for it's own sake is very lonely. Lonelier still when no one could ever hope to relate to it or acknowledge the trouble to do it. And with no trouble at all is required to do it I feel troubled to encounter it. Sorry but I spent decades learning to do artful things only now to be highly regretful of it all. Doesn't anyone care about us?
Every acquaintance of mine who uses Linux (and many who don't) uses Firefox. And that's a conscious decision too - they are aware of the recent chrome shenanigans.
https://archive.today/yKn9M
Why wouldn't it be? The cost is pretty trivial in the context of a modern core, though I can see the argument against in 1961. The biggest cost is in using up an instruction encoding, though when looking at that you have to compare the usefulness of popcount with whatever would replace it.
The irony is that banning political parties on the grounds of threatening the German state is exactly that the Nazis did after Hitler became chancellor with the Reichstag Fire Decree. And the same thing East Germany did to cement communist control.

"We have to disenfranchise you to protect democracy" is a self defeating idea.
> It would be fun to work as a traveling 3D capture artist, going to novel locations and scanning assets to use in fantasy worlds.

When I read this, I immediately thought of Nikon’s Natural Intelligence campaign[1]. This comment was on point with their thinking.

Akin to how being an “influencer” is now a legitimate profession. I can’t wait to see how people get incredibly creative to make a living using new AI tech.

1. Nikon Fights Back Against AI - https://petapixel.com/2023/06/15/nikon-fights-back-against-a...
I think by definition, that's no longer democracy.
that is why i said FOR CHAT.

even through the API you can't easily use the regular models for chat, the parsing would be atrocious and there are hundreds of edge cases to handle.

ChatGPT4 through the API is the SOTA
That is again, language-dependent. Java for example can memory-safely have data races, even those that tear (what you are referring to here). Not the standard, but OpenJDK itself also has a guarantee that every value that any thread could observe was actually set by some other thread, so on incrementing a number from 0 from multiple threads you can never get -37, but for surely can observe an older value.
can I fine tune it on like 2,000 repos at a corporation (code based) and have it understand the architecture?
I understand the value of all the PaaS and SaaS, but I could never get 100% behind them, even when they started. The highest I ever went was DigitalOcean (so IaaS). I tried some layers on top, lime serverpilot (automated php hosting on your DO droplets), but the entire thing always felt too risky, like giving the keys to your kingdom so someone whose pricing, policies and features you had no control over. I decided to always stay on a layer that is so commoditized that behavior (business, pricing, features, failure modes) is basically uniform across providers. I am atrações to killer pricing and stay away from killer (read lock-in) features.
If I need a platform, I setup an open source one, like kubernetes, coolify, etc.

This would have been fine if these startups grew on the merits (like DO). But they want to run infrastructure like they run a social network. No.
This is the dream. Fancy VDI based GPUs that are the exact same hardware with different drivers, for 5x - 10x the price, replaced with good container & virtualization driver solutions that can share a regular driver.
I wonder if read that the same as others.

It sounds like they want someone 35+ years old, with top-tier skills, who doesn't prioritize a good night's sleep?
Perhaps a more accurate claim would be "SQLite inspired". Calling it a clone is misleading.

Mad props to the author. Many Python programmers never had proper training in computer science, so it is encouraging to see people filling in the gaps of their knowledge.
Australian scientists vindicated as new pulsar data proves South is up.
For llama, the 4bit quantized ones, small models like the 7b one. The ggml format. That will run on your local cpu. Google those terms too. you can look on hugging face for the actual model to download then load it and send prompts to it
A theory: the whole radical right-wing Texas gone chief twit fighter sparaging over-the-top nonsensical Elon Musk has really started with the coming of the cybertruck - it feels like some long con strategy, an elaborate ploy to seduce ... manly white men driving pickups.

Because let's be frank: the old Musk public image was mostly awkward and mildmannered.
most principal engineers I know at average corporations make $200k-$225k USD
The human body is just a PHP server
As a kid, I remember finding the website of someone named Kier Darby, who modeled the White Star and documented the process, and also was super excited because one of the original white star texture arists found his blog and sent over the original textures used in the show. It was really awesome to find and read that back in the day
>It really feels like the boot process is more complex than it needs to be

You can use EFISTUB kernels directly (through efibootmgr) and use UEFI bios as the bootloader. There is no automatic kernel discovery with this method of course.
> Dutch census records

I'm pretty sure I saw this spelled out years ago in a groups.google.com post, but the amnesiac search engines of today are not yielding it up to me.

