skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, you are right I should not assume anyone's knowledge (or lack thereof). It just popped into my mind as something that could explain the thing that's been puzzling me for months - what are people talking about when they say that LLMs are not actually reasoning, or Stable Diffusion is not actually creating? I wish I had not included that assumption and was inquisitive instead. Let me try again.

Maybe I diverted your focus the wrong way when I used LLMs as an example - what if I used more general term "neural network"? I said LLMs because this thread is about LLMs but let me clarify what I meant:

The thing that interests me in this thread is the claim that LLMs are "not capable of actually reasoning". Whether you agree with it depends on your mental model of actual reasoning, right?

My model of reasoning: the fundamental thing about it is that I have a network of things. The signal travels through the network guided by the weight of connections between them and fires some pattern of the things. That pattern represents something. Maybe it is a word in the case of LLMs (or syllable or whatever the token actually is - let's ignore those details for now) or a thought in the case of my brain (I was not saying people reason in language) - the resulting "token" can be many things, I imagine (like some mental representation of objects and their positions in spatial reasoning) - those are the specifics, but "essentially", the underlying mechanism is the same.

In my mental model, there is nothing fundamental that distinguishes what LLMs do from the "actual reasoning". If you have enough compute and good enough training data, you can create LLM reasoning as well as humans - that is my default hypothesis.

If I understand your position, you would not agree with that, correct? I am not claiming you are wrong - I know way too little for that. I would just be really curious - what is your mental model of actual reasoning? What does it have that LLMs do not have?

I know you mentioned that "these models have no capacity to plan ahead" - I am not sure I understand what you mean by that. Is this not just a matter of training?

BTW, I have talked about this topic before and some people apparently see conscience as a necessary part of actual reasoning. I do not - do you?
I have a 13 Pro I got on day one. It doesn't exhibit any burn in at all.
Perhaps 'Oryx and Crake' by Margaret Atwood? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oryx_and_Crake). She calls it 'speculative fiction' so ...
> Will they block VPNs like authoritarian states?

Yes. Not yet, next.
Not only google, all Big Tech. Major Big Tech share holders must be accountable (vanguard/blackrock).
I'm an actual RHCE. This thread has to be some big Red Hatter click farm or something. The artificial positivity is striking. Is Red Hat threatening to pull funding for this project or something? Just weird.

Cockpit is okay but it's basically Red Hat's equivalent to the Windows Server Manager tool, and I have no doubt it was directly inspired by Server Manager. It's development and improvement over the years has been painfully slow.

Nobody who is comfortable with an ssh session uses Cockpit, except maybe to create new VMs, and even then all of these comments comparing it to Proxmox are just whack because it doesn't have a quarter of the features the Proxmox UI offers. The utility for managing VMs is a recent development and even then I still prefer the Virtual Machine Manager tool because I don't want to deal with the latency increase and other limitations of working through a browser.

But anyway, there's a ton of things you can't do with Cockpit, and never will be able to do. It's for people who want to point and click, can't do a bash for/while loop, don't understand pipe chaining commands, and don't like using vim.

Like happyweasel said, it's basically webmin for Red Hat.

It's kinda cool, but it's so old now and development has been so slow and it's been so over-hyped that I don't pay attention to it at all and I've never used it except what was required to get certified.
They will not block HTTPS. They will go after every commecial provider who does not give access to the private messages of their users.
The reasons mentioned above is exactly why we started Tailcall.

https://github.com/tailcallhq/tailcall

GraphQL community is quite small and fragmented. Mostly composed of frontend engineers who are focused on improving dev-ex with APIs.

It would benefit the ecosystem, if people with a system's background or platform engineering background could get involved. Fix various aspects of performance, security and maintenance.
why should I care about """stealing it"""? I don't have any Alphabet stock, I am not employed by Alphabet, in any case they can afford to run Youtube at a loss or just shut it down.

It's kinda cute how much you care about the profit margins of a company when it will (likely) never benefit you. Maybe you should setup a donation fund for Alphabet in these hard times.

I mean surely you would personally give them at least 20 USD considering how badly they are being wronged, maybe 100 if you are feeling generous.
> Pretty much all analog video signals, RGB or otherwise, are imitating the raster of a television.

> That is to say, it assumes there is only a dot being drawn on screen at a time, and it provides signals that are timed as that dot moves across the screen.

I found it difficult to understand what all this meant for a long time. This is the best video I've ever found about the matter, just in case it helps others:

https://youtu.be/Q8ph2OVqZeM
Like, reading a book or 30 seconds of googling?
Of course. Nowadays though it's mostly metadata programming. Your haskell code is writing code for your database query. So you end up using functional code to do tons of IO and the data it sends to IO is just more code.
While I agree with the other comments and don’t find Children of Men all that believable, if we take the “magical” premise of the film of no new kids anywhere, I have found it one of the most gripping tales ever put on film.

