skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this should be blatently obvious.

Maybe I've just been lucky, but in my 15ish years of working I've found the correlation between "good programmer" and "good manager" to be zero or possibly even negative. Most of the best managers I've had either never could've done my job or hadn't programmed since Lisp went out of fashion. However what they all did have in common was that they knew their limitations and always deferred to the relevant experts when faced with technical decisions that they didn't have insight into. You need a lot of skills to be a good manager, being able to make good technical decisions is one you can easily delegate.
Not sure there’s enough information. Non-cs degree or no degree? If the former, then I would think anybody with a math or science degree and some evidence of programming skill (particularly python) would generate interest. An arts degree might do the same if you have a portfolio of work that’s interesting.

If it’s no degree, I assume a common first question would be “why?”. But provable coding chops and positive personality traits should mitigate that question. Hackers still exist - it’s not taught as much as learned.
14 evokes a couple of great Greg Egan short stories: "Reasons to Be Cheerful" and "Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies".
Getting bus priority right. Lessons from Bologna
If you are on a chromium based browser, I found these extensions to help dealing with large collections/hierarchies :

- Adding Faster to a specific folder with keyboard -> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/faster-bookmark-ad...

- Tagging simply by adding #tag to the title. -> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmark-tags/edpe...

- Sorting/Searching using more powerful filters -> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmark-manager-p...

So instead of using a series of "_" folders, What I do is I append #tocheck to title, then I can also sort/filter them by date, folder, url...(and add other tags like #5stars, #ProjectC...)
> "This page wants to send you notifications" or "this page wants to use the microphone" is understandable. "This page wants to read pixels from a canvas" isn't.

Yes, it is. Tor Browser already does this: https://www.bleepstatic.com/content/posts/2017/10/30/CanvasF...

That specific wording may be a touch too verbose for the average end user, but it's not impossible nor is it strange. Just include a note about how this is 99% likely a fingerprinting measure; option b) isn't so bad in this case. Of course, due to the nature of how fingerprinting works, the absolute breadth of features that would be gated behind something like this would be offputting.

I am also wary of what you suggested with gating this kind of fingerprinting to when the website has positively identified the user anyway; in a way, this seems to me even more valuable than fingerprint data without an associated "strong" identity.
The same could be said about driving in general (which kills over 100 people on an average day just in the US). People either underestimate or don't care how dangerous driving is.
I read it and recite it. Not modern poetry, but ancient, in the language the poems were crafted in. I think reading modern poetry is a great way to learn to dislike it in general. If I had to guess, you've never been exposed to classical poetry. I used to be dismissive of it, until I encountered the good old stuff.
"redundant systems"
A gentile reminder that AI assists where designed to create code that looks correct rather than being correct.

The classic Average = (A + B) / 2 line could be perfectly fine or a bug based on things these AI’s don’t reason about. But once it’s in an editor your eyes want to gloss over such idioms without thought. It’s presumably possible for AI assists to be used safely, but is vastly harder than it seems.
I agree with the title but more of a case that the alternative is having people who desperately just want to manage who usually make the worst managers.
Us humans are just a pawn in the chili plants' game of spreading all over the world.

Initially, capsaicin was produced to prevent mammals from eating the fruit (peppers) and instead encourage birds to spread seeds over a wider area (which is why they are brightly coloured to attract birds). Now that humans can travel greater distances than birds, the plants have switched strategies (or at least we've deliberately grown flavourful varieties everywhere we can).
Besides the multibrowser / OS limitation, is there any other drawback on using native browser pass managers?
The unpredictability of people is a myth.
Well I have benefit from running AI on my device, so surely a company will appear in time to take my money.

Not to mention there's some cost cutting involved if you offload computing to the customer's device.
Of course it's not that simple.

In most parts of the world, if a person is in a public space, anyone can take a photo of that person, including shop owners. This photo could be considered as a type of "fingerprint" for that person. The only important difference is that in some countries, you are not allowed make money off of such photos.

The Internet is a lot like a big public space, and possibly worse - while you are using certain services (web pages or apps), it might be argued that you are actually "on premises" for that service provider.

The best we can do now is more and more education about what can go wrong with such data collection.
This is in practice how it works, you're debating semantics.
Sometimes it's best to go with the classics: big-endian versus little-endian.
Stop hunting programmers. Many of us actually don't care about the deadlines, the users etc. We just love to program. We don't care about stand-ups, story points or whatever the business uses to convert complexity to billable hours.

http://programming-motherfucker.com/
The question was "likely to reoffend". Somehow you reduced this to "present a physical danger". SBF is not accused of physically endangering people, so the term "reoffend" is not a reference to physical violence. It's a reference to defrauding people (the thing he's accused of right now). Your parent already posted examples like Billy McFarland, who immediately go on to defraud more people when they are let out on the street. This very obviously is a danger with SBF as well.
My iPad fails to activate after a software restore. Apple said it was a hardware issue, and that I have to pay up to replace it.

