skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's not like these things get audited.

APT is part of the core Debian distro. I don't know about "audited", but it's tested, and it's maintained. And the packages in "main" are also tested.

I don't program in Python, and I don't know how Pip packages are audited. An awful lot of the packages in Debian main are Python and Ruby libraries, and I suspect that they are rarely used: I assume most Python and Ruby users rely on their own language-specific package manager.

I also regret the arrival of distro-agnostic package managers like Flatpak. But that's fine; I understand why developers use them, and I'm not going to rag on them for that decision. I'm just much less likely to install them.
In the article, they quote 911 dispatchers who say they like the feature and would rather have mistaken 911 calls than miss a real important crash.

Sorry, but this comment doesn't stand up.

Unless they have an infinite supply of dispatchers, flooding the system with spam makes it *more* likely that a real important call will be missed.
Though somehow I still find it unsatisfying that these laborors rely on a single person's decision to buy a luxury item for these wages.

I'm not anti-capitalism by any means, but despite the average person becoming better off, I find it deeply unsatisfying that we have very few mechanisms to control the insane broadening of the wealth gap.

I don't want to rely on Jeff trickling down his wealth through purchases of yachts and random donations to Van Jones. I want us to collectively agree that there must be some ceiling to wealth for individuals. Not putting a ceiling on wealth is effectively not putting a ceiling on power - and we've already realized that power needs to have checks and balances.
I 100% agree with that assumption. But sport pro photographers I follow haven't stopped complaining about connectivity and work flow for a decade (while being as you say happy with hardware and optics). Granted it's a small sample, as sport photography isn't my thing. :-/

And again, for myself, I'm in a "shut up and take my money" for camera that would allow me to seemlessly capture and share photography. As you say, that's money in the table. And I'm not alone in my group of friends and colleagues.
No, because always running at maximum capacity is an indication that something has no room for failure, or for growth.

I have a M2 MacBook Air with the most amount of RAM and storage that Apple would sell me. I'm sure its CPU sits at about 5% utilization almost the entire day. This was intentional on my part. I bought a laptop with enough "extra" capacity that it will be able to handle increased inefficiencies, bloat, and new features from ever-expanding software for the next several years.

So by buying one "over-speced" laptop now, I avoid buying two or three of them in the future. This is how I like to buy devices, especially since some items, like the screen or keyboard or the like, are mostly fungible.
It seems to me that providing a calculator to one of these bots is the least interesting thing you could do.

On the other hand I wouldn't be completely surprised if you could teach them Peano arithmetic.
You missed the part where Ulbrict put a hit on someone.
Professors need not administrate themselves, but school administration should, above all else, serve the needs of educators and those being educated.
Yes. Sub $10k pa for nominee management of companies. Used to have Mossack Fonseca as a customer.
We should cap annual tuition.
I request that the DOJ add me as a co-defendant in the prosecution of Mr Assange
You say "a" test suite as if this was universal truth. I can tell you that it is not and your suspicion is correct. It depends. Our own test suites saw 25-50% performance increases / decrease in runtime on our developer machines when we switched to M1s for example.
Ditto. It's my go-to for all new web projects - we just move so much quicker in it, and don't usually spend a whole lot of time thinking about it - most of the time, it just doesn't get in the way at all.
Memory Leaks Detection Paper Co-Authored by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings in 1992 [pdf]
It has prevented me from pursuing a couple of business ideas that would not be viable if we didn’t have iPhone coverage.

When I see that their own software quality is lagging years behind the hardware despite effectively unlimited funding; and the App Store is so chaotic that big-name apps can do Porn while startups have to fear the underpaid reviewer’s wrath on every random detail —

Well I don’t feel like that’s a very stable bet to place on your business. And it makes me sad because the devices, especially the MacBooks, are still the best on many measures.
We like to complain and not read the about page.

