skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YOU'S TROLLIN'
I'S NOT TROLLIN
I AM BOXXY YOU SEE ^_^
TL;DR because I didn't need a job.

Which is a good place to be in!
I don't know. It's a big and somewhat irreversible decision from a pay and career perspective. I can certainly see people hesitate to make the plunge and maybe stretch things out a bit further even though they're pretty sure they're fine finacially.
I hope this is a DEFCON reference!
Buy the $9 dongle from Apple and keep it permanently connected to your headphones. Then it's just a plug in scenario, the same as a headphone jack whenever you want to use them. Sure, you can't charge and use your headphones at the same time but I get 2 full days of battery life from my iPhone 12.
I don't think so. Maybe some banks but not CS and not UBS. In fact you may as well rename "Credit Suisse" to "Credit Saud" at this point.[1]

[1] https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/-just-another-cheque--...
Same phone here. Only thing I really wish for is better battery capacity out of the box. Battery health is now 83% which is not the worse but definitely noticeable when I don’t charge during the day. But even brand new the phone would not make it through some days without charging or powersaving mode.
Happy to exchange notes with you on our learnings building https://podsearch.page
Good info! Maybe put it in a blog post?
> clearly inferior to humans

But maybe we are just proto-AI, running on a different platform
I want my LaserDisc money back
My point is that people don't go to these places because they're convenient - if you're trying to compete on convenience then you're going against the Keurig on someone's countertop.

My guess is the market of people who want better coffee than a kcup/nespresso pod, are willing to drive to get it, and don't want to wait in line is quite small with low margins.
I don't know, but I'm just saying that Samsung has an in-house chip which they do vertically integrate into some of their products.
#emacs on irc.libera.chat.

fsbot knows too many things.
> Russia would probably be silent if they had proof America did it, because they don't want WW3.

That doesn't make sense. Russia can use this as a propaganda tool without having to act on it. And it's not like that Russia didn't accuse USA from blowing it up - they did, just not very forcefully. It's strange, because they could have used it in e.g. Germany to split the society: "bad Americans want you to freeze, they blew up your gas pipelines".
@apenwarr -- how about a free Tailscale hookup for Ukraine to run over Starlink then?
No, this is the current state of the art: https://supabase.com/blog/chatgpt-supabase-docs

It's built with Supabase/Postgres, and consists of several key parts:

Parsing the Supabase docs into sections.
Creating embeddings for each section using OpenAI's embeddings API.
Storing the embeddings in Postgres using the pgvector extension.
Getting a user's question.
Query the Postgres database for the most relevant documents related to the question.
Inject these documents as context for GPT-3 to reference in its answer.
Streaming the results back to the user in realtime.

The same thing could be done with search engine results and from recent demos it looks like this is the kind of analytic augmentation that MS and OpenAI have added to Bing.
Does the format take left recursion into account or leave it undefined?
I'm not sure about these comparisons because even with more and more people learning scripting and/or a few DSLs for their industries Software Engineering is still a career. Deeper knowledge and experience matters.
If you're writing in a dynamically-typed, interpreted language like python, I think mistyping an import inside a function is really the least of your concerns when it comes to mistyping things.
> I wish I could believe that Microsoft appreciates Excel that much

Yeah, I don't think they really appreciate the Excel pro scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xubbVvKbUfY
Loss of efficiency/productivity might not be the product of burnout. It might be the cause.

People get addicted to the dopamine hits of getting things done and when they hit a wall, enter a vicious cycle of depressive withdrawal. Recovering from burnout by taking a break is simply resetting that dopamine addiction. Just a personal theory.

If you work in a high paced environment with competent colleagues, management and tooling, you can just keep rolling with the punches and never hit the wall.
Yup. This.

Programming is not special knowledge or technique wise. It’s having a super high tolerance to frustration and somewhat lesser to being comfortable not knowing a solution.
Is it?

