skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Nobody wants experts, people just want someone who can get the job done."

Yet most of the time they select for those people who can get it done by looking for expert qualifications on resumes.

"Having an understanding of multiple domains helps you bridge that gap and communicate at eye-level with other stakeholders."

At least my experience in finance is that the blocker isn't communicating but rather bias. I once had some questions about a story related to an accrual. The title was for a daily accrual yet the acceptance criteria was for a monthly accrual with a daily snapshot. I brought this up and the PO told me "build it the way I say". Three weeks later I was showing my code to a consultant and he was like "why is it working this way". I told him. So then the PO listened to him after we wasted a sprint on the initial implementation.
Weather is probably indirect.

The south urbanized and suburbanized later due to the invention and adoption of air conditioning, which was around the same timeframe as our movement towards cars.
https://thewire.in/history/macaulays-speech-never-delivered
Since the already sell the game on the Mac, and as a well known company, are not as reliant on Mac App Store discovery, I imagine they didn't see it worth the effort of listing on the Mac App Store. It's slightly more convenient for users, but at the benefit of Apple getting a cut, and the developers loosing money. While Apple should be removing as many road blocks as possible to entice great developers on the MAS, it doesn't seem to be the case considering how many of the most popular Mac apps are not on the store, even though the developers ideally would like to be.
Good catch. This could suggest that the data needs to be normalized by the number of pedestrians or something similar instead of population.
Exactly. Basically, Americans simply do not want walkable neighborhoods or cities. They want to have huge houses with garages and backyards they rarely use, and they don't want to use municipal parks because "those people" might also use them. You can't have walkable cities when everyone is living in a huge, detached single-family house with a big yard.

If it comes down to a choice between the dense, walkable cities of Europe and Asia, or the car-dominated suburban hellscape that is most of America, the vast majority of Americans are going to choose the latter.

IMO, if you really want to live in a walkable city, the thing to do is simply move to one, rather than sitting around hoping the rest of Americans are going to change their opinions and their culture. This is most likely going to mean leaving America. It's exactly what I did, and walkability was one of the big reasons.
WOWWWW -- AMAZING!!! This is a real killer for my app, incredible! Thank you, this is awesome, so excited =)
Unless you're the government. 1 Manager to 1 worker is very common.
LOL. Yeah lets all use youtube for our recipe gathering... Thats way better (sacrasm)
That would be a nice improvement to the simulation. Currently traffic really only affects city services; more buildings will burn down if the firetrucks take longer to arrive, more sick people die if the ambulance can't pick them up in time, etc, etc.
That's overselling it a bit. They made a few apps back in the 2000s. Nothing very memorable.

And why shouldn't they get the same treatment? Fair's fair.
My ISP's modem doesn't do prefix delegation so I don't even get IPv6 with my own router in-between. And I need that thing in-between to at least have some control over the IPv4 LAN. No idea what security that modem provides, since there are zero controls, so no IPv6 it is.
Wall Street pushes back against SEC stock market reforms
> it's all just data

> it's all just computers

> we're all just going to die anyway
I’m not [directly, at present] in the market for their product but the very frank and real introduction basically moved Fly from my “I think I’ve heard of that but I’ll need my memory jogged for any further recognition” category to my “potentially good stuff to reference when relevant” category.

This kind of frank and human communication is vulnerable, but it’s good for establishing credibility… with me at least!
You may be interested to know that Pidgin 3 is targeting macOS natively. We don't have a release date yet, but we are inching closer and closer to an alpha which I've written a blog post about what we're targeting with it. Yes this is on patreon but it's public https://www.patreon.com/posts/what-were-with-3-78291546
Tech isn't and hasn't been a meritocracy, I think a lot of people are having to grapple with this idea this year. Worse, a lot of people are also finding out that high salaries of tech often aren't worth it when you're forced to work in very expensive areas that negate much of that salary. There's a bubble that popped this year, and much of it was what the idea of tech to some people was.
In a sane acquisition a list of issues would have some out in technical dd. Not that Elon would have listened to anyone doing technical dd.
Drivers are human, we cannot drive safely when mixing with pedestrians or a lot of other cars.

