skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eventually we’re going to have to go down to microseconds and nanoseconds, infinitesimally splitting the final instant, just to keep reminding people this thing still exists.
Trade talk about craft is indeed great but HN has tons of that on lots of things. Thousands of identical complaints on a perennial annoyance is not interesting material to read. It may be satisfying to vent or to upvote, but let's not confuse indignation with intellectual interest. That's a fundamental distinction if you want to understand HN.

There are plenty of such repetitive/indignant symptoms and one of our jobs is to dampen them so they don't crowd out the things that actually are interesting to read. If we didn't do this, HN would consist of almost nothing but sensationalism, indignation, and the few hottest topics of the moment (ChatGPT these days). It's our job not to let that happen.

Having a separate comment section for this kind of thing would be a moderation nightmare and I don't think it would add to the quality of the site—quite the opposite. I once had a conversation with a founder of a (much) larger forum than HN, who told me that creating such a section (or something recognizably like it) was the biggest mistake they ever made.

I hear you about the frustration though. It's true that HN lacks a lot of features. There are many different ways to structure an internet forum/community—many more than have ever been tried, and I feel sure that there's still plenty of room for new ones to flourish. People feel understandably frustrated when this forum doesn't match the one that they imagine and believe (perhaps correctly!) would be much more satisfying.
>>wow thats nuts. acorns, rocks and shit. touch the dirt and rub it on your face. mushrooms are literally everywhere.

If you want to really blow your mind, start looking into soil biology. Entire ecosystems of bacteria, fungi, multicellular creatures, plants, minerals, water....

And ALL OF IT IS CRITICAL TO LIFE.

People just think "oh, it's just dirt", and move on, when nothing could be further from reality
well, era of antibiotics was started with the curiosity about empty space in a petri dish.

both telephone and rubber tire vulcanization process were because of an unintended oops mistake while exploring / trying make sense of world.

adults tend to have wider interaction with world than kids, but kids dont have the baggage of years of preconceived notions/rules of adult experiences.
If you edit a file on two devices at the same time, doesn’t Dropbox just create a copy of the file? Is that process what you’re referring to?
A sense of a large portion of the porn industry, whether domestic or international, is developed through coercion, abuse, and sometimes straight up sex trafficking of vulnerable people? For every legitimate actress/actor who is involved in the industry in a safe manner, there are several who were tricked into a production. I think as a society we've generally moving to accepting the sex industry as a necessary vice, but there's a lot of seedy stuff happening behind the scenes.

Won't try to get into an argument about what is more negatively impacting society (FAANG or sex industry) but I think it's easier to empathize with the fact that that's someone's child on screen that more likely than not, had no idea what they were getting into.
I've been working on implementing this too! It's been fun trying to debug problems by figuring out how to reduce it to the "bare minimum" to repro. Ex: does it work if I disable positional encoding? Does it work if I have only one sample per ray on a single image dataset? Etc
ChatGPT made me rethink my assessment of how close we are to general AI. I was of the opinion that we need some major architectural innovations to actually get to general AI and while I think we still need some huge discoveries, I think ChatGPT was one of those milestones.
Perfect example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
You should probably just not use the Internet any more.
> The only thing that really matters is your data.

No, a one or two thousand dollar device getting stolen also really matters. If all a thief can get out of a stolen laptop is $10 of parts, there's less reason to spend time and effort on it, and certainly less reason to, say, kill somebody over it.
Salty, hehe. I'm triggered, haha
Just like Siri was about to revolutionize the world and it now is at best a shortcut to set a timer ?

Or like crypto was about to revolutionize the world in 2010 ?

Or maybe like we would have fully autonomous cars "in two years" in 2012 ?

I might be a pessimistic grandpa but it's not worse than a blind technophile
Hindu's are great at killing each other. Read the Ramayana and Mahabharata. Total bloodbath.
You can during the 30 days trial and if you get caught with overage after the trial is iver they are supposed to terminate your existing vms. I don't know the particulars of it though.
I have used these two "we"s in different contexts. Let's not move the goalposts, again.

As far as I remember, I also criticized butterfly keyboard switches up there. I'm also not afraid to criticize the tools I like a lot, too. I have also praised and criticized IBM, Lenovo, HP, Apple and numerous devices at other places.

I have never experienced MotionSense, so I can't talk about that.

Sent from my MacBook Air.
https://_.4a.si. works for me with letsencypt wildcard cert in firefox (:
Nah, don't. You can make something much better by writing a resume in HTML + CSS and converting it to a PDF. I have a GitHub Actions pipeline that builds and uploads it as an artifact. Or I can build it locally - all I need is Docker.
I usually use the rendered view because that’s just Ctrl+Space in my IDE.
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> Property rights are human rights.

