skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wish there was some way to give the data Google obtained in the Deja News acquisition back to the public, i.e., allow free public access to all of it as Deja News was doing at the time.

(After the acqusitition, for a while Javascript was required to access comp.unix.* groups via Google Groups. Eventually, after years went by, this was fixed. But even then some of the data from these groups and other computing related groups is missing. Neither Google Groups, nor any of the well-known spools from individual archivists, contain _all_ of the data from what was available before the Google acquisition.)
What is stopping somebody who'd be inclined to take a COBOL job from just starting a contract firm and taking the $300k from the government? Does the government check if they actually have employees who have 30 years of COBOL experience before handing out those contracts?
Lots of VMWare folks came over to Hashi over the years.
It's a different product because it's coupled with the hardware.
Apple TV+ to Adapt Martha Wells' Murderbot
Or "disable until next windows update then silently re-enable it and claim it's a bug if you get caught"
For you to own _nothing_, it must apply to _everything_.
That's why GP is using "I *still* don't care about cookies" ;)
https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies
Right. Hedge fund going global threat? That wasn't purely a machine. But none of this needs to be purely a machine. And it sure got far before people reined it back in.

And I don't know that "more intelligent" is necessary. I can see plenty of mirth coming from an amateur or hacker / techies group or less responsible country (hah!) using whatever commercial offer to bake their own agent. What's harder? The core. Hooking up the core to a wallet, internet access, a robo-signing staff - and working around the fine print of the core vendor - that might be much easier than what OpenAI and friends are trying to do. Do they also create their own reward function and alignment in there? Yes. That's part of the fun. That's the point. Do they get it right? Maybe, maybe not.
You've been breaking the site guidelines egregiously in this thread. I understand how inflammatory and painful this topic is, but please don't do any more of that, regardless of how wrong other people are or you feel they are. I don't want to ban you, but we have no choice but to ban accounts that keep posting this aggressively.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thanks to kde connect, I've been really enjoying shared clipboard between Windows, Linux, and my Android phone.
This bit "but simply mass-produced objects made of silicon and oxygen. Just make some more." is so agonizingly wrong I feel compelled to comment.

Some of the more exotic items are custom-designed and hand-made, and are exceedingly rare. Backlogs exist. "Please, don't retire, keep making us glassware" problems exist in chemistry departments. Various articles surface about this particular problem every so often.

And, frankly, if people are taking this much time to clean the glass, it should be obvious to you that one of your priors is wrong.
@dr_dshiv Edit: Sorry about the bad quote, I should have included the prefix "When most people speak of Math ...". And the negative comment about the blog post.

Now I've read / skimmed all of it and it was interesting, I hope the new methods he wants to use for teaching maths will work fine. (I'm sceptical, but still seems like worth to give it a try.)

I think his project title does his project a disservice: "Kill maths"? That sounds silly to me.
And how it starts -- I got annoyed and stopped reading (until I went back two days later).

Another more positive project title maybe could be "Maths for everyone" or "A new approach for teaching maths"?
The problem with QA is nobody outside of QA understands QA. They think QC is QA so they automate their QC "testing" and assume that is QA. It's not. Moreover they never listen to QA nor respect them as people.

QA are usually the best people to know what's what when the rubber meets the road.
They know where the bodies are buried.
They often understand and have a pulse on customers and usage better than product managers.
They know the ins-and-outs of how various features interact and how a product as a whole works better than silo'd developers.

Historically they were effectively the only "product owners" that could certify a release before it went out.
They would coordinate with the right people to ensure all technical and non-technical deliverables and dependencies were met before releases. T
hey would be the best approximate and power users.

They often maintained test infrastructures on which deployments could be tested. In fact, they were the origins of automation or DevOps as a "thing" because they are the ones who saw all the friction points daily giving rise to CI/CD. Often times nobody listened because they were concerned with features.

