skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, too early to be QIC (also, to run this, you needed a VS-100, and to run a VS-100 you needed a VAX 11/7xx to put the controller card in, and basically all of those had 9-track tape drives.)
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Joachim_Heist ? :)
Some people might find closing their eyes and focusing on breathing to be a bit intense. In that case you could try:

2. Relax and just be in the room.

4. When you notice that your thoughts have wandered congratulate yourself for noticing this and come back to the room.
When I choose not to use the App Store or the Play Store I'm basically locked out of online banking because almost all banks now require an app for 2FA which is not available in those open source marketplaces. That's how powerful the duopoly of those two big tech companies is. When I have almost no choice but to use these stores the need to be regulated.
> The group said the orange cornflour used on the monument would wash away in the rain.
Not the poster you’re replying to, but -

I took his point to mean that hallucinate is an inaccurate verb to describe the phenomenon of AI creating fake data, because the word hallucination implies something that is separate from the “real world.”

This term is thus not an accurate label, because that’s not how LLMs work. There is no distinction between “real” and “imagined” data to an LLM - it’s all just data. And so this metaphor is one that is misleading and inaccurate.
Simplex shy away from User ID, which means you are giving up something in exchange (notably no message encrypted-at-rest in their server): then the government can access the message contents from Simplex server.

It says so on their website:

"Only client devices store user profiles, contacts and groups; the messages are sent with 2-layer End-to-end encryption."

What it does NOT say is that message content remains encrypted on their server like Signal does.

It is like time, money, resource: pick only two.
But in secured communication, that would be personal anonymity, personal privacy, and personal security: only can pick two.

https://simplex.chat/#how-simplex-works
This did not occur to me, thanks for bringing this to my attention! I will definitely look into this! I guess Luminare may end up being fully open-sourced.
"Safe" by whose definition?

I mean, if you're talking about woke people in SF well, I'd rather take the unsafe one please.
Why do they say "a high school robotics team from Exeter, New Hampshire", instead of "a robotics team from Phillips Exeter Academy"?

FYI: Phillips Exeter Academy is an elite, private high school in the United States. Mark Zuckerberg went there, too.
I do use Apple devices, I'm not a fan of Apple as a company for many reasons.

Though just because I don't like a company doesn't mean that I can't agree with them at one point.

EU shouldn't have right to decide on a company's own design. (Unless it's medical, military etc.)
> the social experiences of being in a lab.

Not sure, if I miss that. I read about hacker culture and such, but my own limited experience of the early nineties of the labs of a large university weren't all that romantic.

I recall that some more experienced users poked fun at newbies (who didn't know of xauth) by making their workstation bloke like a sheep. While that was fun, there was no other interaction, quiet, anonymous and uninviting like a library reading room.

Once me and a team mate shared a whole lab with only one third guy. My mate had a cold which he neglected and during the session passed out, hitting his head hard on the desk. I had to shout at the third guy to solicit his help. He seemed to be content hacking on his terminal and let my mate die as long as he'd be quiet about it.

In the same lab (might have been the same session earlier, I don't recall) one fellow not being member of my team ran `crashme` on the shared server (pre-Solaris SunOS, iirc). He apologized with the words (paraphrasing) "I didn't expect it would actually crash" when the server in fact did. We were not amused.

Mid nineties the labs got deserted as most everyone was working from home.
We like to think we're above everyone else but in reality our technical expertise is mostly irrelevant when evaluating the utility. I've been programming for 20 years and I can't think of a single thing I know that puts me in a better position to predict the future of AI.
The value would come if it was something you would feel comfortable wearing all day. So it would need perfect pass through, be much much lighter and more comfortable. If they achieved that and can do multiple high resolution virtual displays then people would use it.

The R&D required to get to that point is vast though.
Funny how you can understand that "Apple can't practically leave the EU", but don't understand that "citizens can't practically fight Apple on their own". Makes it pointless to have a discussion, with this kind of selective understanding of issues.
This is not what semantic satiation is about
BSDs still exist though and they do have their own make and tar. Of course they tend to also have GNU versions for ports because that's easier than fixing all software. So existence of alternatives is not enough, people also need to care about them.
AI is coming for our anger
Not all problems result in error traces to analyse.

Example, you release buggy client that doesn't call "POST /order/finalize" when it should.

There are no error traces, there are just missing HTTP requests. Metrics reveal that calls to "POST /order/finalize" for iOS apps are down 50% WoW.
Correlation is not causation.

Not to mention Big Tech got its start in the USA before the EU existed.
> AGI is/was supposed to be about achieving results of the average human being, not about a sci-fi AI god

When we build something we do not intend to build something that just achieves results «of the average human being», and a slow car, a weak crane, a vague clock are built provisionally in the process of achieving the superior aid intended... So AGI expects human level results provisionally, while the goal remains to go beyond them. The clash you see is only apparent.

