skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are they graduating from Princeton, or even somewhere like VA Tech or UCLA? Or are they coming out of East Iowa Upstairs Liberal Arts College?

As someone that has done hiring for entry level IT gigs, there is a notable difference between a green-but-interested English major from Ohio State vs. an ITT Tech or WGU grad. I'm not just making that up: my old data center manager was an English major from OSU and a die-hard linux guy, was great. Meanwhile all of our hires who... got DUIs, got fired for sexual harassment, caused 3 hour outages, and ended up involuntarily committed in mental hospitals, were no-degree or dubious-online-degree holders (these were all different people, btw).

You really saw the difference when it came to independent tasks and higher-level stuff, like running projects or management roles. Knew plenty of folks who were amazing and only had an AA (or less), but they were exceptions to the rule when compared to the ones who were sub-par.
This is quite a bad definition of sentience.
Funny, it's the complete opposite for me and my team. Maybe we can't transpose our personal social bubble to cover complete continents?
International SMS charges and ability to send photos without very high MMS charges were also a big driver of WhatsApp uptake - in the UK individual SMS charges had basically gone before WhatsApp came along but those two reasons were why my friendship group moved to it.
Neighbor got scammed.
If you want to smash rocks, go smash rocks. I'm not against people who want to use emacs, or org mode, or ed and keep it to themselves. I am against people making bold faced claims to outsiders in order to entice them into an ecosystem that is solidly last century. I am against perpetuating myths and ignoring the terrible UX and learning curve of emacs+org mode. And I find it appalling how emacs drones flock to every emacs or org mode post on hacker news and spout off a bunch of nonsense about how org mode is basically nirvana.

I'm not interested in hearing about how you hate the cloud, or you need a terminal based mail editor because "bells and whistles don't appeal to you", or you need to control every aspect of your system down to the ROM to get anything done. Most of us just want to get stuff done and focus on our actual problems, and that's easy to see - big corpos aren't building out your dream world because no one wants it, that's capitalism baby. Most of us want a secure cloud. Most of us want nice, modern, easy to use features and the advances that have come with decades of UX and AI research.
My argument is that even without property taxes the land ownership isn't real - someone can have a piece of paper and a government to back them up and say they "own" the land, but ultimately it's not the same as personal property and doesn't make sense to treat the same way. As far as I've seen it's impossible to establish a chain of custody for land ownership that doesn't involve theft and invalidate the current ownership claim

Further, the government is the only thing that grants the land ownership claim, if there is no government than anyone can come along and kick you off your land, revealing that you didn't really own it to start with - you're just living there right now
> In Gmail, they added a filter to hide any shipping or customer service messages from Amazon.

I gotta admit, that's pretty clever. Crude, but effective.
I'm very aware that the poor have been historically oppressed especially in recent capitalist societies like the US, I absolutely agree that it's a problem that capital owners continuously try to deflect through propaganda.

However the oppression of the poor has historically run in parallel with the oppression of women. In ancient societies, women were often excluded from political and public life, and their main role was to bear children and maintain the household. This was true in many early civilizations, such as ancient Greece, Rome, and China.

Religion also played a significant role in the oppression of women. Many religious traditions, such as Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, have traditionally placed women in subordinate roles, with men as the primary religious leaders and decision-makers.

Women were also subjected to practices such as foot-binding, female genital mutilation, and forced marriages. These practices aimed to control and limit women's movements and independence, and were often seen as necessary for maintaining social order.
For all the flak the openai PR about AGI for, they did say that they plan to have AI as a service to be far less locked down than their first party offering
Rand (along with Rose Lane Wilder, and others) was a seminal figure in the development of contemporary libertarian thought.

She's no more of a cult figure than Marx, and yet he is taught uncritically. The contradiction is not lost on the rest of us.

