skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn’t there a big difference in the amount of freedo between an indentured servant and somebody with an ISA?

An indentured servant was generally forced to work a specific job until things were paid back (and often at below market wages). Somebody with an ISA is free to do whatever they wish, they just have to pay
I’m glad someone is focusing on safety but, to me, opening an office in Tel Aviv given the genocide happening in Gaza and the mandatory conscription of Israeli citizens does not seem like a good fit.
feel free to post link here
tulips grow well there too
I don't have any tolerance for people who put everyone else at risk. Take their license, take their cars, send them to prison if they try driving again.
I think he has some points but some things are missing here. First is, what is the purpose of marriage? Removing religious reasons, marriage is an institution of finance and legality. There are some financial benefits, such as taxes (claiming marriage with better tax benefits) and legality that comes into play when it comes to benefits (health insurance, life insurance, etc). The risk with marriage on the financial aspect is, your handing someone a loaded gun to ruin you (or both) financially. I've had this conversation with my wife (we are both millenials, we also had out first kid at 21 and 20, so for our generation, we are outside the norm), if we didn't have kids, we may have never gotten married. Which is , marriage makes the legal aspects and financial aspects of having kids easier. The second point is, the older gen-Z are 26 years old. I think its not too surprising many of them are not settling down. Many are still to young to start settling down, especially given a trend over the past few generations where people are putting off starting families older and older and waiting to be more financially stable. If your not gonna seriously start having kids until your well into your 30s, why get married in your early to mid twenties?

Addition: I will give it to the guy on Gen-z being affected by witnessing toxic marriages. What I will say is, with that taken into account, lets not count out Gen-Z on marriage dying. Maybe this will be a generational lesson in rushing to marriage. Gen-Z will put off marriage, but have more stable and fulfilling marriages.

But more importantly, with a quick google search, the Gen-Z age range is 11-26. Half of the generation are still children and teenagers.
I came here to make this comment, though without having worked in the product area. I've seen all of these issues.

1. Spam - there's a question of definition. I've seen lots of bars post their happy hour etc. Is that an event or just an ad for the bar? Lots of meet ups that are really just an hour long pitch for some service/software/consulting. I've seen a groups post the same event under different names 10-15 times. I've also seen groups somehow claim 300 people are coming to their event even though the venue only holds 80 people. I don't know what kind of backdoor they found since this "300+ people" was the number reported by the service itself, not just something in the description.

5. I don't know what "too many features" is but I did enjoy posting images to meet ups. Sure that can be done via some other service but that requires all the people at the event to coordinate separately from the fact that they already signed up for the event. OTOH I'm sure hosting images brings up all kinds of problems. Similarly, the "chat" feature has been invaluable for coordination. Show up to a picnic, need to find out where they ended up, check the chat on the event page.

> Then there's the fact that their search experience is just terrible.

Agreed - but you don't have search yet or if you do it wasn't clear. I assume that's on your TODO list.

That brings up issue 2, user made content. Maybe AI can categorize events from descriptions but on many sites with user content, people will tag themselves with whatever they think will get search results, even if their event is entirely unrelated. Which then ruins the results and makes the experience bad.

In any case, I which you luck. I'd love for there to be better solutions in this area.
Interesting, I think i will give it a try in virtualbox
I’m a miserable cynic at a much higher level. This is top level grifting. And I’ve made a shit ton of money out of it. That’s as far as reality goes.
Cmon, we're not in 2005 anymore. Linux Desktop is fine for almost everyone even casual user with all big distros.
You don't need highway patrol at all for enforcement, we have cameras and radar. Just send them a ticket in the mail and impound their car after that (the same as Austria and Switzerland). We don't enforce it because we don't want to.
yes, i completely agree; i'm skeptical that nuclear will make it in the next decades, but certainly it's worth continued research
Does Safari on iOS support the File System API, specifically the origin private file system? Can you use that to reliably persist data into a file/SQLite database?
I totally get it, I have that same contrarian instinct.

I have to reframe someone telling me "you should do X healthy thing" as "you should look into X healthy thing and see if it interests you/if there's really a good reason to do it", and then if I do my own research/reasoning, sometimes I can get my brain on board.

Basically, I have to trick myself into thinking it's my own idea. Very silly, but hey, it's how I started eating more vegetables and drinking more water, at least.
Do they get to claim it and then work on it, or do they need to have a solution already to claim it? net 180 wouldn't be bad if you could reserve several of them to work on at a time. It'd suck to work 'for free' that first few months, but then you'd have consistent income coming in regularly after that.
lol same. Are you selling yet?
To a close approximation, NVMe devices that come in U.2 or U.3 form factors support multiple namespaces, and those that come in M.2 support only 1, and 4KiB LBA format support follows the same pattern with a few exceptions. But you don't have to spend an insane amount to get these features. The Micro 7x00 series costs ~$100/TB.
Speed is not the issue. Weaving in and out, tailgating and other similar behaviors are.