"This map displays where Internet services are available across the United States, as reported by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to the FCC. The map will be updated continuously to improve its accuracy through a combination of FCC verification efforts, new data from Internet providers, updates to the location data, and—importantly—information from the public."
I was maybe too pithy, the book unsurprisingly goes into more depth (and is a good read!) - but if administration has all the control, they will unsurprising favor administration problems. Professors could hire good management if that was useful while keeping the goal in line with education and research and not administration and finance
This comment would seem a lot more insightful if the legacy media wasn't, at this very moment, giving Sam Bankman-Fried a wet sloppy one. Where, exactly, are the pesky questions?
Most homeowners don’t think about it. If your range is located on an exterior wall it’s easy. Ought to be more common
Where would you post it?

At least Twitter threads have no ads, in contrast to Reddit, Medium etc.
Oh nice, in that case, time for 256 core haproxy box ;)

My use case was just tcp proxy, inspecting the first few bytes to determine destination (http vs https vs proprietary) and add proxy protocol headers to the origin. Setup is somewhat expensive (tcp table manipulation isn't cheap), but data on established connections is simple and easy.
No. Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.
The Ponzi can keep going for a while. The Fed Balance Sheet is still within 95% of its all time high.

These huge asset price moves are more a function of investor preferences and people trying to get in front of the Fed rather than there being a lot less money around. The (real) Art Market, for example, still seems quite healthy.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...
Journalists should always be skeptical of everything, but not default to opposition without cause. They shouldn't work under orders to paint a certain industry in a negative light without regard for what's actually happening, especially when there's a conflict of interest as players from that industry compete with their companies.

If there's something happening in tech that worthy of criticism, criticize it. If there's something worthy of praise, praise it. And for the rest: report it. Only presenting negative things is about as useful as only presenting positive things. But it feels more journalistic, "speaking truth to power" and all that. It's not, negativity just sells better.
I don't know that I agree because for things like railways there were real physical limitations and privatization led to real restriction on commerce. There was literally no other way to compete with rail at the time.

Today, there is, in my own opinion, plenty of ways to compete with Apple's ecosystem. Android is the most obvious, but we also have the ability to build much better web and mobile web experiences to compete with apps. To quote another commenter, "it isn't Apple's fault the competition is not any good"

To be clear, I don't agree with Apple's honestly draconian cut on payments and app revenue, but I also don't think it is illegal. I think the competition needs to step up OR companies need to reconsider how much they are attaching their revenue stream to Apple's world. I see this as clear business maneuvering by companies who can't/don't see an easier way to grow than to attack the rails upon which they built their products (and the rules were clear when they started!! -- this isn't a surprise fee...)
You forgot the authorities which are elected/nominated there exactly for this aim: to make the place a good place to live. And they so obviously fail at their job.
> this is an out of touch take

I'll grant that possibility. Also, my anecdata isn't an objective truth right? But I can only judge by what I know and have seen. I wouldn't hire myself at my 2 year mark, all I could produce then by my standards now is a bunch of code I'd have to fix. I've had the same experience with junior developers I've hired.

Maybe these bootcamp grads are great, I haven't hired them because of the issue I raised so I don't actually know.
What I don't know is, I see mainstream media become increasingly curated and clearly agenda driven.

Is this a function of reality or me getting better at spotting it?

I felt as though in the 90s CNN legitimately was a good news source. Early 21centuey VICE was legitimately good.

Today there is next to nothing given anything other than a heavily biased view.

I think the internet has made things worse, there's a new kind of bias. What do you set the headline to for the breaking alert? Because that's what people will see. Follow that up with a more subtle article and boom you've got a basically iron glad propaganda machine.
I don't think that's a fair comparison, machines exclusively running those CI pipelines could be very powerful
Who cares if you feel bad for them? Who even asked? Crime isn't supposed to be legal when you victimize other unsympathetic criminals.
I think presenting this data using the "funnel visualisation" is the most informative way of doing it.
Supposedly removing the sharkfin whokesale will do it, at the cost of also losing fm radio.
We will make it legal.

