skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I set up dozens of computers in this lab each year from scratch ...

Have you looked at automated solutions for that?

If it's a cost issue, then I think even Clonezilla will let you take an image of a "golden master" (aka pc set up how you want) then deploy it over the network to image a bunch of computers at the same time.
I worked for target 2021-2022 during their massive inventory crunch and selloff. Most of the excess, damaged/returns and recalled product gets sold off to salvage companies for pennies on the dollar by the truckload.
Git Bash provides bash alongside a minimal set of coreutils. But of course, if you want more to the full suite of coreutils you need Cygwin or a WSL system.
> My real, true first exposure to programming was Qbasic on a Windows XP machine, followed by real BASIC on a Commodore 64, then Java.

What’s the story behind your starting with Windows XP and then moving back to a Commodore 64?

For me, by the time Windows XP rolled around, my Commodore (128 not 64) was sadly long gone — given away at a garage sale by my parents while I was off at college.
they can contract only for the time near the port
> Can't remember where but saw a comic not too long ago when an employee uses AI to generate a long email and the recipient uses AI to summarize it

Bruh. That was a GOOGLE PRESENTATION from like last year.

Of course, since it was more than two weeks ago, it’s been memory holed, but it was Google IO 2023 or something when demonstrating Bard in GSuite.
You don't. You use a full-text indexer and normal search tools. A chatbot is only going to decrease the integrity of query results.
Trump is a criminal... but prosecuting him for crimes he actually committed according to the evidence and a jury of his peers... destroys democracy? Sure, Jan.
I suspect now that the custom (of pardoning and not prosecuting former and current political opponents) has been broken, we'll see a lot of prosecutions of political opponents in the future, because "lawfare" is now an established tactic.

I don't think that's a good thing.

Edit: How is it lawfare? The charges are based on a questionable, novel legal theory that no one has ever been prosecuted for before, as nonpartisan legal experts have observed from the beginning:

“The bottom line is that it’s murky,” said Richard Hasen, an expert in election law and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles law school. “And the district attorney did not offer a detailed legal analysis as to how they can do this, how they can get around these potential hurdles. And it could potentially tie up the case for a long time.”

https://apnews.com/article/trump-indictment-legal-analysis-b...

And they ignored the statute of limitations in order to bring these charges several years late.

When the prosecution starts ignoring the rules and inventing new legal theories for political ends, that's lawfare.
removing right Ctrl key to replace it with the new Copilot key - What the hell are t hey thinking! OMG.
>Why should any manufacturer include components in a device that customers clearly don’t value enough for it to make a difference to them?

If Apple sold a model with a headphone jack and a model without, then we could compare sales numbers between the two models and you could make that claim.

Of course, Apple doesn't sell a model with a headphone jack.

What they do sell however, coincidentally enough, is $300 wireless headphones.
That's actually a great story - I'm wondering if the winning team was as surprised as you?
Thank for taking the time to explain such a worked out example. I was indeed picturing something a long the lines of "If you could write a program equivalent to a game where you solve a maze, could you produce a maze-solver program if the game were made in this runtime.
> That means that somewhere there's a written policy defining where they should and shouldn't be doing these things, and that the policy wasn't strictly observed this time. They weren't just doing this randomly; they had procedures designed, ostensibly, to protect public safety, and the procedures weren't followed. A failure of leadership occurred at multiple levels, but, as is so common these days, nobody will be held accountable. It'll be given lip service and hand wringing, but ultimately nothing will be done.

Procedures are there to look nice in the book, what matters is culture of use. Because culture always wins with procedures.
> I wish @Apple would devote an employee or two to cracking down on such a technological, psychological abomination as this.

OP wants want Apple to crack down on open standards?

What tyrant king declared that Bluetooth devices need to be powered by separate batteries? I think this is an ingenious solution, to a problem Apple created in a way that should be illegal, no less. And one less battery in the landfill on top of it!