The expanse in my mind comes closest in its attempts to portray a realistic future, with its power dynamics and problems, in the “humans are humans and will take our problems wherever we go” kinda thing. Books better portray this than the show, but the show is also a must watch.
Well DW could do something about it by at least adding the fediverse on their abominable "follow us on X, Y, Z".

DW does not even have an RSS feed for chris sake.

The press is complicit in the hijacking of the internet. They made a Faustian pact. Now they are crying foul.
From the article you linked:

> The solution in Germany was a series of forts and fortifications, called limes, which used timber from the great central European forests and ditches to prevent tribal incursions. In contrast, large forests did not exist in Northern England and a great wall was built using stone...

That suggests there couldn't have been that many trees to fell in the first place. The terrain simply doesn't support it up here, about all it's good for is grazing, which is why you'll see field after field of sheep in Northumberland and not a lot else.
Personally, I find the constant breaking of the flow in a silent movie so the dialog card can be shown very irritating after a while. It's also annoying that the card is shown for too long (for slow readers) and there's a fair amount of dialog you can lip read that is not on the cards.

I seriously doubt dialog cards are part of any director's "vision".

The bad music slapped on the DVDs is also a serious turnoff. Music easily makes or breaks a movie. For example, the music on Lord of the Rings adds greatly to my enjoyment of it. The Hobbit music is utterly forgettable, and makes the poor movie even worse.

For another example, the movie "Hawaii" has a most excellent music soundtrack. Its sequel, "The Hawaiians", has a completely forgettable soundtrack, which contributes to the movie falling flat on its face.

I suspect much of "Star Wars" success came from the music.
Your worries are valid, but thankfully Apple security architecture is better than your average left-pad enjoyer. Sure, it is possible there will be security implications.

> that wirelessly, without any confirmation, modifies the software on your device and "only" requires proximity

Running an update is different than "modifying the software". It is possible that such an update just wipes everything on the phone as well
A pseudo-public joint venture model is viable in internet telecoms (eg ICANN), so why not in payment clearing?
Hmm, is it a console bought for homebrew/modding purposes, or someone who actually left it this long to buy the console for 'official' games?

Kinda want to see an interview with this mystery person to find out!
What kind of European universities do that and how do I find them? I've been a lab assistant at a university before and would like to evaluate this opportunity
He was good with aliens that have blue/orange morality. My favourite is the exchange in 'The Algebraist' between the big bad villain, who is firing people at the planet in order to 'force' the Dwellers to do what he wants and the alien ambassador, who says (politely) "I do hope you have enough people ... ".
Full and complete details is bulldust but a good tactic by the no campaign.

What they needed to do was release enough of a proposal to convince 50% + 1 of 4 of 6 states and the whole country to vote yes. There is no fixed amount but the proposal didn't fail because of a conspiracy. It failed because it was an ill-conceived change and an ill-conceived campaign.
My worry is that that merchants offer higher prices based on their assessment of my private data.

We've had the situation before when booking holidays that my wife sees higher prices for the same hotel on her laptop while sitting right next to me. Once she cleared cookies the price went down to match what I've been offered on a clean computer.

That was a few years ago so I would imagine IDing potential customers is done via browser finger printing now rather than cookies and so harder to protect against.

Really, who wants their bank or payment network to collude in higher prices?
I had one of those. I remember taking to the Apple Store and they actually suggested I'd caused it. That lead to a pretty funny and loud conversation where I cost them a bunch of sales. I walked out with a new one that didn't do that.
Just.. how it is.. with any other device and OEM service..?

I don't get it? What do you think does Samsung do when you send over
your device for repair? Ever got asked for a passcode by them?
It would be good, but unfortunately unlikely to happen.
Spain has been traditionally and particularly idiotic about tech legislation. Some examples:

- There was (and is) a fee on every CD-R, DVD-R, BR-R, hard drive, SSD, printer... as a "just in case it happens to store/copy copyright-protected material at some point ever" fee [0].

- They forced link aggregators to pay newspapers/sites for linking to their content, even just using their <og> tags. [1].

So such insane statement comes as an absolute non-surprise to anyone who's followed Spanish tech legislation for a while.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociedad_General_de_Autores_y_...

[1] https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/google-news-spain-faceb...
I ended up reading more about this and looks like SSHD in Ubuntu 22.10 and later also uses systemd socket activation. So there should be no sshd process(es) started until someone SSHs in!

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/sshd-now-uses-socket-based-ac...
Both are a kind of hoarding...
In usual business environments, generalists are usually not very valued either, but in indirect ways: it's easier to ask for better conditions if you can boast having unique skills or be strong in a specific niche, and a true "generalist" will be expected to move to a management or facilitator role, which makes them regress their technical abilities to some amount, which in turn pushes them to further move down that career path (or out of the company if they want to regain a technical role).