QA has always been about investing resources within an organization to improve it. In effect, building things for within it to improve it. Now that we have gotten the message to some degree of optimizing some manual pain points -- we kick to the curb those who got us there without any regard to the value they provided -- and instead decide to push to prod and test on production to piss off customers even more.

If you ask yourself -- would you feel comfortable driving a car that was built and tested with automation alone? What about a space shuttle or an airplane? Or about medications?Or would you prefer that a human test drivers or test pilots put those products through their paces before signing off on them? -- it might drive it home better.

But then again software industry has devolved since the tech bro + VC culture pretty much ate it as they chased those sweet $$$
I work on our frontend platform team and my perf work, CI design and process engineering definitely have a harder time getting recognition and promotions than folks who ship things that translate to dollars in the bank.

I don’t care though. I enjoy making things better and more robust. It makes my soul feel better. I’ll leave fucking things up to the cynics.
The world of rally racing can be unforgiving, demanding both physical and mental strength. Emmmanuel Katto's talent behind the wheel was soon recognized, and he became an iconic figure in the sport. He conquered numerous rallies, claimed championships, and left a mark on the racing circuit. However, his competitive spirit meant that he was always seeking fresh challenges beyond the confines of the racetrack.
> Though even faster will be doing part of the computation now and then switching to new hardware later

Not necessairly. This still costs:

• Programmer/development time to implement save/restore/transfer

• Time on new hardware, bottlenecked by old hardware, restoring a partial computation from old disks or networks

You're not going to waste time restoring partial calculations for anything from an Amiga cluster for time saving purpouses. Additionally, this scheme ties up hardware that then can't be used for "cost effective to finish on current hardware" calculations.
New Horizons is also on its way out of the solar system, and it is still potentially encountering celestial bodies out there.
Oh thank God, this is the best news for Usenet in decades. 100% of Usenet spam now comes from Google.
I know nothing of chemistry in a professional setting. What happens to all the byproducts and stuff you use to clean? I assume you can't just dump everything into one big barrel and send it off to the landfill.
Leap into the Canary Islands' Epic Folk Sport [video]
> Maybe Logo's used books will come back.

Probably a typo, but I have to note that it's Greek "Logos", not possessive or plural English.
And yet he did not use any of those opportunities to correct the most common perception of his work.

How is that supposed to be convincing?
Same thing with gyms. I have no idea why such abuse takes years, sometimes decades to resolved by the executive or legislature.
The software is running since 1977.
No. It's simply too far away for that, because d*4 gets you.

Now, if the zapper were Big Enough, when received it didn't destroy the probe, AND that there was a big enough receiver, they maybe...
This is a helpful image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere#/media/File:PIA170...
How to buy now, pay later, and regret forever
Interesting. Do you know how they could fix it? I will send them this thread. They will love it.
Was it her reposting of a tweet that was critical of the decision to hand a contract for manufacturing Covid-19 vaccines to a company owned by King Maha Vajiralongkorn?

Was it her reposting other tweets that were critical of the king?

Or something else entirely?

Is a six year sentence really appropriate for somebody that is critical of a monarch?

I'm Australian and I have a low opinion of King Charles, should I go to prison for six years?
Archive.org has it all. It's not in a usable format, it's like tar dumps. But it's on there.
I remember being excited once upon a time when Google acquired Deja News.

Will be really disappointed if the archive falls into an even worse state of disrepair.
i feel like this could be a fascinating series of youtube videos targeting the "oddly satisfying" niche.

edit: should've known it would already be a thing :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utBxdlN7YFI&t=9s
Most probably won't. I think you're greatly overestimating the technical chops of the average PC user.
or 2 arms and a peg
Everyone buys Dead Bird because it’s marketed as mountaineering gear. Just go to their website… right now…

https://arcteryx.com/us/en/explore/whoweare/inspiration/

It’s pictures of people skiing helicopter accessible back country and hanging off an ice wall in crampons.

And all of their lifestyle adjacent segment exists under that umbrella.

