skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely agree. I just finished a project were where users can design / construct solutions in a specific domain in either 2D or 3D, with support for exporting CAD and STP.

The user works with rich domain objects that limit the possibilities to what actually works or is practice; much like a game level builder. This allows non-experts to design solutions in this particular domain, which of course is great for business / sales.
Regardless of agreement with the ICJ or not, the quasi-statehood of Palestine complicates how the ICJ can target Hamas, much less non-governmental actors like PIJ. To my knowledge, despite over two decades of issues related to state/non-state conflicts, the institutions that make and implement international law have yet to resolve how to handle these issues.
Transparency for Google is releasing this incident report on the Friday of a long weekend [in the US].

I wonder if UniSuper was compensated for G’s fuckup.

“A single default parameter vs multibillion organization. The winner may surprise you!1”
The millions invested in P2P OSAF/Chandler indirectly shipped a great book :) https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/01/21/the-big-picture/ & https://www.chandlerproject.org/screenshots/

There was also the Groove Networks desktop client from Ray Ozzie, a Chandler-esque P2P successor to Lotus Notes, acquired by Microsoft, https://fortune.com/2015/12/21/microsoft-buys-ray-ozzie-talk... & https://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/22104480/crn-interv...

> Groove File Sharing.. projects the concept of sharing and synchronization and conversation directly into Windows Explorer so every Windows folder now has a Groove button in it and if you press it, you turn that folder into a workspace that shares that folder with other people inside or outside the company, puts red marks on files, lets you have chats and conversations privately within that folder, it projects all the platform capabilities of Groove right into the file system. It lets people share folders across all their computers, whether at home or at work..
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> But the product is open source, anyone can write that functionality, and I am sure it would be accepted.

I have often read on HN that not accepting a PR for a feature that is not tangential to the core business of the project is valid and understandable when the maintainer believes it will require too much resources (bug triage, fixes, documentation, short or long term support in the forums, etc.) from him.
Bingo!

And competence is really important. There's something about the way LLMs work where they cater to your level of understanding.

So the better you are at prompting, the better it is at answering.

I mean, we all know that, but I don't think people look at the inverse: LLMs cater to your level of understanding. That is really the correct way to think about how they operate. The better you are, the better they are. Magic prompts and such are the incorrect way to interact with an LLM for best long-term results.

You need to be competent.
how many puters can you nest? I got bored around three, but I think you can keep going. it has a browser capable of hosting itself!
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He's EA funded.

He's funded by the Centre for Study in Existential Risk, which is one of the main organizations the EA community has been funding.

This article itself is published during an EA supported AI Safety Conference cosponsored by the British and Korean governments, and Sunak is a 2nd and 1st degree connect with most people in the space well before he became politically prominent (Stanford GSB is top BSchool for a reason)
You certainly would, because not every case of obesity results from the same mechanisms. But just as with all the other what-about comments, this comment misses the point: this class of drug is wildly successful, and it's the most specific drug for this problem that's been developed so far

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/ozempic-glp-1-drugs-m...

Here's a good piece running through the failure modes in lay terms.
Word on the street is that they got a take down notice.
https://archive.ph/vgeUU
Also depends if the user really wants to/must do the task or can just give up and go do something else when the initial density is overwhelming/learning curve is too steep.
U(x)=x/(e-n)!int/{0,1}(x(x+e^(1-x))^((1-x)/(e-n))du
Not talking about a Chat-with-PDF solution. Talking about some large scale SEC filing analysis and visualization solution.
Google has an API. One just pays to use that.

The problem being the aforementioned conflict of interest. The moment you're a competitor to Google Search (or any of Google's other products), they can kill your API access and ruin you.
I applaud the people that spend time away from their computer instead of fucking around with vim in their free time as well as spend 40 hours a week working behind a compute.r
This is exactly how the data binding APIs in Fyne (another Go GUI toolkit) work. And it's also an optional feature, so if you want to handle things by registering callbacks and calling setters yourself you can do that too.
This isn't really compatible with the claim above that "it's not a seal".
The Chesterton fence in my book is only about something that is still meaningful only in non-obvious ways. In evolutionary theory I believe "used to have a sensible explanation but no longer does due to changing circumstances" is known as discordance.
Anyone who founds something called “Future of Life Institute” is until proven otherwise not a top scientist but a top rate megalomaniac and BS artist.
> If the results suck, people would find alternatives. Look at how many techies installed Chrome for their parents and grandparents when MSIE was pre-installed and this was an easier-to-use, standards-compliant, and more performant option. It further snowballed from there. It takes a few years for word to get around but they're well aware that providing useful results is the only way to stay relevant

The results often do suck and people are actively finding alternatives (mostly techies). No search engine I've tried has really reached the bar where I'd push my friends/family to switch but they are getting closer and closer. MSIE had a lot of momentum and it wasn't FF that techies installed, it was Chrome, all that to say just because we haven't seen a Google replacement yet doesn't mean we won't. Furthermore people's frustration with Google search is directly what has lead to the alternatives that have been gaining popularity (again, mostly in techie groups so far). With your logic I could have said back in 2009 that "If IE sucked people would find alternatives", momentum is hard to fight but it can be done.

