skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My loose thought model uses an AI assistant on a PC or similar thats constantly trying to predict and help you, and that someone actually makes this desirable and not just Clippy 3.0. This AI mimicry will advance high skilled productivity quite a bit, but when an AI has been well trained on a high skilled person, it can then be backwards applied to a low skilled person as a decent bump in productivity, and also potentially be run solo by software thieves in the third world for like 1/4 of the benefit of hiring someone. And that this sort of creates a marketplace for trained assistant AIs, "This one trained on an electrical engineer for 3 years" "This one trained on an entire call centre for 10 years, no longer needs guidance" etc etc.
Netflix feels like they made a very bad bet that their technology was some sort of leading advantage (which was silly because if BitTorrent exists then fairly obviously...no it wasn't).
I would think intuitively it is a different brain process.

I wonder if brain-wise reading code is similar to a judge reading through various laws to make a judgement?

Is it also similar to reading a math proof? Are all these things different?
> I don't understand why the FDA hasn't approved Moderna's mRNA-4157 yet, apart from bureaucratic inertia and indifference to human suffering.

Both very in character for what FDA does.
I'm honored! I always thought Tombert's Law would end up being something about cartoon trivia, so this is much better.
the one thing that is handy and missing here is creating and pushing tags.
It's worked extremely well against every single DDoS we've received. I'd rate it as one of the best for the price.
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Essentially it was a parallel track in the BBS world. And it ended up dying/morphing into the sort of trial-ware etc. that the "true" shareware movement was largely against. The whole thing just sort of fizzled out as open source was becoming more prominent but, even as someone who was a part of it, it's not totally clear to me how that transition came about.

With a few exceptions like Jason Scott's BBS documentary, the non-Unix/Internet history of early personal computing is not very well-covered at all.
I generally agree with you except that all the wages may go up: there are tools that directly replace people and their wages go down or just disappear from the scene.

AI is just one powerful example but there are a lot of recent example that sounds more basic: before [Twitter] Bootstrap was created companies of all sizes hired graphic designers to create their web page. Most of this work now is compressed in time and the same graphic designer do a smaller part.

At the same time, in the software development field we invent all kind of tool that increase the size of the team for other kind of people (e.g. React developers). Regarding AI, Low Code, or whatever concepts we use in the following year I think the role of software development will also decrease.
One datpoint; I visited Nepal in 2016 and was overwhelmed by the general baseline happiness of everyone there. Everyone smiled. Then contrast returning to the West was stark. I went back in 2023 and while it's not gone it's waned. The only other major difference I noticed when I went back is even in the more remote villages everyone has a phone.
You're just trading one type of control flow visibility for another. With even the most basic amount of error-return handling the actual control flow of your program is quite obscured.
There are tens if not hundreds of MSR designs. Here's a useful report published by the International Atomic Energy Agency on the status of MSR in the world [1].

There are two types of reactors that hold the promise to burn a higher fraction of the fuel: thorium based thermal reactors and uranium fast reactors. Many such reactors are MSRs, but so are other reactors. Honestly, you can think of MSR as an orthogonal dimension.

In any case, to answer your question about which designs moved forward. You can think of a design moving forward if the company that promotes that design has applied for NRC approval, and how far they are in the approval process. Here's the page where you can find these details [2]. There are 12 companies listed there. Any north-american company that is not listed there, you can think of their design as "pie-in-the-sky". Among the 12 companies, there are 3 molten salt reactor designs. One is in a reasonably advanced stage (the Kairos-Hermes), but that is a classical MSR: it uses uranium and thermal neutrons, so there are no ambitions to breed new fuel or anything. That's good, you want a design to be as conservative as possible if it were to get an NRC approval. The Terrestrial Energy design is also thermal, the only fast MSR is Terrapower's Molten Chloride Fast Reactor design. However, Terrapower is in a much more advanced stage with its Natrium reactor, its MSR is basically on the back burner. My guess is we won't hear any news about this design for at least 10 years.

However, the Natrium design of Terrapower has some promise, and quite solid funding. It is a sodium-cooled fast reactor. If it succeeds, such designs can burn U-238, and that is somewhat of a game-changer.

[1] https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/STI-DOC-010-4...

[2]https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/advanced/who-were-...
Yeah the only reason I pay for streaming services is convenience of finding new content. Disney plus is crack for kids.

I missed the boat for some of the invite only private trackers and I don't have enough time to set up the crazy cool torrent streaming equivalents. Kid stuff is so hard to find on the bay.

One day I'll take a week off of work and get my Xbox Kodi set up right with my stream box to do it.
There are plenty: https://github.com/search?ref=simplesearch&q=language%3A%22F...

