skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We (as an industry) can't get feature requirements or business logic documented to be interpreted consistently by humans, who understand those problem domains in high fidelity, let alone some computers reading that text. I

It would be pretty cool if LLM was able to be trained on your company's private code and then you were able to ask it "hey, we're thinking about making XYZ change with one of our vendors/components, what ramifications should we think of" and then it scans all of your code and tells you where stuff is touching it.

I can think of a ton of reasons why were years away from that/small simple breaking things that send the entire thing out the window, but I'd be surprised if we aren't marching towards some version of that next 5-10 years. Think of how many executives in companies will throw money at Microsoft if they promise (they can outright basically lie in the sales pitch and it doesn't even have to work cough Azure cough) it'll scan the entire company's code base and do advanced analytics on it.
Perhaps you could ask ChatGPT to craft the ideal FOIA request to obtain the datum you seek.
Related:

https://gist.github.com/joymon/89aeb18bef588895426b46a54e2ba...

https://themeisle.com/blog/free-zapier-alternatives/

https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev/blob/main/READM...

https://automatisch.io/

https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34723989
My point being is that by not having hardware based MFA, but still have a form of soft token MFA doesn't make the IT personnel completely incompetent or negligent.

Not requiring MFA at all and having weak passwords would be an example of that.
Huh, today I learned. That's interesting. Reminds me of how the ownership is for some of the convenience stores are too.
Tim Cook, I have a Mac obsession
In 2022, I purchased three M1 machines; two Macbook Pro M1 Pros, and a M1 Studio Max.

I've also invested more than 4 months salary into Apple and I am proud of it.

My primary use case is software development and experimentation (mostly in the realm of WebRTC high-fidelity audio streaming between peers on ad-hoc networks we set up).

The M1 Studio is colocated in Wisconsin and I am in Nicaragua. I've rented various Macs from macminivault.com over the past 2.5 years and decided it would be more economical to just buy a new Studio and ship it to them.

Absolute phenomenal experience.

I'd be interested in hearing if anyone else has this Mac obsession like I do, or perhaps I'm just crazy.

I could care less about any of their other technology. Just the Macs, but I love Apple Music as well.
I find it funny that while I'm a regular visitor to Reddit, I only find out about the attack on HN.
As a Russian I can tell you and everyone else drawing parallels with the past forget there were no sanctions at the scale as currently applied to putin and there were no crypto at the time.

If there were strict sanctions in place, they would not be able to fly to cyprus as you say. And if there was crypto, they would be far more efficient at doing what you describe because they don't even need to pay for the planes and a bunch of people to move cash (people who steal it and can leak the information).

And people called me naive in this thread. The real or faked naivety of crypto pushers is what knows no limits...
Not sure how it cross applies to flying, but I can anecdotally say I had way more accidents and speeding tickets driving unmedicated for adhd.
I'd say bashrc and profile and friends are one of the few examples in which using hardcoded paths is OK. Same with SSH, GPG, and PAM.

But when people are talking about compliance, and hardcoding very few people are talking about those applications - there are hundreds of other applications do the wrong thing, and some scripts hardcode things as a result.
I think another big component is you can't sell a growth story to Wall St. with a skeleton crew keeping the lights on. You have to have plenty of engineers working on the next big thing.
Incidentally, these also happen to fit perfectly inside a Microsoft Surface.
> Apple ruined their IMAP client ("Mail") a few years ago

Please elaborate on this point. I’d like to know how it was before and how it is now.

> so now that world is basically Outlook and Thunderbird, and I'm sure I don't need to describe why Outlook is unacceptable.

Please also elaborate on why Outlook is unacceptable. I like hearing different perspectives.

