skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s like banning cars because some people use them to run over other people.
Of course not, but asking for a "proof" for a question like that is a category error. It will be decided by whatever the group decision process is, which would have to be present for all the other non-trivial, and yes, fuzzy things that have to be decided, both technical and social.
Not that I know of, but truthfully I’m so bad at this stuff that if it was an issue I might not recognize or identify it as such.
That was a brilliant show. Not just because of Gary Oldman. Well-drawn characters throughout.

I've just started season 3 so no spoilers please :)
Lightcone theory [1] explains to us how we're likely prevented from ever actually "meeting" the others.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cone
You are indeed missing something :) The "N stream" icon on the right shows you the stream URLs.
PHP Is Web Shell
I've used the combo for 4+ years now and love it. I find VS code has far better out of the box intellisense, refactoring, language support, etc. and I prefer the IDE style environment rather than (neo)VIM's clunky windowing/buffers/splits etc. and janky GUI windowing shells. But whatever, to each their own.
IMHO juniors who rely on AI to write code will never learn. You need to make mistakes to learn, and AI never makes mistakes even when it’s wrong.

As a senior, I write code 25% of the time, and it’s always to understand the intent of what I should fix or develop. This is something that AI will not be able to do for a long time since it cannot speak and understand what customers want.

The last 75% of my time are spent refactoring this "intent" or making sure that the business is running, and I’m accountable for it. AI will never be accountable for anything, again for a long time.

I’m scared for juniors that don’t want to learn, but I work with juniors who outsmart me with their knowledge and curiosity.
>>It's never been clearer that the VC founder's whole outlook on life revolves around how great it is to be rich and how shameful it is to be anything else.

Quite a few "successful" founders who invariably also turn angels/VCs seem to share this idea. If you aren't hustling and getting rich then that's a life wasted.
Android app product teaser – Command Stick V3 [video]
How on earth is this related to the article?

Those stickers seem like an example of good and obvious design.

Am I missing something?
> This USB header is only USB 2.0 though so it’s not an option for this purpose.

Why not? I would not expect the OS drive to be I/O heavy on a NAS.
If the institution by the people and for the people has flaws, then we the people should work together to improve it.

We would rather not throw all of our hopes and dreams at the feet of greedy capitalists who would sell their own grandma's walker for a powerball ticket.
I think they're saying that the unique index changes the locking strategy for the queries so they are effectively serialized and will not both read the same max value for existing rows.
Of all the things to be upset with a "defense" company over, actual literal defense (as in border monitoring and sensors) is a funny one. That stood out to me in the open letter as well. Why not the weapons systems that are apparently "somewhere between an autonomous drone and a reusable missile"? Would people be as upset at Boeing as a sponsor, or would that just be boring? Would people be as upset if Google or Facebook were sponsors? Google of course runs a global surveillance network, and says they're proud to offer AI services to the DoD:

https://cloud.google.com/gov/federal-defense-and-intel
The original paper was very obviously not advocating for the initial process it describes. But it does describe Waterfall, and then it amends it into something that could actually work (specifically adding in feedback loops that Waterfall does not include).

Some fools in industry, DOD in particular, looked at the pretty picture and codified it as an option among several for defined development processes. Then contractors and gov't managers picked it because it was straightforward (on paper) to plan and schedule, and it made it into practice. It's still used by DOD contractors today and it still fails. It's not a bogeyman, but Royce himself is not to blame, he was pointing out the stupidity and illiterate fools missed the point.
also, comparing SIMD with cheyenne is misleading
If you're in the Bay Area and want to discuss in person, my email is in my profile.
Technically true. It's paying the bills on top of the second mortgage after helping your 30 year old grandkids afford college, weddings, and starter homes that leads to bankruptcy. A surprise one-time medical cost is only a minimal contributing factor in the arc of recurring mandatory prescription, insurance, and care costs, at that point. My inner Humean rejoices.

That coupled with private equity's involvement in all late / end of life care ensures no one dies with a penny to their name to pass down.

It still paints a picture of an out of control, over-financialized system that only gets more expensive the more money is put into it.
The US tax levels are lower than Europe, but it mostly events out when you account for health insurance with exception of a few of the highest tax European countries (Belgium always being the extreme outlier, and Germany is usually second, at least of the OECD countries, depending on your specific circumstances)
I suppose one could make any argument. At the end of the day, the onus is on the company making weapons to prove to the community that its weapons are used for “good” - whatever that means to the community in question.

Personally, I think accepting a sponsorship is a step too far: it’s an implicit admission that Nix is associated with the defense industry. Some communities are okay with this, but such a move will definitely alienate a good chunk of people. They and other defense companies should of course be allowed to participate in the community and contribute to Nix.
> Modest progress in engineering and cultural adaptation, would produce generation ships large enough to sustain a human colony capable of traversing the galaxy on the scale of thousands of years

This is an excellent example of 'thinking inside the boundaries of our paradigm'. Other civilizations may have discovered paradigms that allow them to traverse the galaxy in days, and even in seconds.

