skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The quality of the code it produces is not very good.

I have been trying this out, I can share a bit of my experiences/thoughts below:

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I've been writing JavaScript/TypeScript fulltime for ~6-7 years now. Day in, and day out, and I happen to love + ardently follow the progress of the language.

In the middle of my functions using "const" and "for (let thing of things)", it will try to autosuggest code snippets using "var" and "for (var i=0, i < things.length; i++) { var thing = things[i]".

There's two problems I see here:

1. Languages evolve. Newer language features that devs should be taking advantage of don't get suggested because training data doesn't exist on it yet.

2. The code quality isn't great, as you have to assume the majority of programmers are not producing the world's best code, and so that is the data it was trained on.

I saw the same thing in Java. Using JDK16, it would never suggest autocompletions for Records, or multi-line strings, or pattern matching.

If I had accepted its suggestions, what I would have wound up with, was code that TECHNICALLY worked, but was very low quality and used dated techniques.

Many things it suggests can now be solved in a few lines using recent features of languages that there isn't enough training data on. So it will never suggest them.
I was referring to being packed into an ever more crowded and open office as dismal. I am team remote too.
> Unfortunately what people say that you can hear can affect your team because of product interactions.

Absolutely. However that is a lot less common than things that you hear that don't affect you. If you want everyone to know everything than you can't have more than 10 developers - a team of this size (or slightly smaller) will be far more productive than larger teams because they know all the interactions - but the larger team because of the larger numbers gets more done at the end of the day anyway (and good architecture will minimize the interactions and thus help productivity)

> Unfortunately what people say that you can hear can affect your team because of product interactions.

When it is only a small number of people those non-work conversations make your teammates more human and thus gel your team and so are worth thee cost. However if the number of people is too large it is a distraction.

> they are often wrong which requires correction.

If they are your teammates you should be correcting each other. If they are not - you shouldn't be the expert in the subject and so you won't know they are wrong in the first place.
AFAICS, this attack is running on Microtik routers. Mikrotik is a Latvian company. They are successfully competing with Cisco and Juniper in feature-set and performance at a fraction of a price.

The thing is, they provided a large, under-educated user base with powerful, complex and utterly sophisticated tools.

That the attacker targeted those and not less numerous and better guarded mainstream manufacturers only pays tribute to the success of Mikrotik.
Is there evidence that the average hacker is smarter than the average developer? I would expect the opposite to be true because legitimate work seems more profitable/stable, but also I'd imagine the difference is t that high either way
Maybe, but in that case it will be lightweight on current hardware, not on 50 year old hardware. I wouldn't be surprised if a midrange microcontroller used for a one-off application, in 50 years has the equivalent of docker (x2, one for the development environment and one for the microcontroller). That would hopefully work for another 50 years. On the other hand, look at any small microcontroller vs a complex CPU today. In laymen's terms, arduino vs raspberry pi. For controlling some devices, a small microcontroller is faster booting, faster to react, has fewer unnecessary states, is deterministic, testable, more reliable, uses less power. That will probably never change and in 50 years 8 bit micros will still be used for a lot of applications. Even after 50 years of development you probably don't want the brake controller in your self-driving car to run something in python 2.7.19 in docker in windows 39.

I also wouldn't be surprised (and hope) it goes the other way and in 50 years development using FPGAs is as easy banging stuff out in an IDE and making ASICs is as easy compiling and dollars per chip in small quantities.
"I brought the card to the appointment, but the doctor said "I don't need that, I have your data here." It turns out that the CPAP contains a cellular modem, and it phones home and reports in real-time. I had no idea this thing was recording any data at all. It wasn't verbally disclosed to me by either the doctor or the equipment technicians. I imagine there's something buried in the fine print of the (long lost) documentation, possibly even in the fine print of some form I signed, but I was caught off guard and none too pleased."

