skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree with your first paragraph, I feel your second goes way to far into hand-waiving that this isn't a problem: just because something is not "alive" or "conscious" or whatever other squishy term you don't want to grant to a machine model, that doesn't mean it "therefore" can't be intelligent or devious or have its own goals. If you train an LLM on a bunch of people playing pranks and it is actually capable of generating statistically-similar responses to the people who do such pranks you might find yourself asking it benign questions and yet it does things unexpected that hurt you because it--if you really refuse to anthropomorphize it--has a statistical bias in that direction. We wouldn't be using these LLMs for anything at all if they weren't "intelligent" and clearly computers are able to model other things and search through solution space: a paperclip optimizer doesn't have to be "alive" for it to be dangerous.
Thanks for the reply. I guess if the enterprise repo is the primary reason most organizations buy a subscription (implying that your existing subscriptions are already skewed toward the community license), and you added a homelab-tier subscription that also offered it, you might indeed see some cannibalization. I'm not sure what "complete feature-set" means—the free offering already seems pretty complete to me, though obviously my use case is not very demanding.

Still, I wonder how many homelab users would be willing to pay something like $10-20/yr (or maybe a one-time license purchase) just to make the nag dialog at login go away. I certainly would, just as I've paid for shareware-style licenses in the past simply because I wanted to support the developer, and not because they made their software unusable if I didn't.

Either way, thanks for your excellent work on Proxmox.
I don't see many touching on the toxic community aspect. I don't know where the author has been lately, but while there are bastions of (more or less) healthy, functional communication here and there, high levels of toxic antisocial behavior can be found all over the place. Many video game developers are drawing back their community engagement because of toxic player responses. Spending any significant amount of time in various parts of the US will illustrate the rise of antisocial behavior; on the roads, in the stores, etc. "Content moderation" is the norm on the Internet nowadays, and that's not counting all the forums that don't allow any user-generated comments at all anymore. Courtesy seems to be something you have to pay for now (and even then, it's not guaranteed). However, the lack of it is not hardly unique to open source projects.
Oh, I see. So what you use the GPU for matters with the durability of it.
At a manufacturing company I once worked at they had and old windows 98 plugged into an old label printer, and the software wouldn’t work on newer machines so they just had that computer turned on 24/7 ready to print labels.
Open source is not "anti-capitalist" nor contradictory to capitalism. Indeed, it reflects people freely choosing how they want to allocate their resources on their own terms. There are few things more capitalist than that. It does represent competition to people who would rather not compete if they can avoid it.

Similarly, I am skeptical that experienced software engineers see open source contributions as being a tacit employment application. The reality is that many of the best engineers have significant restrictions on their ability to contribute to open source and employers know this.

I think it is legitimate to point out the reality that external contributions are typically non-existent and that toxic entitlement by users is unfortunately common. In this regard, it is often a thankless and sometimes negative experience for most people. But people engage in many thankless and often unrewarding tasks outside of software because they still think it is worth doing.
Have you ever heard of the telephone game? This is what is going on here. Or imagine an original story of something that really happened. If it goes by 100 people in a chain, how much do you think the story will resemble the original one?
Socialists usually try to distinguish between "personal property" (things for your own household/lifestyle) and "private property" (the means of production, or sometimes extravagant wealth in general).
If you put the energy into the grid, you do it with 50Hz or 60Hz.
Just look at all the companies that do open source. Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc... They are all very obviously for profit, if they could sell and become richer, they would, but they still put out open source, on permissive licences no less. It is just that code cannot be leveraged as a competitive advantage, on the contrary, they tend to benefit if people use code they have control over. Why do you think Google insist on people using Chrome even though it is free and 99% open source?

And for hobbyists, most of their code is not worth selling, they are just writing stuff for their own needs and they don't want to spend the effort making a commercial product. So, open source it goes. And if it becomes successful one day, it may still be worth it and you may gain contribution and fame, or maybe not, but you wouldn't have gained anything by keeping that code to yourself either.

Some do it for pure generosity, but it is, I think, a minority. Most either don't care, or it is part of a business plan. Being able to use GPL code can also be a motivation.
I'd agree with that as well. Contributing to open source on your own time should be a choice not an expectation. It shouldn't be something that people do solely for the sake of advancing their career.
Yeah, I'm known as the ASCII diagram guy at work because I use ASCIIFlow a lot. Still not sure if people think I'm a joke.

https://asciiflow.com/#/
I mean it makes sense that (even impressively functional) statistical approximations would degrade when recursed.

