skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What for? To start a war between nuclear powers just because of sabotage? Furthermore, we the members of NATO sometimes sabotage other members, like when some pipes of the Nord Stream pipeline were destroyed two years ago. So...
Effect of masticating chewing gum on postural stability during upright standing
For adding and refactoring it can be a great tool. For greenfield development, it's more tricky - yesterday I sat down and started writing something new, with no context to give Copilot. Mid sourcefile, I paused to think about what I wanted to write - it spit out three dozen lines of code that I then had to evaluate for correctness and just ended up throwing away. I could have probably helped the process by writing docs first, but I'm a code first, docs second kind of guy. Totally sold on LLM written unit tests though, they are a drag to write and I do save time not writing them by hand.

It's going to be a bit before LLMs can make an app or library that meets all requirements, is scalable, is secure, handles dependencies correctly, etc, etc. Having an LLM generate a project and having a human check it over and push it in the right direction is not going to be cheaper than just having a senior engineer write it in the first place, for a while. (I could be off-base here - LLMs are getting better and better)

I'm not worried about being replaced, my bigger worry is in the mean time the bottom end falling out of the engineering market. I'm worried about students learning to program now being completely dependent on LLMs and never learning how to build things without it and not knowing the context behind what the LLM is putting out - there's definitely a local maxima there. A whole new "expert beginner" trap.
It also has a “personalized layout”, though when I tried it a few years ago (using a chapter from a novel I wrote as input), I was unimpressed and stuck with Colemak.
I prefer to have nerdtree because it can be used like regular file explorer tree in an IDE.

When screen sharing with a colleague who might be unfamiliar with vim, it is easy for them to help us navigate if they see a tree compared to the magic of ctrl-p/fzf fuzzy search based on their hints.
You already mentioned it - RAG.

But like the "AI lawyer", the "AI doctor", the "AI coder", it doesn't replace the analyst, it just improves the quality and output of their work.

It might replace analyst interns, or some entry-level positions that were mostly low-level tasks and data entry, but a data analyst at a company who knows how to put data into a LlamaIndex for querying is a very useful analyst - think of what can be built on top of that domain-specific LLM for the company, for the analyst. It makes non-technical analysts who don't use AI seem incredibly passe and useless in comparison.

Same with auto mechanics, lawyers, doctors, HVAC techs, construction workers - AI tooling will even make its way into police work (even in the field, running on their little computer in-car) as well as dispatching.

Doesn't replace anyone, but has the ability to drastically improve our quality of work. Turns the expert into a super-expert.
In California you can get mosquitofish for free from your local county. In many cases you can just put a few in your pond once and they will live there indefinitely without needing any care, eating all the mosquito larvae they can find.

Here's an example for San Diego but most if not all counties will have a similar program: https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/deh/pests/wnv/pre...
At a guess, movement like that seen in glaciers and ice sheets?
Five ways to pass parameters to Apache APISIX
but the LLM is no different than a human doing that & outputs COMPLETELY unique strings! - said the profiting robot parked at the gray zone law area waiting for lobyists turn it white
That is right, but it is a global market where Novo Nordisk can decide to sell in a country or not, so I do not think they would sell below cost. I agree with the point that the US pays disproportionately much for the R&D portion of the cost, though.
You can not have seniors without juniors.

Interacting with a computers (and therefor creating software) will probably soon detach itself from the idea of single chars and the traditional QWERTY keyboard.

Computing is entering a fascinating phase, I'd stick around for it.
Except nonplussed isn't a fancy word with pedigree, it's something that you would assume originated in 1984 as one of the words in the simplified language for proles.
How about some liability placed on members of government for their hopeless legislating? As developers of law shouldn’t they accept responsibility for the harms they cause?
How much of standardization or cannon is 'invented' in the same exact way? Very William S. Burroughs.
I think Microsoft is going the wrong direction with Copilot (though it's a reasonable direction given their incentives).

Right now Copilot is terrible at large changes to complex codebases; the larger and more complex, the worse. But it's great at suggesting very short snippets that guess exactly what you were in the middle of writing and write it for you.

I wish Copilot focused more on the user experience at the small scale: faster and smaller completions, using the semantic info provided by the IDE, new affordances besides "press tab to complete" (I'd love a way for Copilot to tell me "your cursor should jump to this line next"), etc. This whole focus on making the AI do the entire end-to-end process for you seems like a dead end to me.
I don't think there's that big of a market for obsolete server pieces as nostalgia...