> If you think objectively about it, "physics paradigms far beyond our understanding today" do not necessarily exist.

That's what was said in the mid to late 19th century. Then quantum physics was discovered. It was already 'outside' our understanding then, and it still is. We take some things 'just as they are' and accept them, like quantum entanglement. We think we explain them through some unproven theories to avoid admitting the fact that they upended our earlier paradigm of how things are.

A lot of the things that are observed in the ufo phenomenon can be similar things if they are actual extraterrestrial civilizations 'observing' us. 'Shape changing' ufos, ufos that travel in a speed that no creature can withstand etc.
> Many of these people are seriously vying for president (yep, my aunt Helga), some of them have undoubtedly signed up as a joke (nope, not the comedian)

Reykjavik had a comedian as mayor: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/15/jon-gnarr-come...

His memoir was a good light read. Poignant and hilarious.
This was a collaboration with Bellingcat. The same organization that was featured in the Navalny documentary as having found the assassination squad and eliciting a confession.
I don't see how this solves the problem?

If Country A is spending 10% of it's GDP on 10 things, Country B cannot possibly outspend it in every category as a percentage of their respective GDPs, because "percentage of GDP" is always a 100-point scale.

If you go up one percent in one category, you have to go down one percent somewhere in the other categories.
https://archive.ph/hJm8g
Grouping, filtering and aggregation in Tanstack table
NATO countries have been consistently looking the other way or downplaying Russian aggression because nobody actually wants to have to get into the sty and get dirty wrestling the pig to the ground.

I don't even think it's based on any realistic concerns of nuclear or conventional escalation... incumbents just don't want to be the ones in power when war happens. I think many aggressors have learned to capitalize on this weakness.
I loved the show, but in retrospect, the premise of 2 Soviet spies being the most prolific serial killers in the history of the DC area without being caught is a bit weak.

Masha Gessen did some work on making the spoken Russian be more authentic https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/translating-th... ( She must have given up on Keri Russell )

Peter Jacobson (FBI Agent Wolf) appears in comedy Russian TV show inspired by the Americans "Adaptation" https://www.poconorecord.com/story/entertainment/2018/05/26/... . I've seen episode 1 available on the internet, full series is hard to find.
Show HN: I made a terminal based password manager to improve your productivity
Democracies have the issue of needing majority consent which can be tricky and very time consuming to get, as there will always be a sleezy opposition politicians who will be against something just to get overs on his side and veto it at every step of the way, even if he's against something that's for the common good.

My favorite example is how Austria was the last EU country to ban indoor smoking, all the way in 2019, because of a moron party that kept shooting it down posturing as if they're fighting for the small business owner on the basis of "think of the small business owners who will loose clientele and their business making them homeless, due to the smoking ban, vote for me so I can protect you and yur business".
Copilot Workspace is GitHub's take on AI-powered software engineering
But we’re in a thread about leadership crisis of nix here. Was nix designed explicitly for military in mind?
Because NATO is not raring for nuclear armadeggon?
I strongly agree with your points and sentiment as far as the state of machine intelligence remains non-general.

Currently, LLMs summarize, earlier systems classified, and a new system might do some other narrow piece of intelligence. If system is created that thinks and understands and is creative with philosophy and ideas, that is going to be different. I don't know if that is tomorrow or 100 years from now, but that is going to be very different.
> Preload a city's, county's etc. entire set of laws

You would also need to load an enormous amount of precedential case law, at least in the US and other common law jurisdictions. Synthesizing case law into rules of law applicable to a specific case requires complex analysis that is frequently sensitive to details of the factual context, where LLMs' lack of common sense can lead it to make false conclusions, particularly in situations where the available, on-point case law is thin on the ground and as a result directly analogous cases are not available.

I don't see the utility at the current performance level of LLMs, though, as the OP article seems to confirm. LLMs may excel in restating or summarizing black letter or well-established law under narrow circumstances, but that's a vanishingly small percentage of the actual work involved in practicing law. Most cases are unremarkable, and the lawyers and judges involved do not need to conduct any research that would require something like consulting an AI assistant to resolve all the important questions. It's just routine, there's nothing special about any given DUI case, for example. Where actual research is required, the question is typically extremely nuanced, and that is precisely where LLMs tend to struggle the most to produce useful outputs. LLMs are also unlikely to identify such issues, because they are issues for which sufficient precedent does not exist and therefore the LLM will by definition have to engage in extrapolational, creative analysis rather than simply reproducing ideas or language from its training set.
This is just an MVP to see if anyone is interested really. If it gets some traction I will probably include some non-intrusive ads, if something like that exists.
Il am not sure I think that, but as a matter of fact successful people tend to be bankrolled by either friends, family, or some kind of extended network that allows them to fail several times. I think it is unfair, and I find it really obnoxious when they lecture us about grit and bootstraps instead of being grateful for their network or luck, but it is what it is.
Because it was seen as the cost of doing business with Russia, i.e. having access to their natural resources.
Like a real life episode of The Americans
Looks interesting, but I don't really want my code to go via some unknown company. As far as I can tell in "Privacy Mode" code still goes via their servers, they just promise not to store anything (with the caveat that OpenAI retain stuff for 30d).
Not burn, expand. New usages
for words make the dictionary bigger.
That's bullshit.