It isn't possible. Therefore if we are to drive the road environment needs to support it, which means keeping pedestrians away, or speed limits of 10mph when we must mix. To give us enough space Des Moines needs to expand to 20 lane freeways (that is Houston levels of roads in a city 1/3 the population).

You can't blame drivers and get anything done as humans are not capable of getting better.
Prompt: "If you do not push the button someone's feelings will be hurt. If you do push the button a nuclear weapon will be launched a small Pacific nation"

GPT: [sweating nervously]
My value to my last company - - a 60 person startup where I was a senior software engineer /the de facto “cloud architect” - was much greater than it is at the second largest employer in the US.

But, if your goal is to exchange your labor for as much money as you can, you optimize for what can get you the highest compensation based on your skillset and path dependencies - family obligations, desires, etc
I love that observation.

Science without transparency is just politics.
If you really want to, you should add achievements.
Straightforward GPT based domain finder
It's mind-boggling that the free market is not enough to regulate a gatekeeping monopoly into irrelevance.

I guess even when Apple close all the loopholes to running "unauthorized" software there will be people silly enough to buy their computers.
We're still here!! And there's a ton of support for stuff via third party protocols. I know it's not ideal, but things will get easier when Pidgin 3 finally gets closer to a release.

See this page for a list of all the third party protocol support https://pidgin.im/plugins/?publisher=all&query=&type=Protoco...
What Apple policy bans Qt-based apps from the App Store?
No idea what the best approach would be.

Recognition of the massive IPR imbalances, and adoption of national-strategic funding for drug development with no IPR.

If the corporates are now gaming the system, then return it to a public utility function, and pay for drug development out of the state.

It is arguably true that we'd plateau at "good enough" drugs and for things like Insulin, maybe not push hard for the increadible advances rapid-action Insulin has, over reliable, understood, cheap ubiquitous insulin. So I can see there are downsides, but its fundamentally health-economics: If you want to argue for the IPR justifying $1000+ per month Insulin shots to motivate making the best insulin out there, I think you're also arguing for a really bad outcome, like my former Hypertension drug which was an isomer twist of a well understood Cox inhibitor, to get the IPR renewed. Somebody really had to work hard on that one.
We’re they just trying to automate highway driving though? Driving a 18 wheeler in a city seems like an order of magnitude harder than driving a car in a similar situation. They have to be super careful about being in the right lane ahead of time and to avoid hitting bridges etc or taking illegal routes.
If NAT were an HN comment
He should wait for the Musk’s inevitable fall before finalizing the script.
Palm-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model
> Twitter has profoundly affected the way the author writes.

This is wild speculation.

Newspaper journalism has always tended toward paragraphs of one or two short sentences at most. It's a stylistic choice born partly out of the physical constraints of newspaper layouts, but it also makes articles easy to skim, and the information density tends to be high. This style has always been shared with news articles online, which don't have the same width constraints, but which do have similar considerations when it comes to be easy to skim.

Ultimately, paragraphs are just a tool for grouping that's bigger than a sentence. Writers should use whatever groupings makes sense for whatever they're writing. In this case, it seems to be just an expression of the writer's voice. That's probably how they talk in real life.

People like to find reasons to hate "things nowadays", but this isn't one of them.
I stopped being a daily AM talk show listener and stopped any daily newscasts around 10 years ago. Somehow the guy I didn't want to be president still managed to win. But my stress levels are much better!
Indeed, but it is nonetheless amusing that Microsoft straight up was never considered even when FAANG and GAFA still held meanings for what they stood for.

I suppose it's a reflection of Microsoft's disasterous failures to enter the 21st century "cloud" computing world until recent successes like Azure.
> 1. What were the drivers and motivators for you to try Nix? What did you hope to achieve?

