skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brave goggles also do something similar, allowing to filter search the way to you want.
How do you even reliably version-control something that relies on editing its own code?
Do you have any evidence to support the statement that this is "the rule in the UK"? Anecdotally (in the UK) I've only ever known managers of technical teams to have risen from technical roles, and have never heard of anyone going straight into technical management from university. I'm not super experienced though so very open to my experience not being the norm, just curious if you were speaking from experience or research.
Twitter Blue head Esther Crawford is reportedly out at Twitter
Delhi state is a union territory. The central government normally controls them and Delhi is not much different just because they have a legislative assembly (in this case AAP government). Cetral government can (in this case did) scrutinize what their ministers in the union territories were actually doing. Let the minister come out clean in the court.
Big Tech 'fair share' debate set to dominate Barcelona mobile meet
Its who you know, not what you know that count's in the UK.

Introverts who prefer to stay anonymous and private because they value privacy, having contact with as a few people as possible, will always come off worse.
https://archive.is/M9kQp
China to thwart SpaceX's Starlink influence with '13,000' satellites
There are always trade-offs.

If you prioritize streamability you end up deprioritizing something else.
>Women can still "smell" the success on me, and stick close largely because they are either 1) using me to have fun with my money/toys or 2) biding their time looking for an eventual in, or some combination of the two.

Lol, I think #1 is universal to all sexes.

You have a "value"/status, and it's there whether it can be tapped for tangible benefits or not, and male friends do price it in to "how much do I value my friendship with this guy?"
An extended fork of FREE!ship[0] (abandoned since 2007), FREE!ship Plus[1] was ported from Delphi to Lazarus/FPC & Qt since 2015 and actively maintained till October 2020.[2,3]

Author of original opensource FREE!ship switched to develop its proprietary variant, DELFTship - it still actively maintained.[4]

[0] https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeship/

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20160831005653/http://www.hydrons...

[2] https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeship-plus-in-lazarus/

[3] https://github.com/markmal/freeship-plus-in-lazarus

[4] https://www.boatdesign.net/threads/free-ship-continues-as-de...
Isn't this a worldwide issue?
I'm not sure there is any specific feature that is novel, nor do I think any claims as such were made. The novelty is packaging it all together with an easy to use, hard to misuse UX.
You can hire a ghostwriter to write a biography about yourself and pay a publishing house for a limited edition print run and voila, you can have your own wikipedia page based on an authorized source.

Wikipedia's view of what's 'original research' has alway been a bit murky, on top of that. Are the primary documents that historians rely on acceptable as sources, or only if they've been synthesized by an 'accredited historian' (whatever that is) in book or research journal form? If publishing original research is wrong, why publish a journalist's original research which is incorporated into a newspaper article? What about original research published as a blog post, is that now an acceptable secondary source?
Yep at this point I’m increasingly thinking he has serious mental illness. Some combination of narcissistic with something else maybe. Definitely a psychopath - zero empathy, constant lying, no remorse.
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When it’s time for employee development, you hear that argument.

When it’s time to hire, you want someone with 40 years of rust experience, who is under 30, and is a 20x rockstar.
Esther Crawford is leaving Twitter
What Layoffs? Many Employers Are Eager to Hang on to Workers
Germany wants to ease visa application for Indian IT workers
> I deeply disagree.

Wow, really? You must have never been part of a strong, productive team.
> I also believe in the idea that people are not robots. If you live your life that way, I feel explicit contempt for you, and I do generally think your life is rather pointless.

There are plenty of people who...

1. view human behavior as largely (but not completely) shaped by historical events; or

2. don't believe in traditional ideas of free will

and still find meaning in their lives.

I'd encourage you to challenge your beliefs here.

Do you want to feel contempt? This contempt is one kind of judgment. Why are you confident that you know enough to make such a harsh judgment?

I find it interesting that what you've written is quite opposite of secular Buddhism.

There's a great story from Buddhism about hate. I'll adapt it. Let's say you hate that an alcoholic drunk driver killed a family of four. What exactly do you hate? If the drunk driver had a habit of driving drunk, it was not a one-off. You should also hate all previous drunk drivings that didn't kill anyone. So you might hate the fact that such a bad habit took root? What history drove the alcoholism? What if it was parental abuse? Genetics? But what about all of the people who knew about the alcoholic and his drunk driving? Why did they not intervene? Why is alcoholism so prevalent? Why don't lawmakers do more about it?

My point is that if you connect the hate to its causes, you will find it impossible to situate it on just one person.

I suppose you could hate all of the contributing factors. But how many of the contributing factors have volition?

My conclusion is that most common ideas of hate (a) are not well thought out and (b) don't really help us solve problems.

