skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I alluded to the figure not being the whole story by saying "on paper". Perhaps you skimmed that part. Nonetheless not the whole story is miles away from "not a problem". It IS a problem.

I actually lived there for a period, not that it's relevant.
My firm doesn't acquire the companies themselves, we work with companies (like Gitlab) or private equity firms who acquire businesses to help them understand the technology. So our clients pick the startup and they usually have a thesis for acquisition. During diligence it's their opportunity to confirm or deny that thesis, and as an objective, third party set of expert eyes we can help them do that.
Honestly, the overwhelming number of tool choices and themes is the biggest hurdle these days.

I will shamelessly plug my solution: md2blog. You just plop Markdown files into folders and it does the rest, without letting you get distracted by themes.

Edit: addressing the article, md2blog does not support email subscriptions, but it does generate an Atom feed. It also requires using a command line (but the tool is a single binary, so no installation or dependencies to deal with).

Link: https://jaredkrinke.github.io/md2blog/
Here's a great clip of Varoufakis discussing the port of Piraeus as a specific example (but also examples in Africa) of how reasonable the Chinese are to deal with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tJatdtv4jQ
You’re wrong. Excess savings is still elevated far above pre-pandemic trends.

https://theovershoot.co/p/americas-excess-household-savings

You’re likely referencing the savings rate, which is a different concept. This measures how much of newly earned income is saved, not how much excess savings somebody has in an absolute sense.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT

Aside from savings, household credit is still below pre-pandemic trends in real terms, just touching the nominal trend recently.
Here it's worth adding that none of these pipelines were operational in the first place, so the idea that this was some great economic coup against Russia is kind of off the table.
the thing is even on a menial tasks only about 25% of the time is spent actually generating the code.

Plus when it does spit out code I spend some amount of time fixing the errors it adds.

And it doesn't learn from those errors.

over all is it faster on some tasks yes, but it's not going to get rid of 80% of coders.

at best I think it's a 10% improvement in productivity.

Not sure where things go at this point.

Where it really shines is helping to learn new stuff.
No.

"Germany" (which might imply a government agency or similar) didn't test anything of that kind. And it was only reported in a (not very reputable) German computer tabloid.

TFA gives the details: the tests were run by the _Norwegian_ automobile club NAF and the portal site Motor.no

Why does this make a difference? The speed limit on most Norwegian roads is 80km/h, while there are still some stretches of German Autobahn without a speed limit - the article states that the vehicles were driven at full legal speed until they ran out of charge. Norwegian roads are also often as wellnot maintained as German roads (used to be...). Both could make quite a difference IMHO.
I am not a part of that community, but I believe the purpose of the community is to help colleagues. They even have a jobboard!
What is the horrific behavior, here?
So the --headless=new doesn't work on any released version of Chrome yet?
There is a certain amount of agency in UK parliamentary selections, but the leaderships of both major parties have (for a good while) been keen to limit that. I'm not saying that it's futile -- you'll certainly get a choice of candidates that the leaderships are happy with -- but I'm not sure it's a decent mechanism for achieving change anywhere except at the margins.
For sure. And take board game design. If your game isn't being put in front of people in a prototype state and getting feedback (and more than just your closest friends), you're likely putting yourself at a disadvantage when you put a game out there. There are conventions and playtest groups just for getting that feedback before you commit to the full project.

It'll help you identify problem areas in the game, how engaged the players are, if they find it interesting, help you with specific design problems you're having, etc. I don't think a single board game design of mine hasn't incorporated at least something from the feedback I've gotten from others, before it was pitched to publishers/released.

The same technically applies to video games as well, but that's much riskier, as if you put it out there too much too early, there's a real risk that another developer will take your idea and beat you to market with it (unless it's a narrative or content-heavy game, like a Stardew Valley or Undertale, which my games tend not to be). I've had a few of my games get cloned and put onto other platforms before I've had a chance to, for example, and I'm just a small solo developer.

I do agree that you need periods of silence, though. Sometimes very long periods.
If there’s one thing you learn quickly about doing M&A it’s everyone does a lot of work that might not result in a transaction.
please find better uses of your time. this is such an obvious abuse.
My numbers also come straight from the comparison tables, the point is if you pick different numbers you paint a very different picture.

There are no salary numbers in your report about wealth, which is why I cited those from memory. If you want a source you can look it up, it'll change slightly depending on how you measure them (for example adjusting for PPP). Either way the broad point is that the salary numbers paint the same picture as the wealth numbers you omitted: People aren't dirt poor in Europe and walking on streets of gold in the U.S.
Choosing the tool isn't the issue for me, writing is.
Html does work, but can become a pain once you have a few dozen pages and want to maintain a consistent menu and footer and so on.
"there's real imperative counting method using the 正 character, it has five strokes, they are drawn one by one until the character is complete, then next character is drawn."