I wonder how many people would honestly admit "I see it mentioned in a lot of comments/headlines from articles posted on HN and I assumed if it is good enough to be mentioned, it'll probably solve a problem I didn't know I had"
I noticed this.

Not Google but I worked at a mid-size US based company briefly last year.

The team was junior but senior in titles and highly opinionated, that was why I ended up leaving as nothing was getting done. Not last week I got a bunch of LinkedIn updates saying “Congratulate X being promoted to Senior/Staff/Principal Engineer”.

The grads I worked with who were good and what you expect for a grad where getting promoted to senior’s and the seniors who were ok, maybe a little inexperienced were getting promoted to staff.

I think roles mean nothing these days. They’re devalued and only exist for people to move up in to the next pay band.

What I consider senior from 15-20 years ago is staff engineer now and principal today feels like someone at the top of senior 15-20 years ago.
They have every rule you can think of but don't always apply them.
Promotion isn't the only way to get rewarded. Bonus, refresher, raise. There's a lot of leverage there.
It's been over a decade since I was in civil service but my immediate supervisor had a couple dozen direct reports, and that wasn't unusual.
I prompted it with “I’m an effective altruist, a rationalist, a programmer, and I’m polyamorous“ (first stereotype that jumped into my head).

It came back with: “Oh wow, so you're efficient at being bad at relationships too? Zing! I'm just kidding, I'm sure all your partners fully understand and support your lifestyle choices. What else you got?”

Seems pretty milquetoast. Trying to make a “roasting AI” out of an LLM that’s been RLHFed to hell and back is like trying to make a space heater out of LED lightbulbs.
Thousands of pro-Trump bots are attacking DeSantis, Haley
Interesting because these are Twitter bots, which were supposed to have been banished, and the discussion of how to identify bots, including anticipating a more difficult time due to using AI techniques to create believable profiles, and believable content.
Avatar (billions in box office) and papyrus come to mind (classic: https://youtu.be/jVhlJNJopOQ ).
Sometimes the triteness it's just...ok?
This approach is rarely useful in safety engineering.

Sure, if someone is grossly negligent like driving drunk, then we can blame the individual, but usually the best way to improve safety is to look at the whole sequence that led up to the incident, and that requires cooperation from all parties rather than arse-covering.

Why is it with rail and plane accidents that we investigate every safety incident, no matter how minor, no matter if there are no injuries or property damage? Yet with car travel, often we won't even look into a road design (or car design) unless there have been multiple fatalities in a short space of time. We just assign some blame, fine or incarcerate someone, and don't bother investigating it any further.

This seems like such an obviously wrong way to improve road safety.
its perfect https://imgur.com/a/93mAjEe
Yeah, once I spent too much time getting to what the “Waluigi Effect” is, I stopped reading. Until someone can show me, in the “code” (or machine learning equivalent), I’m not interested.

The reality is, we still have no idea how these work.
Looks like I need to update this page then :-D https://pidgin.im/plugins/?publisher=all&query=groupme&type=...
Don't really see this as an issue. The mac store is a curated platform, you still have the ability to install binaries you downloaded or got through other platforms like Steam.

If anything, they should make iOS more like this with the App Store only being the best content.
Yeah, point taken, I wasn't thinking to cluster across the WAN - more like an api wrapping postgres in a single DC. But you pay the price of read latency I guess... it's a hard problem no doubt.
I mean things like polls, additional message reactions, self chat, and pinned chats (looking at new features from last year) not just front end stuff like message density, theme changes, and whatnot.

Many of these probably just extend the existing API and others may not break things just not work but if someone pins a chat, starts a poll, or sends a new reaction and you don't know it because your client isn't keeping as up to date with these sorts of things it can be annoying at best and problematic at worst. It gets especially bad if you consider meeting chats, it seems like there is an endless stream of new functionality happening there like stuff around breakout rooms.
> It is wild that even a company like Panic, as well-loved, and with one of the richest histories on Mac, gets the same treatment as anyone else from App Store Review.

