skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are nowadays good hackathons a good way to train for professional development? I used to compete in the early 90s in computing olympiads but now find that the work coding problems are more about integration of existing stuff that solving difficult problems. This is a generalization and talking about what is normal.
I’ve worked in security for 10 years at startups to faangs and have even presented at defcon a couple of times and don’t see the concern. I take my iPhone and regular laptop to defcon for a decade.

What is the worst that can happen? Everything is ssl with hsts so even if they own the wifi connection they can’t eavesdrop. Do you expect someone to launch an apple zero day?
>I hate all these conspiracy theories.

>Let's just realize that we all have a lot less control over our environment than we think we do

Do the privately run secretive organization that sets the time value of money and the people that influence it not have "control"?

To be clear, I'm talking about the central bank.
1. Call a hotline

Crisis Text Line Text HOME to 741741

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-8255

Trans Lifeline 1-877-565-8860 (for the transgender community)

TrevorLifeline 1-866-488-7386 (for LGBTQ youth)

Veterans Crisis Line 1-800-273-8255, Press 1

2. Foster a service dog (puppy).

3. Life is very short. CBT or medication, whatever it takes to get back to a better place. Maybe need an alone vacation too.
They have these, yondr pouches, but they don't need the Faraday cage, they just lock your phone up
Nice downvotes. This place is slowing turning into reddit. How about you leave a comment?
Not too knowledgeable about macro -- is that tantamount to saying that monetary policy doesn't work? And what's the windfall in this case, given that the dollar is the reserve currency; RMB-denominated assets?
>This imposes a limit on private ownership because if private ownership exists for the sake of the common good, then it cannot be the case that the private ownership of something is harmful to the common good. If I bought up all the arable land in the world and in this way prevented the possibility of farming and food production, I would indeed be harming the common good. Water is similar.

But nobody is actually buying up land so nobody can grow food, nor is nestle buying up water so nobody can drink it. In fact they're doing the opposite. They're taking water from the ground and selling it so people can access it. I don't see how this is any different than a farmer growing food from the ground and selling it to people.
So much for right to repair, eh?
This is interesting, I never knew this. Is there somewhere I can read more on his thoughts? I was under the impression (naively so) that this was some invariant that had been somehow proven to an extent.
where is the evidence that private investment is capable of solving the upcoming water crises?

What happens in 50 years, when aquifiers under middle east and much of the midsest USA runs out?

There is no private investment that can save them.
I'm still wondering how diversity is important to this story about replacing models with avatars.
https://archive.is/0Jojw
AirTags stitched in while-you-wait... remember the James Bond shoe tracker in Goldfinger (1961)?
If you save a new file with a new name, you won't trigger the bug.
Nothing wrong with IQ tests at all, in fact we perform them all the time, maybe we call them coding tests, take home projects, or whiteboard interviews from time to time, but they are still a very effective measure of ability.

Each of these has a way to eliminate people I have no reason to hire, including timid/shy people with no backbone of their own, people who are terrible at communicating, people who are clearly out of their depth even in a low stakes environment on a toy problem that doesn't even need to be fully solved.
Yeah and what's his bias? Or in his case, agenda. Absolutely every reporter in the history of journalism has bias. That's human nature. NPR is highly factual, broad-based and reliable. Having per-story bias, writing a bad headline, missing a detail. You may as well criticize them for not all having washboard abs. It's an unrealistic standard. FOX news is taking dictation from politicians and consulting their stock price while writing scripts for things they know are false.
In my country yes, if you forage for food, live in a tent, and pay no tax.
I am curious how you would have phrased it? Is there a way to accurately convey the root cause of the problem (the redis-py library) without sounding like trying to shift blame?
> Why do I need to use the services of a company if I can just tell my ai what software I need?

Because the AI software can’t produce it itself, it requires access to the capital and raw materials to produce it (or to someone who already has.) The companies, even if they ditch any of their human laborers not needed for resource extraction and production, will retain capital and property interests in raw materials to extract.

(Unfortunately, unless you are profiting from capital, or are one of the residual laborers needed for production/extraction/delivery, you won’t have money for your AI to give to those companies for the things you want, so telling the AI won’t help.)
<< Did they need to? It's not clear anyone would have lost anything at all because depositors are senior to equity and bond holders.

That is a very interesting question. I agree it is not clear, but it is not in ' not clear' status due to some legalistic formality. It is unclear, because it would appear treasuries around the world[1] are basically making up rules as they go. It does not inspire confidence.

The question is definitely open and I honestly do not know the answer.

[1]https://www.marketwatch.com/story/contracts-are-made-to-be-h...
The bankers are closet creatives; they're probably going set up structures where the equity-holders are on paper running something that looks like a charity and there is a class of "depositors" who are making suspiciously high returns. They just need to figure out how to get the money into their sphere of control as a deposit rather than as equity.