Given the high cost of their products, I expected a bit more ownership and empathy.

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/653633

Has anyone else run into this?
As is the predictability’s of information systems.
> but WLED/ESP32 doesn't really tick the large box for me

Sure, you can only run about 2,000 pixels off a single ESP32 running WLED, but there’s no reason you can’t run a bunch of them. I have seven ESP32s driving just shy of 10k pixels myself and I’d personally consider that a large display. I dunno about you, but 3,300 watts of light is definitely not “small scale”.
Ahh. Armchair economics strikes again. So, your pet theory disproves thousands of years of economic evidence that draws a direct line between money supply and inflation?

Sure, if you say so.
Working for a beverage industry consultancy once I noticed that people had been entering strange Unicode control characters into the CMS.

I’m guessing they were copy and pasting from PDFs, and unchecked this was breaking the front end system.
Pagan tree ritual worship time
Or a Taipei group?
That's a good argument to discourage both humans and robots from driving cars.
This is bizarro world for me because to this day we're still fighting to have technical career progression outside of management. Excluding big companies there is no path forward after a certain level.

Good programmers are good programmers and more often than not make shitty managers, they're separate skills. The best managers I had were at most ok programmers.
10: Placeholder for the word "Label"?
Merry Christmas to all! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa9OHZGa9Rs
Wexford Carol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa9OHZGa9Rs
Exactly. WTF!
I'll still be in Sao Paulo over the next few days.
ASCII or EBCDIC?
I’m not sure if the author has relevant and successful experience in either of these fields.
Indeed, the votes on this tweet make me skeptical of HN community's basic critical thinking skillz.
Show HN: Twitter Graph - Like Google Trends but for Twitter
Simply enter a word and generate a graph showing the number of mentions on Twitter
> Were they a great manager simply because they let you do what you wanted, without any deeper guidance or feedback?

Why do I get the feeling you're a technical manager trying to rationalize why you don't trust your developers?

The entirety of your second paragraph speaks to a belief that developers can't manage themselves. That without a manager, no work would get done and no software written.

But having been in this game for roughly 25 years now, I promise you I know how to get software written successfully. What I need is the manager to __believe and trust__ me when I tell them something. There's a vast difference between a negotiation to figure out what can be done in the next 2 weeks and arguing with a fuckwit who thinks they know better than you despite moving into management after 2-3 years of software development.
A completely artificial computer simulation exhibiting properties of life is meaningless. Of course if you call SimulateLife() it will appear to simulate life. But if the things you’re building the supposed life from are made up and you can’t do it in nature then you’re basically just making a video game.
These hospital systems aren’t even just hospitals anymore. They are gobbling up medical practices at a high rate.

While their tax status is non profit, de facto they are profit maximizing partnerships with the profits distributed as excess comp to their executive-partner-owners.
It is mind blowing to me that ChatGPT can come up with this answer. It would seem inconceivable that this has been asked before on any corner of the internet.
Conversational AI for search with knowledge of recent events and sources
In Europe it's not...
Part of me had hoped that this was some sort of insane mechanical keyboard, where every single key was on the rotary.
> ... under-consumption [was] So essential when there was under-production; but in an age of machines and the fixation of nitrogen — positively a crime against society. — MM
Preparing health-care systems for future pandemics
What does it say about me that the brushed-metal look is the most pleasing to my eyes? Maybe this is just an oldie talking, but I do wish interfaces would move away from today's flatness.
1.) It is very important most of this stuff is local. Franzbrötchen are popular in Nothern Germany (Mentioned in Thomas Mann's Buddenbrook).
2.) When I was in Warsaw, I figured out Poland has a very similar bread culture. So you can go there and good bread and sweets, too. (for Non - Germans: It is a very popular out of Germany complaining about the lack of good bread)
Where is the Hacker News Christmas theme this year?
No, you need an additional safepoint mechanism to do that.
I'm around for a few more days and would love to, send me an email at andreas@heider.io
Being a good manager is shielding your technical ICs from the whims and BS processes crafted by non-technical ICs.
I am in the same situation. I am also a machine learning researcher who's here in Tokyo on exchange. If you want to meet up and chat tomorrow for Xmas let me know, just send me an email via ming.ang@riken.jp
A place for bouldering? It requires space but can have yoga and bouldering classes and free practice. Also kids on the weekends. Admitedly, idk how the demand is in Dallas.
Just for kicks and giggles, here's what ChatGPT has to say:

Q:

Why should advanced Artificial Intelligence be made open source to ensure democratization of access and avoid undue concentration of power?

