skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In what way? I've read quite a bit and still can't get it. Also "influencing elections" is a funny thing to define. I know these days every joe and mary walking down the street is protecting democracy and whatnot, but the Cambridge Analytica debacle was just politicians learning about APIs from my current understanding. Anyone using the FB API at the time could have done the same if they infringed the terms in the same way CA did.

Are campaigns influencing elections when they use credit card purchasing data and so on that they buy? Why isn't that the same scandal?
Not sure what's annoying or a "false claim" here...

Coalitions may or may not happen in parliamentary systems or now in France.

> having legislative elections on a separate schedule that help incumbents getting re-elected independently from the head of state helps a lot in getting bipartisan deals

That's how it is in France unless the terms somehow align, which is more common now that Presidential and Parliamentary terms are both 5 years but not guaranteed.
In any case this has nothing to do with coalitions, which are a result of a lack of majority, not of the constitutional system per se.

> Many countries have parliamentary systems and manage to be stable and working democracies

Yes but that's beside the point.

The issue in France is that the strong Presidential system is seen as "right wing" not least because it was created by a General so the left likes to criticise. The reality is that it has worked well and that more parliamentarism would not be a silver buller to solve issues, real or perceived.
The EU needs to directly fund these project because otherwise they just don't happen. When the US produces many of these things just happen.

Starlink basically just fell from the clear blue sky into DoD lap. Leapfroging their own plans by about 4 generations.

This is because the US has more dynamic companies, a bigger internal market, that can access far greater level of funding, all the way from startup to grand investments.

> where much of the US is fairly hostile to the idea.

I'm not sure this is universally true. When it comes to military its the opposite. The US has broad support for the militarily, and in the military budget financed projects like GPS, like F22, F35 and so on. The Us military right now is planning multiple constellations in addition to extending Starshield.

In the US many of these things just happen out of the public view, internal to the govenrment. When in the EU this is all negotiated as part of bilateral agreements that are far more public.
AWS now renting monster HPE servers, even in clusters of 7,680-vCPUs and 128TB
Obviously not very hard. And looking at the blatant and unproven claims on HN gave me the view that the proponents are not interested in giving proof; they simply want to silence anyone who disagrees LLMs are useful for programming.
A while back before framework even existed I had a linux thinkpad. Support for things like wifi and screen resolution weren’t good on ubuntu.

But in 2024 can someone give me a rundown of why a custom hardware company like framework has trouble with sleep on their recommended distro?

Where exactly on the stack is the issue and what exact software would need to be written to enable the laptop to go to sleep when you have ubuntu installed? Is it primarily a driver / closed source driver issue? Or is it an integration issue?
I hear this argument again and again, that the dead was despised thus the funeral should not be attended. Really folks, if all people you know are to be despised, then maybe the problem is not with them? Sure, there always is the occasional asshole, but it's not always the one in the coffin, so indeed then there might be times when we should just stay home for the better of everybody.
This was posted 10 years ago as well [1].

But I wanted to repost it again as some people can't afford a mindfulness course. MBSR has been studied quite extensively [2]. The fact that it has some science behind it helps it to demystify what outcomes it could bring for the people curious enough to dive into the literature.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9479818

[2] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22M...
And that is exactly what we won’t have anymore, at least on the job. They are not paying us for our satisfaction and our understanding.
It's laughable only if you think that the only reasonable metric is "consistent and reliable".

The parent says "it typically doesn't matter that the product is worse if it's cheap enough". And that seems valid to me: the average quality of software today seems to be worse than 10 years ago. We do worse but cheaper.
Framework is trying the best toward "functional" in the sense that it can be repaired by a regular person. Though I would not consider it nearly as "tough" as a magnesium bodied Thinkpad
>the Online Safety Act was supposed to hold big tech to account, but in fact they're the only ones who will be able to comply... it consolidates more on those platforms.

This says it so well, acknowledging the work of a misguided bureaucracy.

Looks like it now requires an online community to have its own bureaucracy in place, to preemptively stand by ready to effectively interact in new ways with a powerful, growing, long-established authoritarian government bureaucracy of overwhelming size and increasing overreach.

Measures like this are promulgated in such a way that only large highly prosperous outfits beyond a certain size can justify maintaining readiness for their own bureaucracies to spring into action on a full-time basis with as much staff as necessary to compare to the scale of the government bureaucracy concerned, and as concerns may arise that mattered naught before. Especially when there are new open-ended provisions for unpredictable show-stoppers, now fiercely codified to the distinct disadvantage of so many non-bureaucrats just because they are online.

If you think you are going to be able to rise to the occasion and dutifully establish your own embryonic bureaucracy for the first time to cope with this type unstable landscape, you are mistaken.

