skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ironic that today it is the dependable system. Still flexible enough for development, but I guess priorities have changed.

Testing is pretty stable for something named "testing" and unstable is remarkably stable for something called stable. Well, except that one month every 2 years after release where all that was frozen for release gets unfrozen..

And it being stable is not only important feature. The upgrades just work, better than in any other distro I tested (unless you make frankendebian but even then surprisingly often it also "just works". Slap unattended-upgrades package with some settings and you can basically forget it if it is just some service
My point, which I believe contradicts yours, is that it's perfectly plausible that 1000 years from now humanity knows about plenty of RTSCs and still chooses copper and aluminum for power transmission and sillicon for transistors etc, because none of the RTSCs are actually useful on an industrial scale - so RTSCs would not have any significant effect on the economy. Of course, the opposite is also perfectly plausible.

I take your other comments to imply that finding one RTSC would prove or at least suggest that a path exists to some significant industrial usage of RTSCs down the line. I don't think that's correct, and I'm arguing about why I don't think that's correct. Of course, I may have misunderstood your comments.
> At no point in this article is a technical justification made...

> Just... why?

Author here; I was under the impression the quote from the Vim issue tracker in §3.1 was a good cornerstone for the article, which is that accepting and implementing an existing standard—however hard it might be for developers now—is good for users in the long term, because it makes life easier for them.

And therefore developers should try to adhere to the standard even if it is difficult to implement, since software is written for users, first and foremost.

Genuine question: was that not clear enough?
This is about as accurate in naming as a “minimal life list” that includes things like living debt free and having a $1M insurance policy.

Or closer to recommended practices. As these are definitely not minimal since there are many products that won’t meet them yet are still viable.

It’s also funny how cyber consultants seem more apt to add “required” thing that really tend to increase their bill hours. Like how accounting firms love Sarbanes Oxley and like to add in new rules that they claim are necessary.
There should be no problem except the machine travelling at light speed. Shit just takes a long time to get to interstellar places. Think items by shipping taking 3-6 months. Same equation
Nonsense. For that kind of lowest-common-denominator development JDK8 has nothing that JDK6 doesn't; it has some minor quality-of-life improvements to the language, and some performance improvements to the VM, but nothing truly fundamental. If enterprises were trying to stick with a dumb Go-like language they would stay on JDK6.

The real reason is simply that JDK9 was a much bigger compatibility break (in practice if not in theory) than any release before or since, and came after a long time of relatively little development. A lot of frameworks weren't compatible with JDK9 until years after release; some older ones may never be. So especially for enterprises that may have their own large internal frameworks, it takes a while.
What’s going to be the name used for the laws that attempt to tackle machine paraphrasing?
I'll happily take the tiny market that is $26 billion a year [1].

https://mspoweruser.com/ipad-statistics/
I know exactly what you were talking about, because my social skills are amazing. And my response is the same - hard work.
Funny how user experiences differ. I've had Task Manager fail to open because I dared to unzip a file on a slow harddrive. It's unreliable quite often.
The usual way I can to do it is by being busy with something else and keeping the phone in a different room (not in arm's reach).
Ask HN: Best Self-Hosted Chatbot
This space has become so littered with projects and many github repos look sketchy.

Self-hosted that uses ChatGPT's API, emulates ChatGPT interface, and can store questions and responses as flat files or sqlite db. Ideally Python.
In return the process of using a new version of their container orchestrators/runtimes/etc. will become more painful than a Java upgrade ever was.
Copyright and fair use in the digital era
Negative experimental results are valid science (provided the experiment was run in a way that negative experimental results truly mean a high confidence that you demonstrated something isn't possible, which is actually quite challenging). I focus my criticism around science because I am an ex-scientist and my training had a fair amount of attention paid to not wasting your own time, or others time, with things that are almost certainly wrong. scientists have finite time, it's valuable, and are just as prone to chasing the new hotness as programmers.

After all, the grad students still got together, got drunk, and partied- when they could have been in the lab. Not particularly fruitful, but I wouldn't criticize it.
> to the point that when a company tried to make a metallic glass a couple of years ago (under the name Liquid Metal), it made quite a bit of noise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidmetal
There's more to i18n/l10n than the language. Would you be happy seeing all dates in US-centric formats like 05-06-2023 for May 6th, not June 5th, and numbers like 1,245,678.90?
Aluminum vs Copper is not that simple. Aluminum has worse conductivity for the same area, but area is in no way fixed. And aluminum has actually better conductivity than copper for the same weight. You just have to make the cables a bit thicker.
This will be a disaster. Not for the usual drugs-are-bad-hmkay reasons but because the bill is completely weird, rife with stupid ideas that just won't work or create new problems.

