skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the complete opposite is true. We are moving, for the first time ever, toward truth.

We never had truth in our society and suddenly with social media, people are forced into reading the truth and it makes them homicidal.

Worse yet, this truth has broken the world. No longer are the USA going to be the world police with a goal of stability. They are now at least incentivized to create instability.
> Too many where the answer is RTFM

I think that is precisely the problem. A kid is teaching himself to program. He has an error which a million people before him have faced. He types it into google and gets SEO bullshit. He asks stackoverflow and they close his question immediately as a duplicate of a question which, to him, looks very different. He asks ChatGPT and he gets an answer immediately.

Where does start next time he has a problem?
Microsoft AI Co-Innovation Labs
On a tangent there are two Iain Banks related books that might be of interest. The first is an academic study and overview of Banks "Iain M. Banks (Modern Masters of Science Fiction)" and, more particularly, his culture books:

https://www.amazon.com/Banks-Modern-Masters-Science-Fiction/...

The second book "The Culture: The Drawings" is slated to be released in early November (2023) and is a collection of drawings by Iain Banks that, per Amazon, details "the universe of his bestselling Culture novels":

https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Drawings-Iain-M-Banks/dp/0316...
Not really. I don't want the music streaming service, so they're forcing me to buy something I don't want. Also, it's not like videos have no ads with premium.
I believe that NVMe uses multiple I/O queues compared to serialized access with SATA and I think you’d be able to side unnecessary abstractions like file systems and block-based access with an NVMe-specific datastore.

I’m also curious if different and more performant data structures can leveraged; if so, there may be downstream improvements for garbage collection, retrieval, and request parallelism.
Trying to generalise and extract a lesson from this...

It was a quick DOS shareware app in the 1980s. There are better file-compression solutions now, for modern multicore processors on multitasking cross-platform OSes, but this one caught on, because it was shareware, and now has critical mass so we have to deal.

Generalising a lot, going a century back:

QWERTY was a handy keyboard format back when typewriters were catching on. There are better layouts now, but because QWERTY had a big win that led to another big win (it was designed to stop type levers jamming, so it was designed to make English users continually alternate left and right hands, and that happens to be quite ergonomically efficient), it caught on and now has critical mass so we have to deal with it.

Generalising just a little, just a couple of decades back from PKZip, and recursing 1 step:

UNIX was a quick hack of a text-terminal-driven minicomputer OS in the late 1960s, based on some ideas from mainstream OS R&D back then. Then they ported it to other text-only minicomputers, so they came up with a quick hack of a language to do it (C). There are better solutions now, including what the UNIX creators went on to do in the 1980s (an OS for LANs of homogenous graphical single-user workstations, Plan 9), and in the 1990s (a similar OS for heterogenous LANs of workstations some running other OSes, Inferno), and better languages (Limbo, Oberon) but Unix and direct copies of Unix (Linux, xBSD) got critical mass, so we have to deal.
But what about news headlines about "CNC milled guns"? ;-)
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It's tricky. I think it makes sense that the national policy (set by member states government) is represented in their decisions in the council.

Otherwise you could have the weird situation where the elected government and the elected council members work against each others because of mismatched voting cycles (or personalities).

That sounds like a recipe for legslative lockup.

In the end most fundamental EU "laws" need to be implemented into national law by the same government that is now sending its members to the council.

A similar system is in use her in Germany, where the state government send a representative to the upper house.
Efficiency increases could lead to less person hours being necessary, thus allowing to do the same with less people, or the same amount of people working less per week.
Doesn't ChatGPT probably regurgitate stackoverflow answers? If stackoverflow doesn't exist, ChatGPT probably also gets worse as it doesn't have the data necessary to be able to answer questions.
Am I reading this properly?

> As we finish this fiscal year and move into the next, we are focused on investing in our product. As such, we are significantly reducing the size of our go-to-market organization while we do so. Supporting teams and other teams across the organization are impacted as well.

This means they're cutting down on new product introductions, and are focusing on generating profit from their existing/deployed products?
Marketing in 2023 is truly hilarious. I can't decide whether it's better to get ahead of the news media by announcing your own failure, or to just be as good as you can be to the employees that you have to let go, and not write blog post about it. I know it's the current trend to make a big fuss with a tweet and everything about how much we're going to miss you and all. Somehow I don't think it's really helpful for the newly unemployed.

If someone can offer some insight on why we're paying somebody to spend a week thinking about what to call the layoffs ("headcount reduction" lmao), and not continue to pay the actual contributing members of a software team, and especially what the angle is in writing a blog like this instead of quietly taking care of your people, I'm all ears. Is it marketing trying to justify their continued existence? Are we helping the people we're letting go by announcing the flood of (probably experienced) talent into the marketplace? I'm only disparaging this practice a little bit. I genuinely am curious about what the psychologists and market analysts have found about how this is beneficial to the company.
I mean when you pick a job based on the language you’ll use and it’s the same language crypto companies love you have to ask yourself some questions (esp if you hate crypto)
Sure prices on food are up, but iPads have more ram.

