skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't trust any discussion on this topic anymore.

When I was much younger, "AI" was what "AGI" is now. Now people started using "AGI" for "cars with several sensors and okay algorithms for collision detection" and then you have loud advocates going on obviously logically broken rants about the nature of "actual" intelligence -- and those are philosophical and not scientific.

But still, we don't have anything even 1% close to AGI. And no, Chess and Go have NEVER EVER been about AGI. I have no idea how people ever mistook "combinatorics way beyond what the human brain can do" with "intelligent thought" but that super obvious mistake also explains the state of the AI sector these days, I feel.

So before long, I guess we'll need another term, probably AGIFRTTWP == Artifical General Intelligence, For Real This Time, We Promise.

And then we'll start adding numbers to it. So I am guessing Skynet / Transcendence level of AI will be at about AGIFRTTWP-6502.

As for the state of this "industry", what's going on is that people with marketing chops and vested interests hijack word meanings. Nothing new, right? But it also kills my motivation to follow anything in the field. 99.9% are just loud mouths looking for the next investment round with absolutely nothing to show for it. I think I saw on YouTube military-sponsored autonomous cars races 5+ years ago (if not 10) where they did better than what the current breed of "autonomously driving cars" are doing.

Will there be even one serious discussion about the general AI that you can put in a robot body and it can learn to clean, cook, repair and chat with you? Of course not, let's focus on yet-another-philosophical debate while pretending it's a scientific one.

As a bystander -- not impressed. You all who are in this field should be ashamed of yourselves.
Small team, though, non-profit. There is wayyyy more work to do than any one individual has time to do, and while this is probably common even in non-startup-y type businesses, it means "work on what matters most" is really important.

I don't believe managing my own cloud is anywhere near the top of my list of things that matter most. We pay something like $8.50 a month to just have the devices backed up using a backup service. It would cost significantly more for me to maintain OwnCloud.
>Open Source is a licensing and development model.

With traits of a religion.
How about?:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1873

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1884

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baring_crisis

Don't get me wrong, the Great Depression was 100% made worse by the economic thinkers (including the Fed) of the time, but the creation of a central bank was driven by prior problems.
Prototype for the Application of Production of Heavy Steel Structures
Huh? I never get that one. Weird. It always works perfectly for me (on Firefox on FreeBSD which is often served by captchas from other sites for being "suspicious").

I wonder what triggers archive.ph to serve that captcha? It's not the browser apparently.

Edit: I've been googling this, and it looks like the owner of archive.ph has some beef with cloudflare DNS and is returning the wrong addresses or something. Whatever. I'm using OpenDNS and it works fine.

Do you have a better option perhaps?
Never buy anything HP.
Sourcehut is AGPL, maybe not as used as something like Redis but has managed to employ >1, is profitable (according to last report 2022) and has been around for 3+ years.
That's b*ll, really. Sun's "party culture", if that's what you'd like to call it, is and was "of its time". As were 1000$-a-head New York night club bashes for a "successful" team at Wall St. pre-Lehman.
All great to have had if you happened to have been in the right place at the right time. It was as-common then as free snacks and ping-pong tables are today. We lucky old bastards.

I'd rather call the mid-to-late 1990s the "Golden Age" of systems. All on-premises (hence a glut of money going to hardware), more and more business needs for software (and most of it proprietary, with a nice chunk of "professional services" costs on-top to configure & customize). IBM, Oracle, SAP or Microsoft just played that latter game, software/services, with higher stakes and higher wins than Sun, HP/Compaq, Dell etc did for hardware.

What killed Sun wasn't their "party culture". It was their arrogance to believe SPARC the top of the world years after cheap&cheerful x86 had proven itself, and their arrogance to give customers the message "we know best". Sun had more than one chance to pivot to-Linux, or off-hardware, or both, and botched it every time. If you fail to read the market, and refuse to sell customers what they ask for, then no matter your past record, your future looks dull.
Thumbs up for a Deus Ex reference, albeit I'm not a machi–
> That used to be achievable for most people. It's not now.

That’s not really true. Home ownership rates for, example, are higher today than in 1950. And houses are twice as big as they were back then.
Singapore is often a choice for those Chinese companies as well. It's hard to define a "Chinese company". There are many Chinese Americans / Chinese Canadians doing business in North America, myself included. If all of their team members and the legal entity are in the US, are they still a Chinese company?
The problem here is not the tool. The problem is the author's colleague's willingness to paste a stackoverflow answer into their terminal without taking a moment to understand what it does.

If stackoverflow told them to break off the chainsaw safety tab there is no chance it would have been read first.
> When Micorosoft adopted Git for Windows, they faced this problem and solved it.

