skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I view it as pendulum. I cut my teeth during the sunrise of OO doing Smalltalk, dining in the halls of Smalltalk and CLOS. And then like a religious explosion, everyone went "all in" for random and arbitrary definitions of "all in" to OO and we ended up with a huge mess. Now, everyone hates on OO. It's sad to me.

While OO has been on the outs for the last 10ish years, I feel like we've been awash in the other side of the coin. Instead of "all objects all the way down" we get all "all functions (and monads)" all the way down.

There seems to be two "middle of the road" paths out of this. You either get "multi paradigm" approaches where you get incomplete and difficult to reconcile partial implementations of a smorgasboard of the author's preferences and formative experiences writ large. The other is the less popular but kind of "let's just be pragmatic" approaches like Elixir/Erlang. Personally, I'm finding the latter more appealing. Multi paradigm languages create a "too many knobs" problem when solving problems. The simpler, pragmatic, but sometimes kind of kludgy/goofy languages allow me to just solve problems (even if I have to jump through a couple of hoops some times), instead of wondering which hoops are the best hoops to jump through.
You can draw on the presenter's screen in zoom and webex. Not sure about teams.
Mmm, it's funny since many comments are the exact knee-jerk rebuttals to the titular argument that are deconstructed in the essay.
Probably because it is very easy to mess up when using state incorrectly. It has been years since the last time my program run without bugs for the first time. If you're a genius, then sure, whatever tool you may be using, you'll do fine. But I noticed that many mainstream programming languages introduce concepts that are easy to misuse, even the same global variables. I recently wrote a small python script in 40-50, having concise and separate functions, etc. And I still was stuck on a bug that turned out be a consequence of shared state. The real issue was far from the location I was observing the bug. I think those kind of bugs is quite common.

What it boils down to in the end, is your priorities. If you want a program that works 90% of the time and you don't care about the last 10%, then sure, stating your way through is quite natural. If you're sick of the small bugs that is the consequence of the language semantics and not the logic or design, then you'll start nailing down the factors that contribute to the erroneous nature, with state being just one part of it.

Based on my experience in python and trying to teach other python developers some fp (spoiler, it didn't work)
I wish I had the option to! Everybody keeps shipping things with Ontrac
I had the reverse experience. People keep recommending it and I keep trying to watch it. I’ve never made it past a dozen or so episodes.

I can handle the puppets. It’s bad acting coupled with thin plots and 2-dimensional characters.

Any given character, at least from season 1, can be well encapsulated by 3 adjectives or so.

It’s like a cartoon for adults. Not a bad thing to exist, but also not super-interesting or engrossing.
To clarify: large scale solar and wind investments are being placed where there is space, eg in the rural countryside that is notoriously conservative dominated, at least in the US.

Even if you were to look in CA, any large scale power generation (of any kind) is going to more likely to end up in republican districts due to the availability of land.
There is a pointer in zoom and webex, I use both.
I just took a look at that wiki article for Rumsfeld's usage of the "There are unknown unknowns" and I had no idea that he barrowed this phrase to frame his arguments and I was only familiar with that context, unfortunately.
Private and secure? I thought the main issue with privacy and security of (not at all)OpenAI models is that by using their products you agree for them to retain all the data you send and receive from the models forever for whatever they choose to use it for. Or is this just a thing for free use?

If you pay, do you get a Ts&Cs that don't contain any wording like this? Still, even if there was no specific "we own everything" statement there could be pretty much standard statement of "we'll retain data as required for the delivery and improvement of the service" which is essentially the same thing.

So, any company that allows it's employees to use chatgpt for work stuff (writing emails with company secrets etc) is definitely not engaging in "secure and private" use.

Unless there is very clear data ownership, for example, customer owns the data going in and going out. I can't see how it can be any different. The problem (not at all)OpenAI has in delivery such service is that in contrast to open source models I'm told there is a lot of "secret sauce" around the model(not just the model itself). Specifically input/output processing, result scoring and so on.
There is also a tool for zip. https://www.ziptool.app/
Let's up the stakes and use a real production storage in the game
> I print regularly, plenty of stuff requires signatures, and being safe when travelling.

Lifehack: you can annotate a PDF with a signature and just send it to the receiver.

The only time I couldn't do that was when I needed a notarized document.

> Regarding travelling, is no fun when something happens trying to show the ticket from an app that for whatever reason decides not to start, or having the phone dying on me. Paper to the rescue.

Yup. I save screenshots of barcodes for tickets and other stuff instead. I have a second phone as a backup :)
The point of the joke is that what works for you, won’t work for companies. Different goals, different reactions.