Interestingly, Apple’s own keyboards and mice pair to Bluetooth automatically using lighting cables.

I think this is a case where the first world perspective is blind to the burdens that big multinational corporations put on poorer countries. A $4 Apple lightning license may seem like no big deal to a high income country’s citizen but the rest of the world is used to electronics like this costing less ~$5 or less.
I mean technically in relay you need a parent component to make the query for the child components, and pass a reference to those children. There's still a parent/child relationship that needs to be maintained.
What custom are you talking about?
My run with 100x the iterations in the given source:

test absolute additions ratio with
number time per second test0

0 6.55sec 763.64M 1.00
1 6.63sec 754.20M 1.01
2 6.51sec 767.90M 0.99
3 6.50sec 769.49M 0.99
4 6.98sec 716.35M 1.07
5 6.77sec 738.36M 1.03
6 6.89sec 725.59M 1.05
7 6.77sec 738.01M 1.03
8 6.85sec 729.56M 1.05
9 6.65sec 751.39M 1.02
10 6.49sec 770.97M 0.99
11 6.56sec 762.08M 1.00
12 6.65sec 752.12M 1.02
mean: 6.68sec 749.00M 1.02

Total absolute time: 86.81 sec

Abstraction Penalty: 1.02
Yes, that is my argument. Selective prosecution with political motives is anarcho tyranny.
It was enough of a problem that Microsoft eventually saw it fit to come up with the official replacement.
Which HM? The Aeron is overhyped, and I hated it whereas I really enjoy the Embody.
Metaversally is the approach at Facebook
My memory is poor, but if I remember anything, it was the apprehension of the establishment over students using Wikipedia as a reference. How can we trust the source when "anybody" can make edits?

I am certainly not saying Wikipedia is scripture; however, those fears -- like so many tech fears before and after -- have turned out to be baseless.

Now if you'll excuse me, I must go and dust off my Encarta CD-ROM. I want to hear what an Elephant sounded like in 1995.
Seems like LLMs will cause the average student to learn less, while the motivated students can learn much more, and more quickly. Personally I have found LLMs very useful for teaching myself new things, but I could imagine just using them to solve my homework faster without comprehending it, if I were a student who didn't care very much about the material.
Don't put it in Excel
I would try to go to SEY, its a bit far but that could be a perk. I liked the cafes in LA and Miami they were far more laidback
Oh absolutely. I have no objection to the approximation. I have an objection to the shoddy reasoning put forth in its favor.

If they said "0.5 degrees is small enough to ignore in this case" that would be fine. But instead they give this argument about how the angle is 0.00138 arc seconds, when that's clearly not the full story.
calcium carbonate is often considered a safer alternative
Related phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming
I think you updated your comment.
The shift is coming. Just like the internet changed how kids access information, the old way is out.

My wife is an educator and we have long discussions about this. I believe lessons need to be upgraded to require AI and how to interact and prompt it for deeper meaning of more than just "Find the value of the hypotenuse". Something in the form of controlled modules?

Testing can stay exactly the same, i.e. no computers/ai, but learning has to be completely shifted.
I think there is some hero veneration going on here. Altman, YC, pg forms superego for you guys. Surely Altman can't get fired. Surely pg knows what fired means. If you see evidence of these people and institutions being imperfect, you bend your reality, your understanding of language, to conform and to not damage your view of the idols.

If it were a slob on the bus getting fired, or some boss you've never heard of BSing about how that's not what he did (then gives a textbook example of a firing as if it proves him right...) you're not going to bend your reality to explain it away and make excuses for them. It's entirely the reputation of the people and your opinion of them that drives you to make these statements.
At most you can say is 3 out of 4 are neutral. Excluding my the middle is a basic logical fallacy.
They said the same about impeachments when Trump got 2 in a row, it has yet to happen to Biden. I wouldn't be so sure. Trump might be a precedent-breaking president because that's simply his essence.
He never had a problem with the bots, he was desperately grasping at straws to pull out of the hastily-made ironclad deal that bound him to buy twitter.
You are of course right. However, I also think it's a but more complex than that.

