skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mention this every time NFTs come up here but those stupid monkey jpegs are dumb.

ENS is, to me, a perfect usecase for NFTs. What you "own" is a hash that represents a human readable name. That ownership is stored in a global database that isn't owned by anyone and can't be tampered with.

Now you have a cryptographically secure human readable "address" you can use just like a domain to point to anything you want.

And just by being deployed on Ethereum your domain or subdomains can receive money and tokens directly. It can be used to receive encrypted communications. So much other stuff.
The problem isn't making an interesting pattern, it's the medium of that pattern at a power level that is detectable when it reaches them. Flashing prime numbers at stars with a 60W bulb isn't going to get heard.
Utah has also been having water problems. Agriculture uses most of the water in UT, the governor has a farm that grows hay/alfalfa for export to China. With water shortages, instead of cutting back on his farm's water consumption, he got on the TV and told Utahns to "pray for rain".

Arizona passed a law requiring developments of 6 or more homes to provide for water. Consequently, many developers now make all of their developments 5 homes in order to skirt that law. Urban water suppliers (which are government run utilities)_have cut those suburban/rural customers off. Which is making the water problem madly political.
I agree. I think the fact that tesla started with the roadster was a genius move - proving that electric cars can be far superior in performance compared to ICE. Everyone else in the space was going for boring efficiency, and they showed that it could be the best of both worlds.
Wonder if using this for a few years would change your accent lol.
"The Lives of Others" is a great movie about this. Apparently they used authentic early-80's-era spying gear in that movie.
> If you can figure how to pay

Fly billions worth of military (or other) equipment over and leave it. Has OP considered gold bars?
Q&A: Chris Barron, Lead Singer of Spin Doctors
I cant record especially with new clients its a bit off off impression you never know how the speaker takes his/her privacy in voice seriously, however a few others also ahve suggested this method when i asked on reddit and it seems like they just do it and are just doing fine...i still however feel uncomfortable over the whole voice recording thing, idk might change in the future...

Thank you for this however..its one of the methods i might have to resort to if nothing else works out for me..
Wouldn't UseCompressedOops flag alleviate the issue for smaller heaps?
A Balkanized Federation
That cash will not be anonymous for long once you deposit it, between mandatory reporting and serial number records.
When you deploy a new version does it go out to all nodes? Or are the distinct workloads versioned separately?
Only if a certain threshold of originality is met. It probably would have to be more than just a little “tweaking”.
Here is fun, and rather short, book on the history of complex numbers that I liked -- https://www.amazon.com/Imaginary-Tale-Princeton-Science-Libr...
There are several websites out there which hope to list many ActivityPub servers (and clients) in many (programming) languages, and other implemtnation aspects...Like, here's an oldie but goodie website: https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous/ ...There are other wbsites of course.

Just select your desired lang. and review! Now, of course, it might be early days for some languages (e.g. for Rust, etc.)...But, one reason why some languages are used over others...is due to ease of deploying on VPCs and VPC-like hosts (...historically the land that php ruled ;-)

Enjoy, and I hope you find what you're looking for!
Off-topic but this blog is using https://vaadin.com, that's the first time I am seeing this framework being used!
Relevant: Martin Fowler's essay "Privacy Protects Bothersome People": https://martinfowler.com/articles/bothersome-privacy.html
I honestly don't understand why someone with your attitude doesn't become a freelancer/consultant. If I hated working for companies that much, pretty much no amount of incremental salary would persuade me to not go my own way.
I say if your manager defames people, sue them personally for defamation.

Personally, so that they personally face the consequences of their misconduct out of their own pocket.

It was not that hard to understand, I am sorry you could not understand this simple thing.
This is where YouTube and DIY forums come in. It doesn't require advanced knowledge to perform most electrical repairs and maintenance oneself, and young people's practical skills have atrophied compared to their parents and grandparents at the same age, and I say this as one of those young people.
Apparently treated agricultural wastewater. I would never have guessed that.

