skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using FireShot to capture whole pages and save as PDF, quite useful for tutorials. It works by manually scrolling the page, capturing each part and then stitching it together. Can also save as an image.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fireshot/
I think every engineering manager has either worked for or interviewed with a company that believes this stuff.

Software dev is still at the craftsman[0] level. It might move out of that, eventually. But not yet, and probably not in the next 20 years or so. We haven't solved some intrinsic problems around defining a problem completely, precisely and succinctly without having to write code[1]. And getting five engineers to write a single piece of software is exactly as complex as it was when Fred Brooks wrote about it, I think the only improvement we've had since then is Git.

[0] craftsperson? that doesn't feel like the right gender-neutral expression. I guess "artisanal" but that looks rude. Suggestions?

[1] The "I got ChatGPT to write this application without writing a single line of code" phenomenon is interesting, but it seems like an alternate skill path - you can write code, or you can write prompts. The complexity is the same, and the amount of effort is within an order of magnitude. I'm not sure, though - I haven't managed to get ChatGPT to solve a single technical problem successfully yet.
I got the GL.iNet GL-MT3000 (Beryl AX) a while ago and it's exactly what I needed.

I used to carry around a Huawei 4G router, but it required its own wall wart and couldn't bridge to another wifi. So if the 4G coverage was crap, we had to use public hotel wifis, meaning I had to configure 6-10 devices to use the crappy portaled network.

With the Beryl AX I get:

- Wifi-bridging. The Beryl has its own network, our devices connect to it and I can wrangle it to any public network
- Ad-blocking, global DNS via nextdns, Mullvad VPN, Tailscale, all built in and work with just one click.
- Internet failover if I have multiple active connections (wifi + 4g for example
- Standard USB power input

What I lost was the 4G connectivity, BUT it has an USB port and I use an old Android phone with a data plan on it. Used the developer menu to make it always default to tethering when an USB cable is connected and it's pretty much fire and forget.

(It's also on sale for around 100€ for Black Friday, well worth it)
Go teach an inexperienced person rust, graphics, rust compilation and webgpu all at the same time and let me know how that goes. It's pretty obvious you haven't actually done what you are saying here.
The canonical example isn't forklift workers, but car recalls. If the cost of the recall is X, and the cost of settling wrongful death lawsuits over the defective part is Y. If X > Y, don't do the recall. How true that is, idk, but the cynic in me believes it.
I haven't encountered it much (through also largely buying new) but a few times I've had that and been confused by the seeming arbitrariness of what's highlighted. As in it didn't seem important, insightful, or the hardest/least intuitive thing on the page, just nothing. Trolled by previous owner perhaps.
Not sure why Amazon & Apple don’t have search engines of their own. Don’t they have this infra?
https://x.com/tegmark/status/1658438666182688768?s=46
Which term? Commodotize?

Aren't we in agreement with the author then, that tech work isn't quite the same as oil or burgers (ie it hasn't been commodotized, even though it's been commodifed?)

Or are you saying the two words mean the same thing?
Smart people are cats, not dogs.
Bureaucracies have an uncanny knack for finding and severely punishing victimless crimes. Of all the things the US government manages, the war on consenting adults having sex has to be one of the most petty. Unfortunately, because it is the most petty, I wouldn't anticipate much progress on it. Anyone in a position of influence will hopefully rate it as less important a problem than the ongoing and escalating fiscal and military crisis that the US seems to be facing.
> When the comprehensive part of his cover was suspended on Friday for all the speeding alerts, Connor took a day off work to call the company and try to find a solution.

> Sterling Insurance made Angela and her son go to the locations of his alleged speeding infractions and take pictures of the road signs next to a digital map on a phone.

