skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think your characterization of the conversation is fair.

You're free to think so. I for one don't care to censor those who disagree with me. Note that there's a number of deleted comments, and neither of us know what those say.

> anyone who doesn't agree is free to go somewhere else

Fair enough, and I just said above that that's exactly what I intend to do.

I think it needs to be remembered here that their project is attempting to build a forum hosting tool, not a particular forum. If a particular forum intends to censor any slur list they choose, I have no issue with that, that's entirely their right, and I'll post on it or not. But I feel it's highly inappropriate for a team building a hosting tool to impose a particular chosen slur list on anyone using their tool to host a forum, with no regard to what the purpose or character of that forum is intended to be. I shall indeed choose not to use such a tool.
> Phone calls should have a subject line, just like emails.

Pixel phones have call screening feature. It can be enabled for all calls or unknown callers. It asks the caller to state the reason they are calling and notifies you with the text of the reason given and you can choose whether to accept or reject.

If you want something more then you could just ask callers to text you instead.
Those monitors trigger me. Uneven heights, one is tilted, there's a gap big enough to fit a hand through, and they're miscalibrated (different color temperature).
I just remember a decade of working with federal contractors trying to disabuse them of the idea...

I'm curious: in what role was this? In the short exposure I had to federal contracting, I saw few efforts along these lines. It would have been a good idea!
I am from Brazil. If you saw the news, the current president that just lost elections, been insisting for years, that elections here are untrustworthy.

Reason is simple: electronic voting machines with no logging, paper trail or anything. And the common people doesn't have permission to do penetration tests or read the entire source. All of it is proprietary and secretive with no public testing basically.

For years the now president, when he was still congressman, been trying to make a law where the voting machines will print the vote, and deposit on a box. This way people can count the votes printed not just trust the machine, but the government keep inventing reasons to not allow this, even when a law passed, judiciary struck it down.

Thus today people are protesting, seemly almost half of the country voted for him, the difference was tiny, they are protesting. The winner insists elections were fair, but how you prove it when the machines are proprietary and secret? How you prove it when they have no log of votes, and instead just print the totals? In a country full of corruption, and where the the mafia literally made a party to commemorate a specific person became chief election judge, how you trust nobody bribed the manufacturer or the programmers?
> But if someone uses this to do 90% of the work and then just edits it to make it personal and sound like themselves, then it's just a great time saving tool.

This is still way too optimistic. Reading through something that's "almost right", seeing the errors when you already basically know what it says / what it's meant to say, and fixing them, is hard. People won't do it well, and so even in this scenario we often end up with something much worse than if it was just written directly.

There is a lot of evidence for this, from the generally low quality of lightly-edited speech-to-text material, to how hard it is to look at a bunch of code and find all of the bugs without any extra computer-generated information, to how hard editing text for readability can be without serious restructuring.
The article focuses on the financial world. Historically in the UK (and elsewhere) finance roles have had strong interest for applicants, and high salaries were on offer. So the industry could pick the "most talented".

Now the model has broken down which is the motivation for the article. That's because the "talented" C++ developers have been hived off by the big tech firms (which can pay equivalent salaries or more), or the top video game companies (which generally pay low but make up for it in fun).

What remains are the "normal" developers. But their nature of business means you can't achieve a market edge with that level of talent, all else being equal.

This was never the case for COBOL because that was deployed to keep the business running, not for creating unique value and market edge. So "normal" developers work out just fine.

Finance firms hire a lot of talented graduates. They need to work against their natural inclinations, and provide training and mentorship to get those folks up to speed with C++; a long journey. They don't want to do it due to being seen as providing a cross-subsidy to their competitors when the graduates switch companies.
> don't prevent spread

Doesn't matter, as long as it keeps people out of the hospital. Dying of delayed cancer treatment because hospital staff is busy dealing with unvaxxed Covid patients isn't great.
As a kid, I read about Goddard and the early days of rocketry, which was a bit wild. Does anyone know of a good history that touches on the factors that contributed to the increasingly slow iterations in the field prior to SpaceX? My fuzzy knowledge of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions suggest that they were fairly fast moving. Was the Space Shuttle era when iteration slowed down?
> One time they were reaching out to me about a design engine I wrote and didn’t even realize.

