skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd have expected that the main lever the product has in being better than others is having a custom model that understands code edits much more than others.

True, but this is not something this particular product would solve. There are already models specifically trained to work on code. What's appealing to me is the flexibility of being able to choose which one to use, rather than my workflow being tied to a specific product or company.

> the IDE integration seems to be the "easy bit"

I admittedly haven't researched this much, but this is not currently the case. There is no generic API for LLMs that IDEs can plug into, so all plugins must target a specific model. We ultimately need an equivalent of a Language Server Protocol for LLMs, and while such a project exists[1], it looks to be in its infancy, understandably so.

[1]: https://github.com/huggingface/llm-ls
I recently needed to install Linux onto two new systems, and the process has somehow gotten even more infuriating since I last purchased hardware about five years ago. Between Secure Boot, UEFI, the Windows Boot Loader, "self-healing BIOS" (aka, "huh, you tried to boot something other than Windows, lemme just revert all those BIOS settings for you..."), and either crippled or inscrutably complex BIOS, I was dead in the water with the install process for several hours on each device.

Ventoy saved my bacon. One of the problems I was encountering turned out to be that one of the BIOSes wasn't recognizing the standard Debian ISO (any of them) as bootable, but it did recognize Ventoy. The other device ultimately refused to boot anything other than either Windows or Ubuntu (hard-locking on kernel load), but Ventoy at least made it easier to trial-and-error my way to that conclusion.

I flatly refuse to purchase a mass-market computer ever again. Everything from this point forward is either going to be custom built or purchased from a vendor with explicit Linux support.
If you convince chatbot to sell you a car for $1, can you win in court if the manufacturer doesn't deliver?
Five star 80s kid cure:

Butane lighters are < $1, instantly heat up the metal tip with a flick of your thumb, and do the same thing.
This was a problem in 3 and 3.5 era too and was only exacerbated by the rise of forums and wikis. I don’t think it’s possible to release one-size-fits-all-the-crap-that’s-out-there campaigns that are going to be actually interesting. At some point the DMs job is to make decisions about what fits and what doesn’t, and to help cultivate a culture of collaborative storytelling.
> How gracious of you. Where did you (the world) had that meeting where you decided which goals are more important?

Thanks, yeah. Some folks are entitled enough that they feel their opinion outweighs the world. Russia's war on Ukraine is another example of someone thinking their opinion outweighs that of the world. So I appreciate your gratitude and humility in recognizing yours doesn't. The results of the world vote on the immediate (without preconditions) ceasefire is here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/12/1144717

> Nice ad hominem and straw man building.

Aw, and you were making such great progress before it turned into another short, combative post.

Anyways, I was happy to help you find that vote, you're welcome! Have a good one!!
If you know you aren't diligent then you obviously are physically capable of it (because you've stated that you observed yourself doing it).
Here's a link to a prosecutor that was caught lying:

https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/1039807/liegende-officieren-...

He was lying in court again just before he retired. No consequences. Worse, he was never found out officially. The press were never even interested in the story.

However, two years later the law was changed. Now there can never be consequences in such cases. The Netherlands officially only has a kangaroo court now.
Ah, that's too bad. For me at least, that makes the barrier to entry too high. Having to learn some new software (docker) just to try some other software is just too much.
Really interesting project. Thanks for sharing!
There must be one specific car in that price range. Do you know which it is?
Or a butane lighter. No electricity required.
> In that case just put a bot or GPT instead of humans suffering abuse from frustrated customers.

Here's a wild idea, maybe have real customer support? I'm sure a multi-billion dollar industry can afford to hire people to do actual support who can actually do things. Chatbots and outsourced support that can't do anything but read scripts is just a big "fuck you" to your customers.
> Try having 0 fear as a journalist doing your job. Or as a whistleblower. Or as a content creator.

Journalists, whistleblowers, and content creators in the west are living in fear of governments targeting them for saying things the government doesn't like?
I'm curious, what exactly are the ramifications of this "contract law" in the context of Adobe subscriptions? Adobe will sue you? Are they suing large amounts of customers?
ChatGPT Builder: Malicious GPTs and how they can quietly steal your data
RIP to Fireworks, it's the first tool I ever used for design.
> Germany's plans to get 15 million electric cars on the road by 2030.

That's such a bad metric. Increasing the number of cars on the road is not good from an environmental perspective. Reducing the number of cars burning fossil fuels is.
For a while I had a gnarly case of AF between my two biggest toes that was resistant to over the counter cream and I wasn't able to get to a doctor for a bit. Running the hottest water I could get in my apartment over my foot was a bliss I had never known, and truly hope to never know again. It would be so intense I would get visual flashes.

