skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26683832
The code does seem really easy to break. From https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/american-indi...:

[The first type of code they created, Type 1 code, consisted of 26 Navajo terms that stood for individual English letters that could be used to spell out a word. For instance, the Navajo word for “ant,” wo-la-chee, was used to represent the letter “a” in English.

Type 2 code contained words that could be directly translated from English into Navajo, and the code talkers also developed a dictionary of 211 terms (later expanded to 411) for military words and names that didn’t originally exist in the Navajo language. For example, since there was no existing Navajo word for “submarine,” the code talkers agreed to use the term besh-lo, which translates to “iron fish.”]

If you were listening to Type 1 code, you would hear the same 25 words over and over again. Then if you replace each word with an English letter according to English language letter frequency, you are done.
Throwaway account.

I am skeptical of the lemma that "[Gen Z's] formative tech years were spent using software that exists to be user-friendly."

The only place this lemma is used explicitly is in the central argument:

"They may be digital natives, but young workers were raised on user-friendly apps – and office devices are far less intuitive"

The examples given in the article evidence software that exists to be easy to use, particularly to access content, but not to be user-friendly in and of itself:

"They grew up using apps to get work done and are used to the ease that comes with Apple operating systems."

"...apps like Instagram and TikTok are so easy to use that younger people expect everything else to be a breeze, too. When it’s not, they’re more likely to give up."

"'It takes five seconds to learn how to use TikTok,' [Simon] said. 'You don’t need an instruction book, like you would with a printer. Content is so easy to access now that when you throw someone a simple curveball, they’ll swing and they miss, and that’s why Gen Z can’t schedule a meeting.'"

These distinct purposes seem to be conflated in the article. The article also seems to conflate user-friendliness with intuitiveness, and asserts that desktop computing and office devices are less intuitive.

A critical aspect of user-friendliness that is absent in the article is freedom: "that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software" [1]

The difference is clear when you substitute "easy to use" for "powerful and reliable" in this quote: [2]

"The idea that we want software to be powerful and reliable comes from the supposition that the software is designed to serve its users. If it is powerful and reliable, that means it serves them better. But software can be said to serve its users only if it respects their freedom. What if the software is designed to put chains on its users? Then powerfulness means the chains are more constricting, and reliability that they are harder to remove. Malicious features, such as spying on the users, restricting the users, back doors, and imposed upgrades are common in proprietary software..."

The article gives an example of a user killing a laptop by repeatedly accepting a pop-up without reading it. I found this passage from the article interesting:

"Dell used its own survey of respondents between the ages of 18 and 26 to find that 56% of respondents said “they had very basic to no digital skills education.” A third of them said their education had not provided them “with the digital skill they need to propel their career”. What they know comes from the apps they use on their own time, not the tech supplies at Office Depot."

I'm curious if some of this would be better explained as user behavior being optimized for easy to use but unfree software.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
[2] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
Works on JANET [1]

1.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET
"System Crafters" is the Youtube channel referenced: https://www.youtube.com/c/systemcrafters/playlists
It's downvoted because the propaganda suggests that "it's different when we do it".

It works for everything, for atrocities, wars, privacy invasions, freedom curtailment, human rights abuses, police violence, etc.
>(By contrast, back in the day, I took a FORTRAN course as part of a non-CS engineering major. The assumption was that you had never touched a computer before.)

This was my "back in the day" experience as well, though I had a choice between C and Pascal. There was no expectation that anyone had any programming experience. I only had a touch of C64 BASIC knowledge going in.

> I have this feeling that the kids who appear better at uni are the ones who happened to pick up certain not-quite-programming skills before they started. Basics of networking, how installation of programs happens, how to use the command line, that kind of thing.

This one really stood out to me and highlights a change in things since then. That describes ALL of the CS kids during my time. We were the ones who a) had computers and b) did weird things like rebuilding kernals or futz around forever trying to get remote X sessions running.

A fact that blew my mind a few years ago was that, of the 13 software engineers on my team, only 3-4 actually owned a computer other than the work-provided one.
Cool, but can it also stamp out (e.g. emboss) the folding lines so the paper will naturally fold at the given lines?

PS: Nice machine but a sibling poster mentions that Cricut is applying vendor lock-in strategies, which is very bad.
Because there's practically no caffeine in a rum and coke.

Very fuzzy napkin-math incoming: if you were to consume an equivalent amount of caffeine as a Four Loko via rum-and-cokes, you've now had about 50oz of rum. The caffeine would, uh, not be the problem.

