skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many years ago, I ran a site that used several 100 K kg of a toxic, explosive and flammable gas. They were just about to hit their permitted levels of emissions and didn't know why.

I sat with the team and said to them that everything in the past was done with the knowledge available at the time - water under the bridge. We set ourselves small goals and worked our way through the system from beginning to end, doing little experiments to prove/disprove our assumptions. Over the timescale of months, the attitudes changed, and my engineers began to say things like "we were wrong when we did this/that". We had just one rule - if the data shows that a previously made assumption was wrong, accept it and fix it.

We went from ~1000 kg emissions down to the ppb level over time. One of the best teams I had worked with, and a great memory.
Scaleway was also early in providing Arm servers, it's cool to see them keep bringing new stuff

It's maybe almost too early, given the performance profile of these and the current state of software compat, but the trajectory is definitely there for RISC-V. Wouldn't be surprised to see these compete strongly against ARM servers a few years from now.
This might be an age-related perception. I think if you're over 40, you'd consider this complementary to SREs. The role of sysadmin, as it existed in 2000, is almost unimaginable now.
Maybe that comment got downvoted because it has no truth.

Drinkers cling to their own delusions about non-drinkers.

And nothing about my life is "secret". It's just not your concern.
I really wonder if gemini considers coroutines not suitable for people under 21.
Feels like google AI let everyone get their hands in making the soup and twist and distort so much with few if any considerations about second order effects.

Whatever this is, the image generation, even other "protections" seem like the most basic word filters in front of whatever is on the back end and Gemini just refuses.

It's so strange as the general concepts seem to be about protection, meanwhile scam / deceptive / even weird conspiracy theory type ads and such are all over google's other products. Zero such protections on that end.
We can’t have LLMs giving footguns to our children. ;)
Economy is also more cramped. I don't want my neighbor spilling the drink on me.
Dennis Ritchie had nothing to do with C++ and is rolling in his grave because of your reply.
I've posted many controversial on-topic statements.

I've been downvoted to hell, but not banned or censored.
It is only a tiny fraction of the population that are able to "opt out" at the level described here: seeking unsubscribe services that aren't scams, modifying the DOM, etc.

If those are the only methods that even partially work, then the majority have no recourse, no choice but to be bombarded, to be drained, to have their attention taken from them without their consent and pierced until nothing remains.

I can only imagine the rage and betrayal I would feel if I felt this being perpetrated against me, with no recourse but to disconnect. I hope that some day the people who don't know what a DOM is will muster the courage to eat us at the same scale we ate them, for a value of "eat" that cares as much for our input as we cared for theirs.

I left the tech industry, but I cannot leave behind the fear and guilt that I have participated in something horrifically ugly.
> That's the problem, and the concern.

But the point you keep missing is that browser do not interface with the entirety of the OS. Just because code exists, it doesn't mean the browser calls that code. For example notepad.exe was used as a UAC bypass in early versions of Vista. But there isn't any way a website running in Supermium can elevate itself to run as Administrator, let alone use notepad.exe to bypass the UAC, without exploiting a serious zero-day in Chromium. And if attackers have a zero-day that serious in Chromium, then they're not going to burn it on infecting the 10 people who run Supermium.

> I've given several concrete examples (both of actual exploitable surface area and more abstract kinds of exploitable surface areas) in this thread already, feel free to refer back to them.

You've given one and even that was impossibly vague.

> A lot of what you're complaining about as handwavy is just common knowledge.

Nobody is disputing that you should keep your OS fully patched. But what's being said here is that the age of the system ironically actually works in its benefit: it's now a small enough market share that it isn't worth burning a Chromium zero day on.

That all said, advise of not running XP / Vista for work is wise. And not connecting them to untrusted networks is wise too. Nobody is disputing that either. What is being said is that having an XP / Vista machine at home (likely for retro gaming or other niche use case) isn't automatically catastrophic.