It was already bad enough before without a newly imposed, bigger moving target than everything else combined :\

Nope, these type regulations only allow firms that already have a prominent well-funded bureaucracy of their own, on a full-time basis, long-established after growing in response to less-onerous mandates of the past. Anyone else who cannot just take this in stride without batting an eye, need not apply.
Why is it weird, exactly? I don't write throwaway projects so the mostly one-off nature of LLM code generation is not useful to me. And I'm not the only one either.

If you can give examples of incredible usefulness then that can advance the discussion. Otherwise it's just us trying to out-shout each other, and I'm not interested in that.
Just move to embedded. The tools were never good to begin with!
LLMs might be useful for docs or tests, but I have found them lacking when it comes to writing firmware, especially for more niche hardware with proprietary compilers. I certainly would not use AI to write functionally safe code. I recently had an intern submit code for a simple SPI based driver that randomly called calloc (thanks CoPilot!).
It could even be counterintuitive. If people use autonomous taxis and sell their car, they might use buses etc more. Unlikely but eh, it's possible.
OK, do that. Seems like a case of FOMO to me but it might very well turn out that you're right and I'm wrong.

However, that's absolutely not clear today.
State of Mozilla 2024
> software behaving as specified/intended, where that specification/intention has unexpected and/or undesirable consequences

Unexpected behaviour is how I choose to define "bug".

It doesn't matter if the programmer intended it. It's still a bug if it behaves contrary to the user expectation.

It might be that the best resolution is better documentation / training, but it's still worth of a bug being raised to fix.
Why would BMI need to move up? Because it doesn't represent the average, or because it doesn't represent health?

I think the former is uncontroversial but boring, and the later is wrong. I also think that people conflate the two because they want to pretend that being average is the same thing as being healthy.
> Models get better with time, not worse

A decade (almost?) ago, people were saying "look at how self-driving cars improved in the last 2 years: in 3-5 years we won't need to learn how to drive anymore". And yet...
This isn't what the article says...

The articles says roughly that "while we know what to strive for, we are falling short of achieving our goals." It doesn't make the claim that we know how to teach programming.

Now, unrelated to what the article says, I wanted to bring up this point: there are several ways we know how to teach something, and they apply better to different disciplines. For instance, the approach where we do lecture-lecture-lecture-seminar-test is what's used to teach subjects that require very little hands-on work (eg. law, history etc.) Then, there's lecture-lab-lecture-lab-lecture-lab-test approach, which is better suited to subjects like biology or electrical engineering etc.

Some subjects have their own tradition of teaching that's mostly unique to them. Eg. painting is taught by assigning students to the professor's workshop, where they, basically, live for a few years. No formal "teaching" takes place, but the workshop's master interacts with students whenever he/she feels fit. Or, conservatory students who, usually, spend hours in one-on-one training with their teacher practicing their instrument of choice.

What I think is happening in teaching to program is that because the field originated in math + engineering faculties, the tradition of how to teach it was borrowed from that space too: lectures + labs + tests. But, I think, that programming is more similar to painting in the way how it's done and how it could potentially be taught. So, instead of short-term labs and tests, it would be beneficial for the students to have long-term projects, possibly worked on in groups, where interaction with the teacher happens when the teacher inspects the work done so far and decides to provide feedback.

The drawback of this approach is the grading that will not be defined formally and will be grounds for disputes between the students and the teachers. But, I still think it would've been better than the sequence of short-term assignments that must be worked on alone, because the later doesn't welcome and sometimes precludes the use of industry tools (s.a. version control systems, bug trackers). Essentially, today, those who are taught to program aren't taught how to use programming tools at all. Which is very weird to anyone coming from a school with a practical slant, where studying the tools would've been an essential part of the training.
> kids typically do not master touch typing by that age.

That's wrong, I have an experience of learning 9yo touchtyping with Dvorak as the first step to learning both how to program and how to learn English from scratch. It took no more than 6 hours of continuous work or 2 weeks of a full from zero to hero routine.
Ah yes. The two times I had to use Microsoft documentation for something, it boiled down to:

a) we've detected that your browser is set to Kazakh. Please enjoy our automatic translation of technical documentation to Kazakh. You want English? Haha that's a hidden option

b) the field "WSFaddr" contains the WSF address. Its type is "string"

Because of the above, I'll never ever use Azure again
My pitch to American readers is that Mortadelo & Filemon is like raunchy Spy VS Spy with Tom & Jerry characteristics.