If anything I think this just demonstrates yet again that these aren't actually analogous to what humans think of as "minds", even if they're able to replicate more of the output than makes us comfortable.
I also wonder what search engines are going to do about all this. Sounds to me, actually, traditional, non-intelligent search might be on its way out, although of course it'll take time. Future search engines will have to be quite adept at trying to figure out whether the text they index is bullshit or not.
> And if you combined all of the above with a cell phone, customers would rather carry 1 device than the 3 it previously took.

And not coincidentally this is exactly how Jobs pitched the original iPhone unveil.

An iPod, a phone, an internet communicator, an iPod, a phone…
> did not receive any form of study-related psychotherapy for the duration of their participation in the study

This is remarkable - IIRC previous studies (X) involved additional psychotherapy, and quite extensively.

(X) Huberman Labs. https://youtu.be/fcxjwA4C4Cw?feature=shared

(X) “how to change your mind” documentary (Netflix)
printf '%s\n' '#include <stdio.h>' '#include <unistd.h>' 'int main() { printf("Hello world!\n"); sleep(999999999); }' | gcc -fpic -static -xc - -o init

This is completely irrelevant, but that line reminded me of the old “real programmers write device drivers with cat” joke. I guess even realer programmers would write device drivers directly into gcc stdin.
Yeah sorry didn't mean to add TOML in there.

And to be fair, YAML is somewhat clean for what it is. I shouldn't have included that in my rant either. My main gripe is with the "JSON Everywhere" approach. :)

There's no one-size-fits-all solution to anything. If one is using JavaScript—great, use JSON as a way to transmit objects over the wire or unpack an object into a template. Just PLEASE do not use it for a configuration format. Visual Studio Code configuration is a nightmare of ugliness.
Imo the most important class in comp sci is computer architecture, specifically one that takes you from gates to a rudimentary alu, registers, to microcode, to some form of assembly coding.

There is nothing magical in computers once you can do that deconstruction in your head.
I’m surprised you went to the trouble of creating an account on here just to post warmed over, 30 year old “Crapple” insults.
considering costs this doesn't sound very utilitarian
That would be really weird. I'd be more willing to buy galaxies just coming into existence somehow in the gaps as the universe expands, as that at least drives the arrow of time consistently in the right direction.

The arrow of time can survive local entropy reduction, but probably not what you're talking about.
It's like when Microchip bought Atmel they released the XTiny series. And they're not even that similar, so it has caused just a bunch of confusion. I suspect the same will happen with the STM32s that kinda are but also aren't.
It only works for iMessage texts, unfortunately.
I hate people who orthogonalize monetization and open-source. Getting
customers to cough up cash has always about knowing something they don't,
a leverage you give up by releasing source code.
Tbh after a neuropharm PhD - Hepatocentrism makes more sense than cardiocentrism at the very least. Everything happens in the liver to some degree, more than the "toxin remediation" metaphor its closer to "the entire chemicals and materials industry"

Catch 22 put it better of course,

> "... But come to us with a liver complaint and you can fool us for weeks. The liver, you see, is a large, ugly mystery to us. If you’ve ever eaten liver you know what I mean. We’re pretty sure today that the liver exists and we have a fairly good idea of what it does whenever it’s doing what it’s supposed to be doing. Beyond that, we’re really in the dark. After all, what is a liver?"

Like if we have to choose some Centrism at all,

- heart and lung are important to maintain continuous service, but can be replaced with a dumb pump and sparger basically

- brains tend to overhype their own importance but the rest of the body can keep running *okay* for a while with lots of the brain removed (I.e "brain dead but still living")

- kidneys, replace w dialysis, OK enough

- liver, cannot be substituted except for transplants, body just doesn't work with it gone

Personally I'd go for a digestive centric view:

- in principle it kind of separates multicellular animals ... You have to be 3d to contain a double ended open tube

- the intestine/stomach is our daily bargain with death so to speak, to prolong our own life by devouring other life

- *digestion is highly responsive to autonomic arousal*, I.e. emotional qualia. Think of the stomach feeling metaphors of love, fear, rage, anticipation ...

- in fact many emotions are best described *in terms of* their digegstive qualia

- Digestive stuff is quite highly innervated, read about the neurobiology of guts for a great rabbit hole

- etc.

- and finally "guts" is already culturally establishrd, "gut feeling" "trust your gut" "has guts" etc
> Foggy conditions can help the physics/chemistry limits, up to a point.

