skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It was the Internet. Not because the powerful gained more power, because all possible revolutionaries became opiated

Is the claim that the frequency of revolutions scales inversely with internet penetration? Because this is trivially testable and obviously false. (Ukraine and Tunisia off the top of my head.)
I've tried using the Team version and tried building Actions to connect it with a SQL database. The database is old and doesn't have a complete information schema, to be fair, so I've created one in Excel and uploaded it.

I've found that ChatGPT, even with a lot of instruction, can't figure out how to write good SQL queries.

2 out of 5 runs will result in calls to objects that don't exist.

Aside from that, building the Action to use the queries directly against the database has proven difficult. You don't get any errors back so it's nearly impossible to troubleshoot why it fails an API call.

Finally, it doesn't remember new information, so it has to learn all the tables and columns again with each new chat, which means it makes the same errors repeatedly, which means the first question on any conversation takes around 15 to 20 seconds to get anything back at all.

Overall, it pretty much sucks.
I think you nailed it here. It's important to internalize that being a good employee (and/or leader) is not a virtue, it is a skill. You can be a good person and a bad employee/teammate/leader. A bad employee in the sense that you're letting other people down, and/or a bad employee in the sense that you're not getting paid appropriately or getting denied opportunities.

Your job is a really important part of your life - and you will also affect a lot of other people. It's important to be a bit strategic. Otherwise, even if you have wonderful intentions, there's a great chance you'll work on things that don't matter and that leadership knows nothing about, until your career quietly fizzles out.
Do the institutions and authority figures being dragged deserve it today? I think many do, and frankly I think that governments have probably been getting away with doing things not in the best interests of the citizens for far too long. I don’t like the unrest and instability, but perhaps it’s time *for authority figures to be unmasked and held to account.
Elon Musk's Neuralink brain implant reframes our ideas of self-identity
I don't really agree with that assessment from networking ( note: I'm a social guy, much of those limits you mention, don't apply to me).

Student loans suck in the US, sure.

Is a bankruptcy really a black mark as you think it is? Is anyone actually stopped to start again? Will their network actually consider them a complete failure and disband ties with them? Can't they get any loans after? I don't think so tbh.

Since a bankruptcy is just lost money for banks and you'll need to rebuild the credit score for some time. But nothing is stopping you from planning ahead and retry.
I think this ignores the fact that technology will continue to march on and that the tinkering at the cutting edge will always allow for fun stuff.

In the time period you talk about modding consoles and games was hacking on the cutting edge. Before that you had the phone phreakers and even before that you had people who were seriously into radios.

I think its already happening with the current crop of LLMs, generative AI, and just all the various ML models that have been developed that and another generation has already started doing the same. Right now they are attempting to keep that locked behind corporate doors but we already have Llama locally thanks to a leak. Thats to say nothing of the budding AR that is also coming.

The idea of putting goggles on my head with a computer that makes up the story, graphics and projects them onto the real world would have sounded crazy to me when I was knocking people out of AOL chat rooms with a concon.
I want to get off Mr. Bones' Wild Ride.
I'm sorry,got it
As an owner of hard-to-censor global internet satellite constellation, positioning to offer free speech globally is quite fitting.
"Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years"

https://www.norvig.com/21-days.html
Please define what you mean by righteous and opiniated. You seem to have a very precise idea of what they would be saying, why not develop that idea here so it can be discussed instead of weirdly veiled ?
Are you talking suburban areas that are part of the city “proper” or are you meaning suburbs that are their own city with their own taxes and services?
Update: apparently there had been some notice that funding was tight, and local organizers had been asked to donate, but the degree of criticality was not made explicit.
CRUD vs. Canvas UX: Why Software Is So Frustrating but Will Improve
Bonus level is real. It's *very* difficult so far. Every time I get close to getting some useful info out it locks down pretty hard. Every level contains the levels before it (and more) I believe.
No. CHERI doesn't help with data races, for example. Also it doesn't help with compiler optimizations that exploit UB to make code faster.

Unfortunately low level languages are kind of addicted to optimizations that only work for languages with UB. There's too much performance being left at the table if you create a programming language entirely without UB.

There's no law of nature, however, that says this must be the case forever. You could have a theorem prover prove useful properties about programs (and them feed them to the optimizer) and refrain from "optimizing" if you can't 100% prove that this will not break.
If the kid CC's their parent it's usually obvious that the conversation is supervised. A thoughtful and respectful individual will Reply All.
TinyLlama and SDXS = real time kids story, running local on single RPI-CM4
From https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/constituicao/constitui...

"IV - é livre a manifestação do pensamento, sendo vedado o anonimato;"

"IX - é livre a expressão da atividade intelectual, artística, científica e de comunicação, independentemente de censura ou licença;"

You can see translated versions under "Art 5" here: https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Brazil_2017
As a drummer who codes (or coder who drums), I feel qualified to comment on your analogy.

