skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well no the numbers aren't going to be a thing anyone directly cares about. Of course not, haha. Looking at my previous comments I'm not sure I even said anything that would imply that?

What the numbers represent (how active the community is) is the bit folks would care about.

In any case I used the numbers as a measure of how much the site is growing or not growing in response to the comment I responded to. The numbers seem the same as they've always been, hence it does not look like they are growing as the comment I responded to was claiming.
Another one from Hybrid CoE, again with some questionable recommendations:

"The agents of influence and other servants of authoritarian regimes, who for so long held the advantage, are turned into the targets rather than the deliverers of mockery and abuse."

"Crowdsourcing, and the pooling and sharing of observations and situational awareness that comes with it, also leads to greater shared situational awareness of the information environment; in effect, a practical implementation by civilians on social media of the 'every soldier a sensor' ambition commonly expressed by Western militaries in the first decade of this century."

Besides the usual issues (including the questions of who decides what is disinformation, who really has an advantage, and who serves whom), the approach sounds a lot like mob rule, and as we all know, crowds are not exactly rational. Remember also that you cannot control a mob.

"That community can now rally for mutual support on demand."

I wonder where they'll target their "mockery and abuse" once the war is over? That is to say, further encouraging bad behavior is not exactly something to applaud. The long-term consequences may easily outweigh the presumed temporary gains.
What prevents future employees from learning this language? Its development might have stalled, but as long there is documentation, whenever COBOL code breaks, there is are humans who can learn to fix the issue. Even when all "COBOL cowboys" have died out.
Pretty much exactly. There are wizards at Project Zero doing reverse engineering of systems at the hardware microcode level. Our own kens shows up every few weeks with transistor level explanations of devices whose designers are long since retired.

And we're supposed to believe that no one in the world can figure out a batch-processed COBOL accounting system? Please. The talent is there, it's just that no one responsible for these systems wants to hire at that level. But in extremis they will, and the world will survive.
That's unrealistic. If it's purely supply and demand, the premium landlords will be able to command out of that 1000 bucks will be somewhat less than the total - and perhaps significantly less, if prospective tenants are savvy enough to hold out collectively. The only way you see the entire thing co-opted for rent is if landlords were to collude and refuse to break rank on pricing. But there's no way that would happen, since it'd be illegal.
Stavros, you deadnamed me :cry hope you are well, x
Because Faculty are generally paid very poorly, have many courses to teach, and what takes up more and more of their time are the broken bureaucratic systems they have to deal with.

Add that at research universities, they have to do research.

Also add in that at many schools, way too many students are just there to clock in, clock out and get a piece of paper that says they did it. Way too few are there to actually get an education. This has very real consequences on the moral of the instructors. When your students don't care, it's very hard for you to care. If your students aren't willing to work hard, why are you willing to work hard? Because you're paid so well?

I know plenty of instructors who would love to do things like this, but when are they going too? When are they going to find the time to learn the skills necessary to build an interactive web app? You think everyone outside of comp sci and like disciplines just naturally know how to build these types of apps?

I could go on, but the tl;dr of it is: Educators are over worked, underpaid and don't have enough time in the day.
>From what I have read, creating window managers on wayland is very difficult.

Only because the wayland community insist on bundling everything into the same binary. Someone could make a compositor that had a swappable window manager component.

>when you want to execute an X application on AIX and display it on Linux.

Don't forget XWayland exists. So it should just work. waypipe is for if the server is using Wayland.

>Many Linxisms that need to be ported to the BSDs

Wayland supports FreeBSD so it must not be that bad.

>Will probably obsolete many old computers due to resource usage.

Why would Wayland use more resources? What work is it doing extra compared to xorg?
The Black-Scholes equation won the Nobel Prize in economics, it was still a major contributor to the bad decisions which cumulated in to the global financial crisis 15 years ago.

Passing audits is necessary, but nowhere near sufficient.
Most people I know that use powerline networking do so because they have aesthetic objections to running a little cable along the baseboards in their apartment/house. Arduous? Only if you are pulling it through the walls because of aesthetic objections to just running the cable along the wall.

This "can" in this case is assuming a premise that the aesthetic appearance of your living space is more important than not littering and degrading a shared public resource. It's not. That's rude.
The title of this article really shows the slant in the reporting.