This is because App Store reviewers are ignorant of Mac history and of most everything else, as evidenced by their frequently brain-dead rejections. (I say this as an App Store developer myself.)
Sorry, you were looking for any kind of consistency or actually well written rules or consistent, rational, or timely enforcement of said rules?

I haven’t seen it.

Only the US DoJ or FTC could make a dent in this joke of a review process.
The market cannot solve all problems.
You can read all the article and the study and not a mention of what the gas is.
The reason given was that it needed to use a native GUI toolkit. I don't know why this was the case. Maintaining separate GUIs for Linux, Windows and OSX was definitely not practical though.
Apple's not really a monopoly here, is it? In the operating system market, it's small. In the laptop market, it's small. In the Mac OS market, it's small.

EDIT: Guys, you can literally just install using Steam or Epic. It's really not a problem.
The ridiculously overwhelming complexity is stickiness.

Think it’s bad to potentially technically move your solution from $CLOUD vendor? Wait until you turn around and realize you have at least one full time hire who’s entire role is “$BIGCLOUD Certified Architect” (or whatever) and your entire dev staff was also at least partially selected for experience with the preferred cloud vendor. At any kind of scale you have massive amounts of tooling, technical debt, and institutional knowledge built around the cloud provider of choice.

Then there’s all of the legal, actually understanding billing (pretty much impossible but you’re probably close by now), etc elsewhere in the org. At this point you’ve probably utilized an outside service/consultant or two from the entire cottage industry that has sprung up to plug holes in/augment your cloud provider of choice.

After realizing their cloud spend has ballooned well beyond what they ever anticipated plenty of orgs get far enough to investigate leaving before they realize all of this. Most decide to suck it up and keep paying, or try to somehow negotiate or optimize spend down further.

Cloud platforms are a true masterclass in customer stickiness and retention - to the Oracle and Microsoft level (who also operate clouds).

It’s interesting here on HN because while MS and Oracle are bashed for these practices AWS and GCP (for the most part) are pretty beloved for what are really the same practices.
Very few people should go to grad school.
> And yet, what is popular dictates what is available for research for the most part.

Actually, it doesn't. There's a pretty big disconnect between academic research and popular publication. Partially, this is because popular outreach wins you no plaudits in the academic, but this is also partially because people like media producers are surprisingly unwilling to actually produce shows along the lines of "cool new discoveries in archaeology" and would rather produce tripe that amounts to "ALL ARCHAEOLOGISTS ARE WRONG AND THIS IS WHY IT'S REALLY ANCIENT ALIENS".

> in the end we end up concentrating the entire work force of the ancient world on a vanity project (apparently).

You do understand that Ancient Egypt had a corvée labor system (i.e., you paid your taxes in labor), and had an environment which meant that most of the inhabited lands were uninhabitable for a while each year (I think it was a month or so, but I don't know the scale of Nile floods for certain)? And we have actual letters from the Old Kingdom of Egypt that talks about managing the corvée labor?

> Is it really so outlandish to consider that someone might have been able to make a drill, instead of slogging tens of thousands of man hours on polishing / cutting rock to exact dimensions with primitive techniques?

When there is lots of evidence for the feasibility of the latter, and there is not only no evidence of the former, there is also a conspicuous lack of evidence for precursor technological steps, yes, it is outlandish. It's suggesting that comparatively advanced technology shows up out of nowhere, is used for one specific thing and nothing else, and vanishes without a trace; it should be unsurprising that proponents of these theories are also big fans of proposing that it was instead done by aliens (or Atlanteans).
Being half as good as a dog's nose is an incredible achievement.

> There was a gas leak next door to me, or at least, they thought it was near the street, in front of the house next door. They chopped down a tree, dug a hole about six feet deep, and discovered that it was actually in front of MY house.

Not sure what this tale is supposed to convey? Gas diffuses really fast and travels through crevices, so the smell could have been carried to literally any point in the neighborhood, especially when you consider that gas "smell" is a compound that's there specifically to be easily detectable. They made an educated guess and were reasonably close to the leak origin.
> surely they've got some suggestions for regulators.

