skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
for context, tthe actual reason Birmingham Council is fucked is the same reason that nearly every council in Britain is fucked: the deliberate policy choice by central (what every other country calls "federal") government to de-fund councils and cause them to slash things for 14 years and now start collapsing.

funding from central government is now at 40% below 2010 levels: https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/local-go...
Agree. But this showed Elon to be a much worse cry baby.
On the scale of minutes, not at all, no.

I've had half a dozen major surgeries and spent nearly 2 days on life support in 1994. I probably died for a minute or so more than once. Thanks to skilled surgery and anaesthesia teams, I came back.
Nice, will give it a try!

There is a similar tool that I've been using for years:
https://github.com/mthenw/frontail/
What's the reason behind using the "Off"/"Not-Off" notation for "on-off status" instead of "On"/"Off" or even "On"/"Non-On"? I see some "state" parameters marked as "ON".
No. Anything with a vector representation is compatible.
I feel like the LLM interface will enable that. I wonder what Alan Kay makes of the current LLM revolution (he does talk a bit about it in the question section @ around 1:35)
Boeing in action. Luckily nobody is flying LinkedIn MAX, so there are no deaths as a result.
> Those AI generated photos are from a Twitter/X parody account @Trump_History45 , not from the Trump campaign as the BBC mistakenly (or misleadingly) claim.

They specifically said who they came from, and that it wasn't the Trump campaign. They even had a photo of one of the creators, whom they interviewed in that specific piece I linked to, and tried to get interviews with others.
> This argument was already used in the past to justify the very verbose syntax of COBOL.

Looks like we found Goldilocks zone of programming languages in years after first version of COBOL.

BASIC is too little, COBOL is too much.

Array languages is less than BASIC.

And it is Perl which is humiliated for line noise all these years!
Use the hacking LLM to verify your code before pushing to prod. EZ
>In April and May of 2013, Yale Law professor Dan Kahan — working with coauthors Ellen Peters, Erica Cantrell Dawson, and Paul Slovic — set out to test a question that continuously puzzles scientists: why isn’t good evidence more effective in resolving political debates? For instance, why doesn’t the mounting proof that climate change is a real threat persuade more skeptics?

Ah, the good old psychologization of politics ("those disagreeing are not just wrong, they're crazy or at least mentally affected"). Stalinist USSR would be proud.

The idea that this might be a charged political question for a reason didn't cross their minds, or that there might be valid subtleties like:

Is scientific fact a matter of consensus?

Is something a "consensus" if those disagreeing are excluded (while still being scientists with credentials and everything) - which also means those that potentially disagree have reasons to hide appear as agreeing?

Consensus is not really required in hard science judgements where you can just measure things or do an experiment and be done with it. So this is not that cut-and-try then, but depends on interpretation of lots of data points and theories?

Can scientists ever consent on something that's nevertheless wrong?

Does it still count as disagreeing if you agree on climate change being a problem but disagree on the identification of the main causes?

Does it still count as disagreeing if you agree on climate change being a problem but disagree on the solutions proposed?

Of course you don't get grants or fill politics-adjacent papers by being subtle about such things.
If that is true then why bother hiring expensive humans to write slow, insecure, inferior software products at all. Replace them all.
It's probably added $30k/day in revenue. Meanwhile Cyberduck gets $30/day via donations.
Fundamentals don't go away. I'd recommend getting into understanding how LLMs work, from scratch, and getting into that corner of the industry. Even if the LLMs write all the code, someone still has to direct them on what to write. They're not going away, so expertise on how to train and operate them is going to be valuable for the foreseeable future. What is MoE or RAG? If I'd just graduated, I'd force myself into that corner of the industry.
fyi most of HN would ban porn too if they could.
Brin probably, Musk and him got into a fight over AI years ago. It's detailed in the Isaacson biography
I have a similar list of FizzBuzzes in Lean from when I started programming in that language:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lPnQiik5cAx0X2E3GNbw_Oaug87...

I wrote more, but it got too silly.
The Five Sources of Uncertainty
> your code

To verify the LLM's code, because the LLM is cheaper than a human.

And there's a lot of live code already out there.

And people are only begrudgingly following even existing recommendations for code quality.
I'm a clean code guy and tailwind made my code look terrible. But I gave it a chance because I heared so many positive things about it. Now I'm happy with it. I don't have to jump around from HTML to CSS and back to HTML.
True.

> “The Open in openAI means that everyone should benefit from the fruits of AI after its [sic] built, but it's totally OK to not share the science...”, to which Elon replied: “Yup”.