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/04/egypt-plans-new...
Hyundai Ioniq?
For a while, Batteryhookup was selling pallets of Solyndra modules for unbelievably cheap. I think it's difficult to use them on buildings now because the NEC's new rapid-shutdown requirements effectively made decades of solar stuff obsolete (welp so much for the environment), and they're not useful for making solar carports and stuff. But maybe someone with a lot of land...?

Anyway, it's a shame. They were a really neat concept and sidestepped a lot of issues that raise the cost of other systems.
Only technological innovation can stop this. Too many people really want to know everything about you. Only mathematical impossibility will stop them.
those might be doable in some companies as internal meetings perhaps? but what about meetings with your next clients that are bare strangers, so the recording part might come off a bit too intruding for the first time, especially voice or video recordings...voice is still doable maybe..

Thank you for your time however..might consider it.
Show HN: Create AI covers of your favorite songs in seconds
Towards Unification Of General Relativity And Quantum Theory
Eh. Remember when Google was threatened by DuckDuckGo and other privacy search engines? Google is always being "threatened" by something or the other.
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain (ie. last vestiges languishing as a compat shim that even the developers who support you wish they could finally deprecate and remove).
Even here on HN, people are using ChatGPT to write replies. You can spot it by the very verbose answers that don't say anything meaningful.

Someone else commented here that AI would raise the noise level everywhere and I unfortunately have to agree.
This is so correct it's absolutely ridiculous. I learn new skills as a hobby. I have a degree in construction. There is no way for me to learn to be an electrician that is authorized to do anything unless I drop everything else I'm doing for a minimum of 4 years.

This is clearly ridiculous. Electricity isn't hard. This is precisely the sort of thing that standardized tests, both knowledge and practical, can effectively fix.

No one wants to fix it though.
Absolutely not. A pop-up is, by definition, something that “pops up”, which it does specifically to hijack attention, i.e., to be distracting and obnoxious.

The best way to let me know that you have a newsletter is NO POP-UP. A pop-up immediately screams “this website is trying to hijack your attention, get out as fast as possible.” The idea that I should want to stay on such a dystopian website, much less reward it with a newsletter subscription, is just so ludicrous it boggles the mind.
for me ive never been able to take a meeting since university just because i might forget some details later and details are the key to impress a potential client, especially with my goldfish memory..
Two core links,

"Why software engineering performance is hard to measure" shows a sample of dimensions we might assess developers on. It has some sample of dimensions we might perhaps use, just a starting place really, but not bad: high standards, delivery speed, reliability, team/company focus, open minded, & critical thinking. Ask yourself how many of these are easy to find good clear clean cut objective metrics we can assess people on.
https://betterprogramming.pub/software-engineering-performan...

And my god, apennwarr's recent System designs 2: What we hope we know is such a wonderful lovely intimate post/ramble touching in a number of places around how we have to embrace real complexity. Science loves control & hard numbers, and in this quest it resists seeing things as they are, as an accrual of many factors: "scientists absolutely bloody despise emergent complexity → systems design → magical thinking."

Incredible post for a number of great reasons; this is just one. https://apenwarr.ca/log/20230415 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35580776 (180 points, 9d, 27 comments)

Management like scientists wants nice neat objective tools to understand the world with, without ever having to deal with emergent complexity. Most performance metrics & OKRs end up being dehumanizing, shallow, low-context. (That said, I think they can be helpful for high-context folks to better understand situations near to them & how things change over time.)

Energized motivated developers do such a better job. Caring prevents so many problems. Having the ability to do things well should keep paying off, are the first & often online line of defense, the only ward to keep the tech-base from becoming mired & stagnate.
The California aqueduct (444 miles, 714km) would like to have a word :-).

