skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I'd frame it as: lots of people are lazy much of the time.

What's really important here though is that some people can actually produce meaningful value as an employee, and others can't. For those who can, the question becomes "how often do they do it?"

I am sure everyone has encountered a person who just can't get their shit together and get something done. That could be a negative-value tech employee or someone at McDonald's who just can't get a simple order right.

I think only a very few of them absolutely CAN'T do better. Many can, but won't. And we absolutely should not be showering those people with free money made on the backs of people who worked for it.
I believe only MidJourney is focused on art. Dall.e or stable diffusion are not.
> Interestingly, mice pre-exposed to the mRNA-LNP platform can pass down the acquired immune traits to their offspring

When 'unvaxxed sperm is the new bitcoin' is no longer a joke.
The interesting thing about truth is that it is binary by its nature. Something is either true or false. There is no "My Truth" or "Your Truth" as the public school system would corrupt you into believing but there is only "The Truth". Since you cannot account for a random person telling the truth without recourse, there is no implicit trust in Wikipedia.

The lie in the world is that people are basically good. No, people are basically greedy of fame and fortune. People want and they mostly want the wrong things at the wrong times and for the wrong reasons. Given these facts trust cannot be implied if reputation and gain are not inherent in the founding of the trust.

Zero trust is even worse because now you have nothing.

Wikipedia is untrustworthy at best and is only useful as a stepping stone to the truth not as a source and certainly not as an immutable source.
Not really. Screens are wider. An older 21 inch was taller than a 24 inch tft
If you have a product and if you are targeting developers, try it. This way you shall help OSS developers.
Is this written by the same "Histocrat" as the channel on youtube that posts short history lectures?
They included the "the" in placed I've worked. project-tng
Why you don't need to rush 2FA
Anyone else old enough to remember the 8 inch floppies on TRS-80 Model II?

Heh how far we've come, it's incredible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_II
Mine was more along the lines of how deep would the tunnel have to go.
I'm learning spanish now and these language differences are confusing. My (mexican) girlfriend has (more than once) told me a word she thought meant one thing that ended up being an insult pretty much everywhere but Mexico.
It's not about "bots on a social network", it's about misuse of peoples data in one of the worlds biggest social network.

Just as I tuned in, Mudge was talking about how Twitter repeatedly mismanaged peoples emails, citing that if they didn't sell emails, their competitors would get an unfair advantage.
This is nonsense. The last 2-3 generations of GPUs have seen nothing of the sort in terms of efficiency, the same is also true of many Intel desktop CPUs. The latest Alder Lake desktop parts from Intel have been universally criticized for power draw too.

Each of the last 4 generations of mid to high-end card from Nvidia has required more electricity than the last. By Nvidia's own admission, their future chips will get larger and hotter to some extent due to slow down in moore's law and future process nodes being harder to reach. The die size of the parts has also grown which does not help.

Its not a small trajectory either; 4 years ago the most power hungry consumer part from Nvidia was a 1080ti which would easily draw 250w under load. today that number is now 500w for the current 3090ti, and rumored to be 800-1000 for the 4xxx parts launching end of this year. A GPU often will sit at peak draw for hours at a time in games as they try to push as many FPS as possible.

A current gaming machine with recent components can easily exceed 500w constant load during gameplay, and this figure will rise again with the 4xxx parts.

The ONLY exception to this really is Apple devices, and even then its not clear we can compare an M1/M2 GPU to the fastest parts Nvidia offer.
It's also inappropriate to expect someone in the moment to be capable of fully comprehending the ultimate/long term ramifications and appropriate reactions to things. That's often just not possible - for even physiological reasons outside their control. i.e. Shock.

Someone who survived being stabbed multiple times during a robbery told me, at the time, they didn't even know they'd been stabbed until they got home. I think it had been dark (possibly pitch black), amongst other things.

So yeah it's possible to go back to major historical events and find immediate responses that don't age well. I would argue it's not worth dredging up decades later with an eye toward public persecution - which is front of mind in any twitter thread.
Can't you copy time from the commit of the corresponding source?
Are you even watching this? They're talking about foreign agents running amok on the inside (even after Twitter being notified by the FBI), lack of logging, mishandling of email addresses, etc, etc. Bots or no bots, all of that stuff is kind of a big deal.
The server doesn't really need to serve those headers - what does it care if the client won't load the scripts, or whatever? HTTP is more than serving HTML.
Pro-Taiwan groups’ UN demand should be directed at US
There's a patch out there to use chafa as output for ffmpeg.
Yeah. Their rules are even tighter than HN's rules.

