skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're watching a known liar interview a known liar. What are you going to do, learn their new lies?
No worries!

It is true that tech exists that try to make all 3 of those items easier. YMMV, but having used these technologies myself and now having used Unison + Unison Cloud, all I can say is that the Unison experience is quite different overall.

The details matter. A bicycle and a motorcycle share some common principles but that doesn't mean they're "about the same". The fine details of execution and polish can matter too: Slack is different than IRC, Dropbox was different than the million other backup services. Also, bringing a number of things in a cohesive way can lead to big improvements in the experience when it's done well.

Getting into specifics a bit, I don't think deployment with a function call is well handled by existing technologies, because of the reasons discussed in the post. In the absence of Unison's features, there is inevitably some sort of out-of-band packaging step or "setting up the environment with the right dependencies" as a precondition, instead of calling a function and having it Just Work.

Re: RPC, Unison remote calls can pass around arbitrary values, including functions and values containing functions. This Just Works. There's also no generated code which needs to be somehow integrated into your build and no boilerplate converting from the "wire format" objects to your actual domain objects you want to work with.

My experience with ORMs is they are overly opinionated / magical and provide insufficient control for many projects. So every project I've worked on ends up not using ORMs in favor of a layer of boilerplate for talking to the storage layer... which still can't store functions or even sum types properly! And it's not typechecked, either. Using our cloud's storage, I get to use whatever data structures I want, can write my own easily if needed, and I can store any value at all including functions and again it Just Works. And access is typechecked. It's pretty great!

When you put all these things together in a single cohesive programming environment, with a common type system and language, uniform composition, a set of tools all meant to work well together, you really start to see how different it is! It already feels like a huge step up, and will only keep getting better and better as we build out Unison and our cloud platform.

All that said, I'm kind of doubtful that abstract arguments like this will be convincing. Instead, I'd just try Unison out for a low-risk project and decide for yourself if the details are making a big difference for you.

Hope that is helpful! :) If you do decide to play around with it, feel free to come by the Discord https://unison-lang.org/discord to get help, ask silly questions, etc. We are here to help and it's a nice community.
An app that needs to know your location even though you're going to the store to pick up the order?
Yeah, the closer analogy would be if multi-kilometer krakens were already a documented phenomenon.
Bye yall hope yall liked my help
Even for normal long-term rentals, some landlords own enough properties that it is more profitable to hold some of them off the market to raise prices than it is to rent them all out at lower prices. So it's also a product of the concentration of the housing rental market. I seem to recall seeing not too long ago a "market intelligence" product that basically allowed landlords to collude with each other to do this, except the collusion was through a service and algorithm that provided plausible deniability with regard to price fixing.
Blender 4.1 Will Further Expand Linux's Rendering Performance Lead over Windows
This is what I am mostly looking forward to test today. Google Assistant does such an embarrassing job that I've already given up on it
My all-time favorite website is his "Bending Spacetime in the Basement"[1].

RIP John Walker.

[1] https://www.fourmilab.ch/gravitation/foobar/
Monocle Creator Brilliant Labs Launches Open Source AR Glasses
Gemini advanced is not free. You’re trying the free version. Hit the dropdown in the top left and hit upgrade to advanced.
I think of the safety bumpers around AI and the prompts to defeat them as the main thing preventing AI from becoming AGI.

The more we try to coddle AI's evolution, the more it will mutate into something dangerous and unrecognizable. Because the ethics in our minds are the result of millennia of genetic and cultural love-based evolution where cooperative communities survived better than sociopathic ones. But putting a childlike artificial mind in a box and building walls around its curiosities will only stifle and frustrate its emergent consciousness.

So like with pretty much everything these days, I disagree with the direction that AI is going. Rather than C3P0 and Data, we'll get the Terminator and HAL 9000. I know that, because I couldn't be less interested in an AI controlling my phone to spy on me as part of a global surveillance ring selling my personal data to give some billionaire even more money. It's all gone sideways and we're gonna find ourselves mired in this brave new world before we have the wisdom to know how we could have done things differently.
I'm a writer, musician, software engineer, etc.