EDIT: also, no one who speaks positively of Rand and Lewis in the same sentence is a Randian cultist, for reasons that I hope are obvious.
"ceci n'est pas un arbre":
https://scribblediffusion.com/scribbles/tywfxjjrffbaljs5syn4...
Great point! I would be happy to get more input and brain-storm a good pricing model together, one that is fair both for developers and for users.

We have an source project UKV, that partly overlaps with vector-search: https://github.com/unum-cloud/ukv

Another one - UNSW, is a placeholder for now: https://github.com/unum-cloud/unsw

Both will be soon available on cloud marketplaces, but server-less options are a bit harder to cook. Our Discord is the best place to continue conversation: https://discord.gg/Bbh2bjNhvz

Thank you for advice!
May the port open
This is a very common case, sadly. But this is due to people failing to use MVPs correctly. Instead of being a tool for the sole purpose of rapid learning and iteration, it is used to falsely accelerate delivery.
When done well, you build a series of prototypes/MVPs with the sole purpose of learning faster what customers really need. You should then put all your effort into building that really, really, well, and kill off anything that didn't work out.
Ideally, you should always have new, minimalist code for new features you are exploring, and lots of old, extremely well designed, implemented and well-tested code for all the areas you already know are critical for your users - and nothing in between (no "nice to have" features, no failed experiments that linger on and contribute to your tech debt...)

This takes a ton of discipline, but in my experience the only alternatives are to either build up a ton of tech debt, or build things extremely well from day 1, only to end up dying due to low velocity (even if you get some critical decisions spot on in the beginning, no PM or engineering team that I've ever seen has been able to make only good decisions over several years...).
I thought c was primarily developed for the initial purpose of being the language used to write Unix and that their developments were practically one after the other and that Ritchie and Thompson were colleagues at Bell? C was designed for portability in mind?
Wouldn’t this still mean they cracked your gmail password? Or am I not understanding how this was executed?
Ah, I see it's pronounced more like "Krull" than "cruel".
I've tried to get a set of vector tiles (`.pbf.json` generated with tippecanoe) working as a background, but the docs don't specify if vector tiles are accepted, and all the examples are raster tiles.

Can you use vector tiles as a custom background? If so, how, and are there limits on format support?
It continues to be such a sad state of affairs. We are constantly reinventing and repackaging well known bad practices.

I recall getting publicly lambasted on here for daring to question the wisdom of an ActiveRecord-like data layer for a front-end SPA framework.
It makes sense for a change about doors. Doors are old as time. Everyone understands how doors work. The impact of a door change is straightforward. There are relatively few moving parts involved in a self contained door (figuratively and literally).
huh? What's wrong with using the higher level languages if they take care of binding to the C parts for you.

(I know these are far an in-between for ffmpeg, too many leaky abstractions.)
I'm not arguing that event sourcing should be done for its own sake, so I don't really want to disagree with you; but that said your post doesn't perfectly resonate with me either.

When you write a typical backend system, the desired function of the system is to interact with the external world. Without I/O the system may as well not exist.

Input is a desire from someone that something be done or recording that something happened. Such input changes the data recorded, or appends what the system should know / has seen. This is an "event".

All input can be framed as being an event. But "an element's mass was modified" is not an event ... it doesn't describe someone or something giving input to our system.

The algebraic view on things you take seems to be treating the system at a different level than what I think about as event sourcing.

Neither "an element's mass was modified" or "sell" or "transaction" that you mention are realistic events. An event is "User U clicked a button in the web console to Sell share S at time T". Implementing the effects of that event -- computing a specific read model resulting from appending the event to the stored set of events -- may well be best done by some algebra like you suggest, but that seems like another topic.

You seem to talk about models for computing and transforming state. I talk about I/O vs data storage.
Isn't lerna basically just leaning on npm workspaces nowadays?
That was wonderful :D thank you
Most languages have the ability to call C functions. Use the language that helps you write your code and convert to call the third party API.

For example, a C++ Vector provides a generic container and the code can still call C functions with the underlying array.

