skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget how they killed DAT before it even had a chance to get going. Consumers were stuck with analog casette mixtapes for another decade or more unnecessarily.

The worst part is what it did to indie/amateur musicians. The only models allowed to record at 44.1 were "professional" that cost a lot more than the very few consumer models that were only allowed to do 32k and 48k.
I am pretty sure that your "mentor" would be still be the asshole in an office setting too!
I was talking to a friend this weekend who just bought a Tesla. He really didn’t want to if he could find an alternative, purely because of Musk and Twitter.

Seems like a brand in crisis to me.
I believe it’s difficult for nontechnical people to fully grasp the consequences of having so-called backdoors in the digital realm. It’s different from the physical world, where something like a master key or the possibility of forceful entry isn’t unreasonable. They probably think it must necessarily be possible to have something equivalent for electronic communication.
I bet her boss wishes he can WFH again
> Binary Lambda Calculus seems to spend its bits much more wisely than a Turing Machine encoding, working at a much higher level of abstraction. Defining and applying functions performs more useful work than moving a tape head around and jumping from state to state.

That's what I mean by β-reduction being a more powerful operation: it can copy a term into arbitrary points in the program. (In the BB context, I like to think of BLC in terms of substitution rather than functions.) So I wonder if the comparison is somewhat biased, since applying a TM transition is logically simpler than applying a BTC β-reduction, which involves recursively parsing the current state, substituting, and reindexing.

> The Turing Machine is also severely hampered by the pure sequential nature of the tape, where lambda calculus has access to all kinds of easily defined data structures.

I'd say TMs have plenty of data structures, but most of the useful ones are weird and alien since the the control flow has to be encoded on the tape alongside the data, vs. BLC which can precisely direct where a term should be substituted. The real hamper IMO is the locality of the tape: a TM can't move a block of data across another block of data on the tape without wasting valuable states.

> The universal variant https://oeis.org/A361211 of the lambda busy beaver can easily simulate any binary encoded TM with fixed overhead.

Of course; the trick is to go from n + c bits to n bits.
It’s actually fairly decently sized, probably like 10ish tables outside on the deck?

It’s got two smallish buildings If I recall correctly? All built over the water on a pier. And yeah it’s in an estuary so they just bring all the non fished food in by boat every few days.
Nobody said anything about shutting down social programs, you can still have those without forcing people that don’t use them to pay for it. Like I said, pay your fair share. The USPS for the most part is an example of a government service that operates only off of voluntary funding from its users.
If they're trying to influence public opinion and there really are a bunch of successes from surveillance programs that can be defeated with consumer-grade encryption, they could find ways to declassify statistics.

I suppose there's the concern that a statement like "we prosecuted 2387 child molesters based on surveillance of unencrypted chat" would cause future offenders to stop using unencrypted chat, but I think that's a red herring. Any reasonably clever criminal would not be sending felonious content unencrypted today.
Cancer, the 2nd leading cause of death worldwide, is maybe a histrionic metaphor.

I'd guess the actions of Gary Vaynerchuk wanna-be's are probably not in the top 10.
The Donald Trump Neuron in LLM
I predict that in 2023/24, someone is going to find the Donald Trump neuron in one of these LLM.

I think there are many interesting finding in neuroscience that would be interesting to find a map in LLM https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1692339/
Well, I am sorry for that.

But just to add - it's a misconception to see remote work as a "new way" of working for someone like me. For someone like me, who used chatrooms and forums to collaborate with people on programming and similar projects, remote work is returning back to my natural way of doing things. Going to the office for 10 years was unnatural. We have now cut out a lot of overhead of learning how to manage office life, which is only relevant if you have an office, and which was a hard part of my life (I'm ugly).