Just came back from Germany and drove on the no speed limit part of the autobahn. It was orderly and I felt perfectly safe with family going equivalent of 120mph. No one cutting you off, unless passing, no sitting in left lane. Getting passed at that speed like you are standing still takes a bit getting used to, but again, it’s very predictable. Did not witness any accidents in 2 weeks of driving. It can be done, just need proper rules, penalties for breaking them that are actually enforced and of course good roads (didn’t see any pot holes either).
Well, we’re talking about the US for one.
This feels so true. I don't see enforcement across any of the portions of the US I travel. I rarely if ever see cars pulled over. It is a contrast to what I felt growing up.
Is this what happens with words losing their entire meaning with propaganda?

Not going to quote a specific word, but I live in a country that has gone into propaganda overdrive during the last few weeks and people who should know better (quite possibly including myself) are starting to use words to mean anything and their opposite.
Interestingly io_uring was added to NT.

https://windows-internals.com/i-o-rings-when-one-i-o-operati...
Sure.

> Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer

> To understand even the basics of how the brain maintains the human intellect, we might need to know not just the current state of all 86 billion neurons and their 100 trillion interconnections, not just the varying strengths with which they are connected, and not just the states of more than 1,000 proteins that exist at each connection point, but how the moment-to-moment activity of the brain contributes to the integrity of the system.

https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-informati...
Science might have some problems but these are nothing in comparison to philosophy. That's what I think after 16 years of working in the discipline. To quote one of my colleagues, who made a great career: "Who cares if it's wrong, it's another publication!" I'll be happy to leave when my current contract runs out.
I've never been more conscious of my breath while computing than when I was playing Subnautica[0], which proffers a (notoriously tense) game loop significantly involving running out of air and coming up for breath. Additionally, I would take swigs of water when my character was getting thirsty. A surprisingly embodied video game.

0. https://unknownworlds.com/subnautica/
Back when the t in tar meant something.
I think the moral of the story is to do something you love (if you have the means to) and you'll be happier and healthier. It's not that farming is way better than being a programmer. Fastfetch is a pretty good replacement for neofetch,

>ln -s /usr/bin/fastfetch /home/$USER/.local/bin/neofetch
This great article links another, https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2014/06/02/318212713/scien... , which says:

> When I attended my first scientific conference at the tender age of 20, one of my mentors surprised me with the following bit of advice. Transcribed directly from memory:

> "You should be sure to attend the talk by so-and-so. You can always trust his results."

Perhaps around the same time, a professor said something similar to me, pointedly.

I paid attention to what I thought I heard, and I think I still remember the exact words, but in hindsight, I realize that they were probably implying something more than what I thought they were.

The bit of wisdom, which was actually a warning, whooshed over my head, so wasn't followed.

Though, if they could've known fully the fiasco that I was walking into, and had warned me directly of that in advance, I don't know that I could've believed them. :)

And I can understand why they'd speak indirectly or hesitate to say anything. Even having had this experience, and not wanting others to go through it, I still don't give advice as directly or strongly as I might, about some things. For a variety of reasons: they might be fine and not need the warning/advice, they might put too much weight on my advice, they certainly won't fully understand it, they might repeat something indiscreetly or misconstrued, there could be suppressing action against them and/or me, etc.
It does solve the problem for now, but the parts aren't being made anymore.

Maybe that's good enough for some people in some applications, but a lot of folks have very valid reservations about using EOL'd products regardless of how well-suited they may be at solving a problem.

I mean: It's like work trucks. I'm a huge fan of GM's Astro/Safari line of RWD cargo vans. Their 4.3l V6 is solid and adequately powerful, the 4L60E transmission is reliable, there's a ton of space in the back with enough height to load 4' tall sheet materials that are standing on edge, and to sit down in front of a bolted-down workbench, and the longitudinal RWD layout has advantages, they're even fairly easy to work on when something inevitably wears out, the deck height is low, and they're small enough to drive through a fairly normal parking garage without worry and to fit into a tight space.

They're pretty awesome (except maybe for safety and fuel economy, but perhaps those aren't my primary concerns), and they solve a particular set of problems very well.

But they aren't being made anymore, and haven't been made for over 20 years. I own one example of a GMC Safari that I'd like to get working well again some day and maybe kit out in some interesting way, but I'm absolutely not going to suggest that anyone buy a fleet of them to use in business because:

They, like Optane, are EOL'd. All of them that will ever be produced have already been made.

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"So can you explain to me again why you think we should be buying used, old parts for our new datacenter? I know you've told me before, but still not sure that I have the same perspective as you do."
I appreciate that you are bringing up singleton studies to make your case. You would do well to bring in metastudies as well, and recognize that general recommendations are based on many studies and conservative action from status quo as a general principle.

