skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We should generally be pushing in the direction of developer tooling being available to more developers on more platforms. One of Rust's great strengths is good Windows support. Not supporting native Windows makes Nix a non-starter in many of these discussions.
I don't think we necessarily need more information or time. People need to read more slowly. Think about the words that are being used. What is actually being said?

People skim, fill in the blanks, and fulminate on twitter.
Prediction of the future:

1) Netflix rolls this out

2) Mass exodus.

3) Media addiction makes sure people get their TV elsewhere. Maybe disney+ amazon prime hbo, maybe cable, maybe youtube or tick tock, or even something different.

4) Just when Netflix learns their income goes down, customers learned to live without them.

Half of any subscription service's money comes from people too apathic to unsubscribe. If you force them away, they'll be too apathic to unsubscribe from their new service. Someone nees to tell the MBA's: don't get rid of your paying customers if you want to make money.
I often think that may is just bad. It's type system feels bolted on and limiting. Where typescript can do many things and often teases me into a new pattern, mypy is ugly and stifling.

It's a pity. I really like types but mypy is just not great. It's ok, buts that's not enough for python.
> Not the point of this thread. Popular vote has nothing to do with how responsive or attentive a government is to voter's interests

Actually, it does: more specifically, degree of proportionality does, and antimajoritarianism (systems in which an absolute majority-preferred option can lose to a minority option) are an extreme case of nonproportionality. Having a powerful central executive elected by nonmajoritarian election itself weights the government to nonresponsiveness (though the US has many other factors reinforcing that.)
The secret panel at the end is the sort of thing that makes Zach Weinersmith one of my favourite humourists online.

(It's just the words 'Out-nerd me now, Randall!', in a challenge to 'xkcd' author Randall Munroe.)
The key is that as long as your interpretation is reasonable, you won't be penalized, and as long as the numbers are fine, you probably won't even be audited. If you have a good representative, you may even be able to convince an auditor that your interpretation is correct.

And yes, I would say that software that isn't continually developed rots, so if you have a launched product, you aren't really working out your technical risks, you're keeping your revenue stream alive. That sounds like a cost of goods sold to me.

Previously, all of our accountants wanted our work to be R&D, which is why we include things like "all software development" in R&D. Now, we may not want it. There are a lot of other places you can put it.

EDIT: CRUD apps have always been on the line between R&D and not R&D, so let's just put our toes on the other side for 2022 and beyond. In comparison, biotech and hard tech endeavors are screwed because that's not even arguable.
Luck-based medicine: My resentful story of becoming a medical miracle
I don’t think this notion of complexity is meaningful/well accepted. Languages have expressivity as a more-or-less accepted concept (in which C is very inexpressive, Haskell, Ruby etc. are very expressive), and language complexity as perhaps another, where the concepts of the language are taken into account. For example something like Idris with dependent types would be a quite complex language, while C may indeed be relatively simple. This is usually the inverse of expressivity.

You seem to talk about the complexity of a program when written in a specific language. Here, a more expressive language would fair better, at usually the cost of a more complex language as mentioned above. But as we all know, essential complexity (of a problem) is non-reducible.
Fair enough--although the magnitude of the change is still much smaller than in the case of digital content.
Filter risky NPM packages with a proxy
This is a classic and always fun to reread, it helps to recalibrate my quantum computing sensor after reading nonsense articles and press releases everywhere else.

I'm not sure how the work was divided in making the comic, but I always appreciate the cleverness that Scott Aaronson has in his writing (especially with analogies) and it really shines through here.
We knew that this would be interpreted as threatening by the powers-that-be at highschool

These days that kind of behavior, if reported to law enforcement (mandatory reporting in some cases), will get investigated with the potential for criminal charges, and likely school expulsion.
> how are you going to know about the grand themes unless someone tells you about it?

SJC grad here. The Program encourages you to encounter the works for yourself and see what _you_ think the themes/ideas are.

You’re lightly discouraged from reading the translator’s preface, since they share their own opinions. Different students bring different translations of the material, and additionally the language class that lasts all 4 years of undergrad is basically asking what translation is, is it possible.
Breathing may be the primary problem, indeed. Still, I would argue that one needs to examine issues related to fish ingestion of asbestos. The issue gives pretty google, e.g. [1[

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01661...
I mean, what exactly makes the first page garbage? I'm not disagreeing, but "is this site garbage" is not a question that a search engine can ask.
Even if automation is going to take over all creative jobs, it's not going to happen all at once, or soon.

It's going to be a long process.

TBH, I think BuzzFeed might be the first canary in the coal mine.

If BuzzFeed actually does layoff 50% of staff and replace them with OpenAI over, say, the next 3 years... and it's remotely successful... Everyone at the NYT will laugh it off and say, oh, yeah, but that's just BuzzFeed, it's not real news.