Really? My doctor and the dude who configured and walked me through the CPAP use both emphasized that it collected data on the SD card but that its cell modem would also report the data to the doctor and the supplier.

And keep in mind, a CPAP is kind of invasive by nature.
You are ok with having to wear headphones in an open office, but not taking the effort of putting paper or something on the inside of your private glassed in office?
6.7 billion chips/quarter is "niche"?
Is 1GiB considered 'little RAM' these days for an embedded board?
database consultation https://optimizdba.com/
The taxi drivers haven't been replaced by computers yet either.
One of the best authors for these kinds of stories (about hard-core survival) is Jack London. You can even select a theme: Tropical islands and storms, ships and the ocean, or ice-cold Yukon and gold rush? Animal centric (Call of the Wild, White Fang)?
Well, this also has easy alternatives: the OSHA rules allow testing as an alternative. They do not mandate vaccination.

To your other point, the vaccines do reduce transmission, as far as I can tell (e.g. https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/mounting-evidence-suggests...).

Now, to be perfectly serious, I do think that any efforts at compulsory--or, as in this case, incentivized, since testing remains an alternative--medical measures exist in a tension between the utilitarian and the libertarian point of view. We should certainly be cautious about mandating any medical procedure, and do our best to preserve alternatives (like testing, or mask wearing, or by limiting mandates to as narrow a scenario as necessary).

But I don't think the debate is helped by getting the facts wrong.
You mean we'll become taxi drivers, or we'll join them in unemployment due to self-driving cars? If the latter, that's great because it means I'm good for at least 20 more years of this career.
brb bootstrapping a “swipe to hide, swipe to read later” HN clone.
you are correct, you are not proving anything

to wit, you have not proven there is a good reason to worry about widespread significant long-term side effects of the COVID vaccines -- specifically, DDT is not a past example of a vaccine resembling any of the COVID vaccines

the lack of evidence pointing to widespread, significant, long-term side-effects so far, however, is evidence enough for us to lean in that direction

I do, however, support your right to avoid the vaccine, as well as your right to avoid any place or activity that requires those present to have it, so at least there's that
I have to agree, FF mobile is a breath of fresh air.

I have now switched to it as my default ( am using it now).

Features like auto-closing tabs after X time (days, weeks, months) are things I always wanted but never knew I needed.

See: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/auto-close-open-tabs-fi...
South Korea's 'Gen MZ' leads rush into the 'metaverse'
Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case
I meant more in the sense of classical left/right divide -- I felt the parent commenter was suggesting it's just right-wing troll types that are being censored, which isn't the case.

I'm definitely in favour of free-speech, I'm just not particularly left or right wing in my political views or voting habits.
Green Hills Software is such a excellent producer of software, near perfection in every product...and no the Homepage is not a buy-able product of them ;)
Zero Covid isn’t realistic, for kids or anyone
Yeah I had a similar reaction. Spread the word, though. Those people have tons of our money and they use it.
Some past threads:

Nuclear War Survival Skills (1987) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15305892 - Sept 2017 (213 comments)

Nuclear War Survival Skills (1987) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9158642 - March 2015 (1 comment)

Nuclear war survival skills (1987 Edition) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1283571 - April 2010 (15 comments)
Norvig, https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp (free online now).
Is it malicious/libellous and what's your budget to deal with this? Depending on your jurisdiction maybe legal threats against Twitter (for failing to remove the offending content) could work - I suggest you speak to a lawyer.
Maybe the cost equation becomes more evident to companies:

dedicated above-average internal* cybersec staff < (SEC fines + outcry when breach goes public)

* external seems like a different can of worms. perhaps someone in cybersec can refute/expand
Considering Haskell is much more dense than most languages, it should be harder to create those small mistakes because the produced code is much shorter, but I haven't tested it, so take this with a grain of salt.
The problem is not with millionaires, who are rather few, but with middle-to-upper middle class people, who make up bulk of taxpayers and the revenue. If you run the numbers, your scheme ends up being rather unworkable.

