skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a flat roof in Seattle -- no, flat roofs do not always leak. But they do require you keep your drainage clear (something a sloped roof homeowner can get away with ignoring).

Modern membrane roofs last longer, leak less, and are more energy efficient.
"Polling" as in "voting", not "polling" as in "fetching". Doh!
We have a similar weird thing going on over here east of the mountains... building generic suburban houses with wood in a climate that a) has no trees (IE: materials have to come from far away) and b) because it's desert, really would benefit from design that better channels heat and breezes through the house. So point being much like flat roofs in rainy Seattle, builders / architects are not actually building for the local climate.
The Git Parable (2009)
So you work at Google on Youtube then right?

The _WEB_ is a open standard. A Game running on Windows is a false equivalence.
that seems bad!
This is going to come across as inflammatory, but I promise I’m not intending it to be:

Can someone give me the argument for and against for why this different than the ethics of abortion?

It occurs to me that if anyone concerned about the possibility of consciousness and therefore suffering in bio-organic computing, is the consistent position to be against abortion after 2 weeks, which is when the brain begins its development in the fetus?
> Isn't hardware itself an abstraction layer to communicate with the underlying physical components?

Sure, but you're really straining the word "abstraction" here. By this definition all metaphysical concepts are just abstractions around material reality. Which is fine, albeit not that useful a definition of abstraction.
Technically torrent sites do not host copyrighted content but you can go to jail for this.
Never thought of using it as a rubber duck, but great idea thank you.
Your link is unreadable without being logged into a twitter account.

I'd be happy if links requiring a login (paid or free) were banned completely tbh.
SaaS is EXPLICITLY a software provided to you as a service. You could just run the software. This is no great secret.
That sounds like a question of degree for the jury — the evaluation of whether or not the facts presented warrant a claim of sufficiently infringing similarity. In this case the judge felt the plaintiffs weren't even close to demonstrating infringement that the question never appeared in front of a jury.

If we're moving the question to one of degree then it's up to Microsoft and others to monitor their output because even if a model is not trained on copyrighted material, you can still accidentally infringe. Even if you never listened to music near or by Lady Gaga, that does not mean you can use your own original inspiration to accidentally write songs that are too similar to Lady Gaga. In other words, like the Ed Sheeran case.
It's not communism, nobody actually knows what communism is. Working in the private sector, earning a salary, and then giving some of your salary to the government in exchange for some services is not communism.

Communism is more radical than that, meaning cut out the middle man - no private sector at all. The government, or more accurately the people, own the economy collectively. Or that's the idea, implementation varies especially when you sprinkle in dictatorship.
> A List promises that if it has an element, you can remove it and have another [..]. A NonEmptyList breaks that promise.

No. Removing an element from a NonEmptyList returns a List. LSP is respected when NonEmptyList is a List.
"French prosecutors say Telegram CEO freed from custody, will appear in court"

No, he won't.
Giving a whole new meaning to "what you see is what you get".
Honestly, the first article I've seen where the actual usage is explained clearly and matches my own experience. Maybe because I tend to write software the same way.

The thing I've heard the most from other developers, particular those new to the profession, is that you "have to know most of what you're asking already to know if what you get from the LLM is right." You can use the LLM to learn, but for the actual programming they struggle because they don't have the background to understand the responses well enough to continue the implementation.

Also, for the record, C# and .NET, huge enterprise/ecommerce software, so not quite as malleable as bash scripts and what not.
nono, its not magic...

its AI :)
It can play anything you like!
Seeking Mavis Beacon: the search for an elusive Black tech hero
If I recall correctly, we used a Formaster protection scheme (Copy-Lock? CopyGuard? I no longer remember precisely) to protect the mass copies of Rogue we manufactured, as well.

And for personal use, I edited a number of the labels in the data portion of the Rogue executable with a raw disk data editor to make the game have teenage-humor suggestions, frequently referring to anatomy in crude ways.

Ah, the late 80's :)
Exactly. For individual, hobbyist developers, just showing their work might already be a strong incentive but for profit seeking companies, the motivation to open source their code hinges on tangible benefits like you said. We're developing a digital platform with a marketplace for 3rd-party developers to contribute and make money from their contributions, at one point we had to decide whether we should open source our code, the pros and cons in doing that etc. And we came to conclusion that, in our case, by proving both cloud and open sourced version will definitely help drive more attention to our cloud offerings and attract more developers to provide/sell their own applications on the marketplace. However, we have to keep our focus on our cloud version first and delay the release of the open source version for at least 1 year or until our cloud gets enough traction/attraction. I don't know if this will work out well in the end but we have got to try.
> I just don't understand why people seem so upset about these new companies being GPT wrappers.