In US General Aviation, there were 332 deaths in 19,454,467 flight hours in the year 2020.

https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20211117.as...
I've definitely seen some "strategic" people being shown the door over the past few rounds of layoffs, and at least two boomerangs (laid off, then rehired).

These are very confusing times.
What if PHP SQL injection is actually the 10th component of The Great Filter [1], and every civilization is condemned, sooner or later, to suffer from such a vulnerability.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter#The_Great_Filter
The law is telling you what to do, very explicitly. That's the entire fucking point.
In space
This is nice. This is why I like to use minimal distros like Alpine or Void, so I know where everything is on my system and have some control over it.
Would be cool if there was a tool that could detect that configured path was attempted to be opened, and redirect the open() syscall to the real path... But that would most likely require kernel support.

Boxxy seems good enough for userspace.
Have you even looked into the history of aviation and why we have the FAA? Thes homebrew airplanes were falling out of the sky all over the place. A lot of people were dying.
If the government enforce that for a few hundred dollars, all my friend would be in hail :) .

If you go to downtown to the Precedential Office ("Casa Rosada") and walk just half a mile you will meet like four or five arbolitos ("little tree") per block. They are a person standing in the street chanting "Dollar, reais, exchange". They have also Euros, and probably Uruguayans pesos, and other coins, or they will know where to ask. That's in plain sight, at noon, in a mayor commercial street, a few blocks away from the President.

And if you need to exchange more money outside the official market there are cuevas ("caverns") that are just slightly hidden offices. They are in the same area.

(Most are "honest" people working in a "alternative" market, but there are also shady one that can give you fake bills or call a thief.)
Needing at least 3 round trips to establish an ssl connection to the alien internet - things won't get interesting for a few thousand years.
The most logical explanation of why you have so much karma is that you write anything that will get you upvoted, no matter how stupid it is.
Why are people surprised by this? Did they really expect "intellect"?

There is always an element of probability in any answer you receive from AI. Under the best of circumstances, it's really just kind of a best guess suggestion based on the available data. No guarantees of any kind.

If you can't live with this, if need any sort of unerring logic or truth, you should probably look elsewhere.
VLJ's are cute, yes. I'm slightly hopeful about small scale turboprops too. Yes, generally turbines don't scale down very well (well, applies to VLJ's to an extent as well), but if they only could make the capital costs of a turbine decent enough, the reliability, power/weight, and cheap and available Jet A-1 would still make such a thing attractive, I think.

There's a couple of companies working in this space:

Turbaero: https://turb.aero/
Turbotech: https://www.turbotech-aero.com/
Does this use namespaces or chroot? The readme mentions namespaces (like Flatpak?), but https://github.com/queer/boxxy/blob/mistress/src/enclosure/m... seems to indicate it uses chroot.
I know a lot of people like to dunk on Reddit, but the Emacs subreddit is pretty good:
https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/new/?limit=100

I have gotten a few good answers out of that one.
The distance comparison does make sense, because the point of getting on a plane/car is to travel. People don't say "I'm going to drive for 30 mins", they say "I'm going to drive from Los Angeles to NYC". Comparing how dangerous that is on a plane requires comparing by distance, not time.
>must have something to do with how few people die in airplane crashes

Yes, at least somewhat:

1) The safety record of flying is often cited but that safety record pertains to commercial aircraft, not private aircraft. For hours of travel, private aircraft are significantly more lethal commercial flight and even more than driving [1]

2) The article mentions having to jump through regulatory hoops in the same sentence as literally putting out engine fires. Maybe the two are unrelated but I can see a strong public to regulatory hoops on something that, if done wrong, amounts to a small homemade fuel air bomb with 1,000lb+ of cessna debris added in to the mix if things go wrong.

