skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't even tell you what training I need. Most of what I do is just infrastructure stuff - networking, storage (block, file, and object), databases both SQL and no-SQL and some IaC using Ansible and Docker Swarm plus some odd bash, python, and a dash of java now and again.

AWS has some training that mostly seems to be geared towards helping you sell your company on their proprietary versions of the above. I suppose a year or two I was supposed to be learning something about blockchain because that was all the rage? Now I guess I should be learning about AI? Because apparently I need to inject LLM generated bullshit somewhere into my infrastructure?

I definitely feel like an old curmudgeon, but at this point I don't really know what it is that new tech is trying to accomplish; I'm more interested in refining the tools I already know and I feel are well-established, however that is boring to most who seem to be chasing some new, fashionable thing or other seeking either novelty or resume-building.
Thanks for the answer.

I've seen this at companies that started in the 90s or earlier. Newer ones are mostly Macs.
You need a license to listen to the radio?
Is Polar Turing Complete?
Indeed people will, but why do we blame the bot-maker instead of blaming the person doing the prompting?
This.

"Things are bad. They shouldn't be like this." OK, could be. "We should destroy it all." Yeah, will that make things better, or worse. To not have the current set of problems doesn't mean you have no problems. You can have far worse problems. So before we agree to tear it all down, you have to convince us that 1) your replacement will actually be better, and 2) you have a realistic plan to actually bring that about. Otherwise, you're just one more vandal, destroying but not building.
When I got into modding Skyrim I pretty much stopped playing. For technical reasons sure, there is always another change to make and their system is too fragile for any random change to be made mid-save - gotta restart the playthrough every time. It's hard to actually play when you've got mods to working on. But modding is fun of its own, and I'd have never learned any pascal if some of the opensource modding tools weren't written in it.
> we can afford to wait 1 hour ONCE

If you lint the entire repo, fix every issue in one try on the first go, and then lint the entire repo to double-check, that's two hours.

But my workflow is usually: lint the repo -> fix one thing -> repeat
No, it's not just you. I want to enjoy his podcast because he has such great guests, but generally his questions stink and he has the natural charisma of a Ben Stein character in a John Hughes movie.
The way I read it, it was taking that amount of time before they split it into workers.
Rust is 8 years since 1.0, Zig hasn't even reached 1.0 yet.

If you compare like for like, Rust started development 17 years ago, as did Golang. Though Rust spent longer in the research project phase.
Can you elaborate a bit more why you chose llama.cpp? From their docs:

> "The main goal of llama.cpp is to run the LLaMA model using 4-bit integer quantization on a MacBook"

I'm not interested in running an LLM on embedded devices; the NN I want to deploy is really tiny and used for audio signal processing. It extracts information out of a small chunk of audio. The code needs to run on various embedded ARM chips.

What would be the advantage of using llama.cpp for this?
I've read plenty of accounts (in these comment are some even) that suggest merely the owning of a TV will get you slapped with this tax.
Lego have stated that they have to keep using oil based plastic (ABS) because their attempt at "sustainable" plastics has failed.
Specifically they've said they need Lego to "last generations". That sentence should set off alarm bells for environmentalists, it's not recycling if Lego is mostly dumped after a kid grows up.

Lasting generations sounds like BS to me given the arguments against fossil fuel plastic production, banning forever plastics from the environment, and sea and environmental pollution caused by items like bricks or bags.

Why should Lego last generations? A PLA type plastic would be non toxic, break down easier and importantly for Lego, also encourage replacement purchases.

Lego that lasts 10-15 years, with a discount replacement programme, to my mind, is better than 100+ year old Lego killing animals that eat it, or taking up space in landfills.

Anecdotally, most kids don't want old Lego, (just look online at the moms selling old unwanted Lego cheap without instructions or boxes) they want the latest sets, so the justification isn't there either.
I don't quite agree that stability or stasis are equivalent to security.

Yes, change can coincide with unrest, but there's nothing inherently insecure about incorporating new schools of thought.

Otherwise, the US wouldn't have police be run by local governments, separate from and not answering to the national military.
If kids are depressed from looking at the fakeness of people on Instagram, how are they going to feel put up against the possibility of these AI created perfected people?
If any company with a restricted service exposed to the internet found someone illegally gaining access by spoofing device IDs or API keys, the engineers who noticed would immediately shut down access and inform management, so they can run it up the chain to legal. There need be no other motivation beyond preventing illegal access to a computer system.

I doubt Beeper Mini is on the radar of anyone high up at Apple. Some engineering team responsible for the services that back iMessage is just spotting and dealing with one of probably many malicious actors.

RCS support has also already been announced by Apple for 2024.
I assume he means in the idea of printing daily household items instead of buying them, printing houses, etc.
I literally write a briefing paper advising my university to clamp down on the nascent web and continue with gopher which was much more systematic and organized.

