skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds horrifying, but I don't think these men are that irrational. Being good looking is the recipe for living life on easier mode, and a very thin sliver of bone on a man's face can be the difference from being far below average looking to far above average looking. It seems entirely rational to make a short-term sacrifice for a good life.

If you're against this, have you thought about the intense frustration and pain some men feel in their lives to even consider something this extreme? I'm not saying I'd do it or recommend it, but I understand why somebody would think about that.
One has to choose between the old and the new interface. There's no way of contenting everybody with a link that makes you reach the one you prefer because such a link does not exist or is not known. And it happens that most people here likely prefer the old or don't care.

So extensions are good for exactly this use case: you have a strong preference, you make your user agent be your agent and make it do what you want.

FWIW I prefer the look of the new interface (except the information density) but as someone who rarely reach a Reddit link, I still haven't understood how to efficiently navigate Reddit threads in it, with its "continue this thread" links all over the place I still haven't understood how they work. I'm lost on these pages. The old interface is easy to navigate (for everybody, even for people who prefer the new interface, the opposite isn't true), way more lightweight on resources usage, works well without JS and also looks like HN a lot more so one could argue that linking to the old interface from HN makes more sense.

(also, you are responding to a comment that changed a link using the old interface to another link using the old interface)
I don't know about that particular company, of course, but over my decades in this industry, here's how the average engineer I've worked with would react to being blocked for three days per week.

They'd be furious and would be raising hell about it. Very few people want to just warm their seats, especially engineers. They want to do things.

I have a hard time believing that most of the affected engineers haven't raised the problem to management.
Presumably, they were measuring the level of coal (or other material) in a tank. Look up "ohmart radioactive level transmitter".

It looks as if this type of device is still sold today.
AI sales assistant for outbound cold calling
AI sales assistant, who can make completely autonomous cold calls on behalf of sales agents, navigate IVR, talk to gate keepers, schedule demos and also booking meetings. Completely automated AI driven outbound calling solution.
I've tried and have been told by my management that I need to be flexible to work across timezones and that the issue will only be a problem if I claim that I regularly don't have lunchtime.
If your friends get divorced, you could be next in line (2010)
> If even the Swiss can't keep it together financially we're in real trouble.

The Swiss banking industry has been overrated for a long time.

In this case it's not like a competent, sensibly run bank failed. Credit Suisse had a track record of being pretty terrible.
Yes especially in an education setting where the level of overhead of Maven/Gradle for a student just learning to program is too high.
Yes, absolutely. Let's compare the act of killing another human being with that of copying bits.
I realize it's an unpopular opinion, but something about his writing style can feel a bit circuitous at times. This particular one was a bit more direct, but sometimes I find them a bit of a slog. If they weren't really interesting, I simply wouldn't read them. They are, though. That's the dilemma.
You'd figure we would have treated SWE like other kinds of engineering and avoided the pitfalls of 2000 years of civil eng and 200 years of electrical eng, and yet here we are in 2023 where using at least static analysis is not the norm
Big screen beyond may be a solution:

https://www.bigscreenvr.com/
Xcopy Windows to a new hard drive from recovery
It's both. We allowed it to function as a public square, but without any of the accompanying rules. This was a bad decision.
Not to be confused with the SWC bundler for JavaScript https://swc.rs/docs/configuration/bundling
Ireland is horrible at everything. The health service is in collapse, the immigration bureau is incompetent, crime is legal (the garda told me not to vote Green... now remember they're the ones enforcing environmental laws), transport is a joke, the bike infrastructure is 30 years behind the continent, and for all that the taxes are quite high if you make anything resembling a decent salary. But if you DO have the gall to earn gasp over 50,000 a year, you're a fat cat with "notions". And imagine you build a house and at some point need to rent it out? You're a monster landlord scumbag - might as well be from the plantations and evicting those poor poor people who trash your house and don't pay rent for months on end!

I posted this after being told it would take me six months to get my 3 year old to a pediatrician. https://np.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/11luo2b/how_can_i_s... - when she stopped growing.

This country is unacceptably bad. I look forward to leaving.
Parent commenter is saying that you have a brand management problem if you respond to press inquiries with a poop emoji. Not that advertisers are also getting a poop emoji reply.
If you're worried about ChatGPT taking your job you weren't doing much.

Harsh, but it has to be said! Too many devs are focused on code rather than the business it serves.
Visualising Ethereum Token Movements
ethgraph is a free open-source tool written in Go to generate GraphML for token movements for ERC20, ERC721 and ERC1155 (or their equivalents) on any EVM-compatible blockchain. GraphML is an XML file format for graph data which is commonly used by graphing tools. We can then use those graphing tools to analyse token movements, in this example the to used is Gephi.
Copy protection of tape games took a different form. It wasn’t that you couldn’t make a copy, but there were extra barriers to making it playable. Eg Jet Set Willy came with a card on which was printed a coloured grid, and upon loading the game prompted you to enter the colours found at random coordinates before it would start. http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/57256/Jet-Set-Willy-C...

