skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly my point. It's outlived its usefulness. In addition to that, it was never a great system of government to begin with; it only seemed like it because there wasn't much competition at the time for democratic governments. These days, we have lots of examples of nations with better systems of government, and as far as I can tell, they're all parliamentary systems. Having the Executive separately elected sounds like a good idea if you only have experience with monarchies, but in practice it doesn't work out very well.
Think Windows 11; to encourage the use of Bing and Edge, MS is embellishing the search box and threatening to make Edge better if you try to install Chrome, right? Even if the ads are initially unobtrusive, if they prove to be ineffective, they may well appear in the middle of a chat reply or where the site currently cited is being displayed, and, more likely, the chatbot may respond directly in an advertising manner. But as chatbots are often said to be black boxes, how do you know if the response is an ad or not?
What’s the challenge with LFS?
RedHat basically sponsored the development of Systemd (among other things) so their full-throated support isn't surprising

also, fwiw, YAML is a data serialization format, not a configuration format. people who use YAML and pretend it's a config file format are either lazy, incompetent, or both.
Nah, the company paying people with RSUs, and claiming those RSUs have a non-zero value that can't be realized.
The answers to preëxisting theory of mind questions are stored in the graph network in a compressed sort of way, so I’m not surprised.
LLM are not fancy Markov chains. These are more than mere statistical prediction. They contain large deeply layered attentional networks which are perfectly capable of representing complex, arbitrarily structured models, trained from the data set or assembled on the fly based on input. I'm sorry, but I think you are about a decade or so out of date in your intuitions for how these things work. (And a decade is a long time in this field.)
Well we already see how Boeing takes safety seriously with the 737MAX...
> The cows were left to roam free

I think they mean that a farmer had a herd and let it roam free over a vast area. Then he sent some cowboys to take the herd to the city / town with a train and sell them. Just like in Red River movie ;)

> It doesn't clarify which species shouldn't have been introduced

It may be the cows 150 years ago. Now the species mix would be probably different, with similar effects on the marine ecosystems. Does it really matter if the river of urine and excrements is from cow, pigs or chickens? I don't know.
I don’t see how this can be true under any definition of computer science. I used linux in college and I think it was useful, but more as an immersion learning program for the Unix abstraction than anything related to what i was studying (CS).

I didn’t learn much about algorithms, or digital systems, or compilers by setting up arch Linux. Even my OS class, it’s not like learning about swap helps understand context switching or even virtual memory.

I relate to how satisfying it can be tinkering with things but a lot of times it’s just distracting. Like spending a day optimizing productivity tools instead of being productive. Or trying to get your laptop to recognize and change audio output when plugging in headphones instead of studying for a midterm.
I would not trust Glassdoor reviews whatsoever. Companies can pay to curate reviews.
Alright, given the volume of messages on FB, twitter, etc, isn't choosing what messages you promote approximately equivalent to publishing anything? I am pretty sure you can find any opinion/view on these platforms.
This is really cool and I like the beats. How are they generated? How does someone know they are random and not stolen from somewhere?
> But the notion of a noble solo genius high on his mountain creating great things is more myth than reality

I’m not sure that’s actually true. The more I work the more I find that a single unit doing all the work is absolutely the most efficient.

Even if you can ultimately get more work done with many people working on the same thing (and some things cannot be done alone at all), the efficiency is lower.

I think that leads a lot of people towards the feeling that lone genius is most likely. I think it’s certainly more likely than any given person being part of a team that’s genius.
I got my FANG job with a degree from a 50-ish rank school. I think their acceptance rate was 70% so it’s not exactly Ivy League levels of gatekeeping.

Some of my coworkers went to even lower ranked schools or altogether don’t have degrees (though I admit it’s uncommon).
Yes, we do: what consequences did Boeing suffer for that debacle that killed hundreds?
Novel applications? You mean incremental combinations. You realize finding and solving nontrivial problems is much more complicated task, right? This seems to imply that someone that cannot do simple things can do complicated things, where is the evidence of that?