Sure, then we can consider the category of human rights may contain (among other things) the right to personal property, as well as the right to be assured of your next meal, and there is no law of nature that says that rights cannot be in conflict. In a society of extreme scarcity, the latter may be unachievable. In a prosperous society like the one that I live in, the latter is entirely achievable, although sabotaged by short-sighted people who have yet to understand that treating crime at the source--human desperation--is more effective and efficient than treating the symptoms of crime.
> For me it's the opposite: usize is only used for indexing arrays, isize only used for memory offsets (which is a really niche use case outside of low level code), and most application code should be written with u32, u64, i32 and i64. Why is that? Because usize has a platform-dependent size and generally the logic of the program should be platform-agnostic.

While that may make it platform agnostic, doesn't that make it non-time-agnostic? What I mean is, I lived through the 16-to-32-bit transition. If Rust had been around then, and you wrote code that used u16, and you tried to use it now, you would probably bump against that 16-bit limit. The platforms grew with time, but the code didn't.

We're starting into the 32-to-64-bit transition (we've been slowly easing into it for years, in fact). Don't lock yourself into 32-bit code (unless the algorithm requires it). You're locking yourself out of the future.
How does that work with things like the porter who takes bags to the hotel room? Or the person who cleans the room?

Maybe they aren’t supposed to be tipped, as we never got the hang of it and blundered about trying to avoid causing offended.
Re: how sophisticated the code it generates is: I wrote up generating code in a language I'm very familiar with here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W3j5WaFhYZaqSt0ceRQj8j16...

tl;dr: in some instances I had to coach it pretty directly to get what I wanted. In other instances it was flawless. And to your point, some of the code it generated was both clearer and faster than the code I would have written for the same task.
(not them, but in this space with major enterprises and gov agencies deploying Graphistry)

We are pretty active here with security cloud/on-prem data lakes teams as a way to augment their Splunk with something more affordable & responsive for bigger datasets. Imagine stuffing netflow or winlogs somewhere at TB/PB scale and not selling your first born child. A replacement/fresh story may happen at a young/midage tech co, and a bunch of startups pitching that. But for most co's, we see augmentation and still needing to support on-prem detection & response flows.

It's pretty commodity now to dump into say databricks, and we work with teams on our intelligence tier with GPU visual analytics, GPU AI, GPU graph correlation, etc. to make that usable. Most use us to make sense of regular alert data in Splunk/neo4j/etc. However, it's pretty exciting when we do something like looking at vpc flow logs from a cloud-native system like databricks and can thus look at more session context and run fusion AI jobs like generating correlation IDs for pivoting + visualizing.

Serverless is def interesting but I've only seen for light orchestration. Everyone big has on-prem footprint which is an extra bit of fun for the orchestration vs investigation side.
> Revenue Officer to Exit

Is that an exec taking responsibility? Respect, I guess.
What's puzzling is that the creator of Markdown wants it like this, and actively resisted endorsing an official standard. He got into a fight with Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror / StackOverflow because of this.
The A/UX 0.7 source code has been floating around for awhile. If you search emule for 'various operating system source', you will find it in a (700 mb, I think) archive that also has NextStep, SunOS, Ultrix, and some other sources.
emphasizing the <a> elements is practically, semantically, and technically easier than de-emphasizing the entire post text node.
What about AI-assisted writing? e.g. improving style, grammar, readability, making explanations clearer and better structured? especially for non-native writers this is a challenge and not many can hire an editor or even a proofreader. I wonder if such use gets “penalized” by search engines the same way AI-generated content might?
Agreed! Just a reminder that NY Daily News is only slightly to the left of the Post so we can't discount the subtler message here -- "this data extrapolates to every jail in the US 1:1." (An oversimplification, the article also quotes someone saying this practice "seems cruel" for ex.)
I completely agree in general, and my resume is in latex along with my papers/etc.

However, I'd argue that industry-focused resumes are often a poor fit for latex. For an academic CV where going an extra page when you add a new detail is no big deal, latex is perfect. For a business resume, where one face of one page is the absolute most allowable and you're trying to keep content on one page, it gets rough.

