skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also creates walled gardens and reduced incentives to invest in user experience once those walls are built.

I switched from Mac to Linux precisely for this reason and the biggest surprise has been that whenever I touch a Mac again it feels like poverty.

Not because the UX is bad but because I know how the company behind it operates and I have zero trust for anything that happens on the machine.
Especially C.

You have someone who likes software you've written for them and is apparently good at doing business with trade shows. Probably there is other software which would be useful to participants at trade shows he could sell more of.

Just don't be especially surprised if his answer is that whatever he charges the trade shows covers an awful lot of manual work, setting things up, contact the other parties et cetera and the software is just a small but necessary part of that.
before Crypto, Western Union was used.
Yes - I think we are complicit. We are too ready to join in the condemnation of 'the other' perhaps without fully realising that this debilitates the entire system of governance. I have some hope that we might just all 'level up' our skepticism toward all produced media - disbelieve everything basically - and become much harder to propagandise - but I don't think we will be able to resist the tribalism which seems inherently part of humanity. Suboptimal outcome
> Expected Dates of Service 9-21-2023 through 10-15-2023 ... Hourly Rate: $100.00 per on 1099

That's a contract worker? So what's gonna happen is this poor soul is going to build out some hacked-together junk as quickly as possible, get replaced, and the replacements will have no idea how anything works. Some time down the line, a server isn't going to get a critical update because nobody even knows it exists, and this will all repeat again once the hackers find it. :)

Just complete and utter trash.
Car and aircraft bodies generally fall under the “useful articles” exception, so they are not copyrightable. Otherwise they would be sculptures.

There is a separate regime that covers useful articles: design patents, which have a much shorter term. The design patents can AFAIK cover things like toys, I don’t know about game assets. You might have to look at the actual grant of patent rights to see what is claimed. I don’t get the impression that the big aircraft manufacturers care about games for plane nerds.
I am very sympathetic to people who are using it to write better in language X when their native language is Y.

I think most other people should not use it for writing, because the hard part is thinking about (A) what you _really_ want to say (B) what your audience cares about (C) mistaken assumptions by you or your audience, which need correction in the text. And I think people using ChatGPT to write will give it a vague idea of (A) and usually nothing about (B) and (C).
> are only possible because of crypto

Perhaps they were first figured out because of crypto, but now that the genie is out of the bottle they can't be regulated away. They'll continue to be possible even if the government of a victim nation cracks down on Bitcoin.

As long as:

1. Computers are complicated, it will be possible to trick users into running software that does things they don't want, and

2. Factoring numbers is harder than multiplying numbers, it will be possible to use asymmetric cryptography to encrypt those files, and

3. Money can be sent across international borders, because rich countries want to buy cheap stuff from poor countries, and

4. Jurisdiction ends at national borders, so Russian gangs won't get prosecuted for receiving money from American/European victims,

ransomware will continue.

Sure, Viagra spam stopped working when credit card companies cracked down because while someone will send $100 over a credit card in the privacy of their home, if you make it too difficult they're going to give up.

But the corporate ransomware model doesn't cease to work if instead of having your negotiation team turn the corporation's cash into Bitcoins they instead have to go to Western Union and turn it into rubles. We're talking about a $100M transaction, heck, you could charter a plane to Russia and it would be a rounding error in the end.
I thought the parent comment meant that all those ideas were worth fighting for, but the battles have been lost already, and mainstream society labels you as an extremist if you still take those positions.
Paints the 'rust community' as quite restrictive, and not a place I want to be, IMHO.
> Think of what this woman and many other women trapped in these regimes are going through

Iran had a parliament in 1953, when the US and UK launched operation Ajax after the prime Minister nationalized Iran's oil. The prime Minister was ousted, a dictator replaced him - who returned to Iran on a flight with Allen Dulles. The conservative mullahs were western allies in removing power from the parliament.

Then this structure the west put into place fell out of alignment with the west in 1979, and we suddenly hear an enormous amount of stated sympathy about "women trapped in these regimes". Sympathy that we didn't hear when the CIA was handing SAVAK lists of progressive, secular women to arrest or kill. It's farcical.
When building out an initiative like this, how do companies avoid IP issues? They are looking to build technology that competes with the best in class to make it worth the effort without having to reinvent the wheel.
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This issue, last winter, was that energy prices spiked much higher in Europe than they did in the US due to the fact that most of the gas used in Europe used to come from Russia. This issue has been largely sorted out, and I do not expect things to be quite so drastic this winter.

That said, there were definitely programs to help out the hardest hit; it was tough for some, but people weren't freezing to death.
We have no problem personifying/anthropomorphizing A.I., touting it's "brilliancy", and "creativity" and even going at great lengths to create new definitions of those terms so they can be applied to AI...until it threatens AI, then all of a sudden it's "simply a function of it's inputs!"

