skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of us can get there without the organized principles simply with empathy. It's even deeply selfish in it's own way.

Ethics is our answer for those that can't.
> URLs are another good natural key: they are defined to be unique

No, see more info here: http://localhost:8080/
Fixing retail with land value capture
If someone works to earn some money, what right do you have to limit how they use it?

This is not simply a libertarian argument: look up the research on cash grant programs. Abuse in cash grant programs is much less than you might guess, and because they are so cheap and simple to administer, their efficiency at achieving their intended results can be very high.
Tenure committees have to write a report detailing every single one of your papers and what your contribution was.
>The sacred fire at Udvada Atash Behram, for example, kindled in 721 CE in Sanjan, burns continually to this day, now in Udvada since 1741, and housed in a magnificent Persian style temple building since 1742.

That it some impressive cultural feat. It combines the human ability to take on the extraordinarily long term view [0] - planning ahead - (our prefrontal cortex is only fully developed at 25 years of age) and the control of fire which goes back at least 1 million (!) years [1].

Some of the Proto-Indo-Europeans [2] seemed to be very keen at ritualizing the control of fire which can be attested through various examples in Indo-European practices [3].

If one traces back the Indo-European origin of the word fire there are 2 main terms:

(1) *h₁n̥gʷnis

(2) *péh₂wr̥

The first one refers to the animate feature of fire (e.g. as "Spirit"/"God", "active") while the second one to the inanimate ("substance", "passive") [4], interestingly Proto-Indo-European is thought to have animacy gender as a distinct grammatical feature [5] which was later replaced by the masculine/feminine gender.

The germanic root for fire comes from the inanimate one while the Persian atash, the latin ignis or Agni (Vedic deity of fire) from the animate form.

[0]https://longnow.org/ideas/the-fire-that-never-goes-out/

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_fire_by_early_hum...

[2]https://www.science.org/content/article/new-language-databas...

[3]https://books.google.at/books?id=cI-bEAAAQBAJ

[4]https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-E...

[5]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animacy
Oof, I hate these questions. Nabokov would have hated 1 as a question because Pale Fire is a sort of extended essay about this very thing, written in the voice of a narcissistic obsessive weirdo and providing him with a sort of chorus response as a poem.

2 feels simplistic to me as well, when asked about one of the great masters of characterization. If you ask who did he sympathize with more, then I’d say possibly ‘neither’.
Might I suggest therapy?
This gets posted 20x in every boeing thread, so you don't even have to "recall" it.
Given many people don’t have an inner monologue and function just fine, it’s more likely inner monologue is a product of the reasoning process and not it’s mechanism.
I don't know either of you and I'm not trying to assert either of you is correct or incorrect but it's worth remembering how insanely large your state is. It'd take 11hrs to drive from Houston to El Paso and Texas contains most of the different climates we're all familiar with.

To some degree, saying "As a life long Texan" then trying to generalize the "Texas Experience" to be your own is as incorrect as saying "As an American, there are mountains everywhere and it's green and beautiful".
Many people, especially on this site, really want LLMs to be everything the hype train says and more. Some have literally staked their future on it so they get defensive when people bring up that maybe LLMs aren’t a replacement for human cognition.

The number of times I’ve heard “but did you try model X” or “humans hallucinate too” or “but LLMs don’t get sleep or get sick” is hilarious.
Is it any wonder, when most modern text editors are a giant ball of javascript running in a giant browser? Seems like hardly anyone is making desktop applications anymore, everything is webapps in browsers masquerading as desktop apps.
What is Ayahuasca also called "vine of the dead"?
you're being sarcastic, surely?

supermac: https://supermacs.ie/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Supermacs-Mi...

big mac: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Bi...

both are: a 2-patty beefburger in a 3-slice sesame-seed bun with a slice of american cheese adjacent to the lower patty.

that is "doesn't look anything like"?
If someone points a gun at you, says "I am going to shoot you in 5 seconds" and then you stand there and get shot instead of diving behind cover, its still not suicide. its a dumb death but the shooter still committed a homicide.

And i do feel like that is a decent analogy for the situation
>The natural conclusion was that Microsoft was spying on its AI users, looking for harmful hackers at work.

openai and azure routinely ban people for other reasons too. it's clear as day that all your prompts are logged, evaluated and stored indefinitely to be shared with a number of third parties, three letter ones and otherwise.
The comic, for reference: https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
People can use their successes for common good. I don’t see Elon Musk or Liza Powell-Jobs or Miriam Adelson doing that.
Ok - unpopular opinion - this would be cool if it was impossible to leave the machine. Id never need another screenshot.

Perhaps if this was an on/off button like service.

I don't need 12 hours of a gaming binge... or a any hours of a porn binge saved second by second for me. I have no use for record of movies I watched screen by screen - especially if they will simply be black screens.