A lot are just close to vaporware. It also takes advantage of people more than most business models.

If your business is just adding a system prompt and trying to keep users from figuring out you could just do this with ChatGPT, I can't say I'm a fan. Not a hater... but not a fan.

If you have more functionality with actions, events and context, that's fine.
That's a very, erm, poetic understanding of distribution. Good luck bringing suit.
Yes but that is the company Telegram, not him personally. Keeping a person in custody is a very heavy handed measure. And not very effective.

Telegram can easily replace him as CEO with someone else after all.
You can with Molly[0], which is a much better client and a great team behind it.

[0] https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android
The fact that those service can reproduce copyrighted content proves that it was used during training. And was it legally obtained? How do you think, services like Udio bought millions of CDs? Or they got the training material somewhere else? You cannot legally download content from streaming services for example.
I hope you realize this mostly just reveals you have no clue how hard and skill-intensive kitchen work is. Yes, even dishwashing. The average person is not going to be able to drop into a kitchen and wash thousands of dishes a night.
My apprentice asked "If I see a typo in the training materials can I make a PR to fix it?"

This is the IT version of dishwashing!
Yeah, same use here. I work with data analysis, so 95% of the code I write is to wrangle data, or do something in the ETL-pipeline.

Almost all my ChatGPT use comes down to writing queries for loading or transforming data. Getting rid of the boilerplate has helped immensely on my productivity.

EDIT: I should note, the vast majority of errors I get using solutions from LLMs, tend to be code it includes that contain legacy or dead libraries. Sometimes it starts to mix old and new libraries in the same code snippet, which will either outright fail, or output some weird results.

Which makes sense, as some answers are the product of being trained on 14 year old StackOverflow posts, while others are trained on newer stuff.
OEIS is amazing to say the least. It is such an interest collection of sequences as well as a great collection of editors that are willing to keep it all in order! Certainly worth a mention and a contribution.
yes, who cares about the generations that come after us. We used to dump barrels with this kind of waste into the sea and nothing bad ever happened with those.
This has nothing to do with heat. Almost all SSD's have an SLC mode where part of the drive is operated in fast SLC mode. After the SLC cache is filled it will write to the slower TLC/QLC area. Any SSD benchmark will show this. SMR hard drives also do this.
Having actually worked in search: neither.

One person's eyes, vis-a-vis search results, are an absolute drop in the ocean and never indicative of how the actual system works or the common experience of an end-user. "Look how they're censoring us" can be anything from explicit policy to user-specific configuration based on past history to an unexpected consequence of other features minimizing access to some unrelated data to the information being shared on a site that is also acting as an active persistent threat to a datacenter or storage / processing cluster dropping offline for a few hours.

If one trusts screenshots and videos because Mark Dice shared them, it's an appeal to (bad) authority. If one tries to armchair-analyze them without a lot of both grounding in the space and insider knowledge, one is extremely likely to arrive at untrue conclusions not only about the motivations of the people operating the system but the actual behavior of the system itself.

In Dice's case, regarding demonetization, if I were to wild-ass guess from glancing at his content: YouTube doesn't display the "dislike" signal any more, but it still consumes the signal as both algorithm sampling and a soft-trigger for manual review (and potentially an auto-trigger for demonetize-now-review-later). And the "Report" button is still there, and there are no consequences for reporting videos that are later decided to not be TOS violations (that I'm aware of).

Dice's problems can be explained by the kind of simple brigading that happens to controversial figures all the time. In terms of monetization, YouTube is a very (small-c) conservative platform, and lots of people from all sides of the political aisle have been migrating away from it, not because of its political bias, but because it's a damn slot machine for anyone trying to make a living.

(TBF: Google et. al. could possibly minimize a lot of this controversy by being far more transparent about the special sauce. OTOH, I don't know in the current political climate if that would be useful because I don't know if their explanations would be believed. "Who are you going to believe, Google, or your lying eyes", right?)
In the U.K. I find the Aldi scanners to be great, they’re fast and accurate, probably in part to the enlarged barcodes.

Tesco is the worst, multiple second delay between scanning each item while it recognises the weight, constant blocks, good riddance.
Postgres to ClickHouse: Data Modeling Tips
The traditional way to solve this was to keep the protocol at a 0.x version until mature enough. "Enough", not absolutely perfect.

(Of course this can be abused, like with gmail being "beta" over five years.)

After you hit 1.0 then accept that any breaking changes are Big Deal which require a new protocol major version and should only happen once in many years (unless there is a fatal security flaw discovered).