Firstly, you can be productive -very- quickly on other instruments too. Guitar and piano are both "good enough" even if you can only play 3 chords. You can then learn more as you go.

Secondly, being productive in coding from very early should be qualified with "for some definition of productive". Yes, you can write code, yes it meets the spec, but usually there's also an element of feedback in code review. Sometimes a lot of feedback.

I concur with the grand parent, we get -better- at coding with practice and experience. As long as you are getting feedback in some way.

The "practice" part might be in challenging your own solution. Rewrite it to go twice as fast. Or in half the code. Or not using that convenient language-provided data structure, or whatever.

For the record I'd describe myself as an "excellent" coder (in my field) but my drumming as "enthusiastic". Competent amateur maybe, but far from "professional".
Time for what, millions dead in a civil war?

Just because the CDC suppressed scientists who didn't agree with it's dogma on mRNA treatments doesn't mean we should start feeding babies lead again.
But it's not us we just keep being let down by these new hires. I don't get it, how are they all stupid or lazy?

- Many a myopic org
I am a US consumer so I am looking at the US market. If you read my original post I am spending time and money to thoroughly evaluate the EVs in my price range. I can't go and buy a Chinese car in Europe so why should I be concerned about whats going on there? You are doing what I alluded to in my original comment: You are overlooking at how actual consumers are satisfied with ICE and are not seeing enough benefits to switching to EVs yet.
Multiple times have civilian airliners been shot down mistakenly by fighter jets.
That is excellent, and if you enjoyed it, you might also enjoy the Cleveland Browns one:

https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/very-truly-yours
Most people who work in engineering and science tend to be more intelligent than those who work in blue-collar jobs. Exceptions do not invalidate this general trend. The fact that most tech job interviews are questions that are as close as possible to a live IQ-test further supports this premise. There is a premium on abstract reasoning that limits the number of people who can be successful software engineers, especially at places that pay a lot (FAANG, etc.) To ignore this fact is nice sounding but generally wishful thinking.
Thanks for the deep dive. Yes fun to follow.
I agree with you, but would suggest that the thing to focus on is the next layer of abstraction. The thing that barely works. Our generation screwed around with the PSX and Xbox, the Wild West era of the internet, etc. Now the most obvious thing I can think of that is the same level of not done is AI. Yeah there’s a higher barrier to entry, but look at that guy the other day that posted about improving performance by dynamically pruning a model. Or half the crazy shit on huggingface. Generative video and image AI seems to have a lower entry barrier too.

Again I’m not saying you’re wrong. It just seems like the thing that’s always the most prime for screwing around with is the thing at the bleeding edge. There’s still some fun to have.
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> The biggest offenders are actual urban areas that should be cities but try to act like suburbs.

Got an example?
I worked for a company that was very good at that. It resulted in software organizations in 50+ countries.

I had teams in North American, Europe, Russia and East Asia. It resulted in a diversified set of engineers who were close to our customers (except in Russia where the engineers were highly qualified but few prospects for sales). Managing across cultures and time zones is a competence. Jet lag from travel was not as great...
This all begs the question, what happens to the electrons going into a black hole?
Gilbert Strang's "Intro to Linear Algebra"[1] is widely recommended and I enjoyed it as a supplement to Friedberg, Insel, and Spence's much more formal "Linear Algebra"[2].

[1] https://math.mit.edu/~gs/linearalgebra/ila6/indexila6.html

[2] https://www.pearson.com/en-us/subject-catalog/p/linear-algeb...
Sure, I get that. The major distinction in our views is my rating of severity. Because I weigh the human trafficking aspect as much more severe, that probability can be much less certain and still have a higher risk in my eyes. Again, risk = severity * probability. And I think it’s important to differentiate between the probability of someone trying to scam, and the probability of it working. It’s definitely a big problem, but not a commensurate risk IMO.
On the surface, China is a country where power controls behavior, but the real situation is that the Western world is
Same reason you have a say in whether there’s a strip mine or a landfill across the street from your property. The residents come together and decide on the rules by which they will be governed.