To put in concrete terms: if you tried to give every household $7000 of ACA subsidy, that would cost you $900B a year. That’s more than US military spending. Where you would get extra taxes from to cover that? There aren’t enough millionaires to pay for it (do the numbers here too, to see), so what you’d need to do is to get back $7000 from household that make “mere” $150-200k. You don’t want to slap extra $7k tax, because that would just be a cliff like the one you tried to avoid in the first place. Once you figure out how to set up your taxation to do that, you’ll find that it conceptually and practically much simpler to just do phaseouts.
I bought a pack of iodine pills when Trump starting taunting King Jong Un on Twitter calling him "Rocketman".

Would they realistically protect someone from the immediate effects of the radiation from a nuclear bomb?
> My point is that it should not be something that has to be removed.

And it isn't a feature at all if you use any other Chromium based browser (not Chrome) like Brave, Edge or Vivaldi.

> Please explain why it's better to use Vivaldi.

I didn't say that you should use Vivaldi. Nope. I said that there are plenty of non-Chrome Chromium browsers to use in response to someone saying that there is a "one browser rules all" situation. There's not. There's not even a "one browser-engine to rule them all" situation given that Safari (WebKit) has a very sizable market share.

> In complete control of Chromium.

Yep and Linus Torvalds is in complete control of the Linux kernel, yet we have hundreds of distros that all do things differently.

And it doesn't matter as much as you think it does. Here's Microsoft discussing their decision to not fork Chromium, because they don't have to - "We have chosen not to fork since we don’t want to fragment the community, but our infrastructure does allow us to maintain patches for cases where we have a different point of view on individual changes (we talked about the webRequest/Manifest V3 changes in a couple other places. In general we plan to upstream our web platform improvements to the Chromium project. " [0]

[0] https://windowsreport.com/chromiums-edge-fork/
Coronavirus is not influenza. 600-800 thousand deaths in the US so far makes "fairly bad" seem like a bit of an understatement.
Hackers are leaking children’s data – and there’s little parents can do
I actually used to really enjoy talking to people in the office and would welcome the distraction, but WFH has been a godsend for me in ways I previously couldn't imagine.

Without going into too much detail, offices (or for that matter any place I would return to frequently and where people would know who I am) would murder me with anxiety, resulting in a kind of chest pain which at times, maybe once a week, would be unbearable. Other days it was just painful, but managable.

Of course since WFH this has gone, but not only that, it's improved things in those settings where I do sometimes have to return to frequently. I was always told that the more I put myself in that position the better it would get, but it ended up being the opposite. It feels liberating that I don't need to plan for that anymore, whereas it used to be part of my daily life.
What are your qualifications for fiddling with medical equipment?
The first political action I ever participated in was a country-wide walkout of high school students protesting Chirac's France resuming testing weapons in the Pacific. It was a pretty big deal at the time - boycotts etc.
The Netherlands has the National Scrubbing Center against DDoS attacks NaWas https://www.nbip.nl/en/nawas/faq/. It is a non-profit.

> The NaWas infrastructure is designed as an on-demand service. After detecting an attack, the traffic is routed via BGP to the NaWas hardware and then the mitigation process starts. All traffic is then rerouted and the own connections can thus manage with less capacity

> NaWas has a BGP session with the participants on the clean side (with IXPs) on a private VLAN. A member can redirect a specific prefix or / 24 by advertising that prefix on the NaWas BGP session. NaWas advertises the prefix on our upstreams (transits & peering). So the trigger for redirecting is done manually or automatically by the participants.

