skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say it works well enough for maybe 90% of devs at my company. It solves a lot of real issues for them and dramatically simplifies onboarding.

The issue is that most of my team are in that 10% and now that 90% of the company have their needs met, we're getting pressure to conform because maintaining all the physical infrastructure for a small group gets expensive. Unfortunately, we can't use cloud environments for a reasonable chunk of our work, so that really means we're get forgotten about until we complain loudly enough, no matter how friendly I am with the relevant teams.
Also don’t forget that AWS pretty much lets Amazon benefit from all that VC money without being directly exposed to the risk.
Sometimes to get ideas worked out, I use a legal pad and a pencil. I like doing math on a $11 Casio calculator instead of the PC.

I still write native apps that use the Win32 API in Lazarus/Free Pascal for Windows. I've been known to write web pages in NotePad++.
The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self by Charles Eisenstein
Imaging and image quality

There's lots of subject matter experts that aren't expert coders though, this is just my corner of the world.
This Is Your Brain on Music
-by Daniel Levitin

--helped me understand why listening to music has such a varied and profound effect on me.

Hallucinations
-by Oliver Sack

--piqued my interest in the brain and the notion that it is running the show behind the scenes and what we perceive to be reality is merely a construct of our neural activity.
- Gödel, Escher, Bach (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel,_Escher,_Bach)

- Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline.
Same. From that headline I have no way of telling which is the oldest and which is the newest. Just put a damn number.
Think he was on the board. I have been interim CEO a couple of times for this reason. My main objective was finding a permanent replacement.
The TurkuNLP team does have the best previous-generation language model for Finnish (FinBERT). The current version of ChatGPT speaks passable Finnish, although definitely not at the level it speaks English. None of the open-source models I've tried come close to ChatGPT performance.

If they can gather a good multilingual dataset including the smaller European languages, and burn enough money on the compute, they could create a useful model for some specifically European use cases.
Making a RHEL clone from CentOS stream is absolutely using "Red Hat code".

Also, isn't CentOS stream already ABI compatible? Just occasionally ahead of RHEL?

I really don't understand the outrage from RH cracking down on clones. With entitled CentOS users going "I don't want stream, despite it being a rock solid gratis platform; I want the 10 year support battle tested code, but without giving you any money".

I do understand some users of RHEL/CentOS-of-yore rely on other vendors that only support specific versions of RHEL (looking at you, Infiniband drivers..), but those vendors could (and should) be encouraged to support Stream and other distributions (if only at the source level), not contribute further to the RHEL monoculture.

With Rocky and Alma we're right back where we started. Sad panda.

I think what's really needed is a competitor to RHEL in the scientific computing/HPC space. Though it's a difficult market to penetrate. SuSE has tried for ages, and Ubuntu just isn't up for it (also making custom deb repos are much harder than RPM).

After following a couple of links I learned that Rocky gets their sources from spinning up RHEL cloud VMs and similar shenanigans. Could they not just buy a single subscription and get direct access to everything?

In fact I'm glad Red Hat cracked down to prevent predators like Oracle to just rebrand the distro and call it "unbreakable Linux" as if they built it. Well they still can if they pay for it. This monoculture, and especially focus on bug-for-bug compatibility is just ridiculous. Alma is doing something different by simply focusing on ABI compatibility and can otherwise aim for security or performance, but I'm afraid most people will flock to Rocky just because nobody ever got fired because of a RHEL bug.

Thanks for coming to my TED rant.
This is a security product focused on the workplace, so they just need to mark their VPN IPs as trusted, or look at the flow logs between the user’s VPN packets to detect the original IP they’re connecting from.
now that you mention it, I can't think of anything more futuristic than using magnetic flux to induce current into an iron pan

a sous vide bath of vacuum sealed meat is rather dull in comparison to a good sear
More data, more parameters, more compute all result in a better model per "Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models"

https://browse.arxiv.org/pdf/2001.08361v1.pdf

Largeness is a valid goal.
Super Press Space to Win Action RPG
The Road to Wigan Pier - Orwell

Antifragile - Taleb

What is Life? - Schrodinger

Structure and Interpretations of Computer Programs - Abelson
23andMe came out when I was in high school, and one of my science teachers spent an entire class period telling us how bad an idea it would be to ever use their service. Probably the most valuable lecture I ever had tbh, I've never even considered going near it as a result.