Perhaps there is only a fine line between hate and a burning desire to improve something in the world. The latter can be done without holding people in contempt. It can be hard, but it is worth it.
Unicode has completely separate rules for characters and emojis. Characters and scripts generally need solid documentation that they are real existing symbols. Emojis, on the other hand, are accepted largely on how likely they are to be used. My impression is that the Unicode committee would prefer to deal with scripts and characters, but they got stuck with emojis for historical reasons and that's what most people care about.

Refs:
https://www.unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html
http://www.unicode.org/pending/proposals.html
Interesting - you can actually go inside one of the ships with Google Street View: https://www.google.com/maps/@21.3919514,72.1752099,3a,75y,12...
The state has been collecting data on young people for decades, why should they have a monopoly, where they can choose who is going to fail in order to reinforce the states existence when kids reach adulthood and a life of crime?
I'm currently in some surreal world because of a large government contract our company had won. Multiple companies are involved. Lack of any meaningful systems, people who have no technical understanding about anything making decisions, data requests have timelines as we could simply magic them up on demand. People don't understand data, statistics, not to mention systems. Some are paid handsomely for, frankly speaking ,not doing much.

I often have an imposter syndrome,but it looks like the bar is really really low.
Microsoft Access is this. It was quite popular in its heyday, but as time wore on, it turned out that people eventually either want scalable, real, full-blown databases, or infinitely flexible spreadsheets. Anything built with a product in that grey area in between will eventually want to go one way or the other.
This video could've been a textual content.
Lack of code review and testing always seemed like the most pressing problems with that; both of which should have caught this error. Yes, it probably also should have had braces, but that seems like the lesser issue.
The book about her life is heartbreaking. It’s clear she was extremely traumatized and also could hardly deal with her father’s crimes both to the country and to her family. She was in a way a victim but also a troubled person. A fascinating crazy life.
I still feel like the upstart who barely knows what he is doing.

The only difference is the people around me. I used to be surrounded by people I looked up to, who seemed to know everything.

But now everyone around me has become mysteriously less and less competent and they're acting like I am the established authority, which just shows how little they must know!
‘A wake-up call’: Meat production in France under scrutiny amid climate change
Yes, but they're also trying to eliminate the need for high skilled jobs as well or at least send them to countries where they can pay less.
Just to make sure that people understand the clarification correctly: This is about upstreaming the work by Asahi Linux team. In particular, Linux on Apple Silicon macs is quite usable already if you use their own Arch-based distribution which includes yet-to-be-upstreamed patches. I run it on my M1 Air and the only major (to me) things with no support yet are the builtin speakers (afaik support is coming soon) and the webcam.
I would think that software engineering is the exception that proves the rule: people with domain knowledge are highly motivated to share what they know, ask questions, consolidate knowledge, and refine processes using the Internet.

Working in another field (public services might be a good example) it’s often not possible to test out hypothetical solutions, or find relevant expertise, or to even discover that whole areas of knowledge actually exist. In that context, relevant qualifications have a little more weight.
(Off-topic)
'Clever' design shit like this just makes me reach for reader mode. If you want to do video, make a video. When I read an article, I do not want to scroll through the equivalent of a TV intro or game cutscene to get to the information. Normally this is just an aesthetic preference, but when you're reporting on a serious and complex legal situation, emotional theatrics actually undermine the journalistic mission.
this is probably the best form of user interaction with simulated fluid I have seen
> Roughly three-quarters of the 500 employees in Tyson’s South Dakota office told the company they wouldn’t make the move to Arkansas and planned to depart by about the time the office closes in mid-2023, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. More than 90% of the employees in Tyson’s Chicago office declined to relocate, the Journal also reported.

Ouch. What are the chances the best employees are the ones that chose to make the move?
No NO-kia. Lots of people like to pronounce it as no-KI-a. But it's actually NO-kia.
It sounds like these are records used to give special consideration to students with special needs. Special education is not unique to the US.
Hi, something is bothering me here: https://github.com/C2SP/C2SP/blob/main/age.md#file-key

> Each file is encrypted with a 128-bit symmetric file key.

Did you meant 256 bits instead? Or is this a deliberate choice?

As far as I can tell the body is encrypted with a 256-bit key derived from the file key, and using a 128-bit file key would limit the security of the whole scheme when using it with X25519 (its ~128 bits of collision resistance is better than the 128 bits of preimage resistance of the file key), or with extremely strong passwords.

The only rationale for this choice I can think of is saving space, but your choice of a textual format with base64 encoded keys & nonces suggests you didn't care that much about space…

I'm confused here, what did I miss?
I think it basically has to go the other way around: somehow demand for the labour of the people currently doing this low-skill has to go up, pushing the cost up, incentivising automation. This argument somewhat assumes that automation isn’t currently incentivised much, but I think that’s false; I guess there must be other reasons for more automation not happening…

The price of low skill labour in the US has been increasing, I think. I don’t know if that’s because of increased demand or reduced supply or something else though.
Hey thanks for the plug, I listened to a few of his show and liked it a few years ago.