You don’t need PFAS gear while walking around town because you simply don’t need your fabric to vent extreme moisture build up to prevent death from hypothermia like the people in their marketing copy.
Protobuf Is Almost Streamable (But not really)
This ongoing saga reminds me of that famous story about how Microsoft engineers played a similar cat and mouse game to make MSN messenger interoperate with Yahoo's despite multiple efforts by the latter to block it.
Orion supports some extensions on IOS too https://blog.kagi.com/orion-features
Put it in the over and run the clean cycle. It'll get ashed.
Just say the number of jobs actually being created. Nobody in Michigan thinks any job is permanent no matter what you say.

Or just say "job-years". Anyone reading such an article will know what it means but there's no harm in defining it either.

There is obviously no excuse for just lying, and if it was unintentional then the responsible person should lose some job-years of their own.
> “From our point of view, we’re looking at ways to empower parents rather than crack down on anything in particular,” they said. “We’ve identified that there is a gap in research so we’ll be looking at what more research into it needs to be done, but nothing is yet signed off by ministers.”

Translation: From our perspective, there's nothing in it for us (government). We're looking into ways to surveil our citizen, erode their privacy and security by thinking of the children. In no way are we actually going to do something useful for once.
NodeGit – A framework for diffing and merging visual scripting graphs
Usenet's been on the up trend for years now. It was dying in the '00s and early '10s. Now it's recovering. People are tired of Discord and Reddit, and even Hacker News.
> The difference LLMs make here is to limit the space of possible mutations to largely semantically plausible programs.

Yet, sadly, the work under question here didn't make any attempt to show this, AFAICT. It's an interesting hypothesis, but as yet untested.

> a trained LLM is useful for many, many purposes, so the cost of training it from scratch after amortization wouldn't be significant. It may cost additionally to fine-tune an LLM to work in the FunSearch framework but fine-tuning cost is quite minimal. Using it in the framework is likely a win over genetic programming alone.

Again, an interesting hypothesis that probably could be investigated with the experimental apparatus described in the paper. But it wasn't. Have you?
Is there a reason why you can't run your own Usenet server nowadays?

In the old days, the issues were that bandwidth and disk were expensive. That's no longer true.

Is there a techncial reason we can't have individuals running NNTP nodes?
Youre being downvoted but I also lose a message every few months between my girlfriend and I. We both have relatively new iPhones and exclusively use iMessage so I do think its some rare protocol bug.
Tesla Optimus – Gen 2
> the fact that they had to create an emulation/virtualization layer (rosetta) says other wise.

That is a nonsensical and ahistorical take.

Apple created an emulation layer because they were migrating ISA and thus had a backlog of legacy which they needed to support for users to switch over.

They did the same from PPC to x86, and from 68k to PPC, and nobody would have accused those of being entrenched.
Also, pretty sure the overlap of "would ever want to use Whatsapp" and "cares about iMessage at all" is zero. Either you have Apple Status Symbol people, or you have "Meta can die in a fire entirely" or "idk, I just use SMS and some people have iMessage". The first and last groups aren't gonna switch, and the middle are probably only ever going to use Telegram or Signal.
Entitled behavior is Apple dictating what code I can run on my non-Apple servers and devices. They can keep blocking it, and people will keep finding workarounds. That's the nature of DRM. It's not a battle they can win.
Vision Pro will do nothing of the sort. It just has features that serve to lock you in their platform.
Sorry, but at the link you provided there is no model weights, only inferred images offered for examination, so at this point it is at vaporware stage compared to stable diffusion tools.
Yes. Go to `groups.google.com`, switch "My Groups" to "All groups of messages" and type in the name of your favorite newsgroup in the search field. You should see links to newsgroups pop up. The archives are contained at those links. You can search them reasonably well, but browsing them is tough, because of the 2 decades worth of spam that's accumulated in them.
Most of America also doesn't give a shit. This whole blue/green bubble thing is a story only among nerds and some tech elitists.
Using Gemini Models from Go
Just this week, I was thinking if I could recreate my use of Pipes...

