skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ultimately a job at Apple is the pinnacle for most engineers. You aren’t doing anyone any favors by kicking this racial bias / affirmative action anywhere else down the chain, or onto a different ladder, whether it be in tech, physics, education, research, sports, or whatever.

Equal standards for every one. Every adult, child, race, and creed. Every ladder at every rung. Not all outcomes will be equal and any sort of do-gooder (and often do-badder) effort to “correct” for disparities will be worse than doing nothing at all.
The White House's official position is that the NBER's definition is the official one. From their website [1]:

"What is a recession? While some maintain that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitute a recession, that is neither the official definition nor the way economists evaluate the state of the business cycle. Instead, both official determinations of recessions and economists’ assessment of economic activity are based on a holistic look at the data—including the labor market, consumer and business spending, industrial production, and incomes.

"[...] The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Business Cycle Dating Committee—the official recession scorekeeper—defines a recession as “a significant decline in economic activity that is spread across the economy and that lasts more than a few months.”"

You can certainly make the argument that people shouldn't use this definition or that better measures exist, but it's objectively the official definition used by the US federal government.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2022/07/21/...
This is in practice a quota system. They can’t say that, but that is what is expected.
> we in the Python community will continue to receive random bug reports, random feature requests, random crash reports, and more things we aren't paid to deal with.

Can you just close those with “won’t fix?”
Jobs. Scholarships. Committees. Boards.
i don't much honestly. a few bi friends have complained but i don't much agree with the whole "appropriation" angle.

it does matter if people start getting advantages from it, though, and that's literally the subject of this thread. hell if it meant the difference between grant and no grant i'd claim it, what can they do?
How many of those bookmarks do you estimate are 404s now?
The justification is that renewable* power can not be easily adjusted to match demand and storing electricity on a large scale is tricky and expensive

*really just solar and wind, which seems to be mostly what people mean when they say renewables
Such a clickbaitey title. There were just a few.. THOUSAND.. causes that culminated in the 1929 crash, but saying one person caused it gets those clicks.
Had to deal with too many interns who go to company server and start updating packages and installing random stuff from internet using wget | sudo bash, like it is their college laptop, just to run some of crappy python snippet they found over at Stackoverflow
Why are the operands in the wrong order? It's supposed to be destination, then source. I.E.

mov ah,09h ; move 9 into AH
The Python integration seems to be abandoned unfortunately and isn’t keeping up with the parent. No longer works with django filewatching.
Cryptographic trust (combinations of identity proofs, including passport, passwords, social and family networks of vouching, fingerprints, behavioral data, etc) will be the only way to trust any digital information very soon. If it's not vouched for by someone with proof that they're a real person, it's fake.
Perhaps the people that don’t want to participate in open bigotry and other nonsense.
> Is there an open source version of splunk I can modify?

https://github.com/grafana/loki might work for you. It’s not a drop in replacement for Splunk, FWIW.
I deny that it should matter for grants, hiring, and other career benefits.

But it does and while it does, I shall claim I am gay.
After grad school, I completely lost interest in keeping up with people I wasn't in at least semi-regular contact with. The drip feed of info on social media is irritating to deal with. I feel like a 5 minute catchup st a 5-10 year reunion would achieve the exact same thing and be more pleasant to hear about and engage with.
Sounds like the perfect murder weapon. Can it be collected in quantity? Has any of the myriad of whodunnit shows and films ever used it as a plot device? I guess it's only useful for immediate death if in such quantity to displace air, and other gases are safer and more easily acquired, such as CO2. But if there is no rush...
NYU’s firing of Professor Maitland Jones Jr. should not frighten every American
No offence, but that sounds like lazy query design, poor architecture, or both.
They are expensive purely because they are a smaller pool. I doubt they are automatically more capable. I did work with many and now write clonjre myself. Doesn't make me, or them automatically better devs imo!
Interesting,

It was Splunk managed and configured, so I would have thought it optimized, but I guess they made more money from it not being optimized.

If I remember right then we were throwing about 200+ GB at it a day.
thanks a lot. I didn’t realize that because TTL was present this could be optimized.
I personally would be hesitant to hire someone who only listed popular technologies on their resume. I’d be worried they would suggest using technologies that improve their resume rather than ones that are good for my business.
None of the following technologies: 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, currently use satellites between the consumers' phone and the internet backbone.
Nice of you to notice that Trump is not a bigot. Unlike the other side. An ass. Yes. But he did more for lifting up all ethnic groups then any government mandated racism / sexism has ever done.
How did TikTok become popular without influencers?
It's a language written by Jonathan Blow, meant to replace C++ for game development.

reportedly his game "The Witness" was written in it. He has a series of video's where he explores what the language will look like as he's developing it, and has claimed he'll open source it once he feels it's ready. He wants to maintain control until he feels it's no longer half-baked.