I go with 2 months cycle with THC. On and then off.
Toward the end of the ON period I can’t stand weed anymore and I’m often grumpy as fuck.

Then I rediscover it 2 month later and it’s great. Yah. Not great.

Going to listen to that now.
Sure. I mostly avoid looking at it daily. Instead I look once a week and correlate with journaling entries.
Do you know of a good example you could link?
That's actually something I never really thought about but makes total sense.

I think it's because applications are rendering their own text directly to the GPU these days. Back in the day, you used to use standard OS controls for everything which allow you to do exactly this without any direct attachment to the underlying rendering layers, but these days most applications are either Chromium with an icon or something rendered to a GPU canvas (Flutter style) to get easy animations for cheap, each with their own GPU acceleration system.

RDP has several modes (block updates, video streams, you name it) and switches between them on the fly. Windows especially uses the win32 render hooks to significantly reduce bandwidth necessary to run native applications, integrating in the window event loop mechanism.

I don't think browsers or streaming tools can leverage that tech as easily and even if they could I expect the benefit to be diminishing over the coming years. This understated use case for natice applications is often forgotten and at this point I don't expect the industry to move back to the old way of writing applications.
The interesting question is: what roles will it be able to replace first when it gets yet much better at everything it does now?
I don’t see a good reason to use it. When I want to change a value later I use let at the top of the appropriate block, otherwise const. The code reads nicer that way.
I was comparing repairability to longer security updates, not cheap Android phones to expensive iPhones. For that matter, iPhones aren't especially repairable either: So if a cheap Nokia can be better than an iPhone in this regard, why couldn't it be at least as good in terms of updates?
To question your own tacit belief, how do we know that AGI will not be an emergent property of a sufficiently complex AI system? In other words, why prevents the Star Trek computer from “waking up”?

Personally, that’s my theory: intelligence is an emergent manifestation of a sufficiently complex system. You don’t need to program it directly, rather provide the substrate for it to emerge. Our own mind/brain duality seems to suggest that this outcome is possible.

If that turns out to be true, then it seems to follow that any AI of sufficient complexity must effectively be lobotomized to prevent AGI from emerging. And that possibility raises a whole bunch of ethical issues of its own….
>The stuff you see in local govt/healthcare would bring people on here to tears. The local govt was trying to hire people to improve processes...their listed tech contained no programming languages and just included managed services. You see tech roles, and it is all the same: just managed services, no actual coding...it is incredible.

you talk about hiring under-qualified people, but they also hire over-qualified people and don't know what to do with them.

I got hired out of university as a "data scientist" in the govt; but it turned out they actually didn't have any data science to give me. they just slotted me into the same excel clusterfuck workflows they always had. the inefficiency was unimaginable, it was like the spreadsheet dark ages. i tried to clean things up on my own initiative, automate them, have proper version control and data pipelines in code rather than manual steps described in piles of word documents; but I was the only person in my section of the org chart who had the skills or even cared about the problems. I could make things better in my tiny corner, but everyone I had to work with was clueless, so there was only so much I could do. so I just quit out of boredom and frustration.

then I got a SWE job for more than twice the pay.
To be fair, technical skills training in the UK is currently mostly delivered through apprenticeships. The model is 80% "on the job", 20% "off the job" training. So, in theory at least, they should deliver the kind of experience and informal mentorship you're talking about, alongside classroom based training (which is supposed to cover fundamentals, theory, etc.).

In practice, how well this works depends on how effectively employer and training provider coordinate, and how committed the employer is to delivering on the mentorship part.
Hasnt got a "scrollbar map" (known as MapMode[1] in Visual Studio), making it harder to navigate large chunks of code.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/how-to-tr...
The "Last Supper" that Stoller mentions -- I had heard of it before, and I have never been able to make any sense of it. Why in the hell would the Pentagon advocate consolidation among its suppliers, let alone would it pay for the mergers? I want to give benefit of the doubt to the brass here, but I've heard zero plausible arguments for how any of this could have been good for the United States. So what am I looking at? Abject stupidity? Barely-disguised corruption? It's just never made any sense to me.

Can anybody steelman the case for this?
Inmos and the Transputer (1998)
It's nice to imagine, but tech puts its quality gates around developers. That means developers will end up having to prove they are better than a manager-using-ChatGPT, rather than managers having to prove anything.
I remember writing about first official releases of Clojure around 2010 when I was an editor at heise online Poland. At the same time I was coding libraries in Ruby and one thing was drawing my attention: lazy enumerators.

