skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard someone said "i usually care when the communication departement goes way too political: it usually mean that that the story is bad . In this case it was about video games, but i feel like it can be extended to TV shows and movies.

There is a lot of good rather feminist TV shows who don't get touted as feminist (mostly YA and fantasy tbh). The one who tries to sold themselves on that though, are all bad.

But i think this is transitory. In the 60s, when "La nouvelle vague" started to include different, new stereotypes (of women mostly, but of men too), there wasn't a lot of really good success in the beginning (to my eyes at least, the stereotypes were too much). They also had less money and couldn't afford to go wrong that many time, and eventually Truffaut got it right imho. Hollywood il bust, probably a lot, lot more than La nouvelle vague, but will start to get it right. Hopefully.
Already there for you: https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/
In high school I used to work at a library in Columbia, MD, just checking in/out books, shelving them, etc. Columbia happens to be very close to the NSA headquarters, and more than once I've found people use classified documents (once even an SSH login / password for some server).

...obviously I never tried to SSH into that box.
I did not notice. Neat. I appreciate the PS1 more. Remembering way back, N64 carts were 10 dollars or so more than PS1 discs, and as a result I had a stockpile of PS1 games. The texture popping of the PS1 I could never make sense of but it became an aesthetic of the era. Nice work OP, and thankyou for the credit
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A friend of mine once had the idea to create a zine where the contents were made up of things that we'd find in between the pages of books at Goodwill.

We went to a few different Goodwills around town, and while the idea was exciting- it turned dark quickly when we discovered the research notes of a man who had been diagnosed with cancer. It appeared he was not going to win the battle, and he knew it. Perhaps this was his way of coping, but from the state of the medial book it appeared he did not win the battle. I don't think the zine was ever published.
We're currently still working to make our tests HSA eligible and we'll have that soon.
I couldn’t believe the first time I saw the sad smiley blue screen. It seemed like such a ridiculous thing for Microsoft to have done.

Then I remembered fiddling on Macs as a kid, if you screwed up you’d see a bomb. If you did something really wrong you’d get the mac icon with Xs for eyes.

The point being: cutesy errors are about as old as personal computing, but they do seem to becoming more prevalent.
It probably filters out legit calls, too. I used to have an answering machine (in the late 90s or early 2000's) that allowed you to have voice mailboxes for different people. We had it set up so you could "Press 1 to leave a message for (me), Press 2 to leave a message for (my spouse)". It was smart enough that if the caller didn't press a number, it would still record a message and put it into a catch-all category. Literally every call, even from friends and relatives, went into the catch-all category. I tried calling our phone from a friend's house and testing it out to make sure I hadn't set it up incorrectly. It worked just fine, but nobody ever pressed any number. They just heard, "Hi, we're not at home..." then ignored everything else and waited until they heard a beep.
I think there’s a spectrum here on the one end you could be doing the work on the other end doing something that’s completely procrastinating like watching unrelated TikTok videos. And doing the work isn’t necessarily always best because you might actually benefit from some learning. That learning is probably not best consumed as a daily hours long habitual binge of productivity porn, that’s only slightly better than watching random TikTok.
And sometimes, all the vendors' fixed costs are close enough that those with the highest usage can spread them most-thinly among their customers.
Modern versions of Chrome and Edge have features that try to guess what an image contains using AI techniques. Same with iOs and Mac OS. Modern iPhones even try to recognize controls on the screen, but my phone is too old for that to work. These solutions are still in their infancy, though, and therefore far from perfect. They might help us jump through a small accessibility hurdle once in a while, but without serious accessibility work from developers, we're doomed anyway.
While I don't accept the way you've reframed the decision criteria, I can point out one US nuclear attack sub busting a few ships loaded with fuel and food for the PRC "would collapse in weeks." Which is relevant since we're discussing my claim of how "narrow" the PRC's economy is, not anything about the US.
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The average age of Founders in the US is over 40+.

Only in Tech ( or mostly Silicon Valley ) do people expect you to be CTO by the age of 38 and retire at 42.
Debatable. I view it as a restatement of the goal to package scripts by service, instead of having a grab bag package for scripts, and one tied to a specific impl at that.

> More generally, and this is more a matter of opinion and totally debatable, I would like functionality to be progressively stripped from busybox-initscripts, which is a package that gathers a bunch of miscellaneous policy scripts that are only related by the fact that their mechanism is provided by busybox. I don't think this package makes sense from a semantics point of view; it is more logical to provide the policy scripts classified by service, no matter whether or not the implementation of the service is done by busybox. To me, ideally, busybox-initscripts would be empty, and we'd have virtual packages for every service that is currently defined in it, so support for alternative implementations can be added over time.
Two reasons.