I did find these articles:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/if-you-have-nothing-to-hide/

https://medium.com/@hansdezwart/during-world-war-ii-we-did-h...

And one of them references http://web.archive.org/web/20150812120743/https://stadsarchi... (archive link, site is no longer up).
:shrug: And it's your opinion to have if you think that surface-level notions of duty mean that we should pass bad policies that harm everyone. My perspective is that's incredibly shortsighted; but if the last however many decades of the war against E2EE, drugs, sex work, and privacy have taught me anything, it's that you have plenty of company that agrees with you. Luckily where a 1st Amendment lawsuit is concerned, that's very likely not the perspective that a Supreme Court will have.

The notion that Pornhub is in the wrong because of some duty that overrides supposedly "secondary" details like whether the policy will work, who it will hurt, whether it can be practically implemented at all, and whether or not it's even an effective way to keep kids safe in the first place is very characteristic of a lot of conversations that people have about legislation today. Whether the law works isn't the thing they're debating, what they're debating is how the law feels and whether it feels fair or intuitive. Then a bunch of people end up getting hurt by the law, and they shrug their shoulders and ask how on earth they were meant to predict that.

I think it's a misguided attitude and will end up harming the same kids you're claiming to care about, but that's just my opinion. You're right that we have different opinions about duty. I think people have a duty to build mechanisms that actually protect kids, not just to make policies that sound like they're protecting kids. And I think that means we have a duty to actually evaluate the laws we're talking about and to figure out what their effects (both positive and negative) actually are.
I regret not making a more conscious choice about what tech I learned. My first job was a Microsoft shop. I sort of forgot about the Linux/Unix world, and I arrogantly thought that universities were out of touch teaching this and they should be teaching C#!

The reason I regret is not so much because of "M$" reasons, nor is C# a bad language - it is excellent - but because I didn't expose myself to the long lasting software that you learn once and use for 30 years. Like Vim, Coreutils, various Linux utilities, Linux sysadmin knowledge, Postgres. My thought process was "well SQL Server is really easy to install, you just click an .exe and say Yes a few times". I didn't see the deeper thing that open source software lasts because it creates a shelling point. In other words, everyone uses it because it is free, and enthusiasts fix bugs and expand it because it is free, and then it dominates in usage.

To be fair back in early 2000s it was not clear that we wouldn't end up in a world run on the back of Windows servers. It would have been hard to see the future world.
> What's the point of having a system of shared values if one member goes "Hey, let's, umm, [stop immigration]!" and your system can't defend itself against such actors?

Corrected to better reflect AfD's position. To address your point, the goal should be to serve the people, not the system. A system that persists against its subjects wishes is, by definition, tyranny.
I'm going to need a bug tracker link for that, it seems to dumb to be true. Surely they would just not use HTTP/3 if they can't do it through the configured proxy. I wouldn't bet my life on it though, I have seen dumber bugs.

edit: tested this the old-fashioned way with Firefox 116.0.3 on Ubuntu and nginx 1.25.1. Firefox does connect over HTTP 3 and CORRECTLY DOESN'T CONNECT AT ALL with a (bad) proxy configured. You are spreading FUD.

My Chrome 115.0.5790.170 doesn't seem to use HTTP 3 at all.
As I've so fond of pointing out on HN "Principal" means two different things depending on the culture of the company. In SV/BigTech "Principal" is a step above Staff. In many other companies, however, it just means "non-junior employee"; these are the same companies that also have titles like "Lead Architect" and "Systems Administrator". Without context "Principal" is meaningless.
I am in a different western country, where the nuance of laws and systems differs, but the notion of CC debt collection as a miserable, shoddy, shady system holds true.