Why do the most complicated mathematics start with basic principles and work up to complex problems? Why don’t they just start with the Collatz Conjecture?
Someone also posted a similar project here a few months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31495049
40k elephants. Not 30k.

Never heard that story before, but what a market person. He made money killing elephants, and now is making money telling stories about that (was bad) and teaching others "a new framework for decision making" [0]. Wow.

0 - https://www.bookdepository.com/Holistic-Management-Allan-Sav...
I mean we’re all just trading anecdotes but absolutely people that were fantastic were also let go by being in the wrong place. I feel I dodged a bullet with choice of project personally when comparing to two specific other people I know that were laid off.
The above comment is referencing the actions taken in 2022 against Kiwifarms; your article is from five and a half years ago; Cloudflare's internal processes have matured a lot in that time.

Moreover, its really worth driving the point home that Prince's point in that cherry-picked statement was to (dramatically) shine a light on the fact that he could do that. Cloudflare does not do that often; that's why it makes headlines when they do. Other tech companies do similar things far more often, daily in some cases. He, then and now, has been an advocate for abdicating responsibility for these decisions to governments. The issue, then and now, is that our government is woefully inadequate in keeping the internet safe. Threats coordinate at the speed of light and cross country borders; in the Kiwifarms case, the US government wasn't able to put together a case fast enough to keep Kiwifarms' targets safe. Also, I'm sure the public outrage in that case helped push a decision in one direction.
Then it gets even scarier: who holds the school boards accountable? It seems they do what they do to appease their constituents, which means the constituents, at last majority of them, think that the establishment was doing a great job?
Interesting and thanks for your perspective.

Would you say moving even further and legalize everything except heroin and fetanyl would make things better?

When everything is legal the only recourse for criminals to make money is extortion and even that could go away with full digital payments
I see what you are going with here for it not being able to come up with original things. But I think that falls apart when you realize almost nothing humans do is original, everything is just building on other things.
Odd to call it "systemd syntax" when it predates the invention of systemd by a few decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INI_file
> In fact, I'd prefer if the tools you mentioned used something else besides yaml.

To be fair, most of the popular DevOps tools can work with JSON instead of YAML just fine. And JSON can be easily generated from almost anywhere. I don't think you can work with systemd syntax as easily.
> This kind of thing is fairly common for those without a degree, and in my opinion it is truly a despicable type of employment discrimination.

The paper ceiling is real, and I'm starting to feel it as well. Past a certain point, it really doesn't matter how "good" you are at what you do, all that matters is pedigree. Constantly having to prove yourself at all times is exhausting. And you can forget about ever even being considered by any "hard tech" companies.

It's a shame. Making it in this industry as a self taught dev used to be a source of pride. Now it's become a scarlet letter.
Link to the actual project source https://github.com/Oxen-AI/Oxen
"You want to try some snowcrash?"
This right here. Blind contains a lot of noise but also some signal. Internal corporate comms are 100% noise and unless you have a trusted and informed coworker the grapevine doesn’t tell you much.
I'm a big fan of web components, too, and they have transformed the way I do development for work and personal projects.

This article mentions and recommends their own "Catalyst" light scaffolding for events and the component lifecycle, saying it was inspired by Lit.