They handle on average 9 attacks per day. Italy is following suite and setting up a similar organization.
Even if that were true, and it's not clear that it is, the side effects of infection are far, far worse than whatever side effects the vaccine might have.
Support is one and you can't blindly assume that it's in a shareable format from a quick braindump sprint. Lots of hardcoded personal stuff, wonky incomplete features, mixed absolute and relative paths etc. It was NEVER intended to be shared and would require time to cleanup to even distribute a binary. It also works based on how I use youtube, it's not a general purpose tool so it's super opinionated. I simply shared it here because it seemed relevant to the topic. :)
> The open-office concept was designed by executives who have their own private offices.

I've seen executives sit on the floor with employees. Whether or not it works depends on whether the type of work requires attention or concentration.

Jobs like answering phones, clerical work, mail processing, negotiating/trading, selling, etc... - those are jobs that require attention and can be done in an open setting, and it often increases productivity for people to be working together in an open environment.

Jobs that require concentration, like planning, programming, etc... - those are jobs that are better to be done in quiet, without distraction.
Take a look at: https://pi-hole.net/
The Software Architect's Guide to Storage at the Edge: Frameworks and Attributes
Move fast and break things. Mostly your stomach and your dopamine levels.
I've tried everything, but the only reliable way I've learned hard things is by diving straight in to something way over my head. Grinding through something with a dozen StackOverflow (or equivalent) tabs open is how I taught myself Javascript/React, HTML, Unreal Engine, and even Audacity. Note taking is probably "better", and I use spaced repetition if I have to memorize things, but the core method is just grinding on something I'm deeply interested in.
Right, that is how Intel does it. On AMD systems the PSP (which is ARM core integrated on the same die with its own on-chip SRAM) starts by loading its firmware from flash, initializes DRAM, does some other things, loads UEFI into main memory and only then releases x86 cores from reset.
You don't need code for this... if you pass youtube-dl a playlist URL instead of a video URL, it will download all (public) videos from the playlist. Write a cron job for it and you're done.
That sounds like something different where the answer is not so clear-cut.

I've tried to rephrase the wording of the ethical dilemma I came up with to make it more neutral:

Imagine there's two covid patients coming into hospital at the same time: one vaccinated, one not. Both are in need of the same care, with the same urgency. Only one hospital bed is available. Which, if any, of these patients should receive priority in treatment?
Repeated exposure by doing it and failing
The Hippocratic License 2.1
I have absolutely no doubt human race would survive. We are distributed enough and there is plenty of still developing areas. Now modern civilization very much less so.
During the reign of Napléon III France was celebrating Napoléon's birthday as a national holiday, “Saint Napoléon”. However, this was already in decline in the 1860s, as Napoléon's role was eventually re-evaluated, and the centenary in 1869 (which coincided with a severe crisis of the authority of Napoléon III) wasn't celebrated nationally any more. As this was also soon followed by the end of the Second Empire (as an effect of the Franco-Prussian war), this holiday inherently connected with the dynastic ambitions of Napoléon III wasn't any more.

Edit: If interested in the subject, there's a thesis (in French) by Émile Kern, “Représentations et images contrastées de Napoléon dans les commémorations : de 1869 à 2009”, Université de Montpellier 3, 2011; http://www.theses.fr/2011MON30093
Would it be possible to have a watch display (for instance) that appears larger than the actual screen of the watch by using lasers (and eye tracking) to paint the display directly at the retina?
So have I got this right?

-The state of Utah makes some kind of contract with Banjo utilizing AI to improve public safety

-Banjo received a whole load of money and

-Did absolutely nothing with it.

-It took the auditors a whole year to work that out.

Am I being too harsh? Can anyone fill in the gaps?
They, like everyone else, are paying too much in taxes.
At some point, "corporate america" decided that willful ignorance was better than making an effort, possibly failing, and possibly being held liable for that failure.

Its annoying that there's law for people, then there's laws that apply to some corporations, but not always and not all of them.

"Maintaining an attractive nuisance" is what they tell people with unfenced junkyards, right? Why couldn't that apply to some of these folks aggregating data about our kinks "unwittingly" displaying the results to the world.
Good luck with that.