Facing $10K of CC debt following a mental and work breakdown, I subsequently endured years of quasi-legal harassment. Each illegal demand and unfair treatment had to be painstakingly fought against - weeks, months and years sitting at the computer composing lengthy rebuttals, and appeals to government regulators.

Only to have the bank blatantly perform the same illegal tactics again-and-again, with virtual impunity - their semi-automated wordsmiths will simply trot out a few pages equating your repayment shortcomings with the fairness of their actions, retract their infringing action, and the music will restart...
My version is "I have nothing to hide, but I still lock the door when going to the toilet". While I get the point of your retort, I find it can make people defensive and often derails the conversation because it can be interpreted as a gotcha. But that kind of reaction is proof enough that people value privacy. It's just that they don't necessarily think of privacy in their home as the same thing as digital privacy.

I'm happy people are more aware about privacy issues and talk about it, everyone and everthing has been mindlessly collecting data for too long, but it looks like things are finally moving in a slightly better direction. At least one can hope :)
> Generally, Salesforce has excellent marketing, but technically it has fallen behind in a few areas.

I have on more than one occasion quipped that 'Salesforce' actually refers to their own marketing team rather than the software.

> It seems the advertising in question was creative in its language at least. I am sure it is legally all watertight though.

> It makes one wonder why this VP complained about this? It is not uncommon in larger organisations to oversell certain product features.

I'll bite; if any of this 'data' not being processed immediately is related to E-mail or SMS message consent (the article mentions Marketing Cloud, which can do texting,) there is a risk of messages getting sent out when a user has opted out. IF (big if) that is the case, there is a risk of hurting end-customer goodwill, or in the case of SMS messages, end-customer filing a lawsuit against Salesforce's customer.
Thank you for the fresh set of eyes and the feedback. I think I have spent so much time staring at, reading, and revising this thing that I’ve become blind to issues like these.
> Just google "new coke vanilla madagascar" and you'll find where it all comes from.

Do you have a source, perhaps from the Madagascar government?

I googled your phrase and all I got was a bunch of urban myth style blogspam all linking back to a single WSJ article from 1985.
Thanks for the perspective.

Recently I've seen so many people being prescribed around me. And they are high-functioning people.

And you have to question whether they actually need to jump on meds every day. Everyone is so happy to be able to take stimulants. I cannot imagine touching the stuff. I find myself observing a dip from simply caffeine which makes me want more when it will keep me up all night.

Plus you see people on their phones all day, completely addicted.

There are definitely real cases like yours, but as you mentioned, it's becoming way too hyped and you are not allowed to criticize the science. It's dangerous for society. Look where the opioid epidemic took us.
The construction work is not the problem.

I'm talking about getting all needed permits.
It's not guaranteed, and increasingly it is difficult to find devices which support this. In general the computing industry seems to be converging on locked-down ecosystems.

Rights must be enforced, not left up to corporate goodwill.
Everbody on the planet has a smartphone and access to a world of information and data at their fingertips.

Unless you are a contestant on Jeopardy, being able to recall lots of little pieces of data no longer has a lot of inherent value.

What does still have significant value is understanding what the data represents and how it can used and manipulated and combined and applied in creative ways in order to make good decisions and solve problems.
As someone who graduated as a SWE from an NZ university; around 50% of my cohort moved over to Australia and around 20-30% somewhere else; I can count the number of friends I have left in the country on one hand (four year degree). NZ salaries are actually laughable compared to overseas where you're earning at least 25% more for the same work and a probably lower cost of living
Flutter vs. React Native: Which is the right cross-platform framework for you?
Italy slaps 40% one-off windfall tax on its banks
Oil and food prices are rising, and so are wages. Inflation isn't beaten yet
Thanks, maybe it's as easy as downloading the ggml and running it with Llama.cpp. I'll try that, thanks!
> would almost definitely not pass such an interview.

If you would fail an interview like this, it’s not calibrated correctly. I know it’s unsatisfying, but nobody gets perfect marks on assessments like this by design. Nobody is expecting you to program up a correct btree on a whiteboard in an interview. Just being able to speak in detail about data structures and algorithms from practical experience is a very strong signal in a candidate. Let alone being able to explain high level concepts, and talk about when they’re useful and maybe explain some implementation details. That’s great!
I wasn't aware of that, my notion of a good constitution is that you should be comfortable with your worst enemy wielding the powers it grants.