Yeah, just show them that their data is wrong - no big deal right? I guess in an ideal world such litigation would happen cheaply and quickly too.
What are you talking about? The insurance is not tied to the job, it is tied to the income. No income = free insurance.
In the UK, speeding gets you a small fine and a few "points" on your license, which might result in a temporary loss of license.
There's a lot we don't know. Human brains appear to be a few hundred trillion parameters, while small rodents are in the realm of tens to hundreds of billions. Would you guess a single sufficiently trained ferret could write on demand short stories about Dracula, Winnie the Poo, and Sherlock teaming up, and follow this up with a bit of university student level web development, and finally give you a decent apple cake recipe? I wouldn't have, and yet the LLMs exist and are much better than I was expecting.

(People who dismiss SotA models as "stochastic parrots" confuse me as much as people who think they're already superhuman; the Markov chains and RNNs I coded a few years back didn't come close to last year's LLMs).

That even smaller models can do well is both unsurprising (why would we expect our existing design efforts to already have the most efficient architecture?) and very surprising (how come we can get something so much less complex than our biological brains to do so much so well?)
Chat always writes me something that includes

perfecttly_suited_package_that_doesnt_exist(my_inputs)
I paid for something, w do not expect anyone else to attach a string to it.

It is bad enough that government got a string to our income.
> so it could be cheaper to keep the current ones going for 200 years.

This sounds like a form of hell. I'd rather die than work for 200 years, I can already barely stomach working as long as I have to.
Advertising combined with politics equals propaganda.

This seems to be Musk's vision for "X" --- a place where propaganda of all kinds can be freely promoted. A place where "free speech" is maximized --- but only if Musk agrees with it.

Only one small problem for Musk's vision --- the people with large advertising budgets are seeking first and foremost to maximize profits --- not propaganda. Political propaganda can actually be counter productive to their objectives.

In other words, Musk's vision in unrealistic and speaks to a mentality that is somewhat out of touch with the basic nature of advertising.
For those adding a TLDR here - the enjoyment of this kind of story is not in the bare facts, it's in the telling, surely?
It’s fun and game but nowadays if someone didn’t lock their computer when away then we’ll have a security incident to report
Because regardless, it's irrelevant and a distraction to the context here.

Distraction: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QDczBduZorG4dxZiW/sam-altman...
you mean like https://www.caucho.com/resin-3.1/doc/quercus.xtp?
Weather is not rare.

This algorithm is going to have speed,acceleration, traction, steering vs direction as some of the inputs. A good rainstorm or snowstorm is going to tough to differentiate from drunk or high driving. Those aren't edge cases.
And how long then will the car decide you need a time out? 5 mins? 1 hiur? 4 hours?
There is no way this doesn't get pushed back from a 2026 implementation anyway. You can't just drop this in when those model year cars are almost fully designed by now
The headline says that this year was the largest increase in population since 1962. That increase was 1% or ~600,000 people.
If you add a monitor, you can call it Tesla. /s
Trying the Edge app:

1. Its built-in Ad block still works on Youtube - before Google catches up, too small a browser competitor
Doesn't work in laptop browser.

2. Tab sync: port tabs from Edge from phone to laptop & vice-versa, regardless of OS version. This used to work on Safari from iPhone SE (1st gen) but now it doesn't with new iPhone/iOS
Thank you, I was looking for this but couldn’t find it. My comment has been corrected.

To anyone downvoting my original comment, take a look at CATO, the style of writing used in their blog posts, their other studies, and their mission statement, and decide for yourself - are they trying to accurately represent gen z, or are they pushing an agenda?

It seems like far-right-wing organisations are expending extensive effort in an attempt to discredit gen z as a generation who are happy to have all their rights sold away and/or eroded. Yet if you speak to a young person today, it doesn’t line up.

“I read a study that said X about gen z” isn’t evidence that gen z believes / does those things.
Seems very similar to Processing. [1] I think this was one of the first programming environments I used as a child.

[1] https://processing.org/tutorials/gettingstarted
Was thinking the same, so 1T might bring you to the league of GPT-4.
Actually in the best case, since it seems that meta, google, openai and so on have the most talent.