Copying that card was high effort, since no one had camera phones or scanners or photocopiers etc.
I encourage anyone to follow the "install your first package" instructions, but pick a real scientific package like WRF or GROMACS. Be prepared to wait a while though...
Rather, wasn't that the promise with Flash, Java, Sliverlight
I'd prefer not to have a shadow government which is I feel is more likely at a company with no hierarchy.
Back then it was poverty with children or poverty without children. Now it's a poor life with children or a rich one without.

I'd postulate that a big reason here is that children have been separated from labor in two ways. The first is that it used to be acceptable to do work while minding children. The second is that children would be used to help out from a fairly young age.
It can fix the planet or it gets the hose again.
> Its the same failure mode regardless if played via everyone paying taxes or everyone paying FDIC...

But if everyone is paying FDIC via fees levied against private banks, then the POTUS and Yellen and everyone else can release a statement saying "no taxpayer funds will be used to bail out SVB". That way everyone can breathe an ironic sigh of relief: "Oh good, I was worried I was going to have to foot the tax bill for that. It's bad enough I have to pay all these greedy capitalists at my local bank a new fee every other week, at least the government is looking out for the little guy!"
Will we see fewer twitter shitstorms when AI-APIs are down?
The value add is that you can be a part of Mastodon without having to learn how to use the Mastodon UX. Just one way to increase Mastodon usage for those that like Twitter UX and don't want to have to remember to visit Twitter and Mastodon.
Agreed. I felt like I needed a "Meta's Metaverse Bingo Card" throughout the whole article too. When it started off whining about legs I almost stopped reading bc come on we've had various styles and kinds of avatars in games the entire time they've existed and not having legs in VR games is very common and really NOT that jarring. Then the author continued on to talk about it being empty and do the Facebook...er Meta thing and while I really dislike Facebook/Meta all those things just meant the tone for this article was going to feel like some cringey magazine author trying to seem relatable and going in with a bias.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending any of the metaverse branding crap but your point about this just being the same stupid scripted article about Horizon Worlds is accurate and I'm not sure how this reached the front page.
Yes but as an individual depositor, if you moved money this would not impact your decision. You got the safety you wanted.
Hah, yeah. We're in a terrible housing crisis here in Ontario (houses around Toronto are now worth over a million) and tent-cities are cropping up everywhere, and "commie blocks" are what anti-urbanists point to when they complain about the new housing going in to meet demand, and all I can think is that I'll take Khrushchyovkas over tent-cities any day of the week.

> This appears to be due to induced demand - especially now that so many apartments are bought as investments and never rented out.

This is always the question. If even half of them are getting rented out, then at least new units are adding to the market and helping to battle rent... but it seems like governments are so crippled in their ability to know for certain how many people live in how many units.
I'm convinced at this point they are trying to slowly tank Mandrill to get people to stop using it.

Tons of downtime, worsening delivery problems, no active development -- or support even -- for years, worse pricing, ...
IMO binary encoded versions of files that are already small are more hassle than they're worth. Now you need a specialized tool to view and edit the file. I have, on many occasions, edited SVGs manually in a text editor. Losing that is a big devex issue.

Having worked a bit with protobuf and CBOR in the last year - the binary encodings are a big pain in the ass. I understand that for massive companies the payoff could be worth it (although I think the people that decide to use proto/CBOR don't calculate the hours wasted on an obtuse encoding scheme), but certainly for small shops you're wasting your time.
That's unfortunate. My muscle memory sometimes makes me open DevTools even unintentionally when I try to copy text and press Ctrl+Shift+C.
I'm really tired of hearing that meme without any substantiation. It seems like you could just as easily say that bad times make bad men (make bad times...).

Look at places in the world (or your own hometown) that are "bad" (high crime, low social trust, etc.). Are those the places that are producing the best people?
How much of a problem is this in London? New towers sometimes have parking underneath (ie where people don’t really want to live), others don’t; lots of the suburban part of the city has driveways or garages. I’m curious which huge highways you’re talking about?
Elaborate, please. This is a new take to me.
Sure, but the point is it’s not self hosted. It’s like calling a Twitter client a self hosted Twitter.
Just went to look to see if there were any complilers for Rust on Microchip or ST. Perhaps I have found a fun side project.
This might not be strong enough negative downside to discourage future gambling.
NB. This is in the City of London, which is a 1 sq. mile area in the center of London. This is definitely not representative of London as a whole.
Mouse over the green window button, hold down option and you can maximize, and tile to the left/right of the screen.
An unfortunate name, a la Nonce Finance and Git.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/spack
Marin Mersenne, the “post-box of Europe” in the 17th century
Thats another misconception, there were mortgage backed securities and VC loans in their portfolio. The idea that this was purely about treasuries is another attempt at passing off the buck.
Funny to see your comment, because other commenters had given me the impression that devs were above using chatgpt, and that the code it produces is bad.

