skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's uselessly pedantic. Yes, the approved out patient usage for sar-cov-2 emergency was out patient in testing too. How could it be otherwise?

But it was never used as an out patient drug in prior studies or FDA approvals for other viral infections. I'm starting to think you aren't debating in good faith...
You trust the average individual to keep a private key secure and backed up?
rx is a great example here. Add in the fact that you can manipulate rx forms with macros and you're dealing with some serious power.

With that said, I think the most ergonomic string searching tool I've used is the PEG implementation in Janet:

https://janet-lang.org/docs/peg.html
How does this differ from containers?
Batman Retires
Why freeze it? It needs a few days to off gas after roasting.
Exactly. There’s a shortage of housing that will take many years to remedy. We can’t afford to nitpick about architectural aesthetics until we’ve built enough houses for everyone.
I hope the Thunderbird crew understand how incredibly important this software is and how much some of us depend on it. Good IMAP clients are hard to write and most civilians have become so used to crappy browser-based email that there's not much demand for IMAP clients except among people like the ones who frequent this website.

Apple ruined their IMAP client ("Mail") a few years ago so now that world is basically Outlook and Thunderbird, and I'm sure I don't need to describe why Outlook is unacceptable.
This past August I spent several days in Croatia and stayed in a few different hotels throughout the beautiful Dalmatia Coast. While all of the hotels were lovely and welcoming, the sheets were horrible. They were rough, hard, and scratchy. Especially for me, an American accustomed to fabric softener overload.

It was also quite hot in Croatia and most of the hotels did not have air conditioning. Between rough sheets and roasty temperatures, it made for some very long nights. We tried opening the windows, but that meant inviting bugs into the bedroom for the night. Because of the heat, the majority of the beds I slept in during my stay had only a fitted sheet and a flat sheet. No fluffy, thick comforter because it really would’ve been unnecessary. Some nights even the flat sheet was too much and I found myself tossing it off the bed as I tried to get comfortable in the heat. By the end of my trip, I was longing for a cozy bed with soft, smooth sheets along with a cool room and thick, down comforter.

Now, I typically buy sheets from a big box retailer, going with a high-thread count of their store brand. I don’t like to spend more than $100 on a set and I have had good luck with the sheets from a certain retailer that some people like to pronounce with a French accent. I always go with white sheets because they’re easiest to clean and I can bleach them without worry… which is very important when you’re a mom of two kids who have eaten chocolate in your bed on multiple occasions. With white sheets, I also don’t have to worry about chemicals from facial creams and body lotions causing them to become discolored. This has allowed me to get decent longevity out of my bedding, but after returning from Croatia I was feeling the need to treat myself to a new set of sheets.
(Part 1. Wrote by Melisa Raney)
With the popularity of GitHub CoPilot, in a way most GitHub employees already are virtual servers.
Semantic HTML/CSS was always a fantasy. People aren't crystalline, nor are the documents we read/write or the webpages we use. Something like ARIA is orders of magnitude better for accessibility than the SUMMARY tag ever could have been.
> whereas at a bigger company there's way more effort to make sure it's done properly.

Yup, can even break this point down into

a) have more resources available so allocating people to these things is more practical

b) have more users with those needs so spending time on them is more useful in terms of $$$

c) reputational risk of being "that company that doesn't give a shit about disabled people" has increased
As someone in Georgia who was both one of the first ten employees for a remote FAANG office and also a co-founder of a remote office for an SV unicorn, who got paid more or less what his contemporaries on the west coast did, I'd say you're about 20 years behind the times and a bit off about compensation.
Al these can be flipped. Replacing a lost employee is expensive too. The boss forfeits the employee’s domain knowledge. The employee retains all the money they were paid.