This decision makes a lot of sense to me and I actually think all universities should do more to encourage students to major in STEM. If taxes are paying for the school we should subsidize things that are good for America not individuals.
Did you look at the search results? I didn't see anything resembling the text in any of the search results. I don't think this lines comes from a famous literary source. Likely google just has logic to handle missing whitespace.
Politics proceeds slowly. The first step for a tech aware politician like Sen. Markey is to raise awareness of the issues with his colleagues who otherwise have many other priorities. That's how laws get passed.
I agree with you on the myth of "a shortage", and respect your
strongly pro-market argument. Therefore "some industries can only
survive if there are available low cost workers" suggests to me that
those industries should simply die. Let more efficient industries that
return more value to people thrive in their place?
Currently you can't turn off vsync on wayland, except some limited cases involving full screen apps with direct scanout that may not even be implemented in your compositor or may not be possible due to missing implementation for async page flips with atomic modesetting.

Due to design issues relating to implicit sync with wayland any misbehaving app can cause your entire desktop to drop frames so if you're a multi monitor user expect stutters when the browser you have open in the background was a little too slow. Or worse if an app is badly broken [1]

The good news is that all of this is fixable. Windows has forced compositing for most cases and it performs much more consistently. A browser taking a while to render can't hang unrelated windows' composition. Wayland compositors can get there too eventually by moving to explicit sync APIs [2].

For now if you do care about these issues staying on compositorless X is the least bad option.

[1]: https://github.com/ascent12/compositor-killer

[2]: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2022/06/09/brid...
I personally would be more hesitant, I have seen the results of GPT4 with numbers (though somewhat better than earlier versions and other foundation models, it still has trouble reasoning through options involving anything more than shallow arithmetic). Even with Q* I would be skeptical about its accuracy for the depth of calculations involved.

Then there's the annually changing tax code that has been intentionally made complex, and the training data is surely full of explanations based on outdated details. Maybe significant fine-tuning with the most up to date tax code, and/or putting it in the preface of the context, that can be somewhat nullified.

Even for a financial strategy, other than the very high level of hedging on different asset classes, some basics of estate management and some strategies like bond ladders and periodic redistribution of stock holdings.... an LLM isn't going to be very useful. And those high level strategies are shared broadly, you can definitely learn them without referring to an LLM.

Also, for some of the same reasons I wouldn't ask my financial advisor which stocks to pick, I wouldn't expect an LLM to give me good answers on a specific active portfolio: the notion "buy the rumor, sell the news" persists because it's not a half bad strategy, and even a current-up-to-the-moment model would be chasing the tail end (although, I suppose, if it were able to take advantage of information shared by many other users' prompts, it could benefit from more than just the news cycle). Predicting the shape of fluent prose does not directly map to predicting the shape of market activity, even if it has internalized some kind of Mean Field Theory to help approximate it functionally. I'll admit I would be curious what it said, though.

Don't get me wrong, I do like LLMs for many tasks, just not for taxes or financial strategy. I wouldn't fault someone for doing it but I would want to inform of the above to anyone considering it, even with a more competent or super-intelligent LLM. Especially if I'd be the one getting audited! btw, I am not a licensed CPA and the above is not financial advice.
I had to do the same thing when I signed up a while ago. I thought they'd just scan it and trash it, but apparently not... their privacy policy says they do collect the photograph, national ID info, etc. And then they'll do their best to protect it: https://wise.com/gb/legal/global-privacy-policy-en

> Additional information you give us for security, identification and verification purposes may include your [...], photograph, [...], proof of residency, passport and/or National ID. If you fail to provide any of this information, it might affect our ability to provide our Services to you.

> As part of our identity verification process we collect, use and store biometric data, namely: We extract face scan information from photos and videos [...]. We will retain biometric data for the period necessary to complete the identity verification process, and in any case no longer than 1 year after collection, unless required by law or legal process to keep it longer.

Their US Facial Scan privacy policy has a bit more detail, and apparently they outsource that to a company called Onfido (https://onfido.com/):
https://wise.com/us/legal/facial-scan-notice

I'm not sure if that same method is used internationally.

But yeah, it's an overall risk for sure. You'd hope they'd be a bit more cautious being a financial institution and such, but you never know. If it gets leaked, it'd probably be very hard to deal with a situation like this internationally.
You asked for stories. I went from an IC to a manager and found it extremely stressful. I would often go walk outside in a daze during the day, just to take a break. I started having digestion issues and chest pains--the doctors checked and didn't think it was my heart and so we kept searching. I eventually got shingles and then diagnosed with celiac disease in the same week. I realized this job was going to kill me so I gave 2 weeks notice and left.

I've been unemployed for a year since, fortunately I have some savings and low expenses, but my health is still dramatically worse than it was before. I can't go a day with digestion issues and chest pains; I haven't had a single meal where I don't worry about it. I know a genetic disease like celiac didn't come from stress, but stress might have activated it.
Of course online services need your photo ID! How else are they going to make sure the person standing in front of them is really you? /s

This pattern is up there with “SSN as an authentication bearer token” and needs to stop yesterday (but I’m not holding my breath for that).
Wow the amount of effort you have put in this open source project is incredible!