Anyway, to bring it to the next level, how big should it be? Maybe 10T? 100T?
I sometimes get one of those catalogs for “travelers” in the mail and some of the products make me think that some people are probably better off just staying at home because I assume travel stresses them out in a lot of ways.
Stimulants, or rather the come down from them, are known to cause brain zaps. That's because CNS stims tend to mess with serotonin levels, which is what most antidepressants and anxiety meds are acting on as well, if they are SSRI or the newer SNRI types anyway. Brain zaps are hard to explain, but you know them when you feel them. A lightning storm in your brain that lasts a fraction of a second and by the time you feel it, it's already gone. Weirdest feeling ever.
I agree but how funny would it be to have the mariner equivalent of that? Does anythingeven approach the awkwardness of being at sea and having the absurd potential for "Nautical office politics"?

Imagine bro. Thats why I mentioned the Taliban. There was an article about how mundane life is for the fighters now they they have to be bureaucrats and actually run the damn show. They ran all the damn actual bureaucrats in Kabul that were nominally running the show and now they have to fill that power/responsibillity vacuum and the whole article was beyond surreal on account of its stranger-than-fiction palpabillity or implications

Edit: its like everyone just dropped the criminal cases with Trump or he accepted some mega omnibus plea deal with everyone with the criminal penalty being he needed to work at the DMV if the most MAGA state so he actually had to deal with the day to day negative effect he's had on governance and the constituent bodies that are required for its provision of necessary services and functionz, no pay and no golfing. Golfing == prison

Edit: the SCOTUS would need to work their Magick and ensure it wasn't ruled as "cruel and unusual punishment" and thats pretty hard to ensure unless the government "legally" bribes Thomas and Alito and possibly Barrett to shut the fuck up and take the L
The author is not wrong, the code really is crazy. Here's another random snippet from the ugly rewrite:

for(char relative[] = "-2"; (relative[0] ^= '+' ^ '-') == '-' || ++relative[1] <= '9'; )
gtk_list_store_insert_with_values(instances, NULL, -1, 0, relative, -1);

This is just pure excess cleverness. It's not even obvious how many times this loop runs for. There's a comment 1000 lines away that says this:

#define NUM_INSTANCES 5 // or 3, but change char relative[] = "-2" to "-1"

This is just insanely unmaintainable code. If a string is warranted I would have just done the "stupid" thing with a `sprintf(buf, "%+d", relative);` to make it obviously correct, even if it seems "slower".
At least the PHP-in-JVM side shouldn't be that complex to do then... a LinkedList<Object> should be enough to match PHP arrays functionally. The largest challenge in a PHP-in-JVM project probably would be re-implementing its large stdlib as a wrapper around native Java.
A classic. I did a take on that with AI super-resolution algorithms: https://rybakov.com/project/im_sitting_in_ai/
Haha. I did the exact same thing to a boss. We all had a good laugh and he stopped leaving his computer unlocked.
> I respectfully disagree. Bringing this issue up again and again is important even though it has almost nothing to do with the topic being discussed.

You are respectfully wrong.
No doubt 25% of those are still on PHP 5.6 or older.
"The people" are not one. It's entirely possible to have an oppressive democracy.
I am thankful for my Father introducing me to a variety of school books and helping me inculcate the habit of reading. Whatever I am today, is due to my reading habit. In school I read a lot about Science and Scientists and their lives. Helped me develop non-linear ways of thinking which has helped me grow in my career and be exceptional in thinking of weird but effective solutions.

Also grateful to all my mentors, especially 2, both my seniors in my 1st job, who instead of answering my complex questions asked me to search on the net (way back in 2004 when the internet was lot more cleaner and less noisy.) Due to this sometimes I learned things which even they didn't know. God bless them you too, Somesh Sir and Manish Sir. Am not still not a graduate but yet know more than my peers due to this habit you guys inculcated in me.

And am grateful for humanity to be on the path of peace and progression. Had I had been born 100 years earlier, would have been dead in some stupid battlefield fighting for some stupid purpose (please don't argue with me on this.)
Quest of Python (Exercise): Manipulating Zip Files
I suggest we add its origin to the SETI list.