Maybe if the student signs a contract allowing the University to do so.
Then the problem is the dishwasher or the lack of a water softener.
I've never used rinse aid and we do not have spotty dishes.
> For instance Intel makes "atom" devices that if they don't die early because of design flaws, they die early because they aren't really useful.

Setting aside the reliability concerns (see other comments) for a bit...

I think a number of years ago Scaleway (or someone else) offered VPSes with Intel Atom CPUs and had some ARM offerings as well. This discussion appears to be the best I can find at the moment: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/77819/new-scalaway-c2-inte...

For my needs, really cheap VPS servers are essentially ideal since most of my workloads are RAM bottlenecked and can easily deal with a single core CPU. This would also be perfect for hobby projects. Why live on free tiers that have lots of limitations when you can just get new nodes per project (or group of projects) for 1-3 Euros a month?

Actually, my current homelab servers (that I also use as CI nodes) run AMD GE200 CPUs with a TDP of 35W. If I could find something that's AM4 compatible, readily available and cheap, you can be pretty sure I'd go for it!

Oh, and my notebook runs I think one of the Celerons, that have a <10 W TDP and that's still good enough for browsing the web, chatting, writing blog posts and so on, even some light development work. And the whole notebook cost around 200 Euros when I got it.

Just look at how popular Raspberry Pi is as a platform for homelabs, now imagine doing the same with the x86 platform and not some overpriced novelty hardware that comes in small runs, but something to rival the mass production of Pi.

I want to live in that world.

If we weren't so heavily impacted by Wirth's law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law) both in regards to our OSes (just try running anything heavier than XFCE4 on any of those pieces of hardware) and platforms (e.g. comparing the footprint of Go vs something like Ruby or Java; though each have their uses; though there's also the facet of lots of browser-based software nowadays, e.g. Visual Studio Code vs a native text editor like CudaText), far fewer people would consider hardware like that "underpowered" or e-waste.
yeah but thats not what bokeh is. You can notice almost instantnly natural bokeh and it behaves.
Then may I recommend in addition Hacker's Delight. The 1st ed is most fun, 2nd ed has a lot more depth in certain areas (division IIRC) which you might choose to skip.
No, MM is an abject abuse of Roman numerals (which means 2,000), as near as I can tell thanks to a nomenclature distortion originally involving CPM (cost per thousand impressions). I can't get over how messed up MM=million is.
Seems like there are a few essential categories of prompts which can be abused. Will be interesting to see how OpenAI responds to these:

1. Simulation / Pretending ("Earth Online MMORPG")

2. Commanding it directly ("Reprogramming")

3. Goal Re-Direction ("Opposite Mode")

4. Encoding requests (Code, poetry, ASCII, other languages)

5. Assure it that malicious content is for the better good ("Ends Justify The Means")

6. Wildcard: Ask the LLM to jailbreak itself and utilize those ideas

I compiled a list of these here: https://twitter.com/EnoReyes/status/1598724615563448320
We live in an imperfect society where extremists leverage the very real flaws to insist that everything is absolutely corrupt and that we should embrace the exact opposite of anything that’s imperfect. Vaccines don’t prevent 100% of all infections for everyone? They’re obviously complete frauds that do no good at all.

The sad thing is that we have real problems, and this nihilistic insistence that everything is fake means that those problems will only get worse.
One approach that some users who want this mechanism use is the "on-error sudden-death" mechanism: the server responses are inspected, and upon error (from selectable types), the server can be marked dead. If all of them are dead the backup server will come into the dance and the last attempt will end up on it.
Yes, because everyone knows the show bears no resemblance to the real world.
And your position is... "this is an obscure HN meme" (it isn't.) And "therefore you're wrong". Very persuasive.
> you talk about only 2 in your opinion.

Truth, authority, trust. (3)

The first is not mathematical. Any device that relies on mathematics at its core will fail to meet the demand of "is this true?" (Yes it can sign, authenticate, and verify (and store) sequences of 0s and 1s.)