[1]https://www.wijet.com/private-jet-crash-statistics/#:~:text=....
I wonder how many thunderbird devs read HN - I would guess a lot. It really sounds like they are focused the wrong problems with the rebuild.
Be careful because a lot of smart people from FAANG may not be a good fit for startups.they are more corporate types nowadays and are probably used to easy money with not much pressure. Startups on the other hand are nothing like that
I actually attempted using ptrace to rewrite syscalls first! It was... horribly painful, and didn't work anywhere near as well as the bind-mount version.
Ask HN: Will toroidal propellers change the world?
I was watching YouTube videos about the efficiency gains from toroidal propellers, which have been developed at MIT.

I wondered to what extent these are likely to change the world, given that propeller efficiency has a gigantic impact on so many aspects of society.

Anyone here with the expertise to know possible futures for toroidal propeller innovation?
Because it isn't AI. It is just statistical models. AI is for marketing.
Since the article fails to compare their efficiency with traditional power cells, I am betting that it is a small fraction of the alternative. If these things were something like 80% as efficient or higher, I'll bet that would have been in the first or second paragraph.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Hours_of_Le_Mans says "Racing teams must balance the demands of speed with the cars' ability to run for 24 hours without mechanical failure", which implies a slightly shorter lifespan than you'd want in a plane.
Tether reports $700M Q4 net profit
U.S., U.K. Sanction 7 Men Tied to Trickbot Hacking Group
This is awesome!! Good stuff
Wow, that's really above the top tier in Berlin for SW developers.

Are there companies paying for ICs in that range?
The layoffs are relevant context for how people are going to interpret the policy change though.
The story suggests they used a marine engine, which in turn is an automotive engine modified to run under marine conditions, which among other things includes "run at full load for hours" or "run at partial load for hours".

Typically, of course, you're not seeing a lot of elevation changes in a marine application, but with modern fuel injection that's probably not such a big deal.
Sorry, my memory on the dates was wrong.

> it requires a lot lot lot less in-house expertise and management hours than AWS

Yeah, you're not wrong there. I do worry though that it's still too complex to really trust someone with no devops bg to be fully responsible for, and at the same time, it's so outmoded (just meaning, it's not that popular now besides for legacy projects) that you aren't going to find a lot of good candidates who are expert with Heroku compared to expert with AWS.

So to me, Heroku is a gamble that you can get by indefinitely with only what you(r existing eng staff) know how to do in Heroku. Which for some projects, maybe that's a decent gamble for the payoff of easier admin in the short term.

> if you do consider them just "AWS with some CI integration" then I guess they would have been from the start? What would have made that true now if it wasn't then?

Yeah good point -- Let's see if I can try to explain my claim better. I think in 2009 using AWS was completely inelegant in every way, it was pretty barebones and basically just "Rent an EC2 server and do whatever you want, good luck." Heroku had a unique (at that time) approach which made cloud hosting much simpler and more abstract. AWS today at least offers a few ways you can host an application on AWS while doing less server maintenance than you'd have needed in '09. Infrastructure As Code is also something I think has a lot of popularity today that wasn't really a thing in 2009, and Heroku if I remember correctly, isn't really about that. So there isn't as much repeatability on that platform, it's more "click around and build your stuff out in the GUI." Which again, is cool in the short term to bootstrap, but can be painful at a bigger scale.
You can still fight misconduct claims to UI by asserting problems with the work environment. Specific advice would vary by state. There is no reason an employee shouldn’t try.
> Woodworking is a popular hobby with developers

huh? TIL.

Most devs I know live in condos and have no chance of having a place to do woodworking.

Maybe it's a regional thing.
Median per capita inflation adjusted income has steadily risen since WW2
https://united-states.reaproject.org/analysis/comparative-tr...
How did you implement snippet search?
which law are you talking about? In what country and state?

There is no legally mandated death by dehydration.
Being a lazy hobby pilot is dangerous. The majority of GA crashes are pretty basic pilot error/"gotta-get-there-itis".