But you could probably make a decent profit on just the CPUs alone parted out, even with the moving/handling costs.
I think latency is the biggest reason I killed my Copilot sub after the first month. It was fine at doing busy-work, like 40%~ success rate for very very standard stuff, which is a net win of like... 3-5%. If it was local and nearly instant, I'd never turn it off. Bonus points if I could restrict the output to finishing the expression and nothing more. The success rate beyond finishing the first line drops dramatically.
Are you ideologically aligned with the distant origin of everything you use and consume?
Particularly if you notice all the galaxies above the top of the gas cloud in the final frame.
Perhaps it's impossible to explain this in an ELI5 manner (or even an ELI40+ manner), but as a layman I'm having a really hard time understanding what it means to "halt" a photon. For that matter, I'm having a hard time understanding how photons are slowed traversing through matter, but obviously I understand it's a common experience given that the speed of light in substances like glass or water is slower than a vacuum.

Just curious if anyone is able to recommend any sources that can help explain this to someone with a general knowledge of physics, but not a PhD in quantum mechanics.
I'd guess there is also some efficiency in muscle tissue taking in oxygen over fat tissue? Also a bit better lungs, for runners and such? Though, I also don't know the relationship between lung efficiency and heart rate.

If you have links on any of this, it feels like it would be a very fascinating read.
What is the point of living? It is a combination of depression, boredom and helplessness I suppose
This concept could be done today with newer materials such as mylar film and polystyrene to keep the sun at bay.

Although a YouTuber would be able to do it for internet likes, in reality, when the horse manure gets real, every aircraft carrier is a dead duck when the enemy has hypersonic missiles.
Cicadas Are Basically Safe for You–and Your Dog–To Eat. Here's What to Know
> Understanding what the client actually wants

This is what AI bros don’t understand since they seem to spend their days writing CRUD backends for REST APIs.

You need to understand a lot of stuff before coding anything:

- client: what do you want?
- product owner: what does the client really want?
- me: what do they fucking want and how will I do it?
- QA: how will I test this cleanly so that they don’t bother me all day long?
- manager: when do you want it?
- boss: how much are you willing to spend for this?

We usually say that nerds are shy and introverted, but we are central to the development of a product, and I don’t think an AI can change this.
The airline only needs to be physically shown a passport which will get the person into the destination: they don’t record it. So you book with the Czech passport, go through border control with the Czech passport, then show the airline staff the Russian passport.
That's a fair statement. My standard for this type of show remains BBC's Tinker Tailor Solider Spy (1979) and the follow up Smiley's People (1982).

Alec Guinness owns Smiley. Just perfect. Absolutely gripping yet low budget [+] it actually demands that you use your intellect to keep up. If you haven't seen those I say whip up ye old torrent client and get some.

Anyways, I did say "too greatly". Someone up there says "no spoilers" so ..

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080297/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083480/
It's so wild nobody has been able to successfully challenge it in court.
The weird thing is that doctors have to put up with this kind of shit from insurance administrators, who are their inferiors on the social ladder.
Whatever organization they are trying to sponsor is very obviously a social movement, not a piece of software.

You can only sponsor people, not software.
Do you mean this one (Manchester Mark I emulator in Java by David Link)? https://web.archive.org/web/20110723062727/http://alpha60.de...

Related to the topic of music on the Mark I: "BBC finds oldest digital music recording", https://bit-tech.net/news/beeb-finds-oldest-digital-music-re...

See also this paper for a bit more background: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-53280-6_...
Maybe you'd be interested in this:

https://github.com/timonoko/Nokolisp_On_Nokia_phone

But I can't figure out how to install it, while I know how to build nokolisp with MASM. Thus the MSDOS based Nokolisp is more useful, at least for me.

BTW the cited HN posting contains at least one factual error: The Nokia Communicator 9110 was based on an 486SX SOC, not an 80186.

But to each his own.
Lol, no it hasn't. Shipping rates are about twice what they were before the blockade started. [1] The actual cost for Israel linked ships is of course far higher - that table just gives you an average global shipping price index, which the Israeli linked ships alone have sent skyrocketing. Even oil is indeed up, though it was never a motive to begin with.

You are literally just making up random things to try to convince yourself of what you want to believe, to the point I can't even tell if you're being serious.

[1] - https://www.drewry.co.uk/supply-chain-advisors/supply-chain-...
What could make them a bad idea? Seems like a piece of information people only need very rarely but when they DO need it they need it to be as instantly obvious as possible.
And apparently they took place on subsequent April Fools Days -- 77' and 78'. Must have been a golden era for pranking.
This is always personally kind of curious to me, because, at the same time Andreessen was the young "hayseed with the know-how" (as I think JWZ once called him) working on NCSA Mosaic and then mcom/Netscape... I was also a (slightly younger) Internet-savvy Unix workstations programmer, working in a science park out in Oregon farm country.

My own awareness and leanings were more towards traditional Internet altruistic/egalitarian, with a healthy skepticism of government and business in practice, and keeping an eye out against exploiters.