One thing you might seek to curtail is a frenzied "us versus them" axiom when it comes to science and research. Academia/R&D exist in the proverbial Serengeti of limited resources and where the jackels feed in each other, not as a mafia, and they aren't conspiratorially seeking the demise of the unwitting.
American Christians don’t care what India does for a large part because they don’t live there. But they do care when it leads to rights abuses of minorities.
OSI is in the stage of gathering opinions to find an appropriate definition:

https://thenewstack.io/open-source-ai-osi-wrestles-with-a-de...
> How many companies need people to build things from the ground up vs maintainers/janitors of complex systems?

In my experience, a good growth company will have at least the three following stages that can yield a healthy ROI with good builders:

1. Initial product (start up stage).

2. Secondary products and upsells.

3. Internal tools, iterative, and often in perpetuity for the life of the company.

I am not sure the “builders” should ever be more than about 5-10% of the programmers except in early stage 1.
Once you have AGI, you can dedicate more cycles to it and the theory is (as far as I can tell) that you’ll get an exponential increase in “intelligence” which is basically just “thinking faster”. Personally, I don’t buy that fully, I think there are some problems that can only be solved by any intelligence at the speed of time in the real world. Certainly more cycles to dedicate to mathematics would advance that field more rapidly, but for a lot of biological puzzles you probably can’t accelerate time like this.
If North Korea took down US infrastructure we would consider it an act of war. The dange of exposing your devices to the open internet should be well understood by this so-called "hacker".

For him to unilaterally decide to commit an act of war against a foreign nation means he should also be held accountable for it in international criminal court.

Were this any other two nations you might have a different tone. But these are the facts of the matter. He played with fire and if he winds up dead because of it he only has himself to blame. The only people I am concerned about is anyone else now facing danger because of his idiotic actions.
It is an interesting thought, what would the world look like if these global trends continue, if the role of the state continued to dissolve under the influence of multinational corporations. Perhaps Liberalism (individual rights/political equality) will turn out to be only a passing fad in 1000 years’ time. Corporatism allows transnational groups of people to coordinate in ways and at fidelities that have only recently been possible.
I'm pretty sure "Altman and company" don't have much to do with this — this is Ilya, who pretty famously tried to get Altman fired, and then himself left OpenAI in the aftermath.

Ilya is a brilliant researcher who's contributed to many foundational parts of deep learning (including the original AlexNet); I would say I'm somewhat pessimistic based on the "safety" focus — I don't think LLMs are particularly dangerous, nor do they seem likely to be in the near future, so that seems like a distraction — but I'd be surprised if SSI didn't contribute something meaningful nonetheless given the research pedigree.
> Why would the police keep the money? It doesn't get to keep other confiscated money, does it? Wouldn't the state be the "default" recipient?

That really depends on the jurisdiction. Many police departments in the US self fund via confiscations, sometimes even not as a penalty for breaking the law. In a big city, that's a small part of the budget. In some more rural counties, it can be a surprisingly large amount of the budget.

See "civil asset forfeiture"
There are unfortunately states within the US that do allow civil forfeiture. Its become quite well known where people will get pulled over with larger amounts of cash $10k+ and the cops don't like the answer of why they have money and they take it. It then becomes the burden of the owner to prove they lawfully own that money.

https://www.vox.com/2015/7/8/8909133/civil-forfeiture-states...
I am puzzled that your site required constant maintenance. I run a similar setup that I hardens using systemd service restrictions with nothing running as root. Then I subscribed to Debian and couple more mail lists with security announcements. It turned out I needed to spend like 20 minutes per month to maintain it.

I also find that PHP works much better than Go regarding maintenance efforts. With Debian I have automatic updates of all PHP dependencies that I need so security announcements is a nice single source of truth. But with Go I would need to setup monitoring of dependencies for updates myself and recompile/deploy the code as necessary.
> We’re based in the US and want optimize for simplicity.

You probably don’t want simplicity.

You can roughly divide up the bills (either 50/50 or a split based on income) and have each person pay some of them so that the monthly spend is equitable.

If you actually want simplicity and one of you is a relatively high earner, that person just pays for everything.
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What are you talking about? Do you have any actual cognitive neuroscience to back that up? Have they scanned the brain and broken it down into an LLM-analogous network?
For modern systems with their hardware bugs, user account based security is just a false sense of security. Anyone running code on your machine is just a rowhammer or meltdown away from doing whatever they want anyway.
> Nobody has ever caught a human brain producing or storing tokens

Do you remember learning how to read and write?

What are spelling tests?