Clearly they ignored me as they should.
Properly threaded, low-bandwidth, decent signal:noise ratio, text-only discussion? Sounds good to me. Far too little of that around.
> it feels wrong to confront the user with these details, it makes sure the target groups is developers

That is, IMHO, not a real problem at all. Definitely not what people make it to be.

Developers aren't alien species. They aren't a special class of people, bred and trained to commune with the machine. In general, anyone could in theory become one. For this particular case - anyone can easily become one: that is, through search and thinking figure out enough to use Pipes-like software to solve some need, improve their lives a bit.

Software like this is within the range of tips&tricks people exchange on-line, or from their friends. Idiosyncratic, Ad-hoc, low complexity, high-value. The random non-tech person who's e.g. carefully curating a Google Sheet of board games they play with friends, is driven and able enough to add some Pipes-like automation to it. They've picked up how to do conditional formatting and link images from a tutorial, they can pick up how to Pipes-in ratings out of BGG or something just as well.

Point being: total domination isn't the only measure of success. Will a Pipes-like product be usable for absolutely everyone? Not at all. But people with a need and minimum ability to use a computing device, or even a minimum willingness to learn operating a simple tool, is still a huge addressable market - easily an order of magnitude larger than "developers".

If anything, IFTTT and Zapier are proofs there is a market for this. The real problem is that everything these days is extremely locked down, everyone tries to control everything within their reach. As you note, there's hardly any useful API left anymore. Companies like Zapier succeed, because they sign contracts to integrate other services. They become a service aggregator, leaving user with no agency - whereas Pipes were all about users controlling their own automation. That part is hard to solve.
Programming is game-like, but agreed, it's more tool-like.

tool: a device or implement, especially one held in the hand, used to carry out a particular function.
I disagree. Cargo is a great distribution tool, for Rust projects. I just tell people, first install rust, then just `cargo install`

Second, this was in response to an npm is simpler comment; npm and cargo are absolutely the same category of tool.
It would also be nice to have an understanding of its relation to the Laplace transform, something more than saying that the real component goes to zero.
I don't have strong feelings either way, but I think in practice, the vast majority of parents would choose to have their kids not view it, yet do not have a practical way to enforce that choice.
Thank you! Tied the knot back in May, so both marriage and Agora are new to me. Open to advice on either.
Even the assortment of pieces in the Classic 1000+ piece buckets doesn't allow you to build interesting custom creations resembling buildings or vehicles. Instead of a large number of doors, windows, roof elements, wheels and sidewall elements, you get mostly purple, orange, pink, cyan and bright yellow 4x2s and 2x2s, and a large number of tiny specific pieces.

The themed playsets aimed at 5+ children are leaning towards detailed modeling with many tiny 1x1 pieces.

The one-off nostalgia-driven sets like the Lion King's Castle, the remake of Eldorado Fortress and the Galaxy Explorer are intentionally released as one-off sets with a time distance in the release date, and not as a part of a regular play theme.
iBook G4s had too and bottom panels that could have their paint stripped to be transparent. The earliest iBooks were translucent. Maybe a hunk of machined gorilla glass?

There are translucent lower receivers for AR-15s that are both light and durable[0]. Perhaps there is still hope.

0 - https://www.tnarmsco.com/store/tnarms15/tnarms15-clear/
And the other side of this coin now is that people can do truly horrific things that can dismissed as created by AI.
I think its amazing that all these tools being rewritten in rust are likely being done by people that likely do not typically code in C/C++ but did code something like this in rust.

To be that says Rust is more easily accessible as a language than C/C++ and that's great for our environment (speed is green) and our joy in computing (speed is happiness).
32kb of data leaving your service infringes our copyrights, you have 7 days to fill this self-incriminating form and pay EUR 800. Mit freundlichen Grüßen.
The file sharing is why most providers stopped hosting it and drove it into its niche. I wish it had never happened, and that the blasted fools responsible had been prosecuted. :-(
If you "bring down the current system", do you think what results is going to be less destructive to the environment? Or will 8 billion people all do whatever they have to in order to survive, regardless of the damage it causes?

You have to have a realistic replacement for the current system, and a realistic plan to get there. Without that, bringing down the current system won't lead to something better, but to something worse.
I don’t think it implies that. The 10k votes, parts list, photos, impetus, and lore/background is the “convincing”.

A speech, a monologue, can be convincing.
> any of that is happening, with or without them

Not really. None of the scale existed for any of those industries without Apple (and Samsung).

BYD would be a fraction of the size it is today without becoming an Apple vendor.

Samsung would be a fraction of the size it is today without becoming an Apple vendor.

Qualcomm and Broadcom would be a fraction of the size it is today without becoming an Apple vendor.

