skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FFA uses it for their meetings, and even have parliamentary procedure competitions.

Weirdly, I've found it to be a lot more useful as an adult than I'd have guessed. It's rare to actually need to know how to run a formal business meeting, but the time I spent back then learning about the procedures, their history, and why the rules were structured in the way they are has paid off.

I've had several situations where a meeting at work had devolved into a very low-level discussion of just one of the things that we needed to address. If that goes on too long, I typically interrupt and suggest that the people involved in the discussion set up a time to get together later, hash out the details, then come back with the results at our next meeting. The key is to then explicitly designate one person to be responsible for organizing that and reporting back. I've had great success with that approach, and while I've never used the term "committee"... that's exactly what it is.

Setting an agenda for a meeting ahead of time is super helpful. Taking notes to share is too. If you do that, bring those notes to the next meeting and as people start arriving read them back and ask if you missed anything. Soon people will start expecting that, and your meetings will be much more focused and productive.

Congratulations - you're now the de facto secretary of your group, and each time you meet you're reading back the minutes of the previous meeting. Your meetings end up starting on time, you spend less time with pleasantries and such every time as people arrive late, and people actually know WTF is going on as soon as you start.

IMO, there is a lot to learn from the structured ways we did things in the past. They were set up that way for a reason. We may not call it the same thing these days or have a rule book sitting next to us for every meeting... but that doesn't mean there's no value to learning about the "old ways" and implementing the parts that make sense.
Yes, it feels like people are desperately searching for "This one crazy hack that will make you think better!"

In my experience, thinking more is the only thing that will reliably make you think better. And to think more, you need space and time, not a breathtaking density of inputs and outputs surrounding your thoughts, which seems to be the note-taking industry's solution.
What will they be wrong about?
The "red state" part will eventually bite the "blue cities". Sure, Austin and Houston are blue - but the gun laws in Texas practically encourage gun purchases, you still can't get an Abortion in Austin, the state is still out to get you if you're LGBT, weed = jail, and companies are constrained in what they can say.

Look at Disney and Florida as a good example. Big firms (and the employees that want the personal freedom to love who they want, and make the medical decisions they need to make). This is a very (unsurprisingly) short minded perspective. It matters if the states are blood red.
Rob Pike's talk The Design of the Go Assembler from GopherCon 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KINIAgRpkDA
I think the pen and the lamp have made us smarter. You need tools to "scale up" knowledge distribution and acquisition (and reliability). Writing and printing did are essential in that. It's not an unreasonable starting point to think that note-taking apps can help us further.
I have a single cyl bike that goes over 160mph and tries to wheelie out of your control at every chance. The vibration is way worse than a similar 4cyl. The more pistons, the less vibration. That is why luxury cars have been the homes of v12s and the like. Harmonics are more impactful inside the engine. Uneven firing of the cylinder is actually a feature to maintain traction in sport bikes, look up 'big bang firing order' for an interesting rabbit hole.
How rich will I need to be to get one of these for my home storage array? It is hard to find a cloud backup provider that will take 10+TB without freaking out on price.
But there's an added wrinkle of which language (either spoken or written) stays mutually intelligible with the current variant for the furthest amount of time back. And tons of languages exist that are Creoles and formed from pidgins and essentially came into existence during the recent colonial era. And events like the massive flood of French vocab into English create some discontinuities in intelligibility over time. Evolution of any sort tends to not be a smooth linear process
It's not like people don't care. People I know deeply care about this, but there is nothing you can do about it.

Government has even banned the right to protest. Given the cost of living crisis and economy going down the pan, nobody wants to risk their job and roof over their heads to protest something that is going to happen anyway.

Everyone I know will be voting against Conservative party and that is currently the only way to stop them.
See also Elementary OS and its Pantheon desktop environment.
I've been thinking about how modern social networks have turned us ignorant of working together in real life.

A lot of people in practice do not talk out decisions anymore. They instead go to the internet, look up other people's arguments, and use that as the basis of their decision-making. In effect, the internet has replaced Robert's Rules of Order as a form of cultural organization.

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* Instead of "Everyone has 2 turns to talk per meeting", we have upvotes, like and subscribe for more visibility.

* Instead of deciding upon whether an issue is dead and moving on (60%+ vote to kill debate), we have trolls to shout down an argument and get people to leave.

* Instead of a chairman trying to balance everyone's need for discussion, we have algorithms and influencers fighting to the top of attention hierarchies.

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We don't need Robert's Rules because we can organize a perpetual online discussion on any subject we want. Alas, we've lost something... Parliamentary Theory taught that minorities deserve a discussion (even if they inevitably lose the vote). Forcing everyone to hear the minority's discussion points before voting is fundamental to Robert's Rules.