Simple information theory arguments assure this will not work out so well.
I'd go with the Pine64 board. I ordered some of these BL602 boards from aliexpress (not the ones above) a few months back and the documentation is abysmal and they seem to require a windows application to program them.
Sure, but when the alternative to rationality is hope -- as in, disarm and hope that everyone else follows and doesn't lie despite having every incentive to take advantage -- rationality starts looking pretty good by comparison.

I'm all for arms reduction that maintains strategic deterrence. Everyone knows that MAD is, well, mad -- but the real question is whether it is more or less mad than the alternatives, and the leading alternative is to trust a bunch of sovereign nations to act together against their best interest, and that's even more mad than MAD.
I've never been audited, but isn't it more a case of "you must talk to the IRS or they'll simply collect what they think you owe and leave you no recourse"?
There are two things that I want to address here.

For one I still call a Taxi when I need one. Happy to pay a bit of extra to get a professional driver. I don't want to bash on people using other services or people providing those, but it's not for me.

Similarly my clients call me and my colleagues because they have a problem that needs solving, we solve it partly with programming because that is how we can solve it exactly, reliably and freely. We don't typically use low-code tools because they can trap us and they don't scale with our ability and understanding, and the productivity they promise is true for narrow uses. Our clients don't use them because it will and has taken them too much time to learn and use them with mediocre to (really) bad results, they want the problem to be taken care of and are willing to make a trade.

The second point is that I simply refuse to stop adapting and learning. I'm happily adopting technology into my repertoire when the tradeoff is worth it. Analyzing and understanding those tradeoffs is part of the job. Expanding knowledge is part of the job. And this was always true for anyone who works in software related fields, our community always has had to adapt, adopt and evolve, balancing pragmatism and curiosity.
We want to be able to get natural light and air into the house. I can make a safe room if I need to, but this is an always-on threat and we can't respond with whole house unhealthy environments. Grounded metal (copper or aluminum) screens should work quite well if designed for the application I would think. But that means 100% screening, no fully transparent openings. Maybe we can come up with fluid filled windows that provide the required shielding. What a PITA.
Steps to Secure Your Authentication System
Would it be possible to create a business where you:

* Buy the cheap hardware at wholesale prices

* Strip the surveillance tech and/or re-flash the firmware

* Sell the "dumb" product for the same price as the "smart" one

In this case, the "smart" vendor would likely lose money if they're selling below cost. So the only difficulty would be a legal one... I'm not sure if it's legal to buy a product, modify it, and then re-sell it.
The similarity I’m drawing is that being out and about unvaccinated and driving without proper training both put others at risk, which violates NAP. Therefore both can (arguably) be mandated inside of a libertarian framework.
It's hard to tell based on the vague info about what the app does, but it seems like the pricing model is not as much the issue as the fact that the retention is bad. If I understand correctly, people are signing up to pay monthly, but then they're churning within 2-3 months; to me this indicates that you have a somewhat compelling value prop (which gets people to sign up) but then they aren't fulfilled by the product and so they leave. I don't think different pricing schemes will solve this issue.

Perhaps it's also the sort of product that is satisfying users, but, is the sort of thing that only needs to be used for a couple months at a time (e.g. a furniture shopping app? I only go furniture shopping in "bursts" when I move to a new place). In that case maybe some sort of well-priced "3 month pass" or something is the right way to do it.
It won’t work even if it were real. https://youtu.be/TMCgZXGkCCg
I’m commenting on the wikipedia comment, that is the context.

I haven’t discussed cancel culture, nor downvoted anything. Not that that’s even related to each other.

The fact of the matter is that the phrase does not denigrate Japanese culture, it is completely gender agnostic and is not an innuendo. That’s objectively true.

So either it’s the American phobia of even pretending that other cultures exist, or it’s the equally American phobia of nudity. Even in a figure of speech.
TSMC’s Morris Chang pioneered the $28 bn semiconductor foundry industry (2011)