skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes my blood boil. It's obvious that Killingly cops are just bored assholes on complete power trips. In general, centralization of power leads to unequal society. There should be quick and immediate recourse against police officers acting like this. No police officer should feel safe or beyond swift reproach when making comments like the ones in this article, yet there is absolutely no justice available for those affected. Even in a best-case scenario where charges are dropped a few days later, this is the psychological equivalent of a home invasion, and attempted kidnapping of their children. Dropping charges is not justice. Those officers should lose their jobs (but won't, because Killingly, like all of the 'Quiet Corner' is a complete boys club), and everyone involved in the decision tree should be heavily scrutinized. The town should issue a public apology. And whoever may or may not have called 911 should be publicly berated.

This is unacceptable. This is Eastern bloc level authoritarianism. Police are out of control.

No police officer in the country should feel comfortable making those threats. They are out of control
2006 was pre-Minecraft territory. Monetizing DF at that point in time would have been highly unlikely.

Also the game wasn’t built yet. Maybe they could have monetized earlier than this, but what does it matter? Maybe trying to monetized earlier would have killed the project or resulted in a game very different from today. Either way it doesn’t matter: there are different paths to success and not every one of them is an option for every game. DF found one though, and that’s what matters.
With the timing (ChatGPT out for about a month, GPT3 with close to identical capabilities in a different UI for 2.5 years) this announcement seems to add another datapoint that ChatGPT was a genious marketing campaign that pushes GPT adoption into the mainstream.
Are you seeing companies requesting or expecting cover letters, in recent years?

Lately, I occasionally see a job application Web form that has place for a cover letter (text field, or file upload), but if it's there, it's almost always clearly marked optional.

I also more often see people on HN talking about not reading cover letters, and not having much time to review most applications at all.

If someone sends me a cover letter purporting to be written by them, I'd expect them to have written it themselves (not generated it with "AI", nor had another human write it for them), and to make it worthwhile.
Why is that? Github has had a Twitter link in profiles for a long time. This is just accepting the reality that many programmers who use Github have now moved from Twitter to Mastodon.
> And some people have microencephaly. We're not talking about outliers. We're talking about the vast majority of people.

No, you specifically said "people without a disability". Unless you're going to expand the meaning of "disability", various permutations within the range of "normal" physical characteristics will impose different limits on athletic abilities, and analogously, the range of cognitive qualities (memory, focus, spatial reasoning, etc.) will do the same for cognitive tasks.

The fact that these qualities can be improved via training doesn't change the basic fact that those limits will be quite different for different people, even within the normal range. We can quibble all day about whether college algebra falls under that category, but this basic fact won't change.
Pretty sure GP is talking about net income.
> This would add complexity

It would add fair bit of code, sure, but nicely isolated and not complex: It's three extra lines of code in the main function, and a separate utility to write the config.

Balance that against the fact that the server then never writes its own config - that code is moved into the configuration-writing application, which removes complexity from the server application.

> and in particular couple the application to a specific combination of operating system/privileges model/file system.

It does indeed couple it to those systems that are sufficiently POSIX-like; however if you are writing a server that doesn't run on a Linux or BSD-derived system, you are out in the left field anyway.

> How great is the benefit, really? How many things are exploited by the application writing to its own startup config?

Well, the comment I made was in a thread discussing a vulnerability in the Microsoft Teams application[1] which was exploitable to retrieve the user's secrets[2] from their config file.

So, that particular comment was very much on-topic and in-context.

[1] Not sure if it was on all platforms or not.

[2] Or something - I forget exactly what was leaked.
Ask HN: What are some free and comprehensive Web Component UI libraries?
Nord (https://nordhealth.design/) is a good example of what I'm looking for but its license doesn't allow using it outside of Nordhealth projects. (https://nordhealth.design/faq/#can-i-use-nord-in-any-project)

What are some equally comprehensive alternatives Web Component libraries that are open source?
There’s a major contradiction in here.

I’m sure you’ll agree that it’d be mindblowingly dumb to not set some kind of company for a bunch of reasons? (Eg limited liability)

And that you best leave accounting and tax filings to professionals so that you can spend your precious time on something you love instead?

OP’s suggestion automatically flows from that…
You could do data augmentation. You could automatically translate (there're open source models to do so) to your language from close enough languages, and train your model on this data.
I was shown BTT 10 years ago and to this day I still use it. Thank you for making Mac a better place.
There is no such saying.

The quote, from John McCain, is "Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country".
Oh god thank you for your work.
To Lispers, Python's hyperpowers (reflection and dynamic typing) are just regular Lisp business. Lisp's strength lies exactly in how convenient doing metaprogramming is in Lisp.