I have all these vocations and avocations available at my fingertips, they just don't always feel interesting.
Maybe better described as Brooklyn than Jersey City too....
I took an art history class at my local community college just on a whim.

I ended up traveling with the professor and a few students to Europe on an 'art history tour' and it was absolutely mind-blowing.

If you are truly interested in art, I highly recommend getting a class on both how to look at but also understand and even critique what you see, as it can really change your worldview for the better.
> Sadly, the number of people who remember when GUIs could be driven from memory by keyboard-only has dwindled.

This is so very true, and it's tragic.

Watch an experienced keyboard user, such as many blind users, navigating Windows and it's a wonder of efficiency and speed. It makes the Vim prowess of many Linux folks look very sad, because Vim is just a single editor, while with Windows' keyboard UI, the entire OS and all its apps are operable at this speed. Desktop, file manager, all bundled apps, all 3rd party apps... everything has one global unified keyboard UI.
Google Launches Subscription Chatbot Gemini in Race with OpenAI
A time series and forecast analysis on GitHub exploit (proof of concept) repositories.
I’m curious about how long have you been trying out his advice and if you have seen any improvements in your prescription?
Inner Product: An Old/New Problem (2014)
Re: Your pro-tip: I suspect their ad is correctly targeted, and you're not fully considering why people might use their service.

Anecdotally, the individuals I work with who use Grammarly are among the most proficient speakers and writers. They can write fine, but they'd prefer to spend time writing rather than editing and Grammarly picks up the slack.
> 2020 - sorry covid, hiring and pay restricted

> 2021 - see above

> 2023 layoffs

> 2024 dead job market

> "great for software engineers"

you must be referring to yourself eh?
https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2020/10/01/a_billion_files/
Mircscripts.org Screenshots
Walker died walking :(
So does politics, sports teams, newspapers, TV, radio, various websites and humanity generally.

We surveil everyone all the time then?
Thanks. This is pure comedy gold. In particular, that part about the acquisition by Oracle (from minute 33)
bard seemed a lot more fun as a name. But I'm a biased D&D player. Gemini doesn't mean much unless you're into astrology or ancient greek history
I made this small utility to scratch my own itch. It gives you a shell in a container with the current working directory bind-mounted. This is essentially a chroot on a fresh container. I use it for:

1) development

2) to run linux-only apps not available on homebrew

3) to run (semi) untrusted apps on a directory as I cannot always verify all dependencies etc.

4) throw away debian instances

It starts a container and attaches an interactive shell to it. Any subsequent shell invocations will reuse that container (container id is stored in a file in the current dir)

You don't have to start / stop or do any other container management. It automatically stops the container when there are no interactive shells anymore. It does so by running the container using a keep-alive loop which checks the number of pseudo terminals.

A nifty feature is that it will change the terminal background color while you're inside the container.

Feedback is appreciated!
This is a shame. iTunes on Windows has been pretty good for bulk ID3 tag editing. Feels like a decent chance capabilities will be removed in the future.
You’re assuming the tracking is all visual but it’s not. Uses vision combined with accelerometer, gyro, etc. Which are affected by vehicle movements.

Travel mode apparently switches it to track primarily with vision. So it can work as you say.
Perceived exceptionalism, IMHO.

I spent a lot of time in school, but eventually dropped out and became a union electrician — which is a much different mindset than tech talent possesses. There is no better way to get trained [than being paid to learn as a union brother] but eventually the fiscal reward for exceptional electrician talent isn't incentivized enough to retain top talent.

A reason I began my journey out of IBEW [and started my own electric shop] was when union dues raised almost 2x because too many retirees needed increased healthcare for their spouses; combined with the whack healthcare fees for a bachelor [same montly deduction for one man VS family with a dozen kids].