Nothing worked quite the same, I always assmumed it was a rush of endorphins to the location to attempt to protect us from feeling burning pain. Given that we both felt sensations of ecstasy and endorphins are involved in pain relief, it makes sense ot me that having the endorphin rush for the heat pain relieves the itching as well, increasing our expected return for the endorphin output, causing acute feelings of ecstasy and bliss?
Um, no. You've somehow confused the supreme court with the US court system as a whole.

If you look at stats, it's about a 50-50 split in appointments between right vs. left.
Can anyone tell me whether Servo is "ready enough" to use for small noncommercial projects? For example, I really like writing personal projects in Typescript using Deno, but there really isn't a very good UI library for Deno outside of running an HTTP server. Other attempts at UI libraries, last I checked, were experimental or half-assed. Would be cool to somehow integrate directly with Servo from Deno so that I don't have to resort to Electron.
> Force startups to aspire to create an actual product rather

I'm getting on to 10 years in the software industry as an engineer at the moment and in my view this is one of its most disappointing and frustrating aspects.

The whole software start-up scene just feels saturated with FIRE-obsessed individuals who prefer just about anything (money, vacation, travel, fame, ...) over company, product, real building, craftsmanship, etc.

I legitimately hear phrases like "5th time's the charm for an exit and payout!" way too often. It frequently just exacerbates the consolidation of technology, knowledge, wealth, and often hurts innovation, let alone can result in the solid team(s) of engineers left out to dry (although some can be also gunning for the payout in the end too).

In my view, there are just too many sell-outs pawning off solid products and teams to the highest bidder. I wish it wasn't that way.
> The internet is awash with people trying to glue their ramblings back into coherent campaigns

Cases in point, for the unaware: https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/44214/roleplaying-games... https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/41217/roleplaying-games...
I mean, the Fed is a kind of regulatory agency, so it's not a total lie :)
Adobe acts like a proper "wealth manager" and not a creative company - good for Figma!
Nationalism is one hell of a drug.

And perhaps naive of us to assume that the war in Ukraine is a product only of this one man and his ideas and/or party. Unfortunately Russia seems unusually united in this "operation."

EDIT: don't usually complain about downvotes, but WTH people, what did I say that's controversial? Seems some people think this is somehow pro-Russian? It's not.
UPS does this too. Even if you have the patience, resilience and agility necessary to navigate to a human through their robot call system, you ultimately end up with a human who just repeats what the tracking page says.
That depends on the scale and the state. I doubt the government cared that much 150 years ago; it was more about claims on surface and ground water. These days, past a certain scale, you’d work with an engineer to plan it out and get the permits.
This...human beings are incredibly resilient.
Anonymous inserts Japanese flag on a hacked Chinese website
Ursula Von Der Leyen was appointed by the EU national leaders and elected by the EU parliament (which is elected by EU voters). It's as "democratically elected" as any minister in any democratic government: the people elect those that appoint the person. The same applies for EU commissioners.

Yes it becomes second- or third hand democracy (the EU parliamentarians are usually appointed by their domestic parties, the appointments for commissioners are appointed by other politicians and so on). But such is representative democracy. At the end of the day it's the elected members of the parliament that vote on all positions, and all laws.
> Great example to prove my point. They used a framework to quickly get something out of the door and working, validating the business idea, but later migrated away from it

They started migration 10 years after original release of the product, that's not PoC, that's way past that. Also, nowhere anyone said that they wrote their own framework/libraries or wrote anything from scratch, they migrated to multiple different tech stacks for their designated purposes, they might've very well used established frameworks(and probably did) later on.

I won't comment on the rest of your child-like responses.
Where do you draw the line ? It sounds a lot like any kind of law would be censorship following that logic, any law enforcement is a road to authoritarianism if you think no failsafe exists between the two end of the spectrum

Should I be allowed to call for jihad online ? upload execution videos for propaganda ? can I create a blog to discuss ethnic cleansing with my armed nazi militia hometown association ? When does "fighting the agenda" become "being flooded in foreign agendas" ?
Yeah, everyone shits on the EU, like "the EU is actually worst than [insert random dictatorship]", yet there are more people trying to emigrate to EU than ever.

Even inside EU, people shit on the EU. My take is that people in EU and in the west generally are bored/ashamed with their easy lives, they want to be badass, not to have it easy. So they live in a fictional universe where they are actually persecuted. "We have no freedom of speech!! We live in a dictatorship". But deep down it's all pretending, no one want to actually emigrate from EU to Russia. Even Russians, whenever enough money is around, well, you can be sure the children of wealthy oligarchs are living in London, Paris, Bruxel, enjoying free speech, freedom, healthcare, schools, but somehow, still shitting on the EU...
IBM to Acquire StreamSets and WebMethods from Software AG
Photographers: is Adobe Photoshop still the king of photo editing?