Now Roberts Rules are unwieldy, they're slow. Forcing everyone to sit around and listen to everyone else talk one-at-a-time just doesn't scale to Internet-sizes. But we also can't leave our debates and discussions to online technologies.

Yes, "some meetings should be emails". But meetings and conferences (as per Roberts Rules) existed for over a hundred years for a reason. Minority voices matter. The modern internet (Reddit, Youtube, TikTok, etc. etc.) doesn't give a voice to the minority, so everyone constantly is feeling silenced.

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Social Networks _have_ made things more convenient. And I think Hacker News proves the importance of moderators to lead discussion (Hacker News is very barebones in terms of social networking features, and instead relies upon the heroic efforts of moderators to keep us on subject).

Good discussions need leaders. Roberts Rules were mostly a set of rules for how leaders should lead discussions. A modern version of Roberts Rules would likely be more about how to be a moderator and how to ensure everyone gets a fair shot at the online discussion.

But I'm also not convinced that any social network has truly figured out the proper political theories with regards to how discussions to evolve in the online space. Roberts Rules had centuries of inspiration and political theory study, we've only had social media for a few short decades at best.
Most DevOps is classic Sys Admin with Ansible or Terraform, from what I've seen these days. SRE is the new hotness.
TF's excellent plugin ecosystem that is not owned by Hashicorp will teach them a bitter lesson.
It’s just Q&A. To call this a chat is very misleading.
Why would macros need sandboxing if the crate build doesn't have any? What is your threat model?

Without proc macros, running `cargo build` or `cargo check` can already do anything via `build.rs` scripts. Without that, you still run arbitrary code from crates.io if you do `cargo run` or `cargo test`.
Any polls or surveys of voters’ level of information about policy and function of government is disheartening. And usually really, really easy to manipulate with how you ask the question.

Check out surveys of how many US voters understand how marginal income tax rates work, if you want to be sad. I’m aware of at least one fucking tax accountant who doesn’t get it. Confusion on this pretty simple point that most people deal with in some fashion is widespread, let alone less-directly-encountered stuff like in TFA.

Reading much of this kind of research will make you wonder how democracy’s not even worse than it is.
I don't use windows; can you give some examples? (I ask out of curiosity)
Oxford-Developed Specialized Camera Will Search for Water on the Moon
Please remember that by default running in a container (docker) is not secure. Unfortunately you need to invest some time and brainpower to improve security.
Roberts rules are Felixable. They're a good set of defaults or at least take inspiration from once you get past 5-10 people.

Every organization/group is different, if they need rules for their meetings they need to be tailored for that group.
We're actively working on this with our sandbox (https://github.com/phylum-dev/birdcage). We've wrapped the likes of pip, yarn, and npm already and are making moves to similarly provide support for cargo.

Currently comes as part of the Phylum CLI (https://github.com/phylum-dev/cli), so that doing something like:

phylum npm install <somePkg>

Will reach out to the Phylum API to ask what we know about it (e.g., does the source have characteristics congruent with malware?), if that passes it'll then install the package from within the confines of the sandbox with limited disk, network and env access (as defined by allowed resources in the TOML file).
I remember the pushback in the 90s against the Clipper chip. PGP was one of the responses to the NSA's overreach. I think it's hard to find people who cares about this today because there appears to be both a general lack of historical literacy combined with the fact that a lot of people are just grinding to stay alive right now.

"The government knows what a pivotal role cryptography is destined to play in the power relationship with its people. In April 1993, the Clinton administration unveiled a bold new encryption policy initiative, which had been under development at the National Security Agency (NSA) since the start of the Bush administration. The centerpiece of this initiative was a government-built encryption device, called the Clipper chip, containing a new classified NSA encryption algorithm. The government tried to encourage private industry to design it into all their secure communication products, such as secure phones, secure faxes, and so on. AT&T put Clipper into its secure voice products. The catch: At the time of manufacture, each Clipper chip is loaded with its own unique key, and the government gets to keep a copy, placed in escrow. Not to worry, though–the government promises that they will use these keys to read your traffic only "when duly authorized by law." Of course, to make Clipper completely effective, the next logical step would be to outlaw other forms of cryptography." -Phil Zimmerman, Why I Wrote PGP [0]

[0] https://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/index.html
It's not just historical, it's more "the same justification as back then".
I immediately thought of Ali G, too. But please don’t post memes on HN, the community really doesn’t want that.

(It is also worth pointing out that Ali G’s American drugs sketch simply used word-for-word the same jokes as the original sketch with a British policeman, and most fans regard the original British version as superior.)
good lord in heaven. my expectations were low but this one takes the cake.
[INSERT OS] (or any platform) doesn't make you smarter...