In fact, if you liked the old British TV sitcom Bottom, you'll likely enjoy M&F.
This doesn't make sense at all. HDCP doesn't change anything for the TV - either way the TV must be able to decode the signal to display it which means it can also analyze it and/or use subchannels supported by the other side for nefarious means.
People are just analog neural circuits. They are not magic. Human brain is one physical implementation of intelligence. It is not the only one possible.
Eh, growing pains.
From what I remember, proto3 behavior happened to map to objective c since iOS maps coincidentally happened at around the same time so they could be loud.

It was partially reverted with proto3 optional and fully reverted finally. Go's implementation happened to come around the same time as proto3 so allowed struct access, despite behaving quite differently when accessing nil fields. That is also finally reverted. Hopefully more lessons already learned from the Java days will come sooner than later going forward...
Yup. 'tune2fs -m0' has saved my bacon more than once.
> Lunch is for wimps

Weird flex but okay?
Entanglement does not allow for "Zero-Latency Control". This is a common misconception.

See "No-communication theorem":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
I was at UofD in the 70's as a student and then in the 80's as an employee of the Computing Center. It was pretty cool when Delaware got their own Plato system to run. As mentioned elsewhere recommend "The Friendly Orange Glow" for stories from that era in time.

I worked with Hank Hufnagel to clone Tutor onto the Burroughs system. He worked for months on getting the judging to work exactly like the original. After that it was pretty easy to spin up the rest of the language. With the exception of lessons that required external hardware, porting lessons was easy. The Burroughs mainframe supported running Tutor on the Magnavox Plato terminals and other CRTs (Dumb glass was text only)

One interesting thing was Hank took the judging software and used it to develop a AI like (for the late 70's / 80's) help system that did front line triage for terminal issues, common programming problems, etc.
Where did I imply conspiracy? People have been known to turn a blind eye to criticism towards stuff they like ever since... forever.

The funny thing about the rest of your comment is that I'm in full agreement with you but somehow you decided that I'm an extremist. I'm not. I'm simply tired of people who make zero effort to prove their hypothesis and just call me arrogant or old / stuck in my ways, again with zero demonstration how LLMs "revolutionize" programming _exactly_.

And you have made more effort in that direction than most people I discussed this with, by the way. Thanks for that.
It's all been pretty much greenwashing to distract for the real impact of all the AI infrastructure in the energy and water supply.
This sounds like you're only thinking of people who die very old.

When my 99yo grandmother died, it felt natural, like it was the time for such things. She'd eaten all her cake.

When my 29yo sister died, it was completely different, even though her death was also natural and did not involve suffering (sudden cardiac death, because invariably someone will ask). Sure, she'd had some cake, but it seemed like most of it was ahead of her, and the cake didn't fall to the floor, it just sat there, uneaten and uneatable, which feels both sad and wrong.

At least if there had been a fight, there would be hope for reconciliation, or even if that weren't possible, we could still be glad to hear good news about each other's life. (Rarely does so much hatred endure forever that you can't ever be glad when good things happen to somebody.)

Death is worse.
This idea is also explored in The Anatomy of Peace by The Arbinger Institute. Reading it was truly transformative for me. It makes a strong point that we experience self-betrayal whenever we choose to ignore our moral compass and how this can harm our relationships.
This. December is already a very intense month, and carving out time each day to solve the problems becomes increasingly difficult.
Maybe? but doesn't that just become a poor mans counter flow heat exchanger?
> I didn’t expect capable language models to be practical/possible to run loyally

Now there's a fun typo. Hopefully not too much fun.
Show HN: Loose Calendar for the Week
A Calendar where each day has a little memo.
Because it's all marketing and greenwashing. They are training these models today using fossil fuels. By the time those nuclear reactors are online, they will have gobbled up literally every human creation to train their models multiple times and dried up several water sources.
Past events aren't a definite excuse for today's situations. Yeah, the U.S. interfered in many countries, including some that are super successful today, e.g., Taiwan and South Korea.

But many Latin Americans never stop blaming U.S. interventions for everything. Of course, blame a boogeyman instead of wreckless internal economic policies.
It would hardly be beyond plausibility for an ingenious researcher to solve the problem of having to feed her mirror bacteria expensive L-glucose by endowing them with an enzyme to enantiomerize cheap and abundant D-glucose. Or, as you implicitly suggest, for the genome she's using to contain such an enzyme already, lurking undetected.
It's mind-blowing to think XDR / ONC RPC V2 were products of the 1980s, and that sitting here nearly forty years later we are discussing the same problem space.

Probably the biggest challenge with something like XDR is it's very hard to maintain tooling around it long-term. Nobody wants to pay for forty years of continuous incremental improvement, maintenance, and modernization.

Long term this churn will hopefully slow down, it's inevitable as we collectively develop a solid set of "engineering principles" for the industry.
Depending on the level of fat being accepted, that is also encouraging an eating disorder, is I believe GP's point.