IIRC, he demonstrates things like a music player running during compile time. It's a core tenet of his language.
the willingness of an attacker to apply money to the problem.

I agree but I think the problem here is that hardware wallets don't give up their hashes easily so the attacker either knows a secret hardware backdoor in which case ciphers are entirely bypassed, or they know how to coax the hashes out of those devices. Has this become a thing? I know some of them are vulnerable to side channel attacks and some of them only use sha256 but I have not seen a simple way to extract the hashes, at least not in the forums I visit. There are a few really cheap hardware wallets that people have reverse engineered the firmware and worked backwards to extract pins but I think that is for specific models.

Is there a common attack vector that applies to all the hardware wallets to extract the hashes?
I'll repeat the words my friend told his buddy when a 4 inch arc came out of, and sustained itself, buzzing away at 120 Hertz, from the internals of an RF amplifier.

I don't think it's supposed to do that. ;-)
From the ASCII Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#7-bit_codes):

> Almost every country needed an adapted version of ASCII, since ASCII suited the needs of only the US and a few other countries. For example, Canada had its own version that supported French characters.

> Many other countries developed variants of ASCII to include non-English letters (e.g. é, ñ, ß, Ł), currency symbols (e.g. £, ¥), etc. See also YUSCII (Yugoslavia).

> It would share most characters in common, but assign other locally useful characters to several code points reserved for "national use". […]

> Because the bracket and brace characters of ASCII were assigned to "national use" code points that were used for accented letters in other national variants of ISO/IEC 646, a German, French, or Swedish, etc. programmer using their national variant of ISO/IEC 646, rather than ASCII, had to write, and, thus, read, something such as

ä aÄiÜ = 'Ön'; ü

instead of

{ a[i] = '\n'; }

> C trigraphs were created to solve this problem for ANSI C, although their late introduction and inconsistent implementation in compilers limited their use. Many programmers kept their computers on US-ASCII, so plain-text in Swedish, German etc. (for example, in e-mail or Usenet) contained "{, }" and similar variants in the middle of words, something those programmers got used to. For example, a Swedish programmer mailing another programmer asking if they should go for lunch, could get "N{ jag har sm|rg}sar" as the answer, which should be "Nä jag har smörgåsar" meaning "No I've got sandwiches".
That’s the best case scenario (and still one where we might get complaints, and which takes brainspace). Other cases might be, for example, time taken to debug an issue impossible to reproduce only to find out a week later that it only happens on py2.
I am astonished. I thought we had this conversation 30 years ago, and the consensus was affirmative action of this sort is a terrible idea. It is particularly bad for minorities, since ALL of them will be suspected of having their position/funding/etc because of their identity instead of merit, even if they are legitimately qualified.

Talent capable of pushing the boundaries of science is extremely scarce in humans, and it makes no sense to make it artificially scarcer.

It's funny, I almost ended there but realized: I didn't even make the point that it demeans the work itself, and the people who actually can do it. And that's tantamount to acknowledging non-minority people's rights, and that is socially very dangerous thing to do right now.
Ask HN: A GUI for making AI videos?
I’d like to make videos like the one in the Twitter link above. I’ve tried using the Google collaborative Stable Diffusion workbook to make them but haven’t had any luck with the video making. Is there a more intuitive approach using a tool out there or an easier to use UX for making similar videos?

Here’s a link to the notebook i’ve tried - https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/notebooks/blob/main/diffusers/stable_diffusion.ipynb
If anyone was curious why Data Matrix instead of QR Code this article goes into detail:

https://www.laserax.com/blog/data-matrix-vs-qr-codes

Looks like Data Matrix has higher error correction (per size) and better data density (at every size). QR Code has a higher theoretical storage capacity, larger maximum size, and multi-byte data support (rather than limited to alphanumeric), none of which applies to this use case though. It also looks like that Data Matrix may work with a lower contrast than QR Code. Both can be read from any angle.

Honestly, purely from a technical standpoint, the biggest arguments for QR Codes is their popularity/adoption, and things like that you can stylize the code itself.

Maybe I need to do more research, but on the face of it Data Matrix looks like it is technically superior.
No comment about the company, but want to make clear as a buyer you understand the procurement and legal parts i.e. MFN or MFC.

If they do discount, even 5%, then it ripples across their accounts as a legal matter, esp at your scale. I was a buyer for some big companies, 8 digit, and the procurement office would only do a deal with MFN/MFC clause. They would also audit the supplier from time to time.
Erlang could be the literal silver bullet and people wouldn't use it because it's a funny looking language.

I showed it to all my developer friends back around 2008 (I found out about it because a competitor used it and open sourced some of their stuff) and the only comments I ever got was how weird it looked. No one gave a shit about anything else. The story it told me wasn't about sales, it was about how shallow most developers are.