(Separately, a more libertarian school of thought was also represented among the early Internet-savvy, but I had less exposure to that.)

Sometimes I wonder what would've happened to the modern Web and tech industry, if certain formative figures in dotcoms had been of the more traditional altruistic/egalitarian Internet kind.

But maybe they wouldn't have been able to get that influence, given their mindset and motivations.

Maybe big money would've bought and colluded their way to shaping the Internet how they wanted, in any case.

Certainly, a bit into dotcoms, the Google founders sounded to me like "one of us". But I think I was also quick to assume they were, when they did some smart things, and said some things ("don't be evil") that I expected from one of us.
1. I wouldn't call that an investment

2. Cooperatives tend to be more resilient in times of crisis:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jsc.2393

My reason for asking that question in the first place is that 'investor' isn't a role I associate with a worker-owned enterprise. The workers are the owners are the investors, so the statement reads as invalid to my mind.
> Not to mention all people who ruined their lifes because of alcoholism, marijuana etc.

Thank you for making my point for me.

Are we talking about criminalizing alcohol? Should we be?

If the line is clear, please draw it. Show me which on this list what you would criminalize, which you would ban (but not criminalize), which you would regulate, and which you would allow completely unregulated.

I might actually agree with your list entirely!

But most people that call things "drugs" without nuance also include marijuana without any nuance. And either don't include alcohol for cultural/subjective reasons or DO include it, without consequence to the reality of prohibition.
Can you share some of your prompts that you have used?
It's not a perfect analogy, but it's still corporate interests trying to entrench their position to prevent disruption by less politically powerful players.
You can turn that autoplay off now in the settings.
Absolutely. Copilot Workspace might not seem like it, but it's very much our first step towards tools to aid in comprehension and navigation of a codebase. I think a lot of folks have conflated "generative AI" with "writes code" when reading and understanding is a much larger part of the job
Can I install it locally without this tool having an internet connection?
I used AI technology to stop 15 shoplifters in two weeks
That’s just the current bid and it hasn’t met the reserve.
You might be surprised - because they're pretty custom they are often "more open" than you might expect; as long as you have the connectors you can often get things running something. Sometimes they have bog-standard features present on the boards, just not enabled, etc.

It's the commoditized blade servers, etc that are stripped down to what they need to run and nothing more.
Paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2320844121
Extradition is only possible in cases where both countries have (approximately) equivalent laws and the crime is sufficiently serious.
> In both cases, she used sophisticated tradecraft that sought to leave no trace in databases accessible to European authorities. For instance, she booked her trips and bought her plane tickets using her Czech passport, registering only that nationality with the Greek airline. But upon crossing the Russian border, Šapošnikova used her secret Russian passport, thus bypassing the need to obtain a Russian visa issued to her as a Czech citizen and eliding the digital footprint associated with the relevant application.

“ sophisticated tradecraft “ lol what?

It’s generally illegal in most countries to use another country’s passport within the country your passport is from. You can’t have a German and Argentinian passport and enter Germany with the German passport and leave with the Argentinian one. Nor can you leave Germany with just the Argentinian one. You can go to other Schengen countries, but you can't leave the Schengen region ("since is your entrance stamp?")
I've been writing software professionally for 25 years and I am absolutely not dismissing them, on the contrary.

We are currently in a window where LLM's are helpful but nothing more, making them a great tool. I suspect that will last for a good while and probably turn me into more of a "conductor" in time -- instructing my IDE something like "let's replace this pattern with this other one", and have it create a PR for me that changes many files in one go. But I see absolutely no reason why the evolution shouldn't continue to the point where I just need to tell it what I want from a user perspective.
> Grandma is getting scammed over regular phonecalls already anyway.

This is not a good argument. Yes things aren't perfect in many areas of technology, but that doesn't mean we should give up.

The better version of this argument acknowledges that there are tradeoffs: allowing side loading may introduce risk but the risk is low relative to the other risks users face and the benefits outweigh the costs.
The war between Russia and Ukraine started in February 2014 when Russia began occupying Crimea.

The ammunition warehouses in Vrbětice exploded in October 2014.
We do, but "who" is acceptable in both tenses. There's no reason to ever use "whom" because it's the only one you can use wrong.

"To whom did you give the book?" is more often "Who'd you give the book to?" complete with the similarly forbidden preposition.
While I have no doubt about the story and these guys being GRU spies...

