skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Preventing the use of some information for training data is like saying we can't go to the gallery or library to see what prior art looks like. Creativity is just having a higher temperature setting and selecting items that trigger a positive response. We are mimetic.

The art world itself has already asked many of these questions 60 years ago, when Warhol made Campbell's soup can art, and then people used that template to turn other brands into art.
I came here to say the same. I was bitten by faulty breadboards, now no more. Perfboard is not much more work to assemble and way more reliable.
With the median being the same thing as p50
> One scientist learned that smog was a result of automobile emissions as early as 1948 .... That was 56 years after automobiles were first produced. Shortly thereafter ... in 1955 .... They were never given the chance to self regulate.

60 years is 'never given the chance'?
I was there. They were perhaps not shit applications, but they were extremely basic.

It’s a nostalgic fantasy to look back at that stuff imagining it’s in any way comparable to what users expect today.

I don’t care about applications wasting RAM. Modern machines have plenty of cores and RAM and the software is unbelievably powerful today.

I have some nostalgia for those days (I have a huge collection of vintage computers).

But it wasn’t “the good old days”, in which software was done right and now it’s all sloppy and bloated and lazy. Not at all.

I’m glad of modern software, operating systems and tools. Back then there was always something you wanted to do but couldn’t because the software to do it didn’t exist yet - very frustrating. Now almost anything you want to do, you can because someone has developed the stuff you need to do it.

I’m super glad I was there for the early days but glad they’ve passed.
Haha, we need Neuralink chips then.
Chrome plans to let you move the address bar to the bottom
The development of things saddens me. (re: this whole thing about serverless and edge).

It should be that it's becoming easier to have a robust database (or job queue, or full text search, etc) on your premises, not have more and more go to the cloud.

Though it is true that managing your own infrastructure can be challenging, it is not inherently so. One can easily imagine self healing and self managing infrastructure, physical hardware deterioration and replacement aside.

EDIT: I want to clarify that I'm not denouncing the cloud. My point is simply that it should be easier to also manage your own fleet if you so choose. This could mean using VMs, bare metal or what have you. Even managing a fleet of VMs is nightmareish today.
Let's remember this patent whenever people say something like, "Apple has patented slap-bands, at last we know the next big thing!"

Patents aren't disclosures of intent, they're not guarantees of a right to be able to manufacture something, and they're certainly not assurances that the described invention is even remotely feasible.
Compute!'s Gazette had this down to a science. When I first started, they were offering simple BASIC type-ins, and I'm pretty sure that I did some of those without benefit of persistent storage.

But then they began trumpeting a revolution in type-ins: just enter this simple little BASIC editor, then type in a whole mind-numbing mess of meaningless numbers. The editor checksummed every line, et voila! A working and extremely performant game/app entirely in machine code!
My dad upgraded our computer to Windows 2000 and I was really excited until I found out that a lot of my old games wouldn't run anymore.
You're posting on a social network right now.
> i wonder if the patent office considers the potential harm done to human life when a patent is approved

A patent doesn't give permission to create and/or use the device, only the right to prevent others from copying your idea.

I could invent a death drug, but no number of patents is going to allow me to actually produce one unless approved by the FDA.
Gift article (unlocked):

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/21/well/live/screen-apnea-br...
Those are not mutually exclusive, you can specify a starting date one year ahead of signing the offer, if the company is not in a hurry. At least where I live. Then you have bargaining power and vacation at the same time.
No idea about .NET, but XCode is a joke of an IDE.
I’m curious of methods other commenters to you are using.

I recently vectorized a PDF of material that contains a lot of complex scheduling language. It covers legal regulations as well as contractual constraints. Using langchain’s QA function I queried the vector DB. I then tested it against a sample of questions from a Facebook group on the subject. It did shockingly well.

It seems so much has to do with feeding it the right chunks of source material. When I experimented with just copy and paste small chunks on my own it rarely provided useful feedback.

I love the law idea. I just bought a house and would like to do an addition. Feeding local code and regulation for QA could be a god send in navigating this stuff for a non-expert.
None of these things are new. Connection pooling (in particular) has been around for decades. Perhaps the author just recently discovered it?
One example: I was in Santiago, Chile while on a long bike tour. I went to Calle San Diego, a street that was famous for having a couple of dozen bike shops in one area. I was unable to find replacement pads of the sort that slid into e.g. Shimano’s LX or XT rim brakes. Some shops only had replacement pads that came with the whole metal apparatus for e.g. Shimano Deore. But most shops had no replacement pads for adult bikes at all. They showed me those blocky rim-brake pads suitable only for children’s bikes and said “This is all we stock now. Everyone’s riding disc brakes now. You’d have to special-order.” FWIW, I had been told the same thing in northern Chile earlier on that journey.