Makes me think that "data privacy" should be added into schools' mandatory health class requirements or something. Though most likely any prescribed curriculum would have been lobbied to death & not actually teach valuable information.
The big impact books tend to be the ones read in youth. One that I re-read many times was the biography of Robert Wood by William Seabrook (both really fascinating characters):

Doctor Wood, Modern Wizard of the Laboratory

For a more recent, although not nearly as formative read:

The Coddling of the American Mind
I majored in Game design in college, every semester we would make one game for the final project. To be honest a lot of my classmates suck at making games, but still, we can get a good laugh and fun time when playing the "bad games". That's when I really started to love games, they don't need to be "good" to bring joy! That's also when I got into communities like Glorious Trainwrecks[0] that focuses on making "bad" games, a lot of people I see there are the most creative people I've seen in my life.

[0] https://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/
For processing strings, streams in C++ can be slow
> Bard is clearly inferior to GPT-4

Have you tried it recently? It got a lot better, and I like it more for research tasks. (GPT4 + Bing are alright)
United Airlines plans to board passengers with window seats first
Not identical, but close and quite excellent: https://www.lazarus-ide.org
It’s close enough for the purpose of the article.
Thank you for pointing this out! You are correct that we have not yet decided on a license.

I will admit my ignorance on this topic, and I didn't want us to rush into selecting a license that is inappropriate.

Which one should we choose?
Link to English translation from Wikipedia:

https://libcom.org/files/Paulo%20Freire,%20Myra%20Bergman%20...
ummm... sounds like a unsigned char same as signed char reference. Lot of fun debugging 32 bit int (big, little and mixed endian) over char absolution position always starts at left and is contiguous.
I had this same observation playing factorio. When I started I made spaghetti factories with a friend and had to constantly refactor as requirements changed in the game. It was a blast. Then we started getting into optimization and suddenly there was only one right way to do it. Overnight all the fun was sucked out of the game.

Often I will learn more by building things poorly with hubris and whimsy. “How hard can it be?” has gotten me in way over my head so many times. But I always learn a ton and discover fun digging my way out.
> Are you kidding? Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles...

wait, wait, no that's something else. hang on.

> Are you kidding? Epic space battles, mystery, exploration, enslavement, hegemony, monsters, ancient doctrinal conflict, escapes, revolution...
I have this feature enabled at all times, but my iPhone 15 Pro (with always-on display) usually can't make it through the day. Still wondering if limiting always to 80% will actually increase longevity of the battery
Does any experimentation platform support this?
Aren't UPS drivers unionized? I know they were back when I was a young punk...
Nope, the VM has the git repo + IDE binaries + everything else. You can code against it using just a web browser if you want.
You are Not So Smart by David McRaney. It started a journey of self reflection and introspection that I'm still working on to this day but extremely thankful for. It changed the way I look at myself and the actions of other people, both for the better.

It all started for me when I heard about the three jesuses of ypselanti. I hope you enjoy it too.

https://youarenotsosmart.com/2014/01/07/yanss-podcast-015-i-...
Ah, interesting, yeah that's fair tbh, most of them are pretty terrible choices.

I typically enjoy using all of the mushroom guys, the spathi, the one really advanced race that's not the ur quan, the ur quan and the pkunk? But even those, most of them yeah just aren't very good.
Wondering if third-party software like this, when not baked into the OS, will have other longterm side effects. Since it can't really put a hard-stop on charging, can it?
Also: costs more for inference, uses more energy, less practical for running locally, fewer use cases as a result. Especially for an open model.

Being on Github / HuggingFace but needing to be on a AWS or Nvidia wait list to get the resources to run it is not great.