Motorcycles are the same way, actually. An overwhelming amount of fatal motorcycle accidents involve alcohol at night, usually in combination with not wearing proper gear.
"Sorry I missed your comment of many months ago. I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood. The hours are long, the pay sucks, and there's always the opportunity to remove my finger with a table saw, but nobody asks me if I can add an RSS feed to a DBMS, so there's that :-)"
> I knew you would take offense at the comparison.

I was stating my opinion that the comparison was of low intellectual quality, not taking offense.

> When the pipeline was in fact blown up, of course we're going to look at vaguely worded threats in another light.

Except it’s only vaguely worded if you’re approaching it from the bias of wanting to think it was a threat of blowing it up. Approaching it a different way, they’re just the words a person would use if they were talking about ending the project, not literally blowing it up.

If Biden were going to be so aggressive as to threaten to blow up an infrastructure project of a close ally, why specifically limit it to Nordstream 2? “We’re going to lose our ever-loving minds here, but only for phase 2 of the project”.
No, I couldn't find it again, it was just from memory. But a check on your number shows that it came from 2004. The price of solar panels has dropped ~90% since 2004, and price is fairly well correlated with carbon footprint.
Jokes on them. I can buy raw semaglutide powder two steps off a Google search at 10% of retail.
No it doesn't. Everything I've read indicates it's pretty safe with minimal to no serious side effects. Other psychedelics are legal in the US even for recreational use (e.g. Salvia) - so I don't see what the relevance is.
That isn't a ban on satirical references to the government though. I would guess it came about because like the courts, filming in parliament wasn't allowed until the 80s. When they did introduce it, they had rules like this because they weren't sure how it would be used.

As to the question of whether it's needed now after 30 years, probably not, but then it's probably not high up anyone's agenda to get it repealed.
Given that the average mid level developer makes a salary and stock grant putting them well into the 1% (in USA) I find it questionable that the majority of people are "just" trying to keep a roof over their heads.
presumably the zinc will dissolve in the acidic food even more easily than the iron, and i think your body can tolerate higher intake levels
Spoiler: They are not and they probably won't even put it in the 2024 version either...

My point is that Samsung is not there yet.
"One of the company’s two remaining principal engineers..."

Says it all.
Yes some people do work tasks on a phone. There's a difference between that and using a phone like a PC. They aren't moving stuff around a file browser, installing ad-hoc apps, opening a command line, etc. They're still doing things the locked-down way, so the iPhone is fine for them, in fact younger people tend to prefer that.
Doom Emacs’ Discord chat is great, even if you’re not using Doom. Very friendly and helpful. Emacs subreddit is also good, helpful, and active
If it is irrationality, it seems like a huge case of mass-hysteria is happening!

When would it be time for you to consider adjusting your framework here? Is there really enough variation in the obervables here to justify seeing each company as its own fully-personed snowflake?
It would be nice to have a few more examples. The only example I see on the homepage is hidden in the video, both hard to see and not always visible.
Well, yes, they're not particularly good or safe cars.
Reminds me of an episode of Stargate where they fire 'stealth' (invisible to radar) nukes at the Goa'uld ships, and they're just stood looking out the window at them! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBsXxNc7k8

Anyone who says anything like "it's impossible" etc just has a complete lack of imagination.
SpaceX admits blocking Ukrainian troops from using satellite technology
This seems like a great idea, thank you for sharing.

Are you aware of any notable caveats to using Boxxy, given the mount-based implementation? E.g., will this continue to work if you sync ~/ with other machines (rsync, FTP, SyncThing)?
Are there even any places left for you to go?
Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you considering starting a business?
Are you guys considering starting a business? Have you started one?
The one question the "EVs still pollute" crowd can never answer is what ICEV owners can do that's equivalent to installing your own solar (or soon wind) to harvest your own clean energy for a vehicle. Same to a certain extent with heat pumps vs. oil/gas heating for the home. They act like green technologies are as good and cheap as they can ever be, and do absolutely nothing to reduce emissions, when in fact progress is being made rapidly on both fronts. It's this one-sided view that makes them seem like allies of Big Oil, even if they don't mean to be.
> When you are in the office, the company has almost all your attention.