> Disc brakes are pretty fancy all things considered

This hasn’t been true for a while now. I have noticed that many – if not already most – of the Chinese BSOs at hypermarkets have disc brakes installed.
Was Michael Jackson's hair catching fire the exact mid-point of his life? [video]
I mean the populace is no less "qualified" to vote for DA or school board than President so not sure why a hyperlocal law enforcement official should be any different.
Without in any way suggesting this is a solution rather than a work around, the last time I needed Discord for something I used bitlbee to present it as an ircd and it worked out nicely.
This reminded me of the Zero Punctuation review of Diablo 4. Talking about the big villain demon lady: "Yes, she was summoned in a nightmarish ritual of blood and tearing flesh, but aren't we all?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjovy5kHo7g
There was a Heinlein story where Lazurus Long delivers the baby of a slave girl he had rescued by accelerating the spaceship they were in at the crucial moment. Anyone remember which book?
that opinion took a lot of words to miss the mark.

pierogi did far more than just disagree. he went against pupu, with weapons. he failed. then he waited. and waited. dead man walking. then falling from the sky.

pupu could, in just the right light (takes a tremendous amount of work) be described as patient, calculating, and strong, from these actions. he didn’t tolerate this upstart, but he didn’t lose his temper. he cleaned up a mess.

that’s far easier to sell than cloak-and-dagger poisonings and balcony falls for otherwise unknown “threats.” pierogi loved to mouth off on camera, and it’s not like it was the pope on the plane.

the linked opinion piece, on the other hand, goes on and on about how pupu is zugzwang - it smells like the sweaty, crinkled term paper for a political think tank homework assignment on attempts at influencing geopolitics via shitty social media pieces.
I was exactly the same. It really helped me during some of my darkest teenage years, but after few years, it just stopped. Sometimes i really missed it because i liked a lot the arguments we had. It was like someone smacked my head during various times and told me to stop with the non-senses.
in my city, C-section is becoming a big problem because for-profit hospitals earn 50x more for a C-section so they create artificial scarcity with regards to keeping women in hospital beds and await an empty surgery room. Just the moment there is a vacancy, the doctor comes up to the family and creates an urgency "oh the baby is in danger, we need to do surgery now, like now" and even "we need to do this surgery now or else you are responsible". As if there are malpractice laws here.

I have read in books about women doing normal day's work or chilling at home or driving and they going in to labor and then the rush to the hospital.

here the a pregnant women assumes the physical properties of glass. They are treated with super gentle care as in no work, no nothing, no exercise, 3-4 days before the "expected date" they are put in hospital beds......

https://www.thequint.com/gender/kashmir-what-is-behind-the-a...

https://www.greaterkashmir.com/todays-paper/op-ed/why-are-c-...
https://kashmirobserver.net/2020/12/14/i-feel-like-crying-c-...
Last I checked, configuring stuff in SonarQube still involves fiddling with the UI instead of config files. And you need to host it somewhere.
We have this strange paradigm where we’re expected to do the learning on our own time with our own money. If companies don’t let us learn while working, everything should switch to co-ops.
That was 3 hours ago. The world is now the same place at a different time, or the same time at a different place.
And the high budget consoles aren't.
Not quite. I'm not sure about how Ruby with Bundler related to each other.

Recently, i upgraded Ruby, but then what's to do about Bundler then ? I'm confused.
DIY health is all fun and games until something goes wrong, and then suddenly the experts are important again. For some reason the experts apparently don't really understand the "simple" things that can be attempted at home.
"I don't backup my drives, I replicate them"

<sigh> I mean, sure, he recognizes the difference which a lot don't, and I guess yay for zfs here to save him, but this is just irresponsible if you value your data.
Silo? Not familiar with the term. Googling I found "Silo Mentality" (="resists sharing information and resources with other people or departments within the organisation.") but I don't see exactly how that applies here
Environmental Impact Studies have been used to halt a wide number of projects that could be hugely beneficial to society, from green energy and nuclear, to multi-unit dwellings and mass transit. There is an entire industry of attorneys who specializes in suing to stop projects like this, and in some cases, if they win they an get their fees paid for by the state under "environmental justice" laws.

In short, using environmental protection to halt projects is mostly a NIMBY farce.
TBH, the big book trick lasted only so long until it got full of work I didn’t care about later. I went full insane and wrote my own client app which let me take pictures of my art and version them as I was working through them. Cause I did that, it was easier to throw the originals that I didn’t feel were that great. I personally really am into the technical process so this was far more valuable to me.
Don't give them the DROP permission and have them go through a (automated) process to elevate their privilege when they need it.
you don’t get corpulent from lying in a hospital ward.

kimmie is still eating good.
> How can a company survive such a dramatic loss?

It really depends on what SLAs they advertised.

A (national) local hosting company suffered a datacenter fire and lost pretty much all customer data except for billing (which was rebuilt as they were using third party payment processors).