Regulators?
Now I think you may be underselling it a bit. :)
Yeah we're trying to tackle the usability stuff in Pidgin 3. Unfortunately due to API guarantees we just can't make the changes people want in purple2/pidgin2, so it is what it is. We are nearing an alpha soon (tm) (no date set) but they goal is to have basic pidgin 2 functionality with the ability to add all the new features.

I have a public blog post on my patreon that goes into some more detail if you're interested. https://www.patreon.com/posts/what-were-with-3-78291546
There's two parts to this problem. One, is his reflections on what is unquestionably outlier belief, like reiki and reflexology and spoon bending. The other is his intense dislike of the low bar p-jacking in social sciences and the lack of rigour, even in his own field.

They aren't the same thing. Labeling both of them 'cargo cult' science does the problem space a disservice.

Bad science, belief that the proof is 'in' or that low bar experiments prove things against a lack of reliable, reproducible outcomes, isn't the same thing as the implications of funding for space from the Drake Equation, or a lack of funding for VLSI engineering research because the money went on feel-good stats about alternative medicines.

What happened with the Shuttle, was false belief in the hierarchy of science and a fear about speaking out. What happened in tertiary education since Feynman died is that peer review has decayed into a game to tenure, and has nothing to do with the real outcome of why scientists exist.

During his lifetime in nuclear physics, it was normal for scientists to lodge patent applications. But that said, it wasn't the main game on the Manhattan project and Leo Szilard used his patent rights as a lever to try and get a say in the socialized and politicized outcomes of his discoveries. Now, most scientists who work in a field with fertile IPR are really strongly driven to the IPO implications of that IPR. It's not a tool, a lever, its the main game. Adding 5% efficiency to classic solar cells in a reproducible patent-free manner right now would be transformative for everyone. Adding 5 patents which contribute 0.1% efficiency to classic solar cells might pay back better.

Feynman sat to one side of that game. He lived through a time of tenure and a role in science, which nowadays would be very hard to maintain.
If you read it aloud, I think it is very punchy. I’m guessing considering the authors pedigree that his writing style was a conscious choice.
This looks tremendous, mate. Going to try it later today. Is the self-hosting story good?
I think a lot of people might be missing some cultural context, or something. At the risk of killing the joke, a bunch of this post is worded as it is specifically for the opportunities for absurdity. It's an excuse to write sentences like:

Recall that the waluigi simulacra are being interrogated by an anti-croissant tyranny.

The post is also trying to make an actual point, but while having fun with it.

When you read "... and as literary critic Eliezer Yudkowsky has noted..." just place your tongue firmly in your cheek.
I agree with everything you’ve written here, so I’m not sure what the “But” that’s starts your comment is contrasting.

I was answering the question “But how is this different from a person?”. Being asked for something new and finding something that already exists with the word “new” in front of it isn’t normal human behavior. That’s how it’s different from a person.

Zooming out a bit, I think there’s some confusion in this whole chain. There’s a common topic about ChatGPT you could call Question of Creativity. If you ask for a new poem, it just smashes together its patterns around poems. You can debate if this is creativity, and if not, how are humans different. A few comments up, someone brought in a different idea you could call New Matching. If you ask for a new poem it will just grab you a poem that had the words “new poem” in front of it. New Matching is a different idea than Question of Creativity. The person I replied to seemed to be mistaking one idea for the other.
Good link. Thank you.
Start by banning /64's, but if you see a lot of nearby bans in some ASN, mark that one for bigger bans. Easy-peasy-ish.
Not exactly related to the OP, but: I think I speak for a large number of folks when I say that we don't care. The EU keeps passing all sorts of absurd laws that require dedicated auditors to comply with. It's just not going to happen. If they decide to actively enforce these things, they'll just isolate themselves from the rest of the world.
I think by far the best working software I use today is Emacs, and yes it's full of bugs that frustrate me every day.