> I think the term AI is going to ... will fade out over time

Are you aware that we have been using that term for at least 60 years?

And that the Brownian minds of the masses very typically try to interfere while we proceed focusedly and regarding it as noise? Today they decide that the name is Anna, tomorrow Susie: childplay should remain undeterminant.
I never understood this line of reasoning.

What do you get in return from having “successful” big tech companies in your country?
Whoa... this game looks realistic at first glance, with locomotives and carriages modeled on real-world counterparts, but when watching the demo video, the railfan in me immediately starts screaming "No! This is all wrong!" - the track grades are much too steep, the curves much too tight, and that one scene where two freight trains almost collide and then one of them stops dead with a few meters distance to the other one - that's not how it works! I mean, of course you can build a less realistic simulation game, I think in this case it's just the disconnect between the extremely realistic-looking trains behaving in an extremely unrealistic way that bothers me...
Yeah, X had a lot of aggressive performance tweaking in ways that noone even understands today, let alone actually needs :-) Creating windows with zero round trips, event-shedding that let you sensibly run a remote window manager over a 1-megabit network...
This feels very shortsighted to me.

"Easy to learn" and "easy to hire for" are an advantage in the first few weeks. Besides, we now have data indicating that ramp up time in Rust is not longer than in other languages.

On the other hand, serving millions of users with a language that isn't even v1 doesn't seem very reasonable. The advantages of a language that is memory safe in practice and also heavily favors correctness in general boosts productivity tenfold in the long term.

I'm speaking from experience, I switched from C++ to Rust professionally and I'm still not over how more productive and "lovable" the language in general is. A language like zig isn't bringing much to the table in comparison (in particular with the user-hurting decisions around "all warnings are errors, period")
"If you don't know who the patsy is, it is you."
Have you looked at laser weeding? A camera looks at the plants, an ML model identifies which plants are crop and which are weeds, and then a laser burns the weeds just enough so they die from water loss.

Research: https://ethz.ch/en/industry/industry/news/data/2022/03/laser...

Commercial product (first one I found, there are countless others): https://carbonrobotics.com/
This already exists! There's a company called Carbon Robotics that has a prototype of a robot that eliminates individual weeds with a lazer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2s-0wgQWXM

I'm also looking forward to this technology being widely available and helping solve the issue of herbicide run-off, and later additionally the same for pesticides and fertilization.
He did what some of us want to do in meetings with clients. I hear and read all those BS arguments he's used as headings every week. It's insane.
>there are much better and more versatile ways to protect the children: Educate them and their parents.

That's exactly it, we should address the root cause of the problem, not its consequences by punishing and threatening to be punished. It's much more effective.
That doesn't make them less inherently customer-hostile though.
In short, get him an editor
I don't think they're bound by the GPL if they're the sole copyright owner. Did they take outside contributions without a copyright assignment?
Putting aside that children as a group are brilliant and constantly jailbreaking every kind of device management they are subjected to, the vast majority of parents aren't technical enough to understand this problem much less set themselves up as "admins" and the vast majority of those who are technical enough to understand do not have the time. They're already trying to ensure their children are fed, educated, socialized, emotionally supported, and so on.

This is a wonderful example of engineers thinking everything is a technical problem when almost everything is instead an organizational or human problem.
This is something I have been thinking about a lot since moving from programming into management. Some sort of device to measure the data on this would be really interesting, if only just to see that other people in the same position experience the same thing.
Just an FYI, the text in your top banner is unreadable in dark mode.
Does it support dot net?
Nitrogen can also be replenished by crop rotation. Legumes will naturally add nitrogen back.
Not sure about tall-poppy syndrome, but I think it's somewhat justified (this could be argued though) that success most often doesn't look like what we think it should look like.

In most people's minds success should come from a combination of talent and hard work. We think people who work hard and come up with good ideas should become successful.
But usually working 'within the system' limits your ability to be succesful. If you save the day at your current job, you might get a 20% raise if you're lucky. If you are mediocre but change jobs often, you will probably beat that.

In software, getting a high paying job usually hinges on your ability to get someone willing to pay you a lot of money.

I'm sure there are people who are getting paid 10x more or less for doing work that is fundamentally the same, just with different presentation.

For example I know a guy who's a mediocre PHP dev, but managed to snag a couple of high paying clients, and got into OE over covid, and brings in a ton of money, despite the fact that somehow he still doesn't seem to be working that hard.

Does he deserve that money? Is he someone we should look up to? I don't wanna say no, but I also don't wanna say yes.
Good? I mean why should we want trillion dollar companies anyway? What’s great about them? Isn’t much better if we get a multitude of billion dollar companies competing rather than a few trillion dollar ones running monopolies?
It's not efficiency or improving performance or more marketability that it gives but creativity.