The irony to this whole thread is that CNET is actually highly targeted about their audience development, which is how they decided which content to prune in the first place.
> Firefox's shrinking marketshare is an existential threat to Mozilla

yeah, so the best thing to do is to try to reverse that. the article just takes it as given that mozilla/firefox will probably fail.

and if it does fail, there's a lot of linux users out there installing chromium on their desktops that will have helped it along.

its so weird how the browser is arguably more important than the operating system at this point, but open source nerds don't even see the problem in shitting on firefox and using google's browser instead. that attitude could be changed.
"Together they make up a vanilla flavor. Vanillin is just one molecule in that complex mixture, but an important one. However, whereas vanilla will always contain vanillin, just because something contains vanillin doesn't mean it contains vanilla beans."

Two thins: Its up to the local bottler whether to use Cane Sugar or beet sugar or Vanilla or Vanillin. Mexican coke uses both Cane sugar and Vanilla.

A bar coke from a canister usually had the syrup a bit heavy so you can taste the difference much easier.
And all along his slow roll down the hill we understand more and more his patriotism and his longing for a return not only to the height of his empire but also to feeling anything other than depression, guilt, and ennui.
I assume you're referencing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obS6TUVSZds

Erthos' panels are not solar freakin roadways, because they're fenced off, and only maintenance robots drive on them.
Look if a Salesforce VP thinks this is the way to sell software I'm not gonna argue
I don't think you know what you're talking about.

Defcon was quite literally the target of federal fishing expeditions. They were especially heavy when Defcon was often hosting some of the best hackers the planet had to offer. Long before the asinine term "offensive security researcher" was a thing. You operated entirely by handle (unless you were an idiot) and there was even a "spot the fed" competition. Famously, a journalist was ran out of the conference trying to film To Catch A Hacker (or something, the memory is fading).

The cash-at-the-door was a safety mechanism to prevent such fishing expeditions. At Defcon you were always under attack. That is, until it became a corporate playground. Now it's a place where skids go to buy the newest pineapple and stuffy suits go to network with other "researchers".

You really had to be there to understand. Woodstock For Hackers is a close approximation. For those of us that were there during it's hey-day seeing what it is today is like watching your favorite hero live long enough to become the villain. 15 years ago the idea of "responsible disclosure" would've been the punchline of a joke at a small Track 3 talk.
When warnings are taken seriously, and no disaster happens: Clearly, the warnings were unnecessary.

When warnings are not given and a disaster happens: clearly the team was incompetent and should have seen it coming.

When warnings are not given or ignored and no disaster happens: they were overblown and pointless, why do we even have a disaster recovery team.

When warnings are taken seriously and a disaster still happens: it's the worst of both worlds.

You can't win in this situation. No combination of warning/not warning and disaster/no disaster results in success. If you can't trust your managers to cogently weigh the risks and costs, there's nothing you can do.
I don't think they would be surprised, since anyone having used the language enough to get to that point would know how it works, and they would know that they are not in their usual context.

It's like leaving out units of measure. We sometimes omit them, but we practically never lose track of when it makes sense to or have to consciously think about it.
I'm glad you just solved all of our country's problems by declaring that raising workers' wages is the solution to everything. I'm sure that's got no downsides to it, huh? Why didn't we think of that before?
The “poor” in the USA are difficult to compare with people in Europe:

The Poorest 20% of Americans Are Richer on Average Than Most European Nations: https://fee.org/articles/the-poorest-20-of-americans-are-richer-than-most-nations-of-europe/
wait a minute. How can you "claim" refund of a tax amount that was never paid in the first place?

by saying you are a registered person and you have made some fictitious expenses on which tax was paid, don't you have to produce those bills? don't those suppliers have to show your registration number as a counter party to make a paper trail?
don't you have to show how you actually paid that supplier money from your bank first?

The article seems scant on details which i assume are because the whole thing relied on automation and people found a way to game the system. Is there something i am missing?
FOSDEM is more about building stuff than breaking stuff.
Today I learned what a green username means
>criminal gangs (drugs, extortion, etc) are absurdly overfunded

Not only this, they are "overarmed" with military grade weapons thanks to the USA's insane gun laws. The saying of (former president/dictator) Porfirio Diaz, "Poor Mexico: so far from God and so close to the United States" rings just as true today, if not more so.

>to a large extent it feels like the population at large can’t agree who are the good guys and who are the bad guys

As if this is any different in the US, where film and music have also lionized the "baddies" for well over a hundred years!
Bitstring parsing examples using Elixir comprehensions always seem so much nicer than anything I’ve seen anywhere else. I need to play with Nerves to have an excuse to learn them properly!
The equi-complexity hypothesis states that all languages are equally complex and just trade off complexity in one area for simplicity in another. However, it is not yet accepted and highly disputed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_complexity
You have my age off, by at least a decade.