Indeed, in the SVB case there is probably an interesting story around why all these startups were banking with this one bank. It suggests complex relationships between entities and it wouldn't be that weird if it turns out the people being bailed out and the equity holders going broke are the same physical people.
>Sort of like air and food.

What are you trying to say? I'm not sure where you live but in most countries food is made and distributed privately, in stark contrast to how air is distributed.
"I don't care how bad the laws are because I'll break them," is how people think in collapsing societies.
I reported a expired certificate to DigitalOcean last week, it was for their package repository which meant apt-get would give warnings. These things happen. Was fixed in a hour.
>Checkouts of ebooks spiked during the pandemic, with 3 million in 2019, for a county with a total population of ~800K

Did you mean 2020? Or did they spike before the pandemic really started?
Well, Indian politics is certainly different than U.S. politics. If we could prosecute politicians for things like "Why do all thieves have Modi as their surname?" most of the federal and state legislatures would be in jail.
or we could just end the idea of intellectual property and stop assuming everything needs to be tied to capital to have value
You should quit.
I get that you have to be reachable in those hours, but in office?
Maybe you're not aware of it or it's an issue outside of the US but everyone does it to some extent even if it's an act of self defense. And the fight to head slave that you mention is part of the games itself. Do you really get there without politics of some sort?
It would be quite costly to pay millions of people to do your bidding when you're competing against millions of real users.
IA and Signal are two nonprofits I donate to and recommend everyone donate to regardless of their political or religious convictions (or lack thereof).

The Internet Archive very well may be the only way to know a lot of important things from the past -- things that libraries used to keep track of but can't in the internet age.
The parent post makes the unwise choice of using the word "copy" to mean "duplicate".

They intend to say "libraries do not distribute duplicates of purchased books; they distribute the originals".

Unfortunately the word "copy" could also mean "the books purchased by the library". Of course the library distributes purchased books. They just don't scan the books, print fascimiles of those books on new paper, and then distribute those prints they made themselves.
From my perspective a large part of the issue is that they were trying to charge the wrong people. What they needed to do was figure out some way to make the people using dockerhub to build things to pay. What they attempted to do was charge people making it possible for other people to build things off of dockerhub.

This meant that a lot of projects providing free services to docker were going to walk. For example why would the curl project upload curl images if it was going to cost them money? The people benefiting from those uploads were the people downloading the images, dockers customers (some already paying), not the curl project. (Curl is famous enough that docker wasn't going to charge them, but there are lots of less famous similar projects that they were trying to charge).

Moreover these were frequently open source projects, which are very cost adverse by nature, and who you want to be seen as supporting not exploiting.

What docker really needs to figure out is a way to charge companies downloading images, not people uploading them. Given how their service works, I have no clue how they manage that.
I might not own you, but apparently you don't own your own books as much as you might have thought. ;-)
Why do u need a blockchain? Why not just torrents for sharing.
This has far surpassed my dystopian predictions of how people would misuse LLMs.

Self spamming your own code base with comments that are either obvious, misleading or wrong was previously unfathomable to me.

Most people think I’m unrealistically pessimistic.

Well done.
publishers only sell licenses for accessing ebooks

That right there is the true root of the problem.
What IA is doing is removing the physical copy from circulation, making a digital copy, and lending out the digital copy.

I don't see the argument that this is "distribution" any more than regular (obnoxious) ebook lending is.
Sure, until the aquifer is permanently destroyed by over-use. There was probably some sustainable rate of usage, but "as much as you can pump" seems to be the current state of affairs.

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-western-droughts-permanent-los...

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-02-23/calls-g...
How to verify the meaning of docs? How to deal with the model hallucinations?

It would be hell to lose trust to api docs due to those risks.
I provided numerous points that show how the events of the last two weeks are of significance but it seems you want to cherry pick just one. At any rate, all four of those banks were rescued. The FDIC arranging for a healthy bank to take over an unhealthy bank is a form of rescue. This type of rescue has roots in the 2008 crisis. It's interesting how confident you seem to be in your assertion that all of this is non-issue yet your comments indicate you might not understand very much about banking or the banking system.
> But breaking it before it has changed is risky and foolish, and does more harm than good.

The entire US civil rights struggle would disagree with you.
This will be a bipartisan movement, that oversight plan is led by Elizabeth Warren and Rick Scott.

EDIT: Would be fun to see Rand Paul crusading for the Fed in defense of spending cuts.
Stripe – Prohibited and Restricted Businesses
Which might be legally sound (so says this court, we will presumably hear from others), but it’s logically balderdash. The copyright applies to the “intellectual property” content of the book, not its paper and binding. (I’m sure there are some esoteric exceptions to this because artists gonna art, but I feel confident that I’m representing the vast general case correctly.)