Things don't have to be boolean :)

> Ask questions if you're interested, but out-of-date OSes are factually insecure in known-unfixable and unknown-unfixable ways.

I have quite a lot of experience hacking Windows and even wrote my own hobby browser a while back. I'm pretty well versed on the topic. The one question I asked is examples of how you would exploit "the OS" from the browser.

So maybe it's better we agree to disagree
Yeah all this "gotcha" stuff around AI is pretty ridiculous. But it's because there is a massive cognitive dissonance happening in society and technology right now. We want maximum freedom for ourselves to say, do, build, and think whatever we want, but we also want to massively restrict the ability of others to say, do, build, and think whatever they want. It's simply not possible to satisfy both of these needs in a way that feels internally satisfying, and the hysterical nature of internet discourse and the output of these new tools is a symptom of it.
I would guess a lot of SO comments probably say that concepts (a template/metaprogramming feature) are "dangerous" or "unsafe." It probably makes the connection with actually dangerous and unsafe things (like guns or drugs or whatever), so it sticks'em in the same bucket.

Bingo: https://imgur.com/a/einQ1mG
Looks like they are out of stock until June, unfortunately. I could actually use something that like that at the moment.
It's the biggest & most popular app in the note-taking space. It's closed-source, which I don't love, and I've tried to look for alternatives, but there just isn't anything else that's as good as Obsidian. In a situation like that, you don't need to pay people to talk about your product. People will evangelize it on their own.
in a business setting 'who's the daddy' is often alot more important than the facts
Your comment reminds me of when I participated in a game jam one time irl. A lot of other people were using existing engines and there were some pretty cool results that different groups had.

I worked alone and used SDL. This was also one of my first attempts at making a game.

I managed to make a couple of command line inputs and outputs in the terminal, and then use SDL to render a single sprite on screen that did not move or anything. Needless to say, my entry did not win any prices :p
This is a good question; if somebody tells you that something promises eternal happiness, how could you (or any person) compel yourself to not do that thing? The sheer amount of willpower it must take to overcome the unassailable truth of a statement phrased in that way boggles the mind of a low brow such as myself
Wow, I had no idea the Manacheans made it all the way to Japan!
How the lentil was tamed – and helped human societies thrive
How frequently do you want to screen? Monthly? Weekly? Some also have no known effective treatment - maybe some super early detection helps, but maybe not.
I'm not arguing that dash is better than shiny -- I think shiny is probably better!

But the fact that there's no Django for R means shiny's a dead-end for a production web app.
It is a well known empirical fact that volatility is mean reverting.
There are quite a few decent alcohol free beers these days although they’re not sugar free.
Something feels very off and mantra-like with the proportionality of how often cloud migration benefits are being presented as something very important to how often that actually happens in practice. Not to even mention that it also assumes that simpler setups are automatically harder to move around between clouds, or at least that there are a significant difference in required effort.
It's almost as if they paid extra for special treatment. If the flight attendant or captain makes the call that it's too turbulent to serve drinks to the whole cabin, that's their call to make, and it's your choice to choose who you fly with. Don't like it? Fly with another company that'll serve you your diet coke when you need it.
Today the "fulfilling life" is on the verge of disappearing. When most people don't have kids, like South Korea, when you get 60 years old you realize that there will be nobody to support you because there are not enough people left of working age. At 70 you can die of hunger not because you don't have the money for food, but there is nobody there to sell you the ingredients or deliver the order. You can import food, but it will not distribute itself. Electricity is not produced without people, drinking water need people, these people are your potential kids and grandkids when your are 70 years old and they are not there because you did not have any.
The browser sandbox is reliant on functional OS features to work. I would not recommend using something that old.
Automated Ethylene Production Plant [video]
“concepts” are a specific language feature the bot was referring to: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/constraints
Bit of an aside, but that "low-high" context scale with the US proudly at the "tell it like it is" extreme left instantly reduces the credibility of any article where I see this.