I find it fascinating that the gaming industry is faced with similar issues with generalists, where I was expecting a lot more pragmatic choices and better paths for individual contributors even if they're not ultra specialized.
I love that quote too, used it for the last chapter of my PhD thesis 15 years ago.
I and my friend (physically located very far) want to listen to songs sometimes. The songs are mostly from YouTube. What we need is synchronization plus editable playlist.

For example, both of us should be able to add songs (that is drop YouTube links) and the app should queue them and play in order.

Not just for songs, we sometimes want to watch movies/YouTube videos together too...

So far what we do is, create a Jitsi Meet link and use it's Share YouTube video feature [1].

For songs, we can't find a good UX/FOSS solution yet, so we just use Telegram's group call feature with a bot that can play audio through it. [2]

Anybody found yourself in similar situation and got a better (FOSS preferred) solution? :)

1. https://jitsi.org/blog/co-watch-youtube-videos-on-the-new-me...

2. https://t.me/Minty_Fresh_OT/261123
I consider myself a generalist and companies just do not like to hire those. The vast majority of companies doesn't even advertise jobs that are not specialized. And of course this generates some kind of force on the market, because there is no incentive to become one and a strong incentive to specialize instead.
That logo has some strong Masterchef vibes.
I thought Children of Men was quite realistic, actually. Maybe you could question the initial premise of fertility problems, but the rest of "what would happen if this happened" (societal unrest, surveillance, etc.) I found exceptionally realistic and very much in the "mood" of the modern world. It is miles more realistic than immortal space robots and a post-scarcity society.
I think you're reading that wrong. It's an issue with the protocol. IMAP/SMTP as implemented in most clients do not support 2FA. You can add 2FA on your own on the webmail, but you could still circumvent it by using the protocol directly. It's not a Migadu-specific thing.
>I doubt that a bossy person like Edison would want to operate it by himself.

maybe he would have made an exception to meet Twain however.
This is a pattern even in software industry itself. People specialise too early in their career, zooming closer and closer to a tree, knows everything about a leaf. Fewer and fewer people see the forest. A side effect of specialising is that the skill that you specialise in become a commodity. In the book Finite and Infinite Game, it is said that an infinite game can contain a finite game, but a finite game cannot contain an infinite game. Take it out of context, a generalist is an infinite game, who can be anything, who can be specialised. A specialist, or a specialist organisation is a finite game. Once we started the specialist game, it is turtle all the way down. Everything has to be specialised. So a start up usually start with a bunch of generalists. Over time it specialises into ever granular units
The galaxy in the Culture novels is a big place full of many societies - a few at the same level of technological development as the Culture. So it wouldn't be that difficult to wander off somewhere and get lost and do your own thing.

However, if you do go off and set up your own fascist dictatorship outside of the Culture there is also no protection should the Grey Area come hunting for you.
These "products" are built on deceit. They are only sustainable due to regulatory capture.

There has never been so much wealth and power amassed (legally) by exploiting the cracks of governance.
I was looking for something like that because I recall Banks saying something along the lines of 'socialism wins' about his books:

> The theory here is that the property and social relations of long-term space-dwelling (especially over generations) would be of a fundamentally different type compared to the norm on a planet; the mutuality of dependence involved in an environment which is inherently hostile would necessitate an internal social coherence which would contrast with the external casualness typifying the relations between such ships/habitats. Succinctly; socialism within, anarchy without. This broad result is - in the long run - independent of the initial social and economic conditions which give rise to it.

> Let me state here a personal conviction that appears, right now, to be profoundly unfashionable; which is that a planned economy can be more productive - and more morally desirable - than one left to market forces.

And that feels kind-of Star Trekkie in its optimism that humans can ever live in peace with one another, and that "socialism" (however you care to define it) can ever be successful - capitalism fosters innovation. Perhaps the only way Banks' vision of the future could be successful is do exactly what his books talk about and we just let the machines take over.
A lot of people with Ferrari money have their net worth tied up in investments like stocks, bonds, real estate and maybe even Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a very liquid asset, buying a Ferrari with it would be nearly instant.
I find it amusing and mildly horrifying when people tried to start movements to save buildings like the Tricorn centre in Portsmouth.

The Barbican seems like a good candidate to keep around, because it has some thought gone into it, and people seem to like it, use it and like the accommodation.

Most of the rest seem to fall into the realm of "sad, cheap city-centre retail blocks" and "places to warehouse poor people". Both of which suffered from being soul-crushing, and seemed to just court anti-social behaviour of various forms.