I'm not sure it's worse than using other things, but "keep the layout on one page hacks" get pretty messy pretty quick in latex.
On an aside, how do you feel about this? Typescript was supposed to bring type visibility to JavaScript. But this still feels like bring your own research. If you input the wrong <Your custom error type>, TS compiler won’t prompt you. This makes me sad.
> then it makes sense to use the model instead

Especially since a Sr. Engineer (possible with Jr.'s input) using an AI for debugging, might be 99.9% correct _and_ faster.
I believe you. Heck, I personally know a business that only uses a PC to watch CCTV footage.
The same logic applies to industrial farming, at least in USA. Literal slave labor produces a bunch of the food that we eat and export. It probably isn't >50% though. This is a really interesting ethical argument though. How exploitative does an industry need to be before we'll consider it unacceptable?
How tyrannical. In Romania, my ISP Digi gives me a free domain name.
Because of the mandatory guidelines at the time (which have since been declared unconstitutional) any felony committed while in possession of a firearm federally had a 15 year minimum with no discretion for the judge.
Not sure it qualifies as surreal, but definitely weird and ridiculous, an app that turns your iPhone into a trombone using AR to track distance from your face.

https://www.tromphoneapp.com/

Disclosure: this is my own pet project. Discussed here previously:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33898421
This is why I love HN. You've taken a really nice idea and identified exactly how it will be abused by awful people.
It will make more sense once you realize the judicial system, cops, prisons etc demand their tribute and if less people are breaking the current laws more will have to be invented or prison sentences made longer.

Government apparatuses don't shrink in size. This is why the war on drugs started after prohibition, Henry Anslinger had to go after the evil marijuana. If people stop committing crimes we'll just have to invent more.
I was not suggesting the bot was telling the user to go make a PR to an open source framework but rather that they could create a library that contains those functions if that was the logical thing to do. Which is why I asked if that actually seemed the longer term right thing to do.

While I can easily agree that Copilot is probably the better tool for such questions, it is not clear from the parent comment whether their prompt to ChatGPT was asking to create code to do X or create code to do X using only existing publicly available libraries.

It's not immediately obvious that the bot failed to understand the question or that the answer was an example of the bot failing to understand the programming language. It could easily be that the user had an implied expectation of usability in a context they did not give to the bot.

That scenario is more like you asking a random person on the street, who happens to know Y framework, how to do X in that framework. Your coworker can be expected to get that you are looking for an answer that gets your current task done faster than you would be able to do without their assistance. The person on the street could not reasonably be expected to get that unless you give them that context.
True, but big companies can be trusted to do what's best for the company and it's stock.

While gaming is not a major profit center for Microsoft in comparison with Azure, Office, Windows, etc...if I'm on their earnings call and hear that their subscriber base for their most popular game is about to double because they opened their services to players on another platform....I'd call that a good thing.

I'd bet a lot that MSFT has already done the economics of the deal and figured that they'd come out ahead financially even if it means supporting PlayStation COD players for the next 10 years.
I think I respect that at least one of the executives whose responsibility it was to NOT let this happen is being exited out. Google and others have babbled on about executives taking full responsibility for the layoffs, but I don't see any of the key SVPs or VPs taking hits on failing in their leadership.

Also I understand they say to pursue other opportunities, but I think the reason for the CRO departure feels transparent enough here.
completely different mechanism.
And even if the AI model is only 75% correct, if it can generate the output near instantly and give that as a starting point, that's great. There's a reason why templates, wizards, and samples are so popular -- after servicing of code, the hardest part is probably getting started with it.
> 4. A extends B ... can be read as "A is subset of B".

I agree, it is unnatural to think of a subset as "extending" the set it is part of.
always, because "unknown" includes null / undefined, which don't allow property access at all.
I agree, but lots of folks are making presentations of this style because it's expected of them and they don't have the power to rock the boat, like the sibling comment about Beamer. Those folks still deserve good tools.

History and momentum is part of it, but the other part is the value of the slides when viewed later. There's an inverse correlation between the usefulness of slides and the quality of the presentation!

Best I've seen is low-text Google slides with heavy speaker notes included, but that's more work and prep than most people are willing to do (myself included).
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Over the long term, I don’t trust a NAS in my house to hold my photo collection (online.) Not because of the NAS, but because of my house.

Living spaces have a lot of factors that people optimize for when picking them. Data centres only have a few, and one of the most important is “is not prone to natural disasters.” Another is “has clean power with well-implemented surge and lightning-strike protection, and likely a UPS for graceful shutdown on power-cut.” I did not weigh any of those factors heavily when selecting where to live. A 1000-year flood could put my house underwater.

And while you could certainly stick a drive or tape with your photo collection in a fire safe in your home — that’s not really the point, here. Online sync and thin-client access is.

> They can still access it

Data stored in these services can be stored E2E-encrypted with only your clients, not the backends, holding the keys. IIRC there are many apps designed exactly for this “store data across many low-trust remote clouds, never giving the cloud providers the keys” use-cases.