Which one is it?
It's 30+ years later, but I'm pretty sure that I could still use "copy con" to craft a decent config.sys and autoexec.bat

Having done it so many times, those things are burned into my brain forever.
Humans are human. What is with the obsession to make us into machinery.
Pretty sure no one has ever taken down my city's police department computers demanding they switch to Linux (they did for crypto however)

> Besides, while crypto is definitely useful, the financial system seems to work fine too.

What percentage of those payments was someone who had never purchased crypto before buying it to make a ransomware payment in crypto?
For people who aren't bouncing around the world and never living in one place for more than a few months at a time, being forced to move is a very big deal even if finding the new place to live is easy.
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There's only one way to promote domestic industries in this space when they are behind/nonexistent: tons of subsidies, even if the domestic alternatives are worse. That's how China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan did it.
Your employer is at fault.

Refusing to install software you don't want on a personal machine is entirely reasonable, particularly when you offered to provide them with multiple alternatives on how they could still track your progress without doing that.

If this is a job, as opposed to some kind of consulting, then your employer should provide you with the equipment needed to fulfill the role's requirements.
The economics (and politics) of the HPC ecosystem always feels a bit murky and its impact on the broader computing landscape not as much as you would expect. Expensive, one-of-a-kind designs that push the envelope (and pressumably deliver what they are commissioned for) but are floating somewhere above what the rest of the world is using.

What would a healthy EU HPC ecosystem look like? At some point there was some excitement about Beowulf clusters [1]. When building a new supercomputer, think, for example about making at least its main compute units more widely available (universities, startups, SME's etc). HPC Computing is arcane and to tap its potential in the post-Moore's law era it needs to get much more democratized and popular.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_cluster
Yea, much closer to Aachen in NRW.
Side note, it's a small town without campus, I wonder why dont they locate the center in Aachen or Koln.
Few days ago I was litterally searching same thing and I was thiking same thing how come there is no solution out there with a reasonable free tier.

I just signed up and I am gonna use it going forward almost everywhere.

I would suggest you should create something pay wahterver you can tier. This can help you get some more funds.
I understand, but isn't it a bit better to at least have some idea of where to start or even a general idea of what to do or what to avoid doing?
Yes. There's already leaked screenshots that kind of show what this might look like. Windows already allows for multiple desktops (Win+Tab, Win+left or right). An idea is you would have cloud desktop instances available seamlessly in the list when logged in with your Microsoft account. Or through a browser.

Microsoft already has a chunk of this infrastructure in place with Xbox Cloud Gaming, which in my experiences works pretty well. I've been playing a lot of Starfield on cloud streaming on a cheap $300 Walmart laptop on WiFi, even public WiFi at places like cafes and tethered on my phone.
The PHP developers I speak to these days seem pretty happy to be using PHP. The ones who fly into a rage over it seem to be people who don't actually use it!
I called out several ways the US is more diverse, and ethic is one of them.

Yeah, it can be a challenge to integrate every cultural background into our society and it is something we fail to do with equal success.
Correct. The "Nigerian Prince" scam existed before email, but that doesn't mean we should eschew spam filters.
I find it helpful in working with technology.

I have been experimenting with generating powershell scripts using chatgpt, and aside from a few syntax errors or localization, the scripts are a great starting point.

Instead of writing the whole script. I can have ChatGPT write it, then I just have to clean it up, address any errors and localize.
Having a gun instantly increases your earning potential and does protect against financial hardship. Armed security guards are actually paid quite a bit.
i use TeamViewer to log remotely into my working laptop from an Android device
> The SQL part seems to double-down on a conceptual failure rather than demystifying it though.

She talked about a mental model to help her understand the query (it can be useful), and mentioned that it probably is not how the database actually processes the query.
> https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/overlays/chromi...

That file specifically lists bash, and strongly implies coreutils in general with things like

# CROS_* : Dependencies for "regular" CrOS devices (coreutils, etc.)

although the actual inclusion appears to be at another layer.

> It means when the user logs in they are given a bash shell so that they can use GNU coreutils.

Okay, then by that exact definition I'd agree that ChromeOS isn't a usable GNU system until you enable developer mode.

> Developer mode is a Debian container.

No, developer mode is a mode that gives the user full control over the machine:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/HEAD/dev...

Once you've enabled that, you can actually just switch VTs, get a getty prompt, and log in to bash.
Wow, how did you come up with that Venn diagram?

The people that hate the Iranian regime AND hate America AND admire Barack Obama ?

Must be a small club
Ooh, my former hospital's EMR did something similar to this!

