skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's valid and I totally respect that but I'm asking for any tips that don't involve religion / for someone who believes what we see is what there is
you should slightly rethink/reword your argument because it is not right to say no riak for communities in a cost benefit analysis. The benefit maximizing outcome will hve some non zero risk to the community because the benefit from [insert some individual action] is non zero. Zero anything is almost always wrong.
Which you are legally required to do anyways in some parts of the world.
The installer (subiquity) supports the "autoinstall" config files embedded in the install USB/ISO if you want. You can also just point the USB/ISO's autoinstall to an HTTPS address so an update doesn't require spinning new install media (does require the install start with some form of network access then). If you have wildly technical users only then they can even just have them type the autoinstall web address in the grub entry before the standard install media autoboots the entry (this falls apart the second someone isn't ultra techncial). In any of these cases the autoinstall file can still handle both the installer as well as post install custom scripts to do whatever you need but then it's done.

For long term management/enrollment you'd need to look at something beyond just putting stuff on the installer USB/ISO. Ubuntu has Landscape for this but there are some alternatives. Just depends on what you need to manage long term and what you can realistically do (e.g. you note you aren't in a spot to manage something like Puppet).
When 3D printing became accesible I joined the subreddit for inspiration of what use I could put it to and the opposite happened. Everyone was making plastic toys and ironic reaches like an “egg holster”. Every so often someone would be able to fabricate a replacement part for something which I thought was the coolest. But beyond that. There wasn’t too much to be motivated by. I never got into it.

Here I wonder the same thing. Not that everything joyful must be productive. But if there was a way to apply this to something that was neat in the real world I think I’d be far more motivated to learn the skill. And enjoy it more.
That some ancient Greeks {allegedly, disputed} named modes after slaves is completely irrelevant today; we have a 12 tone system with a diatonic scale in which we just start/end on different notes to make modes. Their names could be anything. The underlying scale is related to the harmonic series, which is a universal that transcends humanity. Music history shapes how instruments are made. There are some tunes that are taught, usually no older than a couple hundred years at most, and beyond that, people just use their ears. Mostly, people tell their own stories with music in their own way, not stories from past generations, let alone distant cultures from centuries or millennia ago.
In the US, there can only be one union by law.

If you don't like it, you can't pick or make another.

By us law, you are usually allowed to quit the union, if you do, you still have to pay the union part of your salary.

In the US, workers can't join or start a union unless 51% of all workers vote to join them/let them.

If all this sounds crazy, polarizing, and like a recipe for conflict, you are correct. I think the European versions of unions makes much more sense, and are closer to free association
I’m impressed! The way the 2600 does graphics I would have thought this to be impossible but you did it!
I have cycled to work past this ugly thing in Berlin: https://maps.app.goo.gl/9WQ6PZPg2U8XBzJo6

Although it actually fits quite right in the neighbourhood, which was wholly ruined by brutalist architects.

Some parts were built over beautiful Gründerzeit (industrial revolution more or less) tenement houses, which were demolished for this new "futuristic" district.
There's a lot of local history locked up in facebook's nostalgia groups. I want to archive it in an open format.

I want to grab new rental listings and put them in an RSS feed, so I only look at each one once.

That's my uses for data scraping right now. If that destroys someone's business, I don't actually care. Maybe it's selfish, but my right to re-format data for my own convenience outweighs their right to make a profit.
Knives are significantly more useful than LLMs, which are long past the point of diminishing returns.
Aside from having to have something to parse out the submission as the response isn’t that human readable, I think the biggest problem is that users need a mail client and requires them to hit send. This disorients people so even if they have a mail client, you end up with people not hitting submit.
The DIY Ups Project – Power Outages? Not a Problem
I had a similar experience with google a while back.

My conclusion: Eliminate what little remaining usages of their services I have.

Doing that with iCloud and Google would be a colossal pain. This event has me thinking more seriously about self-hosting a few more things.
If even Google can't get it right...
That's the X11 tool chain, icky as it may be, it is what it is.

No reason to refactor a build environment "just because"

Hey Makefiles? How quaint! You should use CMake!

Hey CMake? How weird! You should use Maven like the rest of the company!

Maven? Yuck! Why don't you simply and just use Makefiles instead of resume engineering?