On Windows. On Linux Git still doesn't scale well to very large repos. Before you say "but Linux uses git!", we're talking repos that are much bugger than Linux.

Also the de facto large file "solution" is LFS, which is another half baked idea that doesn't really do the job.

You sound like you're offended that Git isn't perfect because you like it so much. But OP is 100% right here; these are things that Git doesn't do well. It's ok to really like something that isn't perfect. You don't have to defend flaws that it clearly has.
SubReddits for copywriting and graphic design and digital art are full of people talking about how the amount of gig work available has dropped off.
Women on Web website censored in Spain since 2020
Of course it is! But this piece actually presented a fairly good set of design principles, albeit unethical ones according to some. I particularly fancied the discussion about unexpectedness, which, in turn, is related to the unpredictability we've discussed, whether in terms of iterated expectations, game theory, cyber security, chaos theory, pscyhoanalysis, or something else.
Can Everyone Be a Tastemaker?
It's about time someone revisited & reimagined version control. the previous generations each lasted about 15 years: SCCS/RCS -> CVS -> Bitbucket/git/mercurial -> ??? so I am glad to see this.

I would start by talking about what is great about Diversion -- what it lets you do that you couldn't before.

Since you mention gaming and perforce I looked in vain to see if it supports binaries (a major limitation of git -- just simply not in its design space). "Binaries" can actually mean for some people compiled code -- not for me but I understand why people do it -- as well as images, data files, Word files etc.

Sounds like the second is scaling but you don't say what you mean by that. Git scales pretty well until either the repo & its history gets enormous or when there are a lot of people making simultaneous changes.

The realtime collab integrated with a version control mentality could be interesting -- a major problem with google docs is the lack of useful version control (even Word is better).

And why cloud native?

Once you've done that you need only briefly mention "why not just use git instead?"
Passkey's don't strictly require 2FA sources.

Some hardware keys like yubikey's generally only prove physical presence of the key. And software implementations exist too.
I'm not sure that your question reflects the reality of how mental health works. People often don't choose in the conventional sense to abuse drugs, they start using drugs in an attempt to manage the unmanageable problems in their lives. Similarly, prioritizing entertainment over education may be what allows someone to alleviate their depression enough to be able to go to work.
That’s what I call a great job growing public sympathy for your brand!

This CEO totally deserves their hard-earned bonus.
For a piece criticizing people for being dumb you get a lot mixed up.

Car companies don’t certify their own safety, they have to send them in to the government to be crash tested. Car deaths don’t happen (much) because of mechanical failures, they happen because of crashes. They don’t self-certify their crashworthiness.

Most people don’t live somewhere where there’s a subway to the airport in the USA. You can count on one hand (and probably have multiple fingers left over) the number of cities where you have that option. For most people a bus adds significant time to their trip. I can take a 30 minute Uber whenever I want or a God-only-knows-how-long bus ride. Even if it weren’t for the mentally ill (but mostly harmless) passengers, a taxi is in every way a better experience than a bus, and still negligible risk, it just costs more.

Even if we could abolish the second amendment that still leaves over 300 million guns here, and this may surprise you but people also sell things illegally. The problem isn’t the law, it’s that people want guns.
This entirely
Ya I see many people having the same opinion as you.

When it comes to consumer internet products, where the product was created doesn't matter that much honestly. There isn't that much at stake. But if it comes to enterprise software the risk needs to be measured.
I think this is the only answer here. If you want to keep control you have to keep the number low enough to see all the pieces being played.

This doesn't stop the game from playing, but if you are founder/CEO you have more ability to shape.
It does happen and there are a variety of other reasons why you can end up on a different plane than you intended. You can improve your odds of avoiding specific airframe(s) by not booking them but you mostly can't guarantee it.

(Sort of. If you want to be sure to avoid regional jets on trans-oceanic flights you're pretty safe.)
It would probably only take a week of training/practice for someone to get good enough to read them manually. Particularity if the vaccination codes have a common pattern - the same mask, format information and the like. I would expect you can look at a few areas to see if the person is vaccinated (though this wouldn't pick up on someone else's vaccinated status)
> I think that definition is useful because it is measurable.

Then don't call it AGI.

But the marketing types won't like that, will they. So here we go, let's keep hijacking.
> Now, as part of the chargeback process the merchant may cancel your subscription, but they’re also likely to ban you as a customer from ever using their services again.