They aren’t perfectly equivalent, but there’s a strong parallel between the two, which is why transactional employment relationships work.
You’re not paying enough. Or maybe you are but people are of getting lowballed by shit tier startups that have raised at zero upside valuations.
I read something last year where some researchers had found a mechanism to do exactly that and were looking for a therapeutic method to trigger it.
Adding to this: Linux users are diverse in the applications they use. Even Window Managers vary widely between users and distributions.

They are also vocal about changes so when someone notices something in their package it will be shared quickly.
Cool I signed up for access, good luck!
Ugh, the google smartbox pulled '2003' from somewhere. You're right, it was 2009.
When I was younger, pickup trucks were a great way to meet girls: they would ask you for help when they needed to move. I can see the utility in that, we all need a friend who has a pickup truck so we can get their help when we eventually need it.

Compact pickup trucks (like the Ford Ranger) were way more common in the 90s (and 70s and 80s) than they seem to be today. I owned a yellow 1976 Datsun pickup truck in the early 90s.
There is a pub-tram in Helsinki too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A5raKoff

It makes an appearance in this video if you seek to the appropriate section:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF45gG2C3IY
In Gimp it's Tools, Transform Tools, 3D Transform.

This is a good idea to add visual novelty to images, especially plain ones.

The problem is the moat is very low: as low as 1 30-second YouTube video on using the transform tool in the case of Gimp.

Doesn't seem very defensible - but maybe if you add versioning & various other features (links for images, etc.) it could be.
Yes I truly agree, seems like human life just being objectified, a means to the end.
OP doesn't seem to understand the nature of the regulatory state at all. Anything that attracts scrutiny from the state must comply with a lot of nonsense which consumes huge amounts of labor ... both legal and technical.
have you considered doing more devrel? inventing node.js, youtube shorts, saving Sun from itself, Oxide laptop stickers and a history of giving metal oral like this are really inspiring to people serious about nft and are a good way to groom new engineers
Ya, the problem sometimes with the free market is that the general public is far more willing than me to just keep suffering. Case in point would be coach seating on most airlines. If people would just raise their standards a little bit and be willing to pay a little more. I just want an experience that doesn't torture me without paying 10x for business class.
I don’t think anyone is arguing you shouldn’t pay top people top salaries, but he doesn’t even address what he mentions in the opening paragraph: the legions of lazy people doing nothing
One benefit of regex that isn't mentioned in the article is that you can expect it to be available, at least the basics, in pretty much any programming, scripting, or even querying environment.
You might want to checkout https://www.rollout.com for that (founder here). Send me a message if you're early stage/open source and I'd be happy to hook you up with a free account (email in profile).
‘09 sucked. I had to go from a decently paid jr dev to doing crap few months contracts for tiny (but demanding) local companies for over a year until I found a good company to escape to
The bar for React and Java are very different.

Before you mention that one is a UI library and the other is a programming language: that's my point.

There are a lot of FE devs that work backwards from React to JS/TS.
Voice Generating-AI Is Now the Plaything of 4Chan
Being 7 foot whatever can't hurt either. That's gotta be a little bit like winning the basketball genetic lottery.
Stop baiting partisan bickering
Different size bracket in CAFE presumably
What percentage of a big company do you think falls into these categories? The idea that "mandatory diversity training educators" or "travel expenses audiotrs" are anything but a drop in the bucket is laughable. Also, often roles like these are farmed out to vendors and aren't actually staffed by company employees at all.
How the Wealthy Save Billions in Taxes by Skirting a Century-Old Law
EVs, even small ones, are going to get dinged on that measure (~an extra 700 pounds compared to an ICE of similar size).
Disclaimer: I interviewed with the USDS team that was embedded in IRS circa 2015-2016 to solve identity pre-ID.me, thoughts and opinions are my own.

I have tried to get info out of IRS on the topic using FOIA requests, but they have not been forthcoming. I think there is heartburn over the whole ID.me situation (which they rushed into due to return fraud that occurred due to lacking knowledge based proofing systems, and got blindsided by the PR fallout of suboptimal machine vision/facial recognition tech and overzealous marketing).