The iPhone (and the Samsung Galaxy) are a marvel of engineering and logistics - representing the ultimate synthesis in Battery, OLED, Semiconductor, Telecom, and SoC manufacturing as scale.
The page runs quite smooth once you get past the title to the actual text.

(Chrome on Android, Pixel 7)
Correct, it was 75 minutes total compute time. That was spread across workers to make the walltime more reasonable
Are you kidding? Having someone run faster on the editor is a huge gain. I can't believe people are saying this isn't useful.
I could also see government agencies using this to frame people for crimes they do not commit.
My sight's both poor and uneducated, but looking again after the defects are pointed out, they're pretty stark.
RIP little dude
Typescript lints are type-aware so you can’t just lint changed files, you have to relint the entire codebase to check if any type changes have impacted the unchanged code.
> - No response to questions, after follow-up we got a meeting from middle-management

They're busy running the company paying mortgages while C-suite believe nice sounding words and budgets are all the incentives needed. Welcome to middle management. Some in C-suite will get this.

> - Got some new info, but mostly circle-talk

You're speaking different language. Speak company, not generic IT.

> - Received very negative feedback, where the middle management and only focussed on the questions or steps that where wrong ??

Again, welcome to middle management. It went wrong. There's an error. Fix the error. It's what they do. Again, speak their language.

> - General tips for nailing down requirements ?

Ask for their existing "provide us the steps or process flow for when to alert who after what time, when xyz happens" flowchart, escalation matrix, escalation tree or whatever it's called in their corporate language. Perhaps it doesn't exist. If they're ISO9001 it should, but perhaps not.

Don't ask for meetings on your terms. Go sit in the team, attend operations meetings. Understand them. Corporates are anthropological studies.
Thanks! :)

Let me know if/when you do, if there's anything I can help you with.
> Is racism so evil that it's better to kill every human to avoid it ever happening?

The companies that make and operate these systems - like most companies - are more interested in avoiding PR problems than avoiding harm to humans. This is just one somewhat humorous example of that general policy.
> OOP-world analogy was always shallow to begin with

I would also add that the purpose of visibility is to encapsulate and not some sort of access control. All the objects of the same class are implemented with the same code so they are within the same encapsulation boundary.
I share part of his sentiment, there was a different culture with lego before. Now, afaik, LEGO cannot make enough money this way so they pivot into marketable sets with higher profits or sales figures. But this still causes a brand perception shift.
Don't try to learn mathematics on your own. That way lies the path of madness.

Higher learning provides the structure, curriculum and pacing that you wouldn't even know how to put together yourself (that's what you need an expert for).

There are self-taught mathematicians out there, as are there self-taught musicians, artists, engineers, and so on. But they are the exception, not the rule. And if they HAD learned from an expert, they would have saved themselves a lifetime of pain unlearning all the bad habits they picked up.
Independently of that article, I've experimented with webp to find out when I would use it, and concluded approximately the following (of course, somebody else can have different preferences and conclusions):

- If you know how stills from mp4 videos or similar "look like" (when observed so that the compression artifacts are visible) -- that's more-or-less lossy webp. Not something you'd expect to achieve the best picture quality.

- Probably because of its origins, that's also how lossy webp handles scanned or printed images: not good.

I've concluded that I will use webp, but

1) to save the pictures for which I don't care which quality they have, and if I want to use up less bytes: specifically: if I want to save some visual information from some JPEG from somewhere only to store a picture of that not to preserve it in its full quality.

2) when serving the pictures, in scenarios where I want to reduce the amount of data delivered to others, when the artifacts I'm aware of aren't the issue.

Everything else: still no.
It's one way it was written, I bet. If my experience from old Norwegian church books is any indication, there were a lot of ligature fads. Some liked to replace all double consonants with a single consonant with a line over, for instance. It had a good couple of decades.

Do we really need to continue this stuff on computer screens.
The point of QWidgets is not to create a "modern app with fancy animations", that's what QML is better suited for. It can still be done, QWidgets supports theming and all that, but that's not what it does best.

QWidgets is for making well integrated, "boring" desktop apps. For nested menus, or any menu for that matter, use QMenu. If your OS is fully supported by Qt and the standard system behavior is to animate the menu, it will be animated in your app.
The Fesse Bouc group is... not dead.
As the sibling comment mentions, you may have lint rules that depend on checking for the existence of, or properties of, another file. A popular set of rules comes from https://www.npmjs.com/package/eslint-plugin-import which validates imports, prevents circular dependencies, etc
It's a good thing. They have far nicer communities and societies because it's not all just capitalism for the rich. Sure, our Apples and Googles and Metas may be huge, but what does that do for the average American? It makes their housing unaffordable and their cities shitty to live in.
That wouldn't make any sense unless there's something else going on.