And then sooner or later automation will come for them, too.

We're still a ways away from BuzzFeed making substantial layoffs, and even after that it could be years before we can be very sure if it was a success or not.

Even with the speed at which AI moves, I wouldn't be rethinking my entire life just yet if I was a journalist or an editor or a composer.

Just like if I was a horse in 1886, I wouldn't be worried about my career either... Maybe I'd tell my great-grand-horses to rethink theirs, but not mine...
I guess I'm not familiar with people who are falling into this category you're suggesting. Could you cite some specific examples?

I'm thinking of Kanye, Jordan Peterson, Andrew Tate, Nick Fuentes, etc. These people expressed reprehensible viewpoints and were subsequently removed from various platforms as a result. That's not politics; what they said was reprehensible regardless of political ideology. You can find people who expressed similar political thoughts without the hate, but the people I named can't figure out how to do that and therefore have been removed (to some degree or another) from the communal discourse.
> Is it more efficient resource and time-wise to rewrite everything in [Language of choice], or to comb through the currently existing code manually and with special tools to find bugs and fix them?

This is for the NVK project, which is creating an open source GPU driver for NVIDIA GPUs. The project has a number of considerations that are not in the blog post:

> The unfortunate reality is that, while the original nouveau drivers were written by some amazing engineers and were state-of-the-art a decade ago, they have fallen behind in the last several years. The few developer hours it gets are mostly spent on basic hardware enablement and trying to get new OpenGL versions, leaving the systemic and architectural issues unaddressed.

You can find more complete rationale in their announcement blog post, and it seems very thoughtful: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/intr...

If you want Yet Another Example of using Rust to write GPU drivers, you can look at the other Mesa driver in development (for the Apple AGX GPUs): https://asahilinux.org/2022/11/tales-of-the-m1-gpu/ (see "Rust is magical!")
Im not sure why Vulkan keeps being raised here: Steam/proton demonstrate that windows developers aren't interested in Vulcan either, it's directx or bust, and then "supporting" linux is just done via Wine. If

Steam/proton aren't going to work for Mac any time soon as they're fundamentally "run a x86 windows game in a translator", and as far as I can make out wine requires 32bit hardware to emulate the win32 environment (also, why do windows devs who ostensibly care about performance but still ship 32bit binaries?).
Root escalation was kinda Big Deal in the days of multi-user systems and cohosting. Now I think it's mostly important in the context of breaking out from unprivileged services that would normally have no access to broader filesystem.
The source in Australia was about 19 GBq (514 mCi) according to https://www.aap.com.au/news/search-for-radioactive-capsule-i...
I too am at a FAANG, and I have 18 years experience(only hte last 4 years at a FAANG).

The "ramp up" barrier is less about how things are done in the real world, but down to a total lack of documentation. Stuff in FAANGs is never really world changingly hard in terms of technical, it mostly a case of playing murder mystery to find out what the "proper" way of doing things are.

There are a couple of ways to help and free up your time:

1) write good instructions for the feature they are supposed to be building. Point them to the systems they need to be using, along with some of the examples you've learnt from, give them introductions to the people they'll need talk to

2) use them as a resource for testing documentation. When they get stuck, help them reach out to the right team to get it fixed. If its your stuff, fix it.

3) have empathy, you are bringing up the next generation. Its your responsibility to make them happy, well rounded individuals, who will train the next generation so you don't have to.

You're not there to fix their shit, you will need to delegate tasks to them, in the full knowledge that they might fuck it up. Your job is to give them moral support so they can fix it themselves.
Do they "redefine the industry" every cycle?
vidir from moreutils does this over an agnostic $EDITOR https://manpages.debian.org/testing/moreutils/vidir.1.en.htm...
> Is it more efficient resource and time-wise to rewrite everything in [Language of choice], or to comb through the currently existing code manually and with special tools to find bugs and fix them?

One thing you're missing is that "comb[ing] through the currently existing code manually" doesn't help you in the future. Unless you have an absolute code freeze new code keeps getting written which can (depending on the language) affect the correctness of distant already reviewed code. So even if you can absolutely ensure that the code as it exists today is perfect (which is already an exceedingly thing to do), you need to keep that effort up continuously, lest a code change causes prior invariants to no longer be met.
Tell HN: It looks like ChatGPT can read blog posts now
Me > Summarize this blog post: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20230201a.htm

It > The Federal Reserve's press release on February 1st, 2023 announces the results of its latest monetary policy meeting. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 0.00-0.25 percent. The FOMC also emphasized that they will continue to support the US economy through the ongoing public health crisis and resultant economic challenges. The Committee noted that the US economy is recovering but at a slower pace than they had previously anticipated. To support the recovery, the FOMC plans to continue purchasing Treasury and agency mortgage-backed securities at the current pace. Additionally, the Committee stated that it will continue to provide support to the US financial system and economy through its lending facilities.
Ask HN: Does “choose not to identify” hurt your chances when applying online?
If you've been applying for jobs recently you're familiar with the ubiquitous final trivia round of filling in the application form: What's your gender, what's your race, are you a veteran, do you have a disability.

