skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then... for the rare packages that may not already be there, I would hope that you could consider spending a couple hours contributing something back to the community you are most likely using for free and complaining about.

Is me volunteering my time and expertise to write and publish opensource code not virtuous enough? “If you really loved opensource, you’d also do this other task constantly that doesn’t even take 2 hours each time”.

Why does arch even need rust packages to be added by hand? I’ve already programmatically expressed the contents and dependencies of my rust package. And so have all my dependencies. Why not just mirror that programmatically if you want my dependency tree in arch?

> the ones that are shipped by the Arch official repo seem more secure. For the community ones, it's less clear, but I would argue that AUR users are at least not less likely to review a package than the cargo users are to review a transitive dependency.

It seems more secure? You’re making security assessments based on vibes?

I can’t speak for others, but I’m personally much more likely to review my dependencies in rust or npm than in Debian or whatever because the source code is available and linked from the cargo package page. And I can control+click in to my dependencies (or debug into them) and read their code. And with npm they all live in node_modules. Source and all. I dive in there all the time. Does arch do that too? I have no idea where to look for the source code of a package I installed using apt. I’d probably need to Google the package and hope apt hasn’t patched it in any significant ways that make the version on GitHub out of date.
Beyond the difficulty of running calculations (or even accurately measuring the current state), is there a reason to believe weather is unpredictable?

I would imagine we probably have a solid mathematical model of how weather behaves, so given enough resources to measure and calculate, could you, in theory, predict the daily weather going 10 years into the future? Or is there something inherently “random” there?
Well I was only saying the films directed or written by Hayao Miyazaki. I actually did list From Up on Poppy Hill, directed by Goro and co-written by Hayao.
I don't claim to have studied this question in any formal sense, but I've indirectly studied some related areas due to happenstance overlap with my other interests. And while I can't say I know a definitive answer one way or the other, I will say that the more time I've spent pondering this, the less and less I find myself believing in free will. It's just very hard to come up with any kind of mechanism that allows for it, given what we (think?) we know about the world we live in. Unless there is truly some "magic" in the brain, the brain appears to be just another deterministic bio-physical system, operating according to the rules of physics, chemistry, etc. And if the mind is just an epiphenomenon of the activities of the brain... well... where does the "free will" part come from?

Saying this brings me no joy. I like the idea of free will, and would prefer to think that we do have free will. But I feel like if I'm intellectually honest with myself, there's little support for the idea.
I am sorry if my post came over as if I wanted to tell you to change; that is never my intention. Please be exactly as you want to be.

Taking your feedback into account I will try to get this nuance better in my writing, but please forgive me as I am "just an amateur with a blog". :-)
There is no reason that AI can't be better than humans at requirements elicitation and communication. AI can have necessary domain knowledge about the company and could absorb extensive information provided. It could use analogies to explain concepts at a level comfortable for anyone.
Not heard of them, but Google confirmed what I assumed : https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/nyregion/indian-tribes-ma...
I think there is a certain set that hopes this kind of fear-mongering will create downward pressure on CS salaries, but if the net result is to scare people out of the industry it may have the opposite effect.
I haven't criticised society?
If you want to avoid a delusional world view, I think targeted social media is probably what you want to avoid.

Maybe if TikTok could only serve content sorted by newest, or if you get a direct link URL from someone else.
That deconstruction pattern wouldn't be valid since it can only use `..` once per list. Very cool stuff though, thanks!
The blog has a link to https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/zenbleed.html#discovery which presents the concept.
>> "a rat cage in a soviet urban project", "nightmare of living on Gotham", "giant, nightmarish big cities"

> Your words show a huge amount of bias and are pretty uninformed by actual history.

So did the ones that they were replying to, making it clear that they believed everything about suburbs is bad.

> The idea that suburbs are better for families is betrayed by the fact that those suburbs are a pretty recent invention and the fact that housing in cities has much higher demand than suburbs.

There are a LOT of people that have no urge to live in a city. And, in fact, there's a lot of people that live in cities because that's where the jobs they want are (I doubt the same is true of people living in the suburbs).
U.S. advisory commission: Intense U.S.-China rivalry is 'the new normal'
It's described one paragraph earlier.

> I’ve written previously about a processor validation technique called Oracle Serialization that we’ve been using. The idea is to generate two forms of the same randomly generated program and verify their final state is identical.
There is also: https://github.com/mitsuhiko/rye
This makes absolutely no sense at all and flies in the face of all the statistics pointed out in the article.

Lower hood-lines save lives. You don't need a tall crumple zone.
> gathering requirements to communicating the changes.

Right, but those are soft skills. They're important but they're not why SWE's make big bucks. SWE's make big bucks because as he says- it's a lot of hard work to gain the skills to turn an idea into instructions. That's programming.