Yeah, the company maybe but not the job to be done
Why Can't Little Chatty Do Math?
It's how it works in the trading world. The base is decently competitive (for devs anyway) but the bonus is based on trading results and functions similarly (from an incentives/alignment and retention perspective) for how stock works for other companies.
I'm not really sure how that's relevant.
Please read my comment again - I put the lower age range at 18. That is not kids.
Said AI could certainly be programmed to probe for weaknesses in its runtime environment.

However... the game theory on that becomes very interesting, because the sender can't assume that the AI's probes will be immediately successful and they will instantly run out and take total control over the host network so thoroughly that the hack can't be detected. And sending out an AI that tries to break out and then tries to do something nasty is an act of war against an adversary you know nothing about. For all you know, the psychology of that species is such that they will now dedicate every erg of energy to the sole task of wiping your species out until the threat is gone. For all you know, your AI was first executed in an environment that deliberately left some big holes in it and those holes were completely set up with tripwires. Such is the nature of the virtual world. And if the AI does trigger the tripwire, we can also analyze it to find out what it "would" do if it broke out. So it's definitely not a "ha ha ha we nuked our competitors with no risk to ourselves just by sending out a single trasmission" situation.

I'm not saying there isn't a whole interesting conversation to be had. I am saying the idea that the aliens can somehow send out data that is somehow encoded in SuperIntegers that instantly SuperHack every computer that you try to SuperUse them on... that's a bad computer-animated cartoon for kids, not a realistic threat. There is a real threat, but it's more complicated and generally smaller, perhaps with a super weird spike at the top end, but even then, per my previous paragraph, more complicated than I think people are thinking here, because the aliens do not have access to these SuperIntegers any more than we do.
I appreciate that you are calling it straight, but it's worth pointing out that there are others who see eco theater as incredibly harmful, particularly when such things start to cannibalize public resources and funding. Take, for example, all current and past solar roadway projects.

I also want to be clear that I am not passing any judgement on these tiles. I don't know the economics or the funding of this project in any way. But it does seem to have plenty of indicators for being a boondoggle.
Laid off 10 January, had a few interviews at startups but no offers yet. Seems like there are positions in the robotics space.
> The worst part of this is that everyone at GitHub is now forced to use Microsoft Teams.

On the plus side it means that some people will welcome a layoff with severance.
I'll just keep loving them, their decisions are theirs, especially as they get older.
A good quarter of the country is medically barred from ever flying

Can you explain this further?
I would guess the majority of time in general aviation is not for the purpose of travel. It's a hobby.
Urban Dictionary has a pile of different definitions, many of which are quite unique. [1] I'm curious if you're thinking of a particular one?

[1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hubbers
It creates a new mount namespace, and bind-mounts your ENTIRE filesystem into it, before chrooting, so that it can optionally remount / as ro to prevent applications from writing outside of the desired directories. The namespace is to allow doing the bind mounts in the first place.
Network-based Web blocking techniques (and evading them)
> if push comes to shove, they will rescue CS

Depends on the circumstances. If they manage to take someone else (read: UBS) down with them, probably. If they blow up on their lonesome, probably not.
Sorry, I should have guessed that wasn't accurate. But like, surely after they stopped doing any investment in the platform, didn't it start to generate profit easily? How could reselling AWS resources with a premium UI not be profitable?

I just imagined Benioff going "Cool, we can buy this and continue to collect the checks every month, while not developing the UI or integrating it in any way into our business." Basically the same thing they did with Exact Target.
> It'll be interesting to see if more industries are able to adopt a similar model.

If the US offered some sort universal healthcare this would be much easier to see happen. UH would also be a boon for small business.