It could simply be an effect of brightness -- do you have your 4K monitor set to bright, while your iPad is much dimmer? (Remember Apple devices have adaptive brightness enabled by default as well.)
My guess is that (if it hasn't already happened) LLMs will be generating all those sales pitch emails that they send to everyone in their data set (which seems to come mostly from linked in) who is in management. It used to be pretty easy to tell which emails were genuinely someone who noticed us and thinks we could use their product from the people doing a sales routine. Now it's probably going to be impossible, and they're going to know exactly the best way to approach/word things.

My response to this is basically going to be to assuming that anything unsolicited is probably generated.
My experience is that third party applications are the norm in the US, too. Everyone I know uses Facebook Messenger or Discord, and that situation has been the norm for at least a decade (and Discord itself is nearing a decade of existence now). Facebook Messenger is easily the default multi-platform option.

90% of my Messages app is SMS threads, and the vast majority of my messaging activity is Slack, Discord and Facebook Messenger.
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> There is no such thing as a 'just a tool', because we have fundamnetal and basal instincts that cannot be stopped when we operate in a large group.

Empirically that seems to be true.

> Yes, a hammer can be used for good or bad, but it will always inevitably be used for bad in an environment that encourages such uses.

From your previous line that I quoted, that would be any environment that has humans in large groups. Now what do you propose? Short of returning to hunter-gatherers (with the death of about 7.9 billion people), I don't see how you're going to prevent that kind of environment.
Perhaps the website was designed for a french audience, and an alternate theme not created for the english localisation of this article...
Watch YT videos to get yourself into the right mindset, i.e. for math there is 3Blue1Brown that has excellent primers. There is virtually a channel for every subject matter and while they don't go into details, generally speaking, they are cool presentations that give will you a framework and help you build a map of where to start.
You should interview her!
74 minutes of linting vs 1.3 seconds of linting?

If a file has been linted, is unchanged since it was linted, there's literally no need to lint it again. Much like if you only need to process one record, you don't query the whole table to get the record.
I feel your pain. Right-click, save as, and ... awww-goddamn it, another WebP >:|
I can see a difference in the gradients, but in practical use on the average website does that even matter?

Photography portfolios are the one use case where having gigantic JPEG 90 images might make sense I suppose. Although everyone is going to get annoyed at your loading times.
I imagine they'll go for the big money stuff first and it will trickle back to gamers.
news:comp.lang.fortran has been helpful to me.

news:alt.folklore.computers is active

I enjoy the news:comp.sys.acorn hierarchy but then I was an Archimedes user.
Bear in mind that ML skillset is now bifurcating into two components. On the one side are the people who work at places like OpenAI/DeepMind/Mistral/etc, who have billion dollar compute budgets. They are the ones who will create the foundational models. At this point a lot of this work is very technically narrow, dealing with CUDA, GPU issues, numerical stability, etc. On the other side are people who are using the models through the APIs in various ways. This is much more open-ended and potentially creative, but you don't need to know how QLearning works to do this.

It's a bit analogous to the situation with microprocessors. There is a ton of deep technical knowledge about how chips work, but most of this knowledge isn't critical for mainstream programming.
If I change a function signature, then my code is fine - but all the other files which import and use my function will break
If you're ever in Edinburgh, this is an excellent place to visit and spend an afternoon. One of the funniest parts was upon walking in the door, the gentleman who greeted me asked "What kind of engineer are you?" Very worthwhile.
If a different (unchanged) file depends on the one you changed, you could have changed the API in a way that makes the unchanged file unacceptable to your linter.
You don't need analytics to know that you should build a responsive website and use best practices to keep it resource usage small enough for old devices.
This is absurd. It's like reverse engineering your cable provider's decoder box, making a business to sell the pirate copies and then going back to the cable provider to nag about outages or whatever. In what reality is this good idea?

Also, we're talking about private messages, you can't "just" introduce a third party to have them copy-pasted-as-a-service on some shady devices.

If I wanted to send insecure messages to friends who don't own an iPhone, I'd send an SMS. But really just WhatsApp.
> because why would they execute it and waste their CPU cycles on that?

The analytics script is not run using your CPU cycles; those belong to your victim/target.
Because they build a reputation of good quality plastic pieces that fit very snug together for, like they said, generations. New type os plastic seens to not be like that and the final product was not really good. If its really true or not, i don't know, but that was their justification.
yeah but when it's running a lot of proprietary, closed-off code on top of your data -- can you say, for sure, that it's not doing something shady?

meanwhile you can build a barebones server for the same or less price as the Synology device + drives, and slap Debian on it. or just put any nix OS on the Synology box, but that defeats half the purpose of having it.

and to the parent poster's point, they're generally a reputable company -- I have one of their 4-bay NAS units -- and I'm not especially concerned since its just a media server, but it is* something to think about
The first link is for the VM pricing. standard-2 backed managed PostgreSQL instance is $65/month, which is still 3x more cost effective than similar products.
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