And my experience is simply the opposite of yours. My strengths and my teammates strengths have only come to shine since going remote. I only became a Team Lead and then Engineering Manager since we've gone fully remote, and I think it is largely in part thanks to the speed and effectiveness my remote teams achieve in on-boarding members, collaborating, and delivering valuable work. Every retro my team members put "Great teamwork!" on the board, and this only started since we've gone remote.
I don't remember LVMH being considered a risk for national elections or dealing shady propaganda business with Russian agencies or ‶research″ firms, but sure; whatever floats your dictionary.
To be fair, these aren't unrelated since they track together over time.
or instantly. politicians are people and I'm pretty sure they use phones. if a backdoor is added it will almost instantly be used against them I'm sure. even well meaning apps are hacked.
Looks like it chooses artists based on prompt and then applies greatest hit. Am I right?

"1950s jazz" gave good results apart from Louis Armstrong singing What a Wonderful World" - neither 1950s nor jazz.
Curious why you are so invested in a spirited defense of Elon Musk’s brand?
They do way more than diabetes/insulin medication - they make and R&Ded recombinants, oesteoperosis medication, menopause medication, and hemophilia medication.

They're one of the Big Pharma firms like Pfizer and GSK, and the only reason Denmark (and specifically Aarhaus) is on the map for bioinformatics.

Separately, why are so many new HN commentators snarky asshats.
yea @aculver, its really beautiful!
Equivalent to this in Django ? With team support etc ?
"Manifacturing Consent" is a book written by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky. They discuss the propaganda model of communication in much broader sense.
No. Unfortunately a major issue in US copyright law is that the bar for effectively controlling access is incredibly low.

One particularly infuriating case involved a box that blocked the low-frequency part of a signal. That's all it took to interfere with a cable company's billing systems. Appeals court finds that was an effective measure.

https://cite.case.law/f3d/536/101/
Germany doesn't even have a general fair use doctrine in the first place! It's really horrendous.

Most countries' governments outside the US also assert copyright on their own works, which is ridiculous IMO, but is a good representation of the entire concept of the US: legitimacy is derived from the people themselves. The government can't have copyright because The People as a whole own the work.
"The grammar of filmmaking has changed dramatically since then"

Yes, it has. But it's questionable if it's been for the better. A bad film from any era is just bad, but I'd contend that a well made one easily crosses the generations. Mention Casablanca for instance, I can honestly say I've never come across anyone who didn't enjoy it or say it's a bad film.

"Watching something from even the 1960s is super weird and kind of alienating."

One has to wonder what you actually like to watch. You likely didn't like Shakespeare at school because it too is dated.

Pity really, you'll have missed a lot.

_

Edit: I'm curious why you find say '60s films weird and alienating. (There's much to criticize but I've never heard that said before.)
Even if they let me sidemount the taskbar in w11 I will stick with SAB for the hack that lets me make it extra thin.
I’m aware that the prevailing opinions on hacker news support side loading, just as I’m aware the the prevailing opinion among the general public is they don’t care about it, and likely don’t even know what it is.

However these opinions have no influence over the factual compromises that these changes make to security controls. Currently if I gave you my iPhone and my PIN code, and asked you to install malware on it, you wouldn’t be able to. The fact that you’re making some appeal to the opinions of the community rather than engage with these facts shows the strength of your argument (in addition to the general childishness of your comments).
The disconnect is wild. Spending magic money online can already feel like instant messaging, e.g. Zcash with its encrypted memo field for text messages is basically as if Bitmessage had an optional monetary payload
To be fair and square, I added an explicit statement about consistency of the cards, so it is clear.
> "blow up in your face (early) if you don't do it, becoming a blocker."

This is something that many places, including my current consulting placement, will consider a bad thing and actively work to do the opposite. The attitude at these places is that "blowing up" is a Bad Thing, and should never happen. This causes everyone to suppress useful signals of impending problems that can be mitigated in advance. What's left is things that do "blow up" because of neglect, and are truly Bad, so it's a self-reinforcing policy.