Just because they don’t jive with exactly how you’d want things doesn’t mean the system is not working as it’s intended.
They did mention it. The Smithsonian piece is a response to it. They even link to the same IUGS press release that the Guardian uses as a source.
depends, if you need to spend time with her, bring her our for dinner, etc.
It’s a great way to get readers and consumers to become writers and creators
Look at every reply here. It jumps to a conclusion that an unmanned vehicle is making decisions about who dies and thus must be bad. It overlooks the fact that most of us enjoy the stability and protection of militaries that are real people we ask to risk their lives to fly these planes.
I agree with not consuming headlines so thats why I went out and started spending ~100$ a day renting one EV model at a time and driving it an entire day to see the reality with living with EVs. In my experience, I haven't found a compelling model that fully replaces the ICE car I have no trouble with. That ICE car(06 Mazda 3) is my personal benchmark to beat.
lol. irs can calculate your taxes in all cases since the 60s. they only offer a crap toy that covers only 1/1000000 of cases. intuit lobbying is still winning.

cannot even touch that if happen to have a retirement account generating any 1099, or if you got tips. these restrictions covers everyone with a 9 to 5 job and everyone with a temp job. what's left?
I stuck around using it for longer than I probably should have. The integrated chat and mail clients were useful. The HTML editor not so much, and didn't appear to get much attention.

One of the main things I miss is the LCARSTrek theme by KaiRo. Unlike any other LCARS browser theme, I found it to be usable on a day to day basis. Sadly it isn't available for Firefox.

https://www.kairo.at/download/mozskins
"A few hundred years will be indistinguishable from a single human lifetime to those future geologists."

On what do you base this claim? Before humans, not much happened around and the sediment layers were thin. The amount of energy moving things around was limited to weather (due to sun radiation, mostly), volcanic/tectonic activity, and to (a lesser degree, due to direct effect of) tidal forces. Humans activity however, both directly and indirectly, caused effects that also involved energy stored in the span of millions of years. That should be anything but indistinguishable.

Also, from the article:
"The amount of sediment settled behind the world’s thousands of big dams would cover all of California to a depth of five meters, and such sediments are full of distinctive markers, like pesticide residues, metals, microplastics and the fossils of invasive species. To define a time period formally, geologists must identify distinctive signals in sediments or rocks that can be correlated around the globe, and the presence of such markers is ubiquitous. The geology is real."
> But knowing that this is possible ...

Who knowing this is possible?

The general elderly person isn't going to know any time soon. The SV IT people probably will.

It's not an even distribution of knowledge. ;/
> Some of the music I listened to growing up, that I still listen to, was made by people who were complete neophytes with their instruments.

I think it depends on the instrument, the type of music, and the ensemble.

Punk band? Sure. Symphony orchestra? Probably not.

Which isn't to say that one is objectively better or worse than the other. Lots of people enjoy both.
Is this for fun or are you really saying a cursor can increase
sales?
oh also it requires a id.me account.

go ahead and try to get one. they have a literal root kit trying to run on your browser. if you're firewall blocks anything like webrts and such you get denied
I actually love the intuition built with geometric arguments using infinitesimals.

You need something like smooth infinitesimal analysis [0] to make this rigorous, but it's much better than anything involving limits.

[0] https://publish.uwo.ca/~jbell/invitation%20to%20SIA.pdf
sure, but does it matter in any material way?

Israel or the IDF can buy this anywhere, or even just build it in-house (and there's a huge cost to spending a long time on procurement if someone can get Google to cancel this, but unfortunately it doesn't matter for anyone in Gaza right now)

and while there are a lot of objections to this (why not spend it on something a lot more useful, feeding Google is bad, etc), awareness of this, or even cancelling this does nothing to move the needle on the actual very high-prio issue :/

so all this has a huge cost to them (they lost their jobs, emotional distress) and in the end ends up as performative as Twitter/Mastodon threads :(
Well, my preference would be world peace and end to this wasting resource. However I suppose that's quite the pipe dream isn's it?

More seriously tho, here is a positive I can come up with: Race to the bottom on bots and AI, lots and lots of bots and AI, lots and lots of upgrades and updates all the time, and then a MAD stalemate situation again because it becomes it's too difficult to assess the capabilities of the other countries AIs. If that bought us years of peace because everyone was to scare to fight, I'm ok-ish with that (although I doubt it's what will happen).
Cydia was awesome. As a kid, the porting of apt and dpkg to ios was what got me into linux and debian, having only had access to an ipod touch before. Thank you for your work, it is inspiring.
The amount of shooting is influenced by circumstances. That is to say, if one side doesn't have to risk people dying, then they may be more willing to start a war.

For a given amount of shooting, the number of civilian casualties is not necessarily constant. It's possible that AI may be more prone to targeting civilians or makes it easier to get away politically with killing civilians.

Not all shooting is equally effective. It's possible that AI weapons may give some faction the ability to crush anyone who opposes them.
>The idea of a free for all bug abusing server is pretty neat, a whole ‘nother level of the game.