First, supporting the Republican party for fiscal reasons necessarily means that you're supporting their social positions as well. To paraphrase the old line, what do you call someone who only voted for the Nazis because they supported their economic policies? A Nazi.

In other words, the social policies of a party, especially insofar as they affect the repression of minority groups, a permanent and undeniable stain upon any degree of economic progress that they may also create through their policies.

To put it yet another, more personal way: If you were in a group that the Republicans have targeted with hateful rhetoric or legislation in the last 20 years (gay, trans, Muslim, Latino, etc.), would you forgive me for voting for them if I rationalized it by saying "Well, I think their policies are better for the economy. Sorry that you can't get married / are facing discrimination in your daily life. Thoughts and prayers!"

Second, the data does not support the theory that Republicans are better for the economy. Under Republicans, GDP on average does far worse, recessions are more likely, employment goes down, debt and deficit go up... by just about any metric, they are simply not very good at governing the economy.

So if someone says they vote for Republicans for economic reasons, it's because they like the Republican lines on 'lower taxes' and 'personal responsibility' at a dogmatic level, not because they've done any kind of thoughtful analysis.
This is a shitty and judgemental comment, and one without basis.
What happens if the world gets too hot for animals to survive?
Reading too much Harry Potter as of late I see.
Both are specs though. AMD does the design according to Microsoft's requirements but you can't really call that silicon design on behalf of Microsoft.
oopsie woopsie! https://twitter.com/cherrikissu/status/972524442600558594

edit: I always thought this tweet was hilarious. I'm definitely not a furry though, looking through OP's tweets now that I've linked one of theirs...
Being an owner (with a title of CEO) means they aren't spending their labour, or time, but merely capital. Therefore, it's correct that they don't get jackshit done.

However, a real CEO, without any capital investment in the company themselves, would get fired if they did that imho. Or at least, if i were the owner, and that's what i observe the CEO i hired to run the company.
Does the US have nothing like CarWow? Their thing is (as far as I understand it) to pit dealers against each other to get a fair price and basically abstract them away as much as possible.
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I don't really agree with your take.

First off, the PDF in this very post, as well as promptwiki link posted elsewhere in the comments, shows that there are definitely people doing this for free too.

As for your analogy, I'd say it's closer to paying someone to help you find something obscure and hard to find on Google. Anything that requires skill and time to do should be allowed to be monetized. Of course, as you mention, there will always be people doing and posting it for free, but I don't see why people shouldn't be able to make money from something they've taken time to master.

Dall-E is a tool, and this is like hiring an expert that can use that tool effectively. It's no different than hiring someone to Photoshop something for you, or more precisely here, paying to download/license premade Photoshop content someone put time and effort creating.
No, not always. Having been in SV over 20 years, I know plenty of people who've scored very comfortable retirement money out of IPOs despite having joined late as regular ICs. And a handful who became insanely rich even though none were founders or single-digit early employees.

It's unlikely, yes. But it happens.
One of the reasons people use alpine is to get away from GNU cruft.
> Free online textbooks work

Work? Being no worse than commercial textbooks can be a surprisingly low bar. "[A]ligned to state standards and created by well-known subject-matter experts and master teachers" is regrettably far from sufficient to avoid being really really bad.

OER authorship processes and incentives seem regrettably similar to those of closed textbooks. Especially around correctness. Even the few which manage an online errata/issue database can still struggle because of culture and incentives. Eg, "Ok, we'll tweak that wording so it's "not wrong"", rather than crafting a much harder real fix, despite no hope that students won't be left harmed. Anyone know of any efforts somewhere getting this right?

So for instance, openstax and Utah Open Text (two projects in comments here) have astronomy texts, which like the most popular commercial intro astronomy college textbooks, teach the Sun as yellow. Another place this conception shows up, is on astronomy education research's lists of common misconceptions in astronomy education. :/ Conversations with even first-tier astronomy graduate students can go "What color is the Sun? Yellow. Sunlight? White... wait.. err... that doesn't make sense, does it?" Incompatible conceptions, perhaps first learned in kindergarten, persisting unintegrated into graduate school. Persisting with repeated reinforcement. Because the incentives around textbook correctness, let alone around transferable understanding, are just that severely dysfunctional. Even Wikipedia has been managing to more-or-less get this one right for a few years now. But not textbooks. And not OER textbooks.