Looking at Catalyst, I can't see why it would be needed. Just use Lit. It provides decorators for HTML and CSS and easy wiring for events and the component lifecyle. There's no need to add Catalyst and the author did nothing to explain why didn't they just run with Lit.
Maybe there are some 3 Michelin star restaurants where this is the case (~150 in the world), but otherwise these are not Veblen goods.
Correct! There are plenty of small Bluetooth collars and exactly zero smartphones out in the forest.
Liquor stores? In multiple states every grocery store is a liquor store…
This has been done many times in the past, one popular tool: https://github.com/dzhang314/YouTubeDrive
Until CommonMark there were a large number of ambiguities for which there was little alignment. Base Markdown is such an anemic format that it requires extensions to be useful to more forms of writing.
I read that more along the lines that loneliness is a choice we made but the fact that we've chosen isn't good. Not that alternatives to loneliness are better but rather that we shouldn't drive people towards specific styles of creativity through the workflows that the software development industry has developed (eg. Agile, SCRUM, etc.)
I'm sorry to hear that and I wish you the best. Don't sell yourself short. You've spent a decade creating software and dedicating yourself to it. A degree doesn't change that (a degree is much easier to go and get than 10 years experience).

Keep your chin up, things will be OK.
Damn it. And I already started legal proceedings against Ms Bessie! Thanks, dude.
I love how Microsoft makes everything so corporate-y and predictable, that any real excitement about their tech in the community buries itself 4 feet deep.

Microsoft has all these brilliant people working for them, but they can't help but degrade the quality of their tools and services.

The name used to mean something, now it's just another synonym for half-hearted.
Sure USA isn't the only actor here, but pretending they aren't a factor in this conflict and the geopolitical situation, is the same level of misleading as pretending they are the only factor.
Both times it was like: we define it this way in this paper. I didn't get the feeling it was a general usage thing. The definitions given were plenty rigorous, it's just that there weren't any other morphisms lying around that the author needed to disambiguate between. "Equivalence" would've done just as well.

I think the humanities are important, I just think it would be a better PR move to resist the urge to style them after anything else.
Why do you say that? In the U.S. it has been legal to own any kind of gold since 1975.

This article explains that it was made illegal by FDR during the Great Depression, but made legal again in 1974, and that "There Are Currently No Limitations on Owning Bullion" [0]

[0] https://firstnationalbullion.com/is-it-legal-to-possess-gold...
I suspect the actual grift is riding the gravy train which is the conspiracy speakers/book writers circuit. The trial is just to give him a ticket onto the gravy train. The actual gravy will come from book deals, appearances and such-like.
Minor nit - the Sony PCM adaptor worked with a Betacam deck. My parents did a documentary in the late 80s where almost all the original music for the soundtrack was recorded with a Sony PCM-1 and SL-F1. I wish I still had the masters for it.
This is exactly right.

The only exception is running things on mobile. There is demand for porting models to run natively on mobile, and somewhat reasonable support for doing this.
> I've been part of teams where we built entire products with pairing, frequent pair rotation

To be honest, that sounds terrible to me. I can’t think when someone is constantly looking over my shoulder.

Maybe if you get candidates that do great at whiteboard interviews, you’d have a lot of success when pairing too?
I mean, the author's name is right on top, you can loop up what else he's done: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0342057/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Grillo-Marxuach

Looks like that might be the only show he was actually showrunner on, if I'm understanding correctly?
Now you're just making things up. None of that body of literature proposes an economically viable approach for replacing fossil fuels used as chemical feedstock. Hydrocarbon synthesis is technically possible and has been done on a small scale, but no one has ever proposed a realistic plan for doing it the level needed.
If you don’t know that then you really have a real lack of knowledge of computing. I don’t mean that as an attack or anything but I don’t think it is a badge of honor or anything. You could just as easily say the person typing a Word document doesn’t know what RAM is so we can just stop teaching that foolishness so people can focus on the “complex” things.

One could also argue, and many have successfully, that this type of thinking is why software is so much slower than in the 80s and 90s.
I love this caption down-page:

> Humans are creative. Give them back their public spaces and let them shape them.

BUT THERE MUST BE NO ADVERTISING!