Here's mine, https://github.com/agzam/awesomewm.d/blob/main/src/_init.fnl

Beware though, I'm not highly experienced in using and configuring Awesome (especially for beautification), the code is not meant to be shared and it has tons of dirty parts (result of my experimentation), I only built what I needed for my personal use.

Bigger (more public) project built on Fennel is https://github.com/agzam/spacehammer It's for Hammerspoon though, and my guess you're using Linux, not Mac.

One of the aspects I still haven't figured out is the "proper Fennel REPL", it makes certain things less joyful to write or troubleshoot, but even without it, I see some benefits in using Fennel instead of Lua - it's more compact, more FP-oriented, has macros, and it's a Lisp - I can use structural editing.
I'm going to start listing it alongside my other favorite aphorism: Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. -- H.H. Williams
A small, simple subset of git? You generally don't need all the esoteric stuff people complain about day-to-day.

Pretty much what is listed in the OP cheat sheet.
This is discussed in the book Chip War at length. I believe the answer was that if it were possible at all, it's going to be at least half a decade behind. There were a lot of other supply chain considerations which would likely apply as well.
You can buy individual seasons of shows for about $15-$25 each.
Like some sort of lab conducting gain of function research on contagious diseases?

That does scare me tbh.
The use case for more is managing the history of it in a specific way to make it easier to understand. Most applications don't need this level of management since most applications don't have lives depending on them
> knowledge makes it hard to comprehend the difficulties other people have

The phenomena you describe is known as the Curse of Knowledge [1]

Wikipedia gives an example: A knowledgeable professor might no longer remember the difficulties that a young student encounters when learning a new subject for the first time. [2]

[1] https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/163747/132074

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge
It's unlikely that recall will be able to bypass the DRM on netflix
What Canva's cringeworthy rap song tells us
i wonder if knowing there’s a better life out there makes people depressed
They're really intent on worsening their value proposition
Presumably by competitors and alternatives, you aren't strictly referring to streaming platforms. What of it? People still want to stream film and tv, and among legal platforms Netflix is still tops.
If you've never written a driver before, of course it's going to take weeks or months to get somewhere (speaking from experience, having written a few of my own as early tasks at a new job)

However, once you understand the APIs presented by your OS, and/or the underlying standard you need to implement, that time will easily reduce to a few days (or hours, in this case). If I've just written a USB driver for one set of hardware, it's almost certainly going to be trivial to write a driver for some other hardware.
It's especially infuriating that federal restrictions on medical treatment are unlawful to start with (there's no constitutional basis for them).
How do you determine if an AI is sentient?

By it's nature as the execution of code, even if we reach AGI I don't consider it sentient. They wouldn't require rights unless that was required to prevent an apocalyptic scenario. Even then, that would be down to bad code rather than because they were alive.

I can see an argument that we are robots because we just execute DNA, protein, and chemical code, but I don't think that really is comparable. We live, grow, and die and then are completely dead, as opposed to being bootable and killable in a responce to flow of electricity, on the whim of someone deciding whether it is time to use the tool.
> Admittedly, I still have trouble remembering the commands to do what I want (hello, rebase --onto A B C), though :P.

I work at a company where every developer uses Sourcetree, a GUI for Git. I don't really have a need to remember Git commands (and what arguments they take) anymore after using a GUI. For me, it is sufficient to know what Git commands do without knowing the semantics.
As a user of QCAD I am more than happy to pay the extra for the features in the commercial version and support the developer (Not vastly different but adds a few tools that make certain constructions easier). I used it free for a while and appreciated it enough to exchange some money. The extra features are a bonus but it's worth the money even for the free version.

I think it's a shame that LibreCAD has stagnated and diverted, particularly on usability. QCAD has one of the best 2D CAD UX I've used, akin to AutoCAD but more light and nimble. Exactly what is needed for most 2D CAD.

If you need a powerhouse, then you really need 3D anyway, and most likely you aren't a hobbiest if that's the case. For 2D, it's QCAD all the way. 3D is nice, but 2D gets the job done 9/10 times. 3D is overrated.
The claim that a vast majority of people with depression have life circumstances causing it is extremely dubious and reeks of bias.
Legal safety is (part of) the reason companies have "trust and safety" teams.

The problem here is that AI training is probably not actually a copyright issue, some people just wish it was and are trying to manifest one by complaining.

(Similar things exist in online artist communities with rules like "no reposting without crediting the artist" - they think if they just keep telling everyone this is the rule it'll become one.)
- Loki doesn't allow queries without stream filters. This may be very inconvenient. For example, try selecting all the logs with the 'error' word in Loki. In LogsQL you just type 'error' and that's it!