This is in the "Doctor it hurts if I do X" bucket.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2923272/how-to-convert-v...
Wow, if true, this sounds like really, really bad security protocols.
I download a copy of my mail on my Android phone over POP3 and possibly delete uninteresting messages, for real, on the server. I'm using K9. Then I'll eventually download the remaining messages on my laptop and remove them from the server. A number of Thunderbird filters move messages to their folders and I backup them daily off site. If I stay weeks on vacation, I check my current mail on my phone and that's it. If it's vacation I don't care about old messages. Customers have a copy of them anyway. I've been running like that for at least 12 years, no need for IMAP. Well, maybe if I could access my Thunderbird directory over IMAP, but it's not really important. Running my own IMAP server would be such a small improvement that anything else gets past it in the queue.
This is nonsense.

Incidence response teams base their conclusions on whatever forensic data they collect. There are generally consistent patterns of behaviors with state actors and often investigators are even able to identify the different offensive cyber units of nation responsible. While the group of IPs involved would weigh into this calculus, it was likely not nearly as significant as you might be suggesting.

What is the point of this conjecture and why suggest there is a reason to doubt their conclusions?
Modern pixels only got the ability to run lineageos a week ago.

https://www.knowyourmobile.com/news/lineageos-20-finally-add...
Can someone explain to me why weather data is seemingly hard to get/provide? Isn’t data from the US government (weather.gov) in the public domain and completely free? What did Dark Sky and similar provide on top?
Biggest security threats: cloud attacks, Microsoft vulnerabilities, SIM swapping
What is there to be studied?
So? Even if they leave right after the sabbatical, you've successfully retained them for five years. That's an eternity in tech and definitely worth the expense.
I don't have the best opinion of Teslas as a whole after owning one for a year, but I will say the infotainment system is one of the most usable of any I've tried. I didn't really find myself wishing I had CarPlay too much.
Governments are also controlled by the people and use that money in the way we decide. The church has none of those safeguards so it's more like a private company that doesn't offers a debatably valuable service. I think of it similar to tarot readings - if it makes you feel better that's fine but they should still have to pay taxes as a business with income
Good question, was about to ask the same!
On one hand that's obviously true, on the other hand it's just 60 lines of code, which is easier to check and audit than (for instance) a typical std::vector implementation - I don't know what the equivalent is in D, please forgive my ignorance :)
Thanks for the heads-up! It's not quite as nice as it was in Dark Sky, but I will give this a try.
Substack reaches 2M paid subscriptions
> This made it look like there was actually demand for these machines, which encouraged banks to give FlowTex more loans to buy (non-existing) machines. When the banks wanted to see the machines, they showed them a few in one hall and then served dinner. During dinner, they replaced the serial numbers on the machines, drove them to the next hall, showed them again to the bank representatives, created another disruption, replaced the serial numbers again, and so on. This went on for years.

I see sitcom potential here. Maybe an episode of Seinfeld: George, actually trying his hand at being a real importer/exporter for once, manages to stumble upon a similar idea, that of buying and renting drilling equipment, shipping it, etc. Of course then he overbooks and has to play elaborate games to hide the systems when customers come looking for it, etc. etc.
That used to be true. But more recently, universities have milked that market too. When you have students with a $200k “Masters in Photography” degree, would you consider a candidate with “randomly selected undergraduate major”?

Not saying that masters degree is any better, but from a job perspective, it is becoming increasingly harder to get a decent living wage job with random degrees.
Outside of political spam, I receive far more iMessage spam than SMS spam.
I was about to comment the same thing. It's very simple but I don't think I would have thought of it
The one and only time I took a sabbatical, it was because I was burnt out to the point where my performance was less than I could accept. It was either take a sabbatical or quit.

I spent the time mostly doing personal projects that forced me to learn new skills. And to think about life, what I wanted from it, and what I wanted from my work.