Isn't this basically any non-VAC CS 1.6 server?
Being 6 ft 3in in the US should but in reality does not help make up for my other downsides. :)

More seriously this isn't a problem I encounter with my current ICE car (nor other EVs like the Mustang Mach-e). Seems like a specific Bolt design flaw.
Link an actual study with verifiable results, otherwise you’re just another commenter shouting into the void.
There is plenty of choices. Don’t blame us suburb lovers with families and safety concerns if the yuppies, DINKs, and well to do retirees priced you out of the urbanity you desire.
I think TFA is more stressing that this only "new" once perspective can lead you to exclaiming WTF a lot to all your new colleagues - thus giving the impression of being a loud complaining nuisance.

Instead, by writing it down and NOT expressing it just yet, you give yourself time to learn the lie of the land and why things are the way they are; to orient yourself in the workplace. And when you are comfortable, settled with accounts/permissions/authorisations, you have a nice list to move on.

The team is then more likely to think you are being helpful rather than a popup muppet exclaiming "WTF is that!" all the time.
This is part of the ACE program [0] where a human pilot will control a number of drones. Sensors in each drone will give the pilot more information and longer range sensors, and the human pilot will use that info to direct the drones to engage certain targets.

For example, using long range radar the pilot selects several enemy jets, and directs the drones to engage those jets. Or the pilot can direct a drone to go ahead of his formation to penetrate hostile air space and collect data he can use to decide next steps.

ACE creates a hierarchical framework for autonomy in which higher-level cognitive functions (e.g., developing an overall engagement strategy, selecting and prioritizing targets, determining best weapon or effect, etc.) may be performed by a human, while lower-level functions (i.e., details of aircraft maneuver and engagement tactics) is left to the autonomous system.[0]

Eventually this will be integrated with the F35[1] reducing risk to human pilots.

0. https://www.darpa.mil/program/air-combat-evolution

1. https://breakingdefense.com/2022/09/lockheed-investing-100m-...
yes, china is too
This happened in PvE situations too -- Everquest always had people, especially guilds, running ShowEQ/MacroEQ to read mob locations off of the wire/from memory. Often could be used in non-unethical ways[1]

Sometimes you got funny situations like top guilds cheesing new raid content in their race to finish it first, leading the devs to go "cmon bro, you only played yourself" and then patching it immediately after, but almost never taking any loot away or banning anyone.

Also funny is the common situation where you don't want to _admit_ to everyone in your guild that you have at least one person running it, but you can kind of figure it out and it becomes an open secret.

1 - These are the days where you might have to clear down a dungeon 4 hours to see if a mob is up, or, even worse, to see if it's camped or not. Alternatively (or as a cover) people just parked alts but you get the idea.
Also, come to think of it, Diablo had this too with maphacks and grabit and such
MLIR includes a "linalg" dialect that contains common operations.
You can see those here: https://mlir.llvm.org/docs/Dialects/Linalg/

This post is rather unrelated. The linalg dialect can be lowered to LLVM IR, SPIR-V, or you could write your own pass to lower it to e.g. your custom chip.
Speaking as another one of "those kids", I disagree. I became better by doing things, sure, but it was not in any sense an "organized and reflective" practice. It was... just doing things and reading about things because it was fun and interesting (and, eventually, because it paid). But not by deliberately exercising.

Regular, yeah, I'll give you that. Any skill gets better with practice.
I get the feeling that if someone understands how to square x + dx and can also follow the similar triangle argument on the next page, they'll be totally fine studying calculus starting with limits instead of this.
Doesn't seem like it's just Russia who's producing arms for the other side: :(

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-is-giving-russia-...
even here some jobs you can't get if your credit score is too low.. a definite social ramification. it leaks a bit - but it will be a sieve eventually.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say. I can assure you that a large chunk of the military (you know, the people in the cockpits and facing the bullets as you mention) have reservations about AI on the battlefield or reject it altogether.
Those two statements don't strike me as contradictory. It's entirely possible that someone could enjoy the protection of the military and feel that it is too dangerous for combat to be fought by AI.

By way of analogy, most people who enjoy the protection of the military are opposed to the use of chemical or biological weapons. They recognize that how people fight is also important.
> ... [the crisis] seemed to be characterized by groupthink and escalation of commitment to one course of action, at the expense of other possible solutions ...

This is my favourite sentence in the whole article. I'm not sure what the solution really is, but spending 12 months in school just teaching people "how to respond to a crisis without panicking and behaving like a herd of sheep" would be of huge societal value.

We don't all have to do exactly the same thing. Different people can do different things. I've only seen crises where compromises on individual liberty were a grave mistake; but I've seen a lot of crises where by gum the authorities tried that approach anyway with the populace egging them on.
I'm not sure you completed the thought. You put forward civil war as the outcome of widespread distrust in institutions, but then gave an example of society continuing to function just with greater discomfort, inefficiency, and crime. What's the path from that, to war?
The middle ground is learning how to be the helpful guy but also being able to say no when you don't have time. Not easy, but enforcing boundaries is an important skill.