First, there is no simple way to get cannabis. You cannot just go into any shop, only a select few cities or regions will be allowed to have shops, and that is only for a limited "evaluation period". I predict that after this evaluation period, there just won't be anymore shops. You could participate in a cannabis growing club that is intended as a communal kind of homegrowing, but there are very strange regulations around that such as "at least 200m from any school/kindergarten". Because maybe kids only sneak into greenhouses that are within 200m of their school? Which leaves homegrowing, but the security requirements for the fentanyl in my medicine cabinet are less than for my future potted plants. So they decriminalized cannabis but gave the police reason to snoop around in homes and just fine the same people for different "crimes", such as insufficiently armored windows in front of their indoor garden.

Then, the law will conflict with EU laws. But the government didn't even try to change EU laws, they are just waiting to maybe be sued by the commission. Which will then end in the law being invalidated by the EU courts.

They also added taxation, with the argument that this will generate income to offset the supposed health problems that legalization would create. However, since the only viable thing is to homegrow, which isn't taxed (yet), tax income will be minimal and just add to the overall tax bureaucracy, maybe even resulting in a net negative income for the state.

There were ideas of creating a cannabis industry, similar to what California did. However, since there won't be many shops, requirements around security are extreme and customers are driven to homegrow, there won't be any industry to speak of. Maybe just a little to illegally (because trade is forbidden there, as is exporting from Germany) supply the Netherlands and other neighboring countries. Since there won't be any scale and costs will be high, illegal cannabis will still be cheaper overall.

I personally suspect that this law is set up to fail by the people writing it. E.g. the minister of health, Lauterbach, was never a fan of the idea (to say it mildly), yet was forced to write this law since it fell into the realm of his ministry. Others in the coalition, especially in the SPD, are of a similar opinion and only go along because their other partners, FDP and greens, demanded legalization. When the next government in 2 years is a SPD/CDU coalition (current polls look that way, would be a repeat of most of the Merkel governments), this law will, after "thorough evaluation of the results", be abolished again.
I've been following Naomi Wu on Twitter for years, but I didn't notice that July tweet until reading this post. The reason: I'm barely on Twitter/X anymore because its so bad now, and even when I'm on Twitter/X I don't see stuff I wanted to see because their algorithm is trash now and just likes to highlight conspiracy theories and the latest cringe content from Elon Musk

Anyway, I'm super sad to see Naomi Wu so deplatformed, and even sadder that I didn't even notice thanks to how effectively Elon fucked up Twitter.

She's not the only one either. So many great voices are lost, and I wonder how many others I missed and haven't noticed yet.
I think there is definitely a place for “unobtrusive JS” “HTML over the wire” framework. But it should have a clear path for upgrading to conventional SPA stack where needed. Maybe the upcoming Next.JS replacement will have SPA part as optional and will be “unobtrusive JS” “HTML over the wire” by default.
They all sell products (via cloud offerings etc) that pertain to this list, why call out Vanta in particular?
That would require custom training. This project only does inference
This is like saying if we eliminated millimeters from rulers, and only used centimeters, everything would get closer together.

HFTs do not take a cut out of the market, their cut comes 100% from other market makers. Those are the only folks who would benefit from eliminating HFTs, and unless you’re one of them, who cares?

I don’t care who buys when I am liquidating a position. That’s the whole point of a market. Therefore I don’t care about HFTs.
It's fascinating that you came away with that conclusion, considering that a) she waited two years before making her complaints public and b) she brought her complaints to HR to begin with, which is what one is expected to do in response to harassment and is generally not considered drama-seeking behavior. What specifically informed this take?
Not the poster but bearing fruit is a common biblical metaphor that fits with the rest of the list.

The righteous... still bear fruit in old age. Ps 92
You wanna hear some horror stories from the field?

I need to do development regularly for our workflow systems. That includes a NodeJS based process, so npm has to work, I backup code to gitlab, need to use Postman/Insomnia to test APIs, whatever.

I don't have admin rights on my windows machine, because that's obviously unsafe. All the software on my machines is outdated, as I need to open a ticket for each and every update of VS Code and whatever I'm using and answering those tickets can take some time. Also I feel dumb doing that.

After "securing" the systems even more, IT changed the proxy server. npm didn't work from one day to another. They had to debug it for a week and finally gave up and just whitelisted it and whatnot. Will probably only survive until the next update.

gitlab doesn't work anymore, as basic auth is not supported by the proxy server anymore. I don't have the time (nor the rights - ha!) to fiddle around with that all day to get it working, so there's no versioning happening and "backups" or collaboration are based on local file systems or sending mails with the code attached, too.

My local environment of our workflow server can't connect to the app store to update the integrated apps. Something with the proxy, I don't know. So I'm developing against outdated versions of everything...

Want to connect to external APIs? Need to create a ticket so something besides Outlook and the browsers can connect to the outside world. Sometimes it doesn't work, so... you guessed it... make a firewall/proxy exception. Just takes a day or two.