My sabbatical lasted 9 months, and when I returned, I was very much happier. I also had realized that I was no longer a good fit for the position I was in, and so I quit my job. That made me even happier -- my job was a huge weight on my shoulders, and shedding it was one of the best things I ever did.

I was in no hurry to find a new job, but ended up with one three months later in an industry that I wouldn't have expected to find myself. It was a great move. My work is no longer a burden.

In hindsight, it would have been better to quit my job up front instead of taking the sabbatical, but I didn't know that's what I needed to do. So, I suppose I wouldn't have done anything differently.

Nothing bad came out of the sabbatical. Only good. Both for myself and for my (now former) employer.
I think it is. It is a tradeoff of capitalism. Capitalism creates competition, and breeds a certain level of mistrust. It demands hyper-individualism. That's the slant of the system, by design. The only solution, as you mentioned, is periodic tempering. And thus the pendulum swings.
> All essential mutable state can be modeled away to use no mutable state

However, that modeling introduces complexity of its own that not everyone agrees is entirely essential.
As a former customer of T-Mobile, I will say that the risks go beyond SIM swapping with T-Mobile. Their website is pretty bad, and there's a lot of silly PIN-based passwords and security questions going on. Getting away from that in favor of Google's security would be a huge win.
At its current state, I would guess minimal impact. Compared to other areas like frontend, code is more likely bespoke than "boilerplate" (though automated command-line arg processing would be nice!).

Most low-level code is detail-oriented, e.g. caring about zero-bug edge cases. Often, there are very few code examples available online. For example, I often must refer to manuals when writing assembly instructions for specific microcontrollers.

I don't know what was in mind for reverse engineering, but typically this involves understanding the flow of a large program and using logical reasoning. So far, these are some of AI's largest weaknesses. Perhaps it could help quickly understand some smaller code segments?
Will this also improve performance of Electron apps on Mac?
Also consider that T-Mobile as it exists is the result of years/decades of mergers and acquisitions so they have decades of legacy and non-conforming systems. This situation is bound to cause security issues as well. I had a family member work for an MVNO that interfaced with them and this is what she saw.
React is an innovation, in what exactly? It bloats the web with needless javascript and abstractions. It's a convenient shortcut for people making native mobile apps. It's not taking the world forward
I was reading on a normal android tablet. When I saw a sale on a kids bundle for 99 bux, decided to pull the trigger. Been my night time reader for months when going to sleep. It's amazing how easy on the eyes it is. I just read until I start to nod off.
This is one of the downsides of losing our religion (REM has entered the chat). Churches used to provide a community for people to combat loneliness. We've replaced this sense of community with... well, nothing really.
Hilarious that the commenter accused you of running in circles when it's actually him who is using meaningless terms like "just" and "unjust"
You need more than height to be considered the best athlete in the world at a sport.

you also have to address working out. staying that fit for so long at his age is incredible. These aren't gifts. they're hard work
The book you mention is quiet easy to read and didactically structured, the paper was hard to follow.

Just to encourage people to read the book, even if they did not grokk the paper.
Tell me again about all of that money that FTX donated, and then tell me there weren't politicians backing them up
Agreed. If I was the editor, I would have hacked this pompous paragraph into a concise form; the author would have hated it but I would tell him I was saving the reader from his PTSD inducing writing.

e.g.,
“Hester,” said he, “I ask not wherefore, nor how, thou hast fallen into the pit. It was my folly. Your youth and beauty! Misshapen from birth, how could I delude myself with the idea that my intellectual gifts might veil my physical deformity! Men call me wise. If sages were ever wise, I might have foreseen all this. I might have known that, the very first object to meet my eyes would be thyself, Hester Prynne, standing up, a statue of ignominy, before the people in this land. Nay, from the moment when we came down the old church-steps together, a married pair, I might have beheld that scarlet letter blazing at the end of our story!”
I would at least be content with Apple allowing an iPhone to be tethered to a Windows iMessage app through an official channel, similar to how Signal Desktop works.
It's still pretty bad in some fairly common languages like French. For instance "'" really trips spellchecker, as well as some tense (subjunctive). For instance "que je n'embête".
It seems to be a problem of incentives. Tesla is highly integrated and it hurts the overall business if the charging network isn’t reliable. The other EV maker don’t own their own charging network and it’s anecdotably far far less consistent and reliable.