That is not a fictitious example. That explanation was actually given.
Aside from pricing - the ad free experience is stretch. Basically all youtubers I used to watch push commercials inside their videos, have additional sponsors, some add Patronite support and so on. So I'm paying but still get ads served heavily. Not to mention abusing idiotic "shorts" that give them better income.

So instead of justifying Premium I started unsubbing even those that I respected, but currently became plain ad space. Also archived manually most videos that I valued in the past that are actual knowledge/art and tend to just try to ignore youtube. It's not a complete detox (due to lots of embedded videos on third party sites) but so far feels like a relief.
Might explain why the moderator strike never ended
Using the exact reference distribution for small sample Benford tests
Absolutely not. I only watch a handful of videos a month and don't care about their music streaming. $12/month is an absolute ripoff. No way my handful of ad views produces more than $1, MAYBE $2.
I'm not sure that's true. If ChatGPT reaches the point it can fully comprehend entire open source codebases and docs, of the tech that's the basis of a given question, it'll be able to guess solutions without human middlemen.
OpenBSD: OpenBGPD 8.3 Released
Probably OverflowAI
US is an energy exporter now.
It should be with the manual but current ones are not that good.

So it will be with the possibly wrong answer from ChatGPT.

When learning nothing replaces a book or tutorial that has had some proof reading or editing.

Just picking up small bits from the web here and there does make things difficult and does not really teach you.

Learning in general needs you to fail and think not just google an answer.
I don’t know who notable people here are, and don’t really care. The fact is that the opinion that cars should be banned/removed/made second class citizens is an extremely common and popular sentiment on HN.
Also the only way such a file can be editable which was a major design goal of the zip format and which is not really possible with Tar files.
I mention it as I just watched a television show where a ~40 year old man fiddles with a Switch and calls it a Wii. Hence "older" not "elderly," I think anyone not paying attention to video games over the age of like
25 could make that mistake.
Should you 3d print an auto sear (a little bracket-looking thing) then you're in possession of a machine gun, which is illegal.
PHP is 4x faster than JavaScript [video]
In today's video, I compare the raw performance of PHP and JavaScript… The results are crazy.
It's incredible how this community here, which is mostly against Discord as a Forum because it's not indexed and publically searchable, are so into ChatGPT as opposed to an indexable platform like SO.

Yeah, as someone who moderates a 200,000 member community, moderation is difficult. They do a pretty good job considering what amount of shitty, low value, googleable questions they get.

What do you all do if ChatGPT's prices rise? Or you're using a technology it knows nothing about? Back to IRC channels and reading docs? Where will you copy paste your code from? Cling to it and hope an alternative comes along, all the while shoving more money into closed models?
Thanks for the correction, I might have confused it with the Instrumentation Trace Macrocell.
How much is "enough" money for a content creator to be satisfied? They are mostly driven by income, so why assume it will ever be a case at all.
Why no mention of Patreon which is where most YT creators are asking you to pay them?

Does that also not meet your stipulations as to where and how you are willing to pay for a product you are consuming?
There's actually an NVMe command set which allows you to use the FTL directly as a K/V store. (This is limited to 16-byte keys [1] however, so it is not that useful and probably not implemented anywhere, my guess is Samsung looked at this for some hyperscaler, whipped up a prototype in their customer-specific firmware and the benefits were lesser than expected so it's dead now)

[1] These slides claim up to 32 bytes, which would be a practically useful length: https://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/ESF/Key-Value-Stora... but the current revision of the standard only permits two 64-bit words as the key ("The maximum KV key size is 16 bytes"): https://nvmexpress.org/wp-content/uploads/NVM-Express-Key-Va...
Someone always says that, but the calculations are available. And there have been very detailed reviews of the 'its all fake' side, that have shown the published rates really aren't that far off from what the detractors say is happening if you use the various 'alternate methods'.
Wanna move the goalposts some more? Don't you think the authors should be able to choose what is the best funding method for their project? Earlier you cried about crypto being ALL a scam, now you are the concerned citizen fearing from wallets being blacklisted.

While crypto has many downsides worth discussing, there is no reasoning to be had with anti-crypto zealots like you..
My favourite article about C in years.

To answer your question off the top of my head, answering different bits of the issue, from the perspective of the era of active programming language R&D not themes on themes on themes as we have now...