There are probably some subtleties and differences in how powerful both systems are (can't say more, I don't know how powerful python's metaprogramming is), but just know that Lisp has practically no limit in how you can extend the language.
But as he fell, he was changed from a frog into a handsome prince, who then had to make death saving throws for a few rounds but luckily the princess had Lay On Hands, and so they lived happily ever after.
I'd suggest starting with just building a high quality data set with text from a variety of domains, and starting off by publishing that. Maybe even developing some related tech like adding the dialect to language id packages. Another key thing might be to build a nicely curated word list for the dialect, and make sure there's good documentation for researchers wanting to work in the language.

Partly I'm feeling inspired by Google's machine translation paper about scaling to the next hundred or thousand languages. Some links in here https://ai.googleblog.com/2023/01/google-research-2022-beyon...

But also when it's been successful, it's an effort of many different researchers. And it usually starts with data.

Training a language model on top of it is definitely doable even for individuals, you just might not be able to train on a huge data set or you might hit a wall in terms of the perplexity you can reasonably train.
TrustArc
It's going to be okay, the human system can cope with a lot (both physically and mentally). This amount of unexpected stuff in the food is considered normal, in fact, even encouraged. The immune system in particular suffers when people are placed in an overly sterile environment.
It's not "really exhausting", it's just doing your job?? Personally I enjoy more coming up with my own stuff and fighting to launch it than just following orders (my favorite career accomplishments are making .app and .dev happen).
Oh, so the library does most things for you. Okay...
So tasing people, makes them do stuff. got it.
Highly recommend documentation by F5 it's a goldmine, e.g.

K2289: Using advanced tcpdump filters
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K2289
Have you seen the meme of the man standing still, and the left wing person keeps moving further and further to the left - causing the person who stood still to become a conservative?

This is exactly how I feel. All of my core issues are the same as I held in 2000. Yet, I find myself conservative today. Personally I'm repulsed by "woke" or "replacement culture" - whatever you wish to call it. Its hard to define but I find myself being lectured about the dangers of cooking with natural gas (I love to cook). Its just so annoying. I wish I could change the channel.
Geneva: Quai 9, https://www.premiereligne.ch/ (haven’t seen a drug dealer in the wild here for about 8 years already).

I have heard that something like this works in Zurich, too.

Re: weed, it is still technically illegal here, but fully decriminalized, and nobody pays any attention if someone smokes it. I think it is a good thing, even though I don’t do it myself.
Then why are impersonators legal?
I think there's some validity to this perspective, but it oversimplifies the systemic effects. MDs, for example, are artificially constrained by the AMA in the number of doctors needed by society. It's been likened to a cartel that acts to keep doctor pay high by artificially limiting supply. Let the "bar to entry" be constrained by merit, not by a cabal. Likewise, most engineers aren't capital "E" engineers in the legal sense. Most work under an exemption to be able to call themselves engineers. Most don't even realize it - they are, to a certain extent, 'aspiring' engineers (legally, at least).
This is usually called the "Chinese Farmer" story, and it's very popular among consultants and speakers: https://www.google.com/search?q=Chinese+Farmer+story
What about complex human gestures? I've read some articles last year on google soli being used to control home appliances [1]. The tech is there (+cheap ?), the potential is rich, and it does requite neither yelling nor screens (it could be intrusive tough)

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/google-soli-atap-research-2022/
I get your argument about Bay12 potentially making more money had they commercialized earlier, but I think the comparison with Minecraft isn't so clean. DF is orders of magnitude less approachable than Minecraft, so there is not even a remote possibility of generating any kind of mass appeal to gamers.
Not everybody who is born rich becomes successful in later life.

Instead of fretting how rich people have an unfair advantage, we should try to give more people that advantage.

And say it takes a rich family to create one Neurosurgeon. Shouldn't we be happy that society is able to produce some Neurosurgeons?

Another note: genetics and evolution are not random luck. People struggle to find partners with good genes.
I am pretty sure the angry working class people couldn't care less (and are actively disgusted by) the newspeak proposed by the radical/academic left.
Emma Watson, probably
I would add 10) document review tools and management.

Authors in larger organizations are more editors than authors, and documents require submissions and detailed reviews by many different people. A management feature would be summarizing comments (RID - review item discrepancies, AI - action items, etc) and status of each comment; plus document deltas; plus document delta markup (change-bars in the margins of presentation versions like PDF).

Another feature would be support of document hierarchies, where changes to one doc invoke functions/procedures/status changes on subordinate docs.

Another feature would be tagging a set of matching documents as a "release" set.