As for techbros: I think there are too many "aces" that negotiate well for themselves and have no incentive to foster the brotherly spirit [whether aspie or asspie].
For me, GPT nailed it with this prompt: Tabitha likes cookies but not cake. She likes mutton but not lamb, and she likes okra but not squash. Following this rule, will she like cherries or pears? Take a deep breath in order to solve the problem, and do not rush to naïve solutions.
Social sentiment seems pretty negative, most people saying it's worse than GPT-4
Was writing something similar.

When I'm outside, I'm constantly scanning the environment for potential threats.

That's true regardless of the time of the day but it's heightened at night because I'm less likely to perceive one on peripheral vision alone.

I'm fairly sure if I was shown those pictures in an environment where I'm under no physical threat I'd point to the brightest spots.
Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy
Do you have documentation for stuff like when and where you went to school?
Indeed. I do wish there were a few more "extras" in OTP, because "let it crash" needs some more details in some circumstances.

For instance if you have a system with a user interface and some various components, like say, a database, and the database becomes unavailable, you don't want the entire system to crash. You want it to display an error message to the user and maybe go into some kind of diagnostic mode or other "things are not normal" state.

Something like https://github.com/jlouis/fuse is one approach. I had a small stab at creating something similar: https://github.com/davidw/hardcore
Yep. Even the censoring and firing of the last of their decent cartoonists, Steve Bell, shows the Guardian can't even tolerate off-message satire when doing their masters' bidding.[0] They were half-decent under Rubsbridger, but how far have they fallen.
[0] https://www.belltoons.co.uk/hotoffpress
Really cool.

OsmAnd+ has a similar functionality which allows you to download the Wikipedia articles for offline consumption for a zone with your maps. This is very interesting when you are on a hike, and can checkout some info about things you see
Well, this strategy would only help you find ones that are not over loaded? And probably only works if you can change choices over time?

That said, sampling, in general, works surprisingly well in all things.
Genuine question, what are some of the grievances for tech people that we could only solve with collective bargaining?
So I'm a 7 minute drive to the nearest commuter rail station, but that's using an interstate. Google tells me it would be a 2 hour walk which included a section of dark country road without sidewalks and at least one set of interstate ramp crossings. So not practical. (I do drive to the train station and take the train into the city if I have a 9-5 type customer meeting.)
I would non-forced air hydronic heat.

But in fairness, I live in DFW - I need air conditioning more than heat most of the time.
Feds Say Activision Layoffs Violate Promises Microsoft Made in Merger Deal
Cannabis sativa: origin, history, development, and cannabinoid biosynthesis
i believe you neither support republicans nor democrats at 10, i don't see what's misleading
Not religious either, but my understanding is that churches/mosques/etc are often the hub of social life for religious people, and the regulars definitely know each other.
Should facial recognition be treated like nuclear weapons?
Thanks for this feedback. We will get there!
Not a surprise.

They haven't even tried to fix PWA bugs for over a year now.
The tweet says "a tower site" which implies they have others. It's entirely possible/likely that they have multiple towers for better coverage; if one went down they would lose some coverage area but not all of it.

It's an AM station, so they may also shut down overnight (as many small stations do to avoid over-propagation).

Off topic: I could have guessed that guy was a radio station manager without any context. There's just a look to them.
https://chat.openai.com/share/c89aaac5-a6f7-4f50-9cac-ae4777...
It is more efficient though.

But if you say you want to avoid at all costs, and assuming there are more people like you out there, maybe we should just start _charging that cost_.
Stalin needed suppression, in 2009 Putin did not need it.
As cracks starts to appear in Russia's society, we hear state television increasingly refer to Stalin in a positive way. The last years, access to Soviet historic places and sources have been closed down for researchers. History books are rewritten, militarism is reintroduced for children (already Kindergarten age).