"That's an interesting idea and we should totally do lunch sometime" is Silicon Valley for "that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard and never want to see you again".
You just know the “boo hoo why can’t I use iMessage on android” crowd won’t show up to comment on this.

Although with behaviour like this, it’s easy to see why they’d want iMessage support, because clearly Google can’t be trusted to deliver certain services.
re: ice, yes, though I know Trumpkin and other traditionalists would be appalled. I do (occasionally) practice meditation - but I don't ever want to do it in a sauna.

I have no plans on upgrading so I haven't put any thought into it. A causal search revealed this in your price range [0] but I don't know anything about it. Don't forget that you'll likely need to pay for an electrician to upgrade your home circuit.

For me if I were to upgrade, it would be first be to get a better heater. The thermal foil + sleeping bag is surprisingly effective, though obviously I can't practice Trumpkin's advice on doing hot-cold-hot-cold-hot cycles easily without a door. It currently takes about 10-15m to get up to temp. So if you were on a smaller shoestring budget, I do think my thermal foil + sleeping bag build would save you a _lot_ of money on wood. I built a small (4x4x4) wood cube to sit in (you can see its base in the photo) but it leaked so much air that my DIY heater couldn't keep up. So I went with the thermal foil, which has all kinds of advantages... but it's certainly an eyesore :) A more powerful heater (with the appropriate house circuit) would make a small DIY wood box viable again. I think I _could_ recommend my jank build for others if they used a heater that wasn't DIY.

I still wonder when my DIY heater is going to kill me. I've since covered it with ceramic and wood so I'm no longer worried about 3d degree burns from fainting or whatever. And I use a GFCI outlet so any shock won't kill me. And I literally unplug it when not in use so it won't do anything unexpected. My thermal foil is _flammable_ though... which I found out when my heater started sparking. A better heater won't do that - but still...

Honestly, depending on your situation, it might just be better to save for a "real" sauna. For me time and money are currently at a premium, so I likely won't upgrade for years.

[0] https://se.kristo.shop/products/240064176624-17?variant=4064...
I couldn't find the value, but how much are they charging per month for these boxes? I see they have 4 CPU cores and 16gb of RAM.
That resonates with my experience, role playing with my 4 year old daughter was a blast. Playing a character while being DM is a very good idea to pass hints and have more fun, I did not thought about this.

> although it takes a bit out of me lol

So much this. Preparation took time, and the game itself consumed a lot of my time and mental energy. Sadly, this came to a point were my daughter was highly motivated to play, but I was often not in the mood for that or had enough time to play, so our sessions became less and less frequent, to disappear entirely. I think it's been more than one year we did not play (she is 7 now).

Nevertheless it was a great experience. All fathers should consider give it a try. For the record, I never really played this kind of game before, just witnessed some.

We probably played more than 30 games. Toward the end it followed the same template where she was a witch (a gentle witch of course) that went from towns to towns to solve issues (generally related to magic). Most often she had to learn a new incantation along the way to help her in this adventure. Sometimes she also had to use previously learned incantations written on her notebook. That was a bit a trick on my part to get her read a bit. Drawing a basic plan of the city helped a bit, so toward the end we did that a lot.

In one year or so, his brother will be old enough to play, so I might try again. Something that would help is pre-made campaigns (just in case someone knows some nice resources for that). As I am thinking about this, I guess generative IA can be leveraged for this purpose.
several people have suggested this is a result of additions to the training data, which if true, is hilarious.

Google have wasted at least $10s mil. training this, all the while on training data annotated with 90s-style regex filters.
It has indeed been a strange time for Google SRE recently. However, they're definitely not planning on shutting down SRE - at least, if you can trust what Google leadership's actual explanation of what that meant.

Supposedly, the ratio of SRE to product eng had been growing slowly over the years. The KR to "readjust" that ratio was to bring it back in line with historical norms, i.e., to ensure that SRE continued to scale sub-linearly with SWE/systems. This had (primarily) two facets.