I personally don’t use Outlook and don’t like it because it pushed a lot of non-standard things (for want of a broader and better word), is actually slow and painful to use, and exists to satisfy Microsoft’s agenda to make everything proprietary (AFAIK Outlook365/Microsoft365/Exchange Server by default disables IMAP, SMTP and POP citing those as insecure even though they’re usable with OAuth2).
You hit on a huge topic here - and you pointed out the paragraph discard

I think AI will ultimately force us to realize that we don't fully understand what makes us sentient - our current understanding of mind is inadequate. I do not believe that I am what thinks - rather I am what perceives myself thinking. That slight difference is extraordinarily significant. That's another debate tho.

Consciousness isn't necessarily something that may be attained - it may be possible for an AI to essentially know all things and not be actually self aware - despite even knowing what self awareness is & understanding how the concept applies to itself, with self identification, & even being able to perfectly represent an AI with self awareness - none of that is proof of sentience as all are plausible without it in a system that simply mimics with nearly perfect, or simply indistinguishable from reality, mimicry. A perfect mimic would pass all our tests and yet still is not more than a mimic. A mimic cannot exist independent of what it mimics.

I just keep wondering how long we can keep playing that we've got ourselves all figured out. All of these articles demonstrate to me that our definitions are clearly lacking if these AI are actually meeting our current understood expectations.

Obviously, an AI performance/capacity to perfectly mimic a person doesn't make that AI a person. What about a person is different from the AI that perfectly mimics a person?

I'm trying to avoid semantics - I still think this falls apart at an idea level, which means is still inherently a philosophical debate. A debate that is now possible due to the mirror that is an AI - we have a new vantage point we ought utilize.

to;dr: If an AI passes all the Turing tests today, that proves only that we need to change the test, as AI today are obviously not people yet. The standards to a new test will require us to revisit our concept of mind - conceptually, as current understanding has proven rather limited.
Are you suggesting that exchanges might be misappropriating customer funds? I find that incredibly difficult to believe.
"science" page, linked from the video: https://lod.org/research/research.html

They say they want to do lightning research, and for that they need two Tesla coil producing 8 megavolt. They then say this gem:

> But storm clouds produce DC voltage, and the Tesla towers produce AC. How will this work?

> ... The creation process of lightning is very fast, taking place on the microsecond timescale. The Tesla tower AC voltage moves at a slow rate, so during the lightning creation event it scarcely moves at all, acting for all intents and purposes like a DC voltage.

So if all they wanted is science, they could just use pulse generator, like Marx or even Van de Graaff. Commercial Marx generators are available in multi-megavolt range, and Van de Graaff voltage is limited only by it's arcing/corona -- Wikipedia says it's 5 MV easily.

It will be significantly cheaper and more practical, and also closer to the real conditions in the thunder clouds... but it'll also be only one spark every few seconds instead of cool non-stop Tesla lighting.

I have a feeling that this is basically "Let's do a cool thing!" rather than any scientific goals.
Seperate inner shenanigans (yes, I said shenanigans!) from presentation. Allows for skins, easier changes to appearance, etc.
People have been saying this is a problem since the mid 80s, when companies like McDonnell Douglas were teaching people in China to build MD-80 airplanes.
In some countries you get your private key embedded in the smart chip in your government ID card (accessible by NFC from any recent smartphone or a $10 USB reader), which you'll want to replace anyway if you lose it.
I didn't watch the video in its entirety, but it directly contains the image from the ad, and promotion of the site linked in the image (which is not in the video).
If you don't think this is legitimate, please tell me why it's not, instead of a link to a conspiracy site that says the Earth is flat.
Oh, yes please. Having a custom connector when the world has standardized around USB-C is super user hostile.