Total Recall of what browsing, project work or file organization/data management stuff I've ever done as I did it would be great actually
I thought the same thing. It's crazy to see the state of Xbox today. Microsoft just seems bad at spotting, nurturing, and retaining talented game developers. Look at the recent layoffs where they nuked Tango Gameworks despite HiFi Rush's success.

Going all-in on Gamepass has also devalued their own games in many consumers' minds. Why buy it when you can just get it on Gamepass? I suspect the recurring revenue is not making up for the lost unit sales within any reasonable timeframe.
People also fall apart on things like statistical reasoning if you switch domains (I think it is the Leda Cosmides evo psych stuff that goes into it but there might be a more famous experiment).
I never really worked with MARC much (except for a script for generating patron records once a quarter to load new students and staff into III and somehow we marked obsolete users to change their status) but I used to work at the successor organization to the University of California Division of Library Automation (nee University Library Automation Program), and one of the folks telling MARC war stories was describing doing this with with a tool he created specifically for creating pathological MARC records. They aggregated records from local systems into the systemwide "Melvyl" (during ULAP they produced microfiche binders of the union catalog) -- I don't know that they ever redistributed the MARC to other display systems.
There is no reasoning in LLMs.
> Microsoft's full-screen reminders – upgrade to Windows 11 are back

Even if you filter *.microsoft.com and other domains in firewall ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circus_school
> Most of MS revenues are from F1000 corporate who's legal/security teams would never enable these features and MS would never force questionable features on them.

Actually I think the feature will be enabled - companies have been spying on their users for ages. The thing is that the modern security is not about your stored features - you cannot login to laptops without passwords and a lot of devices even require cards (and flashdrives).

Modern security is about networking (VPN and stuff) and social engineering - fishing and stuff. Malware, executables etc. are not thta much of threat anymore.
I think I skipped over evaluating ubicloud because they don't have macOS runners. There was another place I liked but I needed macOS runners they didn't have them either.
My team worked on this feature and I can confirm that yes, semantic search is being done for both text and images. This allows you to do fuzzy searches like you mentioned in your comment and use words to match images. Everything runs on your device (all the models, the vector database, etc.) in order to preserve privacy.
And it was supposed to mean the exact opposite.
This is a total layman's question, but the "legacy" models don't seem to get the weather forecast right very often. It's a running joke everywhere I've ever lived that weather forecasting is one of the few jobs where you can be wrong up to half the time and still keep your job. If you're making outdoor plans, you don't cancel your indoor backup plans until the forecast is less than 2-3 days out.

Why would training an AI on many of the models that get mediocre results somehow produce a more reliable output than the current natural intelligences are able to get from the same models?
What should KDE focus on for the next 2 years? You can propose a goal
Why 4 Dell Minis?
You don’t need a monitor for CI/CD, and why 4? Is it for redundancy? Performance?

We are interested in doing the same setup.
Just give people cash.
> I am describing the expectation

Yes, the expectation is that Google, and therefore its agents, are trustworthy. You would not give them your information otherwise. Who happens to working at Google at some moment in time is irrelevant. You have chosen to entrust an entity with a revolving door of individuals. Absolutely no expectation of who will access the information is defined, fundamentally. If that is important, you must go to the individuals directly.

You might assume that Google will "do the right thing" by working to keep the information away from those who don't need it, but that is entirely up to them. Hell, they might even do that, but then cycle all of their agents through positions where access is needed... In the end, if they choose not to, nothing about the trust expectation has changed.
Comparing leading LLM multi-agent frameworks
Not really. The biggest apparent difference in the user experience is how the vehicle is commanded.

Here's a pic of the Starliner control panel:
https://x.com/TrevorMahlmann/status/1207437431374565376/phot...

And Crew Dragon's control panel:
https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/30/21275753/nasa-spacex-astr...
Right, and do you verify the result?

You have to know what the answer is supposed to be before you can write a test case.
Just Google 'price elasticity' for one well known case where there is not necessarily a linear relationship.
I think it is just personal biases of Meta execs, like Zuckerberg & Mosseri.

Meta's current CISO also worked (works?) for the IDF: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/2020-12-15/ty-... / https://archive.is/HpVtn
I'm not implying there's anything special about having a double patty burger with a middle bun as something entirely special to only McDonald's. But having a burger like that and calling it "$something-meaning-grand/large Mac" is only a McDonald's thing, since it (at least was) a trademarked term.

And really? You don't see very heavy resemblance between these two burgers? The only major difference I'm seeing is McDonad's have pickles and a slightly different sauce.
Windows is increasingly just a marketing channel for Microsoft to push their various other products. Unless your an enterprise/government customer the crap is the whole point.
Thanks, you saved me a click
That is already illegal.
You might want to check Zuck's backstory before attributing this to Israel.