These organizations accept the decay (apt word, btw) and really Bad Things happening too frequently over diligence and preventing Bad Things from happening in the first place.
Funny: You are not scheduled to survive the upcoming extinction level event
I don't think prohibitions on child porn and drugs have anything to do with taxes.
The term "Manufacturing consent" was coined by Noam Chomsky, American philosopher.
Campbell is IMO the more appropriate comparison too - Mandelson was an elected MP and later a Lord during Blair/Brown years, he wasn't a SPAD for hire like Cummings or Campbell. That said, the three of them worked very closely together - Blair, Mandelson and Campbell.
Others are saying "This thing works for me."

You are claiming "This thing never works (and therefore your own experience is wrong)."

The person making a categorical claim has a higher burden of proof than the one making an individual one, especially when the former is attempting to invalidate the lived experience of the latter.
I was thinking about this today. Like we watch a moive about cold war times and see the gmen or the stasi doing some unbelievable intrusive surveillance and think wow what times they would have been to live in, and at the same time my every movement for the past 10 years when I had a cellphone in my pocket is in a database somewhere and I barely think about it.
but some would rather harp on and hate on it on hackernews instead.
>isn't it impressive enough that he made stuff happen?

But he didn't make stuff happen, he just paid for it. Why should we consider "Have enough money to pay for someone else to do good things" an impressive trait? Maybe we should stop deifying management for just doing a useful thing once in a while in between all the milking franchises and wealth extraction.
When mathematicians say Quadrature, they mean that if your function is suitably approximated by projecting onto some orthogonal basis functions, you can get very cheap approximations by cleverly expressing those integrals exactly as a linear combination of their values at certain points along the interval. You need very few.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_quadrature

It is significantly more subtle than what you are thinking.
The PEGA committee reports are "hilarious" reading. The "best" situation seems to have been in Greece where ordinary politicians have spied other ordinary politicians and ordinary civil servants other ordinary civil servants. Must be fun to work in such a state apparatus.
Amazon referring to it as "not open source" is a bit like Russia calling Crimea "Russian". This redefinition of open source is intended as a political statement - fighting against open source with restrictions.

Especially so, it seems, if those restrictions promote the growth of open source.

Elastic changed to a license that is completely open except insofar as it blocked Amazon from profiting from it.

>Notably, you could build GPL software on top of OpenSearch. You could not do so on top of ElasticSearch.

Notably you can't build MIT software based on GPL software either. This is 100% about MIT being a weak open source license with few restrictions and GPL being a strong open source license with restrictions.

Not coincidentally the very-much-also-open-source-license GPL also had a history of infuriating big tech for exactly the same reason - they hate restrictions put in place designed to help open source flourish.

E.g. Here's Google getting publicly grumpy about the AGPL: https://www.theregister.com/2011/03/31/google_on_open_source...
Martin Gurri in The Revolt of the Public had a pretty good explanation of this. Leaders used to be the gatekeepers of information, and thus maintained control. Now the Internet has lifted the curtain and opened the floodgates of information, causing a loss of control, thus pushing many leaders to double down on attempts at controlling the narrative. When control gets too strong, we see revolts.
"small but vocal audience" is a rather misleading statement when you consider it refers to a company within its first year of operations.
As far as I remember there were as many pebbles as applewatches around that time, even though apple was an established company with significant clout.
Jeff Geerling is majorly involved with Ansible, so he's not really reviewing for the sake of reviewing. It's more that he's sharing his knowledge about his off-work pursuits, I believe.
Actually he was nicer before the pandemic while we were in the office. He always came by to show me stuff when I called him.

I've noticed the behavior of several other colleagues (not everyone) changed while WFH. Many became more distant and hesitant to cooperate and lend a hand. Most wanted to lock themselves in a "don't bother me for anything, let me wrap my work faster, so I can sign out for the day early" kind of state.
We do something similar with Reclaim.ai:

It's one monolith Java repo, split into two major workloads that have the same runtime code but are configured differently. In our case, the two workflows are "api" and "jobs". This allows for operational issues on, say, jobs while still allowing user-facing APIs to be less likely to be impacted. The source code itself has many modules, but we deploy it as a single unified runtime.