> they're well aware that providing useful results is the only way to stay relevant

If this post [0] is to be believed then providing useful results is (now) a side effect of wanting to drive traffic to show ads and it's completely valid to degrade the search results if it means people spend more time searching (and thus see more ads). No doubt they have to provide value still but there is nothing saying that's what they are optimizing for, if it happens as a side-effect then so be it.

I really have no idea how to reply to the rest of your post which can be summed up to "Google knows best" which I reject completely.

I currently use Kagi but I'm not over the moon with it and it has its own issues [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133976

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011314
Fullstack is not much of a trend. The word has been around for awhile but when you go look at the job market you can see that the industry doesn't buy these terms very much, and that they also price that way too. A fullstack salary might only eventually catch up to frontend or backend.

Also, backend is a far more ambiguous term than frontend. With frontend I'd almost want to ask if the next thing you're going to say is React. On the backend? No idea. Do you deal with distributed synchronization as your only specialty? Do you do billion-per-second event logging, warehousing, and querying? Do you write Kafka glue all day?

So when people say fullstack they really mean app making, and however much frontend, backend, or even janitorial work is required to make an app exist.
Anything about XP?

PS: I'm not kidding! Some customers (government) are still on XP...
It has not. PopOS 22.04 receives regular updates and 24.04 is supposed to release in the fall of 2024, with a major new desktop environment written in rust, Cosmic.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/1ah339f/comment/kol...

https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-the-road-to-alpha
I call it Corporate Memphis 2.0
Tiny nitpick: It's ZeroBrane
Most applications dont need to get data from a relational database. But for those apps that do, knowing SQL is pretty much a must have. The developer himself or someone on the team.
>If you go to art school, what you do is study and analyze what artists have done before you.

You don't have to go to art school to produce art. Even if you do go, there's nothing stopping you from producing art unlike what you studied.

>We humans learn much in the same way as an AI. We study what has been made by others.
I think accusing AI generated work to theft, is a based on the wrong assumptions.

What assumptions?

>It's not just art. What do you do in computer science courses? Or math, language, physics, or any other subject? You study what has already been made.

Most of "what has already been made" is not "copyrighted work for which you have no license or exception"

>What you produce based on that knowledge is not considered theft.

It certainly can be.

>Have you ever seen an AI image that, if a human made it, would be considered a theft?

I've certainly seen AI produce things that would be considered copyright violation or misappropriation of likeness or similar offences if they were to be used commercially.
The reason ICJ and ICC should be careful about giving decisions they cannot enforce is because over time it can undermine their credibility. Eventually you end up with these international bodies writing the equivalence of "open letters", which is fine I guess... but if those actions have no effect on outcomes it really starts to undermine the Institutionalist side of IR theory.

Personally, I find that unfortunate. While I think the realists are mostly right, it is helpful to have international legal institutions that maintain some degree of legitimacy and power for the purpose of norm-setting.
I toyed with the idea of piggybacking on (i.e. abusing) the golang proxy and sumdb to have a free transparent log of checksums of arbitrary URLs

https://getsum.pub/
Thanks for the reply and clarification! That’s an impressive throughput. Am I interpreting the behavior correctly to think that: your code has one branch per int and that branch will be predicted well when your integers are all of similar magnitude?

I never fully groked the Zipf distribution but am I correct to conclude the worst case for vu128 would be alternating integers on either side of the branch condition?

Thanks for the link to the slides, also clever!
So, given that Microsoft is the company with the most direct access to ChatGPT (it can dictate who the CEO is, it runs on their cloud compute platform, etc.), we should see the proof of this improved productivity soon, when Microsoft starts releasing software improvements at an unprecedented rate, yes? No need to argue about whether or not LLM's can improve productivity; we have a giant canary in the coalmine (except in a positive sense). If ChatGPT really improves net programmer productivity, we will see Microsoft becoming the most productive software company. Given that they've had ChatGPT for a couple years now, we should be seeing the fruits of this soon.

If, a year from now, we don't see any evidence of Microsoft's productivity increasing in any way that's noticeable from the outside, we'll have our answer, from empirical data.
Can you explain more about why governance is the issue with a service like this? Companies not wanting their data to go off prem?
React Native runs in JavaScript. This is in Go.
Any online service that lets users upload material that is then publicly visible will eventually be used for command-and-control, copyright infringement and hosting CSAM. This is especially true for services that have other important uses besides file hosting and hence are hard to block.