After the fire the company just let people know there were no backups unless bought explicitly, as the terms of service clearly stated.

The company ia still operating (i know because I’m a customer) and not much has happened.

Yeah some customers were screwed, but it was the kind of ignorant customer that gullibility paid 10€/year for hosting (with php execution), database, domain, traffic and then also expected the same service level as something way more expensive. There’s not much around this: you get what you pay for.
What is wrong with Java's tooling?
It is also an excellent opportunities to sleep in the dog house for the next few months.

Three in one go!
I was curious what this strange assembly language was, as it looked like neither Arm nor x86.

Apparently the Go toolchain has its own assembly language which partially abstracts away some architectural differences: https://go.dev/doc/asm

I wonder what the advantages are? It feels like as soon as you move away from the basics, the architecture-specific differences will negate most usefulness of the abstraction.
Hey wait, you have a point though. We can put our custom locks onto tables that doesn't let anyone delete a particular table. Let me think over it. Saving this comment for later. Thanks for the idea man.
Random tidbit, the -g option isn’t global port but rather gateway port. Also don’t forget to enable gateway ports in sshd_config
I don't miss IRC. I use it :)
> AI is a tool and is not going to replace artists any time soon.

It has for my personal projects. I used to hire freelance designers often. I see no need anymore.

> Proper 3D art generators don't even exist yet. The ones that do are useless toys. We aren't even close to generators that can output anything even close to what a beginner 3D artist can produce.

Disagree, unless you believe we weren't that close to good 2D art generators a few years ago. Maybe 3D is different, but things can move surprisingly fast.

> And yes - it will make sense to physically draw stuff, because it's a much better way to tell the AI what to do.

Is that drawing? I write music as a hobby. If you told me I could strum some chords and give a model a rough beat and it would produce music 10x better and a 10,000x faster than myself I'd just stop doing it. What's the point? It's the complexity that makes it interesting, not the output. I'm guessing the fun part of being an artist isn't creating the rough initial sketches, but the complexity of getting the exact shadings and fine details perfect. Perhaps some people view it differently though.
As another outsider, I think junon's comments are valid and could easily be addressed by the Zig project. Who are you to tell them to stop posting?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition_Matrix
There was a HN thread months ago on this topic. I recall people suggesting well known github repo’s. I’m unsure which ones but you could start at github…
> I simply wanted to filter job offerings based on social utility rather than language stacks

I wish more people did that.
Insider trading (legal) is a lot more profitable if you work for a multinational
> TLAB

TLB?
> No one has yet grappled with the reality that especially in the realm of generative art, these models do not work without a basis of absolutely stressful amounts of stolen artwork to train them. They simply do. Not. Exist. Without that baseline unethical contribution that tons of artists made without their knowledge and certainly without their consent. None of the major figures behind any of this tech will acknowledge this.

Well that's not correct.

Don't get me wrong, I've seen the statements you're probably referring to; but there's also Adobe with one made from licensed and public domain images only.

(You may want to argue, like my literally Communist ex, that under capitalism there can be no such thing as a fair contract between a corporation and a worker; I'm unsure of the power dynamics so won't counter-argue that).
It's peculiar how you can write an article subtitled "The rise and fall of type-in text games" without even mentioning the words Sierra, Zork or Infocom.

Btw, if you played the original Sierra games you'll find this story very interesting (and saddening),
How Sierra Was Captured, Then Killed, by a Massive Accounting Fraud: https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vem8/inside-story-sierra-o...
Yeah I think it's pretty undisputed there are downsides to the current day "civilized" life of office jobs and automotive vehicles consisting of precious little necessitated physical exertion or exercise of any type.
I appreciate the "run app on any iDevice" with one click that xcode offers, but yeah the rest of the UI is terribly clunky (Try moving the boundaries of frames).
Bundler is Ruby's dependency management tool, basically like npm or similar. It's come preinstalled with Ruby for a while now.
So it's not available.
I don't think that's needed for two reasons:

- Products do not change formulas at random, if they did they'd have to re-submit samples for the label evaluation.

- These labels don't have your best interests in mind anyway: If you are a bodybuilder, you will have tor read nutrition info labels yourself and ignore the warning labels, because only you know what quantities for each nutritients you will take to meet your goals.
I couldn't start reading because disapproving to cookies let to "processing my request" for half a minute. Las time i checked, this was just a fake timeout by the coonie banner provider.

What a sad state the internet has reached.
The problem with regulation is the process as it is extremely drawn out, and creates dozens of opportunities for anyone, even someone with zero standing, to sue and stop it.