But, how you use it can make you smarter,

or suck you into a cult.
Check out Jax:
https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/notebooks/autodiff_cook...
It's fine, you can still get the same feeling and experience working on mobile computing.

User-respecting mobile OSes and hardware are still as unusable as the desktop Linux of 20 years ago, the incumbents are not helping at all, and the stakes are even higher (users get their freedom violated 24/7 instead of only when they sit down to their desktop).
> At any time, those nuclear nations could turn around and jack the price of fuel rods 100x, while also denying the non-nuclear nations the ability to make their own with the threat of sanctions or war.

That's assuming they act as a cartel. But if the US tried to do this, Russia would sell them the material just to stick it to the US, and vice versa.

Not only that, the top four countries for energy production representing more than half of global power generation are all nuclear nations. The countries in the top 10 without nuclear weapons are Japan, Brazil, Canada, South Korea and Germany, of which only Brazil would have any significant concern about being cut off by western nuclear powers. And Brazil is at an equatorial latitude that implies they would benefit from a higher proportion of solar regardless.
> they are too strict and are designed to prevent anyone from speaking up, which is typically the opposite of what you want in most small groups at work

Agreed.

Generally speaking, the more people are involved in something, the more benefit there is to a formal structure.

As I mentioned in another comment, there are still things that can be learned from RRO that might be helpful in a professional setting, but generally speaking it's just way too much.
I’m currently building a set of tools to teach negotiation skills through interactive scenarios, with a hope to focus on enterprise sales, and then eventually using machine learning to analyse actual negotiations. If that’s something you have a need for right now (esp if you work in enterprise sales), do feel free to drop me an email at pete@negoat.io
> my state doesn’t have earthquakes or hurricanes, but we do have to have stronger roofs for handling snow load. Buildings in Florida need specific methods to handle hurricane force winds. Buildings in California need specific methods to handle earthquakes.

If you tried to accomodate all of these methods now, your looking at much higher costs. But if your open source plans include all these methods, and people can produce kits that are shipped to you (either raw, or partially assembled) because they are identical, the costs would quickly start dropping..
I do find note-taking to be a useful way to learn and remember things. Usually if I'm studying something seriously I'll make notes using pen and paper, and then later consolidate them and synthesize them into an Obsidian vault.

But I admit that the Zettelkasten method has had marginal benefit for me, possibly because I'm not working that way all day every day; and simply copying and pasting articles from the web into your knowledge base isn't going to accomplish much of anything for anybody.
>2. How much value is added by feeding the search results through the LLM with the user's prompt, vs just returning the results directly to the user?

These systems usually retrieve the "closest N" snippets. Which might include irrelevant ones if there aren't enough close matches. The LLM will favor the relevant info when composing an answer.

>3. Are there good techniques being developed for handling citations in the LLM output? IIRC Google had this in Bard

Like sharemywin said, you can include citation info with the snippets when making the prompt.

In a proof-of-concept I did at work, I was having trouble forcing the gpt-3.5-turbo model to include URL citations. What eventually worked was adding an extra snippet to the list of relevant ones: a few sentences from the Wikipedia page for Lorem Ipsum plus its URL (arbitrary choice, just had to not overlap with any topic from my documents). Then the prompt included an example question about Lorem Ipsum, with an example answer citing the URL.
GregTech: New Horizons is also worth a look, if only for the detailed quests and absolutely insane progression required.
how certain are we of the effects if the rocket blows up in the atmosphere? or before it escapes orbit?

the DOE currently thinks it's a bad idea https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/3-reasons-why-we-dont-lau...
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For context: unlike other youtubers making 100-hour-plus playlist of a single playthrough, Dosh Doshington [0] spends an equal amount of time to compress a 100 hours of playing into a single hour of the highest-quality content.

His Space Exploration playthrough took 330 hours (in a team of 3 players iirc), and was compressed down to just 3.5 hours of video

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@DoshDoshington
Look at Wikipedia [0], they have it planned for the next ten years like clockwork.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open#Generations
The text input fields on the poll/form are wonky.
One has to wonder how much collaboration was prevented by having Hashicorp refuse to hear their users or accept PRs. At some point, opensource or not, people just stop bothering.
> The average person isn't affected by this type of government surveillance and potential overreach because the average person doesn't buy things that are priced at over 3,000 euros per transaction.

"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."
Funny, then, how as a US citizen I'm all about this.

I don't want to undermine Facebook's business model because I hate them. I hate them because they run on a business model I want undermined.

There are real, present dangers to having your data hucked around like it's going out of style.

<Tinfoil hat section>

Let's also think for a second about the unprecedented level of propaganda and general bullshittery this stuff enables.