While some of its responses can be bad, being able to iterate and prototype so quickly is addictive.
maybe a video demo. otherwise a hard no
"Suddenly linkedin was weirdly silent & devoid of strangely mechanically formulated messages"
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Just science fiction - another S-F word, but that’s just a coincidence, everyone knows words aren’t real. Or maybe I phrased that awkwardly, but certainly they’re not so real that if you inscribe every word ever written onto a piece of glass then the glass comes to life and kills you
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Can you elaborate on this idea? It seems like a pretty controversial statement.
If the officers were shot and killed then others would just hunt down and murder the innocent bystander that did the shooting, and probably hurt a few more for good measure. Any threat real or imagined against police is not tolerated in the US and the police will retaliate when necessary to enforce that.
Do you have a sense of what the % increase in total energy is? As in what is the denominator for the +300 terawatt hour figure?
Just to be clear that's a submitted draft JEP [1] so not quite there yet....

[1] https://openjdk.org/jeps/1
What's going to happen is an overconfidence in the absence of memory-related issues and an increase in the exploitation of other classes of bugs.
Remember that the choice isn't simply between AWS and racking your own gear. You can make big savings by just renting Linux servers from hetzner or similar. They install and repair the HW, you get ssh access just like with a cloud VM. You just have to make sure to monitor it so if there's a failure you can file a ticket to get components swapped out.
>Who would hire you

Someone who isn't an idiot that jumps on every bandwagon they see?
So much this! PXE is apparently too hard for engineers to learn to bootstrap a VM, but they'll go to $5k worth of training to learn Terraform to deploy a CRUD app and call that a win :/
> anger at the actual and perceived near-future likely disruptions of AI

If AI is nothing more than if...else statements then you could argue it has disrupted tech from much farther back. Many AI systems are dressed up as 'AI' and 'The Future' when it's just a bunch of logic gates and code. The only really innovation being the training data is more sufficient because of the flood of user-generated content on the web, which has only recently been weaponized.
Oh, you forget that the AI that generates hate or other disruption always can be aimed at will, like a weapon.

If you thought russian/chinese troll farms were bad, wait for this little trick...
Mask ROM Extraction
I'd be held in contempt of court if I couldn't come up with documents. probably sit in jail until I found them.
...and I thought I was the only one photographing apparently pointless stuff.

I like this.
I would love the option to be able to bring your own key. It won't be free, but I share the same concern but I am happy to pay for that.
I don't know. It sounds like a rather substantial problem for those affected.
It's not quite that simple.

Then only you have the necessary information. Stop asking us and/or
fishing for sympathy.
>There is no way except property seizure and capital reallocation at a large scale.

Just like collective farms made Russia and China agricultural power houses.
I mean yeah, surely women play a role in the world too. Unless by "men" we mean "people", in which case why not just say that?
Blazor had to ship the whole .NET runtime to have support for garbage collector and threads.
I'm just talking generally that we'd all like to be there.
Isn't expressing emotions without actually feeling them one of the defining traits of a sociopath?
But you must realise that the reason cloud costs are out of control is exactly because those budget meetings were actually not pointless.
Automated radicalization of Twitter, or Reddit, or HN, or Wikipedia.

The sophisticated bad actor won’t generate straight-up hate speech that will just get filtered/blocked. They will be master of ten thousand bot accounts that work slowly to build up a plausibly innocuous posting history (including holding realistic conversations either between themselves or with real users), then start subtly manipulating conversations towards a predetermined political end.

Basically everything that political troll farms and media do already, but automated on a massive scale.

Where’s the automated defence against this?
ive seen recently a new model of cargo bike that can be folded and it takes much less space. Myabe this helps
Or building products on top of the early API offerings. If you build anything with serious traction they have the ability to undercut you with a better version in a very short time frame by virtue of actually understanding their system and ability to iterate on it - to say nothing of the ability to also hike prices or drop service at any moment.