This already happened to Twitter[1], Telegram[2], and even the PGP key infrastructure[3], not to mention obvious suspects like GitHub.

[1] https://pentestlab.blog/2017/09/26/command-and-control-twitt...
[2] https://www.blazeinfosec.com/post/leveraging-telegram-as-a-c...
[3] https://torrentfreak.com/openpgp-keyservers-now-store-irremo...
Thanks for feedback, I forgot to change that.
So organizations won't deploy AIs to provision resources?

Executive: "We can save money by using AI to provision these resources more efficiently."

Executive 2: "Yeah, but it would be dangerous to give an AI control over these resources."

Executive: "Oh, right, forget I said anything. What's the next topic on the agenda?".
Emigre typography and graphic design magazine
Do you know if the Ubuntu flavors line Ubuntu Studio have the ad like stuff in it ?

I'm leaning towards Mint atm.
Wait, are you seriously putting to question whether ChatGPT increases programmer productivity?
Used by small law firms, Ecco Pro (built by 4 people in Bellevue, WA) was killed by Outlook, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecco_Pro

> Ecco Pro was originally developed by Pete Polash, who had sold an early Macintosh based presentation program to Aldus and Bob Perez, a Harvard-trained lawyer hired by Apple as a programmer and Evangelist in the 1980s. It was first released in 1993 by Arabesque Software, Inc., based in Bellevue, Washington. PC Magazine awarded ECCO Pro their Editor's Choice award in 1996 and 1997.

> Development by NetManage ceased in 1997 after the July 1997 release of version 4.01. Andrew Brown wrote in The Guardian: "So what happened to the paragon of a program? The market killed it. First it was sold to a much larger company, Netmanage; presumably doing this made the original programmers a lot of money. Then Netmanage panicked when Microsoft Outlook came along as a "free" part of the Office suite, and killed development on the program." NetManage chief executive officer Zvi Alon noted that 'As soon as Microsoft decided to give away Outlook with Office, we started getting phone calls questioning the value of Ecco Pro'.

Ecco was so beloved that it was binary patched to enable Lua scripting, a decade after being killed. It was virtually bug free and continues to work today on Windows, Linux+Wine and macOS+Crossover. It was so well designed that even though it predated the internet, it could be trivially extended to support hyperlinks. The main limitations after 20 years of zero maintenance are max db size and lack of scalable fonts.

In 2023, an open-source PIM inspired by Ecco Pro reached v1.0 status after 14 years, built on Qt with binaries available for Win/Linux/Mac, https://github.com/rochus-keller/CrossLine

CrossLine is an outliner with sophisticated cross-link capabilities in the tradition of the well-respected Ecco Pro. It implements the concept of "Transclusion" proposed by Ted Nelson and - among others - implemented in the legendary Objectory SE tool by Ivar Jacobson. It is also a full text database with built-in search engine.
> I'm always looking for alternatives to AutoHotkey and small C WINAPI programs I've written. Rust doesn't quite cut it ...

You can access the win32 api in Node via Koffi. Here's a MessageBox example: https://koffi.dev/start#for-windows

Also see node-activex (https://github.com/durs/node-activex)

AHK2's syntax is also very close to Javascript these days. It's quite pleasant to use and the C++ source is very well-documented.
yes. some want BYOC solutions. others don't want to even be perceived as being used to train an LLM. not to mention CCPA, GDPR, etc etc etc.

lots of questions around what data is being sent to the LLM, or just schema.
OpenPGP Keyservers Now Store 'Irremovable' Torrent Magnet Links (2018)
I'm surprised Google hasn't put AI on YouTube: "Feeling a bit down? Here, have some depressive suicidal black metal."
> Would open sourcing the core IP of a company “typically” require board approval?

At this stage, if they can't raise a series A I'd assume they still have a majority of the "board" to themselves.
It's strange to see "inspired by Material Design," and then a bunch of controls that look nothing like Material.
I guess you're probably right.
You may be right about future generations.

But the data referred to in this article itself, shows that alcohol consumption hasn’t gone down. So your speculation is not true today at least.
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I’m completely baffled by Google’s “postmortem” myself. Not only is it obviously insufficient to anyone that has operated online services as you point out, but the conclusions are full of hubris. I.e. this was a one time incident, it won’t happen again, we’re very sorry, but we’re awesome and continue to be awesome. This doesn’t seem to help Google Cloud’s face-in-palm moment.
ARIN it's $250 for /24 and a IPv6/40 with an ASN.
More discussion and anecdotes here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40432688
most of this complaint is explicitly answered in the article. must have been TL...
Cool, but in terms of UI/UX, the 'Waiting for emails' banner animation is quite choppy and annoying because it isn't seamless and loops endlessly.
This is kind of why I haven't replied directly to this one yet. I don't know how I feel, ethically, about wasting interviewers time. I've been on the hiring side of the table a ton in the last 13 years (just not on the other side of the table) and I'm not sureI'd be trilled if I found out candidates were doing this to me.