Reminds me of this story https://brendangregg.com/blog/2021-06-04/an-unbelievable-dem...
> completely made up two additional points

I wonder if this means the AI is dumb or that the AI is smart enough to notice that humans just make shit up sometimes, like when they're not reading carefully or when they need filler.
> Mid-six digits

Do you mean $500k? On levels.fyi for San Francisco you're talking about the 95% percentile of people who upload their salaries (which tends to the higher range anyway), and that's mostly stocks. So in the highest paying part of North America, at the highest paying companies where employees put their salaries on levels.fyi, a small minority can reach $500k. North America as a whole? Nope.
I'm in the same camp as you. Once Win7 really becomes unusable, I'll drop it and probably move on to a dual boot W10/Linux.

It took my years to get Win 7 just the way I like it and I have 0 interest in spending the same amount of effort on W10 or any other for-profit OS.
People in general presumably don’t know and don’t care about the requirements. Most, I’m guessing, wouldn’t even be able to tell which OS version they are running. If their computer with Win10 is compatible it’ll eventually nag them to upgrade. If not, they’ll run it to the grave and the next one they buy will be Win11 - whether they want to or not.
As the COBOL pool did before it.

C++ was great in its era but has been supplanted by other languages for safety and performance reasons and it's fine that it's on its way out.

The tail will be long (there are billions of lines of C++ code that will need to be replaced or rendered so fundamental that they cannot be mutated without breaking expectations), but there's no shame in a language running its course.
That's pretty cool actually. I've been tossing around the idea of a federating forum style UX that uses ActivityPub, and I figured it would be easy using something like this https://github.com/go-ap/fedbox

I don't know how many generic AP backend servers are out there, but it looks like Lemmy is becoming one. I hope they keep with the AP spec and allow any functionality in addition to it to be modular.
I found it hilarious that Herzog will just go on and on, just like he does in real life.

Also, this bit:

The question is always: What does it mean to be something
what is this identity?
In Europe, we don't ask these questions.
We have no difficulty identifying ourselves.
as someone who has been significantly involved in open source projects and contributing to hosting for various projects for years, “control” and “notoriety” are rarely what people are getting lol.
To be clear, my argument is that "alcohol involved" is not a weasel term. Trying to make the conversation about "cause" is a rhetorical trap which will turn the discussion into a quagmire about free will and particularly the agency of inanimate objects or substances. If you simply say "alcohol involved", then you avoid all that philosophical mess entirely.

By analogy to the gun debate which you're alluding to, saying "gun involved" deaths would neatly circumvent the "but guns don't shoot themselves" quagmire. However in the case of the gun debate, the "cause" language is used anyway despite asking for that quagmire, because it's more emotive.
Contraband handbags, diamonds and vodka auctioned off by French government
"I am once again asking for" a common sense explanation for how increasing interest rates will reduce the prices of retail food and gas.

(This should be the new Deleuze meme.)
cocs are supposed to police the contributors, no?

who will you complain to when a user violates Corey Ehmke's Ten Commandments? the cyber police?
> Certainly with the volume of PR's (100+) and Issues (5k+), the current Maintainers have their hands full. Decisions will have to be made, and priorities established. While an argument may be made that we need more Maintainers, this is not an overnight solution. A Maintainer needs to really "own" the project, and has to have substantial knowledge of the code inside-out.

I think one of the big problems is that decisions aren't being made. Issues, proposals, PRs, etc. get ignored. Ignoring is not a decision, it's the absence of a decision.

It's fine if they don't want to accept/fix/invest/etc in whatever issue a contributor is raising, but by not providing a rationale, the community just gets left in the dark without any idea how to proceed.
If it’s a few years out — it takes a relatively small amount of thrust to avoid collision.
That might be a place to put a “TODO: explain” comment when sending it back.
Yes, USPS has Remote Encoding Centers (REC) to handle handwritten address that can't be recognized with OCR. So AI is already there, just that humans are for harder and tedious jobs ;-)
> I always wonder how people say Musk is a failure with a straight face. If that's failure, I wonder what would be a success!

Business is about improving the quality of life of the consumer.

Musk never went directly at that, he always involved himself in industries whose main customer is Government, or that would not exist without Government.

Apple, Microsoft, Google, Walmart, JPM...those are real businesses, which would thrive even if Govt. expense were to plummet at 5% of GDP (actually they'd do much better).

If Govt. expense were to plummet at 5% of GDP all the functional companies which Musk has would go belly up, not to mention the scam ones such as the NeuraLink and Boring.
I deal with a few people who clearly receive regular Interac payments, but still haven't figured out how to associate their email with their bank account. Thus requiring the question.

ps. Don't get me started about figuring out how to send automated payments and if you're lucky enough to find a bank that has a broken API to this.
I spend a lot of time outdoors hiking and biking. Since 2019, I have noticed a serious stagnation -- and possibly degradation -- of phone reception. Used to be, I could send a text and call someone on even 1 bar of EDGE. Now I basically need >2 bars of LTE to do anything -- less than that and my phone isn't usable.