Limbo, Occam (Occam-pi, etc.), APL (I/J, Aplus, etc.), Oberon (Oberon 2, Oberon 07, Active Oberon, Zennon)...
Stackoverflow not having a public whitelabled version was their demise, not having something for a public community that is sellable without having to go through the Area51 provess was their demise. Discourse has been eating their lunch. https://www.discourse.org/customers
> I won't pay YouTube though, [in that case I will unilaterally decide that I can consume your content free of charge], sorry not sorry.

For clarity, I just added the quiet part.
They could even run a test suite on an iPhone before selling to a customer. For customers, it would be quite nice to get a charged, updated, verified iPhone.
How does any of this stuff really work? It seems as close to magic as I can possibly imagine, the idea that the laser source alone for EUV lithography fires a laser twice at single tiny droplets of falling tin, once to turn the droplet to tin plasma and again to generate the right wavelength of light, all in a fraction of a second, and this happens at up to 50,000 times per second. Seems mad to me...
I think we’ve finally hit the point where compound interest on savings is outpacing inflation (at least in the US). Savings accounts at 5%+ interest are now widely available as long as you avoid the big banks like Chase and BofA. Meanwhile inflation is still elevated, but at least its well below 5%.

OTOH, the prior 10+ years even when inflation wasn’t very high, 1% or so interest rates meant savers were falling farther and farther behind.
Despite the "Azure" name, Azure DevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server), is still a rock-solid on-prem system for git repo hosting, issues/stories/projects, build automation, and the rest - though I feel it has stagnated somewhat, and git integration still feels half-baked compared to TFS's previous SVN-clone, but is still my first-choice for on-prem installs (granted, I'm still wedded to the MSFT stack).
Sure, I had a talk recently where I mentioned P.K. and opening the ZIP which made it the default compression format. And zip became a proper noun (aside zoning improvement plant, version, that's it)

>In the end, Phil Katz was taken...

Indeed, 37 -- it's almost a cautionary tale, nowadays.
> *) The resize box used to sit below the very bottom of the vertical scrollbar, just below the down arrow button, as a distinct and dedicated handle for resizing windows.

At the intersection between the vertical and the horizontal scrollbar, if both were present. Or below them both, at the right end of the status bar, if the app has one (which many did, back in the day). Still there in f'rinstance Notepad++ 8.5.4, from June this year.
Why are we so dependent on GitHub?
It is opt-in.
How many copyrights are worth half a billion dollars to register from 50-60 years? Presumably zero are worth registering for $50B to protect from 60-70 years.

This hardly seems perpetual in practice.
> sometimes the comments and discussions are just as useful as the accepted answer

...but, mostly not.

Mostly, they're quite useless. ...and I say that with a considered opinion, not a knee jerk of irritation.

SO is fundamentally a site where up voting lifts relevant answers and down voting sinks irrelevant stuff.

However, comments are a side-step into non-voting, non-karma related content, that violates that fundamental premise. Comments simply give people a way to game the system; you can say unhelpful useless things, and the worst thing that can happen is the comment is flagged for moderator review. You can answer the question without it being a 'real' answer... only now it's harder to find.

The benefit of comments is entirely lost by the way they are abused in practice.

...so, realllly, if you want to chat about the solution, then chatGPT is the way to go, not SO. SO was never the place for that.

So.. you know. It's not much of a loss really, compared to what you get with a chat bot that's happy to talk to you patiently asking dumb questions literally forever. :)
Sounds like a new vulnerability route if you can flash the device without access to a port. I’d imagine it’s also in preparation for the removal of the port.
Britain's filthy, violent prisons shame us all. Here's why we should care
> You can explain to me how to make employees happy without "infinite growth"

Autonomy so they dont get a do nothing manager that wants meetings to discuss upcoming meetings.

Treat them like adults - also hire adults in the first place. Throw out well poisoners early on. Bullies, sexists, racists, over-competitive twats, ass kissers, boot lickers, etc if you somehow hired such types - throw them out too.

Pay must be market rate but doesnt have to be 500k for an api plumber.

Remote work so they buy a property they afford, settle down and raise a family.

And so on.
Can’t say I agree. I believe the method of distributing software historically was limited due to no easy access to public computing. Now the software distributor can more easily provide the software to the customer.

If ”cloud” was available in the 90s, I doubt that self hosting would have been as popular. Not saying its a wrong choice, just a matter of convenience.
Right of computer owner to access public network resources and display it in the way he wants is above profit incentives of resource provider and above any other proprietary rights for that matter.

For instance, if I receive a HTML/CSS data that displays a trademarked design (which should be kept as a whole), I am able to mangle the presentation part any way I want for personal usage. If I publish a site that's a mangled copy of a trademarked site, that's gray area. For my PC usage, no gray area. Same with disassembling, reverse engineering, etc.