Once nodejs came out it was the final nail in the coffin - callback hell solves all your problems, no funny looking language necessary!
Don't you mean 737 MAX or is that some other plane?
Thus spawning a whole new class of tools that add a more convenient interface on-top of salesforce.
Firefly’s Alpha rocket reaches orbit on second launch
Discuss HN: The singularity isnt about when “AI is smarter than humans”
We talk about AI / Turing tests and all that bullshit, but its really about the inescapable SYSTEMS that will have rulership over activities of your life and freedoms... and its already here - and its growing and getting stronger.
Their fields of research, such as large language models and image generation and the newly demoed “multi search” feature all strongly point towards this being the case.
Does anyone have a strong rebuttal against DEI issues being a "pipeline problem" in tech?

I remember about 5 years ago, Facebook issued a report about its diversity numbers, and it put partial blame on the pipeline problem, saying they basically couldn't hire enough qualified people of certain demographics, and the entire DEI community blew up with how incorrect that was. I specifically remember some ridiculous outrage over "How can you compare people to oil?!"

However, I've never really found any compelling arguments that the entire situation isn't a pipeline problem, and my own anecdotal experience is that there is definitely something amiss in the pipeline - in my "Intro to Programming" middle school class in the mid 90s, purely elective(you just check a box on a mail in form over the summer), the students were 24 white boys and 1 white girl, despite the school being 50/50 by sex, ~20% black and 15% latino.
think of loop unrolling, but able to be done by the developer instead of exclusively by the compiler.

A more natural form of duffs device.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device
I'm still getting used to seeing 'Vandenberg Space Force Base' in print.
Very very fast, I can do an all time search on terabytes of data in seconds.

But you have to learn to use it, if you don't give it an index and a sourcetype that will slow it down, and like ES leading wildcards slow things down. The fastest searches are simple terms like a word or an IP.
> but if you want to cause a so called "paradigm shift" then you'll need to understand where the progress is happening and what kinds of opportunities it creates.

This is the most Hacker News thing I read all year. What are you talking about? Where did he say anything about wanting to cause a paradigm shift?
Screw your courage to the sticking place. Or can you?
I guess an alternate view is that Putin may use nukes as an instrument of terror. The Japanese surrendered in WWII because of the terror of a new large scale unknown weapon being demonstrated. Using nukes against Ukraine's larger cities that are far away from the front lines would not immediately endanger Russian troops. Putin also has not sent all of his forces to Ukraine, he's kept much of the best near him. It seems likely he still has way more troops at his command at home than anyone who might oppose him would. He seems to be taking extreme precautions against covid for himself (and also likely against assassination.)

On the other hand, I like this political analysis. It occurs to me that Russia must now be experiencing a manpower shortage. They have sent something like 150,000? troops to Ukraine and a lot of them got killed or wounded. They are rounding up 300,000 more, taking them away from jobs and families. Estimates are that 500,000 men have fled the country (to avoid the draft, and the IT workers and others got out early). That has got to make a huge dent in workers in Russia. They are not going to be able to build things, to keep their economy fully functioning, when the most fit people they have are being pulled away into war. And more are being pulled into manufacturing weapons to support the war.
It is a huge squandering of people power and resources, and it has got to be having devastating effects already. The pandemic has and is creating a shortage of workers in the US and must have done the same in Russia; imagine if the US also had a war going where we sent three quarters of a million troops to train and fight while also converting some industries to war production! There would be shortages of workers, services, and products. Inflation would increase. There have to be repercussions in Russia currently because of this, which would have an effect on the political calculations.
Because that "marketable language" is dull and frustrating?

If you want top talent then you've got to offer something they want; sure you can always pay more, but past a certain point that might not be enough, plus it gets expensive. Using better languages is one of the most effective ways to get noticed by the candidates you really want.
A list of open firmware projects:

https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware/Open
All this new talk of US based fab shops sounds good to me. Like the beginnings of something. But honestly I've never paid that much attention to the whole supply chain.

Anyone that lives in that world got a hot take on what we're seeing here and how it'll shake down over time?
Not a software company : Manager hitting on his employee, what should I do?
I have a college who was out with his team in a party, the manager was talking to her entire party and then started trying to hit on her and even touch her, kept getting her drink, my friend tried to move but he again moved to her, one of the guy sepetated them, now when I asked my friend what happened last night she doesn’t remember any thing , what should I do ?
> it doesn't matter how ethicists want "the general public" to use AI

Something tells me these pricks will end up arguing for a reversion to thin-client compute. It is in their financial interest too after all.
> And language "branding"? What are we talking about here?

“Branding Power” would be where given the choice between two products, the customer will choose the more expensive (or equally priced) product based solely on perception of brand quality or other brand characteristics. Think buying store brand vs buying name brand, an expensive name brand electronic item vs a cheap knock-off from a no-name Chinese manufacturer (the Chinese one might actually be better but that’s the point).