Building on top of the OpenAI API now is like building on top of the early Twitter API then.
so how does esports make any money?
Uh. That's how essentially how the entire internet is run.
Average corp still don't care! 1.5C is just a number. Until we witness cities with populations over 1 million destroyed by climate change, warnings will continue to be (largely) ignored. Yes, it will take that much destruction before we collectively get our shit together and force ourselves to stop burning fossil fuels.
Kotlin is a safety net because Google/Android vs Oracle (the lawsuit).
Honestly, the simplest answer isn't always the best, but I legit believe this one.

And I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, because nobody seems to put together the increase in leaks/statements/interest from the government in UFO's and the creation of the space force. It seems super obvious.
Yea, I definitely have seen this same pattern, nice description.

Though there is the "upper class" founder background that still had shitty parents and something to prove, and often they can get really far because of the $ and connections, though often have the issue that their alternative life is a bit "too easy" so they don't execute hard enough / close enough, or they just give up.
If you go work for apple and use development hardware, you can have many of these things...

But you lose the ability to talk about it.
I'm not so sure. If developers and testers and QA teams can spend less time on a class of issues, I imagine they'll have more time to spend on the other classes of issues, lowering their exploitability as well.
Honestly nobody cares. It's insulting to every reader to post this kind of crap.
Nope, didn't miss that at all - it was a great example of my point.

That paragraph is absurdly reductionist, inaccurate and misleading.
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GPT doesn't have access to your whole codebase so it can't help much in real world use cases.
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Channel 42 – lightweight voice channels as easy as Imgur
Inspired by the ease of use of Imgur and the utility of a good old fashion phone call, I decided to create a platform for the creation of temporary, authentication-free voice channels. Designed with reddit in mind but potentially useful in any comment section on the internet.

Go to the home page (channel42.io), generate a new subchannel, share that Room’s URL as you see fit, and chat by voice. Anyone who visits the URL is automatically connected w/ mic.

Rooms are capped at four people, and expire after two hours. I created a 90 second walkthrough of how it works here: https://www.loom.com/share/55b581e0b0c444be809b1bdbf3725901. The site runs on webrtc and is the architecture is p2p. Signaling is websockets, and is the only thing that hits my DB. Everything is encrypted end-to-end and nothing is stored.

Questions, comments, suggestions? I will hang around. Thanks in advance
Oh right, and ActiveX!
LWN is super great
In court today:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/20/23641457/internet-archive...
having mostly worked on my own, I find it fascinating this is how mid-level engineers structure their days at work
My question is when will web assembly able to access the DOM without the need to call Javascript to jump back and forth.
> Buying the common stock is a huge bet that First Republic can bounce back to what it was prior to this crisis, but that's looking extremely unlikely.

Why not? If they do bounce back, I don't think that in ~10 years from now people will still think of them as being any worse than any other bank.
Countries outside the US are free to ban US-owned platforms, and many countries do. It's not hypocrisy.

One of the CCP's goal is to destabilize the Western Liberal order. This is, of course, bad for the West. It's not unreasonable to take actions to prevent this.
In what way is VC's getting deals for referring customers even remotely nefarious?

It's the way the entire world works and there's nothing wrong with it in general.

SVB did not collapse because of this, the collapsed because of bad risk management, a lot of money that they could not lend out in low yield bonds they were locked into. It wasn't even that bad.

The VCs decided to shoot themselves in the foot by creating a run on their own banks.

Their hypocrisy is stunning.

But Calacanis talking about getting sweetheart attention is a nothingburger.
So to be consistent here, every country outside the US should ban all software originating in the US that collects user information.

If the answer is yes then by all means, but I think it makes for atrocious foreign policy relations.
I think a part of this is that American incomes are high compared to many other developed countries.
This is an exciting time, but also topically exhausting. I can see how past generations of technological change may have taken being in the midst of it all for granted in between the hype and the volley of takes for and against the latest groundbreaking innovation of the time.

Side note:
I’m looking forward to a viable OpenAI competitor to come along and introduce their own chatbot…right now all of the speculation in the LLM area of AI are concentrated to the work of one company…what else can be out there?
Yes and? Absolutely any positive progress be it complete or partial will be exploited for personal gain by someone. That's human nature and it's impossible to stop.
I think part of it is that a lot of dev/tech-adjacent jobs that basically had to be done at a tech company or a company that depended on tech companies pretty much went poof. I'll believe that strictly dev jobs were still available (though that's not the common wisdom). It's probably also true that developers at trendy tech companies couldn't imagine slinging Java in insurance or banking.

In my case, I had worked for a computer company as a product manager (with some coding on the side) and then an IT industry analyst--and there was very little in that vein.
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for sure, gauging your audience is difficult. Still, any piece of writing benefits from a good framing. Great post, but I think jumping right into the details loses X% of potential readers. Keep up the good work :)
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