The enterprise products support much of this. And the price is not small.
In Accepting an honorary degree from the University of Notre Dame a few years ago, General David Sarnoff made this statement: “We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.” That is the voice of the current somnambulism. Suppose we were to say, “Apple pie is in itself neither good nor bad; it is the way it is used that determines its value.” Or, “The smallpox virus is in itself neither good nor bad; it is the way it is used that determines their value.” That is, if the slugs reach the right people firearms are good. If the TV tubes fire the right ammunition at the right people it is good. I am not being perverse. There is simply nothing in the Sarnoff statement that will bear scrutiny, for it ignores the nature of the medium, of any and all media, in the true Narcissus style of one hypnotized by the amputation and extension of his own being in a new technical form. General Sarnoff went on to explain his attitude to the technology of print, saying that it was true that print caused much trash to circulate, but it had also disseminated the Bible and the thoughts of seers and philosophers. It has never occurred to General Sarnoff that any technology could do anything but add itself on to what we already are. (p. 11)

Marshall McLuhan - Understanding Media
> It's supposed to be management's responsibility to pick projects that will be successful.

That's simply not how it works at Google. Everyone has skin in the game. Who are you to say how it's "supposed" to work there? I'm telling you how it actually is.
In their Show HN post they mentioned some bits about the tech stack: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33833645
Nice! Grats to Bay 12 for an excellent launch, and a successful shoring up of their future.
The thing is that this is the first time they got this kind of money. And it was unexpected, since Dwarf Fortress sold their 8 month objective by the second week. So they weren't in a position of knowing who and how to call that someone.
Love always means signing up for future suffering due to our mortality.
Plus kitfox games, the "steam version" publisher, who AFAIK also brought on artists etc, non-nil contributions.
And as long as we keep focusing on idealogues of the culture wars, we can conveniently ignore the real sources of ill to the states, namely the concentration of wealth and power as a result of 40 years of anti-antitrust legal doctrine
This is the old scaretactic of "I would vote left, but since you started all this crazy stuff, I see myself forced to vote the right".

So if the "other side" moderates itself somehow, this demand is never going to stop.
You can ask why you chose, and when you gave the answer that you choose to do so because you choose to do so you're begging the question. What gave you that work ethic? Either nature or nuture, both outside your control.

For you to have any kind of real agency rather than being the product of cause and effect beyond any control of yours would upend both logic and physics (in other words: free will is nothing but an illusion).
Because luck has almost nothing to do with success. Luck might play a role in any particular event, but over time if you do the things that are conducive to success (including, but not limited to, hard work), and avoid the thing that are conducive to failure, then you will become successful.

The comment I initially replied to attributed success to the luck having a good childhood, and several people have chimed in saying I was also lucky and should attribute my own success to having a miserable one. All of this is clearly just unfalsifiable, post-facto rationalization to support the insane luck hypothesis. Your life is far too long to be governed by luck. If you have goals, then simply being dedicated to them over a period of time essentially eliminates the influence of luck (unless your goals are specifically highly luck dependant).
I have a very similar set up -- also using Home Assistant (and Node Red -- I don't like programming in YAML). I have Hue bulbs and motion detectors everywhere. (I much prefer the quality of the light and the ability to control that light based on time of day or whatever, rather than smart switches and dumb bulbs.) I have a small number buttons around the house that I can click, double-click, press-and-hold, for overriding default behaviour. My "good night" routine does something similar to yours, but waits for movement to stop outside of the bedroom for longer than 10 minutes before shutting off all of the lights. I even have some routines for things like meditation -- the lights in the room dim, three gongs ring to start, a gong once in a while, until three gongs at the end of the duration you've asked for.

It's all great. My wife and I almost never have to pick up my phone (app) or whatever and things just happen the way we want, just by walking around the house and going through our normal activities.

Until... We're about to get a guest for a few months. Now, suddenly, everyone in the house won't be going to bed at the same time, or coming and going at the same time... I've had to make sure at least one room is "dumb" and I'll need to add a button or two. I'd heard of big "guest mode" switches, and now I'm going to need to develop one.
Generally speaking, any action of significance for a cause that helps others requires key individuals within it to benefit in some way. Further, Jimmy’s making no claims of being a nonprofit entity, nor in my opinion is there any non-consensual aspect or for that matter abuse of power. The related non-profit is legitimate, the agreed to help, there’s no way he would have been able to accomplish this without them, and they & the people helped are clearly grateful too.

If there’s an alternative approach that might generalized and scale, please let me know.
The Jeopardy winning Watson wasn't a large language model (LLM) as it is understood today. That technology didn't exist at the time. It was more of an expert system.
This specter of unlimited liability must make the idea of becoming a parent quite daunting.