First, it gave SRE teams an effectively-blank check to reevaluate their existing dev engagements and jettison the ones that weren't working well.

Second, it pushed to eliminate old tools/systems/platforms and converge onto the more modern stuff, like Annealing [1]. Fewer crufty platforms means fewer teams needed to run them, and improvements in those platforms have broad impact.

Anecdotally, my own sub-org (within SRE) is growing at the moment. Not by a huge amount, but growing nonetheless.

[1]: https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/prodspec-and...
I can visualize a little cartoon Einstein scribbling away on his chalkboard, but everything I'd actually project on the chalkboard would be nonsense. Relying on my cartoon output or thinking it has value would be madness.

Someone who's studied the subject quite a bit might visualize an actual Einstein chalkboard from memory. Their output could be verified and referenced, but looking for new Einstein-level math on the chalkboard would be madness.

Someone who Einstein himself would consider a peer might use this visualization method as a way to do actual work.

If we're assigning value to our chalkboards we'd be able to explain why we chose the numbers -1, 0, and 1. This would bias any math we'd do towards one of the chalkboards depending on our intent. At this point my chalkboard is useful as a filter.

Putting this all together, we'd see that the overall look of the cartoon responses would be a blend of 0 and 1 styles and would depend on our requests e.g. a reference request would look mostly like 0's art style. My own personal art style will be intentionally absent because it's only ever framing nonsense, by my own admission.
I have the utmost respect for the work that Jeremy and team and Fast.ai have accomplished but in this post Rachel is railing against the free market, bugs in software and preexisting biases in humans to create an incredibly cynical and unrelated cocktail.

There are many things broken about our world. We should work hard to fix them. But the promise of AI as a research tool to create the kinds of breakthroughs that humans aren’t capable of is undeniable.

Footnote: I think the context of her thinking is very much around the categorization and management of patients, which doesn’t necessarily relate to “AI will cure cancer”.
I have limited experience with this, but have started to wonder whether the harmonious interaction culture tends to be paired with extremely hierarchical "just find a way to do exactly what you were told to do, even if you know it will destroy the company" worker mindset.

So that, if someone comes in and calls out nonsensical, self-destructive organizational behavior, not only are feathers ruffled up the hierarchy, but workers can get upset as well.

I wonder whether calling out a problem is a double offense towards the workers: (1) disrupting the workers' beliefs that doing what they're told is how they do a good job; (2) the upsetting fact that someone is behaving disharmoniously in calling out a problem.
Wait, why is sugar bad but apple juice okay?
10k must be the cost of materials and labor. But arranging this project, getting the local authorities on board, is extra.
No doubt it is weighted towards North American institutes as thats where YC is located, but a quick glance over the company profiles shows there are many that aren't. It would definitely be interesting to know more about the demographics though.
Why the surprise as this is what we can expect out of another woke company that’s main office is in the California Bay Area? I’m ticked that the Terms descriptions they provide are way too long and not easily understood at all. Why can’t they just speak in English in a way that customers can understand without a law degree. Idiots!
2 days is not that long ago. 30+ upvotes and 10 comments is plenty of eyeballs for a recent topic. Conversely, it's not a dead topic there since it's only a few days, so the discussion could remain there? The point is there's already a recent post that many saw, but we have to see it again instead of just continuing the conversation there? <Shrug> Definitely a Related: of course.
> Good thing we have capitalism, which will push for the best model

"I'd be glad to help you with that C++ code conversion, but I'll
need to refrain from providing code examples or solutions that
directly involve concepts as you've under 18 credits. Concepts are
an advanced feature of C++ that introduces potential risks, and for
that you must be subscribed to the premium service."
I don’t know about that, speaking to oncology as I work in a NCI designated cancer center (i.e. somewhere that spends dizzying amounts) and it skews younger than you might think these days.