It's also not about laziness, it's about ending the lazy feeling.

Feeling lazy should prompt us to find solutions. That is where the creation is.

The solutions we come up with use our creative spark but they are not intrinsically efficient or economically good.

Don't run away from feeling lazy.

Today we tend to hate lazy feeling and distract or procrastinate ourselves away from it. Many feel guilty from not being productive and useful to their employer. We should instead wallow in it and let our imaginations play.

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From a tech point of view I would think many interesting but 80% finished projects from solo devs are the results of such play.
I think it's interesting to observe the development speed of Bun vs Deno when comparing Zig and Rust.

Bun is written in Zig and links to the WebKit's JavaScriptCore.

Deno is written in Rust and links to V8.

It seems to me that the development of Bun is significantly faster than Deno, how much of that is down to the easy of interoperability of Zig and C/C++ vs some of the hoops you have to jump though when using Rust with a C/C++ lib?

(I may be wrong on this an the Bun team are just exceptionally quick)
> One thing I’ve noticed with the AI topic is how there is no discussion on how the name of a thing ends up shaping how we think about it. There is very obviously a marketing phenomenon happening now where “AI” is being added to the name of every product. Not because it’s actually AI in any rigorous or historical sense of the word, but because it’s trendy and helps you get investment dollars.

I was reading one famous book about investing some times ago (I don't remember which one exactly, I think it was a random walk into wall st, but don't quote me on that) and one chapter at the beginning of the book talk about the .com bubble and how companies, even ones who had nothing to do with the web, started to put .com or www in their name and were seeing an immediate bump in their stock price (until it all burst, as we know now).

And every hype cycle / bubble is like that. We saw something similar with cryptocurrencies. For a while, every tech demos at dev convention had to have some relation to the "blockchain". We saw every variation of names ending in -coin. And a lot of company, that where not even in tech, had dumb project related to the blockchain, which for anyone slightly knowledgeable with the tech it was clear that it was complete BS, and they almost all the time were quietly killed off after a few month.

To a much lesser extent, we saw the same with "BigData" (who even use this word anymore?) and AR/VR/XR.

And now its AI, until the next recession and/or the next shiny thing that makes for amazing demos pops-out.

It is not to say that it is all fake. There is always some genuine business that have actual use case with the tech and will probably survive the burst (or get brought up and live on has MS/Google/AWS Thingamajig). But you have to be pretty naïve if you think 99% of the current AI company will live in the next 5 years, and believe their marketing material. But it doesn't matter if you manage to sell before the bubble pop, and so the cycle continue.
I wonder how well Apple would sell phones if radio spectrum was unregulated and anyone would be allowed to design and build devices that emit radio waves on any wavelength at any power. After all, this is the world you want, where governments aren't allowed to decide companies' designs.

My guess is cellular telephony would not exist at all in this world.
Your distro should do this for you! Apt-source or pkgbuild will do fine, you don't need Nix or Gentoo to have a ready-to-go script for building your own version of some pre-packaged tool.
China to see biggest millionaire exodus in 2024 as many head to U.S.
Yeah, that's why I'm conflicted. They won't be less customer-hostile, but at least they'll be forced to let me do more things with the device I bought.
Yay, Neighborhood Watch! Wannabie police harrassing citizens, thats just what we all need!
> Would be nice if this scenario would first play out for a politician that helped establish Chat Control.

Unfortunately French politicians already thought about it, and politicians will be exempted from Chat Control.
> Who knows what our absolute capabilities are...

Our (individual) absolute capabilities or our (collective) absolute capabilities?

(assuming that "2 hominids: 3 opinions" doesn't mean the former essentially bounds the latter)
Seriously...

This is like not trusting the cooking book of an American chef because America has poor food quality. Or British chef in Britain.

Individuals' talents are not bound by their countries' failures and successes.

And comparatively the French train network is excellent, and faster than the Swiss network.

No, I'm not French at all.
Thanks, will post that one too!
Just fixed the bug with the language selector.
I used Tailwind CSS. Have you tried it before?
These people would achieve more for the climate by recycling litter.
Try Vitesse Lite[1] , it has all the cool stuff you'd want to try without going deep into things you don't really need for a starter

[1] https://github.com/antfu-collective/vitesse-lite
ungh, roots in israel, arent we boycotting them yet?
The entire point of being a teenager is to get away from your parents and find new peer groups.

Unfortunately, what we evolved for is 160 people in a village with a peer group of about a dozen within a few years of us, not even a school with hundreds to thousands, let alone the internet with two people for every heartbeat in a human lifetime of which 440 million (~= the population of the EU) is within a few years of us.