One of my pet theories is that the Fermi paradox is due to cloaking of extraterrestrial civilisations. We’re not entitled to observing them, and as a result the mass and energy of the universe doesn’t add up. Hence black matter and black energy.
I don't think saying you have a bone to pick with "AI" is doing your message any favors. What are you specifically against LinearRegression? XGBoost? ResNet? LLMs? AlphaFold?
Insurance is for hedging against a risk. It has nothing to do with predictability. In fact, the bedrock of insurance is predictability.

You have a 1% chance of sustaining $1MM in damage. Do you carry around a million dollars or do you get insurance?

What about a billion? What about a thousand? Congratulations, you now know what you’re willing to pay for a deductible and what you’re going to look for in an insurance policy max.
Voice Assistant is still available and you can revert to it instead of Siri in Settings.
What product did you write, if you can discuss it?
I was being sarcastic. But yes you're right.
I miss WordPerfect. Maybe it was the novelty but it had such enjoyable fonts.
"taerDown"

good to see that php's upholding the tradition of putting the K in Quality ;)
Yup, but looks like that hasn't seen any updates since 2014 [1].

[1] http://quercus.caucho.com/
And what would happen if you put your hand in the electron beam at the LHC?
I didn’t say that. Latin America is an offshoot of European society as well. But they’re certainly less individualistic and more familial than Americans or Western Europeans.
Typically, the person responding to a question gets to decide their response. I hope that clears things up for you. I disagree with your conclusion, but yes, I will refuse to engage further.
The two parties both represent the same class interests with slight differences in a thin veneer of identity politics.

There's never been an alternative to vote for, and every attempt gets smeared in the media owned by the two-party system representing the oligarchs.

Candidates like Bernie who's still in line with most of above policies are showcased as alternatives but the distribution of power is never challenged outside of the arena of identity political circus boosted by conglomerate media.

Obama was also good example of this, PR outsider on the surface but in reality funded by the same bankers and continued global US adventurism.

Politics is downstream from elite interests when they own the media, the parties, the candidates and intermingle with the security state to take care of the rest.

This becomes especially apparent when looking back at the media landscape pre mergers, where a plurality of opinion and research existed from well respected classical journalists challenging local and state power, in what would today be smeared as conspiracy theorising or anti-patriotism while the overton window has become microscopic unless towing the line for the unfathomably rich.
Spring Boot 3.2.0 available now
It gets better. I think it was actually set to auto lock after a minute or two, but I had practiced the routine on my own computer a few times first and managed to get it down to like ten seconds.

He went to the bathroom right before heading out for lunch. I had my window. I did it quickly, and then joined him for lunch, keeping a straight face the whole time. When we came back I nonchalantly asked about some code for him to review but he was like hold on...

Didn't suspect me until way too late :D

But then after that, every time some random error popped up, he was like... "solardev, what did you do this time!" Fool him once...
I wish open street maps had vectorized maps instead of the tiled images.

Google maps is in need of real competition. It feels stagnant and regressing over time.
In the 30-odd years I spent as a software documentor, the amount of effort expended on designing software for accessibility tended to hover around 0%.
Save Your Emacs Pinky with a GPT4 Co-Worker
I built an AI assistant that has shell access to your computer to do work. See the link for the demo video.

I built this project to demonstrate two things:
1. It is stupidly simple, now, to set this up with emacs
2. Emacs' customizability makes it uniquely capable of the leap into AI.

Secondarily, how are we going to live in this brave new world? Things are changing so fast and the holdups, now, are the speed of the AI and how much one can trust the AI. I hope that we realize both of these items are not insurmountable and, rather, are rapidly being addressed.

What do you guys think?
> The only ones who did succeed are Mediatek with their bottom-of-the-barrel stuff... wonder how that is possible.

I'm not aware of Mediatek competing with LTE modems for routers, not even low-tier. I'm aware they are trying again now with 5G, but also here I'm not seeing big tractions for commercial products...