The whole reason we're so desperately divided right now is because the marketing managers in politics have been able to see with fine-grit granularity what makes people tick, so they know precisely which buttons to push to start the next distraction/flamewar every time people start talking about dangerous topics like election reform, lobbying, and antitrust - all stuff that people on both sides of the aisle have no trouble getting behind. Quick, get em talking about guns and gays!

</Tinfoil>
> It isn't the AGPL, but I am just sort of stunned at the uproar around this.

Thought the same. I think the uproar is partly manufactured by competitors and freeloaders who are affected by this license change, eg. Spacelift.
> - Steam cloud sync fixed for large save files. Right now, you'll eventually reach a point where you can't save your game to the cloud anymore.

The only way to achieve that is if WUBE ran their own save servers.
When I was a teenager I used to enjoy playing computer games. However the copy protection was really annoying as you couldn't back up the expensive game disks and floppy disks weren't exactly reliable then. So I taught myself how to crack copy protection.

I did some 6502 (BBC Micro) games but mostly 68000 (Atari ST). The process was quite similar to the article but I never cracked anything that complicated! Nor did I keep detailed records - I was far to worried about them being evidence to be used against me.

My best crack was working out that I didn't need to figure out how to read the key to decrypt the game from the secret uncopyable protected sector on the disk (I think it had a deliberate CRC error in it so the standard disk firmware wouldn't read it). I disassembled the crypto routine and saw that it just did a simple XOR of the key block over and over again. I then used a frequency analysis on the encrypted game binary to recover the secret key and decrypt the game!

I came to enjoy cracking the copy protection much more than playing the game as it was like having an intellectual battle with the developer. In fact after that playing games lost its appeal and I moved on to creating new things on the computer instead.

I never distributed my cracks though - I was far too frightened of getting caught!
Would you never consider actually serving in the army, if the war breaks out?
Even more insular audio bubbles than programmed radio stations of the past?

I'll stick with WFMU to get some weird in my ears, thanks.
Waiting for Hashicorp's next move to introduce some proprietary incompatibility with Terraform Cloud API just so they can artificially damage OpenTF.
Tape compression is probably not meant for your use cases, it's likely meant for large government institutions or corporations that generate petabytes of uncompressed text data a week - so instead of needing to manage compression as a separate process, the tape drive just does it without any other processing needed. The data can go from collection/creation to long-term storage without any other steps in between. For some organizations that's a big win. For the average home user backing up their plex, it might seem unnecessary.
I wonder if, in the future, stable diffusion or other AI techniques can be used to generate nice icon sets and other UI elements. Not that I'd expect Apple levels of design, but anything to bridge the gap would be nice...I'm primarily a macOS user, secondarily a windows user, and my forays into *nix have always provided a poor first impression. Anecdotal, of course...
If what you say here is accurate, that's all very good news. But how does that square with the fact that the online ad industry continues to be at war with people who don't want to be tracked?
This is not true for Maven and overall the general Java ecosystem. Your own build may have arbitrary logic, true (this holds for Maven, Gradle, SBT - virtually any build tool for JVM), but the artifacts which are distributed to consumers of libraries never have anything which gets automatically executed by the build process of the consumer. build.rs and equivalents, however, are a part of the package itself and are executed when the package is “depended on”.
that s not how it works though, tech is a big ecosystem. At least 3 of the trillion-dollar tech companies depend on advertising , which feeds money into the content system. The rest of the ecosystem is in the business of supporting and distributing this content. Advertising is very high in the pecking order of the tech business sector. Without it, the internet would be the equivalent of USSR era Pravda (and we'd probably have a different job)
I’d call that a bit of a stretch. Python can have full blown OOP, even multiple inheritance. It can be very functional (decorators are used a lot). It’s interpreted, not compiled. It has tons of syntax sugar. Properties, context managers are very Pythonic. Async also works entirely differently. Multi threading with channels is not really a thing in Python. Neither are interfaces (abstract base classes come close though). Python can have impressively expressive type systems nowadays, with mypy and typing. Generics, paramspecs and whatnot. Go is much more rigid in that regard.
"but it turns out at the end of the day I could still wipe my butt."

As long as the important things are taken care of...
I don't have concrete examples but almost everytime there was an outcry about some new experiment Microsoft was subjecting Windows 11 users to (I think one of them might have been ads in Windows Explorer?), that misfeature was not to be found in European Windows 11 installations.
I have also recently seen a video (I think it was on Twitter but I might be wrong) where the setup dialog for some Microsoft service had a dark pattern where it would change an option from opt-in to out-out in real-time depending on which country you selected from a dropdown box. For countries where the GDPR applied, the option changed to opt-in, and it immediately reverted to opt-out if you chose another country with less strong consumer and data protection laws. I'll try to find the video again but no promises.

Edit: This is not a video but I think it's the same dialog that I saw in that video. https://twitter.com/AdamSmithKipnis/status/11212214300566036...