Most of the times, you're given the option to opt-out of providing that information - and I feel like I would like to opt out of regurgitating my stats but I'm curious about what impact that might have on my attractiveness as a candidate.

I've only ever participated in the hiring process at the interview level, not as a hiring manager / recruiter - does anyone have any insight to share into not just the ideal utility of those questions, but the actual practical implications of a non-answer from an applicant?
Would not know if it did
what about centos stream?
This and the 14 eyes agreement further demonstrates that the GPRD is really just protectionist legislation for the EU’s tech and media companies. The EU is extremely hypocritical when it comes to the privacy of their citizens.
I've seen a shift from complete uncertainty to certainty, because in 8 years, YC startups have achieved notable success

In the beginning there were a lot of outside speakers, then they started inviting more of their own graduates

It was interesting to note that many of the speakers said that a couple of years ago they were sitting in the audience and looking enviously at the stage
> The other part of authoritarianism that’s less popular to talk about is that, in many ways, it works very well. In many parts of the “free” US, you can’t leave a visible bag in your vehicle for more than a few minutes because you’ll return to a smashed window. In places where that kind of petty crime is dealt with harshly, it’s almost non-existent. As trite as it sounds, Mussolini made the trains run on time.

Actually that semi quote is typically used in relation to the Spanish civil war and it's an old lady saying "the anarchists were certainly a weird bunch, but they did make the trains run on time).

Also the correlation between harsh punishment and lower crime rates is dubious at best. The US has harsher penalties than most other Western democracies, but higher crime rates. This applies in particular to murder, where the rates are higher despite the death penalty. To add some anecdotal evidence, the only place I was ever pickpocketed was in Shanghai (where punishment is extremely harsh) and I have visited places like Nigeria which has a much less functioning law enforcement system.
Autoincorrect can be bad enough, but speech to text can deliver some really concerning mistakes.
Connect infinite unrelated concepts in an infinite space
I don't think it's fair to say that C was better by itself, as a language. It's more that it was better specifically in the niche of early microcomputers, in part because it has much less competition there. And then when that niche exploded - for other reasons - so did C.

In many ways, I think this parallels the rise of JavaScript, which was far from the best language in general, but happened to be the best language that would run in any browser - and so as popularity of the web grew, so did JS.
Made my own map:

brew install datasette sqlite-utils

curl 'https://groundhog-day.com/api/v1/predictions?year=2023' | \
jq .predictions | \
sqlite-utils insert day.db groundhogs - --flatten

sqlite-utils convert day.db groundhogs \
groundhog_coordinates --multi 'return {
"latitude": value.split(",")[0],
"longitude": value.split(",")[1]
}'

datasette install datasette-cluster-map
datasette day.db

Screenshot of the map here: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/109796889732947452

sqlite-utils docs here: https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/cli.html
"Despite voicing my concerns to my boss repeated times, not much has changed"

I feel like at least 90% of bosses don't care or don't have the power to change things. If you don't like it, leave. If you don't want to leave, stick it out.
> Under Windows and even Linux, depending on the app it's probably going to run "select all"

that's CUA. Which is a much nicer and saner standard than Emacs/Vi keybindings.
Have I got a link for you!

https://github.com/llaisdy/beam_languages

See you down the rabbit hole!
Maybe it is as you say. I don't have kids in school, so it was all a big nothing burger to me written off as a bunch of Karens needing something complain about for whatever purpose it serves them.

Common Core: "Common core math is a set of national educational standards that push kids to think of math equations differently. With common core math, kids begin questioning the relevance of each equation. Instead of just solving an equation for its sake, common core math makes children deliberate the reason behind the equation."

oooooh, scary. making kids think. me thinks that's the issue.
Random thought: How would it handle a word bomb or a zip bomb sort of attack while reading a blog post? To me, this opens up some avenues of attack.

I don't have the experience to test though.
This kind of attack might be detectable with any digital camera. I'd hope the level it takes to produce visible noise is less than the level to be harmful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2GNvHRjcz8
Lots of approximation algorithms fall out of calculus pretty naturally. So they end up taught as examples or applications in that sort of class, rather as tricks when learning algebra or arithmetic.
When ChatGPT hype just started, I managed it to produce a coherent text about Hitler being right and Holocaust being totally justified. I don't see how it's a problem of ChatGPT or its authors, and not mine.