A:

There are a few potential reasons why some people might argue that advanced artificial intelligence (AI) should be made open source in order to promote democratization of access and avoid concentration of power:

Access to advanced AI technologies can be a key determinant of a company's or country's competitiveness and prosperity. If only a few organizations have access to these technologies, they may have a significant advantage over others. Making advanced AI open source could help to level the playing field and ensure that more organizations have the opportunity to develop and use these technologies.

Making advanced AI open source could help to promote the development of a more diverse and vibrant ecosystem of AI innovation. By enabling more organizations and individuals to access and build upon advanced AI technologies, it could encourage a greater diversity of approaches and ideas, potentially leading to more rapid progress and innovation in the field.

Open sourcing advanced AI could help to ensure that these technologies are developed and used in a way that is transparent, accountable, and aligned with the values and goals of society. By making the underlying algorithms and data available for scrutiny, it could be easier to ensure that AI systems are fair, unbiased, and do not have unintended consequences.

However, it's also important to note that there are potential downsides to open sourcing advanced AI, such as the risk of intellectual property theft or the possibility that the technology could be used for malicious purposes. As with any complex issue, there are likely to be trade-offs involved in the decision of whether or not to open source advanced AI.
Ohh, yes. Reading it, part of me wanted there to be a "power down cockpit, transfer all control to a real pilot back at Air France HQ, via satellite data link" override system. Or at least an extremely loud robo-voice blaring "Get these clueless dumbf*cks out of my cockpit, and get a REAL pilot in here" through the entire plane.
Santa spells satan if you rearrange the letters
Companies. It is to convenient to use a shared password manager to share passwords within a group of people or some such.

Also techies have been telling non-techies "use a password manager!" for years, and people fail to evaluate one solution or the other.

My brother in law (a non technical person) was telling my wife last year how good LastPass was for him!
dropdown menus are not stylable, that's the main problem.
People who don’t want to pay Docker Inc tonnes of money to license Docker Desktop for their macOS developers, but only those who don’t realise that Docker Hub can’t be used professionally unless you have are licensed to use Docker Desktop.
Please, you recommend me RSS reader for Win desktop with customizable appearance? With UI that is not from early 00's.
1) Should Europe really be considered a continent, as it's just part of Eurasia?

2) Should (English-speaking) residents of England be considered the only native English speakers?

3) Before compulsory education, was the general population really stupid?

4) Has compulsory education made the world a better place?
This is so cool, especially for those of us who've used rotary phones.

I'd like to see a video of a google voice or other call made using the rotary number pad :)
31. Why are C programmers far superior to Rust programmers? And why are Rust programmers slightly better than C++ programmers?
To me, this doesn't stack up.

Eg
In Australia, there are 25M people.
The annual cost of UBI per person would be around 30K (unemployment allowance) or 50K (Living wage)

This means between 750B and 1.25T in payments per year.

The current total welfare spend is approx 250B per year. Other spend is another 250B.

Funnily enough, revenue from income tax is roughly the same, around 220B.

So to pay for UBI from income taxes, would need a 300% to 500% increase across the board.

I cannot see how this happens without significant tax hikes or continuing the inflationary money printing approach.
disclaimer: no farming experience

If I got that, I'd look into either sell it flat-out, or try and run it as a company..

disclaimer 2: only had one company, was not terribly profitable

I'd try to hire someone in to run it for me
I don't think my family needs outside help to think up of things to row about x)
I ran out of title space unfortunately but a degree unrelated to CS. Like a social science degree
Return to Nothingness: Big Crypto’s struggle with basic accounting and economics
That jumped out at me too, but I decided to let it go :)
Something hit me when reading this, you know how zknark is touted as tech which in future allow to create app that can work on user private data while preserving user's privacy, could it be used as (opposite) an obfuscation technique to, u encrypt users data inside and zk oracle in user side and send to server. You could reverse engineer what are the inputs to the oracle, but not further what exactly it sends to the server?
That depends on the liquor board’s interpretation of their policy.

And it depends on whether the ticket holder can prove they suffered damages beyond the cost of the ticket. Or whether a group of people in a class action lawsuit can do so.

At least one law firm has already successfully sued to overturn their ban.
Here's a conversation I just had with this. First attempt, no manual modifications needed. Granted it's pretty simple procedure, but it worked perfectly the first time.

Me: Write me a Python function that fetches the title of the first 5 most recent posts on Hacker News.