Like don't shame someone a bit 'overweight' they're just thicc and body positive sure fine whatever, but so what they're 'obese' they're an obese human is as unhelpful as encouraging anorexia. ('overweight' & 'obese' being well-defined terms of BMI range)
There are OLED digital signage displays, which won't have any issue with black levels. Colors might need calibrating but I doubt they use different panels for these from equivalent consumer TVs.
Grab it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPN1YHFW
And you didn't return the TV after that? Why would you accept that kind of customer abuse?
'What Is That Thing?' Tiny Trucks Are Causing Big Fights
This is probably what you want: https://github.com/planetscale/vtprotobuf
A lab leak of racemic sulfonilamide or ciprofloxacin would not only be a non-event; it's probably something that happens regularly already. The issue would be if people were harvesting their mirror penicillin from mirror mold or something.
"By the time I was 16, I had been to five or six funerals"

May be an Irish specific thing but I probably had been to 16 by the time I was five or six.
I know this list, and I always came back to ingress-nginx after trying out an alternative. ingress-nginx works best for me, it just doesn't have HTTP/3 and it doesn't seem to be a priority for the project.

I guess most people just use Cloudflare or similar Gateways for HTTP/3 support, which is probably the best option for now.
3) what's the point?

It's not like the pool of guile developers is much larger than the pool of elisp developers.

And guile has gotten worse for users in the 3.x series compared to the 2.x series.

This is coming from someone whose used it since 1.6 and gave up around 3.0.4 moving to racket.
Have you "de-apple'd" your life in anyway so that you're at least not helping to finance the illegal app store shit?
Hey Justin - this is probably one of my favourite talks!

https://testdouble.com/insights/the-selfish-programmer

Was lucky to be at the conference when you gave it and it's stuck in my head since. When I'm struggling for motivation or my side projects seem to be just too big I give it another watch.
I'm not expecting 10 000 people to discover https://xkcd.com/1053/ every day either.
No one thinks Al-Qaeda/ISIS are moderate. Furthermore, a large part of ISIS' recruitment success was as a result of its slick social media operation.
no, I pay for my own insurance
Just like we were fixing last year the PowerApps-generated apps (or any other low/no code app) the citizens developers slapped together.
If and only if it's a one-off. I already addressed this in my comment that you are replying to, and you and several others happily ignored it. Really no idea why.
Could you elaborate? I run HA in docker, and the extent of necessary configuration was adding this in docker-compose.yml:

devices:
- /dev/ttyUSB0:/dev/ttyUSB0
Sure, using all the aforementioned tools for over a decade without any bugs that prevented me from completing a task.
https://archive.ph/X1jk5
Can you explain what you mean by "this attack"?

They'll submit a complaint to the regulator that you've not done a risk assessment?

I've tried submitting issues to the ICO before but didn't have enough for them to go on and so the other company was never contacted.
As long as the business has EU customers or suppliers, or employees that might want to visit the EU then there is possiblity of enforcement.
I was forbidden from going to my great-grandmother's funeral with my parents even though I was 11 and an extremely well-disciplined child. "We want you to remember her as she lived, not as she died" was the reason given at the time, but leaving me out of the event where people were remembering her as she lived didn't make sense to me.

When my grandfather died when I was 15, not only wasn't I allowed to go, but I had to stay home and watch my siblings as my parents traveled a thousand miles away for a week. We more than had the money for plane tickets. They just didn't want to bring us (youngest was 10, and also not troublesome).

For my other older relatives, they've all insisted on not having services, and I can't help but feel it's both an effect and a cause of the fact that my extended family is very disconnected and fragmentary.
I've always believes that MS has bad docs for azure (they can be quite good for other subjects) because they charge for support
About 25 years ago, a friend offered 'Prioritize things that only happen once in life' as an idea for helping me decide whether to go to my friend's wedding or an important work event. The wedding was great, and the idea has been useful in many other situations, none more so that funerals.
Anything might happen in the future. My issue is with people claiming we're already in this future, and their only proof is "I generated this one-off NextJS application with LLMs".

Cool for you but a lot of us actually iterate on our work.
If you managed to overcome rage and those bad habits then it would be very useful lesson from the game
> Looks like it now requires an online community to have its own bureaucracy in place

What do you mean by bureaucracy in this case? Doing the risk assessment?
I'm not gonna go try to find the numbers right now, but the Anglo speaking world is just ahead of the others. They are all trending the same way.
Who says self driving cars will need to pertain their existing form? Hopefully that fact that you wont own the vehicle will lead to companies building more minimal form factors since in most cases it's a single rider and they'll incentivised by keeping costs as low as possible.
Real people get taxed on their gross income too.