Perfect is the enemy of good. People whine about details with email, but this is why email continues (after 40+ years) to be the most interoperable communications mechanism in the world across everything.
https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge/blob/delug...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JRoX9_lXJFg

Note that both that doc and the video have old perf numbers. I’m landing optimizations all the time.
SaaS stands for "software as a service." When I think of SaaS I think of subscription-based software. It is usually web-based (meaning web applications that run in a browser and talk to a remote server), but I can't think of any reason that it necessarily has to be, and one could probably call newer versions of Photoshop / Adobe Creative Cloud "SaaS" since that is subscription based.

This distinguishes SaaS from traditional software that was sold as a good. In the good-based model, you purchased a copy of a particular version of the software and could install it and use it independently, on your own machine, no remote servers required for the rest of your life without requiring any "services" from the creator of that that software for the normal every day operation of that software.

As someone else already pointed out, all software (and most hardware) is an abstraction over top of something more primitive.

But to say that all SaaS is a "wrapper" around another service seems to be making the case that SaaS as such cannot provide original functionality that is not exposed by some preexisting lower-level service and that's not true. I currently work for a SaaS company and while we do provide integration with 3rd party services, our core functionality is entirely developed in-house. Our databases which store customer data are analogous to what storage devices on our customers' own devices would be doing if it were good-based software.
We made Vampire Survivors, but in 10 lines of code (2022)
Solution to the puzzle Cat Walk
Advanced cooking skill: "Make Sushi"

No. Do not attempt this casually. Every couple years someone in the northwest gets the idea to catch their own salmon and serve it up as sushi. Sushi is not an at-home thing. Either learn to freeze the fish yourself per local hygiene rules and in the correct freezer, or buy from the professionals.

For reference, with tables listing the basic rules in various jurisdictions: https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/Documents/E/2017/...
here is some code that was 100% chatgpt created

https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/bulkredirectchecker

no humans touched the code directly

and its not my most complex one, https://gpt.franzai.com is but closed source

how?

whenever chatgpt runs into a repetetive wall -> start a new chat

use https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/thisismy (also about 90% chatgpt written) command line tool

to fetch all the code (and online docs if necessary) -> deliver a new clean context and formulate the next step what you want to achieve

sometimes coding needs 100+ different chats always with a fresh start to achieve a goal

remember: chatgpt is not intelligent in an old fashioned way, it is a propability machine thats pretty good at mimicing intelligence

once propability goes astray you need to start anew

but limiting chatgpt to simple coding tasks just means that you are using it wrong
Having a depth of experience helps a lot, because it means you can tell the thing exactly what to do. Effectively you get to treat it as a super-productive intern, very good at taking instructions, occasionally prone to getting stuck in an error loop or falling for weird conspiracy theories.
EU investigating Telegram over user numbers
Technology changes though. PVC membrane roofs require less maintenance and last longer than older shingle roofs.

Flat roofs probably did always leaked when they learned this saying -- but today it's not true.
It's fun doing this stuff. I read a book years ago "Common Sense Pest Control" which remarked that the highway for termites and bugs are the cracks in the foundation walls, which they climb up and then bore into the wood framing. The cure was a stainless steel sill plate (it's usually just a piece of plastic). So my house has a stainless steel plate there. The GC thought I was an idiot. But it works, and it's not like you can add it after the house is built.

I did the low voltage wiring myself because the electrician didn't understand it. Every room has 2 sets of cat5 and RG6 coax. Wifi has improved considerably since then, but I still enjoy the reliability, privacy and speed of wired connectivity.

GFCI breakers on all circuits in the circuit panel.

I failed to add wiring for a generator, this later turned out to be an expensive upgrade. Puget Sound Energy uses overhead wires, which fail regularly.

French drains around the basement, as a damp basement is a relentless horror.

Have you ever scraped the bottom of your car pulling into a driveway? I have. I told the concrete contractor to not have any abrupt changes in slope, and if my car scrapes he's going to have to redo it. He laughed, and said no problem. And it was no problem, he did a beautiful job just as I asked! The neighbors scrape their cars on their driveways.

Another little thing is the edges of the driveway are rolled up an inch or so. This means you can back up, and know when you're at the edge by the feel. Nobody else does that. This is so valuable because of the slope and soft ground off the driveway - you'll get hung up if you drop the wheels over the edge.

The house is designed to make use of the "stack effect" to keep it cool in summer. It works ok, but it could have been better. Houses used to be built to be naturally warm in winter and cool in summer, but the advent of A/C has caused it to be forgotten.

Oh, and fire sprinklers. I did a search and could not find any instance of people dying in a sprinkled building fire. They're expensive though. Ouch.
Yeah, I'll second this. Our company has an aggressive push to use LLMs for development, and it has quite certainly been the the source of a lot of obscure problems that made it into production. Definitely going a bit too fast for their own good.
So, modulating thermal insulation of (a non-superconducting and non-superfluidic or any) quantum simulator results in loss of entanglement.