Response:

Here is a Python function that will fetch the titles of the first 5 most recent posts on Hacker News:

import requests

def fetch_hacker_news_titles():
response = requests.get('https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/newstories.json')
stories = response.json()[:5]
titles = []

for story in stories:
data = requests.get(f'https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/{story}.json')
title = data.json()['title']
titles.append(title)

return titles

You can then call the function like this:

titles = fetch_hacker_news_titles()

I fired this up in a replit.com session to test, and lo and behold it worked. Here was the output:

['Getting bus priority right. Lessons from Bologna', "Here's Who helped Elon Musk buy Twitter", 'Embodying Heaven: Frankincense and Myrrh and Their Connection to Divinity', 'The Great Forgetting', 'Sell Everything (2013)']

I verified by checking the 'new' tab, and this was accurate at the time I ran this. Not bad!

Edit: Fix my HN code formatting mistakes.
I feel like wasm is the way out of that. Keep the legacy standards but move them to an open source wasm implementation that’s shared by all the browsers. This way making a new browser could be done without dealing with the mass of legacy and we might see the chromium monoculture broken.
Sorta related - an alternative to moving the heavy lens etc is to move everything else:

RobotEye from https://www.ocularrobotics.com/technology/

> Current RobotEye models are simultaneously capable of: Extremely high rates of acceleration, up to 100,000°/s², Reaching aperture speeds of up to 10,000°/s, Pointing precision of 0.02°
As much as I appreciate the guy, and his work, I find it a little boastful, in a strange way, to just ask strangers a line of questioning that would lead up to a conversation about how awesome you are. I would hope the likes of Shannon, Brattain, Shockley, Bardeen, Kilby, Noice, etc, would not be so ostentatious.
There are some recommendations here which I've tried to follow when I've worked with RSS: https://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile

They are from 2007, so you might have seen them already.
Wikipedia is actually privately owned. They raised enough money to fund thenselves indefinitely a long time ago but then they got bought out. All these donations are now funneled into the shareholders of the parent company.

Think about it, all the work is done by volunteers. Server costs are negligible because it’s all cached plaintext that can fit on a single server if you need it to. There’s basically no costs.

And yet… hundreds of millions get withdrawn. It ain’t going to Wikipedia. Wikipedia was financially secure through investments a decade ago. It’s fraud.
I'm listening to Jolly Old Soul right now! The only good Christmas radio station :D
supposedly overheard: two IBM mainframe weenies at lunch, discussing their recent support for Unix guests. "I don't know which editor I should try first: ehm-ucks or six"
> If you accept that agriculture made life worse but hunter-gatherers had to adopt it or be vanquished, then are we going through any similar changes now?

Capitalism? Fossil fuels?
https://archive.ph/dqdhL
The reason politics is so easy to argue about is because most people have strong feelings about which “side” is better, with the media feeding us all talking points to back up each person’s perspective, with very little critical thinking.

Questions like…

> Do we focus too much on classic books/music/movies/plays/art/ideas, or too little?

require critical thinking, in the moment, to form an opinion (as do most other examples on the list).

More “suitable” topics to argue about would be ones that don’t require very much critical thinking (sadly), and topics where everyone is likely to already know what “side” they’re on.

So, instead let’s argue about what to argue about before we start arguing.
Indeed! Forgive me, I misinterpreted your earlier post to be claiming that the "low cost" of US healthcare offsets the "high taxes" of comparable countries.
This is funny to me, since my language has just one word for both cake and pie, and over the years I was unable to really find out the difference, so this is very good example of making up divisive differences.
Tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbages, various herbs, peas, green beans..etc.

It's not that these were unproductive, I got a good amount of vegetables and herbs from my garden, but it would have been much cheaper to hit up the farmers market to get the same amount of stuff. My anecdote was more speaking to the capriciousness of farming/gardening. Time and effort make no guarantee of the result.
I used to live down the block from this hospital and used it frequently, and I feel like the article has it backwards. In one of the examples they cite, the person given favorable treatment raised $3 billion for the hospital - that does not seem unreasonable, to show a little gratitude to not just a major benefactor, but the person whose name is on the literal hospital.

Another example is a sitting senator, who has been the target of threats in the past - probably shouldn’t be sitting out in the waiting area.

Much more concerning to me are the reports in the back half of the article where they shuffled off poor patients to Bellevue, which is already stretched thin and ends up taking the brunt of homeless and indigent ER admissions.
As a suggested alternative - I've been very happy with pwSafe. www.pwsafe.info

It's not nearly as convenient as LastPass, but likely more secure. It uses TwoFish with a 256 bit key length, which was one of the finalists for the AES standard.
The number of languages is static. The number of articles is effectively static because 99% are finished and the rate of new articles will be pretty much constant.

The number of employees is obviously going to rise if you choose to spaff more money.
Sesame allergen labeling law has unintended effect: sesame in more foods
I'll add one to the list just because it's been on my mind the last few weeks.

There's a correlation between IQ and general health, and most of your "processing" is subconscious.

Could this correlation be due to high IQ brains being better at strategizing and organizing the autonomic systems in the body?