Make? Sheesh how do we deal with integrating different environments? It may be crusty but imake is perfectly suited to this task.
Very helpful, ty vm.
It passes all form fields in URL encoded format in the body (example, name=Billy+Cravens&state=TX)
it is absolutely illegal
My windows 11 computer does the same thing. It’s because of the limited bandwidth in Bluetooth that it has to lower the audio quality
How The Markup and CalMatters matched up
I know that Apple’s Pages lets you define styles per document, apply them to spans, and then change the style, affecting all spans to which it's applied.
I would like to point out that I did not have rings, just normal looking bug bites.
Neural networks for data selection in particle physics have been used since before the current AI hype cycle took off. This means there are already some established guidelines on how to mitigate and conservatively estimate pontential biases. I certainly hope the IceCube researchers have followed them.
Ancient Maya blessed their ballcourts
Firejail gives more control over the boundaries of the sandbox. So deb + firejail seems superior to snaps to me from a security perspective.
They're talking about the attack surface to get accidental code execution from opening files that try to exploit vim. Integrating shell commands with vim/less is a valid feature.
From what I understand a significant amount is Nvidia drivers and Nvidia stuff.
I would be interested in hearing more. In my understanding, these tools aren’t inherently contradictory, though I do see some folks agreeing with you.
Oral History of Brian L. Halla [pdf] (2013)
I use https://www.formtools.org (php) but I wish there were more self-hosted options.
4.10 was the initial release, afair :) With 6.06 (postponed by two months to "get the release right", due to the extended support cycle) as the first LTS release. I fondly receiving 5.xx-release-CDs in the mail and distributing them on our uni campus and in schools back in the day!
Shame this doesn't include my favorite description, a 4d vector in projective affine coordinates.

Instead of a normal and point or constant you get (x,y,z,1) . P = 0. The translation between the two is trivial. If you want a plane spanned by 3 points you just can use the generalized cross product to find P.

One advantage is that you can avoid all the special cases with 3 intersecting planes. There exists exactly 1 point that is on all 3 planes, but as this is in projective coordinates it might lie at infinity.
That is not true. There are extensions to the X11 server that can resolve many of the security issues, but almost no one cares enough to use them.

If you are doing X11 forwarding via SSH it defaults to a more restricted configuration that only allows a more restricted access to the server (no direct sniffing of the input devices for instance).
Some limit's are pretty obvious, even if easy to fix.

For example, a pure LLM is just a single pass through a stack of transformer layers, so there is no variable depth/duration (incl. iteration/looping) of thought and no corresponding or longer duration working memory other than the embeddings as they pass thru. This is going to severely limit their ability to plan and reason since you only get a fixed N layers of reasoning regardless of what they are asked.

Lack of working memory (really needs to be context duration, or longer, not depth duration) has many predictable effects.

No doubt we will see pure-transformer architectures extended to add more capabilities, so I guess the real question is how far these extensions (+scaling) will get us. I think one thing we can be sure of though is that it won't get us to AGI (defining AGI = human-level problem solving capability) unless we add ALL of the missing pieces that the brain has, not just a couple of the easy ones.
What desktop os? MacOS doesn't work well with Samsung stuff regarding quality, Windows 11 + Microsoft Teams = quality is somehow worse.
40% reduction in crash rate, not fatalities. It seems dubious that they could get fatality statistics wrong and get away with it. Creative statistics feels plausible with “crashes”.
> hustle culture types

It seems like you have this imaginary strawman that you hate and it seems like that's the foundation of why you dislike this.
My bad, I didn't know that that term was so established.
The "solution" other vendors take is to maintain the high quality bluetooth audio output to your headphones while using your laptop's microphone as input. They basically don't use your headset's mic in order to keep your headset in A2DP mode for high quality audio. You can also easily configure this in PulseAudio Volume Control.

You can't work around the fundamental limitations of Bluetooth protocols like A2DP without cheating and using another microphone somewhere else. You can't use the headset mic when receiving high quality A2DP audio, ever, no matter how hard you try. It is a limitation of the Bluetooth standard.

When you switch the device into headset mode the quality turns to potato because it uses bidirectional audio codecs from the stone age in HFP/HSP mode with mSBC or (god help us all) CVSD.
There are only a handful of drugs that turns you into that king of zombie. Mainly opiates that ilegalization itself made so powerful.

Before being ilegal, the most common opiate was opium. It has about the same strength as codeine, about 1/10 of morphine. Some people took it daily for decades, and they were fully functional, not zombies.

Only after ilegalization we see people taking fentanil. Because it's easier to smuggle 10,000 doses of fentanil (1 gram) than 20 doses of opium (2 gram). The same happened with coca leaves vs cocaine: were coca leaves are legal, only a few use cocaine. And some people chew coca leaves all their lifes without too much problem. Certainly less than an alcoholic.
There's nothing to laugh at about road traffic fatalities, whether they are caused by humans or AI.
Even more damaging is the lie that modern tech continues to sell people: that they're too stupid to use computing technology, and all the restrictions of the platform (relative to real computers) are actually for their benefit and not the corporation's.
Those parameters need to be passed in the mailto: URL, not the form, if the FORM is a POST

mailto:example@gmail.com?subject=About+your+extended+warranty
I've seen a few posts by users claiming to use randomly generated unique passwords. If that's true then it could be a leak from apple. On the other hand it could also be that it's not and the security response team is catching users not on that leaked list due to unrefined heuristics.