This is almost exactly what a tally is, like I mentioned its an early form of counting used in a lot of cultures to count animals incoming and outgoing of areas by shepards, often cut into a piece of wood. Suprisingly many cultures have almost the exact same system of making a pattern of 5 lines which then repeats

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally_marks
> fill it full of data embedded in images

This is even easier, because jpg's ignore additional data past the end of the file. Post a low-res ~200kb jpg that has an additional ~20mb of data appended. It'll still render perfectly fine.
> How can your make your profile and CV stand out, so you're invited for the interview?

Rhetorically, this is a good question that I think I need to do more to address. What does a stellar LinkedIn profile look like?
For the time being, as Apple showed by their gigantic effort with Swift ABI, there are C and C++ shops (and Objective-C ones) that really care about dynamic libraries, which any alternative needs to take into account for their adoption.

The main issue is the culture, being more in line with ALGOL/PL/Ada/Wirth languages point of view of why security matters, even if there is a bit of unsafe core around.
I use Mataroa the most, and I've used many different solutions, from WordPress, Ghost, Medium, Posterous/Blogger, Movable Type, and Contentful to self-hosted static sites that run on Hugo, Jekyll, or Zola.

I've written a post about why I enjoy Mataroa a lot: https://pivic.blog/blog/mataroa/
I was about to laugh at the idea of a hydrofoil cargo ship, but then again I suppose that it's not theoretically impossible... even if we assume it would be highly impractical, it would be fun to see someone do the math and figure out exactly how impractical they would be.
Conflicts Are Pointless: Future Belongs to AI, Nanomachines and 3D Printing
At the moment, there are various major armed, economic or political conflicts that are going on around the world through which various political and economic cliques seek to gain the upper hand in geopolitics, economy, or technology.

Most of these conflicts aim to hamper competitors and control resources, production, or supply chains. The ones who initiate these conflicts believe that they can gain the upper hand and maintain it by controlling the existing paradigm.

By controlling critical resources, and the production of advanced technology and energy, these people seek to keep alive the 20th century and the world that existed in the 20th century. They think as if society and technology are stagnant.

But that mentality is foolish and obsolete.

We are on the verge of major changes in our civilization. Technological advances that will change everything are at our door.
Read this about the creative collaboration last week in an e-mail from CEO. Creative collaboration looks a bit different in open office. People hide in kitchen and labs from the noise.
// This is what we call the Myth of the Profit Motive that underpins a lot of capitalist propaganda

Comrade, I am curious - what is the economic system of the country you live in? And if it's not socialist, why have you not migrated to one of the existing socialist paradises?

I ask this as someone whose family made the move in the other direction. Life in capitalism is better empirically than the alternatives, it's not propaganda for millions of us who experienced it both ways.

// Our outcomes (eg life expectacy) are generally worse because we restrict access only to those with money.

Is that true and is it accurate to compare say Sweden which is a small, uniform country (everyone is an in-shape middle class white guy) to the US which is vast and diverse in every way?
The claim regarding a low likelihood of the evolution of resistance to this compound in bacteria seems based primarily on this:

> "Furthermore, no mutations were observed that affect any of the numerous efflux pumps, which were readily obtained using the same approach for ciprofloxacin resistance, suggesting that COE2-2hexyl is not an efflux pump substrate or effector. MDR [Multi-drug-resistant] pathogens whose resistance is driven primarily by pre-existing efflux upregulation would thus remain susceptible to COEs."

The ability of infectious microbes to rapidly pump antibiotics out of their cells is a main feature of the rise of antibiotic resistance, and is a core element of microbial physiology:

"Bacterial Multidrug Efflux Pumps: Much More Than Antibiotic Resistance Determinants" (2016)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5029519/

So, they're saying they see no evidence that this class of compounds is targeted by any known efflux pump protein complexes, and thus resistance by that route is unlikely to quickly develop. This however doesn't rule out other mechanisms, such as the infectious bacteria acquiring enzyme genes that allow it to cleave the molecule, etc.

As far as selective pressure, one main culprit in the rise of antibiotic resistance was their use in industrial farming systems, in which animals confined side by side are given steady doses of antibiotics as a preventive measure and for growth-promotion, which results in a steady evolutionary selective pressure for mutations that conferred resistance. Widespread prescription by doctors to human patients who might have just had viral infections, and lack of enforcement of the full course of antibiotics also were at fault, but factory farming practices seem to be the main issue (note the EU banned much of this in 2006):

> "Animals on U.S. factory farms consume over 80 percent of the nation’s antibiotics; a nine percent rise in the sale of antibiotics used in U.S. animal feed between 2017 and 2018 indicates that antibiotic usage by factory farms is still increasing."

https://sentientmedia.org/the-indisputable-link-between-anti...
> In your case - the reason VCs even have that money is because in the long run, given enough bets, they make money back, which for the most part translates into "they created enough value."