- As I know, Loki doesn't allow selecting all the logs on the given time range. For example, try selecting all the logs for the last 5 minutes in Loki query language. In LogsQL this is just '_time:5m'.

- Loki has unreadable syntax for calculating analytics over the selected logs. For example, counting the number of logs with the 'error' word over the last 5 minutes in Loki looks like:

count_over_time({required="stream_filter"} | "error" [5m])

Compare this to LogsQL:

_time:5m error | stats count() as errors

- Loki doesn't allow calculating multiple stats in a single query. For example, try calculating the number of logs with the 'error' word, plus the total number of logs, over the last 5 minutes. In LogsQL this is easy:

_time:5m | stats count() if(error) as errors, count() as total

- As I know, Loki doesn't provide functionality for sorting of the returned logs.

- Loki can return only up to 5000 logs from a single query by default. VictoriaLogs allows returning billions of logs from a single query, without any performance and resource usage issues [1].

[1] https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victorialogs/querying/#comm...
Yes, the hammer is the one I actually know what it's for (breaking up large sheets of toffee or chocolate bricks), because they labeled it!

My point was that it sure would be nice if the other weird things in my kitchen had had a label.
> It’s not the same as language, and it’s not the same as math and logic

Not the same as logic? What?? Code is literally logic itself. Code that works with all supported parameters is logically correct code by definition. It's often impossible to prove exhaustively but it can be inferred with very high confidence in many cases.

Producing correct code is the goal of all good developers. Just like producing correct equations is the goal of all good mathematicians.
$5 for a rental is nothing, and you don't need to subscribe to everything at once to watch what you want.
I don't think there's any precedent for requiring someone to distribute a work they created. That sounds expensive and could easily be a contract violation for other data they did license.
It almost sounds like you are excusing them. Asking people to switch to the enterprise plan and bring your own IP is reasonable, but not on a timeline of 24h, and trashing their account when they tell you they are talking to a competitor makes me feel like I should flee Cloudflare services with all haste.
Harvard professor David Sinclair forced to resign
I don't even think it means I'm particularly "smart," whatever that means. I just picked up one specific set of skills extremely early that happen to be highly valued in young children.
If people are isolated and don’t have social support and are therefore more emotionally vulnerable and unstable (basically we are put into isolation to a lesser degree than prison inmates) then it is easier for the government to control us.
I don't know, certainly seems like this is one that's currently on offer: that the benevolent octogenarians (and you even get to pick one of two!) are all-knowing, and if you disagree, or think your experience doesn't match the story in the media - then you are wrong (and also an uneducated boob and should feel bad). This is a kind of religion - the aristocracy knows best.
I would save my data in CSV format, then use this. Save the code below as chunk.pl (remove leading spaces) and call it as "perl chunk.pl" :

#!/usr/bin/perl -CSD -w -Mstrict -Mwarnings -MText::CSV

# chunk.pl -- split csv files into chunks

# Usage message and exit if needed
if (!@ARGV || $ARGV[0] eq '-h') {
print "Usage: $0 input_csv [chunk_size] [output_filename_format] [separator]\n";
print "Example: $0 input.csv 500 'input-%08d.csv' ','\n";
exit;
}

# Set command-line arguments
my ($INFILE, $CHUNKSIZE, $FMT, $SEP) = @ARGV;
$CHUNKSIZE //= 500;
$FMT //= "data-%08d.csv";
$SEP //= ",";

# Initialize CSV, file handles, and counters
my $csv = Text::CSV->new({ binary => 1, auto_diag => 1, sep_char => $SEP, eol => "\n" });
my ($i, $f, $out) = (0, 1, undef);
open my $in, "<:encoding(UTF-8)", $INFILE or die "Cannot open $INFILE: $!";

# Main loop
while (my $row = $csv->getline($in)) {
if ($i % $CHUNKSIZE == 0) {
close $out if defined $out;
open $out, ">:encoding(UTF-8)", sprintf($FMT, $f++) or die "Cannot open output file: $!";
}
$csv->print($out, $row) or die "Failed to write row: $!";
$i++;
}

# Clean up: close file handles
close $out if defined $out;
close $in;
They're by far not done regulating. Upcoming ones like Cybersecurity Act will be pretty burdensome to deal with if they don't turn out right.
The breathtaking scope of Sam Altman's future AI empire
Whether a chicken takes to trees is partly down to the breed. Bigger domesticated breeds are not suited to flying (due to their weight), but can jump up to 4-5 feet. Jungle foul and other smaller breeds can fly up in to trees to roost.
My chickens roost in a tree in the back yard. It's an easy tree for them to get into, they can walk/climb up from the ground a fair way then an easy flap to get to their preferred branches.