Here are the JDK distributions supported by SDKMAN, a really good JVM-oriented package manager: https://sdkman.io/jdks

There's a couple of dozen vendors in there , including very weird ones like IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Azul, Eclipse, SAP, Redd Hat, and even... Oracle!
Eh, maybe? There's got to be _something_ for sociopathic ex-squaddies to do who don't want to go back to civvie street. I found their existence believable, if not the high speed Range Rover driving stuff. It's very clearly not going for full-on realism, obviously a fantasy spy show. So the dogs work in that context - at least for me.

EDIT: someone else mentioned Tinker Tailor (either the '80s BBC miniseries or the Gary Oldman movie - once again he's killing it) which is far more grounded. That might be more up your street? I enjoyed both a lot. Bleak as hell though.
The vastness of the cosmos is kind of upsetting in an odd way.
> 8,064 units of E5-2697v4

Those alone are selling for about $40 on ebay.

Let's say you sold them for $15 each.

$120,000. Let's say the auction and the moving and the break down costs were $20,000.

maybe worth it?
Non-sarcastic question--how do you define "software architect"?

Typically the "architect" title I see thrown around today pertains to gluing together some abominations of "systems", typically cloud services to do web stuff at "scale"

Architect today seems == "cloud infrastructure decision maker" and has no bearing on the code written, libs/frameworks/whatever used
Haha, adding this to my list of funny academic pranks. This is right up there with the MIT balloon at the Harvard-Yale game.
Where is the list of files in that example?

I also don't get how running

list.map (lambda f => readFile! f)

would result in a list of Tasks. `readFile` needs already to return a Task as it's an I/O operation, right? Appending the exclamation mark will CPS transform that Task value by wrapping it into (possibly nested) calls to `Task.await`, as I understand the article. But CPS inside lambdas is problematic as you need to also CPS transform the lambda, more or less rewriting your whole program "inside out" (all up the whole call stack!). Also every higher order function would need to be there in two variants. HOFs need to get "shifted" manually for that. That doesn't scale.

I mean, it's not impossible to implement something like that. But it's not trivial. The problem with the HOFs remains still. See for example CPS-async in Scala:

https://github.com/rssh/dotty-cps-async
You forgot the DRM requirement, making sure no one can just screenshot the whole canvas ;)

j/k, of course
You are mistakening medical insurance with computer/cyber insurance.

The post above you is talking about having manual communication with the provincial and federal medical insurance (Canada has national insurance) to confirm customers have the appropriate insurance ready so they can dispense pills, medication, and medical equipment, which is life critical equipment and supplies for many of their customers, without access to computers (which is doable if they had the procedures ready)

It’s to do with business continuity of the pharmacy’s work, nothing to do with breach.
> only by accessing my copy

You're still taking the perspective of "what if they come after me" which is highly improbable. And not the "what if they can't go after someone who has wronged me". I'm not saying that should flip your point of view, just being aware that it's at trade-off.
Yeah and maybe we could do GR experiments on a table top. Gravity goes as 1/r^2 so a small r might make the mass terms irrelevant, and you could check GR in various ways [1] especially Shapiro delay[2]. This would, in turn, give a way to probe quantum gravity effects.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapiro_time_delay
Serious answer to a legitimate question:

1. Good senior developers are taking the tools seriously, and at least experimenting with them to see what's up. Don't listen to people dismissing them outright. Skepticism and caution is warranted, but dismissal is foolish.

2. I'd summarize the current state of affairs as having access to an amazing assistant that is essentially a much better and faster version of google and StackOverflow combined, which can also often write code for well specified problems. From what I have seen the current capabilities are very far from "specify high-level business requirements, get full, production app". So while your concern is rational, let's not exaggerate where we actually are.

3. These things make logical errors all the time, and (not an expert) my understanding is that we don't, at present, have a clear path to solving this problem. My guess is that until this is solved almost completely human programmers will remain valuable.