In an unlimited energy and chip world I would agree just make em bigger.

I guess going bigger has a greater chance of success in being SOTA than looking at architectures. So I get people don’t want to gamble.
On Writing by Stephen King is one of the best books about the craft of not only writing, but any solo creative endeavor. It is also immensely entertaining and dark. The Audiobook is read by the author and he does a great job.
Buying subscription and using it to build a distro would be against Red Hat Subscription agreement. I guess you missed all the drama of the summer, when Red Hat made it so.
Same. I live in a heavily wooded area and it basically rains needles in the fall. I'm up there every other week this time of year with the cordless blower clearing off the roof. Couldn't imagine doing that with a rake or broom or something.
Yes.

Though it seems common practice to "discount", I use that term lightly, the thing then make up the difference by charging outsized amounts for the refills. What ever those are be they ink or coffee cups or games. Hell even luggage.

We have been conditioned to buy what seems like a cheap thing only to be micro transacted, monthly surcharged and create an account bs-ed to death. My last toasted wanted to know my wifi password!
> we haven't found even undersea-vent extremophile life with a silicon[e!]-based genome

That may simply be because even there carbon has the advantage and would call anything else 'food', so on the timescales that we observe life silicon based life might simply not have time enough to evolve.

It's an interesting question, and if life really revolves around a single atom (Carbon) being present that would in itself be yet another one of those things that makes you wonder what the chances are of life existing at all.

Judging by our own evolutionary timetable it may be that on the 'hot' earth other life forms were possible but as things cooled down they were no longer viable (I'm assuming that 'hot' life would evolve faster and 'cold' life would evolve slower, this may well be a wrong assumption), and as earth cools down further it may well be that things that are not viable right now may become viable. Life seems to have very few pre-requisites, energy and some specific molecules present in non-zero quantities and you're off to the races.

Also: nucleic acids may not be a pre-requisite either: life may well require them for bootstrapping but they may not be a requirement for all forms of life.
“How to sell at margins higher than your competitors”, which profoundly improved my pricing strategy at the software business I started.

“Self esteem” - which altered how I saw myself and understood my own behavior when dating.
I've been having a great time w/ Kagi, absolutely worth the $10/mo.
Stick to delimited ascii & send over tcp/ip, perhaps use asn/bers specs. -- UTF / json / xml nice unification of everything, as long as don't forget sending UTF flag.
A good ... jumble.* And what among Seneca's writings would you highlight?

* Having elected not to use an obvious list format (as it appears on my screen), or even a single ASCII character beyond the fairly essential - parsimonious. You took the interrogative "How long shall you march under another man's orders?" very much to heart, it seems.
There are many different physics courses, so which one was that?

In order not to sound solipsistic, I will admit that they all share the subject :P
> It’s not like the police got access to all of the users browsing history,

Police then get warrants for users' electronic devices when they're under investigation because they're on that list, so the police get more than access to users' browsing history.

> they just got a list of IP address who had been casing the joint.

Or they got a list of completely innocent people who made deliveries, live nearby, etc, who are now treated as suspects for arson and murder they didn't commit.
> Which one should we choose?

It depends a lot on what you want the license to do, so I don’t really want to say one way or another.

IANAL, but my understanding is that code without a license effectively has an “all rights reserved” license in the U.S., meaning that it can’t be used for anything at all — even non-commercial work.
The crews in my suburban neighborhood definitely have $10k mowers in trailers towed behind $40k pickup trucks.

Landscaping equipment isn’t the most expensive, but it isn’t cheap.

Most crews are 2-4 guys with 1-2 mowers and they work all day long.
"The Liberators" by Viktor Suvorov <https://archive.org/details/ViktorSuvorovTheLiberatorsMyLife...>

I wish this one was required reading.
My lifetime mpg is just about 20 on the dot. It’s a 30.6 gallon tank. Keep in mind I’m driving through canyons and mountain passes and just about maxing out my payload over half the time I drive. It’s incredible.
$100m is relatively cheap for something at the scale and sophistication of gpt-4. I think money is not the issue-it’s all the little things that had to be done right as Altman said in an interview.
no *fun() deref-ing?
No comment on the 600+ cases of males dominating in women's sports then? It's all right there on the page you scrolled all the way down to get to the non-athletic competitions.