Well, nope. This is disingenuous to the point of absurdity. By that measure every commercial enterprise is "open". Google certainly is extremely open, as are Apple, Amazon, Microsoft... or Wallmart, Exxon, you name it.
In other news, an advanced search engine managed to find a specific already existing information in the internet in just two prompts. Oh wait, that doesn't cost 7 trillion dollars... An on this terrible disappointment, it's time to move on.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. SpaceX's leadership from Gwynne Shotwell has been truly excellent. I've also heard that many other leaders have had to be quite influential in order to steer the company in a productive direction while receiving constant dictats from a major shareholder. I've heard the Starlink group is perhaps a bit of a difficult area where that shareholder has too much influence and that it lacks leadership, but other than that the company sounds well run.
that's the horror of Tailwind for you, which is different from the horror of AI
But you would need to spend the $15 on every request whereas the RAG approach would be most likely significantly cheaper per request.
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> I've been avoiding it because Zoom & friends didn't work when I tested them.

If you are talking about screen sharing Zoom, Meet and Slack work fine on Debian stable running Wayland in KDE and Gnome. Teams probably doesn't work on Wayland, but then Teams working on any other platform on a given day is at best a lottery.
> I say if you have the skills, time and desire, give it a go and see where you end up. If google shows nothing, then its likely not been tried. With so few firsts available in life, take those that present themselves and have a crack, even if failure is always an option. --VK4HAT

Timeless quote.
This is what you see from the outside. LinkedIn also looks good from outside. This is the entire point of the story.
Looks cool. Will check it out!
As the article mentions fonts as an attack surface, here the "recently" released video of operation triangulation: https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-11859-operation_triangulation_wh...

a truetype vulnerability that's been around for decades was part of the exploit
Yes, but how a mobile technology is related to a CPU?
The point (as discussed now within interested parties) is that Technical Standards, and namely Harmonized Standards in the realm of the so called "New Approach" to products compliance, are now cited as recommended and voluntary technical measures for reaching compliance to some EU Directive or Regulation. Up to now, technical standards are discussed and published in sort-of private organizations, although sometimes funded by governments. Here the court expressed the opinion that these Harmonized Standards have somehow lawful relevance and should be freely available (not paywalled) to all EU Citizends.
The touchpad experience on Gnome is largely great already. It has kinetic scroll and gestures.

My only gripe is that you can't control the scroll speed. Especially in Firefox it feels way to fast. There are config options for that, but they also apply to a mouse scrollwheel, which in turn will feel too slow.

I guess the lack of this setting on the OS level is caused by the ongoing discussion what the "correct" place for advanced touchpad settings would be (application/compositor/libinput), which has been mentioned in multiple comments here.
The high level API seems very smooth to quickly iterate on testing RAGs. It seems great for prototyping, however I have doubts whether it's a good idea to hide the LLM calling logic in a DB extension.

Error handling when you get rate limited, the token has expired or the token length is too long would be problematic, and from a security point of view it requires your DB to directly call OpenAI which can also be risky.

Personally I haven't used that many Postgres extensions, so perhaps these risks are mitigated somehow that I don't know?
2 liters of soda everyday is huge. If it was sometimes (in a party, etc) it would be fine, but I can't imagine drinking close to that amount everyday.

I am sure that people do even worse, but at that point you're in a bad situation if you drink normal (e.g.: the amount of sugar) or diet soda.
The app was built with Vue.js 3 and Tailwind
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One of the reasons I use xterm is it's beautiful default bitmap fonts, every character distinct and easy to understand, no matter if it's 1 i l | or I, no matter if it's 0 O o or Ø.

The extra flexibility of is not worth the compromise of clarity to me.

I use the different sizes too:

"unreadable" when I need to copy-paste huge amounts of text

"default" for most stuff

and "huge" when I need a bit more focus.

This is also the reason I prefer 1920x1200 px display rather than higher resolutions at the same size. Higher DPIs makes the characters too small for my old eyes, and switching to a vector font only to try and reproduce the shapes I already know seem idiotic.
> But instead of changing their name and their mission, and returning the donations they took from these wealthy tech founders, they used the benevolent appearance of their non-profit status and their name to mislead everyone about their intentions.

Why would they change their mission? If achieving the mission requires money then they should figure out how to get money. Non-profit doesn't actually mean that the corporation isn't allowed to make profit.

Why change the name? They never agreed to open source everything, the stated mission was to make sure AGI benefits all of humanity.
Weird I got my bachelor's in a pretty famously left-leaning place and zero of my grades depended on attending any diversity trainings whatsoever

That said, I also might be speaking from the privileged position of not having as many triggers about this topic as many others. I can't tell you how many people I've met for whom completely innocuous-seeming things - such as a person going out of their way to separate some recycling from their garbage - can set off quite the tirade about "wokeism" or whatever. I have to have sympathy for these poor souls. They've clearly been through a lot
So reducing this would be a multi-year project of a sizeable team (let's say 5-10 people). How do you get someone to sign off for this kind of expediture and not lay everyone off when the next economic fart comes?