If I rightly own a copy of a book, I don’t think any court within the bounds of absurdity would say I can’t make a digital copy for myself because that’s how I prefer to consume it. Being allowed to lend one finite form but not another equivalent one is definitely something law or license might specify, but that doesn’t mean it makes any kind of sense.
1.decade of 0% apr >>> 2.high inflation >>> 3.gold price surge

We have gotten 1 and 2 but we haven't gotten to 3 because traders believe that the FED can win the inflation fight. The FED abandoned the inflation fight with a soft pivot yet traders are still not buying gold. This is what Peter couldn't foresee...traders' unwillingness to go against the FED.

This is not a misprediction because in any sane world, the prospects of very high inflation would result in a spike of the gold price.
> The reason why Github is free for normal users it that Microsoft extracts value out of the code you host there, by at least training their LLM. Same will apply for your docker containers.

This was true when Copilot only used the CODEX model, which was only trained on Github code.

But now that, they are using/going to use GPT-4, which you bet includes all code sources possible, GitLab, Codeberg, probably even your private gitea service!, it really doesn't matter anymore, they are going to train on your public code no matter what.

The only thing left to stop it is the U.S. Supreme court lawsuit, it will probably decide the Fate of modern generative A.I.
do you notice how their grubby hands want to claim ownership of thongs they did not create?
Most are now out at the Mariposa Land Trust just north of town.
In other words, "suffering is bad and we should prevent it, but we don't know how"? What a brave and profound statement to make! /s
My ADHD agrees with it 100% because it's true.
The solution is to boot the kids (sorry kids) until their parents come back slightly saner or can afford private schools for flatearthers and creationists.

Education should not be a democracy where the loudest bully parents whine about critical race theory, evolution, or sex ed.
Why is it a joke?

It is like any other sport or Olympiad, it involves solving faster, accurately and potentially of problems you haven't seen before. There is no direct correlation between competitive programming like CodeJam/ICPC and leetcode. They don't target the same audience at all. I couldn't get to the top of these but I do admire people who do, they are some of the absolutely brilliant people I have worked with. I have seen how they employ their rapid understanding, breaking down and debugging skills in real world programming as well.

Coming to this argument about even algo/DS interviews, could you suggest an algorithmic interview replacement, that is not time consuming, is objective, language agnostic and scales well with the size of a company? It is not like these companies are not having past experience, system design interviews. They do have them as well but they cover subset of what all you would want to check.

I would have expected to read more reasonable opinion on HN.
Yes, IA has followed a similar tragic arc as Google Books, another martyr to the dream of a truly 21st century library.

What's most tragic about it to me is that that vast majority of works affected are "zombie" copyright works that have no actual commercial value. Someone, somewhere holds the copyright, but no one has sold a copy in years or decades. For the sake of protecting the tiny sliver of commercially valuable works, access to all of this other knowledge will be lost.
> The only problem is there is no sensible replacement available for it.

Hotels? They are already a regulated entity in most parts of the world for good reason.
The primary function of central banks isn’t managing
inflation and employment, it is acting as a lender of
last resort. In this way, central banks provide the
bedrock for the banking system. The Fed’s ability to
perform this role expanded during the Global Financial
Crisis. They created many different types of lending
facilities to provide liquidity to banks, and many
former broker-dealers (like Morgan Stanley and Goldman
Sachs) became bank holding companies so that they could
access them.

Am I crazy or was there an entire section that said "this isn't a crisis because the fed is happy to give banks that make poor investment decisions taxpayer money?"

Doesn't this say that when a bank makes a poor investment, they can borrow from the taxpayer so they don't have to realize their loss?
I think the idea is to make water like air, not to make it like art.
It's more of a windy plateau at high altitude, liberally decorated with tornados and nukes.
I think what GP is saying is that when lending (or for that matter giving away) print books, libraries don't copy anything, they just distribute purchased works, which they have a fundamental right to do (in the US). That's different from the IA first making a digital copy and then distributing that copy, which there is no fundamental right to do.
Internet Archive (archive.org) looses it battle to Hachette in court case
Never use a debit card outside of your home country (or really for any purchase). Credit cards have far stronger consumer protections and don't provide direct access to your bank account.
> is a major contributor to America's polarization issues.

To what extent is this an actual "issue?" What are we sacrificing for having a plethora of divergent ideas?

> Since Americans don't have a public broadcaster that they all have a stake in as taxpayers

I would really prefer not to have one, and in the era of the internet inside of a nation with a strong first amendment that these other countries do not enjoy, I'm not sure what it could possibly add.

> Americans pick and choose which news sources they listen to

Freedom of choice is wonderful, but what you are missing is that several media ownership rules were rescinded in the 1990s. There used to be _more_ choice. Strangely, that actually _reduced_ the "issue" of polarization.