The OER bit seems like it could help, by enabling different processes and incentives, but... not just yet. I'd like to suggest there's an untapped market and opportunity for disruption... but what might that look like?
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No. 6207: A Study in Steel (1935) [video]
Check out residential proxy services. Some of them have apps users install, others may be more... nefarious. They're cheap and you can rotate through them. Some may have clients that are a pain to work with, some may be SOCKS access.

https://www.webscrapingapi.com/top-residential-proxy-provide... obviously SEO'd page, but it has useful info.
On the one hand I would say that RISC-V SBCs are not yet for anyone who cares only about price. RISC-V cores and SoCs with Linux SBC capability are in an early stage. RISC-V has already taken over a lot of the microcontroller world, based on price and freedom.

On the other hand, I would say that the price of a number of these D1-based RISC-V boards are now within the range of a Pi Zero plus lunch at McDonalds, so if you only want one of them the price difference is basically irrelevant.

A year ago a Pi 3 equivalent RISC-V board (the HiFive Unmatched) cost $665, which was a big drop from 2008's HiFive Unleashed plus MicroSemi expansion board for $2998 total. Since December there's been the VisionFive for about $180 (although with only 2 cores not 4). In a few months there will be the newly-announced Pine64 Star64 with an expected price of $60 with 4 GB RAM or $80 with 8 GB RAM (they've said "about the same price and performance as the Quartz64")

That's pretty rapid price drops.

RISC-V SBCs with considerably better performance than a Pi 4 (similar to the RK3588 boards that just came out a couple of months ago) will be demonstrated working in the next couple of months and probably shipping early next year. They will, again, probably be quite expensive at first, but existing is the hard part. Price is then just a matter of mass production economics.
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I though mars also has water which would be hugely helpful.

Neither of the celestial bodies have mediums for growing food in so that either has to be manufactured or carted over. Either way it’s a huge challenge to overcome.
I am personally quite interested to see how many Codex-wrapper-for-VSCode projects we see. It's the one project every single engineer on HN has considered. (Same goes for the GPT3 text generation flavor, the "autocomplete for Gmail/Chrome/whatever" ones).

What makes it interesting is everyone knows there will be thousands. So the people who decide to continue anyway will presumably have some significant ideas for post-processing.

It's interesting in a game theory sense.

Yes... many of these will be the obvious (generate 5 suggestions and rank them with a different neural net, similar to what Google is doing internally, etc.)

But a small portion will do interesting things. (I know my personal daydreaming session on the topic ended with many pages of possible approaches.)

There are MANY novel applications or approaches possible beyond simply "wrap Codex, add stack-specific context to the prompt, re-rank with secondary model".

I think some of the wrappers will actually succeed. But there will be so many (I predict it being a popular course project for CS classes etc).
That's a brutal exchange rate. Maybe if they found $50,000.
It probably depends highly on load / time of day. I agree it would be nice to have concrete stats though about the average and variance.

I just got access to Dall-E today, and there it's 115 prompts for 15$, so roughly twice the price.
A just-out-of-college co-worker of mine pops into my LinkedIn feed regularly following people talking about “hard assets” and retiring from their corporate job by 40… I don’t know him well enough to say it, but I wonder if he realizes they now have the job of being a landlord and influencer… and anybody can yell numbers about revenue streams on a video (which they probably learned in their time in corporate America)
This is written by Matthew Huber, one of the Perdue professors who described the wet bulb temperature/humidity point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature

> As animals are moved by global warming outside of the environmental envelope that has encompassed them for literally millions of years, it is quite possible they will not have the ability to adapt. The best solution of course would be to avoid this experiment entirely. That is within the realm of feasibility. Limiting warming to less than 3 degrees Celsius by slashing the use of fossil fuels substantially reduces the area of the planet subject to dangerous moist heat stress conditions.

> One may rely on either natural or man-made refugia, or, in other words, moving populations of endotherms either uphill or away from hot humid regions, or building giant air-conditioned enclosures, in order to allow animals to continue to survive. But, if humans are in the position of doing this in a big way, that already presumes the fight to preserve the major ecosystems that make our world beautiful has been lost. For the sake of all the animals, including us, I hope we choose a saner path.
I can't say I'm a huge fan of Teams, but my god, have you used Zoom?
Considering tattooing "you are enough." on my inner wrist as a daily reminder.
I think the simplest explanation is that it doesn't occur to many developers that if they can develop a client, someone else can too.
A mild defense of productivity porn. It was books like Ben Franklin's biography, Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich", and Wayne Dyers' books that made me realize that I could get ahead by sheer determination and working fairly smart.