Which, on a sub like that, it makes sense. They really don't want anecdotal evidence in a sub for discussing rigorous research and testing.
We'll see. I don't think it's controversial to suggest psychologists will be studying this cohort for the rest of their lives.
What’s lost when a family-owned diner closes for good?
I like Rust, but this guy is not wrong. The one thing that always irks me is that closures seem like they are kind of a side-hack, almost an afterthought. Why not just have them use regular function syntax?
At the moment it is not working for more than 7 days in the past.
What an insane lot of fun that must have been — so much fun just to watch them having fun!
A big source of compile time used to be proc macros — the kernel could just disallow those?
There were approximately 40k people in the vaccinated and the placebo groups. One group had 17 deaths, and the other one had 21. If you are not aware of this information, how can you consider yourself informed on the topic?
Please no more languages
This feels like violent agreement with the point that the names should make you smile.
Not only is there no career growth, you don't get to implement new features at all. Ancient software maintenance is soul-crushing, on a good day nothing happens, on a bad day you might have to do hours of digging to find the source of an error.
Discord voice chat is now available on Xbox
At least it seems to be a known bug: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/708727
The NATO Bucharest Declaration of 2008 mentioned Ukraine and Georgia joining NATO.
I mean, that exists. For some reason...

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4556/inotch/
We would need an entirely different way of funding schools to make that happen. In the US school funding is more tied to local taxes, so wealthier areas get more money. There are other programs to give additional funds to poor areas, but it's not usually enough to level the playing field.
It's very unclear if Russia being in NATO would change anything in its imperialistic tendencies. Wouldn't it be, after all, the best chance to destroy NATO from within?
You’d be amazed at the number of unexpected effects I could find studying just a single mouse!

Having a small number data points means that a single outlier can impact your results. And since “no results” typically doesn’t get published, the rare events end up disproportionately represented in journals.

The smaller the sample size, the more likely the “effect” you’re seeing is just random chance.
I don’t think it’s that simple. Very high monthly mortgage payments will massively reduce demand for new housing. Will bring all new construction to a complete stop. And then layoffs in the construction industry. But the worse thing is it won’t bring the rents down because no new houses are being built.
Could you add a link (or explanation in parentheses) that BSL means Business Source License and not Boost Software License? I was confused for a few about why people would be up in arms about the boost license which seems to me like an MIT variant.
> What we saw was no serious increase in mortality for the immunized, and a significant increase in mortality for the non-immunized

Where did you see that?
You already could, actually! zgrep CONFIG_9P_FS /proc/config.gz to see if your kernel's configured for it, modprobe 9p if it's built as a module. The article's talking about doing an in-kernel 9P _server_ instead; I think this is just so that it can act as an abstraction of an SMB server, because you ought to be able to do a 9P server in userspace with no loss of capabilities...
In terms of most lives saved, I'd bet Tesla's AI is winning, all those people they automatically stopped from driving into rivers etc
You need a moving magnetic field to destroy the data unless you have a very very strong magnetic.
I suppose it's perfectly allowed for MacOS to simulate Unix hard link semantics (ie. names are just pointers to inodes, with each name being equal) even though the underlying filesystem doesn't have the name+inode split. It seems indeed this is the case on HFS+: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn/tn1...
Except when it rains
Maisa Imamović: Psychology of the Web Developer, Reality of a Female Freelancer
What a great example of how accurate Wikipedia is, someone went to extreme lengths to falsify information, they were discovered and their edits reverted, as happens in most cases
I have had, approximately, 15 flu shots in my life.

Sure, you say, the flu changes constantly.

I think I've had something like 7 or 8 Tdap shots. The vaccine schedule on that is 3 shots two months apart, another shot a year later, then 2-3 years later, then every ~ten years after that.