From what I've read, moist air from the sea is an important factor in these trees' water balance. And it's getting more rare / drier on average.

It's a good bet that these trees on average will grow shorter in response to moisture / heat stress (mentioned in article). Perhaps also in response to stronger winds (not mentioned). Tough times ahead for the already-tall ones out there, though.

Btw: trees don't need to be big to be awe-inspiring. Once had a Metasequoia growing in a pot, sitting on my desk. Just ~50 cm. high, a close look revealed 5 or 6 spiders had taken up residence in it. Some ants walking up & down its branches. Various species of moss growing at its base. And an assortment of creatures wandering the soil underneath (mostly harmless or beneficial). A whole ecosystem of its own.

Nature is awesome, period.
Final 'graph of the article:

[T]he patient advocacy groups took victory laps after Relyvrio was approved, and they were a big part of the pressure that made the FDA reverse its initial correct decision.

Motivated reasoning, whether by commercial interests, patient advocates, or any other group, is inimical with truth-finding.

Though on the grounds of potential benefit vs. known harm (which is assessed in Phase I/II trials) and partial knowledge, a provisional approval in the case of a treatment for a chronic, progressive, and fatal condition is reasonably defensible. The FDA's conditional approval was based on Phase III trials showing efficacy. The dice were rolled, though the gamble in this case proved fruitless.
I'll edit the readme for clarity
Essential tremor linked to tripled risk of dementia, study finds
Where are you making $200k+ with limited experience and do you need a senior partner? :-D
If one takes TikTok's business at face value, then yes, their analysis of the business might indicate that they'll make more keeping it as a unit of their company rather than whatever they can get by spinning if off or maybe could profit more by spinning it off at another time. But if there's more to TikTok that what they admit, such as it being a tool used by the Chinese government to influence western society and government, then that value only exists as long as it is owned by a compliant Chinese parent company.
Hell no. They need to pay me for that to happen.
I think you've hit the nail on the head there. The formal licences of FOSS came not a moment too soon - many open source developers still don't understand them or the copyright law they interact with, but use them primarily out of habit and custom. A much smaller subset in the open source community do understand them, and continue to make minor variations to keep up with changing times (such as accounting for the growing risk to FOSS from software patents).

Artists that I've spoken to (and I've spoken to many) don't tend to understand copyright either. The more naïve ones believe that copyright will protect them from plagiarism; of course it's not that simple in practice. Yet, the cultural norms among artists today go back centuries before computers existed, and before modern copyright laws too. That seems to make it much harder for 'open culture' licences like Creative Commons to get a foothold, although online sites like Flickr have certainly contributed to collecting a sizeable corpus of freely-licenced art.

If the concept of Free Software had been conceived after the widespread use of the World Wide Web rather than before it, I don't think that even the comparative openness of the Web would have been enough to make FOSS catch on.

To me, that begs the question: does FOSS actually need to exist? After all, art and music continues to survive and thrive without free licensing? But when I ponder that question, I'm glad FOSS does exist. We programmers don't, by and large, have to cope with record labels and licensing agencies taking successively larger cuts from the sale of our work, and those who program professionally tend to be compensated considerably more generously than our counterparts in the creative arts.

Most importantly: we FOSS developers are able to share our own work and take advantage of others' with complete certainty and legality. No 'grey areas' about copying when the original author or artist goes AWOL (it's actually not a grey area; it's simply prohibited). No 'non-commercial use only' causing legal headaches for non-profit and charitable ventures. No Digital Rights Management - I don't need to explain that relief here!

So all in all, I get what the blog post's author is trying to say, but I think he's just taking the joy of FOSS for granted. Programming would be a much more competitive, less friendly world if it were exclusively proprietary and commercial, and would be exploited more - not less - if it were as ad-hoc and improvised an industry as in the creative arts.
I feel you, the imagery for my home town of Belgrade is from 2014. The city's changed a lot in the past 10 years, but you can't see it on Street View.

On the other hand, Google Maps does make use of the public transport API, which is extremely useful.
In this case, the FDA had approved the drug, though conditionally.

Second 'graph of TFA:

A second advisory committee meeting was convened, and if that phrase sounds odd to you, it should. That's a very unusual thing to do. This one voted for approval, and the FDA did approve the drug in September of 2022. There was a condition, though: Amylyx was already working on a Phase III trial, and they committed to withdrawing the drug if this trial showed no efficacy.
But the Messages application can send texts to non-iPhone numbers...
It may be cynical, sure. But chosing cheap words to address groups of people is poor form for the speaker nevertheless.