The article states Charles Rettig, who was then IRS commissioner, argued that login.gov can’t meet their request rate requirements, and yet it serves over 220 agency websites and is the primary identity provider for the Social Security Administration website since September 2021. I would be very interested in the technical challenges being more publicly available versus hand waving by the bureaucracy.

https://secure.ssa.gov/RIL/SiView.action

There was recent funding to have the USPS perform in person identity proofing; login.gov appears to be leveraging this. They are also working to offer login.gov to state unemployment systems concurrently (a colleague is on this team).

https://fcw.com/digital-government/2022/05/postal-service-sh...

https://fcw.com/digital-government/2022/10/labor-department-...

https://www.login.gov/help/verify-your-identity/verify-your-...

https://tcf.org/content/commentary/biden-budget-would-signif...

https://www.gao.gov/assets/730/720919.pdf

> In addition to the forthcoming work with the jobless aid system, USPS is also working with GSA's Login.gov, a shared sign-on and identity proofing service.

> “The Postal Service’s unmatched retail footprint offers a unique opportunity for government agencies, such as the General Services Administration that need to complete an in-person proofing. We are actively working with government agencies to do this today,” a USPS spokesperson told FCW.

> In-person identity proofing is offered for Login.gov at seven USPS locations in Washington D.C., Maryland and Virginia, according to the Login.gov website. Individuals start the process online and then bring state-issued identification and proof of address to be reviewed in-person to match the digital application with the real person behind it.

My note/opinion: stronger requirements are necessary to enable login.gov to deliver whatever gap private identity providers (id.me) are offering and require federal agencies to use login.gov
Was going to echo this. There has been an explosion of building products/systems/technologies that make comparing to even just 20+ years ago difficult. A focus on energy efficiency and air quality also means that some old methods have been demoted from their status quo position of the past. Other products actually enable low skilled workers to do things that once required high skilled craftsmen.
> Yeah,

You sound so cool when you start a sentence with "yeah" for no grammatical reason, as though answering a question that no one asked. I bet you're really laid back and were probably smoking a blunt and exhaling a massive cloud while you typed your comment. Did you personally innovate this conversational technique?
Did the user have a competing project? Never seen this before with much less interesting tech demos.
Uber is integrating its driver app with Apple CarPlay
> It looks like the idiot Teslas I see every morning on my commute, randomly braking and swerving like drunk frat boys.

Yeah, that's what all these arguments always come down to. They start with "safety" and end with simple emotion.

Look, I'm genuinely sorry there are jerks in Teslas near you. But they're just that: perfectly human jerks driving like perfectly normal human beings. Please don't project your hatred of the culture, or Musk, or EVs, or whatever on the safety aspects of the system.

Also: call a friend and get a ride. They're pretty amazing vehicles. You'd be stunned at how fun it is to have a robot drive you around.
I miss the "because they can" explanation.

If billions are raining from the sky, you can hire armies of people. Every manager wants to expand their "empire", and there is money to hire people, so in the end a lot of people get hired.
The Rust Implementation of GNU Coreutils Is Becoming Remarkably Robust
I thought it would, but I actually like knowing my beans, and that takes some dialing in. I used to only purchase small batches because I wanted to try a variety. I found that I never knew if something was bad or good due to my technique or the beans themselves. It was also rare to find what I really wanted.
Hiring more people just makes it worse exponentially
The USPS would be a great fit for this. Thru have delivery and address / identity verification infrastructure and lots of local physical presence. They could issue tokens and act as the root CA for the PKI.
I remember when my grandfather and I were arguing about whether or not SNES or Sega Genesis was better(he worked for Motorola who made the Sega Genesis processor). Eventually we agreed that whichever one had more buttons on its controller was the superior product, so I won that discussion. Actually I think he was just ready to end the argument but I thought my logic was sound.
There are different people on hackernews though.
I can use a phone but the fact it is not very comfortable is why I also have a tablet.
Another reason is that companies try to maximize profit, not profit per employee.