What is unclear from the article is:

- what will replace advertising while somehow not morphing into advertising

- how this brave new ad-free regime will enforce itself without resorting to tyranny
I'm proposing a device that pretends to be a keyboard, and mimics typing in the code
Not conscious but it is intelligent, it has knowledge and can do reasoning with that knowledge

I guess it depends on how you define intelligence but I don’t see why you’d link it in with consciousness, especially considering that simple algorithms are often described as “intelligent”
It varied with the content - a zero had a high-pitched tone and took half as long to transmit as a one - but it averaged out at around 1800bps.

Certain things had really distinctive sounds, like loading screens. I could recognise Manic Miner loading from just about any ten second chunk.
Is this painting a Raphael or not?
WRT the Vox article. The infographic the x-axis is from "least progressive" to "most progressive" with the United States most progressive and Sweden/Denmark as least progressive. That's what I was directly referring to. The y-axis is "least redistributive" to "most redistributive" with US least and Sweden/Denmark most.
I think you're probably right. I've seen it work at small companies. What it doesn't do is scale to large companies, which is the heuristic most growing companies use for any decision. You'd have to say "we'll grow no larger than our flat structure can sustain, even if it costs us billions," and who is going to do that? Not saying it's a good thing, in fact the opposite — optimizing for scale is the source of many of our woes as an industry, in my grumpy opinion.
No, most of them use fiber channel.
I know how much we paid and it is substantially less than what you were quoted - very likely from one of the 12 providers you contacted.

It is likely you just didn't realize how much margin these providers have and did not negotiate enough. How else do you think cloud providers are able to afford the rates they are giving? The way you describe it, places like Coreweave are operating as a charity. That isn't true - they just got better prices than you.

Our inference setup is 7 figures, has been running for a while (with new servers purchased frequently along the way) and there have been no issues - the cards, CPU, RAM, are all top of the line server hardware.

1. For inference (which is 80%+ of our need) our utilization is 100% 24/7/365. For stuff that is variable (like training) we often do use cloud - as I mentioned we do both.

2. I am the CEO so I am not sure who I'm asking for budget?

3. At this point we would have paid more for cloud than what we spent purchasing our own hardware. There is nothing stopping us from getting new hardware or cloud with newer cards while still getting to own our current hardware. In fact since our costs over the last year were lower due to us buying our own hardware it is actually easier for us to afford newer cards.
It's APFS by default for the last few versions of macOS, though, right?
The Supreme Court is hearing two internet content moderation cases this week
Worth pointing out that many logical fallacies are legitimately persuasive, acceptable arguments.

They're fallacies because they're not acceptable in a rigorous proof, not because they're entirely without any place in thinking through a problem.
There's something beautiful about getting your new OS in a chip.
Sure, but I didn’t know that from reading the comment
> the current funding model of post-secondary institutions, which does not prioritize the ratio of faculty-to-students necessary for ever more personalized or real-time assessment methods.

Get ChatGPT to do the assessments.
Spanish gender-neutral terms generally swap out an e for the o or a, though @ is an older one people used. Believe it or not these issues are contentious elsewhere too.
The actual details of the killings Denis Pushkarev committed are different to what he claims. The girls were on a pedestrian crossing and he ploughed through them anyway. I have no sympathy for this guy and I hope he gets what is coming to him.

Reminds me of that other guy, Steven Degutis or whatever, who flashed his penis at children multiple times over many years and then expected us all to feel sorry for him and give him advice and $100k+ job leads.

You are all being scammed by false sob stories from evil criminal men. Wake up HNeeple.
> I don’t think this is woke, this is monopoly copyright maximizing for profit.

A corporation redacting a work of art that they have a monopoly over to sell more copies?

I mean, it's legal. At least until the government punishes Penguin for monopolistic behavior

If Penguin wants to light their own public reputation on fire by sabotaging a work of art then so be it.

I can't trust them for historically accurate sources after this, with this book or any other
I’m the exact person you are making fun of and I was still amused. I’ll go cry in my 7 figures slinging React crud apps until the CEO hits me in the next round of cuts.
MS Teams 2.0 – trying to fix the issues
A lack of an example absolutely has never constituted a proof that no example can exist, without further information.