In other news, Franco-Americans may sneer at Anglo-Americans without Paris needing to recruit them, or to lobby for that, or to run influence campaigns, or ...
Reminds me of the giant ribbon bar taking up all that screen real estate.
Note, for example, that most of your actual reply now consists entirely of references to what I wrote, and references to me, and not about the actual issue we are supposedly debating.

Stop with the persecution complex. Pointing out that you don't have evidence is not a personal attack. You could avoid everything by showing evidence but you won't.
There are more direct selection biases in the study: "projects which had clear requirements before starting development were 97% more likely to succeed" because hitting a moving target is more difficult, with all methodologies.
Unlikely. It's very difficult to write vulnerabilities that won't immediately be detected by coworkers, who will rightfully implicate you as adding backdoors to the firmware.

The vast majority of software developers are not Freedom-loving Stallmanites like we[0] are. In an economic system in which only scarce things are valuable, moral opposition to enforcing artificial scarcity melts away very quickly, at least in the hearts of the people who make the software. They don't have to be fully on board with the DRM agenda either, they just have to have enough moral indifference to show up to work that day and write the software that does the thing their boss asked for.

[0] To be clear, I think RMS is a terrible person, I just happen to agree with him that proprietary software and the DRM that protects it is harmful.
I considered this for my personal business but the minutes are stupid cheap and to pay off a Mac mini it would take me many, many years to break even. For a company with 10's-100's-1000's+ employees writing code and needing CI/CD the math will be different. I came close to buying a Mac Mini anyways, costs be damned, to get away from GH's slow runners.
My DK friends say that housing prices in København are outrageous. Did the genius fix work only locally?
> Butts, breasts, and genitals now explicitly allowed on Elon Musk's X

Huh ? I though he allows porn, not body parts. /s
Thank youuu we’ll definitely do!
> Such is the strength of corporate tech propaganda that a whole mass of people will instead insist that we have never worn clothes either.

This is the line of reasoning I find most dispiriting. I still believe tech people cling to this line of reasoning because it helps them justify replacing people in jobs with LLMs.
I've used processing (p5js) but I don't necessarily recommend the library if you are looking for something simple.
If that's the case it's not your PC anyways, so there's nothing for you to personally gain by obfuscating any information it gathers.
Managing my motivation as a solo dev
Dilbert captured it best: "Our boss can't judge the quality of our work, but he knows when it's late". For everybody doing programming work, there are ten people tasked with making sure it's done by the "due date", whether there's any value in that due date or not.
Of course. It's everyone else's emojis that would get annoying.
Disappointed to see there's no mention of things like the Blit terminal, Motif, CDE, etc!
Other languages with less powerful macro systems often create a DSL (domain specific language) for this kind of problem. With Javascript it can even be mixed in with normal code through the use of tagged template literals. For example:

const query = sql`SELECT * FROM User WHERE name=${name}`

It is so widely used in the JS ecosystem that editors often have plugins to add proper syntax highlighting to some tagged template literals and some frameworks pre-compute some tagged template literals at build/bundler-time.

It is definitely much harder to do it compared to Lisp-like macros though. But maybe the barrier to entry to create such powerful abstractions is a good thing. In my previous post I didn't say you should never use powerful abstractions, you should just not overuse them.
Obviously, this kid's going places ...
> We have to deal with them if something weird happens

Check back in three years once you've had to deal with OS upgrades, power outages, running out of disk space, and one of them failing.
That advice is not limited to chatbots. You wouldn't believe how many times I've seen people paste sensitive data into online tools (formatting json, validating xml, etc) without giving any thought to what happens with that data. Or pasting error messages into Google, verbatim, including more sensitive data.
Starliner is the part in orbit (made by Boeing), and Atlas-V is the rocket (made by ULA, originally designed by LM). If the passengers were worried about Boeing, it's the orbit and return they should be afraid of.
Finally something which is not on Hype tech.
It is hard to trust any output from a machine that is confidently wrong so frequently. You need to already be knowledgable in a topic (or at least have a well attuned BS detector) to know if it is giving you correct responses. It can be a time saver and assistant in getting work done where you are already a subject matter expert, but it needs to get better to remove the human from the loop.
(founder of WarpBuild - we offer hosted GHA runners)
This is a common issue.
A common pain point we see with users approaching some scale with self-hosting on k8s is that the k8s node autoscaling can become inefficient because of spiky loads.

We have a lot of users migrating off self-hosted setups using `actions-runner-controller` to ours because of this. Essentially, not having to deal with bin-packing is more efficient and concurrency, uptime guarantees are nice.
We poke at one another about the Tiananmen Square protests because we have such different perspectives. Like me, she was in high school during that time, and was told the protests were minor, and that they were instigated and largely conducted by outsiders, like the US, seeking to overthrow the Chinese government. The reports of large-scale deaths is Western propaganda. She still more or less believes that story - she's been hearing it her whole life. We sometimes (rarely) exchange articles about the incident. I've always appreciated the back-and-forth because, even though it's a serious topic, we keep it lighthearted.