We're very happy with this approach and so far have only been tempted a few times to break out micro/mini-services. I suspect we will eventually break out a few services, but by the time we do, it'll be for very good reasons.
Why I'm not worried about AI causing mass unemployment
> You are claiming "This thing never works (and therefore your own experience is wrong)."

I am literally not doing that. Go back and re-read my comment.
That's the nature of how these things go. People that like Tailwind praise it. People that think it's fundamentally bad design avoid it and don't say too much, or are drowned out by the people praising it.

People who just write SCSS don't even think about it.
It's strange that MS has never did what Apple did with the OS 9 → OS X transition, starting with a fresh foundation and making a clean break from the predecessor by way of a well-integrated "Classic" mode that seamlessly runs legacy applications in a "borderless" VM.

The most natural time to have done this would've probably been going from XP → Vista/7, which broke a number of old things anyway.

For all that switching mainline Windows over to the NT kernel in 2k/XP improved Windows, the benefit wasn't as great as it could've been if they'd been able to unshackle the OS from backwards compatibility with all the preceding Windows/DOS stuff.
There's some truth to this -- it's 100% the taskbar from 10X, but there's a lot of other changes for 11 (settings, taskbar stuff like volume controller, file explorer). Secondary goal was probably to decouple/undock the taskbar from the main OS which would require rebuilding some parts.
> - Tests can easily catch simple mistakes like accessing a nil pointer.

no they can't . this is exactly what is hard to test for, complex state that can occur by some combination of many variables on many values
YouTube's search is now so bad I've been using DDG's video search to find videos on YouTube. I'll have to keep an eye on whether DDG's video search goes south as well.
It will be whatever trendy business topic comes up. The "hustle" people have been doing this forever and they are just clinging on to keywords that get traffic. It has little to do with the topics themselves.

The funny thing the biggest export of these hustle guys is teaching other people how to jump on keywords for attention.
Is that new, new and used, or total current in-use phones?

I can't find the median, but the average new car price in the US got close to $50k. Which certainly doesn't come close to the average price paid per car currently on the road.
People that profess Java heaviness only reveal lack of historical background.

Not only were CORBA and DCOM much worse, Java EE was the reboot of Objective-C framework for distributed computing at Sun. And those Objective-C lengthy methods are quite the pleasure to type without code completion.

While they certainly could have done better, it was already an huge improvement.
And I know some seniors who'd like a word about why you think they aren't playing computer games during meetings
Carpenter bees. They are pretty neat for sure.

If anyone has issues with them boring into buildings, there’s an easy solution: stuff a paper bag with some plastic bags and hang it up nearby. The bees will think it’s a wasp’s nest and vacate the area within a few days. I know someone who does this every year and it works like a charm. Which, I suppose in a way, it is.
AI bro grifters on Twitter?

News at 6 PM.
That is the rule with a Roth IRA - pull out up to your contribution value without penalty. Early withdrawals from a Roth 401(k) are different: if your account is 80% contributions and 20% earnings, any early withdrawal you make will be prorated to be 80% contributions and 20% earnings. The earnings chunk will be added to your gross income and subject to a 10% penalty (in this case, 2% of the overall withdrawal).

Given that most people here are high-ish earners, I’d say a traditional 401(k) is still the most appropriate choice because of the tax arbitrage. If you need to tap it, a 401(k) loan is an imperfect but probably decent enough choice.
I added "We have cards with a number and color on each face." to the task statement. Hope this makes rules clearer as I could not phrase it better.
You can absolutely do better than "moderately competent junior" from online learning. I feel like you're ignoring huge swaths of high-quality technical education that is available online. Not to mention the numerous open-source projects you can learn from and contribute to, which are essentially "fully remote" distributed teams that have been working effectively for years. The larger open-source projects can also be great for networking through their forums/chat rooms/online discussions. Those "randos" are building software that is literally the underlying infrastructure of almost all commercial software being built today.