Edit: Hm, though maybe this says more about my "rum, wave a Coke over it" preferences.
I work at a company that does ruby “at scale” too (10mil b2c users). Yes we need more web instances than we would have in go(or whatever). No, it doesn’t really matter at all - web process compute is a tiny fraction of our AWS bill, and a meaninglessly tiny % of overall op-ex. We’re talking sub sub 1%. It doesn’t matter, really.

Of course if we had a few billion users , diff story, but approximately no one does.
Do we have stevia without erithrytol available in groceries?
Source is https://withinhealth.com/learn/articles/perfecting-perfectio...

This detects one kind of manipulation, the horrifying-sounding "Face-Aware Liquify" tool in Adobe Photoshop
People don't go to facebook because of react however. Sure any big company solves their scale problems in innovative ways.
I would love to have conversations with NPCs be run by chat GPT. Train them on the lore of the world somehow and converse with the NPC.
Pfft, when did that stopped autocrats from doing whatever they want? /s
Here is what will happen - bill will pass, then no politician will say anything about it, or at minimum won't say the word "ban". But mysteriously Tutanota will see connectivity degradation all across UK as a warning shot. Any inquiries will be met with silence or generic non-answers writing which is a profession of all politicians. Then some kind of whitelisting will start, which will include everyone, except rebels like Tutanota, Proton, Signal and others. E.g. no gov. service will accept their domain as non-compliant. There would be a lot of clever barriers invented for this. And at no point Tutanota would be able to claim they are banned because some traces of access will be left deliberately.
Journalists won't pick on this topic and neither would common people. Access will die the "natural" way.
Apparently mammals are a small percentage in general, I recall looking at the graph in the article: "The biomass distribution on Earth"

Have a look: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1711842115

Seems like Earth belongs to plants, bacteria, fungi and so on.
How did you recognize it in yourself, and how did you overcome it?
It's always been remarkable to me that preppers are more focused on guns and safe houses than working to strengthen civil society.
This looks really exciting. I just did a major search looking for tools like this, specifically around making high grade transactional emails. At first glance Tabular looks like a much better fit than anything else I found.

One request - from a security perspective I'd much prefer using google to sign in than having to give you a password I then need to manage (particularly given that you're using Auth0 so it should be just clicking a checkbox on your end)
I see what you’re saying but is that a significant number compared to all the microscopic sea life, algae and soil microbes?

I have no idea.
Who do you think should decide what the Supreme Court should hear instead?

Because the whole separation-of-powers principle strongly suggests it shouldn't be either of the other two branches, since they could abuse that to prevent the court from checking their own abuses of power.
A lone developer within a strong engineering org probably creates better code b/c they'd would need to have the street cred to solo a project.

The opposite would happen in orgs where one person who happens to be the most technical has the responsibility for all the development

Adding more people decreases the variance. The end result is usually a bland standard which some people may like b/c it hooks into existing mastery.
Smart roads that commute locations of cars on then.
Maybe its being a former haskeller, but the engineer in me absolutely loves this.

The CTO in me is horrified at the idea of writing a whole bunch of civet code for it to die a coffeescript style slow death. If it catches on I'll be all over it though.
> In reality it becomes design by committee, worst of all worlds.

And then there is the special hell of projects written by groups of hurried physicists, zoologists, linguists or other non-IT scientists.

And below that, heirloom university software projects where every generation builds on the previous iteration, without ever cleaning it up.
Are join algorithms like this really the alternative to compound indexes? I understand that they reduce the memory required for joins, but the amount of data involved in a join is the same.
Whats really amazing is that Python, with its rather large userbase, hasnt already picked some of this low hanging fruit.

Anyway I have been using pyston-autoloader-lite system wide, and so far the only thing it breaks is (unsurprisingly) Pytorch's torch.compile feature.
> Lots of iPhones in the US because of high incomes, and high iPhone availability

The US is not the only country with a wealthy populace which tends to use mostly iPhones. The UK, Germany, Switzerland, the Baltics, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan are all roughly equally as wealthy (if not more so) per capita. However, in literally everywhere else but the US, people almost exclusively use third-party apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, WeChat, etc. iMessage is completely ignored, and the Messages app on iPhones is used solely for SMSes from carriers, 2FA OTPs, and random spam that is ignored.

Furthermore, several flagship Android phones rival iPhones in cost now.
> for the Daily Mail, who will relay it to voters in marginal seats,

https://youtu.be/DGscoaUWW2M
If you want the landscape to move faster, try cycling.
Should evolution play a role? Life evolving to better process available resources over time?

What about a simple cumulative effect.
An ability to communicate is the bare minimum to be effective in almost all jobs. A team of mediocre anythings who communicate effectively will achieve more than a team of exceptional anythings who communicate poorly.