I strongly dislike Adobe’s “subscription only” business model, but it seems the market is telling them that subscriptions are a-OK: Adobe’s profits are very steady and are up 70+% in five years. [https://valustox.com/ADBE]
Investors get rewarded for their early bets, and Adobe gets to bet on future profits and growth by acquiring some valuable assets and hiring some talented people this is exactly how it should work.
> They could have verbally tricked a human customer service agent into promising them the car for $1 in the same way

When's the last time you spoke to a human?
...they didn't think it best the lifeguard could concentrate on guarding lives? Astounding.
Being on the receiving side of that can be very frustrating. Even though users can cancel easily and without any human interaction, they cancel their credit card which then costs us multiple months of revenue in cancellation fees.
No, fix policy so that customer support actually functions.
> If the most incentivised lifecycle is to seek VC investment to make a non-susitainable product in the hope of being acquired and swallowed into The Borg and shut down, we still end up with less good products.

"Aim for the moon so if you miss you still end up amongst the stars."

The actual _goal_ is to be an independent successful company, but getting bought is the back up option that provides a safety net. If it was success-or-bust (no "-or-get-bought") the risk calculus would not make it worth it. It would make the American economy much more conservative and much more like Europe.
They'll send you to collections, which'll ruin your credit.
There is a distinct difference between using the past for evaluating your next move, and being attached to past experiences. The latter will get in the way of critical thinking and can lead to bad decisions.

But humanity is in a stage of evolution such that we are very attached to past experiences, I can see them influencing everything I do, even on things such as whether or not I'll continue a code refactoring.

I think the author's Poker example is good. If you are attached to your loss from your last game, you won't be able to play the next game in a good mental shape for winning. With technical problems I think this means: don't get attached to your frustration when things are going wrong. Maybe the right thing is to stop the refactoring altogether because you have other priorities, it doesn't matter, as long as you are able to let it go.
Sounds like you have way more knowledge than I do about what was happening, and what results they got. As best as I can say is that when you look at the people he pulled together, you’d expect the whole world to be on Chandler now, instead of Outlook and Google. Yet there was barely a production release, and it’s been abandoned for more than a decade.

I thank them for trying. But it seems like a great example of an “Apollo Team”.
I can totally relate to points articulated in first and second paragraph.

It took me something harsh and physical event to realize how much I've not been myself. It prompted me to give up everything dear but unncessary and unproductive things for a short term as a punishment for myself.

It worked. It showed results (albeit in short-term) and then I started journalling reports about myself. Having a honest conversation of what works and what consequences I have of acting from impulsive thinking and drifting away from my real life goals.

This is 4th month since I made the pivot and so far things are definitely better. I think its mainly a battle between your brain's system 1 and system 2. You gotto do things that system 2 has thought and planned out. Because system 1 can be irrational and get us into doing things that only have short term benefit.

Brain systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow#Two_sy...
I usually just hit pound or asterisk repeatedly and get there, but lately some places must be wise to this because a few of them would say "unrecognized option, goodbye" and hangs up.
> But the language will keep evolving and drifting, and they will keep resisting, until the divergence will be so large that they will just disappear into nothingness, and people will ask: "why did people bother with them for so long?..."

I think it's a good occasion to bring up Katharevousa[0], an effort (more imho than an actual spoken language) to "clean up" contemporary Greek; the tldr net result was you couldn't file your taxes, because the language on the forms was not the language you spoke with your family and neighbors.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharevousa
From my perspective (as someone who has never done this personally) I read these as a great way to convince companies to stop half-assedly shoving GPT into everything. If you just connect something up to the GPT API and write a simple "You're a helpful car sales chat assistant" kind of prompt you're asking for people to abuse it like this and I think these companies need to be aware of that.
This is a great tool for those of us who might have a bit of a distro hopping problem. You no longer need to do the whole song and dance with `dd` and can just copy a bunch of ISOs to a single USB drive
> Nationalism is one hell of a drug.

I completely agree. Slava Ukraini!
I am currently working for a company with a few thousands employees around the world.

The founder is still the CEO owning a majority of shares and his second and third in command (or their families) hold most of the remaining shares. He's getting close to retirement and probably will do so in a few years passing the torch on to his children.

AFAIK he came from a very upper middle class background but not real wealth and kept the company alive by being profitable (not Tech margins though). That seems to be a quite sustainable business model that made him, his cofounders wealthy enough to not worry about money even we'd close tomorrow.

Nothing wrong with that and certainly something an aspiring entrepreneur could aim for. It's more difficult though and you need to run a tight ship at times and actually think longterm and how to sustain your business.
An emotional investor is still an investor, and I think people like you are specifically a lot of the reason MTG/Hasboro wants it to be collectible.