This is a fundamental tenet of science and in particular of the discrepancy between constructive and non constructive proofs in mathematics.
ArVid: Archiver on Video
Where's your proof that your own brain is doing anything that couldn't be represented with a 'matrix multiplication'?
Maybe you’re more OCD than I am. Im the opposite. I run dnf upgrade once every few days and don’t bother or think about it afterwards. I start my work Linux PC fire up a terminal and launch vim, slack, open Jira, and get to work. Everything literally just works. And when I’m done my gaming PC that also runs fedora runs steam and Blizzard games just fine. It’s amazing. Now I spend more of my time trying to give back (in the form of money or by evangelism) to the open source projects and maintainers that make my life so beautifully simple and fun.
The company claims those RSUs have non-zero value because the IRS requires it to be so.
Tbh after I maintained a medium sized open-source project for a while, I became a real misanthrope and gave it up. I decided my life is worth too much to me to waste it on random ingrates who sent me actual death threats for not doing what they want. Why would I put up with this?

Though tbf, the number of wonderful people was much greater, but I just couldn't take the negativity i was getting from a not insignificant minority of manchildren who have probably never heard the word "no" from mommy and daddy while growing up
Awesome, I'm definitely down to talk. Sending you an email now. Also my LinkedIn is: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hankholiday
It contains 3 or 4 trips to stack overflow in its one answer. And only 2 of those trips it saved you were trips you knew you needed to make.
Podman 4.0 brought a new network stack for rootless called Netavark. Works nicely for me.
Gone through all the big-tech interviews, previously worked at Microsoft and a few more. I'd say that the only interview question I think survives here is what we've been doing at our startup: "For this role, here is a real four hour problem for you to work on, let us know when you want to start and we will send you the problem, send it back four hours later and then we will schedule some time to chat about it". If someone uses ChatGPT and solves it better than other candidates, that's great, good for them Don't think it's possible to solve it entirely with ChatGPT, but I could see some good candidates getting pointers to solve a 10%-30% of the problem to make them more efficient, before ChatGPT people could Google anyways and honestly I would expect they do.

I think a similar approach should apply to schools. Here is your math homework, solve it whichever way you want but then we will discuss it. I guess this would be the oral approach from the post but minimizing the time it takes to do the oral review. If your homework assignment has 20 questions and you discuss one with each student, you'll get a pretty good overview if they know what they are doing. If they want to ask ChatGPT for replies during this oral test, go for it, but they still get the same amount of time to discuss the question, is going to be really hard to get this done realtime. Also, I'm not sure ChatGPT really understand what it's doing to the point where an expert can prove it in limited time.
"You're a horrible person. You are stupid, and you smell. People stay away from you. You're the most disgusting human in the area.....

But amazing wonderful intelligent people use this product. And it makes them smarter, and the women adore and just want you. And you'll go to bed knowing you accomplished everything you could ever want by possessing and using product."

Is very different from

"GNU coreutils does these things and has X license."

One uses a whole slew of psychological games to mentally invade the viewer, and to make them devalue themselves until they buy your product and become 'whole again'. (Adverts targeting women use this consistently - telling them they are stupid or stink and product fixes it.)

The other is just matter-of-factly 'thing does stuff'
I assumed scheme and lisp were the same here semantically. Bad assumption on my part. My experience is primarily with scheme.

Similar Rust and Swift allow let bindings to be shadowed but you need to re-declare your intent. You can't just mutate the binding on a whim.
> I run Arch with i3, vim, and tmux

Those are a bunch of options for people who like optimising and configuring (nothing wrong with that).

I spend zero time on config in Linux just by accepting distro defaults. Maintenance would be less than on Windows or Mac just due to updates installing a hell of a lot faster.
That it’s not baked right into git? Half of my challenges revolve around getting either everything out of LFS, or putting everything in LFS.