On the third hand it is an apple leak, they've been given a sample list by whoever is ransoming them so they've enacted overly strict heuristics that apply to everyone.
The author seems to have forgotten that most schoolwork is also not something the student is passionate about, and the value of apprenticeships. Of course it would be better for students to work on something they love, but that needs to be weighed against working in a community, on a codebase, that will maximize learning.
I don't need it often, but I've used bluetooth earbuds (with mic) and Xubuntu LTS 22.04. No problems at all.
The relationship between the perceived importance of the thing and the amount of people who have strong opinions it is inversely proportional.

The less meaningful a change is the more people dare to voice strong preferences.
Nice to read a non doom and gloom article once in a while on climate.
I don't know the percentage, but the majority of minor collisions never result in a police report. The parties involved just deal with their insurers. When a guy scratched my bumper at a stoplight I didn't waste time calling the police.
Drugs that are legal for adults are typically illegal for children. Alcohol and tobacco are both legal for adults in the US and illegal for children.

Saying adults who are generally functional should generally have agency over their own body is not saying "Anything goes!" and is not saying "Let's actively seek to turn kids into addicts!"

A lot of arguments against decriminalization are posited as extremist, worst case scenarios.

I said from the start that I don't know what the history is for the jurisdiction in question and ended with my firm belief that decriminalization should not be code for giving assholes a pass on any and every shitty thing they want to excuse or justify.

Seems like something went wrong in BC and they are trying to course correct. I'm fine with that.
It’s… entirely fine that it takes a 3-5 minute process to disable security that keeps processes from snooping on one another. That’s an excellent default.
From wikipedia: It has been suggested that it is an alien megastructure, but evidence tends to discount this suggestion

Just read wiki on the topic seems to be the best idea these days, much less pompous and no fabulation unlike the article. It also has distant red dwarf companion, of course no mention of this at all in the article.

Not sure why guardian needs to chase sensationalism, I guess view count trumps all other metrics.

Also, haven't heard any rational objections for Dark forest theory, any sufficiently advanced civilization to build this would be tremendously stupid to expose themselves to whole Milky way and few surrounding galaxies.
Hell, it's about time.
I have no beef with the actual content or conclusions, but it’s a shame the article is framed the way it is, because I don’t think we can rigorously define the goalposts for what qualifies as a future LLM. It could just as easily have been titled “Exciting avenues of research for future LLMs!” but we’re all so jaded despite the frankly astonishing progress of recent years.
If I lost my phone, I would still have access to three different recovery methods:

- I have my recovery codes

- I have access to my recovery email address

- I have access to a TOTP token

I would hope this is sufficient to persuade Google's authentication infrastructure to let me in.
Will be installing in a week or two. I'm not a fan of snap, and I know Mint doesn't use it (by default, anyway), but I'm used to Xubuntu and will stick with it for now.

Apparently, the upgrade path isn't quite ready yet. If you're installing now, do a fresh install.
Name a better system. Perfect is enemy of good. The system evolves.

It’s just the beginning of soft regulation — obviously some bad players didn’t like it.
Did I read the article? You?.

But the conversation in the thread is making point that Rust does lack tooling, libraries, that would make lacking fast iteration a valid trade off.

And a common theme is that C++ is better, and last I checked it is also not great at fast iteration.
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40161991> (Top comment on this post as I submit this comment.)
The multiplication tables and two digit arithmetic are 100% memorization, and more challenging multiplication/arithmetic is just learning to break the problems into memorized chunks and then combine them. Math is 100% memorization.
> Interior, small town California has a lot more in common with small-town Texas

Around 10-20% of Californians have "Oakie" heritage (in reality from northern Texas mostly) from the Dust Bowl era.

Working class white Californians who I went to elementary school with in the Bay and Central Valley acted very similar and talk similar to Texans from Dallas-Waco-Austin area (heck, y'all is fairly commonly used in CA as is "heck")

> the emphasis has always been on the difference with Washington, D.C.

We do the same when the GOP comes to power.
Microsoft rewrote one, maybe two microservices as it was driven by a lead interested in using Rust and is rewriting parts of NT kernel (way more important).
1900s grandfather: I buried a sack of gold coins in my backyard.

2000s grandfather: The computer that I used to mine bitcoin is probably in the pile of junk inside the garage.
there is good evidence that Fluvoxamine works (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34717820/) but it was never approved for use by the FDA who prefers approving drugs that cost an arm and a leg with very little proof that they do anything
If we're trying to quantify what they can NEVER do, I think we'd have to resort to some theoretical results rather than a list empirical evidence of what they can't do now.
The terminology you'd look for in the literature would be "expressibility".

For a review of this topic, I'd suggest: https://nessie.ilab.sztaki.hu/~kornai/2023/Hopf/Resources/st...