It's the "oh this card is valuable because it's powerful, and has good art, AND everyone else thinks it's monetarily valuable which justifies my nostalgia of it"

It's a weird example of how money messes things up. The "it's good in and my deck and has emotional value" should be enough because scarcity makes it hard for the 13 year old with only spare lunch money to get into EDH.
Here I was thinking about putting something like this in my home, and jokingly calling it Jarvis.
This will be a great starting point, shame you can't choose the models you want to talk to (ie use local models instead of OpenAI), but great nonetheless !
When your business has to depend on subscription engineering like this, it means the underlying product is not good enough to stand on it's own feet.
> that includes redactions

Are you really complaining that Bretton didn't dox some Twitter contact person?
I was asking about the self regulatory framework of community notes.
Why get rid of one propaganda overlord just to replace it with another?
Cigarette filters contain plastic.
"I made a LSM-based KV storage engine in Rust, help me break it"
X to be investigated for allegedly Not Complying with EU laws
He should also be prosecuted for attempting to grow a child’s mustache as an adult.
So true bud. If only there were 200 years of case law on this exact thing.
I fail to see how the EU advertising on Facebook demonstrates why the EU should not be allowed to enforce laws in its border.

They can both use the system and be critical of it
> And given that people strongly value companies like Figma, as evident in this very thread, that would be a bad outcome all in all.

We value Figma the product. I couldn't care less about how much money they raised.

This is why I'm asking if you think it is impossible to make a Figma like product financed from you know the users paying for that product.
Every commissioner is appointed* by the government of the member state they are from.

The president of the commission is chosen by the council (heads of state of the member states) and has to confirmed by the parliament.

So in theory only internal brussels lobbying would be who gets assigned which seat but in practice all of it as the EU citizens don't give a fuck who represents them in the EU so these kind of decisions are never talked about in local elections where they should be.

* (well proposed but if they don't accept they would just get another proposal from the same government)
Correction: "Driver uses ChatGPT to chatGPT to agree to sell new car for $1"
Been then some ceo might only have 20 sportscars instead of 21.
Dissecting the Go-Ethereum keystore files using Raku tools
Spoiler: Web3, Ethereum, keystore files, AES encryption, scrypt hashes and Raku language (formerly known as Perl 6).

The «Dissecting...» article is published at Raku Advent Calendar 2023 blog this morning. This is the some king of summary for the work, I have done for Ethelia project (SAAS built on Pheix backend written in pure Raku) during the recent weeks. The actual results are: registration model via Telegrams is finished — we have Sepolia (public Ethereum test network) full node, Telegram bot and Ethelia's endpoint backend up and running, they are communicating to each other, look promising and stable.

Any feedback, objections, likes and reposts are highly appreciated. You are welcome to the comments
While I haven't played D&D in any form for nearly 30 years, I lurk in places like r/adnd. There's something I often wonder in the light of the OSR trend & renewed interest in B/X, early AD&D, etc. And that is - to what extent the style of play captures the older style of play vs. hybridizing the more modern style of play w/ the older rules.

When I talk to friends who play contemporary versions of the game, even if one normalized the rules, what they play isn't what I played way back when. There's much more focus on the actual role playing & narrative/story. It tends more towards high fantasy, almost more like a superhero game. That sort of thing.

I assume it must wind up as a hybrid, and find myself curious to see what that looks like. Granted, it's easy enough for me to try it first hand and find out :)
That's surprising. I never experienced that. All I do is format USB stick with FAT32, copy files from ISO and it just works.
Hasbro laid off 1100, of which 20 are at WoTC. But how many folks are at WoTC? Are those 20 involved in the actual money printer they have with WoTC?
Correct me if I am wrong.
If I install it then I can debug all the issues my customers are facing on my shopify app?
It should preferably depend on the type of work. Books generally have a long, slow RoI. People are still buying Tolstoy. I don't believe Tolstoy should be copyrighted, but insofar as copyright is a system designed by eighteenth-century economists to incentivise creative works, it seems to function basically as designed with long terms for books.

Movies and music last a little shorter. For some reason musicians tend to have short natural lives, and copyrights start to seem like grave-robbing.

Video games and software are practically dead within two decades. The primary effect of copyrights on software more than 20 years old seems to be to stifle innovation and promote rent-seeking. I think this is why tech people have such a dim view of copyright, because the system as it exists seems to create a lot of busywork and headaches that just feel so unnecessary for anyone tasked with filling in the gaps.
In a way I'm surprised the language standard for C hasn't been extended to have a standardized RAII "hook" concept?

I don't think it's that far outside of the core language philosophy. Though it would take years for it to make it through to all toolchains and actually be adopted.
I'm not a photographer, but pretty much everyone I know who does anything with photos or image manipulation is using Photoshop. I'm the only person I know who uses a Photoshop alternative in any capacity (pixelmator)