Will that problem get solved in the next 5 years, or 10, or 20? That's the million dollar question, and the career bet you'll be making. Nobody can answer with certainty. My best guess is that it's still a good career bet, especially if you are willing to adapt as your career progresses. But adapting has always been required. The true doom scenario of business people firing all or most of the programmers and using the AI directly is (imo) unlikely to come to pass in the next decade, and perhaps much longer.
I grew up low middle income in Santa Cruz and can't recall a single suicide in my high school of 2000 kids. Why kill yourself when you can go surfing?
Related to this, I can't quite see how we would have created laws to allow for markets before markets existed.

Someone, or a group of people, would have had to envision an entirely new system called "markets" and immediately realized that laws were needed before goods could be exchanged.
> small amount of old skool phreaking

I would believe so since part of phreaking is solely exploiting configuration. For example, a default password for voicemail lets the phreaker access user menu then possibly - or so I was told - call capability.

This could be a first step in social engineering where an insider call gets easily trusted.
You are assuming about the wrong kind of insurance…
... Yes.
> Your point #1 contradicts itself when you say "if they were locals who can simply move on to another job"

OK, I need to clarify: another equivalent job. If you are local in the US, then all local jobs are "somewhat" equivalent (of course they are different, but they are within the same range). But, if you work in India (or any similar country) for an international company, or for the local Indian company -- that's a world of difference.

I'm not from India, but I know this situation from Eastern Europe. India wouldn't be very different in this regard.
They’re not able to or supposed to, so it’s completely understandable why many people stop caring. I definitely don’t place the responsibility of caring on the people working closest to the customer. They need to be given the training, tools, compensation, and flexibility to have a life in order for that to be realistic. They really aren’t, though. Without that, the immediate responsibility is on corporations and governments to establish baselines which allow workers to have jobs that aren’t totally soul crushing and thankless.

Jobs like that shouldn’t exist at all in my opinion. They’re the result of regulatory failure as far as I can tell.
> Seems like such a waste of the spark of awareness that I can't take that awareness and experience the galaxy in all its glory.

But you just did. That's what we're doing.

The horse head part that we see is 3x4 LY in size. If you wanted to experience that horse head like you would, say, a mountain -- just a large, field of view dominating visage. You would need to be about 20+ Lightyears away from it.

I don't know how bright the nebula is, but after 20 lightyears, I don't know how much the human eye could perceive it. And, likely, by the time you got close enough to actually see it, it may well just be a hazy cloud with no definition, since you'd be so close.

Things like these may only be able to be experienced by us through artificial means. Through embellishment and enhancement.

You can go and buy a "smart telescope" today that you can push a button, and point it at any of the "local" nebulas or other bright objects in the sky. Yet, if you look through the eyepiece, you won't see much. Even with magnification, it's a gray, fuzzy blob. The smart telescope will automatically capture more light, through longer exposures, and create a composite image with better definition and detail. Even with magnification, we can not experience those objects directly.

Astronomy, for me, is most "personal" with a pair of binoculars, particular a pair of stabilized binoculars. A mundane pair will open up the sky in a breathtaking way. Because it's more "real". It's not a picture on screen, and it wide and sweeping and huge.

But you can't really get those really fun Milky Way photos folks are making, not with binoculars. You CAN see the Milky Way under dark skies, but not like those photo capture them.

So, simply, "you can shut up. Stop typing now. Really", you may well have just experience the nebula as best as it can be done right now. Run that video on a huge TV in a dark room, it will help. Maybe see if any of this stuff is coming to an IMAX theater near you.
All major intelligence agencies have them. Why GRU would be any different?
There is enough wind, solar, and batteries in our interconnection queues right now to make a net zero electric grid: https://emp.lbl.gov/queues.

Many of those specific projects will not be built, but others will as some of those drop and others are added.

Check out CAISO.com right now to see the massive decline in natural gas use on a daily basis in April of 2024 vs. April of 2023 -- batteries are already crushing natural gas use in the afternoon peak, in just one year.

As others point out, switching to EVs will result in an overall decline in energy use, and those EVs can also be set to charge when renewable resources are abundant and might otherwise be curtailed.
> things like dual use/ITAR apply explicitly to commercial products

No, just no. Have you ever been to a University?
Anyone planning to bring this to Obsidian?
Hi, I am Hrishikesh. I always prefer email password based signups in websites. But managing passwords is a hassle for me. I have used Bitwarden password manager and it is great. But I want to access my passwords from my terminal. I don't want to click around with the mouse to get a single password. Therefore, I created Hash to improve my productivity.
I also use the NAS for some light server workloads and it was just annoyingly slow when running on a USB 2.0 thumb drive. System updates took forever too.

Edit: I want to add though that the main reason behind this is "for fun" :D
How would that new design not become the next $30 template? Do we just have to redesign everything important every few years so they avoid the old/commodity look?