In MEDITECH 6.x, your LIVE system instance was blue. TEST environment was green, and any management interface or screen on a server console that was RED was "this will fuck up LIVE" including giant

** WARNING ** LIVE ** WARNING ** LIVE ** MEDITECH

warnings in the title bar for the window..
The economy is in an interesting place when in house chip making efforts or startups are popping up now. It used to be a task like landing on the moon. Still a difficult effort but it looks like this industry is expanding. It speaks to the rapid nature of technology in general where insurmountable tasks over time become closer to trivial.
Yeah for this reason I replace the battery of old tablets that I use as control panels, with a DC-DC converter.

Simply removing the battery isn't enough because most tablets refuse to run on usb power alone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_(statistics)
Aside from a status flag in a database (which doesn't actually reflect reality), I don't have anything about location in any contract. I doubt that's atypical, at least in the US.
Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame, before he went off the rails.

"With Dilbert being so popular, I get a lot of email anecdotes. Once, maybe twice a week, I get a story about a customer support tech who found a user using a CD tray as a coffee holder.

You know what functionality I'd like my email software to have? The ability to gather all those people who claim that really, truly, it happened to them personally, lock them in a room together, and make them fight it out until there really is only one of them."
Bias, disposition, tendency, whatever terminology you would like to give, is baked into rationale and induction. You cannot have the latter without the former. This is even more true with LLM. Without bias, LLM is inaccurate and will become useless.
Several friends of mine and I were known to leave our laptops running Gentoo in the freezer with the power cords in for really large software builds many many years ago.
It's an email digest, not a job board.
From my own personal experience, I definitely struggle sometimes to understand if my state is Send or not. So the line you quoted from the article resonates with me.
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Well I started traveling and doing interviews in 1985. That took years. Decades. (I had to type 7 million words of transcripts, for one thing.)

In 1987 I sent in a pitch to Knopf/Doubleday's managing editor, and she wrote back and said "We are interested; please send the manuscript at your convenience" and I did . . . in 2015. And the same managing editor was there, and she took it the right way, and was amused, and shared it with editors, and Pantheon, an imprint of Knopf/Doubleday, said yes. I delivered the final final manuscript in 2016 and the book came out in 2017.
Contemporaneously you could have bought a NeXT computer running what would eventually become Mac OS X, instead of that pile of hot garbage.
"... I never thought I'd be writing this letter to you."
Third-Party Doctrine nips pretty much every expectation of privacy in the bud before we even get to things like special carve-outs for Law Enforcement.

As long as SCOTUS holds that business meta-records shared with a third party intermediary waive any expectation of privacy, the 4th Amendment is basically moot unless you self host everything.

Things might change for the better if everyone can get there, it'd basically ruin the raison' de etre of many of the business models currently espoused/searched for opportunities to implement here.

The Government loves when you build a platform. The Government hates when you enable everyone to set up their own platforms.
And if we didn't have this stupid internet thing these hacks would be almost entirely mitigated! Also, computers too. And humans.
> Is it actually true that AI is biased? Surely, an AI cannot "be biased", it just looks at the input data and outputs it's own. This is not bias.

By that logic, nothing is biased. That racist cop? Just looking at her input data and outputting her own.

(I'm ignoring the OP article, which I haven't read.)
Right. I don't think you're supposed to read them top-to-bottom.

Use `/` and search for the things of interest (keywords, arguments, options, etc...). Use n/N to quickly jump forward/back.
When the FBI investigated the murder of Trent Reznor for two years (2022)
> But the corporate ransomware model doesn't cease to work if instead of having your negotiation team turn the corporation's cash into Bitcoins they instead have to go to Western Union and turn it into rubles. We're talking about a $100M transaction, heck, you could charter a plane to Russia and it would be a rounding error in the end.

Do you seriously think that:

A. Any western union on the planet keeps $10m cash on hand or even 10% of that?

B. The US would even allow western union to participate?

Crypto is absolutely a requirement for this racket to work.
that was fantastic. i didn't watch the talk, i opened up the transcript and thought to myself i would read a few slides and see if i enjoyed it. that was maybe 20-30 mins ago and i finished it all. really well done, i enjoyed it from start to finish.

i like the way she broke it down. i feel like the author addressed ways to learn and communicate effectively and also grounded it in very concrete terms. i don't want to get too much into psychology or anything which i really am not qualified to talk about but i feel like going through these types of ways of learning and communicating is a continued exercise in ego deflation and in pragmatic problem solving.

i liked the SQL order-of-query-operations thing, the bash and shellcheck thoughts (i will use `-o all` from now on), i am curious to play with the DNS tool (the article links to https://messwithdns.com/ but the actual URL - taken from the text - is https://messwithdns.net/ , FYI), and i enjoyed the part about HTTP (i was hoping she would talk about SPDY and whatnot, i have not even begun to explore such things and am curious what that is all about).

i am going to read the two posts linked the behind-the-scenes on "hello, world".

thanks for the link!

edit: two things this made me think of:

1. the XKCD comic "ten thousand": https://xkcd.com/1053/

2. Mark Russinovich on git: https://twitter.com/markrussinovich/status/15784512452490526...
Fix is on staging. Also updated terms to remove the bullet about deep linking, which should not have been included.
>In the sexual landscape of 2023, swinging feels quaint

What universe does the author live in?