Maybe I need to pick up a 5G device. I am still using an LTE phone from 2016, so there could be some bands I'm missing out on. But my partner's much more recent phone has even more issues.
Roland Emmerich's first from 1984!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Noah%27s_Ark_Principle
Sure, then why worry about sanctions?
User-supplied data isn't necessary for tracking and advertising, just more convenient

And more valuable. Data brokers don't pay much for data that can't be tagged to an individual.

This is why professional privacy invaders love SMS 2FA ---it reliably identifies the individual with very little effort required. It's privacy invasion in the name of security.
Could Venture Capital Be the New Frontier in Great-Power Competition?
> I kept waiting for more examples for why we need FP

Dependent types, allow a lot more type safety (ex. shader program type parametrized by description of its uniform variables, getting rid of `INVALID_OPERATION` on wrong uniform location/type).

> you can incorporate those features in imperative languages like Rust and Swift

Incorporating dependent types into imperative languages with unrestricted effects is hard (impossible?).
IIRC they're planning to "soft land" at least the first one in the ocean. So it's guaranteed to throw 33 away, to avoid the risk of destroying the pad for the first go.

If it manages to "land" successfully just above the water, then they'll go for landings back at the pad.
Why didn't Twitter employees look into that (or did they?) from April onward?
I read the whole thread, and the developers don't come off as principled, it feels more like they're just wedded to a particular implementation and are grasping at all straws to defend it. A singular regular expression as a slur filter is pretty terrible by any modern coding standard. I'd avoid the project on the grounds that the rest of their code is probably just as amateurish.
Not my project but here’s a blog post from the author.

https://james.darpinian.com/blog/how-see-a-satellite-tonight...
It's not maligned. I've worked on some complex backends some time ago and I would never call those glorified CRUD apps. But my current project is basically Node backend with almost zero business logic. You hit GET endpoint, it returns someORMRepository.find('events').where({ category: 'FUN' }). That's it. React side displays a table with some basic sorting and filtering. Editing and creating and entry is just a basic form. I don't see how else could I call it, it's not that much different from CRUD demos you see in blog posts.
If you are using the yubico-authenticator app then you are using TOTP, just with the seeds stored on your yubikey. This is still vulnerable to phishing.

I hope what you meant to say is that you are switching to using WebAuthn with your yubikey on all sites that support it, and then using your yubikey for TOTP on sites that don't support WebAuthn yet. WebAuthn is the thing that gives you actual protection against phishing.
ok now do the "vaccine prevents transmission" ones.
By reducing demand. I guess.
Using Sound to Model the World
I taught high school for five years but have been a software engineer for the past ten.

I'd love to teach again - but sadly that would mean going back to a one bedroom apartment in a not-great part of town. Where I'm at now, I have a nice place in the country and the means to pursue hobbies that I couldn't before.
It is beyond me why would people try to even consider an idea of defending China or arguing from devil's advocate PoV. It is in the best interest of literally everyone in the civilized world to curb the current regime in China with Xi continued power centralization and breakneck pace at catching up with North Korea in terms of how the country is ruled.
I can import/export with Google authenticator (via QR codes).
The way I see it, it is still rising. But that was hidden by the fact that oil & gas prices dropped during the last period which was largely due to dipping into strategic reserves pretty heavily. Unfortunately I don't think oil & gas will continue to drop, or even stay even going forward. Especially with the middle east cutting production.
According to another user it's not even decentralized, but centralized into competing blocs.
Sort of. There are accurate measures with verifiable predictive power. But useful depends on cost/benefit, which in turn depends on ability to implement and market forces.

There's a company that looked at reducing critical defects from a sort of actuarial perspective. They have a few decades of cross-industry data. I've used their model, and it works. If you don't need a numerical result, you can just read the white paper about what's most important [1].

So to partially answer your question: unit testing reduces defects, but reducing defects might not be worth the costs to you.

And defects might not be the only thing that matters. There are other measures of goodness, like maintainability, which complicates the answer. You'd have to collect your own data for that.

[1] https://missionreadysoftware.com/articles/
It's actually a theory that I've first read in Jean-Baptiste Say's works.

He was mentioning it in connection with the French government of the time (I think he wrote all that down during Napoleon's reign, even though it could have been during the Restoration, too lazy to check) subsidising the export of their "luxury" products, the Sèvres porcelain if I remember correctly. He was explaining that, in effect, the French government was putting money in the pockets of foreign clients/entities.