Congrats, I'm so looking forward an idea or project where I can use electricsql
I feel like this solution was written by someone who hasn’t built software before. Doing a rewrite for the sake of a rewrite is not a good idea.
This is probably a controversial opinion, but I think we should be careful what we wish for. Death is a necessary part of life. Without it, society will stagnate, overpopulation will become even more rampant, resources will become more scarce, and dictators will hold power for unbounded lengths of time.

No. The controversial opinion is saying that death is unnecessary. Your opinion represent the 'mainstream' opinion. I would argue that it's status quo bias, or justification and rationalization for having death.

Humans are very good at justifying things after the fact.

But taking a look at the individual objections, it either falls apart or a lot more complicated than you think. For example, the fear of societal stagnation. I think this is an overblown concern. People are always changing, however slowly and imperceptible it may be. An 80 years old is going to think very differently than 8 years ago.

People are always worried about overpopulation, but you know who pollute the most? Rich countries. The richer you are, the more meat you eat, the more 'resources' you consume. Currently, overpopulation is really about pollution than running out of raw resources, such metals and minerals and energy. We would overheat ourselves before running out of space. Obviously, there's going to be a finite limit, but that limit is so far off that it's basically ludicrous to think about.

Dictatorships holding power for unbounded length of time? Sure, dictators might live forever, but it's clear that their society often basically 'stagnate', more like went backward. If you see North Korea and South Korea, you know that South Korea have more lights. Plus, just because you're a dictatorship doesn't mean it's a stable governing structure. There are dictatorships and military junta that are short lived or had been overthrown. Dictators can blunder into serious strategic mistakes, like Mr. Putin. Some even voluntarily democratized, like Taiwan!

Human societies are inherently dynamic system that changes over time. It would be difficult to imagine a system that somehow managed to keep things exactly the same. There's always room for disruption.
Based on current accounts, it seems that the adversaries of the US have evolved much that the US can’t pull stuff it pulled before. That and they are leveraging asymmetric warfare as much as they can.
Risk does not automatically remove potential conflicts of interest or vertical integration appropriateness disputes. Your argument and comparison (yes, the WeWork example is obvious self-enrichment the way you say it) makes no sense to me.
It would potentially be slower because pcie bandwidth is likely to be lower than memory bandwidth.

The way to get a speed up is to split the load across both the CPU and GPU since LLMs can be split into layers. This also increases the size the model can be.
Building ADME benchmark datasets that drive impact
For AOT, the simplest approach, that actually produces the fastest native code, is to naively translate WASM opcodes to C.

This is for example what W2C2 does: https://github.com/turbolent/w2c2
> Books promote deep, linear thinking. TV made us shallow and visual.

TV has scripts. Those are written.

As far as depth, that really depends what you're reading/watching. I can find shallow books and deep TV. I can find both books and TV that get us to merely consume and also that get us to think, ask questions, talk about the content, and even dress up in costumes and go to conventions.

I'll give you TV being visual. So are graphic novels, though.

> That is not what "message vs the medium" means. This refers to how the medium affects how we think.

Marshall McLuhan (Mr. "the medium is the massage") talked about the amount of engagement demanded by different media in Understanding Media, making claims similar to yours. Common criticisms of that stance are that it's oversimplified and distorted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Media#Critiques_...
There are a large number of quirks I’ve had with the Kubernetes runner on Jenkins causing flaky behavior, but when it works, it’s mostly fine after figuring out Groovy. The 1 in 50 time a job needs to be kicked off again due to some strange error is annoying though.

More often than not, I end up creating a sandbox folder in Jenkins and cloning workflows to work on them by hand without having 90 commits of misc errors and typos. This has helped speed up some iteration.

Sort of off topic from the article, I think where almost every single CI engine falls short is the extremely limited scope they cater to - that every job ever made must be solved with the cargo cult ideology where every CI job mustn’t ever have human input, everything must be perfectly automated CI. This is wonderful when it is possible to do, but sucks when it isn’t feasible.

Jenkins’ strength is that it’s actually a workflow engine masquerading as a CI tool, and that gives a lot of flexibility for a number of bespoke processes.

Do you want to wait for someone to click a button to grant permission to run a job because the test might spin up extremely expensive resources and you’d really rather someone baby sit it? Jenkins has you covered.

Or maybe it just isn’t possible (or worth the time) for your team at a point in time to automate all input to a job, so spin up a Jenkins job that lets someone manually specify parameters.

Maybe your flow can trigger a release of software but you want a human to come behind to do a manual once-over as a final check, then also capture who/why approved it.