Then, I have a right to publish any tools that perform any customizations over owner's items, be them hardware or software. Customizing proprietary software and reselling it is illicit. Customizing for one's own purposes isn't (the proprietor may choose to drop support for owner on his prerogative).

Most important point is that YT and alikes want to freeload in the middle area. They want to be free and public, but they want to force the way you consume them. That is a no go. YT can choose to make a closed system, but then they would lose all random people without accounts finding YT links and watching them. Really, tie the google account, and set up watching quotas, direct payment or any other system where YT directly gets "paid back". The user can use his tokens to access streams from wherever he wants, youtube-dl or whatnot.
Sorry - was just taking the opportunity to quote UoW. :-)
The problem with that argument is that that ship has long sailed.

Today it is next to impossible to securely use the internet without having an adblocker installed and enabled (or using something like Freetube, which is essentially a specialized ad blocking browser), otherwise you are exposing yourself to drive-by malware installs. Ads were and are a major vector here, including Google ones, given their market size. Heck, even FBI recommends it for exactly these reasons!

So if someone is arguing that I have to make my computer less secure only to make sure they can monetize my eyeballs, that's a no, full stop.

I would happily pay and support the artists or creators (and I do so) - but not by removing adblock and opening myself to an indiscriminate onslaught of insecure and poorly made ads.

And lets not delude ourselves with these moral arguments here - this isn't and never was about funding the creators of that content. Most Youtube video creators don't see a dime for their work from Google - and yet Youtube wouldn't exist without them and Google directly profits from that work.

The choice of business model - provide free video supported by advertising - was also Google's. Nobody forced them into it and they are free to make YT subscription-only.

However, if YT was a paid service from the start, they wouldn't be anywhere near where they are today.

And don't get me started on the evolution of ads on YT - I have no issues with watching an ad or two per video. But these days you have unskippable pre-roll ads, you have (often multiple) mid-roll ads, you have ads at the end of the video and all that in addition to whatever sponsor promotion is directly in the video itself (and which actually pays the video creator). So out of a 10 minutes long video there is often ~6 minutes of just ads.

No,thank you.
This debate is endless and varies by personal taste and what about the novels interests you. Use of Weapons is in the bottom half for me right alongside the one the author liked, Consider Phlebas (though I liked the latter more after reading the rest of the series).

It's still my favorite series books though, so don't get me wrong.
The post mentions the "successful launch of OverflowAI" which is something I had forgotten existed. For context the HN post for it is below, in which most people here are cynically dismissive of it or just confused about what it is supposed to offer.

Is it cynical to wonder what "successful launch" means in this context, or just HN being overly dismissive or out of touch?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36892311
Clickable links:

https://news.aiapipro.com/

https://github.com/aiapipro/news_ai_api_pro_bots/blob/main/r...
Just keep using 2 year old versions of software it knows about.
There was a lot to love about Return to Zork, but it was made in the Sierra model of suddenly killing you whenever you made a mistake that, in most cases, couldn't even have been foreseen to be a mistake.

Oddly, the text adventures were nowhere near as punishing.
// To sell your competitor's name is wholly uncompetitive

I don’t know where this came from. If I am googling Cancun it’s the perfect time to show me an ad for less famous destination I never heard of but might end up going to.

If I had somehow never heard of Toyota, telling me it exists when I am looking up Honda is perfect.

I get that there are plenty of times where this is annoying but there are also plenty of times where this unlocks awareness that helps a consumer.
How is it that I asked like 100 questions in last 5 years and hostile behaviour was visible in maybe 2 or 3, yet people act as if that was the most toxic place on the internet?

All I was doing was just: putting effort into my questions
> "There is more where this came from"

That’s not the part of the comment I had an issue with, which is why it’s not the part I quoted. What I commented on is the end, which implies negative intentions on the part of the original commenter.
This dispute was the subject of the last chapter of Jason Scott’s BBS documentary. The whole thing is worth watching, of course.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uNXCd2EATSo&list=PL7nj3G6Jpv2G...
At that point it seems simpler to turn a couple of sticks and some string into a bow and arrow.
if phone_initialized:
require_authentication()
You wouldn't shoot a policeman. And then steal his helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet. And then send it to the policeman's grieving widow. And then steal it again! Copying groceries is stealing. If you do it, you will face the consequences
Are you using the docker executor, or Kubernetes?

For Kubernetes, we found that GitLab has a tool that automatically does that:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ci-cd/gitlab-runner-pod-cleanu...
(Kot is "defecation", mostly referred to animal waste)
A little-known pollution rule keeps the air dirty for millions of Americans
Using it as a means of exchange is not rare. It's far from the majority use-case, but something that happens to the order of many billions of USD worth of exchange a year isn't rare.