On the other hand, IIRC there are no apps shipped by the NAS hardware vendors that do this, because they assume that your own physical ownership of the NAS is enough for you. And while you can set your NAS up to act similarly to a PC, with an encrypted disk that’s mounted on boot — that’s pretty useless, since a NAS is only serving a useful purpose when it’s already up when you need it, so its uptime will inevitably be measured in months.

Which is problematic, when your modelled attacker isn’t “the cloud vendor snooping on you”, but “the government raiding your house.” Data E2E-encrypted at rest in the cloud, with the only keys being on a device in your pocket can quickly locally wipe, is much more secure against that threat. (Not that this is the most likely threat for most people, but I like considering it, because if you can solve for this, you end up solving for basically all other threat models “for free.”)
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> I'm not ready to set this up, since I still use a few Big Sur and Monterey machines.

Yeah, unable to use iCloud on Windows is a big show stopper for me right now. I appreciate what Apple software we get on Windows and I've heard the Windows 11-only previews of updated Apple software are getting pretty good now. (I don't have Windows 11 so can't try them for myself.) But I'm very aware they are always going to lag a bit compared to their i-device and macOS versions. Including apparently on security support.
This is the release notes of a free software project.

While it's fair to criticize that the release notes are hard to understand for end users, accusing the authors of "gatekeeping" makes no sense here.
It is extremely relevant topic because it is *not a standard bureaucratic-technical layoff discussion around roumors, numbers, departments, teams etc.

Our new buddy Chris, in his own words, un-covers all the shitty corpospeak, all the bullshit about focus, values, alignment, performance and lets not forget - the so called "corporate social responsibility" etc. for what it really is - greed and maximising profits at the cost of people who build these companies.

The immorality of someone probably not working at all, who dares openly incite a disruption of the livelihoods of at least 12k working families should not be hidden from the public, least of all from the segment frequenting sites like HN.

It is important because for one high-profile like this, there are thousands of MBA-types at smaller companies who are learning by watching and who inevitably pass it down the line and spread the disease of these practices everywhere. We need to publically call these people out and ostracise their dangerous practices.

This topic was trending on the frontpage before you hid it.

How many people here contributed to this thread? The topic was clearly interesting to many and is clearly super-relevant.

Please put it back on and allow for the discussion to continue.
But then, it's not open to public access, just to you or whoever you trust with your VPN credentials.
I agree we should be evaluating “this candidate is a good engineer” and ignoring “this candidate has various attributes which often correlate with being a good engineer” - but how do you propose measuring the former? Bear in mind that even factors like “does well in a coding interview” is actually an example of the latter, not the former
Eventually. Wine 9.0 will probably have the goal accomplished, but it's not practical to use quite yet. :)
there's someone close to me in prison for murder. for me, there's no getting around what they did. at the same time, i've come in contact with the criminal justice system through them, and there's also no getting around what it is: a disgusting and irredeemable machine of exploitation. i didn't always used to see it that way, but now i know better.
Good times, good times.
What's "ordinary fast charging"? USB-PD 3 or USB-PD 2 or the older Qualcomm QuickCharge? Because the older Qualcomm versions (very common, pre-dates USB-PD 3) uses the data lines to communicate and thus requires a multiplexer to disable the normal data connection for it to work. USB PD 2 works similarly to Qualcomm.

There are a lot of "USB-C" devices (including hubs) that only actually use USB 2.0 signalling, and don't support USB-PD 3.
until to much tangle, then jump ship for something with less initial entangements
It's the successor of the exe MZ format, and based of COFF.

It's not gatekeeping when the goal of the project is to allow binary interoperability with windows.
I am sometimes required to have my resume in multiple languages. My current workflow is to create a copy of an english version and then translate it to the language required.

Would LaTeX make this easier, using something like templating where I could have a resource file for each language or would I still need to maintain multiple versions?
U.S. Sues Google for Alleged Antitrust Violations in Its Ad-Tech Business
What's the difference between the serverless PG of Neon vs something like ElephantSQL, which advertises itself as PG as a service? I'm guessing PG as a service is always running where serverless spins up to service the request? For standard CRUD access patterns does the distinction matter?
The difference between that and a scapegoat is not abundantly clear.
> How do people come out after 10+ years having received no training, support or rehabilitation and step into a completely changed society from when they went in.

Completely agreed. And it's not just that -- ex-prisoners also come out without any social network other than what they may have gained among prisoners, and they face extreme social stigma that makes finding work difficult even if they had the skills and connections.