skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds a bit obvious to me after I write it down: I think there’s some value in the fact you were unaware and it was a random time.

If you take your work very seriously, I can see it being valuable to record it like athletes do. It would be tempting to use this on the “most important” days or when you’re “really ready”. At the very least, there’s a burden of choice and memory. I don’t know about security implications, but it seems valuable to randomly record a day per month and send it to yourself a week later. Or in the case of this tool, select some period for extra review.
A lot of people dislike the time it takes to use a hand grinder, but I really like the 1zpresso steel burr grinders I own and my Cafelat Robot espresso maker.
I see a lot of comments here defending the current junk culture. Whatever. There's no good reason a pair of scissors that has two steel blades should have a plastic handle, joint, and rivet. Anything with plastic moving parts (e.g. a gear) was intentionally designed to break. It's always done to increase profit, either now, by decreasing cost, or in the long term, by increasing demand by needing a replacement.
You have allowances for doubtful accounts and/or bad debts.

Also sounds stupid to game taxes by delaying/advancing payments.
It's all well and good to say "oh you can just install a custom ROM". But you (and many here) can do that. Because you're technically inclined. But the vast majority have users have no idea what the hell you're talking about. They barely know what a security update is or what version of Android they're using, let alone being able to find, choose, and install a ROM.

Can we just choose to stop suggesting it as a legitimate solution cause outside of this bubble, it absolutely is not.
I like being able to clean specific rooms at specific times (especially when I'm not home)
I get the impression the author of the list is the type of person who believes that if you master the hard core stuff the soft core stuff will come easily.
When I was 11 or 12 years old I was simply obsessed with yoyos. And Tommy Smothers had his yoyo act, and I was just enthralled. Here was this fully grown adult (this was in the late 80's) doing things with a yoyo that I wanted so badly to do. I always thought him to be the funniest, nicest guy, just based on his act. When I read that he passed, I wept. So long, Tommy.
Maybe at some point but I don't currently have a mac machine.
Next up, Microsoft acquires the New York Times forming MSNYT
Oster still sells a blender with a single toggle switch. I have it. Its's loud as hell but it works. Cheap, too.
> They have won no favors in the court of public opinion with their frequent misinformation.

You mean GPT here, right?
And also - if what is legal isn't right, we live in a democracy and should change that.

Saying what's legal is irrelevant is an odd take.

I like living in a place with a rule of law.
I don't think this is true. This is (more or less) the couch that I've owned since late 2019: https://www.crateandbarrel.com/axis-2-piece-sectional-sofa/s...

From the page:

* $3500 (I believe I paid $3000 in 2019)

* Frames are benchmade with hardwood that's kiln-dried to prevent warping

* Hardwood legs

* Polyfoam seat cushions wrapped in fiber-down blend and encased in downproof ticking (is this "bad"? I think they're plenty comfortably and haven't shown any significant wear in the past four years)

Their leather version is $5000, so maybe the claim that good leather couches start at around $5000 has more truth: https://www.crateandbarrel.com/axis-leather-2-piece-sectiona...
I am a PhD student. Collaborating with people writing LaTeX is a little tricky when you want to add comments and such. I like this little format: it might make it easier for me to work with people on the same paper.

My workflow is a .tex file checked into git repository that everybody has full access to. We do a lot of face-to-face conversation to make sure that we are synchronized with our changes, which I think is a really good thing, but it is nice adding commentary in line. Instead of some ad hoc system with comments, this scheme adds a little bit more discipline that might be welcome.
Chinese chess champion suspended after defecating in hotel bathtub
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Apple doesn't patch every security hole in older iOS versions. I don't know what the criteria is, but my guess is if it's a major security hole, or an easily backported one, they'll do it, but if it's super minor or not backportable, they won't.
It’s the old fuel injection vs carburetor debate. Do you want something that usually runs for 200k miles without a single problem, but takes a fancy shop to fix? Or do you want something that needs a complete rebuild every three months and needs to be retuned for your ski trip, but can be repaired by a high school boy with a tongue depressor, a q-tip, and a hammer?

The rapid exodus of carburetors shocked and dismayed many right-to-repair folks, but I think we now see with laptops and cell phones that all else equal, consumer preference strongly favors trading repair headaches for the otherwise more compelling product (thinner, faster, lighter, more powerful, etc)
It is actually not redundant. I have run into this problem at least once in real Lua code.

local x = false
print(x ?? "message was nil")
print(x or "message was nil")

which results in

>false

>message was nil
Intelligence agencies unfortunately seem to have a bad track record when it comes to disclosing vulnerabilities, they’re very offensive-focused.
ChatGPT only advertises itself as a fancy autocomplete. There is a disclaimer that it may produce output that appears correct but isn't. NYtimes written material purports itself to be the truth, thus shouldn't be held to the same standards as a generative AI obviously.
Corrugated cardboard (boxes) can be a vector for cockroach eggs. I once crewed on a yacht whose captain forbid any cardboard boxes to be brought aboard for this reason.
It is very difficult to do this in general, especially for these kinds of exploits.
Having searched for that, most options I find are either ridiculously expensive, and/or poorly documented or limited. Any suggestion for good ones?