And, anecdotally, a lot of software jobs are building generic CRUD apps, and a lot of "senior colleagues" are not necessarily great teachers, or even great developers. In scenarios like those, you can do a lot better teaching yourself online with lessons or learning/contributing to the aforementioned open-source projects. It's not just about in-person vs online, but the quality of the team/project you're learning from.
About 2 years ago, me and some friends produced a small batch of similar watches, but we used a different LiPo connector and USB-C to make it thinner and then we could get the cases down to 11mm thickness, which is comparable to the thinnest Apple Watch. So in general, ESP32 and e-ink is a pretty great basis to start from. Since this appears to be open source, you could, in theory, apply these modifications to their design and then produce your own batch of thin e-ink watches... If you do, please send them a pull request ;)
This change will have a real impact to cashflow, in the sense that you are paying more (in taxes) in the first year than you would under the previous model.

And cashflow is incredibly important, Free Cash Flow metrics etc. are all fairly critical within the investing world.
Have you ever tested it by yourself? I tested and no, it didn't win by a huge margin. Malloc+free was only a tad slower than the default Java GC new (stop the world, parallel) but the default GC is much faster than G1 and ZGC so I would not be surprised if malloc could beat those modern ones at allocation rate benchmark.
Don't forget about

> "The Engineering of Consent" is an essay by Edward Bernays first published in 1947,
> "disappeared"

you mean bought and killed
I'm not here to assign blames, it seems to me the younger generation somehow missing a lot of life skills.

I was both a student and TA in college back in the days. My experience has been, those who go to Office Hours or TA hours usually perform better than those who don't (unless you are one of those folks who are just smart and know how to work hard). In my junior/senior year, I consistently went to office hours and TA hours, my grades got significantly better. This goes for my students as well.

Remote problem is like that as well. No one is parenting you anymore, your success and failure is based on your action. If you are a junior, schedule calls with your senior, two to three hours a week, prepare your questions and see what you get out of it. Don't wait for your managers or seniors to contact you.

I will say this, there are companies/seniors/managers that are shit at helping juniors, just like shitty professors and TAs.
I personally really like my Xiaomi Mi Band. It's much cheaper than many alternatives (Apple Watch, Wear OS devices) at <$50USD for the most current model. I get notifications pushed from my phone, step tracking, heart rate monitoring, sleep detection, among other things. Battery life is multiple weeks and it's waterproof (not sure to what pressure).

It's not as customizable as I'd like, but Notify for Mi Band[0] helps a lot. For example, I'm able to connect my watch to Home Assistant so I can use watch controls for my smart home devices.

[0] https://mibandnotify.com/
Most people ought to be afraid of the AI salesman. They're equally as harmful as the cryptobro, selling some nebulous tech that the layman will always misinterpret. Their profitability layer is being able to confuse and obfuscate the components that go into their business, as well as being able to outwit their customers.

I'll proudly hate and harp on those folks anywhere I go. I won't go as far as to claim they "must be stopped", but internally I'd wager most people are waiting for these guys to shut up already.
I’m sure he’ll get picked up some other more despicable propaganda rag.
> There's always some error handling logic wrapping around the request handling

Yeah, some languages make this easier than others.

The way you described it made me think it was Rust, a language where those handlers are not trivial, but not incredibly hard either. But it seems that Go developers have it worse (no big surprise here).

Of course, the champions on unhandled failures are always C and C++, where almost any issue is impossible to recover from. It's no coincidence that those are low level languages (and Go).

When you move from the more controlled languages into those, you tend to also move from in-language error recovery to system-wide error recovery.
Well-said, my friend.