> which inevitably leads people to listen to news that confirms their personal biases.

Then that probably isn't news. It's an opinion piece masquerading under a news masthead. I'm not sure how true news, that is factual information told by someone who's only interest is informing the public, creates bias.

> Americans are allergic to such things as "state run propaganda".

I contributed to NPR, right up until I felt they were veering into "state run propaganda." If they truly covered the news, I might donate again. It's a market, they should serve it, and not seek to survive as a tax driven entity answerable to a federal congress. I'm sure that would just make things worse.
I think I'm decent at writing overall, I did well in English at school, write up documentation which I am able to point other people to, and find I am able to write quick, clear and actionable responses to emails, chats, etc. When it's a topic I have expertise in, and the audience are pretty much my peers, and it's just a matter of accurately describing or summarizing objective facts about the state of the world, some code, some incident, etc, it's not a problem.

On the other hand, I really struggle with writing up objectives, performance reviews, intern projects, my own resume, product roadmaps, etc. I tend to put this stuff off to the last minute, and spend way too much time making minor tweaks and edits, but probably not improving the overall impact. I'm never sure how much detail is useful vs just going for vague but impressive sounding bullet points.

I guess these things are basically marketing / advertising / BS, and the audience is senior management, hiring managers, clients, etc. that more or less live in their own different world, or at least at a different level of abstraction from me. It also doesn't help that it's sporadic stuff that happens once or a few times / year, so I feel I never get good at it or have any kind of feedback loop, and it feels like a distraction from my "actual" coding/day-to-day job, but obviously this stuff actually really important in the long run.

I am really tempted to try to hire some kind of communications consultant to basically sit down with me and do this together, or for me, on an hourly basis or something... much like I do for my taxes. Although maybe I should just learn to do it myself, read a few books / youtube on it, etc... in practice, I don't, and if I found someone who was great at it and it got done, maybe I'd have a better job, better projects, etc.

Really curious to hear of thoughts on this, whether anyone has ever done something like this, whether it worked out... or if the work to find the right person and explain things exceeded the benefits.

It's hard to know if this kind of activity, for me, is a "cost center" that is best outsourced, or a "profit center" that it's a mistake to outsource.
> Part of the reason SVB failed so fast was because they held a lot of long term government debt, mortgages etc.
When they tried to sell it to provide liquidity for deposits they found there were not many buyers for it.

What? That’s nonsense. There is an extremely liquid market for the securities and selling them was no problem.

The problem is that they lost value when interest rates rose, were held in a “hold to maturity” portfolio to avoid having to mark down prices as interest rates rose, and the bank didn’t properly hedge its interest rate risk.
C-SPAN's mission is to cover, and merely cover, Congressional proceedings and some other governmental affairs, and I would say they are very successful in that endeavour.

I won't say the same of any other "news" or "journalism" outfit in their mission to journal goings-ons. Everyone from CNN to BBC to NHK to Al Jazeera to Wall Street Journal to New York Times can all go screw themselves for being propagandists disguised as journalists.
Please run this on the BuildKit code base which has almost no comments but a huge usage footprint. It's also (obviously) a non-trivial test case
They sell their own 1 TB and 250 GB expansion cards. I've been using the 1 TB as my Pop!_OS system drive.
Honestly, I feel the opposite. What he imagined back then as absolutely crazy was standard only 20 years after. It is crazy how exponentials work. Wild to think where we are standing 60 years later and wild to think where we will stand in 60 years.
Up First, BBC Global News, and NPR News Now (top of the hour, 3 minutes) are my go-to in the car. No nonsense news headlines.
It's starting to feel like Red Hat people are the ones amp'ing all this up.
You mean to say that

> I had discharged my insomniac unease by looping through iOS games while perseverating on Putin, Xi, MAGA Republicans, and the rest of the nihilistic flexers with malevolent designs on democracy. At the same time, I had cautioned myself for the millionth time against turning hawkish, the way the right and the rich do when feeling down in the mouth, gunning for a new clash of civilizations, or—more likely still—aiming to subdue Chinese competition so they can make more money.

didn't pull you into this fascinating tech article? Seems kind of... fascist of you.
>IF the fed is going to do everything in its power to save the economy, why fight it?

This is a popular sentiment among traders...why fight the FED? Because there is nothing they can do to bring inflation back to 2%. They all but admitted this with their return to QE. When the masses realize this...gold will surge.
What if it changes tomorrow? I'm moving even personal projects to a private repo and gonna build the base image or two myself, just in case someone's investor wants to step on the gas and milk me some moneys.

Having some personal infra is not a big deal. It's actually getting easier, if not legshooting with overcomplexity.
Exactly, torrents are already decentralized.