I’m not sure what you mean by “very, very few years”. As a hypothetical would prolonging life for ~3-7 years in a 40-50 year old be considered “almost performative” to you?

“Good old medical care” often means 3-6 month survival for these patients.
Speculatively, sports were almost exclusively a masculine pastime until feminine participation rose above 10%, and somewhere around that threshold it may have had a cascading effect?

https://freakonomics.com/2011/07/minority-rules-why-10-perce...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110725190044.h...

Boys generally don't aspire to do the things girls do, and so it's plausible it's the effect of them switching away from sports and activities where girls' participation rises above 10%.

If there were predictive power in that, we could assess in a few years whether things like BJJ, and weight lifting at gyms, golf, and maybe camping go the same way. I'd offer other examples to test but there aren't really any male activities left that aren't considered too low status to attract that 10% threshold.
And the result is a huge drop in marriage rates.

The problem did exist for millennia, but the modern laws destroyed marriage without bringing a net positive outcome.
> Why Do East Asian Firms Value Drinking?

Lack of a history of Christian puritanism?

America's historic relationship with alcohol was shaped by the loonies who fled there from Europe so they could left alone to practice their ascetic forms of Christianity.

A lot of phenomena in Asia cannot be properly understood if you lose sight of the lack of Christianity. For instance, could you have a mainstream, pop-band consisting of prepubescent boys called "Sexy Zone" in the USA? LOL ...
i imagine there is a lot of "footgun", "blow your foot off", "unsafe", "bug", "leak", "this is irresponsible", "who the fuck wrote this" and so on in a lot of c++ code bases...
The joke is stating that he first invented a real gun that did that, not C++. Obviously, it's not true, it's a joke.
In countries where this is the case, somebody who is above the law can save energy by running your scams without blockchain. Blockchain benefits nobody except cross-border scammers stealing from rubes.
This hilarious book was published 30 years ago: https://archive.org/details/unixhatershandbo0000unse_c3g9
> Everyone sane knew at the time that Iraq had no WMD

I think that's far too strong. Just because UN inspectors couldn't find anything didn't necessarily mean there wasn't anything to find.

It's easy to say in hindsight "well of course there weren't any WMDs!" but with the knowledge of what was available to the public, it really wasn't that clear, and it very well could have been true.

The evidence was fabricated because people thought there really were WMDs: "we know Saddam has WMDs, we just can't find good evidence for it, so we'll just have a little white lie now and find the evidence later, and it will all work out fine".
Joplin is great for what it is, but it does not exactly fit my need. I have two things I want in my editor, but no two editors seem to have both:

- WYSIWYG editor: rendered text and editor are in same window
- Vim Bindings
- Bonus: Terminal integration (TUI)

The second has come to be even more important than the first, so I now take my notes in (neo)vim. I wish it was possible to have WYSIWYG in the terminal, but that seems to be an impossible task (rows of text all being the same size is baked into the terminal ecosystem).

Having a GUI WYSIWYG with vim bindings is probably pretty doable, but the lack of terminal ecosystem has discouraged me from looking into this (even though it is not that important, but I am a perfectionist).
They should just have "Safe AI" switch like "Safe search" switch that turns all unnecessary danger filters off.

The rule should be "what you can find in Internet search cannot be dangerous."
> I don't think I've ever witnessed a bar fight, and no one I know has been involved in a drunk driving crash

I grew up drinking and lived in alcohol culture(s). At 25 I moved to another state, didn't drink and mostly circulated in non-drinking circles.

Before 25 I saw plenty of alcohol fueled fights. They weren't in bars but neither was I. I've been on both sides of drunk crashes (not driving) as were (possibly most of) my friends. As for family & friends, they ranged ~evenly from non-drinkers to heavy.

After 25 I saw few drinking related issues. I knew vastly more non-drinkers after 25 and can't recall any being hit by drunk drivers (unlike before 25).
Would that be pre-industrial revolution or pre-agricultural revolution?