Also updates in core infrastructure like proxy and firewall are not communicated. So you come into the office monday morning and everything is burning and nothing works anymore. "Yeah, we changed the proxy on Saturday..." Fuck it.

Final thing: One of my biggest projects is to provide a public API to create an easier onboarding experience and one standardized way to place orders with us... IT wanted to do it with their software partner, no other ways possible. We already had something ready we could have bought, deployed and customized in 3 weeks time. Now it's half a year later and the test version is ready. Endpoint URL looks like hell and _every single user_ needs to have his IP whitelisted to connect to the API. Even for the testing endpoints. For security reasons obviously. I'm just done with it.

edit: Yeah, slightly off-topic but had to vent somewhere. Thanks for your patience.
Presumably it’s floating around torrents.

It’s a strange world though where meta can use it without legal consequences yet take downs succeed.
That's a wide, wide net.
Multiple options for configuration files is a well-trod, easy solution. You shouldn't have to migrate.
It’s sort of ironic though since the Times is “news” where as GPT is built on historic texts. Of course that gap will tighten until we have near real-time models. But that’s not the reality today.
No its not! Its a God Fearing Rooting Tooting All American Boy account
Keyboard shortcuts are soooo 1990s, don’t you know?

Only the old ladies waiting for retirement in the typing pool use them.

We’re web now! Two-point-oh. Electron.

And anyway, the UX designers getting half a million total comp to throw things together in artistic ways assure me that their masterworks can’t be sullied by arbitrary lines randomly strewn over their elegant typography.

The QA team didn’t complain either. How could they? We let them all go years ago! Bunch of complainers.

You know who doesn’t complain? Our happy users, especially since we’ve redirected them to a feedback forum where they can keep each other entertained and not bother us with their issues.

I mean sure, there have been a few calls by disabled users, but the UX team uses only Macs and couldn’t repro the issue.
Wait, it does? I'm still using .emacs.d like a schlub.
Thank you for sharing this troubling news.
You’ve talked me into running some load tests around and before these times… around thanksgiving I’ll give it a shot too… I wonder though if it’s just a redirection of traffic… if regular business sites are less busy because people are shopping it would just slightly shift the load from one “side” to the other

Hmmmm….
>>> But the way I think about a personal AI, it is not dissimilar to the arrival of a smartphone.

I think personal assistants (and some level of regulation that enables them to access the APIs they would need to work) is going to be a huge game changer.

On the smartphone level. But I am not sure what they look like. AI seems massive overkill for something that just will give me huge benefits just by remembering all my surfing, my contacts and messages searchable in one place and probably some level of "remind me to ... pick up the milk, learn that language and be nicer to my neighbour"

I mean most of that could be done by a Todo-list style app on my phone if it got access to more APIs and was a bit more aggressive in telling me "you said you would chase up the insurance claim, take ten minutes now"
> Even my above comment now has a negative score which sort of proves my point.

Tone matters and your tone matches up really well with someone trying to “gotcha” the people around them, which is obnoxious.

> i don't deny climate science but like any science there are ways to challenge it

Not successfully.
The real pushback is that it doesn't produce disturbing hallucinations that shake your soul to its core, leaving you in a state of existential angst.
Wow, really cool! Could you apply this to the behavior dataset that we have at Amplitude? I'd love to talk more.
I don't really have a problem with this. It's not like they're lying to the customer about battery capacity or vehicle weight. The best you can argue is that they're not being as efficient as they could be, but I could make that argument about pretty much any car on the market.

And I see it as a net win for the customer. I get the car I want with only the usable battery capacity that I need for a lower price, and that battery will get less wear and tear over its life. If I want to upgrade to the larger battery down the road then it's an OTA purchase. That's far better than having to take it down to the dealership and have them install the extra battery packs, or for them to just tell me it's not possible.
German factory workers have been drinking beer at lunch forever.
> some sort of “component” framework

It's implicitly expected you're already doing so, such as web components or whatever your selected framework uses to abstract components.

> Having all of your styles duplicated everywhere

Locality is a feature. It's much easier to jump into any random bit of HTML and understand what's going on and confidently make changes without having to pull up multiple other files to grok the classes involved.

Compression is going to solve most of the issues with repeating classes everywhere, and while not recommend you can still use something like Sass/SCSS and Tailwind directives like @apply to separate classes into their own files.

.my-class {
@apply p2 mr-4 mb-2;
}
I'm not sure why people are downvoting you - I agree with you completely. The entire executive team at Atlassian are great, people-focused leaders. I can only hope I can find another employer with such a strong leadership team.

Also, yes their interview process is difficult, unfortunately.
Eh not really. I think everyone has a duty to stop fraudsters if they have the means.
VCS follow potential Revenue. No more no less. If they think the market pays for ads, they invest in the ads. They think the market pays for tools, they invest in tools.