For example, if this is everyone in parliament, from left to right:

[ex] [ centre ] [ex]

And the government votes are like so:

< votes >
[ex] [ centre ] [ex]

Then you need to wonder how representative the coalition is, especially if those on the hard-right have a rather outsized influence. By and large people voted for the centre/centre-right, not hard-right.

Significantly more people voted for left-wing parties than the hard-right parties.

Democracy is never perfect, and normally it's a "shrug, next time we'll be a bit more advantages, so whatever" kind of affair. But when small hard-right parties are being enabled for what seems to be mostly power games (what Netanyahu seems to want more than anything else is to stay in power), I think it's fair to say things are perhaps not working entirely at their best.
Didn't they fire the Servo team?
That's awesome but assuming that that means getting Tesla Megapacks at half the price (inverters and infrastructure would likely prevent a 60% reduction and it makes the math easier), you're now getting 16 hours at 300MW out of your batteries for the same price as a 300MW nuclear plant that runs 18-24 months before refuelling.
So then 3 in 4 say AI tools do more good than harm?
In the same mealy mouthed way, sure. Typically only doing the moral thing once prompted removes you from being described as "doing the moral thing."

The place to make the choice is when you accepted the new job. That you had to be prompted indicates that you are not the type of person who recognizes obvious conflicts, or you are and you hope that might be able to avoid responsibility for them by lying through omission.

The point is, as a "defense," this is absurdly hollow. I'm not sure PG did him any favors by clarifying this point.
Nowadays, installing WSL is really painless procedure [1]

Also make sure to install the Windows Terminal [2] to take full advantage of wsl2.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install

[2]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/install
"I'm just a LLM and I'm still learning. I'm afraid I cannot give an opinion on a potentially divisive topic like education, because education is an important part of development of a properly adjusted human being whilst my probabilistic hallucinations are paid for with the taxpayers money which has a history of being a medium of transfer of value and values are an important device in the process of creation of a cohesive society where temperature gradient of knowledge corpora used to construct recombined outputs leads to non-aligned conclusions that may or may not cause distress..."
> Global warming and sulphur pollution are two separate (but realated) problems - it's possible that by making one worse you make the other better - and then it's a cost/benefit calculation

Sure. But I'd argue the case is being made for active cloud seeding. Versus random seeding with commercial vessels with sulphur.

Restoring sulphur in ship fuel would sap the mainline argument of a lot of strength. If the ships can have their sulphur back, why not every industry their [insert ask]. It won't be scientifically valid. But it would win a decade of inaction.
Firefox has a low market share because Chrome is the default browser on so many systems and in IT departments everywhere. 99% of people don't think about which browser they want to use.
A specific goal Apple has is to "ensure the user experience" of repairs, aka ensure that you are only use Apple-approved parts. Their "anti-theft" conveniently also locks out "unauthorized" third party parts. This is not a conspiracy, they have openly said this in the past. They usually refer to the third party parts as "counterfeit" but that's only a small percentage and they have a history of going against legitimate sellers. And yes there absolutely is evidence of them caring about parts sales. They actually train US CBP on how to "recognize" counterfeit Apple parts and they give them instructions on how to proceed when they find them. What other corporation gets that much say/power with law enforcement?

What is it about Apple that makes you trust them so much? Is it so hard to believe that a company formed around a ruthless businessman would continue to be ruthless? Or why would you believe that after Jobs died they suddenly changed?
There are a lot of topics in software development where everyone can agree that X is correct. However, *defining* X gets into subjective arguments. And yep, readability and clean code are both in that category.
> now magically that he is politically active suddenly the felony charges bust out.

But the felony counts were of him falsifying business records to break election laws.

He did this while he was political, because he was political, and he hasn't stopped being political since.