I worked for Apple in 1988-91 if that gives a clue. And I was around 30 at the time.

I don’t disagree about big companies trashing the environment with disposable goods. I keep my electronics for a long time. I don’t own a car. I try to consume very little. Individual efforts don’t make enough difference, though. Enough people have to vote with their wallets to stop predatory and wasteful companies. The realities of why Apple does what they do seem easily explained with simple economics, without invoking conspiracies.

Sony stopped making Triniton TVs and monitors in the early 2000s. How many of those do you suppose ended up in landfills? Someone repairing one today describes a hobbyist or tinkerer. Sony didn’t intend or support end-users repairing their TVs. Try doing that with a modern flat screen. Individuals can and do fix and upgrade consumer electronics, but they represent a negligible percentage of the consumer base.
spam tastes good, but why does it only have 1.5 health star rating?
> ... and it wouldn’t make economic sense to them.

That sounds pretty likely for the current state of things.

As a thought experiment though, if (say) Tim Cook got out of bed one day and said "Right, lets figure out how to make this work...", then I'm pretty sure they'd be able to do it. Economically I mean.

So, I think the problem is more their lack of interest ("making it work") than anything else.
Supermassive black holes may solve mystery of our universe's gravitational 'hum'
Good article. My experience using it to do an API endpoint system to a proprietary MQTT system has been really enjoyable. I really like the Elixir community. The slack channel is really helpful. The documentation is pretty good. And I like the fact that I could solve my problems with out needing a huge tone of micro packages that I have to constantly keep up with.

I haven't done much LiveView/Phoenix with it, but my biggest "wish this were otherwise" is the chasm between Elixir and Erlang. There's a ton of basic stuff that when you ask, you get told to jump into this other domain with this other set of documentation. It's like being in Wales or something, and sometimes English works, and othertimes, you get told you have to switch to Welsh to enjoy the local experience (not meant as a diss to those that are trying to retain various indigenous languages against English throughout the Isles).
It's not working - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/07/portugal-dru...

The entire Jacobin article only focused on if less addicts die it is a "working" policy, but it resulted in significantly more people now hooked on drugs in those decriminalized places than before. How is that a positive that more individuals are now subject to a destroyed life?

Also ignores the destruction of the community and the increased violence they face since the police can no longer arrest these individuals and they have become much more brazen. In my city where it certainly isn't decriminalized the police refused to arrest people camped out smoking meth in train stations to the point that many people refused to take transit. Numerous times I had to walk through a cloud of meth smoke to get out of the station because there was zero repercussions for open drug use. Open fencing, people getting robbed, stepping on needles, and random attacks.

By almost all metrics hard drug decriminalization is a failure.
> Germany is about to dramatically lower the residence permit and citizenship requirements

Time to buy a house if you can afford it. Immigration of skilled workers drives house prices up!
> Lifehack: you can annotate a PDF with a signature and just send it to the receiver.

No I cannot, because they won't be accepted by the receivers I work with.
Meanwhile washington post is atleast consistent in its reporting - biased however it maybe
What do you not think it's the other way around and serving my needs as a WFH fan for example? Without this, I'd have to go to the office now often (no, a phone conference is not the same)
Sorry, can you expand on that? Why require the sub?
Have you considered instruction-tuning it with text, instead of just pictures?
That’s exactly what it is. It’s just it turns out you need very good generalized or focused simple reasoning to do accurate compression or else the abstraction and movement to long term memory doesn’t include the most important content. Or worse distracting details.

I’ve been working on short and long term memory windows at allofus.ai for about 6 months now and it’s way more complex than I had originally thought it would be.

Even if you can magically extend the content window, the added data confuses and waters down the reasoning of the LLM. You must do layered abstraction and compression with goal based memory for it to continue to reason without distraction of irrelevant data.

It’s an amazing realization, almost like a proof that memory is a kind of layered reasoning compression system. Intelligence of any kind can’t understand everything forever. It must cull the irrelevant details, process the remains and reason on a vector that arises from them.
> WIPO requires signatory countries have some sort of legal protections to back copy protection, but it does not mandate the exact language of DMCA 1201.

But that's kind of a solution, isn't it?

Suppose the law prohibited circumvention but only when the copy made is an actual infringement and not fair use. And didn't prohibit tools, or at least tools with a substantial non-infringing use. For example you couldn't sell a satellite descrambler that solely allows the customer to watch without paying, but you could sell a device that allows a paying customer to make a fair use copy. Something like that.