You need to secure not only housing, food, and energy, but also 24/7 supervision, in the form of daycare, after daycare activities, after school activities, or one parent being with the kids at all times. Which means you are especially screwed if there is a divorce, so you probably want backup grandparents and aunts/uncles, if they can afford to be available and near you.
https://www.pycm.io
Do it step by step.

Find a challenging enough problem on the next level to solve. For example, create a simple computer game, or simple web app, i.e. chat app in a browser. Approach it with the architectural mind set, i.e. first think how you would structure it, which components you will need. Then implement. If it goes well, find the next problem, if it doesn't take a look at similar OSS solutions. Study them, think about tradeoffs they made, and after learning from them try again.

P.S. Don't do more complicated scripting. I would say scripting is an area of its own. My understanding is that you want to get to more of an application development.
It sounds like you're describing people getting a different job at a different company? That's not the same thing at all.

When I joined Google I was "demoting" myself from TL/M equivalent to mere L4 SWE. The much higher pay didn't make it feel like a demotion though.
Are French People Just Lazy?
Hopefully they removed it, that's so stupid.
Is this a joke? I hate golang and have 99 bad things to say about it, but "not innovative" isn't going to be on that list.
http://archive.today/oVYoW
Why not both? I believe that I have no conscious free will. I do not think I have ever consciously “made a decision” in my life. They all ultimately arise from unconscious processes. My brain, at least, seems to be a complex system mapping certain sensory and biological inputs to outputs. Just because of that, does not mean I don’t have agency. In contrast, that is my agency.

I was lucky enough that my parents instilled senses of responsibility and hard work into my brain. In that way, I suspect, the transformation in my unconscious mind that maps those inputs to outputs considers things such as responsibility. It automatically (from the perspective of my conscious mind) prefers me being accountable, me doubling down in the face of challenges, etc.

I agree with you that I’m sick of seeing “it’s always someone else’s fault”, the “I can’t do it because I don’t have X”, etc. crowd. None of us can control everything, but we all ought to control what we can in an effort to improve our lives. How do we folk who are imbued with responsibility and a strong work ethic transfer that from our brains, and use that to transform the cognitive processes of others’ brains? I assume this is what happens when raising a child, and it’s easier because their brain is more impressionable. But it is certainly possible in adults, too. Emotionally moving books and stories, and ordinary people we meet can change our perspectives on life. Experiences can change our lives. The crowd we keep can influence us in certain directions. I suspect that transfer is the missing link that would allow someone who thinks “it’s all luck” to become someone who recognizes that they have agency in absence of luck.
Incidentally, as to _why_ this is, I suspect that it's

(a) because safety, as a concept, has somehow become highly politicised in the US (albeit recently in weird directions; bundling of anti-vax-ism into the far-right and increasingly the mainstream right has lead to the odd situation where the traditionally anti-safety faction are pushing for _higher_ regulation in one narrow area) and

(b) because the US's regulatory apparatus is much more politically influenced than that in most developed countries, due to how the US civil service works.
A Misadventure of the Correlation Coefficient
> as I agree with Hume, you can't go from an "is" statement to an "ought" statement.

Nitpick: that's not what Hume said. He did not say that one cannot derive "ought" from "is", he merely pointed out that philosophers had this curious habit of starting arguments making reasonable factual "is" statements, and suddenly transitioning into "ought" statements as if the factual statements entailed these "oughts", but that this was a non-sequitur without justification.
If you prefer to vote for politicians who want to physically harm other people and destroy the core values of your country because you don't like vocabulary guidelines, what are you? What are your values?

(See also: pro-gun "pro-life", Evangelists voting for a serial cheater, military voting for a draft dodger, etc.)
Have you taken a look at https://hop.io/ ?

Seems to be an attempt to recreate the best parts of Heroku with some extras.
I know one thing or two about fb bot AKA scraper :P

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23490367
Everyone was warning about the singularity but none of us considered the horrors of the comedy chimera.
Flame, 2D game engine for Flutter
My idea is to leverage ChatGPT for "thought aggregation". For example, say there are 10K comments on a particular post or video (or any topic). We usually don't value thoughts from "the masses" very much but there could be important ideas emerging / buried in these comments. ChatGPT LLMs could likely be leveraged to aggregate these comments into themes and summarize them in a meaningful way.

One way to think about this idea is multiple choice surveys are great because they are easy to summarize. Their weakness is they overly constrain responses and the aggregated results may not accurately represent the opinions of the people being polled. The idea is to reverse engineer something like survey from free form comments.
AI as systemic risk in a polycrisis world [pdf]