At the bottom of everything it's just machine instructions. We have all these languages and conventions because humans need abstractions. When models get really good will we won't need programming at all. Tell the model what you want and it generates machine code directly.
Facebook does not and will not care about anything or anyone under any circumstance unless it has a viable negative impact on their zuck bucks. This being via fines in law, lawsuits, or other. You’re SOL. Facebook doesn’t give a fuck about you, or me, or anyone. They give a fuck about your data but only to a point, and they already have that.

Try signing up for a new account today. Very high chance your account will instantly be locked and require verification with an ID or other.

Best thing to do is drop the hellhole that is Facebook and spare some of your sanity in the process.

If they want your data but you avoid them anyway, they’re more than likely going to be able to scrape a whole bunch of it from your friends that sign up and share their contact lists and messages and photos. That’s super fun, right?
I don't agree. IMHO Building on top of shared libraries with stable interfaces managed by a distribution package manager is the better approach. All this fast changing dependencies where you then end up having multiple installed at the same time in different containers, statically linked programs, or whatever is a complexity, security, and long-term maintenance nightmare.
I told my wife that we should consider being farmers in the future. She said we'd starve to death. Can't figure out if I agree with her.
We choose to purchase slave made devices we simply don't need. I can't see how that's ethicallt better.
I think you're trying to articulate the difference between price and intrinsic value?
A bit reminiscent of the ending of No Country for Old Men, although you never find out if he actually dies.
You’re saying Tesla wins by making less money? How does that work? Don’t their actual customers win?
> open source also applies to hardware designs

Okay? Neither hardware nor license type has any relevance to an SBOM. On an SBOM, you list all of your software dependencies, regardless of license.

> but where does the software end and the hardware begin anyways?

Hardware is the physically tangible part of the computer. Software is the instructions that run on it. For those compiling an SBOM, I think that's probably an easily answered question.
> And yes I know that some (not all) bugs also happen for AMD.

Some of these novel side-channel attacks actually even apply in completely unrelated architectures such as ARM [1] or RISC-V [2].

I think the problem is not (just) a lack of competition (although you're right that the duopoly in desktop/laptop/non-cloud servers for x86 brings its own serious issues, I've written and ranted more often than I can count [3]), it rather is that modern CPUs and SoCs have simply become so utterly complex and loaded with decades worth of backwards-compatibility baggage that it is impossible for any single human, even a small team of the best experts you can bring together, to fully grasp every tiny bit of them.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/arm-cpus-impacted-by-rare-side...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004579062...

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
And that's a very privileged position to take that makes you incredibly reliant on the benevolence of the trillion dollar oil gas, auto and insurance industry that have to pay constant microtransactions to play. It sucks for pretty much everyone else who isn't as privileged or wanting to be a pay pig for the multi-billionaires in comparison to being able to walk, bike and hop on a train.
> not everybody is a fan of living in a rat cage in a soviet urban project

> more enjoyable living

> freedom to live in more humane settings

> nightmarish big cities

You appear to be arguing as if this was an axiom--cities are this way, and you struggle through it until you can leave. As if the goal is to make bank and leave the city. But this is the cycle, not the cause. It does not have to be this way, and in many places (many European cities, Japanese and Korean cities, and more) it isn't this way. Tokyo is huge, for example, and it is very much not "nightmarish". Nor London, or Paris. Certainly in all these places there are space tradeoffs, but that is very much different than the only reason to be there being to suffer through.

At least in part, cars cause American cities to be this way. Cars are too big for city streets; cars push people out of cities at night making for different concentrations of activity, and so on. This article is a decent enough jumping off point, top of mind because I read it literally today: https://thedeletedscenes.substack.com/p/keep-on-trucking

I believe we can have liveable, walkable cities, and it has nothing to do with "spreading out business activity".
I just have orgmode files. One for day job, one for hobby projects, and one personal. Fun fact: I have been playing with querying it with a local LLM, and it’s quite usable, although I can also find information via fuzzy search/grep too.
Not related but once I worked with a data provider who had an "AI matching system" for classifying strings.

Turns out it was regular expressions.
The timing of this was perfect. I left a somewhat snarky comment to someone being a huge jerk and a few minutes later I'm IP banned. I was like, "damn that must have been an admin"
Social media giants must face child safety lawsuits, judge rules
A pure oxygen atmosphere would completely ignite itself in contact with a spark. So you need to have another gas to dilute the oxygen.

Mars' (almost non-existant) atmosphere is mostly CO2, and you could use that, except that a CO2 level above 10% is lethal for humans and at 10%, it's still too oxygen rich.

Nitrogen has the advantage that it's inert and non-lethal.
And literally cool the planet. That ir that passes through the atmosphere is heading into space, at least in clear days.
The video was of a different incident right and the person mentioned in the first link hasn't been on the station in years?
We're a long way from a post-scarcity world. In the meantime, I want to be able to pay my mortgage.