Basically built for the same reason, the central valley of California was mostly arid but the top soil was good for agriculture. The underground aquifer was a limit on how much farming (and of what type) could be done.
Intelligence is rather ill defined which I suppose is why you are having difficulties.
Yep, same here. I didn't get into jazz until late in life and toured all the popular and deep cuts. Miles, Coltrane, Coleman, Monk, etc. I loved it all, but then I heard Sun Ra Arkestra's "Springtime Again" and I was absolutely floored. It opened up so many possibilities in my brain, almost like what I would expect a psychotropic drug experience would be like (I have never tried).

Anyways, I did a deep dive on Sun Ra and have collected as much of his music as I can. I've seen the Arkestra two times and hope to at least one more time before Marshall Allen departs this planet (he turns 99 this year).

Crazy story, again I have never done drugs, but I had a very intense dream where I met Frank Zappa and he took me through his warehouse(!) of records and introduced me to all his favorite Sun Ra records. I'll never forget that dream, I woke up energized to listen to all his recommendations.
Generative AI could change hiring as we know it
Fast track the learning process to catch all the white collars who are on the cusp of being automated out of a job.
This doesn’t mean that copyright law applies to AI-created works. OpenAI may have no rights here that they can assign, due to lack of human authorship. See also https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/16/2023-05....
Can we force politicans to put their money in the first unencrypted bank for the first year as a dry-run of some wakened encryption future?
Ahem, I think making it much easier to transfer and backup 2FA codes is extremely important to make this area more useable. But I'm missing some parts here in this announcement how the data is protected? Is the security the same as for the Google Account itself, or are there additional checks or protection for the case where you need to restore 2FA to another phone?

And how are you supposed to handle the 2FA for your Google account? I mean I have U2F tokens which remove that concern, but that is far from the typical case. If you have the 2FA for your Google account in the Google Authenticator, which is probably a very common case, how does this entire thing work then when you need it, which is when you lose your phone?
I wonder if this was part of the deal to get early access to a lot of the new openai models?

OpenAI gets real human data from snap and snap gets to say they're an AI company.
China makes major push in its ambitious digital yuan project
The best way I've ever had it explained to me is with electron tunneling. You ask, how did the electron "jump" that potential hill, when it actually didn't have the momentum to do so? The answer: it didn't, it quite literally "went through" the potential hill. So you ask, well, what kind of momentum (mv^2) would allow for this "tunneling" momentum? You invariably arrive at a _negative_ moment... and thus only an imaginary velocity can fit!

My intuition leads me to believe that almost some sort of other dimensional effects are at play, and our feeble math just can't accurately describe it. Perhaps it's just the nature of quantum itself, and no special dimensional consideration is needed. It's been a long time since I studied any math or physics...
By that logic, it doesn't even need real numbers. Just do everything with cauchy sequences of rationals.
CentOS was never sold or supported by Red Hat.
“Crystallizing Public Opinion” (1923) is another important Bernays text.
> The problem was my acquaintance was a Pakistani citizen like me... and visa for us is a really big headache.

Passport travel freedom is caused by security and fraud risk.

This can be fixed by countries simply by making sure fraud and security risks can't end-up abroad.
This made me sad:

> But why do you add 8 to move to the next selector? Why not just increment the selector? Because the bottom three bits of the selector are used for other things. In particular, the bottom bit of the selector is used to choose the selector table. Let’s ignore bits 1 and 2 since they are not relevant to the discussion. Assume for convenience that they are always zero.²

> ² I know that in practice they aren’t. I’m assuming they are zero for convenience.

If you are writing segmented protected mode user code on a modern OS that has nearly complete support for it (Linux! [0]), you should know how this works. And Raymond Chen is, uncharacteristically, wrong.

The bottom two bits are RPL (“Requested Privilege Level”), and they are generally both set in user mode, so RPL=3.

The next bit is TI (table indicator), which is 0 for GDT (used for flat memory or 16/32-bit TLS on modern Linux) or 1 for LDT (controlled by modify_ldt, and this is what you will use for, ahem, modern protected mode segmented code).