Why is "You need more than one shot" such a silver bullet argument?
Don’t know if this post was meant as a joke but I could see DO or CALL as useful additions. Sometimes you just want a process to run where input, if any is required, will not be persisted nor used as query filtering criteria and no query result sets are expected in return. Yes, I know there are other constructs to perform these tasks but from a pragmatic standpoint it’s simple to just throw up an http endpoint to address these businesses cases. What’s annoying is having to decide on whether to use POST or GET.
Cinema instead of being a reflection on society is more a mirror of itself. (look at Weinstein/Polanski and people like them in cinema and how they were treated until they could no more --look at their compasses).
US inflation slows to 8.3% in August but prices still rising
Japan Will Drop Tour and Visa Requirement in October [video]
Youtuber John Daub talks about Japan opening up to foreign tourists. He also recounts his continued saga battling Apple Japan. He ordered an iPhone from Apple Japan which he never received; he said he had Apple Care but Apple Japan continues to stonewall for over a year.
More like the latter. Kernel modules don’t run in userspace.
What I don't like about these fantasy consoles compared to real ones is that they don't put any limits on computational power.
This probably means that your country (maybe reluctantly, maybe not) lent its support to the Iraqi occupation under pressure from the US government.

That was due to those competing spheres of influence.

When you join a criminal gang for protection youve gotta prove your loyalty to the top dog and respect his power.

The dynamics arent all that different to when a 15 year old kid joins a gang in south central - sometimes after demonstrating loyalty he gets protection and sometimes he gets chewed up and spat out as cannon fodder in a wider turf war.
An instructor I had many years ago said, doing "boring
like COBOL pretty much ensures good Job Security". For me turned out true, I never had job security worries. And I was able to branch out to other things, thus was able to program in many environments.

And working on old tech can still be fun.

Wish you luck going forward
Non-Standard Containers in C++
GoldenEye 007 is coming to Xbox and Nintendo Switch
Most of humanity's time on earth was spend in small pre-historic tribes, I don't see any reason to assume those societies were monarchies. They probably didn't have the resources to support deeply entrenched power structures.

Humans come with built-in abilities to establish small ad-hoc social structures. You'd probably have some members of the community that were generally charismatic or bright (or particularly good at violence) who'd generally tend to get their way, but it is a complex web of social pressures.

I mean, just think of your friends -- you've probably got somebody who is broadly the "ideas guy" or kind of a natural leader, but they don't just automatically over-rule everybody.
Native Americans appeased the US till there was nothing left. You don't tend to see many appeasers around because there is nothing left of them.
> Try to figure out why the meeting is happening before you’re in the meeting.

Any meeting invitation should make it clear what the meeting is for, so people can come properly prepared. And for group meetings (obviously not an executive 1-on-1), knowing the agenda might allow you to skip the meeting altogether instead of wasting your time.
Most of the excess deaths are not covid but attributed from effects of lockdown (drug use, untreated cancers).
I remember in college we were going back and forth between our dormitory and our computer lab with a bunch of FDs to copy the media files (mp3s and jpegs) we downloaded on the server overnight. Often one of the disk would have errors and had go back another time.

A few years back, at $work we found some old FDs with some interesting labels on them: "survey data 199x". It turns out there were some binary files from an ancient stats program and I spent a few days figuring out how to extract the data. Fun times
https://twitter.com/donie/status/1569695781631688704

> "It's not far fetched to say an employee inside the company could take over the accounts of all the Senators in this room," @dotMudge with a warning here on Captiol Hill. #Twitter

perhaps a valid reason?
My issue is people who will "trust" security only because of a language used, wich is a flawed and dangerous mindset

I don't want to depend on that kind of project
Two modern examples that still fit the theme: 'suck-up' and 'kiss-ass'.
Apple secures a patent for a self-healing display
Universal basic income. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income)
Repeating what i said elsewhere:

My issue is people who will "trust" security only because of a language used, wich is a flawed and dangerous mindset

I don't want to depend on that kind of project
> Wikipedia is already taken seriously enough by most people under the age of 50 that I know.

Seriously , yes, enough , no. And i would say people under the age of 18 and their teachers take Wikipedia as a serious source. There are some good articles on Wikipedia but the majority is lacking quality.
> Excess deaths are widely considered to be “from Covid”

Considered by whom? The funny thing is that there was no non-covid excess mortality in 2020, that stated on 2021, which is the same time the v{censored} started.

> Unvaccinated people are dying at a much higher rate.

Again, where did you see that?
For anyone looking to get a better handle on the numbers, INR 10 cr is approximately GBP 1 million.
This appears to be a "whoosh" moment.