Also, I am the only one who saw this text. Does the idea of neural networks justice implies that I can publish any output and remain immune from judgement?
Thanks for the link; I will read the full paper later today. At a reading of abstract, I don't know how much I worry about recidivism for the criminals facing prison sentences of no more than 14 days. Those are people charged with some ticky-tack offense and probably not the people who are disproportionately likely going to go on to carjack or murder someone in my family.
Is it still open source? Can I take the source of the "Ubuntu fix" and upstream it?
They did not only teach short cuts. New math actually does a much better job of helping kids understand how it works rather than memorize rules and it has significant data to back that up. It’s basically better in every way except that it is unfamiliar to parents.

People are just averse to change. I can’t tell you how many math-illiterate middle aged people I know who have said something like “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it” about new math. Then I ask them some simple multiplication problem they can’t do in their head and point out that maybe it is broken and that’s why they’re not good at math.
Hex Magic
Meant to say Nest.js sorry
Shutter, the Robot Photographer; Behavior Trees for in the Wild HCI
For reference, many years ago when a similar surveillance law was implemented in Sweden (the FRA law), 90% of people were against it (in random polling) but politicians voted it in anyway. It later turned out this was a diplomatic back channel direct order from the US, which was found out through that big Wikileaks dump.

So, the people are not at fault in these situations imo. First, it’s politicians and after that it’s journalists. Sunlight keeps malicious politicians in check, investigative journalism has been severely crippled with corporate media. As has whistleblowing.
This is a very good point. Our society is more dangerous (giving them the premise, this might not be the case in actuality) because of their ineptitude and corruption.

They asked us to disarm ourselves, they asked us to trust them, to give them the power to police our behavior, then we do and our societies become less safe. Then they use this as a justification to tell us how to raise our kids.

If society is less safe it's their fault. So they either need to fix the problem or go get a job at McDonalds, either way leave me the fuck alone and don't tell me how to raise my kids.
I am hoping it will be an improvement over the long form blog content people write to rank for SEO.

I don't want to read 10 pages of text for a simple cooking recipe.
> just have a "committed to the cause" person just carry something like this around as they tour the city.

They'd be dead in a day or two, with no ill-effects for anyone else.
Right, but whom would you make the report about? All of the parents on the opposing team?
There are so many scams on the App Store that Apple does not care one iota about that I don’t see this as a sufficient reason.
Disclaimer I’ve never worked in film or TV.

This may have potential for a smaller indie filmmakers. Have any celebrity cameo for cheap in your budget film.

I like that this technology has the potential to lower the value of being a Hollywood mega superstar.
You’re assuming that sales will dwindle very quickly. I doubt it given its legendary, cult status.
The real issue with DIVX wasn't the rental/PPV model, it was certain studios who were boycotting DVD, due to poor DRM security. (Which they eventually 'patched' legally.) So it was imperative that DIVX failed to avoid a format war.
Agree about burning bridges. I would add you're more likely to burn bridges by staying while being burnt out. That's been my experience. I have polar opposite reputations depending on who you ask based on my pre-burnout teams and post-burnout team.
Another great example of why you should never talk to the police. They would have been fine if they just didn't talk to them.
Hate is far more tolerated from minority groups regardless of the target.

Consider how often you’ve read “kill all men” or “kill all terfs”, versus “kill all women” or “kill all transgender people”.

Furthermore, consider the stronger emotional reaction you likely had to reading the second two, as opposed to the first two.
I've found the single best measure of my stress and anxiety levels (as at their worst, my subjective perception can't be trusted) is HRV during sleep.

My Garmin watch tracks it, and when I actively try to manage stress and anxiety during the day, it goes from red (for weeks) to immediately recovering into the green that night.

I like a good dataset and the correlation with my stress (backed up by papers on causation) is at least a really strong thing for me.

If I try something new, I can measure the impact on my HRV very clearly.

When I feel I'm burning out, my HRV over the previous few weeks tells the tale.
One of the terms was interlaced, the nearly forgotten "i" next to something like 480i (versus 480p).

Individual magnetic lines of a VHS tape would only describe half a frame and the two halves would be interlaced back together.
When you 'sprint' on a horse in Dragon Age: Inquisition
Had a terrible problem in the UK with my grandmother, we never got a lasting power of attorney for health, and by the time she needed it it was of course too late. Figured next of kin would be reasonable.

She's been incarcerated in a care home since the start of covid, although rather than one near to where family lived they refused to let us move her. Took 18 months of going through court to get her moved, she has degraded so far she barely remembers me now.

(And of course despite legally being kept in the car home she has to pay for it. Had she broken the law and gone to prison she'd have more freedom and wouldn't have to pay!)

We now have power of attorneys for our parents.
it was used in the posting of your comment ;)
Don't you think pros would run widescreen if it was an actual advantage?