So you comply with the treaty without the catastrophic overreach of the existing DMCA 1201.
Can that be attributed to advancements of the web, or just the incredible advancements and price drops in the devices used to access it?
I don't think not having evidence was the problem that GP had. Upper management asked GP to be more proactive. So, they expected GP to be more assertive or take measures regardless of management's approval, which would be doomed still in other ways.
windows 98 SE had the coolest disk defragmentation animation. it felt wrong when it just never reappeared.
Sadly, some ISPs have yet to adopt it. Bell Canada is notoriously slow on it, and shows no signs of starting.
HP has had partnership with Samsung an has bought its printer division in 2017, it has partnership with Canon too. I think there is not much invention anymore, it is just long tail market now. Other than for specialised use, people just buy printer once forever for ocassional use.

This way the printer market is really shrinking and consolidating, like HDD market.
Again (as elsewhere in this discussion) saiya-jin nails what Russia was, and is.

Communist Russia - the 'glorious' Soviet Union - was the epitomy of oppression for seven decades. It created the stereotype for the idea of 'dystopia' that embedded itself in popular cultures around the world.

That's a staggering achievement - built on human misery and lies. Don't belittle that.

And only now, while the Russian Federation is burning itself up in Ukraine, is this truth trickling through into the Russian consciousness. If Russia can be comprehensively defeated (as it must be), I hope that the full truth utterly guts the population for generations to come, as it did with the descendants of Nazi Germany.
There's a whole management philosophy around deadlines; that setting a hard deadline will make the project predictable. For non-engineering projects this is often true. For engineering projects not so much.

Non-technical managers have a hard time with software engineering projects because they're opaque and unpredictable. Opaque in the sense that no matter how many progress reports they get, the manager will never understand what progress is actually being made (because they can't read the code). And unpredictable because development is inherently unpredictable.

By setting a hard deadline managers seek to control the project. Engineers will come to them with "we can't release this by the deadline because $technical_gibberish". But the temptation is always to just stick to the deadline and refuse to extend it, because once you extend it once then everyone knows it isn't actually a hard deadline and the deadline will get extended again and the thing will never get released.

My worst case was one project where the management team decided that we could skip the testing phase and just test on prod after launch, because that would allow us to meet the deadline. Obviously the application completely failed because there were thousands of bugs in it that hadn't been caught. The post-mortem was a total blamefest. The project got canned and people got fired. All that effort for nothing, just because they wouldn't extend by a few weeks. But we met the deadline!
IMO Llama2 really isn’t close to 3.5. It still has regular mode collapse (or whatever you call getting repetitive and nonsensical responses after a while), it has very poor mathematical/logical reasoning and is not good at following multi-part instructions.

It just sounds like 3.5/4 because it was trained on it.
How Much Does It Cost to Build a Fitness App?
Apple was built on a lot of peoples' ideas, some original and many borrowed (like all companies); Steve Jobs' gift was for editing.

SpaceX is an entirely unoriginal company (really good execution, though). The genius of SpaceX is in the systems which enable that execution. It's not even really a particularly significant company.

Founders are right person, right place, right time, and _place and time are more important than the person_. Why do so many come from America? Because _place_. The right place from about 1750 to maybe 1835 was northern England; the Bay Area has had a really good run.

Brian Eno, as often, has a word for it: "scenius". https://austinkleon.com/2017/05/12/scenius/
Sounds like you value youtube premium because of what it doesn't show more than what it does.

Google: "Pay the monthly fee to avoid getting slapped in the face with a wet fish."

You: "worth every penny!"
> , except for people who try to cancel me

Those are your words, not hers.
> Occasionally the CC company will send me an offer of a loan for very low interest for a year. I run the numbers, and if it looks good, I'll take the loan and invest the money, and pay it back at the end of the term.

How do you keep that from negatively impacting your credit rating?
What's old is new again. From your link:

>Mark Zuckerberg’s firm says it is attempting to avoid returning to the cubicle culture of the 70s and 80s by introducing its own design.

>The Cube helps to asorb sound instead of reflecting and echoing it around colleague’s workspaces.

>Meta claims that its new design reduces sound levels by approximately 20 decibels.

This is BS. Either Meta is actively lying, or they really are SO clueless they've never seen cubicles in the 90s and 00s (when they were really phased out, not the 80s), and really believe somehow that cubicles were made of sound-reflecting materials. They weren't. They were made of cloth, with what I think was cardboard behind it. The cloth worked very well to absorb sound and keep the ambient noise level down. (The cardboard was to give some structure, and also so you could use push-pins/thumbtacks on them to hold things in place.)

The only thing "new" here is maybe using some kind of recycled plastic material to make the cloth. BFD.

90s/00s cubicles were a dream to work in, compared to the open offices of today. Everyone complained about them at the time because they sucked compared to walled offices with doors, but in reality, most workers never had those in the decades before. You can see photos online of engineers working in the 1950s: it was all open offices with a bunch of big desks in a grid.