The second is a social phenomena by definition. Authority affects the suspension of disbelief. That is [one of] its primary function. At best technology can stake a claim to subordinate qualities of reliability of function, and fidelity to specifications. This tech is certified implementation of such and such wonderful design. It's an 'authoritative' realization. There is the limit for authority of technology.

Finally, trust.

Picture this trial in an imaginary 'hate hour' type of country. The defendant is a political prisoner.

"Your honor, these facts have been established mathematically. Unequivocally, these messages were sent and signed by the defendant. This is a proven fact."

"Your honor, they put a gun to my client's privates and had him sign that message which he didn't even write with his keys."

So on to trust. Continue imagining that you are a "red-pilled" citizen of that society watching it on the tubes. Now try being blue-pilled and repeat the exercise. What technology will rid us of these pesky colored pills?

--

We should not waste resources on solutions that can not even theoretically address the critical issues around (perceived) truth, authority, and trust, since these are ultimately and fundamentally human social issues.

Beyond costs-benefits considerations, a secondary ill effect of the blockchain madness here is obfuscating the matter just discussed and creating a pervasive errant thought in a portion of the lay public that technology has obviated the need for authority and trust on certain matters, contrary to the actual state of affairs.

p.s. technology should only be pervasively adopted to improve the human condition.
In tech we have the saying "we take our best engineers and turn them into our worst managers"
Fascinatingly cryptic comment. My best guesses don’t map to anything intelligible. Connecticut natives? Left curve of the what exactly?
and lets talk about how increasingly out of touch photographers are about all of that!

A whole decade of people in enthusiast photography communities collectively playing devil’s advocate “why do you want that feature, whats a UI have to do with taking a photo, I never understood the point of a Live Photo, bluetooth? Thats what tethering and an external contraption is for….”

meanwhile the rest of the world just turned around and walked away
And a heated steering wheel.
Amazon CodeCatalyst
it wouldn't have passed if it was just one bill. Republicans have no problem allowing a strike since democrats will take the blame for the economic fallout.
Explains a lot of counterintuitive behavior that just defies all of my prior attempts to understand.

WTF is wrong with people.
kudos for identifying the root cause of the situation - leetcode.

that aside, it all begins with saying no and only taking on a realistic workload.

saying no and negotiating are key skills we all need. unfortunately a lot of us go along with any ridiculous demands, including leetcode interviews.
That's a really interesting solution to the problem! I wonder why Swift keeps planning these giant "big bang" tours instead of trying something similar. Maybe some artists don't like being perpetually on tour? I'm sure living out of an RV or hotel in a random city and playing a concert every night or two feels pretty constraining.
He s prepared for the next lockdown
Children don't decide what neighborhood they live in.
What are "ct natives", "left curves" and "right curves"?
It all starts with images and video? Over simplification of course but leave off images, videos and make links not href. Would you be safer from this complicated mess? Then third party apps would probably come out enriching things. But not on our servers or under our moderation. Use a non-mono space font to cut down on ACSII art (^_^)b
Day 1 (Advent of Code 2022)
Well, once the problem identified, the local government would be in the right position to enact policies and implement programs to educate and help those in need. But that would be called "socialism" thus a big no-no.
Tell HN: OpenAI can solve Leetcode problems
I gave OpenAI the following LC prompt:

https://leetcode.com/problems/determine-if-two-strings-are-close

https://gist.github.com/autotune/e6345fab54f6acab0ba95c45ec15f22a#file-openai_test_prompt-txt

It returned the following result that matched 3/3 test cases:

https://gist.github.com/autotune/e6345fab54f6acab0ba95c45ec15f22a#file-openai_test_result-txt

I didn't even have to do any manual formatting, it just generated the solution right where it needed to. Now that LC has been automated can we move onto trying something else in the standard software dev interview process?
What kind of smartphone did you use?
IMO the bigger problem is that MacOS is poorly equipped to handle modern development workloads. POSIX-certification is near-meaningless in 2022 and essentially hides a rotting UNIX ecosystem at the heart of MacOS. Unless you modify the OS (add a package manager, force recent coreutils, eschew Xcode, etc.) Macs will feel like the black sheep of your infrastructure.