Even their own product lineup is confused:

Mac: USB-C

iPad: USB-C

iPhone: lightning

AirPods: lightning
Yes but there’s no real coverage, just few houses in the center of Milano or Torino. Where I live isn’t available.
This is great. I've been wanting something that looks like this for a product landing page for a long time. Thank you.
Yeah but what happens next?!?
I am unsure why you are telling me this. I am aware of the RPi PoE HATs, but the OP looks like he has a number of other USB powered devices beyond a single SBC, and it doesn't look like he has a PoE switch. For $30 or thereabouts he can replace all of the USB PSUs which will simplify the cabling and be a little more energy efficient.
You can build anything using numpy. You can build a supercomputer out of duct tape if you want to.
Spinning up a db, serving an API, doing natural language processing, ... whatever you want.
That said, there are niche solutions that do these things well and that can save you a lot of work. There are also frameworks (such as Pyntango/Jupyter/Nbspectrum) that lets you spin up a simple API quickly.
> but my question is if you, the human, can learn to understand what it is to perceive magnetic fields? I think obviously the answer is yes.

I think it's obviously no, because we don't have sensations of magnetic fields. It's the question of what it's like to be a bat raised by Thomas Nagel. The aliens can give us their words for conscious magnetic sensations which we can learn to use, but we won't experience them. We're basically p-zombies when it comes to non-human experiences.

> There I think the resolution is that the human following instructions does not understand Chinese but the room, the system of instructions + the human to follow them does. In a similar way obviously an individual neuron doesn't understand anything but brains do.

Searle's response to the systems objection is that we already know that brains understand Chinese. But we don't know this for the room. I would further say that brains alone don't understand anything, humans understand things as language users embedded in a social and physical world. One can invoke Wittgenstein and language games here.
Some employers? That seems to be the norm from what I've seen. Team leaders usually know full well how hard it is to find good new people and get them trained, just like the previous comments here say, but somehow upper management never seems to understand this at all. I guess they think that's lower-level management's and HR's problem to solve.
How does this relate to Automatisch, if at all? The frontend, documentation, and codebase have eerie similarities to ActivePieces.

ActivePieces:

- https://www.activepieces.com/docs/

- https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces

Automatisch:

- https://automatisch.io/docs/

- https://github.com/automatisch/automatisch
Huh. Mine took my kid to diving practice this afternoon. Weird world.

Just please stop with the hate. That's really all I'm asking. If there's data let's argue about data. But once you jump off into "idiot Teslas randomly braking and swerving like drunk frat boys" there's no coming back to rational discourse.
Am I doing the math right? Yahoo is still employing 2-3x as many people as GitHub? Surely GitHub has more impact.
Big = large sales volume (billions), large numbers or customers (tens of millions) or customers being large companies themselves.
In some jurisdictions (such as Australia), this is called a wash sale, and is illegal.
I can't see how.

If I were to be in an environment where there are multiple developers who can understand even the basic mathematics of geometry and linear algebra too do what I do (that's a tall order. It hasn't happened once in 20 years that I've worked in a company that has had even one other developer that knew anything beyond basic algebra), why would they spend their time telling me how to do my job, rather than just doing their job? If I got something wrong in my code, A) how did the process guarantee that it will be caught? B) why wouldn't whoever found the problem just fix it?

It's kind how my children argue over basic things like bedtime. They insist it's only "fair" if one of them turns off the light and the other closes the door. And if the light is already off when they enter the room, then the door closer is going to get pissy and turn the light on to make his brother get up out of bed and turn it off.

It's a meaningless exercise developed to give the illusion of control.
Yahoo is still in the top 20 most visited sites in the US
No impact. CRUD isn't that simple or it would have been automated out a long time ago, AI or no AI. Even low code or no code solutions have not been sufficient to disrupt this industry. There is often business requirements that must be modeled. Not to mention that not all aspects of these types of jobs are 100% focused on CRUD applications but sometimes small utility programs that move documents and data from one place to another. AI isn't at the point where they can learn to investigate how the business works, then ensure that the processes are unaffected as these processes are improved upon.
You're talking to someone obsessed with money. Just how some people are.
This post is dead on. I didn’t understand it fully until I went to large companies. Google has reinvented every part of the stack for better or worse. Certainly I think git would be fine but it didn’t exist in its current capacity when they built their own source control.