The way you’re characterising communication shows that you’ve been unfortunate enough to work in environments where volume of communication has been mistaken for a measure of quality. Good communication is characterised by the ability to share in the understanding of others, effective communication makes a group of people more than the sum of their parts. Effective communication leads to less communication.

I hope someday you’re fortunate enough to find yourself in a positive environment that is able to demonstrate all of this to you, because effective communication will improve your output more than any programming experience ever could.
Am I the only one who is very confused what this is?
A PyPI typosquatting campaign post-mortem
Exactly my thought. A well-sleeping kid who stays where you put them is not that much work for now. But when they start being mobile and explore the world on their own, you will need to keep an eye on them forever.
argument order is definitely a feature. with -ss being one that behaves differently depending on it's location in reference to -i. it's not an accidental thing and the desired outcome dictates where you place it. not understanding that just means you're not using it enough to grok it.
Facebook's investment on AI/ML has been huge and had a great contribution on the field. They are not new players chasing a fad. They foresaw this long ago, as did many other big companies too.
Touché, well done.
The job of a software engineer at Stripe is not solely code. The job is to deliver business value, and that requires communicating with others across and outside of the organization. I’ve been at Stripe for over five years. I would not have lasted five months if I just sat at my desk and coded all day.

Engineers at Stripe wear many hats, depending on the project. My best example is Paper Checks. I’ve been an engineer, project manager, sales support, designer, support personnel, docs writer, and even visited lockbox facilities. I learned and did a lot on the project, and loved it. None of that happens if engineers just sit and code. We don’t get all the information about the flow of data and paper, and we build a poor product.

The same goes for internal projects. I was a DRI for a complex rewrite of our system. I regularly worked with six other teams to ship that project. That project doesn’t happen without communication.
Antitrust: EU Commission Sends Statement of Objections to Apple
Google has low AI industry exposure. You’d be better off just investing directly in NVidia and AMD.
The color is named after the liquor.
On the flip side, I can find almost anything I want on eBay and that was totally impossible 20 or so years ago. I'd say there is vastly more available to us all than in whatever yesteryear you're imagining.
I hope they defend it with a vengeance so nobody can copy it
In the thread we're under:

>You had me <referring about foreigners not being able to buy housing> until ... education ...

The 'provocation' was that their housing WASN'T even available to be bought, but that they should get an education. How do you consider it 'assumed' when the whole 'provocation' was the guy agreed they shouldn't be able to buy it?
Likely the new EU Digital Markets Act, which requires interoperabilty from messaging applications.
I thought country music was already about my wife died, my dog won't start, and my truck ran away?
> Also, I'm German, where all this US "be nice and smile all the time" thing seems at best naive, but also a form of torture and company overreach to try to emotion control employees into this drugged up alice in wonderland facade.

In my experience, the required performative cheeriness is a feature of newer companies that have over-hired. I’ve worked with several US companies with established international presence where being direct and honest was the expectation.

I’ve also worked at smaller startups where toxic positivity was basically company policy. I’ve been reprimanded for my tone not being positive enough in a meeting where we were discussing a serious and urgent issue. I’ve had an employee who couldn’t handle even the slightest bit of feedback that wasn’t glowingly positive. These experiences were rare, though, and they were all associated with companies that had hired a lot of middle managers with vague directives who had little to do other than attend meetings and cheerlead. In each case it was a sign that the company valued perceptions more than reality, and it led to poor company performance.

Step outside of those companies, though, and it’s common for moderately high pressure environments with blunt, direct feedback. I’ve also had several outright abusive bosses who would disparage me personally, threaten firing at the slightest issue, and one CEO who even fired people on the spot if he was in a bad mood. The US doesn’t have a uniform work culture.
There's also a strange appeal, at least for me, in being able to play around with old games and hardware using far more powerful tools (and more time) than the original developers could have dreamt of.

I also like, sometimes, that we can now own hardware that would have been exorbitantly expensive in its heyday. An arcade machine was thousands of dollars in the 80s, but you can sometimes buy the board for cheap and supply your own JAMMA connector and display. Fun.
> Selling the idea that the higher the test code coverage is the better and safer your code is.

I don't think someone that believes this has a good understanding of unit testing. You can easily get 100% coverage without testing anything at all!

Coverage is a great metric if it's predicated on high quality tests. Even then 100% coverage doesn't equal "safe". It means that a lot of effort has been put into understanding and testing internal behavior.