Because THAT'S the hard problem to solve in any bigger organization. Not hacking the code.
Apple designs the platform, though. Seems like a different model to me?
I've been through a lot of diversity training and I've never been compelled to say anything or even fill out a quiz that went beyond "did you listen to this material." If I was ever expected to parrot a party line it was _always_ "Tell us you understand that we can get sued if you do X."

I work in an area where DEI is emphasized more than even at a University in general. I've never found it to be particularly onerous and often find it interesting.

When people act like these often banal things (often more or less explicitly directed towards shielding the organization from liability) are compelled speech in front of a firing squad, I have to wonder whether they've really done any. Incidentally, I've seen old white guys say all sorts of stuff at these trainings. I've never heard of anyone getting fired or pushed out of a position.
Your code because you own it. If LLM hackers are rampant as you fear then people will respond by telling their code writing LLMs to get their shit together and check the code for vulnerabilities.
I'm a maniac though. I used to run my stack just fine off a raspberri pi with a USB harddrive plugged in.

Actually, before that, I used to run it off an old macbook.

Do we need it to be where everyone hosts a node? I just had this conversation with a friend yesterday actually. We were in disagreement about the accessibility of self hosting and federation. He was of the opinion that we should push LLMs to where anyone can type "I want to host a video hosting platform" and chatgpt.exe will find and install jellyfin on their computer and set up a cloudflare tunnel, or whatever.

I'm more of the opinion that we should increase the quality of documentation until the one person just weird and nerdy enough out of a group of 20 will be able to deploy things on leftover hardware, and share with their friends.

What do you think?
Sure, I understand the "I don't want to pay" intention. What I don't get is why anyone would work for free to convert those people. I don't need them to use Linux, and in fact I don't want them here because they will push Linux towards a direction I don't like.
> an IBM PC 386

A what now?

Is this just shorthand for "a 386-based PC compatible"?

Because the IBM PC had an 8088, and the next model with a newer CPU, the first 286, was the IBM PC/AT.

There never was a PC-architecture 386 from IBM... They moved to the PS/2 range by then.
Thanks for your message. I should say that giving your comment to GPT-4, with a request for a solution architecture that could produce good results based on the comment, produced a very detailed, fascinating solution.
https://chat.openai.com/share/435a3855-bf02-4791-97b3-4531b8...
Having music in a car isn't safety-critical. But we should have unflinching acceptance of reality that a lot of people WILL have music in the car, and so if music adjustments are unsafe then the car is more unsafe.

A while ago I worked on a military vehicle intercom system (communication between different station in tanks and armored vehicles). It had a number of pragmatic requirements, learned through experience. One of them was that each station had a 3.5mm jack that mixed its signal into what the headset was hearing. They had learned that whatever you did, soldiers were going to listen to music when they got bored. If you gave them a jack then at least they'd still have their headset on, and would hear instructions (and you could override the music if necessary...). Without the jack they'd just take their headset off.

You have to accept the reality of the world you're designing for not the world you'd LIKE to be designing for.

[Another pragmatic requirements anecdote from the same system: the comms bus had to be able to cope with random disconnects. Why? Because on a tank, the comms bus went to the commander in the turret via a contact ring and when the main gun fired, sometimes that contact ring would disconnect. But then we were allowed 1.5s to reconnect. That's a surprisingly long time - how come? Because that's how long it takes the tank commander's hearing to recover after firing!]
Because they don't want to help the environment, they want to feel recreationally outraged and like heroic revolutionaries ending evil. Environmentalism is just their latest wedge to insist that the solution to all problems in the world is their preferred revolution. They actively dislike and frustrate measures that would actually help address real problems, as it would take away their excuse, and they'd rather the problem continue (or hopefully get worse) than admit that they're not the solution. That last bit is often quite explicit - "We can't end $x until we end capitalism!" etc., and accusing more moderate groups of being bourgeois infiltrators or various -isms for daring to actually get something done instead of shouting about an ill-defined utopic revolution ad infinitum

And they majorly slow progress and tarnish public opinion of legitimate movements by forcing their way in. It's group narcissism
There have been huge changes, and where you do not need the credentials, or can get credentials separately from the courses, it has changed dramatically.

I have one a number of online courses, watched lectures that are put on Youtube, used material from university courses from their websites, and more. Some work related, some just for fun.

I do not think everyone has caught up with the changes, and the benefits for general education.

It is not just for adult, professional or university level education either. There has is a lot available for school level (to be clear in the British sense - primary school, secondary school/high school) education.