In summer they disappear into the leaves, but in winter they're pretty obvious.
This is unrealistic example and has error handling completely backwards. The exception handler in main() only knows how to handle specific types of errors -- it doesn't know or care where they are thrown, that's not it's problem. Lets say, for example, it knows it can handle network errors by retrying the operation.

If b() changes to throw a different type of exception that main() doesn't know to handle them main will break. And breaking is entirely the correct behaviour.

Maybe b() is an interface and the actual implementation might not even have existed when main() was written. Maybe yesterday it was implemented with a file, tomorrow with a HTTP call, and maybe next week something else. But tomorrow, at least, it can retry the operation when it fails.
Ah, yes..I thought you were saying a high-end piracy setup is expensive[1], and it is. So I was trying to say a "good enough" one is cheap.

[1] Though probably never as expensive as the sum of all the legal à la carte services for anything you might want to see.
I think most of the millionaire+ class would rather spend money to become /less/ popular rather than more. Consumer facing founder CEOs and musicians are just two subclasses whose job means not doing that.
i feel this is a sentiment shared by every generation. “Now with printing presses, kids have access to tombs of knowledge”

Conversely, you used to look at a line of OS code and knew how that translated to registers within a processor. Now i barely know which kubernetes cluster the code is currently deployed in
I've done repairs that way sometimes, but older OS can wear SSD out a lot faster than normal. It is a less than ideal solution, but does speed up old platforms a lot (thus, usually we provided the recovered disk image file backup on another drive.)

Most modern HDD include proprietary sector error-mapping in flash on the controller chip. Thus, unless you have the vendor software you are not going to access anything helpful, or get away with a donor drive controller pcb.

Sometimes, people learn the hard way about backing up regularly, and testing the recovery set periodically. The rise in remote workstations has had its downsides for sure.

Cheers =3
I think most of these services should just not charge you if, during any given payment period, you don't use the service. If I go to the trouble of canceling I'm likely not coming back; especially since the friction for re-subscribing is higher than just logging in and it automatically being 'unpaused'. I'm also more likely to cancel a service if I haven't used it for three months and see its cost me $60 just to have.
I can do git pull, branch, add, commit, push, merge, diff, status, stash pretty much without thinking but much beyond that I have to look it up.
This is a good point. I for one will not be watching the movie Atlas until I see bit coin wallet addresses for all 700+ people listed here: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt14856980/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cl_...
This is surely the strongest point voiced.
Most if not all subsequent chains pre-mined
a substantial fraction then used proceeds to
fundraise some cash and held the rest in reservoir
Until they could keep dumping once listed.
So any subsequent chain never adhered to the
original principles of satoshi.
And I have seen some funky shit with CEO’s that have
legitimate seeming background but completely abused this.
But here is the snag. Most early Pre-listing investors will
love it coz they have gotten a golden parachute investment, and will defend the CEO at all cost.
The first syrian flaffel shop in the USA is right next door. The other side is Cafe Wha, one of Jimmy Hendrix's spots when he was in NYC.
I would guess it's pressure from rightsholders, assuming whoever made this call inside of netflix knows this isn't a good or common way to get or create pirated versions of media. I don't think defeating DRM on at-rest files is going to be any easier than the DRM on streamed chunks of files.
There was a flock of feral chickens that lived in trees in the Bay Area — specifically in Redwood Shores. I saw them back in the 1990s. Here's their story:

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Feral-Chickens-Runnin...
> > You make it seem like the formal verification missed an issue.

> Sorry, that was not my intent. I added a clarification.

I'm sorry but it didn't. Without reading next comment I wouldn't know why it failed.
>The “lack of serotonin” theory always made me laugh. It’s like if your computer was running abnormally and you said it “doesn’t have enough electricity”.

A computer is a digital device, so it's more like all or nothing. It either powers up or not.

Analog electrical devices however can indeed behave suboptimally without enough electricity.
I don't think this was obvious in 2020, it wasn't a popular research direction until InstructGPT came out in 2022.

I have continued to have the same opinion of it not being a problem since then. Especially since the AI doomer theories are based on 90s ideas of GOFAI that isn't even how GPTs work.

LLMs are a pretty neat impossible thing, but we'd need a few more uncorrelated impossible things for it to be "dangerous".
Could be that they don't use internet so they have no idea how to get those cheaper options.