If things have reached the point at which I'm doing a chargeback, I'm clearly not too concerned with, or interested in, remaining their customer.
Cities in decline, like Detroit (population halved in only 35 years), need a plan. There are going to be a lot more such cities, especially in countries with low birth rates.
How would your customers find out about this tho.
I've always read that it came from "robotnik" which just means "person who is doing something". And I agree, I'm also Polish and "robota" does not imply forced labour in the slightest, maybe it does in Czech but I doubt it given the close similarity between languages. It's quite common for people to say "Idę do roboty" which just means "I'm going to work"(as in - my place of employment).
FAA Tells Airlines to Check Panels on a Second Boeing Plane
Isn't that a reflection of how bad WordPress is? That they haven't prioritised security and ease of use in the development of the product.

This model definitely leads to some perverse incentives.
You’re right that these should, ideally, be separated.

It’s a trade off of practicality, in that both in one place is still (usually) an improvement for less technically inclined users who will do well to just use the password manager.
If the elderly take on the entire productive economy, they will lose. The reserves aren't there to do that. There isn't an English speaking economy that can afford that level of debt, and the old can try to compel the young but they don't have the number of healthy bodies that would be needed to win.

We're dealing with law vs. reality on this one. Reality has a big edge. A broke millennial living in their rental apartment with a lousy job cannot cure their parents of cancer and doesn't have the time to look after them. It does not, physically, work. The boomers should have spent their efforts setting up a good medical system instead of trusting it all to their feelings and not investing anything.

Maybe it will all work out. That'd be nice. I assume a lot of people will have pretty miserable retirements and in hindsight they should have been a bit more fiscally responsible in their politics.
Debt might not be passed to children, but when the parent's assets are liquidated and sold on death to settle high taxes on inheritance, it is clear that they effectively are even at a local scale.

Assets that would've been inherited by the children, as a form of generational wealth transfer, are cut off. High government debt means high taxes.

Those assets are liquidated and heavily taxed. Rent seeking behaviour then limits that generation's ability to grow their own asset base. A mortgage for a home, a person's main store of wealth, is now more about how much lifetime debt you can sustain rather than a reasonable price for a reasonable asset backed loan.

The whole thing is insane. Welcome to a world where you own nothing, die with nothing and pass nothing on. This prevents the accumulation of wealth (power) over generations, keeping the poor poor and helping the rich become richer.
Generally speaking, a password manager is going to be one of the strongest most secure products a person uses.

Most people's threat model doesn't really include having to worry about having both of them in the same tool. If your threat model does, absolutely keep them separate. But I can say, that at least for my team, my biggest issue is really just getting people to use a password manager... I have two users, both of them executive level, that haven't opened their password manager in nearly 4 months.

I'd be far far happier if they used a password manager, even if their 2FA codes were in that same password manager, it would be a significant increase in security over whatever is currently happening.
https://archive.ph/DVb7Y
This is a good example of how nix is both a) far to complicated a tool chain and b) completely underdocumented for how complicated it is.

I swear until I ripped nix off my systems, every time I had to do anything, even a simple home manager update, something would break in an unexplainable way and id have to dig for hours to figure it out, sometimes to no avail like with their libc libraries that end up breaking system compatability with no workaround.

Given that, this could be good for Home manager because the more they can improve documentation and disassociate their good product with the rats mess of an ecosystem it lives on, the better.
you have no idea how much they drive. they avoid talking about it on every interview. Ars explicitly called then out on this and they called saying this is their main profit sucking issue right now "having one overseer per car". to me that means they are, for all practical purposes, driving. no matter how much they try to spin it.
HN is not authority on anything.

And a private company trying to hijack a term is not impressive or even merits any discussion. They just willed the term into existence. The rest of us are free to disagree with their "definition".
(BTW this is a paraphrase of on my favourite gags from the early Steve Martin film Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid for reasons that I hope, in context, are obvious.)
HPQ has trailed the S&P 500 over the last 5 years, so I guess their CEO would know how to recognize a bad investment.
This is the most objective answer! If a Chinese SaaS company wants to grow in US/EU, compliance is a place they must invest in.
Free software theoretically is against EULAs and about empowerment of end users.

AGPL is an EULA that is additionally really badly written, especially compared to clarity of GPLv2-only.
Unfortunately, an elevated number of groundings can indicate two different things: A cautious, proactive regulator and good safety culture, or a more reactive/lenient regulator and a plane so unsafe, they were finally forced to act.
apartment buildings are made from prefabricated concrete elements though
Display customized dynamic feeds like news, weather, stocks, system metrics, ++
The PISA results of Romania paint a different picture:

„Students in Romania scored less than the OECD average in mathematics, reading and science.“

https://www.oecd.org/publication/pisa-2022-results/country-n...
Discovered that this Canadian non-profit organization about abortion rights and "safe abortion pills by mail" was blocked by my ISP (AS12479 Orange Espagne SA), for some reason.