If a company can 1.5x their profit by doubling their headcount, they would do it even if it seems less efficient because that's what the investors want.
> This is very well written, and probably one of my favorite takes on the whole ChatGPT thing.

This is not a surprise, as the author is Ted Chiang, who is the award winning novelist and the author of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects", "Tower of Babylon" and other science fiction works. I had a pleasure of once having coffee with him while talking about his thoughts on some of the topics in "The Lifecycle of Software Objects", which is a very enjoyable book that may be of interest to some HN readers.
CAESAR Competition for Authenticated Encryption
No, just someone who cares about the quality of HN's front page. The idea that waiting lists don't come with enough information to support a substantive discussion is pretty well established on HN.

What's the interesting demo here? Did I miss something?
For the older generation, maybe. For the generation that grew up with online friends who they rarely or never met physically, it's completely normal. Sadly we'll have to wait a while for that generation to reach management age.
I recently had to implement floating point math. Can confirm that testing them all was by far the cheapest way to fix all the bugs and then verify the final solution was correct.
Those are always fun to watch.

I've been wondering, what's the plan at Oxide with the recent announcement from Intel about moving away from the Intel Tofino business? Are you still going to be using tofino 2 chips for the network?
Their fine is $30 million and they have around $2.7 billion worth of eth staked.
If you use Capacitor, it’s actually pretty trivial to enable swipeback navigation. All you have to do is write a very simple plugin that sets an option to true on the web view instance. I don’t remember the exact name of the flag, but I can report back with more details tomorrow, if you’re interested.

I was and am responsible for setting up a fairly large Vie app as a PWA with capacitor and I’d say it’s been a mixed bag. The dev experience is not great, but to be honest I blame iOS and macOS for that just as much as capacitor. Sometimes stuff just doesn’t work, and the community libraries to use native features are missing obvious stuff. For example, the capacitor library for working with iOS push notifications is a complete mess, and it’s missing some very basic features, like managing badge numbers in an even slightly sane way.
It was not completed in the most important sense for this discussion—it was not operational. The project could still be ended short of completion without blowing it up.
Indeed. If former employee startups were the major concern, they wouldn't pay so much. It's financial independence from working at faang that enables lots of devs to leave to start or join startups.
Why are they big? Because they make a lot of money.

Why do they make a lot of money?

Because big companies are drilled into the woodwork of the governments worldwide, and partners.

How are they drilled into every nook and cranny?

They hired people to lock onto every nook and cranny. Amazon, for example, has effectively grafted itself to the United States government. If you shut down Amazon, you would probably end the government.

That’s on purpose.

These companies are so big because they hire to burrow into every corner and tap into the blood supply so they can never be removed.
They somehow replicated the intranet site so I'd call that somewhat sophisticated. That kind of feels like they had insider knowledge.

> As in most phishing campaigns, the attacker sent out plausible-sounding prompts pointing employees to a website that cloned the behavior of our intranet gateway, in an attempt to steal credentials and second-factor tokens.
The Reddit hack in question phished the user-input MFA (presumably TOTP) string.
75-100 years ago coincided with the tail end of a massive boom of dirt poor immigrants from Europe. Labor was extremely cheap relative to other things in the economy. It’s vastly more expensive now. It’s the same story as almost all our infrastructure. We couldn’t build the New York subway today either.
I read a NY Times article by Ted Chiang today in which he made a kind of "stochastic parrot" argument for chatGPT - https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-.... I believe, on the other hand that chatGPT may eventually be able to generate AGI, but that this will occur emergently and spontaneously. In other words, it will be difficult to predict.

One of the conditions for this, is for chatGPT models to start being able to write their own code in order to produce models of themselves that are more accurate and more efficient. Given this ability, and some fitness criteria, genetic algorithms may be used to create new LLMs. This sounds like science fiction, but once the compute requirements come down for these models (by a couple orders of magnitude), I believe this may be possible.