That's 242 winning places which women lost to men in cycling, 117 in track and field, 65 in mountain biking, 43 in disc golf, 38 in swimming, 20 in powerlifting, and the rest in a wide variety of other sports.

197 first place podium spots that women athletes have lost to men, 177 second places lost, and 168 third places.

Do you still believe this is not a problem for female athletes, even after being shown data proving otherwise?
Not everyone who has money wants to build one .

It is just a shiny new toy, they may deem there are better uses for their money
Not true, I maintain the VB6 and VC++6 parts of our system on a Win 11 machine. Search a bit and you will find instructions for installing them successfully.
clangd can barely do it in practice, it does not index the whole code base, instead it builds up the index gradually, and it often failed to find function implementation, it can just find those definitions, ctags has no issues to find both.

I would love to stick with clangd if it can do whatever ctags can as far as source indexing goes, it seems can not.
Your article says USB A male to USB C female is noncompliant.

It doesnt say USB A female to USB C male is noncompliant. These are reasonably common and I had one included with both my current laptop and my current smartphone, for example.
I showed my wife some Atari 2600 demos running on the MiSTer. She was impressed, and even more so when I explained to her why the effects were so impressive, the actual hardware constraints the coders had to work with/around to get that stuff on the screen. She's a big fan of movies like Hackers, so when I told her how it got started, with bored teenagers in the UK, France, Germany, Scandinavia, etc. looking to make their mark on the world through their computers, first with pirated software and later with standalone demos, it resonated with her fondness for that kind of tech-rebelliousness.

I never was and probably never will be a part of the demoscene, but it's inspired me for decades and I'm passing along that inspiration to people close to me.
"The righteous mind" by Jonathan Haidt. I loved it so much that I gave it to three different peoples.

It's about psychological studies of morality, and what tends to influence one sense of morality.

It had a huge impact on me because I feel that it helped me grow as a person, and being able to understand other culture/other principle, even if I don't necessarily agree with that.

Lots of stuff that seems plain evil from a western point of view (ergo, centered about the morals of individuality) would look more sensible once understood from a moral coming from a sense of community, and the necessarily conservative need to foster a stable societal structure.

It doesn't mean that I agree with things like opposing the rights of woman to drive/open bank account, but it help understanding the motivation better.

Another interesting point he brings is the differentiation between a moral judgement (X is good or bad), and the moral reasoning (X is bad because of Y and Z). Notably, the moral judgement come before the moral reasoning, the latter being used not as a way to reach a conclusion, but as a way to defend a moral judgement with our peers.

Jonathan Haidt is mostly known for his works on the political polarization of the USA.

Another book I found incredibly enriching (but unfortunately only in French) is "Au coeur des services spéciaux", which is an interview by Jean Guisnel (a french investigative journalist) of Alain Chouet, a former director of the DGSE (the french CIA basically).

Alain Chouet studied Arabic and the arab/muslim world even before joining the DGSE, and what I picked up at the bookstore as a way to understand the french intelligence services turned out to be an extremely interesting (and respectful) exposé of the muslim and arab world, with the prism of political Islam, the history of terrorism as seen by french intelligence service, his opinion on many nuclear programs, and of course a great deal about 9/11.

The writing of the book is very fresh thanks to the conversational/interview style used, and while the book show its age more and more (it's from 2013), I still believe it's a worthwhile lecture if one is curious about such subject, especially given the current context.
Are there no incremental ways to verify that it's working?
I switched[1] to Hypercorn[2] because Uvicorn currently supports HTTP/1.1[3] and WebSockets

[1] https://github.com/hbcondo/revenut-api/blob/main/Procfile

[2] https://github.com/pgjones/hypercorn

[3] https://www.uvicorn.org
I don't know that I would call it "non-fiction," but its non-fictional aspects have had a huge impact on me: the "focus on the small to unblock yourself" (was it write about your left hand?).