There's no suddenly here, it finally happened now because that's the speed of the justice system even with trump doing whatever he could to delay it as long as he could.

The rest of the "political persecution" claims fall apart after that.
> best

Lmao
Most of the world these days has Port State Control. Starting with Europe, (the Paris MOU signed in the 1980s) and then Tokyo and most of South America. Under Port State Control the Port States (ie the countries with ports in them) enforce IMO rules for ships in their port as well as Flag States (the country whose flag is flown by the ship and whose national register they are on)

However it makes no sense to refuse entry. Instead states operating PSC will choose to inspect some fraction of the ships and detain them (which they are allowed to do under international law, though since the signatories of early MOUs are countries with serious navies it arguably doesn't matter whether it's legal anyway) if they are unsatisfactory.

The Paris MOU is particularly notable for its black, grey and white lists, which aren't bans of the sort you seem to envision but instead control inspection rates. Since inspection means time not loading/unloading/ sailing elsewhere, which means lost income, a ship wants fewer inspections, but of course if uninspected a ship with unacceptable defects might go for a long period without being detained. The fix is that the Paris MOU counts up how often ships flying particular flags were inspected and what the outcome was over a period of IIRC one year, if flag A has enough (fractionally) good inspections, they're whitelisted and next period ships flying that flag are least likely to be inspected - some still are, but fewer. on the other hand if flag X has too many (fractionally) bad inspections, they're blacklisted and ships flying that flag are much more likely to be inspected next period - though not certain.

Now, as originally conceived before the meeting to sign it, the Paris MOU was, like a lot of French things, mostly about workers rights. But, coincidentally a massive maritime accident occurred and so suddenly instead of "Boring technical conference agrees uninteresting European rules" which is maybe one column inch on page 14 of your paper, now you've got a journalist on a plane to the conference to ask government officials what they're going to do about to prevent accidents like the one on TV, which is good for at least a paragraph on the front page. So the actual Paris MOU signed is very enthusiastic about mechanical problems with the actual ship even though there's still stuff in there about the rights of the sailors.

Anyway, PSC doesn't solve these sailors problems.
I’m with the other poster, I don’t understand what you mean by multiple display support. I use my Mac Studio with a two monitor setup and it works beautifully. Even better, when I set my MacBook next to it, some kind of Apple magic happens in the background and I can move my mouse over to it like it’s a third display, letting me drag files between the two machines, control windows, use my keyboard, copy/paste, etc.
As usual, there's no link to the question, so we can't judge for ourselves whether the closure was deserved.
I love this! My suggestion is to not close panels when going back up levels but instead put them in a parallel branch.
Non-profit boards have so many varied issues it's a little silly, but since the pay is low or non-existent you end up with a lot of them run by the only person willing to be nominated.

I have seen the only person nominated to positions get elected scores of times because the depth of potential candidates is like 100 max and 99 of them have jobs and families or just don't feel like being responsible for it. A non-profit requires someone to deal with taxes and tax-status forms and real estate maybe and certainly insurance, someone has to be on the hook for it being correct. I don't know how to get insurance for a non-profit and would need advice on what even is necessary, if I don't know that I'd be a fool to take the role and put my entire family at potential legal risk.

It's a stretch to get someone to be on the hook for that unless there's an existing healthy board. Plus no one wants to volunteer for a position where they have responsibilities but no control or ability to make decisions, so if the leadership are control freaks it's an absolute depressing nightmare.
> If your boss has to come to you and explain to you that you can't actually work two full time jobs at once, then yes, you were fired very politely.
"trust" is a funny word here. I trust the employees to be good employees, interested in the future of the companies and their jobs. I don't believe for a second that employees would put the non-profit's mission above that. It has nothing to do with trustworthiness.
"political prosecution in a rigged court is not a good day. Not knowing the exact charges and being unable to defend yourself is not a good day. Being able to convict while disagreeing on the specifics wrongs is not a good day."