One of the most interesting things to happen to regulation is when the former administration required the removal of two regulations for every one that the government wished to enact. It was near paralysis.
You could say the same about your brain. You predict the best thing to say at the moment all the time. You make predictions off everything you do.
N=1 but this is certainly NOT true for my obstetrician friend. Couldn't be further from reality for him.
Not just the UI. The IDE barely has any functionality. Automated refactorings? Nope.
You can run Vite under Bun instead of under Node, Bun/Deno/Node are runtimes, Vite is code that runs on a runtime.
Can you explain how can physical hardware concerns be handwaved away?

It's not just about the hardware itself, that's the easiest part.

It's about building and maintaining the electrical/cooling/network infrastructure the servers require. It's about having multiple locations of that in case your building's power or network goes down/there's a flood/somebody steals all your stuff/whatever else.

Or you rent a rack in a colo (or five)... But that's just a step away from going full cloud, you just do a lot of work yourself and get no guarantees and no flexibility. At that point, why not just go full cloud?
Is that still the case tho? Recent Deno releases have obscured how well it's Node compatibility mode is, I was just wondering if you have more details.
Indra is one of those projects that feels like it’s going to be part of a pretty crazy future.

The thing about biology is that the literature is absolutely vast. Like millions of publications. Each paper describes some tiny piece of a cellular biochemistry using a narrative. Like protein A activates expression of gene B which then binds to and chemically modifies gene C. My personal opinion is that this mode of research is basically incapable of describing the way a cell works. It’s also strictly necessary at the moment because we’re still working out how the individual genes and proteins work.

So we have a million papers that each use somewhat vague terms to term a story about the nice deterministic process by which a couple genes interact. Indra is a framework for automatically converting that natural language into precise mathematical descriptions of the biological processes. This is absolutely crucial for understanding cellular behavior because feedback and redundancy are everywhere in cellular processes. That leads to very unintuitive when one piece of the process is removed. And, removing one piece of the cellular machinery is exactly what most of our new medicines are designed to do. In the case of cancer, it’s inevitable that the cancer will exploit the feedback and redundancy of cellular machinery, finding another way to continue activating the growth pathways. I also suspect that many drug side effects are the result of changes in one part of the cellular interaction network resonating in an unexpected way far downstream from the original change.

So indra, or some more advanced version of it, could pull together the biological literature into a massive computational model that allows researchers to understand how targeting one gene affects all the others.
Be safe. The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate among developed countries. In 2020, there were 23.8 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in the US.

That number includes both hospital and home births.

However studies have found home births with certified professional midwives in the US to have very low rates of maternal and infant mortality, comparable to hospital births for low-risk women.
I see #3 as potentially valid, but also as applying equally to murder, drugs, and car speeding, which are prevalent in movies, animation, and video games. Heck, tv shows catering to kids have variations on all 3.

Don't get me wrong. I have a built in revulsion toward CP. But I wonder how much is that built in revulsion helping vs hindering rational discussion - just like it took me like 15 years of reading and pondering to remove the indoctrinated deference I had toward religion, and I hope I can have a more stable, less knee jerk discussion about religion. I think CP is wrong, but I also Think murder and torture are wrong. The latter two are amply represented in entertainment media. What is the Venn diagram, what is the delta that makes cp different?
> haskell is a small enough community that finding mentorship is not always evident

I don’t know about today, but ten years ago the answer was to hop on IRC and you’d get all of your IRC-sized non-FAQs answered, however difficult they are.
I think it's more likely that it's their version of "if I do this and something goes wrong, I'm less likely to lose the lawsuit."
It seems all generated images when you land on the page and click the "create human" aren't created live but picked from a pre-populated list images that were also likely pre-filtered for accuracy: it's always almost instantaneous, while any small modification on the same subject always fails returning that the site is at maximum capacity. Also, several users pointed to created images with the usual problems related to hands and other parts. I would not base any judgment on what the site returns on the landing page.
> separation of “Compute” and “Storage”. Yes, I’m explicitly talking about Neon here since it was the first to pioneer the concept

Aurora certainly did that earlier, and there were probably other earlier examples also (funny, because author mentioned Aurora upthread).

> in edge environments because, for every incoming request, a new runtime is spawned to serve it

Said that way, it's hard not to think "CGI-bin on a server nearest the user (because webscale)". Coming soon: "the all new Persistent Edge, a runtime that actually stays up between requests, on a server nearest the user (because webscale) optimizing away startup costs!"
Nice video. Sorry I missed last Thurs. Couldn't be helped. I hope to join tomorrow about 7PM Central/ 8PM Eastern. I can't get home any sooner than that so I will miss the 1st hr or so.

I tried the Peabody mission again and again. Wow. Is it even POSSIBLE to win that one? I keep trying to defend against waves of bombers coming in high but I can't even get up to their altitude before they are blasting my base to bits. Then right after that waves of low alt strafers and raiders come in with rockets and they all have tail gunners that whack my plane to bits. Should I switch to something more rugged like a P47 to last longer when theyre shootin at me?