The VCs get the money from their limited partners. As a rule the VCs don't have meaningful skin in the game. They invest other people's money and get paid a percentage of the money they invest. They don't reinvest their winnings either, that money goes back to the LPs!

Most VCs are also pretty bad at their jobs. They're totally undifferentiated, are not able to recognize great startups, and don't have much to offer to founders. You wouldn't expect an industry with those characteristics to do very well. VC investment is much riskier than investment in some boring 60/40 stock bond portfolio, so venture as an industry has a high hurdle to clear if they want to deliver superior risk adjusted returns.

How many venture bets in the past 15 years have produced companies that will become the next Google or Microsoft or Apple or Facebook? Zero. It's those winners that make the venture business work on paper, and when they don't show up for a decade the entire industry is in the red.

You can postulate that venture must be profitable because otherwise how could it possibly exist. But if nobody is investing their own money (not the VCs, not the LPs, not the startup founders) you're not going to get an efficient market.
Two counterpoints:

A.

The sum total of all humans alive at moment X are fit to be alive at X and have an equal fitness of survival.

Divergence occurs when we talk about probability of surviving in future time frame Y. Even so, criteria that defines current and future fittest in "survival of fittest" can be many things. Dinosaurs roamed the earth, but mice survived whatever killed the huge, strong lizards.

B.

A society that does not care for its least might find that its least are not loyal. This can have security implications, especially when bordered by unfriendly states.
Link to their Youtube channel, if you are interested in some of the artists's work: https://www.youtube.com/@ICMPhotoMag

Also, some street examples in B&W: http://www.alexeytitarenko.com/
Actually the thesis of the article is that the focus on the "ultra-enthusiast" is killing the mainstream and budget end of the market.
By omitting the rest of the story what remained 'on paper' became false. That was my point.
You also just build a nicer world to live in. The mere concept of a “gated community” is bizarre and dystopian.
> Stripping cops - and only cops - of QI will lead to absurd legal results. (emphasis mine)

Followed by a 569-word hypothetical, which is then in turn followed by descriptions of other, narrowly-defined and unrelated types of immunity that have no bearing on the topic at hand.

It’s an interesting point if a person doesn’t know what qualified immunity as it is applied in non-hypothetical situations, today is.
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calm mind that enjoys quietness can often achieve inner peace and deep perception
Ahh, well, this is actually a field where I know a lot.
Since it is my job. Let me distill up thread.

1. Don’t implement the underlying crypto yourself

2. CBC is hard to get right

3. There are a lot of esoteric attacks and if you have a nation state attacking you they could exploit them, but they won’t because they will just put some crap on your systems and do it easier.

Also this is a very simple use case to get authenticated CBC correct with. So, the real answer is “don’t do this, but it is probably okay in this one use case, assuming they didn’t implement all of this themselves (e.g the crypto algorithms themselves)

You should still listen to tptacek though. Use an authenticated crypto mode :)
glad to see someone who can call a spade a spade

of course this opinion won’t be popular with all the people who just grind for their kids and locked in mortgage
And don't forget, if they don't like you, they will happily deactivate your account with no notice and no reason given.
> I've started applying to private companies that do ML research (OpenAI, Meta, DeepMind, NVIDIA, etc.)

If you want to do research at a top company, yes, you probably need one. Or at the very least you need to somehow compete with other people who have relevant PhDs. It's still kind of risky because who knows where the goalposts will be by the time you finish your PhD.
* Single anonymous source.

* That source is implausibly well informed.

* Operational details make little sense (using a warship as a diving platform for US divers, elaborate sonobuoy remote detonation, etc)

* OSINT details don't check out (all the implicated ships are accounted for, etc)

* Errors/contradictions in the story (the Norwegian Navy doesn't operate any P8s, etc)

* Long, unbroken track record, going back to 2006, of Hersh writing lurid, discredited stories like this

* No media outlet in the world --- not just in the US but anywhere in Europe --- being willing to run this.

Important caveat that disbelieving Hersh doesn't mean that the US wasn't behind the incident; it just means there's nothing to learn about the incident from Hersh's writing.
There are three ways to 'scale' a computer program. The first is optimizing the algorithms and data structures which is discussed in the section you noted. Make your code run as fast as possible using a single thread even when the amount of data you are processing gets extremely large. The second is taking advantage of better hardware (more cores, bigger L2 and L3 caches, SSDs, etc.) which includes spinning off threads to do single tasks in parallel. The third is a 'scale out' architecture where the application is spread out across multiple machines.

With all the cloud infrastructure available today, too many programmers focus on the third option (which can mask inefficiencies in the first two) when they could get as good or better performance at a cheaper price by focusing on the other options instead.
> Being completely unbiased is a form of psychopathy.