And the concept of "gumption".

But most especially that "quality" is the interface between the observer and the observed -- that what you like is a unique aspect of you and the thing (that you like), and that's okay. That concept has shaped my world.
I highly recommend AccuBattery for Android. I have been using it for a few years now and I saw a noticeable difference on my Pixel 3a XL compared to use on previous smart phones. I now have a Pixel 6 and its nearly 2-years old and the battery lasts well beyond 30-hrs with combined use.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.digibites....
Learn complex analysis contour integrals! There super fun for doing physics integrals. I'm not sure if these are too basic for what your asking about or not, but thought I'd mention them. Junjiro Noguchi's Introduction to Complex Analysis is a book recommended from herehttps://math.stackexchange.com/questions/438468/what-is-the-...
As someone who grew up near Mexico and learned mostly Mexican Spanish I can agree but having moved to Japão I had to adapt to the fact Brazilian is more common in the area I live in. Several months of dabbling in it has made Spanish look like the odder language. I read Spanish and feel like it is poorly written Português. I don’t know if anyone else can relate to this.
I wish they made the batteries slightly larger, then made 100% on the battery meter secretly be 80% of the increased capacity so I could have my cake and eat it.
Thoughts on Product-Market Fit
Umm... lot of undefined behavior things in official C spec.
As a funny aside, I have an otherwise intelligent friend who actually thinks the book is about motorcycles...
Industrial processing. As a simple rule, the longer the list of ingredients on the food label, the more processed. The ingredients aren't something you'd normally think of as food? More processed.
> they are likely to ask the library in town if anyone had checked out a book that outlined how to make a firebomb or similar

I'm hoping that the town library would stonewall any such request:

https://www.ala.org/advocacy/privacy
We now have an in-house cloud dev environment at Airbnb (note: my opinions are my own and not those of my employer) and it was a huge improvement over what we had in the past.

Spinup time is fast, it's easy to use VSCode remotely, and it's easy to have multiple environments for different types of projects (Python, Java, Go, etc.).

Neovim + LSP's also works perfectly if you prefer that over VSCode (via ssh)
I worked with an engineer once who spent most of their time refactoring and cleaning up. They explained over beers how they wanted to spend more time being net-negative. After they left, sure enough, removed more code than ever added and was the best member of the team. That stuck with me and I also now strive, where it makes sense, to remove before create.
This makes sense. There are 3 “ways” a battery charges.

1. OS’s battery driver does the charging. This is possible when the computer is on and the driver has control.
2. Firmware driven charging. Typically used in sleep mode
3. Analog Trickle charge - no intelligence, no code is executing. Charge slowly from a dead battery so as to not damage any components.

#1 is the only case where an app. Can control any aspect of charging.
Yup. Figured as much. Always those pesky edge cases that the no-code stuff never handles well.
1. Most definitely

2. The revelation about quality

3. I've read it three or four times, generally about ten years apart. I'm due...
Both, as a battery ages from use its capacity diminishes which is why it runs out faster.
Tech companies like Google regularly just give police users' data when it's simply asked for. They all have portals that expedite this process. Some companies publish stats based on this. They get thousands of such requests a year, sometimes with warrants, and the vast majority are fulfilled without a fight.
Good luck reaching a Google search results page while browsing through Tor.
On the other hand we really can understand the chemistry that alchemists were fiddling with -- it wasn't metaphorical -- they really were messing around with chemicals and not souls. We still call some things by the names alchemists called them like "aqua regia" (literally "royal water") which is a nixture of nitric and hydrochloric acid that can dissolve gold and platinum. And which they hoped could therefore make more of it.
Have a fake profile or two for that problem ;)
Most assembler instructions are bit manipulations. just use gcc -S to cast the source code to bits.