But when you operate millions of machines it might actually make sense to have a team hacking on a custom jvm or version of llvm or a custom network stack because single digit percentages point perf increases are tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars worth of value
The actual outcome of this fine isn’t going to be that staking companies and exchanges start registering their products as securities. There’s just way too much regulatory overhead for that to make any sense. The actual outcome is that US customers will access staking through non-US exchanges and decentralized services, where they may face more risk. I think everyone involved in this decision understands that, including the SEC.
> The dealbreaker for me when I tried Thunderbird years ago is that it lacked any way to export the filters you'd set up, so you could copy them to your other computers. Has this been addressed?

It’s been a while since I used Thunderbird and looked at its internal files. But I remember some .dat file inside the profile that stored the filters and could be copied across.

Edit: Found it. The filter rules are in a file called msgFilterRules.dat. This answer and others on super user (from more than 10 years ago) have the details. [1] I’m sure the Thunderbird forums would also have this information.

[1]: http://superuser.com/questions/439451/ddg#439458
My view is that the ultra-sized software companies (Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Uber) have huge headcounts because they have realized something important about software:

There's no upper limit to the amount they can produce, and by producing more they're able to provide more and more tailored solutions for more and more hyper-specific use cases, which is needed to acquire and retain users at the kind of scale they deal with.

Apple is one notable exception to this, because their product philosophy is one of a centrally designed, "artisanal" user experience.
> excess of middle managers [and/or] too many poorly conceived and managed product and R&D adventures

My OH works for a big multinational, has had a variety of roles, at a variety of locations, and despite the fact that she's not in tech you've still managed to summarise pretty much every single conversation I've had with her about her work over the last 20+ years.
The entire image looks like it's shimmering, when it has grain on it, which looks very bad on a large 4k TV, especially when you sit closer.
Working from Home with Kids (Without Losing Your Sanity)
Is this actively enforced in any way?

If I were him, I'd be more worried about selling the pre-modified Pro. Especially if it's being shipped internationally, there's a fair chance Apple asks U.S. customs to seize these de-facto knockoffs. And calling it 41rP0d$ / M4g$4f3 isn't going to get past anyone.

https://shop.kenp.io/products/pods-pro-new-and-modded
> Just backup that one single folder.

Backups are the main reason why I want programs to follow the XDG Base Directory Specification. I don't want my backups to includes gigabytes of files that should be in ~/.cache, which is a directory I never back up. The shell script that I wrote to back up my PC includes dozens of rsync exclusions for files in ~/.mozilla, etc. that should be in ~/.cache.
What do you mean "expensive"? When I've seen people roll their own state machines to replace a moderately-complex regex, the result is frequently hundreds of bug-ridden lines and rarely matches the performance of a decent regex engine. This laborious learning experience often results in reverting to the regex. It's the ignorance that's expensive.
Friend nim does have gc less memory management https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/10/15/introduction-to-arc-orc... and can also collect cycles similar to PHP. Imo the new system is more intuitive than rust's which will be a huge win when it comes out (soon).
Isn’t staking just a scam to sustain the ponzi?
I don't know what I believe about much of anything anymore, but here's some random nudges if you are indeed genuinely asking:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Collins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Plantinga
Is this a parody account? Performance art of what we all collectively think a terrible engineer would seem like? This seems too fake.
WhatsApp might need a word with these Wall St types.

You need a large and growing segment of a large and growing market. If you can pull it off with a crew of 50, the better.
All this article tells me is that the author doesn't really understand regular expressions. The @ sign and escaped . make it pretty clear we're probably trying to parse an email.

Why do we allow all this reductive "why do we make this so hard" drivel? Why is it that people's attitude isn't, "wow, something I don't know, I should learn what this is..." instead of "STUPID HULK SMASH!!! HULK BRAIN HURT!!!! OWWWW!!!!"