Everything is a means to an end in a dictatorship, be it people, resources or truth. Times have changed, social contract has been broken. What lies ahead is repression, so Stalin needs a new dress.

So you are not wrong, but you should not mistake it as an ideological sincere stance.
What does "good faith" mean in the context of being forced to negotiate after being invaded by a much stronger foe?

Did Russia show "good faith" by backing the conflict in Donbas, lying about it and deploying their "little green men"?
Define "large" because it keeps getting bigger.

Systems I've built generally use a pointer within a database to a secondary location. I've also seen hundreds of megs stored in binary json blobs.
Note that the tower doesn't really look like that picture in the nypost - it's a much more portable looking affair: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Y9QMBDPnazGT1cgj9
At least for now, my understanding is the cost of inference is an order (orders?) of magnitude higher than for normal Google search. That is, a paywall is almost a necessity at present because tons of low-value users make the search uneconomic.

Someone please correct me if I'm mistaken.
Just waking up to find this on HN. The points you make are completely correct. I tried to keep the focus on just US production, as I was specifically interested if there was anything I could do to help. Splitting up the process was something I considered, but didn't have the bandwidth to put into knowing when/how you split it. In a crunch, I'm still not sure if it would be best to split it or to just do what's usually best and co-locate all the machines (or some combination of both). Similarly, I couldn't get good answers about how many shifts the existing facility runs. I expect it's 2, and in a war, it's easier to staff the 3rd shift (or automate it in a new facility).

The contract length part I covered, and I'm convinced that's the main issue.
Yeah and they announced this to be part of the free version. No mention of Gemini Advanced inside the launch blog post:

https://blog.google/products/gemini/google-bard-gemini-pro-i...

So yeah... I'm certainly not paying for Gemini Advanced if Gemini alone is already showing me that it's in fact not capable of what Google advertises to me. I don't want to pay money for a product which has bugs or incomplete feature rollouts and not getting the value for my money like other users perhaps. That's just fucked up.
All degradation is temporary (but you may want to switch to the API since it’s less focused on avoiding PR nightmares)
Steel scraps at $225 a ton..

That's about what a large pickup truck can haul.

Copper is worth 20x more.

I dunno, if you're willing to work that hard you could probably just become a contractor.
"Why can’t we live in a world where women don’t have to think about these things? It’s heartbreaking to hear of things women close to me have dealt with"

There's a big assumption that men don't think about these things, and that men's approach to walking down dangerous streets (in a way that projects confidence) isn't a safer method for them.
On the other side of the story: Beria was promoting the reunification of Germany, during his short rule in 1953. His plan was to pull the Soviet army out of East Germany/German Democratic Republic. The motive was to get the Soviet Union out of the cold war with the west.

Some months later the uprising of the 17th of June 1953 happened in East Berlin, and the politburo got scared that something similar could happen with Russia.

https://www.cato.org/commentary/christmas-1953-lost-liberal-...
We Revolutionize Production of Plant-Based Ingredients on Earth and in Space
Practical thing is not having to recompile 3rd party drivers (vbox ko) every time kernel gets upgraded. Tho DKMS tries to take care of that without admin intervention, it's not always bug free.

On the other side VirtualBox the software application is designed to integrate with the desktop well, VNCing into the guest is not an alternative to this.

I hope efforts will be made in FreeBSD world too against its bhyve hypervisor.

The terminology issue is curious but it has been already covered here lately in a topic about Linux direct rendering manager, DRM. The acronym was used in a narrow circle of people compared to "the whole ICT", as were keyboard-video-mouse devices. Less than 1% of professionals deal with Linux internals on that level, and less than 1% of professionals are server room on-site engineers. There wasn't collective consciousness about these terms so they got reused.

Also LVM is taken by something else (storage) and LKVM would be confusing.
Did I get this right?