You still need higher order tests, arguably even more.
To make an intricate costume based off of a fictional character's suit of armor, I found a papercraft model of the character, scaled it to life-size, then printed out the model in pieces at 1:1 scale at an office supply store using their large format printer.

Bringing the huge sheets back home, I cut the shapes needed out of cosplay foam using the printed out segments as a template, then assembled the armor like it was a giant papercraft model.

Worked great :) but to save time next time I need to account for foam having a greater thickness than paper. And maybe paint the foam before cutting it out.
Which I guess is "welcome to how everyone not in the US thinks about the US." So 100% it's a change for us but the rest of the world seems to have acclimated to it fine-ish.
I don’t think anyone is claiming that humans haven’t flourished. What is being lamented is that this has clearly been at the expense of other species on Earth and biodiversity and ecology seems to be quite a fair bit worse.

Plastics in every source of water, rapid global warming, acidification of the ocean. There’s not a whole lot of good news about the health of the Earth ecosystem and this is a system that will take millions of years to recover (if it ever does).
Oh man, that's kinda terrifying. Then suddenly "everybody in the world" loves Facebook and shills them every chance they get
Previewing Phone Link for iPhone Users on Windows 11 with Windows Insiders
I agree that proprietary protocols suck and users are harmed long term, iMessage due to reasons described is by far the worst : it doesn't even bother to tell senders reliably if recipients received it, not even going into read status.

Due to Apple's desperate need to keep all their inventions to themselves only regardless of long term effects (lightning port say hi and bye in quick succession), its worse than useless and actually harms communication between people. I don't know a single person/haven't met a single one in Switzerland in past 13 years who is using it, everybody is on some other competition (while working in IT and bank and quite a few folks here sport mostly older apple devices).
There was an episode of Knight Rider where Kitt turned evil and did this to Michael!
> Is my data secure?

> Yes, we take data security seriously and have robust measures in place to protect user information.

I think if you're going to mention this, you should add more information.

This vague response makes it look shadier than if you didn't mention this at all.
If we studied Fabrice from the perspective of "how can all be more like him/as productive as him/as innovative/as smart", do you think the findings would basically come back "he's just genetically gifted"?

He's like the Lebron James of the tech world from what I can deduct.
A lot of expertise is really:

1. Knowing when to use the right tool, and

2. Being in the right place at the right time to offer the insight.

What’s obvious to the expert is frequently intractable to the outsider. In many cases, I wouldn’t call it so much “avoidance” as “not knowing the solution exists at all”.
Capturing and mounting a specimen hardly makes a dent compared to how many die on car windshields

Well, the point here is that this was a "rare" insect. Comparing the number of a particular rare insect to the number of common mosquitoes doesn't make sense.
In the summer, I use my bicycle to go everywhere. It feels fantastic.
I wonder if apple would ever consider sponsoring Asahi Linux or (marginally less likely) including a boot camp utility again for installing and dual booting Asahi. Kind of echoing WSL.

Feels like it would be good antitrust brownie points for something unlikely to upset their desktop OS market share for the general public.

(Sub-0.1% chance given their track record, I know.)
I think that, in general, people will agree with you and would prefer not too have so much ambient light at night.

So assuming that, I think it's a good idea to ask the question: If people general prefer a dark sky at night, why do we have so much lighting?

There are probably a lot of benefits that people get from lighting that would be lost with less of it. If we don't understand what those are, it's hard to weigh the pros and cons.
under this logic, a sack of lead ought to 'rule over' a living animal because of being heavier
All the articles against the backdoor Roth reference Peter Thiel’s Roth. That is a very, very rare situation and he purchased PayPal stock for nothing using his Roth because it was a startup. PayPal could have taken a different turn and failed.

Yes there’s a tax benefit to backdoor roth but the max contribution is $6000 a year and most people are going to get index fund rate of returns and not Peter Thiel’s home run.

And Thiel did not get around the max contribution rate.
This is missing QuickJS :) https://bellard.org/
Today social science Prof is essentially a PR job, just say anything that sounds nice to public.
The difference between deli cuts and ground meat is that many deli cuts contain food additives, mainly phosphates and curing agents, which aren't particularly good for one's health. Especially nitrite based curing salts are suspected of causing cancer [0].

https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/can...
I can easily see the argument for owning personal property like a phone, but how can someone have a true ownership claim over land?

For personal property there is a production chain with labor that went into the item, but for land it's just out there and at some point someone decided they should be able to restrict what other people do in some area. If you see that it's not legitimate for a government to do, then by the same logic it's not legitimate for an individual - a government is just a collection of individuals acting together
AFAIK ChatGPT doesnt have an API endpoint to do this. Anyone know whats really going on?