Could you name an example device or chipset of a Mediatek-based LTE-router?
It's a reasonable strategy. Cato the Elder is still famous for ending all speeches on any subject with his call for the destruction of Carthage.

And it worked!
> I could use to lose a lot more weight than any bike ever could...

Get a child trailer and load it up with groceries or cement! i tried it, the results are.. Surprising
These are default for Hugo parsing of Markdown—- https://gohugo.io/getting-started/configuration-markup/
PHP got shamed for these things because people built complex, and over time unmaintainable, systems in it.

Mind you, the "old ways" still work - you can still write a few lines, upload it, boom it works. Projects around PHP might have developed different ways of working, but that's because of problems in the old way - and that's not a fault of PHP, it's a plus that things move in a more maintainable and type-safe direction. You even reap some benefits when doing a "write a few lines, upload it, boom it works" workflow.
Ideally no one person or entity controls such a thing. But, would I rather have a Government, or a corporation control AGI? If I had to pick one of two evils, the Government would be the lesser of the two.
Right, guess I just don't know enough on what their experiment looks like.
I've worked at a php3+php4+php5 (three generation of source code, in a single repository) + Java Application in the past. I'll never miss that time :)
If a company doesn't react rationally, then taking them to court is the solution. Ideally you should choose to do business with a company that isn't so obstinate that you have to resort to courts to remedy issues.

Certainly, if you get into legal trouble for not having valid insurance, you could easily demonstrate the facts as to why the company illegally revoked your insurance and how they had no right to do so.
I used to enjoy having the screensaver show a picture of a BSOD
Proven is a bit strong word. Shortcuts can work, accessibility can work etc. Integration with OS stuff depends on the API OS exposes. Only mimicking & integration lags behind and only after the updates that actually change platforms UX. There is nothing magic about the "feel" that can't be implemented. It is a lot more work to develop a quality framework like this though. On the plus side it can work on the platforms without desktop environment.
Cato is no doubt biased but your comment is the thing with FUD, not the study. They post exactly the question they asked in their study: do you favor or oppose the government installing surveillance cameras in every household in order to reduce domestic violence, abuse, and other illegal activity.

Regardless, the study highlights exactly the difference the GP was saying: gen z is much more likely to be okay with the surveillance state. Even if the study question is worded in a way you disagree with or that you think is biased, you’ve presented no argument for why gen z would be disproportionately made to over-respond.
Mainframes have to implement a fifty years old architecture, and I suspect they have vastly smaller engineering teams, since their market is orders of magnitude smaller than those of Intel or ARM. Also I seem to remember IBM being seriously hostile towards independent benchmarks.

Also, if they were competitive wrt performance, people would be using them. In real life they are rarely found outside of financial institutions.
Yeah short sentences can be but I mean, who wants to? GPT cannot do it from
what I’ve tried.
GL.iNET routers can do this, at least the Beryl AX I own does it perfectly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski
Has a corporation ever tried to commit genocide?
Getting a bit philosophical, I believe that the problem of 'defining a problem completely' is where the practical application of 'how then should we live?' gets self-referential. Startups spend inordinate amounts of time and money trying to figure out their customers' problems, drilling down, pivoting, etc. It's the challenge of silicon valley.

And the more one increases the search space the more primary that question of defining the problem becomes. Whether the execution is handled by chatGPT or a human coder, it looks to me like defining the problem we want to solve is the majority of our current frontier.
It's like anything, you just need to practice and build up to it. If you go out day 1 and try to ride 800km you're going to have a bad time. Being physically fit also helps a lot imo. The r1100r also doesn't have much in the way of wind protection which is tiring. An 800km day on an RS or RT would likely feel significantly easier.
Much likely, nothing at all! The more energy a particle gets, the smaller the probability of interacting with anything.

And if it does interact in your head... nothing at all! At such an energy, it is so tiny that at most one electron or one nucleon (i.e. proton or neutron) will get the thrill of its life and find itself leaving precipitously your body in order to smash, a few nanoseconds later, into the planet behind you. You won't notice, and the Earth won't either.