Like, I'm sorry the author sucks. He doesn't know regular expressions very well as parts of his post are just plain wrong, and his regular expression itself looks unnecessarily convoluted.

Regular expressions exist because string parsing code fucking SUCKS. I started programming in Visual Basic, where there are no regexes and string parsing was a verbose hell of substring processing, array indices, and equivalency checks. Terse regular expressions can replace dozens of lines of word vomit, and the basic library of symbols isn't that hard to memorize. It is WAY easier to keep a regular expression in your head than the alternative.
"Re-observations on these targets have so far not resulted in re-detections of signals with similar morphology."

Welp. I don't think their technique worked.
The entire article is about wash sales, basically describing ways to circumvent the rules.
It’s a giant pita to manage those if you have many in-flight on a reasonably complex codebase (lets say 500k-1M loc). If you’re a saas you’re probably not getting many of the benefits either
It's not the car's shape that is contentious, it's their size. Nobody is complaining about pickups from 30 years ago. It's these modern monstrosities that have people annoyed and concerned. IMO it's because:

1. They are extremely inefficient (gas-wise). That means more pollution, more CO2 emissions, just overall a worse environment for everyone.
2. They are built with large front grills that limit visibility. Being high off the ground might feel nice, but it's dangerous for everyone else (pedestrians, cyclists, even other drivers).
3. They are super heavy, which results in much faster road degradation.

I think if we taxed heavy vehicles more fairly (IE, tax proportionate to the damage to roads, extra deaths from impractical and dangerous designs, and tailpipe emissions) then I think people would be less annoyed.

But as it stands, the modern pickup truck has extremely problematic externalities that everyone (including the pickup driver, though not directly) is paying for.
> now some "new kids" came and want changes

I realize that you wrote "new kids" in quotes, but these "new kids" might have grandchildren at this point given that the initial draft of the XDG Base Directory Specification was published in 2002.
All i meed is a sort by latest and group by sender option !! Tried to get it in mutt but couldn’t figure it out !! So i can delete all the mail that comes out on top that is not useful !!
>Yes, it is sophisticated. Phishing emails are opened more often then regular mail and click-rate is pretty high.

You're confusing "sophisticated" with "efficient". Phishing is efficient but unsophisticated; it boils down to one of the oldest tricks ever, to make you believe that $foo is $bar.
The beginning of Andrew Ng’s machine learning course on coursera does that too, it touches on the math a bit and explains how to imagine gradient descent in 3d space

Didn’t do the full course, but after the first few chapters I was able to write a very basic implementation in raw python (emphasizing here on “very basic”)
I doubt very many are going to break between 30 days and 2 years.

If a 2 year warranty inflates your prices like that, you're doing something very wrong.
I don't really agree with the article. I often break up my complex regexes into different variables that get re-assembled before passing it off to the parser.

The thing is, with regex, maybe worst is better. It's the best we've got (for now), and I can't imagine parsing complex text without it. Manually parsing it (tokenize, etc) without regex is much harder.
People, including me were installing panels like crazy last year. They are all 20%+, upto 22-something and did cost me 176€ a piece (that includes VAT).
to be honest i don't understand what the problem is. I never worked at a FAANG so maybe i don't get it or i'm insensitive. you made a shit ton of money. you probably have so much money you can retire. what is your problem? i worked on a startup for 15 years and never got funding despite products an revenue. i'm tired too and i have nothing saved up for retirement and i'm in my 40s. problems are relative ... there are people much worse off than i am. sure you might have to figure out what's next but if you have $ in the bank is that really a big deal?

i see googlers on linkedin making a big drama they are fired. really? you made all this money, who cares? you can go do something else or retire. how many people have been waiting for years to get a FAANG job? as a googler you need to wait a year and you call that a problem? people are so far of from reality it is mind boggling. and they think because they worked at google they are entitled to a job tomorrow pronto.