With that said, ethics aside, it does seem like a solid way to get practice.
Don't take design advice in a vacuum. Think about the problem at hand, the constraints and the people and organizations involved, and design something appropriate to that context.
I don't like being crushed by rocks but I can fight against it all I want, a rock that's heavier than me will crush me.
The long-overdue problem coming for some people in Go 1.23
Stop giving me a Deus Ex Machina.

Ascribe HOW and give a tangible technical explaination. This is a tech forum, we know how software and hardware works.

> It would need to be able to get control of just one Robot. The mechanisms of controlling the robot could be different. It doesn't have to be through network necessarily. It could just load its software on it

How does this spread happen? How does this payload spread? How does it not get caught?

> Through just one single security vulnerability where it can hack a robot like that

What kind of robot? Every automated machine can be argued to be a robot

> Since it's as smart as a human it would be able to do the automation part. It can control robot hands in factories, etc.

You know there's a reason these environments are physically and network airgapped since the 2000s right?

Even Stuxnet was only able to spread because Israeli intelligence gave out tainted USB drives.
My point was that it does not matter whether I (or anyone else) support eugenics or not.

Once the ability is there certain regimes will use it, and the states who dont will not be able to compete.

And do seriously doubt the Chinese will do it?

This is not a moral / ideological question for me. Opposing genetic engineering is like opposing firearms with arguments like "We should fight man against man, sword in hand, a true test of strength, firearms are for weak cowards!" The firearm user will listen to that pontification and then just shoot you, like Indiana Jones in that movie.

There simply won't be a choice. Genius level intellects like von Neumann or Einstein are such massive force multipliers that the US will look like Swaziland by comparison once China has figured out how to mass produce them.
Why is x & -x equal to the largest power of 2 that divides x?
Depends on what you mean? The ESP32 isn't open hardware, so on that front, no. But could this potentially let you make an open source card that used the ESP32, absolutely. In fact, you can do that already, it'll just be using some closed source firmware. And replacing that firmware with FOSS is what this is about.
100MB sounds like IDE to me. ST506 was "early" and 100MB would have been relatively exotic for a PC user and definitely expensive.
I always trip on the ability of English has to turn nouns into verbs so after my first parse of the sentence I thought "w.t.f does the verb to planimeter mean?". Then I realized that "can" is not a verb here....
The True Genius of Fatherhood (2005)
MSFT's other advantage is VS Code, the most widely used general purpose IDE
In tradfi, the counterparty is typically a sophisticated financial institution that either is in your jurisdiction or at least cares somewhat about not annoying your government. If it isn't, it's probably a customer of said financial institution, and thus subject to their rules. In crypto, your counterparty might be literally anybody.
"supports the theory that men being “more aggressive or competitive” is cultural – or, at least, isn't caused by testosterone."

Right, and the same cultural influences are having identical, in fact more extreme affects, in horse culture, elephant culture, dog culture, bull culture, chicken culture, etc.

Ridiculous.
Human art can exist without anything prior. For example, I highly doubt the creators of cave paintings traveled the world to see other such work before doing theirs. But you could look at impressionism or pointillism for that matter.

AI can not.

Indeed, the problem is the utter unoriginality of the current wave of AI. Literally the only thing it can do is to produce the next token which is the most likely to be in the training set.
I think a lot of people want something like this. Especially as more non technical people are adding business analysts to their jd.

I’ve tried to teach SQL to PMs, bug triage specialists, etc. even a couple of days is too much time for them to learn something not critical or core to their job. Their alternative is to bug data teams with adhoc requests, which data people hate.

A tool like this would probably save 15% of a data teams time, and reduce the worst part of their job. At companies with hundreds, or even thousands, of data folks - that’s massive

And the users are smart people. They can read SQL to see if it looks like the right filters are applied. The “accuracy” issue exists but for certain use cases, it’s honestly not the biggest concern.

Not sure why the tone in this thread is so negative. To the founders, thank you!
Yeah, the nominal libc restrictions are definitely pretty annoying. In my own programs, I've just taken to calling SYS_clone (or SYS_clone3) directly and treating it like _fork() w.r.t. which functions are safe to call from the child. It's not my problem if the libc doesn't want to define some proper way to do it, and both glibc and musl gave up on current-process caching years ago. Though of course, the Rust project has to be more conservative.

(Linux libcs, or at least glibc, have a weird position overall. "We aren't responsible for our APIs working if a raw syscall has changed the program state", but also "we won't provide wrappers for new kernel functionality, just use a raw syscall". Which is it? "Just don't use any new functionality unless it's scoped to an fd"?)