I'm curious what checks there are on Article 21 then. It seems like a no brainer that an unfriendly government count just declare all their opposition enemies of democracy. How is that power limited?
The article addresses that exact retort, and others in the same style. Here is what it says.

> Such responses only attack the nothing to hide argument in its most extreme form, which is not particularly strong.

The article is way more nuanced, it makes a point in attacking the real argument and not the strawman. Framing the debate into a privacy/security tradeoff.

And btw, my naked body ranks pretty low in the list of things I want to hide. I just don't walk around naked in public because most people wouldn't want me to, it may even be illegal. It is interesting however how a government that says you should have nothing to hide when it comes to surveillance also says that naked bodies must stay hidden.
From Article
>"“I hope the future will be like Star Trek, but I’m afraid it’s going to be like Babylon 5.”"

This is exactly what I'm seeing. Having watched sci-fi for decades, I was pretty idealistic about Star Trek, the future is going to be great.

But it is turning out to be more like Blade Runner. Or the mega corp in Alien.

Recently Re-watch the Babylon 5 episodes on the Right Wing take over of the Earth Government, it was incredibly realistic for its time. It was legit scary how similar it was to our elections, and we are living through it. (not even sure the mind control part is even too un-realistic with the fake AI stories coming out).
Even that seems low. New college grad going to a large tech firm can make 200k these days.
That Snowden quote is a good piece of rhetoric and it's the first thing I think of when I hear the "nothing to hide" argument.

I'm not sure if it's actually true, though. It's possible that privacy and free speech are different enough that the logical parallel and inference made in the quote doesn't actually hold.
That one was about oil.
"Yet while we in the West may not be ready to acknowledge our debt to Islamic architectural influence, Sir Christopher Wren, regarded as Britain's greatest architect, was. He saw it clearly over three centuries ago, when he wrote, after extensive study and research: "The Gothic style should more rightly be called the Saracen style." Wren, referring to the famous cathedrals of Europe, isn't necessarily paying the Saracens a compliment.

This is a really neat book. The title is explained in the introduction, and relates to the etymology of the term "Saracen".
Ah interesting, I assumed that Roman empire had to have been stable in some ways to last so long. I certainly wouldn't bet on US remaining a single country for even another century, although there are also less scary aftermaths scenarios like states increasingly ignoring federal government and running their own internal affairs, but still retaining common defense and free or easy travel and trade. Something close to Poland vs Netherlands in European Union.
I always find it hilarious when people look at past societies and simply assume they'd have been born in the upper classes. It is overwhelmingly more likely that you'd have been born a plebeian. This isn't "how to roman republic", this is "how to roman republic's aristocracy". It's like larping as a billionaire today. It's fun, but it's a life you'll never have.
Corporations are already in 5+ year leases and don't want them to be unmitigated liabilities, the owners of the corporation also have significant investments in real estate, there's your incentive.
There is a kind of sleight of hand at work in this counterargument, which is that nobody is advocating for a secret, extrajudicial, arbitrary set of rules about what is allowed and what isn't. Even if I say I'm OK with the government reading my email, all the work is ahead of them to prove specific charges in a court of law, should I catch their interest. The spy agency does not, in fact, get to decide what's right and wrong. The existence of a surveillance state does not imply the existence of a secret police with extrajudicial powers.
Sleeping in a room with no windows is preferable to sleeping in the street. Just change the codes to make the conversions inexpensive and quick-to-deploy.
Thanks that made me smile. Take my upvote
And we've come full circle :)
That's pretty standard for parsing libraries - have you seen any good ones (for Python or other languages) that don't use a DSL like this?

The only one I've seen is this one: https://parsy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html
California likely has more stringent seismic regulations as well, while much of Texas is sitting on bedrock. Matt Risinger (TX builder with a YouTube channel) decries homes sheathed in nothing more than cardboard, so other building code items may also be more lax in Texas.
> I'm unaware of a character ROM that uses the technique

I don’t think it worked in text mode, but in graphics modes there were tools and fonts using the trick.