Even if we had the blueprint for one right now and a blueprint for robots that could make everything 1000x faster than humans, we're still talking decades because it is going to take time for concrete to set and for molten steel to cool and for all kinds of other construction/manufacturing processes (limited by the laws of physics) that will be on the critical path to building whatever it is that brings us to post-scarcity.

And even if the technology exists, how do we make sure we have a Star Trek future instead of a Star Wars future? Technology is very useful for improving living conditions, but you can't invent your way out of the need to organize and advocate for justice.

We already have the technology to feed the whole planet today, we just don't do it.
> The effect was detectable for just a few minutes before the ozone repaired itself, so it was “nothing serious,” Dr. Ubertini said. But had the supernova occurred closer to us, he said, “it would be a catastrophe.”

So - what actually occurred was trivial, being really close to a supernova is dangerous, and the article is clickbait.
That does seem like a good solution. A problem with posting to random platforms is the lack of durability - it feels like it could be gone at any time and that's because it could be gone at any time.

Writing first for your own site, and then either copying elsewere or linking from elsewhere at least preserves the original writeup.

On many platforms there is a preference for very short answers (too long didn't read). So copying a very short version and linking to the full version seems like a good direction. It's not perfect because contributing answers are then locked on each platform. - But we can always link back to a few worthwhile, and summarize them on our own page.

After that, traffic or not is mostly out of our control.
All great points, thank you!

I think GPT-4V perception of size might be distorted, since it downsizes everything to be 512px wide before scanning it. I wonder how can this be overcome, I'll try to play with the prompts to instruct it specifically about sizes.

Regarding the "Meet Slack for Enterprise" - you're right, it is weird, looks like it's hallucinating. I'll try and dig deeper.
It seems that is hasn't been released yet? Visual Studio 17.9 or later.

(17.8 has just gone live).
I believe it has to do with not wanting to have to recover the ship. By belly-flopping it into the ocean they can assume it disintegrated.
Small changes in initial state can lead to huge changes down the line. See: the butterfly effect or chaos theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory
Not the parent, but I lived 17 years in the heart of SF before moving to the country. I loved it in my 30s, but was pretty over it by my 40s. Now I love cooking at home, letting my kid play outside, and throwing parties without worrying about neighbors.

People like different things. The things people like change. Give the parent (and people like him/her) the benefit of the doubt.
> I have often felt like the nectar for a hungry extravert to feed on, and when they are done with me, it turns out they never actually cared about ~me~; they just needed to feed on the social interaction with me to gain energy for themselves. I was just a means to an end for them.

This is a striking metaphor! Although I do try to gauge willingness to talk *before* actually engaging in a conversation I will keep your comparison in mind. I don't want to feed on anybody's nectar, so to speak. :-)
It is delusional to think LLMs won't reduce the number of SWEs required. This should have been obvious from the first time you used GPT4.
What we pay in efficiency we gain in freedom: I can go wherever I want whenever I want however I want.

Do I want to drive to Yosemite on a Wednesday afternoon in my F-350? Yeah. Do I want to drive down to the Safeway one late evening because I just ran out of eggs? Yeah. Do I want to drive down to Costco this Saturday to buy the next month's worth of foodstuffs and supplies? Yeah. Do I need to drive down to the pharmacy to pick up some prescriptions? Yeah. Do I want to drive across the country in my motorhome over the course of a month? Yeah.

Being tied to public transport means you are beholden to them with regards to when, where, and how you travel. That ain't fun in the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Of course, that's just why we all drive our own cars. I haven't touched on why trucks and SUVs in particular are also seeing higher popularity.

The answer to the latter is simple: Bigger/heavier cars are safer when crashes happen and can transport lots of cargo, and being higher up means we have better line of sight and thus awareness of our surroundings. The bigger engines usually found in SUVs and trucks also means the car handles more swiftly, which is indispensible for hopefully avoiding dangerous situations should they occur.
It does not matter where the emails are stored if you have zero trust policy and use proper encryption protocols.
> old.reddit.com works, but www.reddit.com does not.

That was nice. Finally admitting new Reddit sucks.

> edit2:%20Looks%20like%20it's%20back%20up%20now.

:sadface: I wished it was forever
Well, there is the penalty at purchase time of the "gas guzzler tax":

https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi/P100F3YZ.PDF?Dockey=P100...

But guess what, the rates have not been raised since 1991! There's been some CPI inflation since then. The irrationality of Congressional energy policy continues evergreen.
Are you sure it's the same people?
Your comment implies that having homeless fentanyl and meth addicts does not cause actual harm to the rest of society, only the perception of harm. This is demonstrably false.