So you will add 8 to your segment selector for the next LDT segment (which is not obviously useful unless you are pretending to be in real mode), and the selector & 8 == 7 most of the time.

Sadly, Windows dropped support for those most excellent features of modern CPUs years ago, so it’s understandable that Raymond got his bits in the wrong order :)

(Intel and AMD have both dropped proper x87 segmentation support a few years ago, so interesting old apps don’t work any more even in a VM. Whoops. I tried advocating for a real fix, but there’s not much of a business case to be made.)

[0] Keeping this working is kind of fun. We have a pretty strong test suite for it these days.
> If you can't, you're having it do things you don't even understand and blindly implementing

Today's programming is not SICP in scheme, it is more plumbing between very large bodies of code. Using GPT is a great way to short cut needing to learn lots of details about code bases you only need for one specific feature. Recently though, by integrating two pieces of code I do know a lot about, I lost a lot of confidence in GPT coding.

For example, I asked it to implement a small script in emacs that would loop through org text files in emacs, and run some commands based on keybindings. That's it.

It messed up the usage of recursive-edit (which is a complicated feature itself), it produced many bugs in how Org utilizes indirect buffers, it sends windows around instead of buffers in the variables, and it wrote lots of contradictory code.

I understand how all these features work, and I went through and started fixing all the bugs. I would tell it about each bug, but it was producing so many subtle bugs with org-mode, inventing functions that didn't exist and it couldn't define... I gave up and just re-implemented it myself.

So no, I do not understand 100% of all code I refer to when I write code, that's why APIs actually exist.
I hear you, and yet DDG takes this to the extreme by maintaining completely separate frontends for those who don't want to run JS or want to sidestep the getting-started hand-holding (https://html.duckduckgo.com/html and https://start.duckduckgo.com/ respectively; while digging into that, I also learned they have https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite too for whatever that does)

So a hypothetical expert.ddg.gg wouldn't be out of character for them

I am aware that there is a slight nuance here between what one may consider just theming of the frontend versus potentially changing how query syntax works, but I just wanted to point out that DDG has embraced UX-flags-via-domain-name which would be in-your-face different from some secret toggle on a settings page
There's also an interesting quote from Apple Legal: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/04/24/epic-games-loses-appeal...

"In a statement to MacRumors, Apple said that the decision reaffirms its "resounding victory" against Epic Games .
Today's decision reaffirms Apple's resounding victory in this case, with nine of ten claims having been decided in Apple's favor. For the second time in two years, a federal court has ruled that Apple abides by antitrust laws at the state and federal levels. The App Store continues to promote competition, drive innovation, and expand opportunity, and we're proud of its profound contributions to both users and developers around the world. We respectfully disagree with the court's ruling on the one remaining claim under state law and are considering further review.

Though Apple said that it support the court's decision, the company does disagree with the ruling on the App Store changes, and says that it is "considering further review."
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> Anything an organization has to be intentional about will get neglected or half-assed, if it isn't some core function key to short-term results.

The problem is that they have to be intentional about it no mater what, either by making the remote networking happen or by intentionally having a policy where most people work in the office most of the time (Friday-only WFH or some similar arrangement). Nobody gets it for free anymore because non-remote office culture is no longer the default.
Raw materials, or sacred beings? Lithium extraction puts 2 worldviews in tension
Yup, leveraging the synergy all the way.
> Files with spaces in the name are just a bad idea anyhow

It's only a bad idea because of assumptions programmers make about file paths not containing spaces that they then build into their code and cause problems.

The Mac (and user-friendly file names that contain things like spaces) has been around since 1984. Why has it taken this long to just accept that file paths might contain spaces? Is it just because (essentially) Bash is a huge pain about quoting?
> I’m just tired of hearing the fair share people justify not paying their fair share.