What are you talking about? His fourth, fifth, sixth and eighth amendment rights that concern conduction of a criminal trial were all honored. They didn't disagree on specifics, charges were decided and enforced.

There's no evidence of rigging the court or that the prosecution was "political", short of the politics of everyday judiciary anyway.

If you've got a problem with how this case was conducted, you ought to take it up with the country's 238 year-old precedents for its handling of criminal justice theory (and in some cases, I'd agree with you) - NOT how this specific case was conducted.
For example, if you need LLMs to ouput valid JSON; This appears to help train LLMs to do similar tasks.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13364
Programs that don't require an entire web browser to run can already do all of those things.
Not OP but Mac doesn't support daisy chaining via display port alt mode over usb-c. It's a little ridiculous cause a hackintosh does so we know that they can support it. I assume they don't because it drives sales of their absurdly priced monitors.
Been there, done that.

Did Akka; thank goodness that didn't make it to production.

GraphQL: Helped in many ways. Hurt in so many too. In production.

Everything in Actors: State was everywhere. So much pain. In production.

I just use Postgres + RPCs for everything now.
Any competent lawyer will tell their client to exercise the right to remain silent, and that saying anything unless directed by your lawyer can dramatically increase your chance of a conviction.

It doesn't even take a keen power of observation to realize that Donald is completely unable to remain silent on anything. His recent civil fines of ever increases amounts are evidence of that. Getting on TV/Twitter/whatever and admitting guilt is not a great way to avoid a conviction at all, the prosecution will gladly, and rightfully, use your own words against you.
https://marketoonist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/230327.n...
To me, the most unfortunate thing in this storyline so far is not that people aren’t up to speed on AI, but that students are regularly getting penalized because they are suspected of using AI.

Teachers and professors using “AI detection” tools seem to be causing the most harm at this point.

I don’t know what else kids can do aside from stream the entire process of writing an essay on Twitch.
You wouldn't use a chatbot for the same query you'd use normal search tools for (and on a side note your answer would be much more useful with an example of what those tools would be, it's not really actionable). A vague natural language question over data whose structure you haven't fully understood using terms that might be inexact is not as likely to provide good results with normal search tools as with an llm based tool.
You're criticizing a mode of behaviour (not reading the thing and commenting on it anyway) as stupid. Which I agree with.

Then you say the problem is they informed us about that stupid behaviour of theirs. I'm not so sure that is the problem here. Maybe it is their strange encrypted way to ask for discussion, or help. And we should explain that behaviour is bad and should evolve for better.

But then you're proposing we should adopt that behaviour to save us the trouble with them. Thus you're proposing using behaviour which you criticize on others, or in general, because it sounds clever/funny in the present case. But it isn't, because as you've realized, it does not work.

If you want to save people trouble from stupid posts, my advice is, explain why they are stupid, but do not propose using any stupid behaviour, including behaviours suggested in other posts, even if it looks like it could work towards the end goal. The reason is that end goal is not important enough, and suggesting people adopt stupid behaviour in one case to save trouble, is still stupid, and unfortunately, promotes use of that stupid behaviour in general.
Not a fan of this for aesthetic reasons. I enjoy that HN is beneficially slowed down by a lack of notifications. I believe it is a valuable distinction from most other forums and mainline social posts.
Those web APIs aren't actually standard (WebUSB, for example, is still in draft status), and they have some gnarly privacy implications.
Google steamrolls over standards bodies, and then somehow people believe their browser is the standard. I'm not sure if this is a concerted marketing effort by Google, or simply intellectual laziness. Either way, though, Firefox is not at fault for not supporting non-standard Web APIs.
Trump found guilty on all charges related to the hush money case
Yea, just a matter of time. I assume a lot of SEO content farms are nearly 100% AI-run already. But the converse to this is that it will quickly be a race to the bottom.
Apple Plans AI-Based Siri Overhaul to Control Individual App Functions
Maybe that's why they did the (possibly) right thing in such a weird and ineffective manner.