OP's "better than eight mice" is referring to the rigorous experimental standards used for the safety study to greenlight the BA.5 omicron booster.
> not my job to measure this without resources in any case

Ah, I misunderstood. I thought perhaps you had some insight here based on your insistence that canopy is a bad metric.

So canopy is definitely measurable at low-ish cost via satellite monitoring. I would presume it wouldn't be hard to add reasonable time-series based assumptions on new growth and make calibration adjustments that take into account the evolution.

Going into a forest and sampling, everywhere, is going to be cost inefficient relative to a model that can be based on canopy and calibrated on sub-samples of forest sampling, both historical and recent expeditions.

At least, that's how folks who would do this kind of job would likely approach it, based on my experience in similar domains. When it comes to funding, academia is a brutal place where resources are slim. Obvious adjustments are the next-best low hanging fruit to original development -- so a direct canopy measure would next likely be iterated to account for new-ness of forest and carbon sequestration calibration.
> Feeling like Twitter is just about to ruin the low-regulation party for everybody.

Alternative take: Lawmakers are finally waking up and realizing how much these platforms can affect our daily lives, mostly because most common folk are signed up and use these platforms, and are starting to figure out how we can limit the damage for when things go wrong.
> Nearly every country in Europe has been invading its neighbors for centuries

We don't need to go into that long history. Most of these CEE countries have been invaded by Russia in the last 100 years.

> It’s not unexpected that the former Warsaw Pact countries would want to join. It is surprising to see the US being so short-sighted to allow these expansions considering that several of its own diplomats and foreign policy experts were warning against it.

It actually worked out well. Not letting e.g. Baltics into NATO/EU would almost certainly mean they have been already absorbed back into Russia. The rest of CEE would be vassalized.
> Maybe this is just me getting older (going to turn 40 soon). Maybe all programming is terrible. I’ve actually started to read Java newsletters, maybe Spring isn’t that bad, I’m also having affectionate memories of JavaScript and Python, and thinking about having a plan B in case this programming thing doesn’t work out

The older I get the more this rings true. I've had several false starts with fancy new languages and consistently yearn for the simplicity (relatively) and lack of choice the old times had. I've been programming a lot of personal projects in C because of that. Rust is cool but too much headache and still too "fresh" to be more than just an academic exercise for me. Go is the same, except im actually insulted at how limited I am with it. etc. Yea, this is probably me getting old. But I like to have one or two languages I can get things done with it. I've been programming Python since the early 00s in one form or another betting on it replacing Perl, and C has always had a charm to it C++ could not give.
attempt to scramble to the top of some crumbled European high-cultural ground to throw stones at low culture is just as dumb as being dismissive of Godard

but, that said, i was responding to the parent comment and accidentally got nested under you
project-picard
Had a "recruiting" call with a CTO yesterday. Halfway through the call he tells me 1) they're not recruiting, and the position I applied to doesn't actually exist, 2) they're going to run out of money in 15 months, and 3) he "just likes to meet people in the industry" and maybe they'll open a position up. He didn't do anything to steer the conversation after that and it just ended awkwardly.

I think people deify execs too much. A lot of the time they're just as clueless as the rest of us.
A lot of musicians still use sequencers and synthesizers that save patches on floppies. (Over time people have been replacing them with floppy-to-usb-drive adapters)
What, you can't spend an hour just watching someone else's creation? Your leisure free time's too important? You gotta quick-flick-swipe through endless new distractions on the web? C'mon. Just watch an old film. Once can't hurt. Don't apply the modern bullshit standards to the past.

Alphaville. Worth a watch. Not everything has to be what you expect. Be confused. Be challenged. At least then you know someone's not making it trying to push your buttons and manipulate you. Maybe you just need to get in the moment.

There's more entropy and information in something unexpected. And how is there not something unexpected to find, something new, in even the slowest oldest film? Just watch it with focused awareness. The quality of your attention determines the quality of your experience. :P ;) xx ;p
HN moderation has seriously diminished the value of this site to me, putting it nicely.
Why did you write this comment instead of yelling it out of your window?
They probably have a way to take over accounts to check bug reports.

We've had that at places I've worked. Where you'd be able to impersonate a user in order to see what was going on with their specific set of user data to corroborate their report and find a fix.

The question is... are the permissions locked down, is access audited and immutable, etc I think.
Some COBOL was fixed by ensuring the code assumed years after "50" is the 20th century and before "50" is the 21st century. This removed the need to modify the database.