These numbers are laughtably small. You can't imagine amount of corruption in Russia. Any high-ranking policeman in a mid-sized city will own few villas like that. GRU agent who can smuggle anything and everything might easily have millions of dollars under their pillow.
SQL and python are arguably the languages closest to English, and even then getting someone to understand recursion is difficult. How do you specify that some values should be long lived? How do you specify exponential retries. Legalese tries to be as specific as possible without being formal and even then you need a judge on a case. Maybe when everyone has today’s datacenter compute power in their laptop.
"FSD conversion" - sounds so cyberpunk
I'm a developer who has largely been shielded from database related issues. Within django, I know how to create migrations, model tables, and query using the ORM but a lot of what happens is black magic to me. Now that I'm starting a company, I have a lot of anxiety about running into these issues and then resolving them on my own. How should I go about learning what to do while in a dev environment?
There's a lot of issues right now around communication, moderation, and community.

- One of the release managers (myself) was banned/suspended [1]

- Attempts to assert control on the board's decision-making by proxy group [2]

- Use of social media to target individuals [3]

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1cd5fod/in_case_im_u...

2: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/objection-to-minority-represen...

3: https://github.com/NixOS/foundation/pull/133
> the millennials and younger who experienced nothing other than a roaring bull market throughout their investing lifetimes

Poking at certain generations tends to be counter productive, but this jab is also disconnected from reality.

Millennials entered adulthood in the shadow of the mortgage crisis, which by all measures was a depression event until the definition of a depression was reworked.

There were only two significant crashes between 1929 and 2008. 1987 (black monday) and the tech bubble (2000).

More recently, covid was a ~40% decline in the S&P (bigger than black monday), and another ~30% started at the beginning of 2022.

It shouldn't be worn as a badge of honor, but millennials and younger have experienced more volatility in a much shorter amount of time than older generations.
It's for the processors alone - a scrapping company dedicated to this stuff would be able to actualize more from other components - and they often have warehouse space available that they already own.

Let's come back and see if the auction failed; I doubt it will.
Something I wrote about the ICD10 coding system many years ago. These are real billing codes:

It is possible to arraigned the codes in rather amusing orders such as:

I required a Face Transplant, from a Cadaver; “0WY20Z0 Transplantation of Face, Allogeneic, Open Approach Transplantation of Face, Allogeneic, Open Approach” after my many spacecraft crashes into the ocean; “V9541XD Spacecraft crash injuring occupant, subsequent encounter”.

Sadly the first Face Transplant failed so one was grown in a lab for the second Face Transplant; “0WY20Z1 Transplantation of Face, Syngeneic, Open Approach Transplantation of Face, Syngeneic, Open Approach”.

Alas all of this made my “F52 Sexual dysfunction not due to a substance or known physiological condition” became so bad that I tried to harm myself with a jellyfish; “T63622A Toxic effect of contact with other jellyfish, intentional self-harm, initial encounter”. -- Amusement with the Medicare ICD10 Billing Codes –
> Insurance companies raise and lower their premiums in response to risk.

So we're saying the same thing
Ask HN: Tell tale signs of AI generated content?
What are some signs that a piece of written content was AI generated? Ie. Articles, emails, social media posts
Sourced environment scripts in the Unix environment are standard operating procedure. E.g. for toolchains.

The .env being evaluated as a shell script means that it's in a widely used language, with a widely known syntax. You can look at it and know what it's going to do.

The .env being a data format to some uncommon utility; that's anyone's guess.

For instance, suppose we want a newline character in an environment variable. Does the given "env file" format support that? How?

There is one de-facto standard format: the /proc/<pid>/environ kernel output format on Linux. The variables are null-terminated strings, so it is effectively a binary format. It represents any variable value without requiring quoting mechanisms.
> It seems like with GitHub is aiming for is a future where "what the business wants" can just be expressed in natural language the same way you might explain to a human developer what you want to build.

I do agree that this is their goal but I expect that expressing what you want the computer to do in natural language is still going to be done by programmers.

Similar to how COBOL is closer to natural language than assembly and as such more people can write COBOL programs, but you still need the same skills to phrase what you need in a way the compiler (or in the future, the LLM) can understand, the ability to debug it when something goes wrong, etc.

“Before LLM, chop wood, carry water. After LLM, chop wood, carry water.”

As for the security stuff, on premise or trusted cloud deployments will definitely solve a lot of the security issues but I think it will be a long time before conservative businesses embrace them. For people in college now, most of them who end up working at non-tech companies won’t be using LLM’s regularly yet.
How is this show "forgotten"? It's one of the most critically acclaimed shows of all time
GRU is nominally military intelligence and SVR inherited the KGB illegals program. These programs are really hard and have a ton of overhead supporting a relatively small number of actual officers. Having duplicate capabilities for it is a waste. Especially in this case where they're used for active crimes/violence. The GRU has never been shy about just going and murdering people on a tourist visa[0], why bother with all the extra overhead?

Not all (or even most) intelligence agencies run illegals programs since they're crazy difficult, fragile, expensive, and arguably a waste of effort/resources.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/05/planes-train...