If you are addressing others, use better words to describe them. Calling people "folks" all the time is lazy and insulting.
It shouldn't be a problem if you only train on legally acquired data. You will know the authors name and can contact them if you so wish.
> What makes you think they’d otherwise have leave?

Personal experience during port visits after time at sea (in the U.S. Navy).
Because beautiful diagrams that can be edited and viewed anywhere and any developer tool and platform on the planet.
> Humans are very capable of looking around themselves and thinking "I can do better than this"

Doesn't this require at least some perspective of what "better than this" means, which you could only know with at least a bit of outside influence in one way or another?
Vlogging Camera Prices
A website where you can compare camera prices. Great tool for buying a camera.
Is it true though, that Linux eco does not have a good debugger? Do not we have GDB?
Might work in areas with huge iMessage market share like North America - I know probably two people with the "green texts"
humans can have original ideas, since they possess reasoning ability, whereas large language models cannot, since they have none
All optical computing surfaces again!

Warning.

There is NO opportunity for large scale integration, the MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT in computing. This is because the de Broglie wavelength of the information carriers, typically 1.5um, is so HUGE.
Imagining the perspective of someone with ALS I can see why they rightly would be advocating for a quicker process even with the risk. Most people diagnosed with ALS die within 1-5 years depending on how quickly it progresses. They don't have the benefit of waiting on the normal timeline for FDA approvals. The downsides of taking an experimental drug that harms them or just doesn't work is likely worth it for someone in that situation when they look at the potential upsides if it does work.

For quickly degenerative diseases maybe we need a different process that takes into account the context of what the drug is used for and what the acceptable risk is by the regulatory bodies. Making the standards and process clear will help provide the framework to reject those with unreasonable demands.
I use ASCIIFlow all the time. I still haven't figured out how to get browsers to render the monospace fonts correctly see example diagram on this page: http://uggly.bytester.net/#how-it-works
The title of this article is pretty dubious given the relative improvement.

For a 3x3 matrix, the naive approach requires 2^3 multiplications. The theoretical ideal lowest bound is 2^2.

In 2020, our best was 2^2.3728596 and now our best is 2^2.371552... so, less than half a percent of an improvement
If the reply is lost, then the caller eventually times out, which causes an exception.

There's a bit of nuance here about where the reply got lost.
1. Between control-plane and the callee
2. Between control-plane and the caller

But broadly, unless idempotency[1] is requested, it can re-run the function.

[1] https://docs.differential.dev/advanced/idempotency/
Why would you test something for efficacy before you're sure it's safe? You'll end up testing a bunch of harmful substances that don't actually do anything.
I assumed it meant computer controlled, versus a switch directly powering the window motor
Try reading my post again, maybe? The tooling is pretty janky because no one does this yet. No point to torture yourself with janky tooling when you only get to target android anyway...
Cold dark matter made of weakly interacting massive particles can.
https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modelx/en_us/GUID-E9B387D...

Tesla calls them “buttons” that you “press”
I grew up in the northeast US, and "chilly" is used to describe exactly the same temperature as it is in coastal California, and it's exactly the temperature I would expect "lukecool" to be.
Is there utility in knowing the lethal dose of a drug before you administer an efficacy study. Libertarians wonder…
As someone with ALS, This drug was prescribed for me by my doctor as equivalent to other ALS medications, namely that they barely slow the progression of the disease. We are talking three to six months of life extension.

You are overselling the effects of this drug harder than the manufacturer did.
> While making a three-point turn, she had put the car in reverse instead of drive, she said. It is a mistake she had made before with the Tesla gearshift. The car had zipped backward, tipping over an embankment and into a pond.

I've shifted to the wrong gear before during parking and so forth, luckily not causing an accident but it caused me to reevaluate my methods. Now after shifting (on an automatic) I let my foot off the brake and let the car creep a little bit before adding throttle if required. If I was in the wrong gear I would step on the brake immediately and the car would only have moved a couple inches.

Yes many vehicles have a electronic display on the dash showing the selected gear but an additional confirmation is always the safest. It's like how you shouldn't completely rely on the hot surface light on a stove or the loaded chamber indicator on a handgun.

The article also seemed to imply that Chao applied a decent amount of throttle right after shifting gears, causing the car to careen into the pond before she could react. While I can't speak for the exact conditions here but that's not something you should do especially at night with poor visibility.