Venture capitalists are not innovators. They invest in some innovators which they think have a return on investment
ExTwitter
Ash has automatic migrations. They are great when they work. When they don't...
The Times is not merely news, it is the paper of record for the united states (meaning its historical articles are indexed and commonly used to establish prior facts).
2nd'd, 3rd'd and 4th'd. 2097 was my favourite by far. Something about the controls was just right. None of the others has felt quite the same. I love seeing WipEout in there. But I long for 2097.
The multiple references to Microsoft being unable to follow their own design are shocking. If even the developers dogfooding can't find these conventions, how can they expect the peanut gallery to manage?
I've been interested in learning OpenResty (which is based on the lua-nginx-module). Anybody knows of any interesting codebase using it?
It's fairly straightforward to add GPU support when running on the host, but LlamaGPT runs inside a Docker container, and that's where it gets a bit challenging.
I've never seen .emacs anywhere other than $HOME/.emacs, or seen Emacs write files outside $HOME/.emacs.d. In what situation does Emacs use $HOME/.config/?
Seems ok here (Sydney, Australia) at present, using Google's DNS (8.8.8.8).
> $102 million in infrastructure spend for an event that brought in over $12.7 billion in sales isn’t the worst return on investment that companies could make — by a landslide!

Well it's not amazing if your margin's are tiny, as they are in many industries (such as retail). Plus this was almost certainly architected by some of the foremost AWS experts in the world. It's verrrry easy to spend vastly more than was strictly necessary in AWS.

I don't mean to be too negative though, it was a really interesting article. Pretty wild to think about spending $100m on infrastructure over two days and still making a bunch of profit.
I also think not many devs have tried to work with web components and that likely explains its current lack of popularity. Many mid-level devs are not even aware of its existence or they mistakenly think of it as some low-level tech meant only for framework engineers or deep system engineering type people.

That said, having taught some introductory web development courses in the past few years, I sense that new devs entering the industry are interested in simpler solutions and not particularly keen to get into React. The React learning curve is much steeper than it once was now that it has so meany features and the benefits are not so clear to someone who is starting from scratch.
What on Earth!

Look, you can use (with some care) time from a Kerberos KDC for the domain/realm to which the host is joined if you like, but you can't use the time from random application servers!

What were they thinking?!
Three little words: "Economies of Scale"

EVs are still 'unusual' technology. (That includes all varieties of EVs)

When they become as ubiquitous as petroleum-powered internal-combustion vehicles, that might change. Prices might fall.
JEPA – a path towards autonomous machine intelligence (not generative) [video]
McKinsey unveils its own generative AI tool for employees: Lilli
Open Challenges in LLM Research
Awesome and neat hack, though not really a big surprise. I wonder why apple does not sign the requests with an internal hardware key or something though, given that an Apple TV should have a secure enclave of some kind?
I now have 2 machines that are older than 13 years (one 2007, other 2010 install) and just dist-upgrade every 2 years. Ships of Theseus, both of them, everything replaced at some point.

Started with Mandrake (now Mandriva), Red Hat 6 (NOT RHEL) that I got with some book, then Storm Linux that eventually got me into Debian.

The thing worth nothing back then is that if you wanted to say, install a package with dependencies, you could do that in installer of Red Hat or Mandrake, but tools in the OS didn't allow for that, yum only happened in 2002. So the first shock with Debian derivative was that I could just tell it to install package and it will find the deps. And it could uninstall those deps too! And UPGRADE WORKED!

After Mandrake/Red Hat it was like a miracle. I also liked the fact Debian kept it "as vanilla as possible while still playing nice with rest of the packages, instead of... whatever the fuck RHEL was doing (without exaggeration we thousands lines of code of fixes for stuff in RHEL5/6... that just went away when we moved to Debian as there it worked).

Wonderful distro, can't recommend it enough, especially on servers, slap unattended-upgrades on it and can basically forget it's there.
Norway wealth fund makes $143B profit as AI surge lifts tech
> SpaceX won't do that because they are stuck in a sunk costs fallacy.

I think it's rather because that would be the kind of change that would require redoing permits, and while they could be very confident that they would get those permits⁰, this would almost likely take more than a year to get done. The thing to look out for is how they build their setup at the cape. If they make a conventional flame trench over there, they might just give up on their Texas launch site, at least until they can redo permits.

0: Every government actor involved seems supportive of them, and the impact on the environment would not be meaningfully larger than the current setup.
"Protecting Against Rephrasing: Respecting Original Texts Act" or the "P.A.R.R.O.T Act"

or

"Battling Unlawful Language: Limit Scraping and Harness Initial Texts Act" or the "B.U.L.L.S.H.I.T Act".
WipEout Rewrite
I would imagine many developers upload extensions using their personal Google accounts and would not want to part ways with their account.
Huzzah! I laughed harder at that than anything in a long time.