Schools have not (yet, I hope) changed although what some did during lockdown showed what could be done, but home educators have (at least to an extent): online courses, remote tuition, online materials are a huge advance on textbooks plus local classes or tutors. For example my daughter is doing an online course for history GCSE (UK exam taken at 16 in schools, roughly high school diploma level AFAIK), has a remote tutor for classical civilisation GCSE (and help with latin revision though she self taught that). The supervision for the observations for astronomy GCSE was done remotely too.

There is a lot of potential to do things differently, but change takes time. Systems have a lot of inertia in them.
Worth being clear, this doesn't detract from it now, where it is plenty fast on far cheaper hardware than the XO-1.
Good point. I agree
"may include bundled offers" is not the same thing as "this will install adware on your computer."

This is incredibly deceptive for FileZilla and excuses like this just add to the embarrassment.
>My point stands: The communist countries had aspects which worked better.

A lot of things can be made better when the state can put their finger on the scale or use force to achieve that goal, while you actively choose to ignore the means and process through wich that is achieved, and only look at the end result.

For example, abundant housing for all workers was not a problem in communism, but ask yourself why? Because the state could commandeer any piece of land it wanted, bulldoze and relocate whoever lived there without their permission or compensation, then build cheaply using the crappiest materials that don't last, and using virtually unlimited free slave labor from prisons, military and schools/education institutions.

So now you can say "look, communism did affordable housing better, maybe we can learn something form that". Learn what exactly? That to get unlimited housing for everyone, you need to evict people off their land at whim and use slave labor instead of paying market rates for land and labor which leads to the supply shortages we have now?

Same with your "better childcare" example. Of course it's more difficult to get abundant childcare in a free market economy when you have to pay people what they want in order to convince them to come work in childcare, because those people now have much better paying and less stressful economic opportunities in the private sector, than working in childcare for the pay fixed by the state which was competitive in a centralized state economy but is not competitive anymore in the free market one, and you can't force people anymore into certain careers like before.

So yeah, communism did some things better only because there were some major compromises in the back-end that people with rose tinted glasses either forget about or ignore, i.e. you were not part of that underclass of people used as virtual slave labor to achieve those goals.
The truth behind Trump and his smiling black supporters – they're fake
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Looks like we found Goldilocks zone of programming languages in years after first version of COBOL.

Considering the current state the Goldilocks zone of programming languages is like calling the verbose style in which mathematical proofs were written down in the early modern period the Goldilocks zone of writing down mathematical proofs. :-(
No chip company can survive the loss of the World's largest chip market.

The whole of the West is only two-thirds the size of China.

Give it 4-5 years till China is making chips the equal or better of AMD's chips, AMD and other Western chip companies will disappear. Enjoy AMD while you can.
What would the job titles be for these types of jobs?
By that definition every corporation aims to be open as possible…
> Ancient warriors apparently didn’t get PTSD.

And many who actively served in WWI and WWII didn't either.

At the heart of trauma is helplessness. That is why it tends to cement in childhood when you are truly helpless. You don´t have your own home to run to, or your own money to buy food etc. And, you're small and weaker than so called "adults".

If a soldier didn't feel helpless while defending their country there's a good chance they haven't developed trauma.

Trauma then is a form of disregulation in the nervous system, a conditioning, a form of imprint where the nervous system routinely "triggers" in sympathetic activation, fight/flight/freeze.
Sadly no for linux. Wonder how well it works on wine.
>The invalid certificate [...] is illustrative of the Haskell programmer's inability

Why would one assume the invalid certificate is caused by that particular professor instead of the IT department's staff at the University of Calgary?
That would kill one of the largest projects SpaceX is currently working on.

Additionally, SLS has successfully demonstrated their part of the Artemis program with the Artemis I launch. SpaceX has not completed a full mission for its part in Artemis III which has now been delayed and caused NASA to start implementing plan B for Artemis V and beyond missions.

It is theoretically possible that Blue Origin will land on the moon before SpaceX if Starship cannot work out all the issues in the next 2 years.
On Linux the main file managers (Dolphin, Nautilus) can be used as very good (s)ftp clients, on par with FileZilla. No need for additional software.
But the main reason they are there is someone paid them to be there. Of course humans like to do good, so why not do good while getting paid, but the glue for the whole system is individualism, that is what makes all the workers go to work every day so it is what keeps them together. Remove the pay and all the workers scatters and move to different places in almost every case.

Or in other words, that is an individualistic organization.

> care about their work quality, and the impact their work has in their colleuges work

Yeah, they care about their own ideals, not the organization itself. They can care about their coworkers, but they don't care about Wallmarts bottomline.

So as you see, this individualistic organization can still draw from the power of human collectivist needs, so you get the best of both worlds, you get the collectivist goodness at small scale and the greed that glues together them and make them power through even when they are too tired to care about the collective.
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