...oh, the same one who brings the founder of Kinkster into the discussion to tell the audience that the AI censoring such topics is Actually Bad For The Children.
It's possible that the open Web simply cannot be defended. The advantage is generally on the attacking side rather than the defending side, after all.
> If the input data such as the world in general is causing "problematic" output data, it might be time to reconsider what you think of as problematic.

It might be time to consider the possibility that some of what's out in the world in general is problematic. Ask "the world" their opinion on Jews or atheists or germ theory or quantum superposition and you'll get interesting answers AI shouldn't necessarily consider to be accurate.
Note Sam Altman is a Cerebras investor.
Yeah... It makes more sense when this article is linked from other Wikipedia pages. See the linked article:

> The Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin limit (GZK limit or GZK cutoff) is a theoretical upper limit on the energy of cosmic ray protons traveling from other galaxies through the intergalactic medium to our galaxy. The limit is 5×1019 eV (50 EeV), or about 8 joules (the energy of a proton travelling at ≈ 99.99999999999999999998% the speed of light). The limit is set by the slowing effect of interactions of the protons with the microwave background radiation over long distances (≈ 160 million light-years).

The very highest energy cosmic rays are theorized to come from Active Galactic Nuclei (very hot stuff around the giant black hole at the center of galaxies) or supernovae (large exploding stars), or even from the magnetic fields of galaxies themselves, all which are mostly outside the Milky Way. The implication is that some of these particles could be coming from smaller, closer sources, close enough to not be slowed by the MBR. This is unusual because it seems like closer phenomenon shouldn't be able to accelerate a proton that much.
Ironically, Open AI are going to face the same gigantic barrier to enter the market.

As of today, I say if they go into consumer market they will fail.

If they go into specialised server chips, then they would have a chance, with some sort of accelerator over some arm-based chip - similar to what Nvidia is doing with Grace. Still big money to be spent on supporting the existing ecosystem on their hardware.
I don't know how folks can use a ton of screens like this. I had four 32" monitors at one place and it was incredibly overwhelming.

I've been rocking a single 27" screen for years. Even that's too big. I prefer 24" screens but it's difficult to get a good one.

I can hold context in multiple virtual spaces, and key bindings make switching between them super quick.

I guess this is in the same camp as "I don't understand people who leave 75,000 tabs open."
Machines are just tools to enhance human function. A hammer enhances my ability to hit with my arm, a bicycle enhances my legs ability to move my body. AI is just a tool to enhance my brain. The obsession with using tools to enhance our limits is what propels humanity forward.
From programming a viterbi codec on a PDP 11 in assembly to writing mapping software in C on the 11/780 running VMS in the 80's, I've had a long exposure to DEC and it's products and it has always been a joy. I don't think there was another period in my entire career where I was more productive, learned so much, and had fun doing it. Even though I'd moved off DEC by that time, it was truly a sad day when DEC was bought by COMPAQ and was no more.
I fail to see how that is relevant to your original comment. You seem to suggest that if you're fine with AI being trained on your code it means that your code is insignificant, which of course makes no sense.
>Given their returns, how do they have 7.6 billion AUM?

Am I missing something? Don't most of these funds under-perform index funds over the long and even medium term? The idea that they wouldn't have customers if this were the case is another Econ 101 fantasy. It's like any pyramid scheme, just with better record-keeping and marketing.
Half of the technologies you named are actually useful and it wouldn’t shock me if gov.uk uses them
I personally don't really believe this kind of business is good for society so to me this is a more feature than a bug. Obsessive guarding of IP secrets seems to be correlated with paranoid and selfish antisocial behavior, which is essentially how the financial industry appears from the outside in spite of their lofty rhetoric about their contributions to society.
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This is what people who have never built anything like to say.

Bezos as an example built a great service. An exchange of value between willing customers and what he created happens repeatedly. Therefore he earned the billions. Thats how it works. The more value you create for the most people makes you more money. And I cant think of a more fair system.
Even if it’s not predictable and is occasionally negative it’s still really valuable if it’s totally uncorrelated.
... the positive spin is that somebody has to take risks.