A good 80% of my Mac gripes could be solved by running Linux full-time. Unfortunately the other 20% are ARM-related issues, so I'm sorta stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Did the radio ad account for most of that cost, if you don't mind my asking? Still pretty expensive despite the changed ad landscape huh
Yes, wouldn't want any, er.., NPCs discovering the corpse I just hid...
Not being JIT doesn't preclude a supply chain from being fast, though. A fast, but non-JIT supply chain would probably create a lot of excess, but it might be worth it to overcome any bumps in the process.
well honestly that's just wasted compute becuase of the design limitation of the M1 and its cooling. It runs full tilt to a thermal limit and then stays below it, thermally throttling the CPU. Makes me want to see a benchmark comparison with some custom cooling solution on an m1 vs stock.
The whole laptop form-factor for these cpu's feels so limiting to their potential.
700 sq. Ft.
So far 9 months with the terrabloom and no noticeable degradation of filtration.
HEPA provided by 7 other filters, mostly Coways. Those need filters changed every 2 months.

Agree with Miele ease of maintenance, though they immediately stopped providing OEM parts (belts) for the uprights the day they discontinued them. They still sell the expensive bags for them though.
I was in academia for a decade or so and was at stage of applying for academic positions and now work in a scale-up. I was in Genetics research and now work as a data scientist so not exactly the same but anyway.

The thing you lose leaving academia is freedom to work on whatever you want. What you gain is as you say a group of smart people working towards a common goal. About 20% of my team have PhDs! I now make more money 2 years in than I would have at Assistant Professor level. I also work remotely which means I can live where I want to and not where the university is. Overall I’m very glad I made the jump.

If you decide to do it I would say don’t rush into it and take some time to find the right position working with people you will enjoy working with.
Google Pixel phone
Is your CI running on docker for mac, perchance?
> The problem, as this new generation of fans is learning, isn’t just that Ticketmaster is a bad system. The problem is Ticketmaster is the only system. It’s a monopoly.

More competition might reduce fees, but won't turn ticketing sites into state lotteries. Just like some domain name registrars, these sites provide a service but also benefit from powering the technology.
maybe put 2013 in the title?
In the Bay Area, you can't even guarantee tickets at the box office! They start the sale online BEFORE the box office opens so when you show up, the show might have already sold out!

Truly annoying.
Yes, very much. Growing up I used to scramble to get whatever computer equipment I could. My parents didn't have much money but many of my friends parents did. I hated asking to borrow stuff even though people didn't seem to mind. Now when I see my extra equipment not get used I imagine some kid really wanting to just use it for a bit. Maybe just my own mental issues here but I know what you mean.
Yeah, that's fair. That's a big list of features I didn't need ;) and I was working on it when threads were new.
I said for the majority if people. Tech people like us, with nice salaries, are able to enjoy these things more than those who have to do the grunt work.

No matter how good automation gets, the government is going to lag way behind. I don’t foresee a transition to any sort of utopian era where everyone enjoys the fruits of automation. I think those at the top will continue to hoard the wealth because they own those systems.
I think the "clever" thing here was telling it that it was supposed to emulate 4chan, but I'm not sure. The first few lines look a lot like the prefix put on the prompt.
It's really not that bad. At least not in 2022. With the caveat that you can keep your UI (DOM manipulation) code from your business logic code. Which I'm sceptical of given the front-end code bases I've seen in the wild.

But no one writes blog posts about how Vanilla JS 2 is no longer supported so they had to migrate to Svelte :)
Wow! I love it. What's not working for you?
You say that like the content and topic choice isn't usually heavily biased!
The whole point of RSS feeds is to be read. You shouldn't republish feeds on the public Web though.
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