As such, the same thing will happen (happens) when it comes to US steel industry, even though in this case one also has to take into consideration the opportunity costs of losing the knowhow of that industry for good if it is allowed to die in the face of foreign competition. One could say that today's US taxpayers, by in effect subsidising the US steel industry, are paying for future generations to have the opportunity to build tanks and munitions and other war-related stuff without having to worry about having enough steel stocks at hand.
You should see the insane jumps in spdr futures right now.
I'll try to address your underlying thought, and hope I'm getting it right.

I think you are right to be skeptical and cautious in the face of claims of AI progress. From as far back as the days of the Mechanical Turk, many such claims have turned out to be puffery at best, or outright fraud at worst.

From time to time, however, inevitably, some claims have actually proven to be true, and represent an actual breakthrough. More and more, I'm beginning to think that the current situation is one of those instances of a true breakthrough occurring.

To the surface point: I do not think the current proliferation of generative AI/ML models are unoriginal per se. If you ask them for something unoriginal, you will naturally(?) get something unoriginal. However, if you ask them for something original, you may indeed get something original.
Before Java, C++ was basically the only game in town for frontend and backend. There was always Visual Basic on Windows, and C, and a smattering of various pascal flavors.
>I always wonder how people say Musk is a failure with a straight face.

Show me somewhere, anywhere, where someone of any relevance says Musk is a "failure".

What people actually say is that he's not the uber-genius, gods-gift-to-humanity that he and his super supporters extoll.
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> I guess if they can't have it, no one can.

I'm a white american and I think I agree with this. Making sure that only one race of people can say bad words on the internet doesn't seem practical to me. If we don't want some races saying a word, I don't see a way of preventing that which doesn't sacrifice either anonymity or black people being able to say that.

There's only one implementation that I can imagine, and it's pretty impractical and ethically dubious. The idea is to have some kind of verification process to prove that you're a certain race, and somehow publicly store the public keys of people in each category. Then, when someone want to post a word that only some races can say, they submit a zero-knowledge proof that the message was written by someone who controls the private key of one of the public keys in the appropriate category. But I'm pretty sure that a registry of people organized by race is neither practical or desirable.
I think one big thing has changed. In the past hegemony was enforceable. If two nations both wanted to declare themselves rulers of the world, that was solved through war. But nukes changed the game. Now outright war between "developed" (nuclear) nations has become impossible.

I'd argue that this is only coming to the front (some 80 years the development of nukes) due to historical nuance. The US and USSR kept each other, more or less, in check. When the USSR collapsed the US not only had immense soft power, but also lacked any any remotely viable competitor. But that's all changed rapidly. Russia largely rebuilt, China is becoming the dominant world power, India is coming into their own, the Mideast is no longer content just being a lapdog, and even much of Europe is increasingly being coerced into agreement rather than genuinely seeing eye to eye with the US.

So the US wants to stay the dominant world power, but has no viable claims to such, let alone means to enforce that. We're headed to a multipolar world, or nuclear war and then a multipolar world. Once choice is clearly optimal.
I mean if you "destroy all things of value in your country" I don't think you're going to be concerned about economic measures whether GDP or Gini, so isn't that kind of a red herring?
It looks like this has been merged 6 days ago.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/2492
Rails is a huge problem, but the most mature libraries/frameworks in Go/Rust are all micro-frameworks, which isn't much of a replacement. Maybe some .NET frameworks would be a better choice.
I had such a good (in-person) customer service experience last Spring I have to mention it here. Wife and I upgraded our phones. We both subscribe to month-to-month cell services, so we always buy unlocked phones from Apple. The problem is, Apple no longer sells unlocked phones from a physical U.S. Apple store unless you are signed up with a major carrier. The Genius who helped us with our purchase recognized the problem and logged on to the online Apple store and helped us order our new phones from a different, still-close-by Apple store, for pickup the next day. Though we picked up at the store, the order was placed online (by the kind Genius) and we avoided the major cell carrier requirement.
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Isn't Mayday himself working on the official tileset too? [1]

[1]: https://goblinart.pl/vg-eng/df.php
theres nothing wrong taking and using family money or inheritance if u can. put it to the best use.

the other aspect that must be acknowledged (if not encouraged) not outright avoided is the idea of sacrificing yourself for the art. a bit like a suicide bomber. being an artist isnt about having a middle class income and lifestyle so you dont 'die penniless'...there is something more mystical that only an artist can bring to life for themselves and others.
I interpreted the requirement that they needed to be google employees as a legal requirement of some sort rather than anything related to qualifications.