What if "subjective experience" isn't essential, or is even just a distraction, for a great many important tasks?
That sounds the same. It seems surprising to take the car. If I kill someone I don't have to give the state my house, or even my pen. Possessions - unless illegal goods - are not the state's to take.
In a way software engineers should feel relieved a bit that we can not mass produce well trained software engineers yet, even for entry-level roles. Of course, there are many exceptional individuals who benefited from code camps, but I'm talking about statistical results. For good for worse, one's ability to make it in software industry still has some correlation with how successful they are in "hardcore" trainings, like college-level maths and computer science.
Apparently not. Or maybe they are heavily incentivized by the hype cycle. I'll repeat one more time: none of the currently known approaches are going to get us to AGI. Some may end up being useful for it, but large chunks of what we think is needed (cognition, world model, ability to learn concepts from massive amounts of multimodal, primarily visual, and almost entirely unlabeled, input) are currently either nascent or missing entirely. Yann LeCun wrote a paper about this a couple of years ago, you should read it: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=BZ5a1r-kVsf. The state of the art has not changed since then.
Excession is literally the next book on my reading list so I won't click on that yet :)

> With this metaphor you seem to be saying we should, if possible, learn how to control AI? Preferably before anyone endangers their lives due to it?

Yes, but that's a big if. Also that's something you could never ever be sure of. You could spend decades thinking alignment is a solved problem only to be outsmarted by something smarter than you in the end. If we end up conjuring a greater intelligence there will be the constant risk of a catastrophic event just like the risk of a nuclear armageddon that exists today.
> Normal people have no online privacy whatsoever anyway.

This is a depressing realization. I did convince my mother to use Ublock Origin, just to realize Iphones does not allow it.

The amount of techical competence needed is just way too high when most companoes and states are hostile to your privacy.
Ralph Nader's direct harm to the US continued into at least the year 2000, the legacy of which is even more pronounced today. :(
I wonder how many people panicking about these things have ever visited a data centre.

They have big red buttons at the end of every pod. Shuts everything down.

They have bigger red buttons at the end of every power unit. Shuts everything down.

And down at the city, there’s a big red button at the biggest power unit. Shuts everything down.

Having arms and legs is going to be a significant benefit for some time yet. I am not in the least concerned about becoming a paperclip.
I have a feeling the company prioritizing profit is going to win.
Falcon 9 can put 17.4 t to LEO (demonstrated with a 2023 Starlink launch) for ~$20 million (estimated SpaceX cost, not retail price) which is closer to $1.15/g.

Again, that's cost not price. That's what the state of the art can do in a best case, but probably highly repeatable and reliable scenario, today.
`dnf upgrade` or `apt update && apt upgrade` once a month isn't so much work. If either includes a kernel upgrade then it's `reboot now` and I'm done.
If it's just a few KiB then various NVRAM techs have been slowly creeping forward for decades. But they've never made it to datacenter storage.

https://www.avalanche-technology.com/wp-content/uploads/1Gb-...
https://www.everspin.com/spin-transfer-torque-ddr-products
The timeless elegance of Caslon.

Features to discover vocabulary are on the drawing board. In the short term, a “word-a-day” feature will recommend five words per week, but the time-tested method for a rich vocabulary is reading, so the long-term ambition is a built-in ebook reader, where saving words would be frictionless and context-aware.

In the meantime, you can browse the index, which is biased toward uncommon words:

https://flowery.app/words/a%2E%2E%2E

The ellipsis is a general operator that searches by prefix.
This is a project by one of the original Puppy Linux guys. Puppy is a collection of Linux distributions that work a certain way. I think that focus is portable and live for them. This is his what he shifted to to better meet his own ideas, since Puppy is a group project.
Just run it in LXC. Then the container is not immutable but the process will still be isolated with it's dependencies. And infrastructure as code, with Ansible etc, all possible.

Also the talk about docker being itself a dependency I can't really follow. I guess you would have many other dockers also running, otherwise being nxing the only thing within docker.. that doesn't make much sense..
Perhaps you aren't familiar with the term. Graduate Student = someone enrolled in a Masters Program, Post doc, PHD program, etc.

This is quite different from a using a recent Bootcamp grad, likely without any industry experience, as a TA in a Software Dev Bootcamp. Especially because the main purpose of this is just to inflate job placement statistics.
That sounds like an AWS thing? There's a lot of frameworks that can deploy straight to Vercel, Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, etc. without all that.

And if you really want to manage all that, it would apply to both PHP sites and JS and anything else. That's really more of a discussion of fully vs partially managed cloud solutions, not PHP or JS or any framework in particular.
You may be surprised to learn that we did not in fact defund the police. :thonking_face_emoji:
This has probably been posted already
Trombone! I joined a couple of community bands and they are always something to look forward to
Good luck trying to disrupt meetup.com. I really want this to happen, but they have market momentum. meetup.com is the most bloated app I've ever seen.