Frankly I'd be far more inclined to pay the "ridiculously expensive" prices for one that is well documented and open, and where the firmware is easily modifiable.
Depends what era of cars we're talking. There's a ton of stuff from the 90s and 2000s like GM trucks, that I strongly suspect will be on the road longer and in greater numbers than stuff 10 years newer. The mid to late 90s and early 2000's seems to be the sweet spot where fuel injection and simple electronic ignition, and stuff using older designs (engine's, etc.) that had to be built heavier, combined with better metallurgy, better oils, better gas, and so on, meant that the vehicles, when taken care reasonably, would go well past a quarter million miles. There's a ton of stuff now, that given much weird crap is on there and how much stuff is done to squeeze every last MPG out (like a lot of GDI setups, auto start/stop, transmissions that pull into neutral automatically at a stop, etc.) that I really doubt will make it as far. Even as far as repairability, a 90's 4L60E or 4L80 can be repaired way, way more easier by way more people, in an economic fashion than a lot of later transmissions (that you may as well just throw away). I'm sure this holds across other brands too; Volvos come to mind, as the older rear wheel drive red block cars were certainly far better built, more reliability, and had an unbelievably better lifespan than the absolute garbage Volvo has put out after Ford bought them.
But if you still need to support the complete gas, hydro.... infrastructure for those few months when wind/solar/battery is not enough, how cheap are those renewables then really?
I think that is some of what people miss. Way back when a cheap toaster at Sears was still expensive. Now you have hyper cheap toasters for like $15 bucks now, which would have been a dollar or so back then, you just couldn't get a toaster that price back then. So the cheapest item has drug the average quality down to it.
Something I have wondered about LLMs and training data is the idea that the biggest content producers on the internet now have their world view and tone echoed disproportionately as part of the next big wave of technology. This is incredibly impactful (although admittedly I don't know how to turn that into a profit). Is there some long term impact of removing the New York Times from training data that means it won't be part of the LLMs corpus going forward that is unforeseen?
> Is it correct to conclude that [vouch] links only appear on [flagged] submissions that are below the flag threshhold for [dead]

Mostly yes, but there are also other (rarer) ways for a submission to end up both [flagged] and [dead].

> Are the [vouch] rules the same for both submissions and replies, i.e., comments

Yes.

> For instance, as I type this there is a submission in /active that's [flagged] but not [dead], but there's no [vouch] link.

That's expected. Vouch links only show up on [dead] posts, as I explained above.
If I am on vacation or in some other relaxed environment, I will go into a state where I sleep 6 hours at night but also take a siesta or 15-minute to 30-minute nap in the middle of the day.
Suggestion: move your filter selections into URL state so people can share what they've specified.
There are brands built to super high standards, but no-one wants to pay for them or deal with their compromises.

We have been buying Miele appliances, and have nothing but excellent experiences. They aren't cheap, but the general opinion I've seen online is that they are one of the few brands that build quality modern appliances. My experiences would tend to back that up.

Specific to the Miele washer and dryer, we hang dry most things and live in a very dry area, so having a heat pump dryer that doesn't get things crisp and dry is perfectly fine with us. We hardly use the dryer at all actually; clothes last longer if you don't use the dryer and we do spend the money on quality clothes (also hard to find and expensive).
You don't need private enterprise to be involved to obtain those things though, is my point.
> the strong female character to be Ursula, and she's depicted as unattractive and then brutally murdered with a ship.

She’s literally the villain character in a fairytale cartoon who is based on a witch character that was written almost 200 years ago. Seems like the depiction is appropriate to the character trope. How many fairytale witches get the pretty face and happy ending?
They may just want a licensing deal.
> which ended up increasing German CO2 output.

That's temporary, soon that will go back down again
This is an exploit from an adversary that reversed undocumented MMIO registers to completely bypass kernel write protections. Do you honestly believe that disabling iMessage would keep them out? They’d just field the exploit using Exchange or HomeKit or any of the dozen other ways there are to get content onto the devices.
I wasn't really thinking "complexity" in terms of formal academic problem scope, but more so "complexity" in the surface of how it interacts with the rest of the world, which is more along the lines of what would be relevant to a regulator.