The authors of this review have themselves written several articles on the topic, and there is also empirical evidence connected to these limitations.
One advantage with standardized workstation OS images, is the bugs/updates/compatibility only requires a 1 support ticket solution.

Deploy a gpg signed public script to periodically download and install updates from a public server. i.e. anyone that has to update knows the package is from you, and the machine role is pre-defined by you with a config file in "/etc/example/myhost.conf". If secrecy is required, than publish host specific encrypted public payloads named for their primary interface MAC.

This is how to handle clowns pulling drives in colocation data-centers.

Cheers =)
Also from last century, a californian, texan, and oregonian are sitting around a campfire drinking:

Suddenly, the texan stands up, throws his whiskey bottle up in the air, draws his Smith & Wesson, and shoots it. The other two ask, "what'd you do that for?", and he replies, "oh, I've got a thousand bottles just like that back home".

After a few minutes, the californian stands up, throws his Zinfandel bottle up in the air, draws his Glock, and shoots it. The other two ask, "what'd you do that for?", and he replies, "oh, there are a thousand wineries making more back home".

Then the oregonian stands up, throws his Hank's bottle up in the air, draws a ghost pistol, turns and shoots the californian, then catches the bottle. The texan asks, "wh-what'd you do that for?", and he replies, "oh, there are a thousand of those a month moving in back home, but this bottle's worth a nickel".
Actually everyone is moving towards guilty unless caught out. In the Netherlands they fight crime with an unaccountable organisation called the RIEC that doesn’t need any evidence to carry out what it calls interventions against even completely innocent people.

So if they choose to (as opposed to they suspected something) they can steal from you, have you attacked and more and they just pervert the course of justice to cover it up. Such as informing the police they are not allowed to response to your calls. Forbidding you to send in police reports. I know because it happened to me. Because I lived next to someone that they wanted to fuck up and I complained.
Network transparency is good, but now it is achieved with RDP/VNC.

I like new mode much better: when you change from terminal to terminal you have all the same programs running on "server" without restart. I could work on my Windows workstation locally, go to my office, attach back to workstation and everything works, then I could go to vacation to India and connect to same workstation from my phone (!) and still programs runs without restart.

X11 model with "RPC display server" when you cannot re-attach same clients to new display server without restart or some proxies, which you need to run in advance, is not so convenient, IMHO. VNC was invented to remedy this problem. And VNC is simple pixel buffer, not high-level controls or X11 protocol in any way.
Getting antibiotics maybe once a year is not excessive. Please stop being hyperbolic, I’m well aware of MRSAs and do my best to take them sparingly. Where I live between 50-70% of the deer ticks have Lyme disease so it’s not overkill.
Cows don’t only eat grass.
Interesting comments, I was expecting a roughly 50/50 split for folks who buy into the “intrinsically hard” story where Reqs change or highly integrated systems just tend towards breakdown vs the “enshittification” story where software quality just falls victim to planned obsolescence, greed, or simply pointless changes caused by fake jobs and the typical make-work.

The third explanation is practitioner incompetence and indifference. Regardless of whether we are talking apps or apis, it’s never been easier to keep around old versions and skip the bitrot but most people just don’t know how to do that. This doesn’t mean it’s hard, just that they’d rather screw over some subset of users than learn how to do proper versioning and releasing.

I phrase it like this because I think it’s a choice people make, and thinking about things like backwards compatibility and dependencies is seen as unsexy and just a thankless chore. If someone wants to dodge it then eventually some one else will get assigned to clean the mess. Next person will do just enough to escape the situation without really fixing it and so on.

The attitude is basically “It’s not like we’re the ones who have to use this crap! Ship it”, and it’s present everywhere from corporate to open source, projects big and small.

Part of it is a lack of pride/craftsmanship, but even senior folks are going to yolo their next release sometimes unless there’s some process in place that prevents it.
The hyper-clouds are open source's friends
Not that I think you shouldn't do it or you're doing something wrong, but describing it as a right irks me the wrong way. You don't have any right to expect someone else's computers to work for you.
I'd argue both are relevant - just like in medical research they look into both efficacy (performance under ideal and controlled conditions) and effectiveness (performance under actual real-world conditions).
Tell that to the most used website in the world, which is basically a scrapping-and-sorting machine.
Open source developers are the original content creators
Yes, but the article doesn't really answer this question.
interesting! where is this required?
Not using the resources at all is a great start.
> Code is malleable enough that we think of applying changes on top of existing code to get a new product, slightly different from the previous one. In this way, code is more similar to genetic material than other types of design.

This is an interesting perspective and will take me some more time to apply to my understanding (see what I did there?). A first thought is how this condemns designing and architecting for an unknown future.
Using your own email account doesn’t generally make things more difficult.