I frankly have no idea who you are talking about. You're going to have to elaborate because right now it sounds like a cheap strawman.
Search YouTube for ChatGPT and KDP (Amazon's self-publishing platform) and you'll see hundreds of videos that show how its done, often with ridiculous promises of thousands of dollars per month in "passive income." Some have even started using Midjourney for the covers or kids books illustrations. The YouTubers are often pumping expensive "masterclasses" to suckers looking to make an easy buck.

Amazon does not nothing to shut down the YouTubers or the grifters publishing these books. Anything that adds friction or requires human intervention - whether it's policies with teeth or staff to issue takedowns - reduces the bottom line.
Eternal September has more.
US private equity firm wants to take over Euro software stalwart Software AG
Normie here, and I've always thought this was the biggest benefit of remote work. No more emphasis on what you look and act like. Only the value you add counts.

This has got to be good for racial, gender, etc forms of discrimination. In a wheelchair? Black? Female? Ideally nobody would care because they wouldn't even know.
I remember pushing for this when i was at Google ~5 years ago. I wasn't on the team but I wrote 2 proposals, one to do QR code export and imports and another to sync codes using the google backup framework.

Neither was approved nor denied, just in limbo. But nice to see that both features have finally shipped. Sadly I have switched away to 1P, too much effort to move it all back.
I suspect you're correct more broadly, but this article is talking about software jobs:

>The economists — Natalia Emanuel, Emma Harrington and Amanda Pallais — studied engineers at a large technology company. They found that remote work enhanced the productivity of senior engineers, but it also reduced the amount of feedback that junior engineers received (in the form of comments on their code), and some of the junior engineers were more likely to quit the firm.

However, there are major problems with the research. From the research article:

>Our data include peer code reviews of software engineers at a Fortune 500 firm be- tween August 2019 and December 2020.

The study period includes the throes of the pandemic and ignores long-term adjustments.
The art of web design: Sticky Cards
There is no Kagi plan that costs >$300/year? Most is ultimate which is $255/year. (point still taken)
But electricians working for themselves must be making a lot more than that? Last time I called an electrician it was $100 for him to step in the door and $150/hr for the work and that was about 10 years ago.
> Do they actually do anything of value anymore or are they just Redhat now?

IBM is a behemoth. They bought Red Hat in 2019 for $34B. At that point Red Hat had an annual revenue of ~$3.4B.

How much is $34B for IBM? That year their annual revenue was $77B. They literally spent less than half of their annual revenue that year to buy the company.

Even if we assume that the revenue stemming from Red Hat in IBM has doubled since then, that's still less than 1/10th of IBMs revenue the year they bought Red Hat (it's about $60B today).

So no, IBM is not "just Red Hat".
That's what happened to the Bing "AI" button they added to Swiftkey recently.

Only using it on my Pixel so I only saw the Play Store reviews alongside a few articles online. But they were pummeled with 1* reviews and a week later...no more Bing icon that I can't remove from my otherwise fine keyboard.
This is not a coincidence. :-)
That article misses the link between Limbo at AT&T and its very closely related Go done by the much of the same team once Bell Labs had collapsed and they were working for Google.
Achievable if someone bankrolls you sure
this is quite intellectual of you, not only for meeting purposes but journal keeping, i tried doing this journaling for 6 months, the issue is i live in a big family and my things in my room are not even secure or private so there might a chance someone might read it, or so..until unless books come with codes to unlock them, yes i do like writing as i once received a calligraphic award back in the days..however now my handwiritng is equivalent to that of a doctor's..nevertheless i will implement this in more of a typing form, since im trying to reduce paper work except drawings so this way it might be better for now...

I thank you for your time, sir.
> In the most egregious cases that I've documented I submit feedback but it always seemed like a hopeless cause the worse the results became.

I once had a Ducker(? Goer?) reply to me here on HN saying that a human does in fact read the feedback, and yet this indescribably terrible change aligns with your conclusion: they read them, and then cheerfully "put them on the backlog"
Californians have bought more than 1.5M electric vehicles