A regulator doesn't really care about the internal complexities of an LLM and whether or not that is more difficult than cracking petroleum. They care more about how those things interact with the rest of the world. Software is pretty limited in how it interacts with the rest of the world.
"the most credit" by what metric(s)? It was a long and complex war. Certainly the Soviets suffered the most deaths fighting Germany - though that was partly because Stalin treated his people as expendables, both before and during the war. The U.S. did the most "arsenal of democracy" stuff - but skipped the first ~2 1/3 years of the war, and was conveniently too far away to suffer under Nazi boots and bombs as the Europeans had to.
Worth to remind that the advisor was fired after posting that.
They seem to be implying that the different tiers of Roomba robots are differentiated by how much square footage they can clean in a session, not that Roomba literally has a usage based pricing model. I don’t know how they came to that conclusion though.
A long winded way to say "we already know what there is to know".
Hmm… thinking more about this, and seeing others comments, maybe… I’m unusually good at buying things?

That’s an unexpected thought, but it did make me realize that I research every major purchase on some combination of Consumer Reports / Wirecutter / focused review sites, and maybe that’s unusual?

Do most people not do that?
They’re working on it, but a memory-safe language doesn’t help you in some of the surface that the attackers exploited here.
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+1 for Samsung laundry machines being unreliable. I was in an apartment for 3 years and went thru 2 washing machines due to a “unrepairable” circuit fault on the first one, and a drum leaking perpetually on the second one.

The model of the washing machine was on the lease, was one of the expensive ones, I felt bad that they were buying #3 my last year there. They’re maybe only slightly above landfill in terms of entropic stability.

Edit: to be fair I bet they were warrantied, but still
I encourage you to fork this repo and build it.

Might be worth checking out Ollama and bakllava. https://ollama.ai/library/bakllava

Maybe the model is a bit too slow, but I'm sure smaller ones will come out soon. You can likely fine tune to do exactly what you need.
Your second point is great. But your first:

It's not (or at least, mostly not) survivorship bias. We aren't only talking about "Walk around a thrift store or grandma's house and grab a handful of appliances" because yup, they'll all still be working. But we can also ask our parents (or if we're over 30 ask ourselves) how many washers or dryers or mixers or blenders or televisions or whatever were required to be replaced after 6-48 months due to them spontaneously dying irreparably. Many such things did end up in the landfill then -- but mainly because people were eager to trade up to new shiny ones with better performance or features because consumer goods were improving every year back then.

(Compared to now when the main "advancements" happening to most household goods, if any, is the replacement of buttons with touchscreens and unreplaceable circuit boards, adding a wi-fi module and companion "App," and addition of subscription services.)
It's called "science" because it uses the tools of science to address questions about its subjects. Like all sciences, it makes predictions and tests them. As any social scientist will tell you, it is much more difficult to model and predict social phenomenon than basic physical phenomenon. You know that, which is why, in the message on the other branch of this thread, you couch your objection in "precise" predictions --- not an actual qualifier of science, but a decent rhetorical hedge.

Ultimately though, you're just quibbling with the name. You're as intensively interested in this field of study as its practitioners; from economics to developmental psychology, it is almost all you talk about. That's fine! But really, you just object to the conclusions you perceive social scientists to be arriving at.
Nobody is looking at this suit as applying to the Times exclusively – and neither will the courts.
Why? Having exploits “burned” is part of the business.
Oh gosh. So much good material from the Smothers Brothers. "Kiss My Bass", "Pumas in the Crevices"... Such a good duo.
Similar for my proscenic. While the company exists in theory, the app can't register a new device on Android anymore. Since my last phone update I'm just left with hoping that I never need to change the schedule and it will keep running until it dies.
What if they OCR’d the newspapers? No ToS there.
Note that it's specifically liberal licenses - the stuff powering SaaS tends to be Apache-, MIT or similar licensed. Most of the big SaaS vendors won't touch GPL code, much less AGPL.
> IMHO the biggest threat to Free Software is the proliferation of open source software.

I'm sure you know this, but to be clear for readers:
almost all free software licenses are also open source licenses and vice versa.

The canonical examples are things like the BSD licenses.

See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatible...

> This is the original BSD license, modified by removal of the advertising clause. It is a lax, permissive non-copyleft free software license, compatible with the GNU GPL.

I think it would be clearer to say that the greatest threat to free software is the proliferation of non-copyleft free software which can be closed down if a company so wishes.
I think what we should focus on is the volume of misinformation in general, not the provenance of it.

The NYT may produce misinformation but it aims not to, and its staff of human writers are limited in the quantity that they can produce. They also publish corrections.

GPT enables anyone who can pay to generate a virtually unlimited volume of misinformation, launder it into 'articles' with fake bylines and saturate the internet with garbage.