And given the power imbalance between manipulative corporations and normal people is sufficient for the former to convince the latter to watch adverts while conversing with their friends — the entirety of Facebook's business model — it's not even clear to me that the internet in its current state is a good thing for adults either: to many of these companies, even the ones that are legal rather than criminal scams, we are the trees upon which money grows.
Conflict in two regions? You live in a dream world.

More like 100: https://geneva-academy.ch/galleries/today-s-armed-conflicts

I'd recommend not to rely on media for the topic "war" but to educate yourself. Otherwise you end up quickly in a war yourself:

> Naturally the common people don't want war . . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or parliament or a communist dictatorship

H. Göring
It's not false, but having "big tech company" isn't the only metric of success of a society.

Stuff like quality of life, workers rights, shared values are a bit more important, and that requires the ability to basically tell a company "Who the hell do you think you are?".
You could do that, the problem is the same as in making nitrogen fertilizer in a chemical plant: energy cost. It just takes so much energy to break the nitrogen tripple bond.

Even if you made a plant that fixes nitrogen extremely efficiently, every joule of sunlight it pumps into the ground is not available as calories you harvest. And fixing nitrogen will take an amount of energy per acre on the order of what you harvested from that acre in a year.
besides the fact that precisely for the sake of preventing competition like this, Apple deliberately locks users into their eco-system using network effects; large businesses, especially giga-corps like Apple, are not people. I'm all for protecting the rights and liberties of individual humans, and even small-to-medium sized businesses, but the second a company is anywhere near as large as Apple, a switch should flip in your head and stop you having empathy for them.

no one at Apple is being harmed by having to implement a few extra features in their devices. if anything, they've probably had to spend more of their insane levels of revenue on high-paying jobs for humans who need the money.
These kinds of posts can pretty much always be summerized down to that is what we wanted to use. The arguments are very weak and unconvincing.

People love to say, use the right tool for the job but no one actually does it.

Developers will use what they know or what they feel comfortable using.
At least the civilian Starlink sats will not be able to do that.
The transmit and receive frequencies are different and limited by hardware filters.

They would be most useful for communications and possibly enable interference mapping.

Or finding Ku-band VSAT terminals of other users.
From the title, I expected "here's all the stuff I need to run my life in one handy place" - passwords, bank account details, when my car insurance is due, etc etc. Part calendar, part password safe.

This was... not that.
> A far better approach is to not have any preconceived ideas about your colleagues, and discover how you interact best as and when the need arises. There isn't a one-size-fits-all approach for how different people should interact with an individual.

Sounds very extroverted and without any issues in bothering other people /s

Honestly, a humble "README" for the person is something I'm coming to appreciate more and more, at least so long as it's humble and not condescending to people.

Especially as someone both introverted, and as it turns out, on the autistic spectrum (nice bomb to find out after 34 years :V)
C-interop while certainly more involved in Rust compared to Zig, it is generally a one-off effort (for most projects). wards it's generally an incremental effort to map additional C code. I am not sure I would make this an important factor but to each his own.
> "WASM support was just as smooth in Rust as in Zig".

There are still way too many Rust dependencies that don't support WebAssembly, and even functions in the standard library that compile but will crash at runtime on WebAssembly. And if a dependency requires C code, `cargo-zigbuild` is required to compile it anyways.

My experience with Zig is that pretty much everything compiles out of the box to all the supported targets, and works the same way. This includes code using SIMD.

I also like the fact that the code can be optimized for the runtime's feature: adding -mcpu=baseline+simd128 compiles everything for wasm runtimes with support for SIMD, including the C library ("wasi-libc"). This is not specific to the wasm target, but the fact that even the libc is recompiled with the same optimization flags as the rest of the code is neat. You can really optimize the code for speed, size or a specific target.

WebAssembly modules compiled from Zig code are also very small and memory efficient, without being forced to use a "[no_std]" mode. That can make a big difference if you have to distribute them, or are billed according the resource usage.

> The Zig build system is amazing and 100x better than our makefiles.

This.

People often think Zig is just a language. But it's a toolchain, that can be used even for code not written in Zig.

It's a fantastic replacement for makefiles / CMake / ccache / hacky shell scripts, with seamless cross-compilation and webassembly support.
The biggest hurdle is the preconceptions we have about meditation, and the cultural image we carry.

People will try to "be calm", "be zen", they will attempt to "empty their mind". They will look for something special. They will not understand the implications of frustration, impatience, discomfort...

It's very hard by yourself because you bring with you a lot of ideas from a world that doesn't meditate, but certainly has a lot of things they want to claim about meditation no matter how little experience with it they have.

And you won't know when you got in a direction that will not work for you