To what extent does your model allow for semantic models to create semantic models that are themselves more efficient in relation to some fitness criteria? Can I tell a model "You (model) I want you to reproduce using interaction with these other models (some collection of other models) and have the child model offspring be more efficient according to this criteria [for example the resultant models will create short stories that are more likely to receive high ratings on a subreddit devoted to short stories]".

You would need to get around the "model pollution" problem in which LLM models pollute the space for which the models generate data because other models are producing web artifacts (Ted Chiang's Xerox of a Xerox problem). I call this the problem of alpha (direct experience). One of the ways I've thought of to fix this is to have models trained on direct user input (such as cell phone video and pictures from a single user) - I have to admit that I got this idea from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash (see Gargoyle). If your platform can integrate with visual processing this may have a high information density - object detection in daily videos demonstrating how objects are related to each other in the real world of the user and correlating these into a semantic network.

I'd also suggest that Obsidian integration might be useful.

This is exciting, thanks for making the Fixie SDK public.
> It's all about the finals though. The best ever needs to prove it by winning the most championships

Well then you'll certainly agree that Bill Russell is the undisputed goat if that is your criteria.
No, the article actually states the opposite.

“In an interview with Axios, Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone said that these layoffs are not a result of economic issues, but rather, they are intentional changes to strengthen the unprofitable Yahoo for Business advertising unit.“
Even this is unnecessary. I'd say 99% of people using PCRE-like regexes have never read the documentation and realized `(?x)` exists.

We can write the regex like this, including all whitespace:

(?x)
^\w+ # mandatory leading letters
( [-+.'] \w+ )* # optional suffix
@
\w+ # domain
( [-.] \w+ )* # domain suffix
( \.\w+ ( [-.] \w+ )* )* #tld
$

Also, btw, I hope no one is really using this regex. It's wrong; for example it appears to be deliberately designed to fail on IDNs.
Some laughable assertions in this piece. I'll limit myself to some basics.

The Base58 encoding used for cryptocurrency addresses does not contain any special characters.

Rothbard was Jewish. Calling Rothbard or Rothbardians antisemites is a difficult stretch. It seems that no criticism of libertarian ideals or markets is complete without an accusation of racism.

If we are working with the principle of guilt by association, I'd like to take this space to accuse statists of being responsible for genocide and war.

He asserts that the gold standard was bad because the gov. can go off the standard by changing the standard? Speed limits are similarly troublesome. People can violate them!

Of course there are more clownish hijinx to be found within this interview, but I think that should be illustrative of the level of discourse.
A mail client taking up to 0.2% CPU doing nothing (I assume you're not interacting with it, nor is it trying to download/upload mail or similar), on a "high-end desktop", is itself a little surprising.
>This is exactly right. All the people clamoring for remote work are asking for us all to get paid less, or nothing at all because the job went to Europe or Asia.

This wont happen in the united states because of timezones. UK time is 8 hours off PST Indian is 13 off.

SA is really the only viable alternative.
There’s actually a word for that: Decentralized decision making.
Where you don’t need to physically be in the same room or even in the same country to have a fruitful discussion
Twitter still makes all employees work at the office….

:)
The concept of "rich minority" is fundamentally unsound. We know wealth distribution is uneven and we should focus our efforts on helping people who need it. If your model is built on things like "a few minorities are rich" or "white families have the exact same problems as black and hispanic families" you're missing a lot of important details, like how the needs of racial and social groups groups are different, if only due to the historical oppressions they faced and not due to any current ones. You simply can't ignore those things just because you know a few counter-examples. We have to look at the breadth of humanity and not just a few hand-picked negative or positive cases. There are problems unique to the average white family too! True inclusion means making sure everyone has a fair and equal shot, and if that's done properly it doesn't mean white families are going to be left out.