I suppose there's also London's South Bank area. As someone that used to work in the middle of it, the thing we always said was the best thing about working in South Bank was that we could look across the river at basically anything else...
Initiatives like Chat Control makes me pessimistic. They keep on coming in all sort of variations and we defend. Given enough of such iterations, at some point though they’ll eventually be lucky and god knows how long it will take to revert things. And what I don’t get is that this sort of proposed legislation is more than Stasi could've ever wished. And yet it’s openly discussed as if it’s good idea. And note that “they” are supposed to represent “us”.

It freaks me out to the point that I rather have my country leave the EU.
No, it just means whatever data they have is less secure. Encryption does nothing about data collection.
Evaluating Cryptographic Vulnerabilities Created by Quantum Computing
> - There was (and is) a fee on every CD-R, DVD-R, BR-R, hard drive and SSD as a "just in case it happens to store copyright-protected material at some point ever" fee [0].

Sadly, Spain isn't the only country that does this. The copyright lobby has been very successful at making people fund their failing business model.
Those who can do, those who can't become regulators (those who can't but have deep pockets and reputations to uphold beg to become the regulators)
> But title bars are mandatory, so that's why not.

They're mandatory because they're the way to move the window with your mouse. So fucking them up with a bunch of stuff that hinders that is just as bad as not having them in the first place.

Congratulations, you've circumvented the mandatory requirement!

Which is just as bad as disregarding it in the first place.
At some point during the dot-com era, Microsoft toyed with adding an HTTP server to its SQL Server product to enable similar development paradigms. My recollection is that this was a disaster on several fronts, not the least of which was that successfully breaching the HTTP server gave an attacker direct access to the database. This (and other considerations) make a good case for the kind of separation-of-concerns which would avoid entwining API service with DB access.

I read the README, but it focuses on the practical aspects of getting the solution to work, not its philosophical justification.

edit: When I say "disaster" for the MS SQL Server attempt, I don't believe anyone ever experienced a breach, etc. But, as I recall, there were no large customers (MS caters to the larger corporate crowd) with IT deparments willing to risk exposing their DB servers to the "DMZ zone" of public Internet access (or only 1 layer past is, such as behind a proxy). So from that standpoint the disaster was providing a solution nobody (with money and corporate experience) wanted. I guess for hobbies or Silicon Valley MVPs, the concept might have some legitimate appeal.
How comes people using the well-known "children protection" manipulation and the "I have nothing to hide" fallacy to legally (thogh unenforceably) destroy privacy creating a total surveilance dystopia and put everyone in iminent danger (because whatever secrets only a government agency has access to, will sooner or later leak anway) are allowed to shape EU policies? To me they clearly seem either intentionally malevolent or fundamentally ignorant (thus professionally inadequate for the job) actors. Or am I wrong?
Ask HN: How can my website auto-set trending words for each country?
I have a side project, an open-source website (podfind.xyz), which I use to "quickly see the opinions of podcasters on certain topics," such as "Israel."

Considering users might be unsure what to search for when they first visit, I want to automatically update keywords based on trending topics in different countries. However, as a foreigner, I'm unaware of the current hot topics in countries like Japan, France, or Spain. Is there a method to let the website automatically gather trending events from various countries and simplify them into recommended keywords?

I've considered using Google News or Google Trends, but the top-ranked results often don't align with the keywords that genuinely interest people. I'm uncertain about the best approach.
Perspective from someone who entered the workforce during COVID, I found being onboarded remotely was just fine. My team lead is 27, and the rest of us are under 25. We bond and engage socially in our Slack channels just fine. We meet once a week, but banter less than over text.

I don’t mean this in a flippant way - for better or worse, social media has transformed the way this generation communicates. Online slang is an adaptation that evolved as a means to capture the full range of human expression in character limited unicode strings. Group chats are the atomic unit of social networks in the digital age.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a generational divide when it comes to how efficient remote work and learning is, and the success will vary from team to team depending on its composition. The latter is self evident enough, but still useful to keep in mind.

Personally, I find there’s an argument to be made that water cooler experiences are forced, since it’s synchronous communication that makes it less possible for a party to politely disengage midway through if that’s what they wish.
> That’s an opinion.

That's fair, actually.

It's an opinion I feel strongly about, though. Honestly, I think c++'s reliance on library features to patch over deficiencies in the language is a cop out. We knew about the unique pointer abi performance issue a decade ago, and decided that string view should be implemented the same way.

Ranges are "the kitchen sink", and cause significant compile time issues whether you want to use them or not.

Spending time on libraries like fmt (which is an excellent library) is paying lip service to progress by locking in a 5 year old library (at this point).

> The spirit of C/C++ is to put just enough in the language itself to allow programmers to implement such things in them

To use your own words against you, that's an opinion. Mine is the spirit of C++ (which were talking about here, not C) is to not rock the boat too hard or everyone will have an opinion.