More CI tools need to accept the reality that not everyone can implement the perfect ideal of CI jobs. Some jobs will require a human step somewhere, be it custom input to a job or waiting for a response.
This is a common failure mode that's seen in some reddit subs.

In reddit, the moderators of that sub get a particular idea of how their sub should look, which oddly enough includes the idea that what they do is always right. Any sub that can have physical products backing it, such as makeup, will commonly fall in this trap.

Mods: "You cannot promote products here... (unless you're one of my friends or giving me kickbacks".

Now with Reddit, you have a very large usebase to keep the sub alive. But small sites will commonly strangle themselves by doing this.
https://blog.vero.site/post/noulith seems to be familiar with both APL and J, and draw some inspiration from them…
I think in most countries, and ID is to identify yourself with it. Not to copy it by giving someone a photo of it. If you give someone a photo, they could identify as you with that photo, breaking the whole concept of an "ID".

What happens if you don't give them a photo of your ID? Do you already have funds from you? Are they in the same country as you? I would be surprised if they could legally blackmail you into giving them a photo of your ID.
George Washington will not respond to appeasement. Let’s not repeat the mistake of our forefather with a “peace in our time” type of approach.

By all accounts Iran has many reasons to view the U.S.A as a violent oppressor. Personally I disagree with many parts of the ideology the Iranian regime is pushing. But comparing that situation to Nazi Germany and ww2 is very misguided and uninformed. I'd argue the closest to wide scale genocide that I'm aware of was recently in Ethiopia in the Tigray. Right after the President had received a nobel peace price. And we didn't see the U.S.A lift a finger. Viewing the military campaigns as bringing freedom and "western" values to savages is the kind of provably false propaganda the US military wants you to believe.
The US does not depend on this lane though. China and Europe do, however.
I don’t think the issue with Jenkins is the lack of bells and whistles. The UI it has is unintuitive - I always feel like I can’t find what I’m looking for anytime I am in there.

It has two different UIs (last I checked) which is kind of insane, blue ocean still sucked the last time I used it and the product can’t 100% move away from the old UI (again, last I checked…)

On top of all that it’s not really fun to administer (first-hand experience) where almost every environment will result in plugin hell. I wouldn’t describe the setup process “download a single file and run it” as I look at the documentation, either.

Jenkins can’t give you the “one less tool” advantage that you get with GitHub or Gitlab, either.

Don’t forget that Jenkins’ competition includes free options with mostly high longevity.
Big Tech Is Exploiting the Mental Health Crisis to Monetize Your Data
haha, it is, I thought it's also a phrase in English... Hebrew is my mother tongue.
Thanks, I'll dive into sources you shared. At the moment I'm glad I'm not dependant on my Wise account...
What do you use to run them? My 3060 is generating just 40token per second with llama.cpp
EVE Online players are creating the first empire guided by Chat GPT-4
Different strokes for different folks.

There's been different things through the years, games was a big one, but there's still the lack of any good remote desktop solution that's keeping me on Windows. I also haven't found a good replacement for Acronis TrueImage, ie incremental full-disk backups that run in the background, which has allowed me to be back in action in under 30 minutes when I've had drives fail.
You're conflating two things. What we're talking about is holographic avatars REPLACING the artists at a concert. The Gorillaz band members are absolutely at their live concerts. The Avatars are for music videos, and sometimes make an appearance on video screens as an augment to their live performances.

2pac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCRaElPN5pY

MJ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5OnW06m0Jk

Gorillaz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIZW4SGVbhA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9RTJIrM57o
It's definitely not a ghost town. It's just not a treadmill. It's hard to have a conversation on hacker news because (1) articles cycle through quickly and (2) you don't get reply notifications. Lobsters is a bit more human scale IMO.
Or perhaps: the task is really not that important and nobody cares. If it should take “3 days of chill work” and nobody complains on day 5, well, perhaps it’s better to not solve the task at all.
> Us, and with us I mean us Linux users, trust 100% the software that we run on our machine, because we trust the open source community! Thus I don't care if any application may access the screen, because I only run trusted software.

The problem is that this mindset is incompatible with widespread adoption. The "year of linux desktop" will never come if this continues. You may be fine with this, but many other people aren't.
You can save some space, but it still takes more than one layer to do an embedding.
There’s a number of ways to take a physical memory dump from a server without taking it offline.

On Linux, there’s for example Lime if you have root.

On windows there’s various other tools, some commercial, some open source. All require admin privs.

If you have access to the hypervisor it’s even easier - just direct the hypervisor to dump the VM’s RAM to a file. Most hypervisor tools have a utility for this.

If you have only physical access it’s a bit trickier, but if there’s an available PCIe slot and you are very careful it’s possible to dump RAM that way on a live system :)