Nice. On the other hand, we must remember that biases can be, and are, exploited: “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
Of course. Rags to riches and "pulling oneself up by one's bootstraps" anecdotes are mired in survivorship bias almost by definition.
I think the basic assumption is "you need help, and we are willing to help you".

I guess it all comes down to what "life coaching" means in this context. If we are talking about some sort of social assistants that will understand what ails the people in need and help them find a way around their issues (e.g.: navigate state bureaucracy, acquiring some basic qualification, find help with rehabilitation, etc) I see no downside.

Instead of seeing this as patronizing, I actually see it as quite humane.
This is a really excellent point, both in general and vis a vis the conflict in Ukraine. Something I see happening often is that some people are quick to confuse expertise-as-credential with expertise-as-substance, or to assume that anyone who has above average knowledge of some relevant subject area that relates to some aspect of the war is immune to emotionally biased interpretations.
I don't see why it's logical to conclude that difficulties modeling hard problems means we can't model them using math. These difficulties are not uncommon in the history of science, and we've eventually solved them all before with math, and we should expect such problems to become more and more difficult as the low hanging fruit has been plucked. I see literally no reason to jump to the conclusion that the core problem is trying to use math at all.
Not only wasteful of opportunity cost but also inhumane. There's no window, the space is severely claustrophobic, and worst of all, it's pointless considering Starship will be the lander. Why stop at a gateway instead of simply landing? Congress.

And if mass and diameter are launch constrained [1], why not chose an inflatable tech? Again, congress, because the defense contractors don't like inflatables. If we wanted a true lunar station, it should be large enough to live in long term, not suffer in for pork spending's sake.

There are plenty of vocal, inside critics [2,3].

1. https://www.space.com/lunar-gateway-station-claustrophobic-a...

2. https://spacenews.com/former-astronaut-criticizes-lunar-gate...

3. https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/former-nasa-administ...
MBAs are more about hustle and networking than about actual management skills.

90% of the folks reading this comment could pick up the management skills via one week's worth of Udemy courses.

"A degree in business is, in most cases, a degree in nothing"
I've had a lot of fun fiddling with pico-8 (https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php), a virtual console with its own code, graphics and music/sound editor - heavily restricted (in terms of e.g. amount of code and graphics, it's designed so that games fit in an image file), maybe a bit more advanced than a Gameboy.

But being restricted like that made it feel more free. Don't need to think about function or variable names too much since only two dozen characters fit on screen. Graphics, just click some pixels until it looks like something.

But it's powerful enough to make games like Celeste (https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=2145) or even 3D games and demoscene things.
Microsoft is forcibly removing internet explorer from PCs
You know, it would be nice for you to actually read the docs before posting insulting comments.

> This creates a firewall rule in the container

We’re done here.
This is why I always make remarks regarding how Rust still doesn't have a proper solution for many ecosystems where C and C++ are the only available tools (with an ecosystem, not only the compiler), which will be around for decades and need to be catered for somehow, and if one can live with automatic memory management, there are plenty of safe languages to chose from.

When one comes with this advocacy that safety === Rust in every discussion thread, this automatically shuts off the recipient of the message, which could otherwise be willing to actually listen to it.
Product development is creation, is it not? Sure, the medium is different and even the process may be different but product development is a creative endeavor.
It's a safe assumption that safety requirements were a big driver of increased size and weight. And some of this factors have a snowball effect. Some requirements make the car bigger and heavier so it needs bigger engine, wider tires, bigger fuel tank, then it's even bigger and heavier.

Add all the luxury elements that attract customers and you have a lot more extra weight. Small cars are generally seen as entry level, unsafe, so car manufactures are more than willing to provide bigger, fancier models. It's not just the size that shot up, prices did too in order to cover all the extras.

People are also bigger and heavier than they used to so extra space and carrying capacity are more than welcome.
Sad to see folks who were still holding fort for a lost cause.

Business minded person like Chris Coyier dropped the thing long ago, made $4million of a blog and left.

Chris was never passionate about coding. It was all setup to make money.
Ultra-enthusiast hardware is strangling PC gaming
You are not generating a real physical ID but a representation of an ID, a jpeg. Nor would you be using that representation of an ID to identify and actual person for something that legally requires proof of ID like purchasing alcohol, opening a bank account or driving a car. The sole context for this representation is for a fake persona that exists solely on a social media service.
Maybe I was thinking of this: https://layoffs.fyi/. The "list of employees" must be an opt in spreadsheets where people are posting their own info. Could be improved with a forum IMO.
It also matches with my experience fwiw. The biggest issue I saw with qualitative is that it almost always was used to reinforce an existing idea that the PM has. I've never heard a PM say they learned something surprising and are reconsidering their initial idea.