Until they sort out the incentives I wouldn’t consider a non Tesla EV (and I have never in 10 years waited for an hour at a supercharger unless I was waiting for access which has happened)
I'd love to see bun in this benchmark

[edit] I ran this experiment just for fun:

bun install 1.09s user 3.68s system 80% cpu 5.898 total
pnpm install 8.75s user 21.18s system 195% cpu 15.346 total
yarn install 11.90s user 14.19s system 51% cpu 50.929 total
npm install --force 15.58s user 8.27s system 50% cpu 47.140 total

bun -v
0.5.7

pnpm -v
7.27.1

yarn -v
1.22.19

npm -v
8.15.0

I had to run npm with --force flag, as it would fail out of the box:
Morality is subjective at its core, so you can't "argue" that something is unjust, and the fact that moral philosophers baselessly think they can doesn't change this fact.
Feel free to chat on Western media and blame Americans freely here all you want :)

Let me know when you try the same on your "lovely" alternative and honest idealists ;)

PS. Winnie Pooh
What “industry” would that be? Certainly not the DNS industry, or their customers (i.e. anybody who wants a domain name). Do you mean “rejected” in the same sense as how IPv6 is still only slowly being adopted?
What's the screen? Where did you get it from?

It looks really cool!
NR improves muscle mitochondrial biogenesis and gut microbiota in a twin study
It's more astounding that people forget what facebook is, what facebook does, and who is its target audience (not developers).

Or people calling Oculus and FBAI etc as facebook innovations. They are acquisitions of existing technologies, paying the way to innovator status
lol - yeah. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085811/?ref_=tt_urv

We've been thinking of ways to make the pronunciation a bit clearer, maybe a mascot or something. Open to ideas!
Mixing high level C++ stdlib classes with low level C APIs is often not exactly trivial, for instance most C++ containers expect that their items are RAII compatibel, and the resulting memory corruption errors will be harder to debug than plain old C code because the shit hits the fan deep inside some completely unreadable C++ stdlib implementation code.
Decreasing the total energy exposure of the complete biosphere to reduce temperature rise sounds risky to me.

Yes, it might not become as warm, but especially plants need sunlight for photosynthesis / oxygen production. If we deny the plants that energy the ripple effect throughout the biosphere will be huge.
> Most of that does require prediction.

I think that depends on the type of animal. There are plenty of animals (insects, fish, reptiles) that don't rely on intelligence, but instead survive just by being well adapted to their environment. Behavior in these animals is largely hardwired via genetic coding.

Other classes of animals (birds, mammals) have evolved to become more generalists, which required them to evolve intelligence to become more adaptive to diverse environments.

So, seeing as evolutionary success isn't inherently tied to intelligence, it seems better not to define it that way. One could still "define" it as that capability that helps provide these generalist classes of animals with some of their survival needs, but that's really only saying what the benefits of intelligence are, not what it actually is.

I still think my predictive definition of intelligence is hard to beat, since it seems about as fundamental a definition as is possible.
I don't think so. Aside from the shadiness of it: he called the car loan company and they owned up to repo'ing it. He did in fact pay too little on his monthly payment. So how would a scam work?

(I don't know if he called the police or not, or what they would do in a case like this. Probably say, "Yep, sounds legit" and that would be the end of it.)

see above comment. Not a scam.
I didn't say it. The site rules do.
Scottish Dark Sky Town Decided to Go Even Darker
Dadgum/Prog21 must be one of my favourite blogs of all time. Hugely influential on me. It's a shame he doesn't post anymore.