From each track in the RSS feed of tracks scrobbled on last.fm, do a google search and pipe the output back to an RSS feed into my reader.

Neither chatGPT nor Google could make sense of my request. Any ideas?
That sounds very cool indeed.
Someone linked to this recently, it's a great read.

https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-19/essays/chat-wars/
Then how do you know you can make weather predictions based on air currents, storm fronts, etc. as you initially claimed? It seems humans have somehow moved from purely observations of weather systems, to some model that's somewhat predictive. Why can't LLMs do the same? LLMs have also been shown to produce world models, and of course they must, because that's the best way to get good knowledge compression.

Of course, maybe LLM world models are not sufficiently rich or general enough to be a true general intelligence, but no one's proven that last I checked.
Yahoo Pipes was the spiritual father of Node RED
Really makes you wonder how Hillary trained on Federation Peak and the Western Arthur Range in Tasmania, Fiordland on the South Island in New Zealand, then climbed Everest without PFAS gear.
Use 99% isopropyl alcohol. Add in a teaspoon of table salt -- it won't dissolve in the alcohol and will act as a mild abrasive to help remove stubborn residue. Rinse thoroughly with water afterwards.

If you're really serious about your cleanliness, a desktop ultrasonic cleaner is also amazing for cleaning bowls and downstems. You can get them for a few dozen dollars from Amazon and the like.
Anecdotally, this is a very common opinion from most people I meet who know of Lex.
It's not so much a Shakespearean "to have a QA team or not ...", but responsibility and accountability.

SWEs must produce unit testing because they know the code best. Dumping this responsibility onto QA is slow, evil, and wrong like quality control only vs. QA+QC.

QA teams must have the authority to ensure complicated code gets unit testing code coverage.

QA teams should provide partial and full-up integration tools and testing with the support of SWEs.

QA teams must have stop-the-assembly-line authority to ensure quality and testing requirements are met.

QA teams (or tools teams that support multiple QA teams) must make testing faster and more efficient.

There ought to be a suite of smoke tests such that untested code cannot be committed to the "production" branch, whatever that looks like, except in rare extreme emergencies.

All production-ready commits should be squashed, signed-off by another SWE, and have a test plan.

Test plans should be auto-generated, wherever possible.

Tests combined with test infrastructure should be able to be added to auto-bisect/blame breakage

Which tests must run and pass to accept a production proposed diff should be auto-minimized to those that touch particular area(s) and their precise-as-possible-but-still-correct dependencies.

Other areas that must not be neglected and shoveled onto SWEs: product management, UAT, UX, and operations.
oh no, I just bought a refurbed A770 16GB for tinkering with GPGPU lol. It was $220, return?
It wasn't child porn that was on the browser, it was just an image of "yiff" or furry porn. The browser just had an suggestive bunny picture easter egg on that and had this thoughts about anti circumcision. Not too sure if the browser was update recently but I will say that thorium is a decently developed browser with chromium.
It is not just a pure RAG index, it is having enough source material and tutorials to draw upon such that "best practices" for a given library or toolset get encoded into the model.

I've seen a couple companies offer a RAG enabled ChatGPT for their SDK, but without a large number of stack overflow and medium posts detailing how to use the SDK in different scenarios, well, there isn't much help an LLM can offer that I cannot just get from whatever is on a company's site.

Back in the day Microsoft used to pay boat loads of money to have absurdly complex sample applications shipped alongside new libraries and SDKs. The sample apps were often fully featured end to end solutions that had been gone over by testers as well.

The idea being, since there wasn't any really good online help back then (aside from news groups and such, which were useful if you knew about them), you had to rely on sample code or on books, books which Microsoft also commissioned to be written.