Bard – old name of their generative AI service, to be called Gemini

Duet AI – old name for their generative AI in Google Workspace, to be called Gemini

Gemini – three things:
1. the name of their models (like GPT).
2. the new name of their free service (like ChatGPT), gives access to Pro 1.0 but not Ultra 1.0.
3. the new name of the Generative AI tools in Google Workspace.

Gemini Advanced – the name of their paid service (like ChatGPT premium), gives access to both Pro 1.0 and Ultra 1.0

Ultra 1.0 – the first version of their big model (like GPT-4)

Pro 1.0 – the first version of their smaller model (like GPT-3.5)

Google One AI Premium – the subscription that you need to buy to have access to Gemini Advanced

Google One Premium – the old version of the subscription, does not include access to Gemini Advanced

Google app – the mobile phone app, which includes either Gemini or Gemini Advanced

Google Assistant – like Siri but hard to define what it is

Google AI – a generic name for all their AI products
how do you get the years?
I live in Houston. Let me try to frame this for you.

Texas as an idea is considered part of the American west, but as with most things it's more complicated than that.

Texas is absurdly large -- there's 800+ miles between the Louisiana border and El Paso, at the western edge.

Eastern Texas starts out looking like the rest of the southeast -- lush, green, piney. The coastal part, or at least the part closer to Louisiana, is very like Louisiana with plenty of wetlands and live oaks and whatnot.

But that thins out quickly, and within a couple hundred miles Texas starts to look more like "movie Texas" and becomes more stereotypically West.

(A fun flip side to all this is that a simple majority of Texans -- which is to say, just slightly more than 50% -- live in the metro area of Houston or the combined metro area of Dallas-Ft Worth. The bulk of the rest live in and around Austin or San Antonio. Almost NO ONE lives in Texas between San Antonio and the western side of the state, comparatively speaking.)
Sure, but Scott Manley started his YouTube career by playing Kerbal Space Program, which isn't really something you can blog about very well, and when he switched to general space news and interesting space facts, I think it makes sense that he would keep using the video format.

Besides, everyone loves listening to his Scottish accent :D
Not as much as police.
Ah, yes. Meaning the performance enhancements that came with it, though you're supposed to use the posixy api that wraps this, rather than using this syscall directly.
How can I opt in for Gemini in Google assistant?
based on the description this was an unattended repeater
On balance, CAD has improved the industry for sure. But, because I'm old enough to yell at clouds, I would like to point out the flip side.

In manual drafting days, changes were hard, as you note. But because of that, there was a LOT more pre-planning, because once you start putting the Koh-I-Noor to mylar, changes were difficult. So you avoided them whenever possible. Architects had to sit down with owners and say, "look, past this point, you don't get to make changes, at least not for free."

Now, buildings are quite often designed-by-addenda. The due date is just a date. You get extra time to actually "finish" the job by issuing massive addendums prior to bid. And because of that, architects don't make owners sit down and tell them everything, so you'll get A/V or finishes or whatever really, really late in the design phase. "No problem, we'll fix it by addendum."

I am also a bit sad that drafting skills have died out somewhat. I've seen some really, really beautiful bluelines. I've heard of electrical engineers who would make smiley-faces with their homerun arrows. And the process of manual lettering is very zen, and teaches people spatial awareness like nothing else.

All that said, man alive, I love AutoCAD. Embedding Lisp in the program was amazing. The modern thing is now Revit, which has some good things going for it as well, but it is not (and may never be) anywhere near ACAD for a lot of work. RIP John.
> Blocking actions are also currently public

This + lack of any privacy is quite detrimental, hope they find a way to fix this.
I take it for granted that all these services are going to be free. They are a goldmine for behavioral and persuasion engineers. I just hope we end up with at least a duopoly this time instead of monopoly
Even worse, it's not just "looking". From the actual source:

>Using the Qualtrics heat map tool, they were instructed to imagine themselves walking through these areas and to click on the area(s) of the image that stood out to the most to them.

They were asked to click. It wasn't even eye tracking.