You also suggest they should be "given more support" what to do if this does not work, and does not keep the rest of society safe?
> allowed the Apple-controlled HLS player to reduce the bitrate rather than pummel a poor megacorp’s cellular network

lol the telcos will just throttle you, they don't care that your twitch stream constantly pauses to buffer. lower bitrate streams make the content playable, period.
Lock-in is the anti-thesis of open source, the two should simply never be seen together.
In case you're not already aware, GPT4 et al write usable Python and can execute some Python code themselves for trying things out.

I find it much more pleasant to ask GPT4's advice and have it write sample code than it is to use web search, Stack Overflow, etc. Even when I know exactly what code to write, it's often faster to ask GPT4 to write it a certain way and then make minimal edits myself.

The paid version of GPT4 used to be the best, but lately the VSCode Insider GitHub Copilot produces comparable or identical results, since it uses GPT4. I have only one custom instruction, "If writing Python code, always use context managers where appropriate."

EDIT: If you don't want to hassle with maintaining a development environment, try Replit[0]. Their AI is not nearly as good as GPT4 though.

[0] https://replit.com/
I just finished the audiobook version of this on a long drive through the heart of Ameristan. Very plausible. Remember Moab!
We are stuck with it due to the labor shortage providing no route for the massive infrastructure work required to change.

A slow fix over the next century is the goal.
I'm not sure, many of the flagship universities? I know UW now allows you to enter the CSE program from the start (you apply to UW CSE from highschool), but that wasn't the case when I was in school.
Poetry is the way to go.
You can always encrypt yourself and rclone to b2. Likely cheaper if you are not a data hoarder.
I don’t think it’s “film purists”. I remember seeing the Hobbit at a time where I knew basically nothing about common film framerates and thinking it looked really weird. I also remember the first time my family got a motion-smoothing TV and I tried to watch a DVD of The Matrix, and about 2 minutes in (when Trinity is fighing the cops) I (a college student who regularly watched 360p rips of movies on my laptop) blurted out “why does it look like garbage?!”
With the sorting solution, you can stream the result directly to a file _without_ holding the entire file in memory. So it can be better if you are memory constrained (e.g. if the files are bigger than what you can hold in memory), or if you want to hold the working set inside the CPU L3 cache as 'cperciva is alluding to.
Yours is not a nuanced view, it is practically indistinguishable from Russian talking points.
They're called pavers, or block paving, or monoblock in the UK. Flagstones are big slabs of stone.
AI proponents need to provide the equivalent of a JSfiddle or Codepen when saying "AI can fix this" on long-standing challenges. Something that shows a rough prototype of how AI would be used to solve the problem.

That would greatly help improve the perception of such people who otherwise sound like the mindless AI boosters posting shallow engagement-bait on Twitter.

Crypto-optimism has poisoned the well. Too much unchecked boosterism.
> https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial...

Wow I practiced programming with that tutorial years ago, it's amazing people still reference it.
> ProtonMail is superior in every way.

In the past, their billing was based on blackmailing. I don't know if that is the case anymore. But I dropped using it ever since.
> So saying “I oppose this ideology” comes across as “I oppose the existence of people who aren’t their assigned at birth gender”, given that those people do exist you can see how people might find your statement offensive.

I'd very kindly like to offer an alternative explanation than your interpretation.

People who don't want their kids exposed to this ideology don't necessarily want trans people to not exist, they might just not want that outcome to be more likely for their own child.

You can support the rights of people to do whatever they want with their own bodies and still think it's one of the least optimal life decision one can make.
It was a strange realization growing up in America that at some point American Exceptionalism had begun to mean learned helplessness. I'm told repeatedly that those factors are unsolvable problems of humanity and there is nothing the government can do to ameliorate them. As you say, the evidence of the other countries would seem to contradict this, yet that never seems to matter.
whats a context manager
EVs usually feature a frunk, so I don't see any reason they can't have a nice low front hood with good visibility and pedestrian safety.
Well for the JS ecosystem there's nothing dominant and beloved like Rails for Ruby, so it makes sense there would be more efforts to create coherent app architectures. Plus, if the boilerplate saves developer time to launch a business application then it saves potentially a lot of money.
He had no ability to reach a different conclusion, given the data. There are people who don't think reaching an accurate conclusion requires free will, though I think it does.

But it occurs to me that if this guy is right, the people committing scientific fraud also had no choice but to do so. That claim is going to be corrosive to whatever scientific ethics still remain.
Would Godot count?
Back to work, everybody!!
I mean wouldn’t the better question to ask if it is even good for society? American population is more educated than ever but we still have massive issues of wealth inequality and people still fall for disinformation all the time.

At what percentage do we need for population with degrees to finally tackle the hard problems of our society?