How, then, can entanglement across astronomical distances occur without cooler temps the whole way there, if heat destroys all entanglement?

Would helical polarization like quasar astrophysical jets be more stable than other methods for entanglement at astronomical distances?
SLC write cache.
Or phrased differently: If people don't starve when they won't let others exploit themselves they won't be likely to let others exploit themselves.

If we apply market logic to that this would just mean that employers have to offer better deals.
And then it would be just another minimalist desktop environment trying to compete with Gnome.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_use
My impression is that the term came from Make magazine marketing/PR/branding.

I think that we say "maker spaces" rather than "hacker spaces" probably has a lot to do with the success of Make's branding efforts.
Managing humans isn't free. There is HR, managing, directing, blah blah blah, complaining. With AI just write an api call.

The World's Call Center Capital Is Gripped by AI Fever - and Fear (bloomberg.com)25
Posted by msmash on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @01:21PM from the closer-look dept.
The Philippines' $38 billion outsourcing industry faces a seismic shift as AI tools threaten to displace hundreds of thousands of jobs. Major players are rapidly deploying AI "copilots" to handle tasks like summarizing customer interactions and providing real-time assistance to human agents, Bloomberg reports. Industry experts estimate up to 300,000 business process outsourcing (BPO) jobs could be lost to AI in the next five years, according to outsourcing advisory firm Avasant.

However, the firm also projects AI could create 100,000 new roles in areas like algorithm training and data curation. The BPO sector is crucial to the Philippine economy as the largest source of private-sector employment. The government has established an AI research center and launched training initiatives to boost workers' skills.
Notice that these are hexagonal and you can chart a path right around that tile.
What the Hell Is Going on with SFWA?
Archived: https://archive.is/5pG60

>EU legal and data experts suspect that the app has understated its presence in the EU to stay under a 45mn user threshold, above which large online platforms are subject to a swath of Brussels regulations designed to check their influence.
I would assume that you are not a carpenter: As a carpenter, I would include: Knowledge of Universal Building Codes, knowledge of local building codes, Local code checklists, Blue print reading, Site survey reading, and first hand knowledge of your local building department. (AHJ)

Concrete forms, soil management, concrete testing, that is more than a rabbit hole, its a whole immense specialty. ( Ask Richard Sloan, who literally taught me how to finish concrete like glass... over very large areas. )

Tiling is deep also. ( Thanks Alejandro ).

Even after more than 10 years work, texturing as a skill is still beyond me, and like far beyond me.

Your point is well taken, but...

This is an amazingly LARGE amount of work.

Environmental skill?I cannot wait to see this one:

I should make a
Building a Desktop PC,
Coaching, Transform your life.
Truck Driving and Taking no sh*.
> NFS/CIFS, RDP, DHCPD+PXE, VPN, IPFW, BIND, iptables, SMTP/IMAP

The hardest part of configuring the services you list is not the networking, but all the non-networking topics you need to be familiar with: zone file syntax; cipher suite selection; OS-specific security policy and permissions models; PKI administration; PXE ROM peculiarities, etc.

Once you're confident with arp, addressing/subnetting, routing tables, and a few other tools like netstat and `dig` you can quickly eliminate the network as the cause of the issue and focus on grokking the application itself.
Exactly. A number with the property that every sequence occurs is called a rich or disjunctive number - a number can be rich in s specific bases or rich for all bases we don't know whether pi is any if that. A number where every sequence occurs equally often (scaled to the length of the sequence) is called a normal number, which is an even stronger property.
If you could rate policies by how good they are, you'd could get a couple categories: clearly bad policies, these don't get implemented. clearly good policies, these get implemented broadly. things in the middle, these get debated a lot and some get implemented in very limited scope and then we learn if they should be expanded or not. The ones that do get expanded are going to have a lot more visibility and presence in the general consciousness than those that don't. There's also a lot of factors that tend to discourage implementation and it's very common that the perceived value of policies increases significantly after they've been adopted.

There's basically just a lot of things going on such that the natural result is that the scope of policies increases over time. And that's a good thing.
In my neighborhood of single family homes, the new ones are all flat roofers with little or no eaves.
The words become less fake over time and everyone, even the most conservative of conservatives, recognizes that.

There plenty, many, words you won't use because they've changed. That's how progress goes, it's always the way it's been. You can fight that, but it won't work. And then in 40 years you will sound like an insane person.

I'm not saying that "unhoused" is good or will be a largely used word. But I am saying that fake words are real and you will keep up or be left behind. We have people alive, right now, who have been left behind. Guess what, they sound insane.