Anyway, she purchased her iPhone in the US. All her online accounts, except for WeChat, are associated to US-based services. Yeah, I fuucked up; I meant to send the message over iMessage, where we've never had a problem.
GitHub Actions is a joke. It baffles me that they've been breaking file permissions on upload for years and they haven't fixed it yet. God forbid you want to ship an executable in a tarball or save it for a later stage of your build.
It was delayed three times in the month leading up to launch, and there was an attempt just over a year ago that was scratched because they discovered they accidentally used a flammable material. So, four total times. But "staying excited for months" is misleading.
So after building my latest rig and crazily getting a lot of driver issues related to network I've finally ditched Windows for Linux. While trying to figure out how to keep track of all the system changes I make in case I change my distro and need to set up my system yet again, I came across Nixos, which has been working out pretty well for me.

The issue I'm currently battling with is how do I connect my cloud drive (self hosted nextcloud) to the system in a way that it worked on Windows, and so far no luck. Once I figure it out (if at all), it's going to be perfect.

Surprisingly, even gaming works just fine via steam. I've been able to play whatever I have in my library by "forcing compatibility tool" ( which is proton). Colour me impressed.

Now I just need to confirm that I can run my country's official program for tax-related stuff via wine and I'll have no regrets.
> I've said a lot of negative stuff in the past about the Wall Street banks, and I have come to regret most of it after learning a lot more about finance.

Ironically, the more I learned about finance, the more I disparage it. I worked (actually) on Wall Street back when it wasn't a strip mall. It's just a casino for the vast majority of people that call themselves investors.
> Yes, the expectation is that Google can be trusted.

That is your expectation, not the expectation. 2 people have told you what the expectation is. You, 1 person, have shared that you have a different expectation. This is okay, but you aren't speaking for us, or for the majority here, only yourself.*

The expectation is the one that we have cited, nothing less. It's great if they meet your expectations, but that's not good enough for us.*

Speaking only for myself here, I believe there's a reason that the principles I cited exist, rather than 'the company lets any employee access anything with no permission or record of it'.

* – paragraphs void and I am wrong when majority changes: I've gotta listen to the people, too! ;)
Writing post-mortems is generally pretty kludgy. You might have a Slack bot that records the big picture items, but ideally, a post-mortem would include connections to the nitty-gritty details while maintaining a good high-level overview. The other thing most post-mortems miss is communicating the discovery process. You'll get a description of how an engineer suspected some problem, but you rarely get details as to how they validated it such that others can learn new techniques. At a previous job, I worked with a great sysadmin/devop who would go through a concise set of steps when debugging things. We all sat down as a team, and he showed us the commands he ran to confirm transport in different scenarios. It was an enlightening experience. I talked to him and other DevOps folks about Rundeck, and it was clear that the problem isn't whether something can be automated, but rather whether the variables involved are limited enough to be represented in code. When you do the math, the time it would take to write code to solve some issues is not worth the benefit.

Iterating on the manual work to better communicate and formalize the debugging process could fit well into the notebook paradigm. You can show the scripts and commands you're running to debug while still composing a quality post-mortem, as the incident is happening where things are fresh.

The other thing to consider is how often you get incidents and how quickly you need to get people up to speed. In a small org, devs can keep most things in their head and use docs, but when things get larger, you need to think about how you can offload systems and operational duties. If a team starts by iterating on operational tasks in Notebooks, you can hand those off to an operations team over time. A quality, small operations team can take on a lot work and free up dev time for optimizations or feature development. The key is that devs have a good workflow to hand off operational tasks that are often fuzzier than code.

The one gotcha with a hosted service IMO is that translating local scripts into hosted ones takes a lot of work. On my laptop, I'm on a VPN and can access things directly, where you need to figure out how to allow a 3rd party to connect to production backend systems. That can be a sticky problem that makes it hard to clarify the value.
Very poorly and belatedly, at least in most countries.
Isn't that already possible via normal Python scripts? I've worked a couple places where dev had a "don't wake us up" script that was programmed to detect known and common issues and either fix it or offer recommendations on next steps (including a couple of code paths that led to a "page everyone, immediately and repeatedly").

From the SRE side, far and away the most common reason I end up paging devs is because the issue is somewhere deep inside the system and I lack that depth. I'm supporting half a dozen services and can't keep track of the churn that happens at high enough granularity. Eg I know the app's downstreams and most of its upstreams, but if there's an issue with a particular field in an API response I'm unlikely to know whether that field comes from our database, a downstream, summoned by voodoo, etc.

Still interesting to see, I'd love to be proven wrong.