So not just a logo or cute drawings. It’s part of a more holistic experience, but especially the perception which is where logos and the like come into play. We engineers can stomp our feet but those are the rules of the game.
Okay Ned Ludd. You're right that technology is only going to get more powerful. But hasn't this always been true? Who decides when it's over the line? The US government?

They clearly aren't the best arbiters of judgement, so who gets to decide "sever consequences"?
A matter of opinion that media and regulators would most likely not side with Google on if a tool were to be abused.
It's funny to see something like react on the list of frameworks to use.

When I started the main project I am still maintaining, react wasn't even around yet. It started only 9 years ago, which might seem like a long time to some younger folks, but feels like yesterday to me.

Are you suggesting that languages and frameworks are 'solved' now? That we won't get a new react that changes the ecosystem? How will a new language or framework that makes things easier ever come about if everyone follows your advice?
As soon as people own any modern EV most of these problems prove to be overblown and, in fact, are not even true.
I note the talks are all about boot firmware, I wonder why there weren't any about peripheral firmware like for WiFi chips or keyboards etc.
I don't know which version we used, just that it was managed and configured by Splunk.

We were only sending a small subset of our logs to it so about 200+ GB a day.
Our Linux box with spinning disks could grep the full set of logs much faster than querying Splunk, so I don't think anyone really used it.
Seems like a no brainer. Only benefits, no downside.
HDD Clicker for retro systems using CF cards
Right, but garbage in, garbage out, whether you are feeding your CRM directly or via a shiny UI layer. No amount of ML can save you if the sales droid isnt filing data.
Yeah. Power corrupts. Some noble intentions got twisted into a quest for revenge. Wake me up when humanity at large becomes better than this (they won't).
Haha no! When a candidate is that awesome, I sometimes get morbidly curious about whether there is actually an end to that depth of knowledge or if it just goes on forever. At that point, they already have the "HIRE" classification and I'm pretty much in awe!

I love it when a candidate blows through my easy, medium and hard questions and leaves me scrambling.
That's what you said the first time, and I get the irony. I'm just struck that you're taking such care in your phrasing to clarify to the folks here how you're not actually gay. That doesn't seem to you to cut against your point? You think your identity is important enough not to be ambiguous about it[1], but not important enough to maybe be worth checking to see if people are being fair about it? (Which at the end of the day is all this policy means.)

[1] I mean, why not just say "I'm gay, and I this helps me even though it shouldn't"? It's because you don't want people to think you're actually gay, right? I find that really interesting.
What do you say in the UK for not planning for the future, near-sighted?
Yeah, that article really took a sudden nosedive
It's much more convenient than running an external tool to generate LUTs, which is how you'd do it in C(++). You shouldn't regenerate the database every time you compile, that's what incremental compilation is for. But it is very convenient to integrate code-generation into the build system. What happens when you find a bug in the code/LUTs and you've deleted what generated it?
I constantly have to contact LI to remove users from my company l, LI requires a 4 week window for the account to respond to the removal request. My company is less than 10 people and I’m marked as the founder on LI.

All I can say is good. The sooner LI put in actual usable controls, the better.
Yellowstone National Park moves Old Gardiner Road opening by Nov 1 [video]
Charles Mitchell, saved you a click. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Mitchell
So big tech is disproportionately screwing over black people in Durham, but it would be terrible and hypocritical to make it easier for a few black people in Durham to get a piece of the pie?

I can’t help but notice that this is a bit self serving.
Stop Hiring Scrum Masters, Hire Value Delivery Leads Instead
It mentions system testing; i read here that testing could only be done according to criteria provided by the vendor.

https://www.scribd.com/document/596142725/Fulton-Pa-Sues-Dom...
This is just fossil marketing FUD.
Author here, I cannot vouch for exactly the competency level here, but I was paraphrasing a remark Andrew Kelley made in a video discussing Zig. From what I remember he said that many told him that running code at compilation time wasn't a good idea and you shouldn't do it. My understanding was that these must have been people with some experience with programming language design. Why would Andrew Kelley listen to random opinionated guys on the internet?

I will try to lookup this video when I have time. I was a bit surprised that this remark was a such a turn-off. Had I known, I should have looked up the video to get the exact quote.

It was just meant as a bit of a funny dramatic entry to discussing an unusual language design choice for a statically type language. Sure we are seeing more things like const expressions in C++ today, but at the time this wasn't very common.
Space Force in discussions with industry on future market for surveillance data
That's what the Europeans thought when they signed up to making themselves so energy dependent on the Russians. They thought they were creating a two-way dependency that would moderate excessive behaviour and "keep the relationship functional". That's not how it's worked out.