Maybe someday we'll get back to that point, companies paying money for large volumes of sample code to be written, but this time with the goal of having it ingested by LLMs.
these concerns are valid. Awesome job graphic design team!
There's a lot of fluff here, but the comments I've seen on the subject from people who actually know what the heck they're talking about (for example, preexisting MR/VR enthusiasts) suggest that the "special" format here is just basic stereoscopic photography of the kind that already exists in about a million YouTube videos that anybody with a Quest 3 can already record and view, rather than anything new like actually encoding real depth info along with the image capture.
Nothing that bad is on thorium the browser just had an easter egg over yiff. Its still a safe browser. Your not going to get the fbi on you lmao.
Can you get gloves made from PTFE? I feel those would be the closest you could get to an "everything" glove.
Open source rules engine for Magic: The Gathering
That doesn't say that parents don't correct kids, just that they don't speak to their infants. The initial words are learnt that way, but I don't think you master language without anyone to correct you when you make mistakes.
I don’t disagree but HP has much higher profit margins than Dell and Lenovo in some segments.
My lab actually did have 88-gallon barrels for waste; one each for aqueous waste, organic waste, and ether waste. Ether waste was kept separate because we produced a lot of it and because it had to be treated with preservatives to prevent the formation of explosive peroxides.

Anywho, the old base had to be (gently) neutralized with acid before being dumped into the aqueous waste barrel. This had to be done slowly because exothermicity and dissolution heat.

Iirc, the waste barrels were taken back by Sigma Aldrich, to be batched, filtered, and re-distilled into reagent-grade solvents. Circle of life.
> the label wanted more in licensing fees than the whole thing cost to produce.

Hopefully this message was sent instead.
>> The difference LLMs make here is to limit the space of possible mutations to largely semantically plausible programs.

> Yet, sadly, the work under question here didn't make any attempt to show this, AFAICT. It's an interesting hypothesis, but as yet untested.

It would be ideal to do that. But given the way LLMs work, it is almost a given. This could be the reason it didn't occur to the researchers who are very familiar with LLMs.

>> a trained LLM is useful for many, many purposes, so the cost of training it from scratch after amortization wouldn't be significant. It may cost additionally to fine-tune an LLM to work in the FunSearch framework but fine-tuning cost is quite minimal. Using it in the framework is likely a win over genetic programming alone.

> Again, an interesting hypothesis that probably could be investigated with the experimental apparatus described in the paper. But it wasn't. Have you?

Perhaps it's quite evident to people in the trench, as the hypothesis seems very plausible to me. A numerical confirmation would be ideal as you suggested.

Given my management experience, I'd say it's smart of them to focus their limited resources on something more innovative in this exploratory work. Details can be left for future work or worked out by other teams.
Great. Now let's revive Usenet and make it a bit complicated as having to use a specialized reader app like tin and make it a resort for people who are a bit sick of the New Internet.
Man you're a rocket ship. Such an inspiration and congratulations on your success.
First part of the README that hasn't changed in 2 months:

> Sqinn-Go is a Go (Golang) library for accessing SQLite databases without cgo. It uses Sqinn https://github.com/cvilsmeier/sqinn under the hood. It starts Sqinn as a child process (os/exec) and communicates with Sqinn over stdin/stdout/stderr. The Sqinn child process then does the SQLite work.

> If you want SQLite but do not want cgo, Sqinn-Go can be a solution.

This seems pretty clear to me about what's happening. It makes an OS call to a third-party executable (sqinn), then pipes the result from stdout back into the Go code. The advantage is you don't have to compile the C code alongside your Go code.

Honestly, I don't really know how much more clear the author could be. I guess if you don't know what stdin, stdout, and stderr are it might be confusing? It's hard to imagine a programmer who is interested in this library but isn't immediately familiar with those concepts.
I'm interested in knowing more about both sides. OP has given a bunch of links in the article (almost in every sentence). Could you point out which assertions of OP are biased?
Literally every point you hit on is a Google Groups problem, not experienced by users who connect a NNTP client to server.