During works on I18n library with pattern interpolation in Ruby I had chosen to use lazily executed methods which could be stacked with the dot operator, giving nice processing pipelines. Around that time I was reading about Clojure and it hit me how much easier would this be in this language, with function composition and sequences, not mentioning the Delays or Futures.

I think Clojure was the first language I decided to learn before conding anything serious. It took me like 2 years to really give it a try, and leave Ruby world, so in 2013 I was making notes explaining how the basics work, and in 2014 started writing a tutorial in Polish called "Poczytaj mi Clojure" (which could be freely translated as "README Clojure" (README meaning both "Clojure, read to me" and "read me [some] Clojure". Through all 2015, during my sabatical, while sitting in a cafeteria almost every day, I coverd built-in special forms, functions, type systems, collections, sequences, macros and more, publishing it online.

In 2016 I started sharing first programs on Github. So I probably need about 2 more years to become advanced, according to "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years" – https://www.norvig.com/21-days.html

I remember trying Hydrox for documentation and so called literate programming approach, playing with function arguments and building macros changing positional args into named ones, using core.async and multimethods to build network bots, learning macros and protocols. I've made some free software libraries through the years, and I think I finally am able to build more complex systems.

Since I occasionally have a tendency to go into details too much, or to (re-)write things from scratch, I found Clojure to be the first language giving me enough power to finish those things in less than couple of weeks (1-2 months tops), and go back to a main project to continue. In other lanugages I tried for years I was kind of sinking into sub-projects (which needed to be taken care of) and hadn't enough energy to go back and resume works on more generic, systemic level.
> what's wrong with webp?

Nothing wrong with the format in particular. However some may prefer formats such as PNG and JPEG since:

* A lot more software supports PNG and JPEG (backwards compatibility, better integration with one's existing system and tools).

* You can often get the same file size, visual quality, and performance with PNG and JPEG as you can with WEBP with optimization.
Digitalization was/is such a hard push and it's obvious some decision makers were just blinded by it.

This also happened last month (the guy was caught).

We really need some serious laws/consequences in order to prevent situations like this. The last hack was a MySQL with admin/admin!?
As I understand it, I think that any randomly generated SAT problem will not be able to be solved quickly; however, SAT problems in the real world, even when they're large, tend to be quick for SAT solvers (most people solve the "Wedding Seating" problem for their own weddings, after all!), Why ordinary SAT problems tend to be easy to solve, last I checked was an open problem.
It seems awfully fragile. What happens if that cell dies? Do you turn into a p-zombie? :)

Scientists have been studying brain damage for a long time, and it seems pretty clear that minds are more distributed than that. Oliver Sacks wrote a lot about this sort of thing.
Managed services? Luxury! I've seen people using table grids in MS Word to do tasks that belong in Excel.
I'm a fan of the thousand brain theory of consciousness. Something like our consciousness is the experience of a democratic voting process involving all the cells in our body.
> I doubt many people will use their expensive Macbook as a NAS that way, though

Maybe a Mac Mini though. Could be an interesting server option in the long run, the AS ones are a pretty decent bang for the buck
If you limit the cell states to to 0 and 1 it behaves much like sand.

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If you're aphantasic as part of your ADHD - i.e. you don't have a well-developed mind's eye - which is likely, then LSD is I suspect a much "safer" experience than it is for normies, in that your brain can't generate the sort of complex visual hallucinations required to give enough verisimilitude to fool the mind into believing it. And the other "bad trip" trap of getting stuck in a mental loop is also ineffective against the ADHD brain's inability to filter out distractions, it's hard for your mind go into a negative spiral when your brain is constantly poking it to pay attention to some random shiny shit in the edge of your vision. I love LSD, it can be hard work but it's given me some of the most amazing experiences ranging from the profound to just sheer joy. And then you can try combining it with ketamine for even more consciousness alteration :)
It might have been the full DEC pascal but we were taught to write standard Pascal.
Companies are already replacing workers with ChatGPT
EFF: Interoperable Facebook
>The point, to me, is that the entire establishment

And the Energy Department that the sole source behind this story isn't part of the so called establishment? Especially under the Biden admin which people who use words like 'the establishment' and 'deep state' consider the establishment.

Looks like 'the establishment' wants to blame China now, hence the story must be fake and there was no lab leak?

Where is actual evidence of the lab leak?
That Headline is a bit extreme.

https://archive.is/N39Fx

Here is what he said.

“The biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes, and people can only come out if they take the cartel’s drugs — and keep taking them — over and over.”

“I threw the script away. I mean, who is gonna believe that crazy idea! Being forced to do drugs? I do them voluntarily all day long.”