I think we need to focus on the damage done.
I'm guessing it doesn't fit well with the carriers' price structure. Adding a tablet / smart watch / etc. is cheaper than adding another phone to your account. I wouldn't have a cellular iPad if it was a lot extra per month, but I think I pay $10 for both the tablet and the watch, which is fine with me.
One thing i like about lua, is that it is a very intentionally designed language with what it does or does not support. Many of the things pluto adss seem to be things that lua intentionally omitted as a design choice.
I've been running Matrix since ~2017. Nothing has compared.

It's been frustrating as cycles have crested, and crashed. Riot was incredible until it wasn't. Then RiotX/Element was incredible... until it wasn't. And now we're on to Element X. What I will say is that you have all seemed to make the right decisions ultimately, even if they are painful. It's easy to see why Riot had to be abandoned - it was a proof of concept. And it's easy to see why Element needed to be sunsetted. It was designed to solve an immediate problem - not scale to the point Matrix has. You've clearly learned your lessons about future-proofing and scope, and while I think you may have misjudged the needed scope with Element (albeit only slightly, it worked well enough at first) and while Element X has been paaainfully slow to arrive (please for the love of god add a system share menu integration), it would seem that's because you're doing it in a thorough, sustainable, future-proof way.

While it's clear that Element X is very close, and I 100% believe it will get there and be an absolutely killer app very soon, I'm now more concerned about the server side. Switching to OIDC is about to add a ton of friction. Sliding sync is even more friction. There's also the state compressor just out there in the wild that frankly needs to be built in. There needs to be a seamless Synapse update that just does those things, and it needs to go off without a hitch. If you can't swing that (and if you can't, I beg you to reconsider), there needs to be dead tight documentation of exactly what I need to do, coming from any possible configuration - binaries, docker, etc. Just when I'm finally putting away my list of caveats with Element, we're getting them with Synapse. I understand there may be engineering reasons why this can't be seamless, but from a product standpoint... it NEEDS to be seamless. Matrix does not need any more controversy or setback.

Otherwise, I just want to thank and congratulate all the folks at Matrix and Element. It's an incredible product, and it's so many different things at once. It's easily my favorite open source project, and it's one of just two that I donate to. Now, more than ever is the time to buckle down. Execute perfectly or not at all, and I'm confident Matrix will emerge on the other side so much stronger than it's ever been, and this rough patch will all be in the rearview mirror, and things will go back to normal.
> A bit sad but what a great invention of Elon Musk.
That is a real problem agreed, though vendors are starting to OSS more of those lately. Still better than running an unpatched android of 4 years.
I’ve not had any success to make responses deterministic with these settings. I’m even beginning to suspect historic conversations via API are used to influence future responses, so I’m not sure if it’ll truly be possible.
https://www.kitchenaidparts.com/PartDetail/Gear/WPW10112253/...
The kernel cannot protect against this, in fact the attackers have full read/write control and code execution capabilities to mount this attack. The fix is blocking this range from being mapped using features that are more powerful than the kernel.
The whole point of the article is that they don't actually do that
Well that's true for any large language model. As long as they exist there will be a deluge of bot written text producible for any purpose. At this point there is no getting the cat back into the bag.

In that case the bigger danger is Open source LLM's. OpenAI at least monitors the use of their endpoints for obvious harm.
There must still be a few PHP jobs out there, why not stick to your strength?

Python is a great skill to have, and honestly it's not that hard to learn but it is quite a bit different from PHP. A lot of other languages are more similar to PHP than Python is and they might be easier to pick up.

You can't really go wrong with learning TypeScript these days as it's useful on the front-end and back-end.

AWS seems to be a commonly sought-after skill, so is Kubernetes. I've recently learned more than I ever wanted to know about AWS and I feel dumber for it.
> Can someone please give me a specific quote from the bill and explain how that will for sure be detrimental to open source projects?

The entire point of the CRA is to make "manufacturers" liable for the quality of the software they produce, in a similar manner to how car manufactures were held liable for the Takata air bags. But who is the manufacturer. In the Takata case it was the car manufacturers the car owners held liable. This LWN comment spells how how difficult it is for software: https://lwn.net/Articles/956218/

One sentence from that highlights hints at the problem:

> the CRA's explicit statement that things qualify whether or they are provided gratis.

The CRA as it stands doesn't draw the line in a way that clearly exempts a bunch of high schoolers uploading their code to github, possibly because no one has figured out how to do it in a way that doesn't also give Google Chrome & Android a free pass.

To put it another way, you've asked an impossible question. You can't point to the faulty clause that exempts open source, because it doesn't exist.
I think you can have it both ways honestly. A TBI setup with a wasted spark ignition is at least as easy to work on a carburetor, with little or no extra complexity and way less headaches, while removing a lot of the problems older stuff had (no points, condensers and caps going bad, no need to mess with the jets, etc.). You can have it both ways, the manufacturers and consumers just have to give a shit.