Abortion in general is legal in Spain, and supposedly the country has some level of freedom of speech as well, although it seems relatively limited when it comes to talking about abortion, as this website was first blocked in 2020, and is still blocked today.

Other websites that are blocked on my ISP are various file-sharing websites, IPTV providers and similar. But one could at least argue that those provide illegal services, so kind of makes sense to block it, although I don't personally agree with the approach.

However, blocking political websites like these, clearly isn't something that should be done so casually as it's done today in Spain.
I can’t speak for everyone, but I’m at a point in my career where I can be a bit more picky about the jobs I take.

I’m currently looking for a new SWE position and I prefer places that have active open source projects.

I’d take less pay to work at somewhere that maintains and releases free software.
> - People might criticize my messy/bad/unfinished code

As someone who has created and maintained open source projects (most recently Willow[0]) for two decades I get a kick out of this.

Of course when interacting with users and feedback I keep it polite but in my head I'm thinking "You like to talk. I actually DID this. Shut up or submit a PR".

Surprise surprise they almost never do.

Keep actually producing and shake the haters off!

[0] - https://heywillow.io/
We should ban Chinese cars from European and American roads.
In this case the ends drive the means. "Should I open source my company" is a decision like "should we write our code in C++?"

Without starting a flame war there are good and bad reasons to choose an implementation language and they should be driven by your business needs, whatever they are.

The same is true for how you plan to license your code and what business model you build around it.
His robot was hijacked to mean a mechanical man with gears and wires inside and he objected to that. I'm thinking of course that the public only had experience with these things — or perhaps this was another fear of the time, the mechanization of jobs, and so the robot became the perfect avatar for this fear and so evolved.

But surely the idea of a mechanical man predates the term, robot. Automatons? Or is the distinction that people understood automatons as stationary, a parkour toy, while the robot was a next level thing capable of traveling. Or was the distinction that a robot might have a mechanical brain and so could carry out wanton destruction on it's own?

And was all this tied in with some creeping horror modern society saw in the machinery of The Great War?
I’m still using a laserjet 4200. Reliable, cartridge last for 10000+ pages. Quality is good, do double side, select the good paper format automatically, easy to repair and parts are easy to find. I even got 5 free cartridges from someone who was throwing them away. I have more ink than I could ever use. You can find those printer for around $100. Not sure why they are not more popular.
But surely punishment requires intent behind the action? I think this is important because intention has to play a part here.
Looking at the pricing page[1], it looks like open source is missing many features like LDAP and extensions. Is that correct?

[1]: https://xwiki.com/en/pricing/
Why not? It is one of the most sustainable models if you want to maintain quality and avoid enshittification.
I'd translate "robotnik" as a "worker". A "person who is doing something" sounds a bit too general. Nevertheless, it's easy to guess that the root of the word is the same verb.
Yes! With Automator in MacOS you can make simple desktop apps, automatic terminal apps, services that you can invoke from other apps and more. It's great!
you "coded" in quotes, as in you had to think a lot about how to translate the problem to the machine. you are pretty much a compiler for ai or something.
Wouldn't liquefaction to produce LNG automatically separate out the helium, or at least concentrate it in a residuum of minor gases?
He wrote about self driving "And yet, overall it’s almost like no one cares." As if it's puzzling a product which hardly works anywhere isn't something people care about?
Haha, had the same in my last place.

At another place I worked, the devs took a screenshot of their desktop and made it the lock screen image, so it looked like it was unlocked, just to annoy security (i.e. me!).
I found the original comment unclear and hard to follow. It has some garden-path elements… like “partially fossilized”, which most people will parse as an adjective, but here is used as a transitive verb (unusual / surprising usage). The sentence has lots of clauses in it. The key idea in the next sentence is shoved into a clause behind “it is inarguable that”, which readers will stumble over like a pile of children’s toys sitting in front of the door. The multiple ideas in the paragraph are presented without connecting phrases. There are some phrases which seem nonsensical, like “fast-growing stasis”. It’s not like such a phrase is wrong, but it’s nonsensical at a surface level, which forces readers to stop and think about alternative readings.

It is just a comment on HN. I don’t think it’s fair to ask authors to edit or carefully craft HN comments. However, there are some problems with the way that comment is written.
Jazelle DBX: Allow ARM processors to execute Java bytecode in hardware
Possibly long enough for the person opening it to think twice about the consequences of the action they were about to take?

Same concept as putting high barriers on bridges, or selling paracetamol (acetaminophen) in smaller packs. These changes do nothing to stop someone who is committed to the act, but they provide a small energy barrier which can be enough to defeat the perturbations of a temporarily irrational mind.