They changed my life. It helped me get out of a fairly unpleasant home situation. I learned that I didn't need to be super smart or athletic or good looking to raise myself up a few steps on the (American) economic ladder. Grit, and putting myself in the way of success, and failing plenty, actually did propel me into a pretty damn good life.
How come? I found it fine, and it was a high traffic application. It had some overhead but it wasn't enough to make us not use it.
Yep. Found out a few months ago that Mozilla’s bug tracker still thinks it’s appropriate to report “zero (matching) bugs found” as “Zarro Boogs Found”:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1374266
Came here to say the same. The problem is they seem to be hiding information (for some reason):

Instead of being able to search "errornumber appname", you're stuck with a pastel picture of some cartoon character shrugging and text of "whoops! something happened. why don't you try restarting?"
I’d love this if it came to Canada
My favorite bugzilla text:

zarro boogs found
OMG your 3) could be extremely valuable to the family. Check ancestry.com and see if you can find any of the family; descendents that appear in the tree – if any – are most likely to be the ones that would die to have the book and you may be able to look them up and contact them.
Does Microsoft pay for this kind of story, or is more one of those quid pro quo kind of things? As a real interview with the security team would be somewhat interesting, but this empty praise reads more like a press release then any kind of article
I think the author is on to something.

I imagine hybrid solutions and infrastructure software like Nextcloud (but for PaaS and businesses) will be the next step.

If the business is large enough, choosing to become vendor-locked means becoming less cost effective and therefore less competitive.
> Why? Your system is (or should be) a single-purpose tool.

Stability. My assumption is that one would be using their workstation for tasks much broader than the production environment: development, debugging, slideshows, video conferencing, screen recording, etc. Without execution boundaries, it's almost inevitable that there will be incompatibilities.

Stability of the prod software may be impacted, when something on dev environment (and only on a specific dev environment) because the engineer added an implicit dependency on some aspect of their environment inadvertently.
Ask HN: How do you make the most of a bad interview
Context: I do technical interviews for various roles at my company. The interview lasts 45 minutes and I primarily test people on their data modeling and SQL skills, though sometimes I ask some easy scripting questions if it's more relevant. The questions aren't particularly challenging, unless you don't know SQL/programming.

I've been doing these interviews for 3-4 years now, and have seen a wide spectrum of candidates from people who finish everything in 15 minutes, to people who maybe don't know all the syntax but can talk me through their reasoning and get to a solution with coaching, to people who explicitly say they don't know how to write code and spend the entire 45 minutes in an awkward struggle session.

It's that bottom half that I'm looking for advice on how to make the most of the interview time. I don't want the candidates to feel like it's been a complete waste of time, and if I can get them to show me that they can share their thought process and learn something, it can push them from a hard no to a soft no or even a soft yes (depending on the position). I'm not a huge fan of these types of white board interviews so I will always give them answers on correct syntax if they can tell me what they want a line to do (and generally act like a knowledge base because there's never an instance in real life where you wouldn't have any of this info available to you). What are some techniques you've found effective when candidates are struggling? When do you stop giving hints and start to give portions of the answer?

Some things I've been doing are
In general:
- If it's been silent for more than a minute, and the candidate hasn't said or typed anything, asking what they're thinking about
- Asking them to explain what they want to accomplish in a normal sentence, and then hopefully pseudocode
- Regularly making sure they've understood the question.

Data modeling and SQL:
- Making up example data based off the schema they've come up with and posing situations where their model would have issues
- Giving example result sets based on the query they've written vs what I've asked for
- Giving example data and asking for a query that would return something similar.

Scripting:
- Giving counterexamples that don't work with their solution
- Walking through their solution with said examples and pointing out the step it fails on
- When time starts to run out, giving them a piece of the solution that's been tripping them up the most and seeing if they can move on from there.
I've actually managed to make nano look even simpler, by getting rid of all the interface elements except for a vim-like cursor position indicator in the bottom right. The notes to do it are here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BJeBc0mynxR8lrL4u20q4oBc8vQ.... It wouldn't take too much effort do make it a .diff to auto patch the source code. My main issue with nano is its liberal usage of eye-blinding reverse video.

But I am just so utterly addicted to vim's undo/redo that I always feel naked without it at my fingertips!

And yes, emacs is definitely a universe unto its own. The point is that as a standard command line utility, the option to use it as a bare bones text editor is always readily available to end users, without need to do very much digging into things like settings/hamburger menus. I'm sure there are many emacs gurus "at the ready" in order to answer any conceivable unanswered question about emacs posted to stackoverflow.
tools.deps, which is mentioned above, is the official solution. It's been around for more than a few years.
The main problem is that the grid is not ready for transition off of fossil fuels, the capacity is not there for transmission. They would need to at least double capacity iirc