skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using Kagi for the last year or so. I average about 20 searches per day, including on my mobile after work. Well under my 1k monthly limit.

I guess I don't search nearly as much as I thought I did. Still worth the $10/mo to me.
You just wrote a multi-paragraph post about how someone’s hobby is a waste of time, which is ironic, because surely writing that post was just as much a waste of your time.
Why couldn't DuckDuckGo just offer an "advanced mode" in settings where operators are still active?

They could default to the simple one and achieve their goal.
LOL.

I’m 39, and I picked up War Thunder again — from scratch - last November. I generally play for about four hours per day, after my wife and kids are asleep.
>I largely treat ChatGPT as my personal Stackoverflow. Except I get to break all the stackoverflow rules.

This is the sweetest thing about ChatGPT.

With Stack Overflow, if I ever have the misfortune of needing to ask a question, I feel like I'm a contractor with some seriously constraining contractual obligations. I feel like I'm serving them rather than them serving me. I have to perform an exotic dance through a field of eggshells just to get what I'm after.

With ChatGPT, I feel the opposite. I feel like it's really serving me. It's so refreshing to just be able to ask any kind of question, any follow-up questions, no strings attached.

Even beyond Stack Overflow, with forums and message boards in general, I no longer have to deal with moderators locking my post, users reprimanding me for not using their atrocious search feature, no whining or rhetorical judgements "why would you even want to do this, you stupid idiot?"

That said, the effectiveness of ChatGPT wouldn't be what it is without Stack Overflow question martyrs and their answerers.
Probably almost all of it, except large projects with lots of paid devs, like Linux or RedHat.
At this point it makes the language/platform a complete non-starter for me. var_dump or echo or print is just not proper debugging. Especially once you level up your debugger skills and utilize more of the functionality rather than just setting basic breakpoints.
They cave every time.
> Your take is very dismissive and does not align with my experience.

It's not "dismissive" to tell you that I think you're wrong. I'm trying to explain something that you clearly haven't experienced yet. There's no way to do that without actually saying that you haven't experienced it.

I understand why you believe what you do. I believed the same things, but I was wrong.
I hope that they keep going; Hannity, Ingraham, Bartiromo and Pirro should all be sweating right now.
I'm not sure I see your point. Nix is cross-platform, emacs is cross-platform, and make is cross-platform. With the exception of Nix, make and emacs have been in use by many, many shops for decades. It just doesn't get talked about much because they're long past being considered fun and sexy.
“The new threat-hunting platform fuses its existing machine learning algorithms with a large language model that has humanlike conversational capabilities similar to OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT. It allows security professionals to ask complex questions and run operational commands in natural language, so they can get the insights they need to spot attacks faster.

“For instance, SentinelOne said teams can ask the tool to identify any users who are logged into more than 20 endpoints, or any machines running a program called nordvpn, which could indicate an attack in progress. Alternatively, they could ask to see a list of company devices communicating with China. Depending on the organization, that could be a red flag that would warrant further investigation.”
"In my day we only had zeros. We had to pound half of then into ones manually."
What GP means is statutory law versus contracts.

> And on the 'buy' point - Do you think you can buy a haircut, or buy a pedicure?

Those are services, not products.
The problem is people take this perfectly legitimate bit of reasoning and apply it to the point the site ends up like your average British local news website; there's a good reason nobody bothers with local news in the internet era and not because it's unimportant it's partially because most of the sites are literally unusable. Not even in a 'I find the tendency of capitalism to turn everything into a glorified billboard depressing' sense that's a common opinion online, I mean that in a 'I've closed three nag boxes and I still can't see the content I came to read' sense.
Cougars and wolves will generally leave people alone, but will be very interested in your pets. Wolves may try to lure dogs out of the yard, but kill them as competition, while cougars may take an unleashed dog on a bush walk.

We have both where I live, but I don't usually worry too much about off-leash trail walks during the day. Night time though, I just do leashed up road walks.
>> I've always been hearing that solar flares and the resulting geomagnetic storms pose danger to hard drives and electronics. Is there any truth to it?

> Bit flips from cosmic rays.

I don't think that's it. IIRC, if a geomagnetic storm/coronal mass ejection is big enough, it can cause certain effects that are similar to an EMP. What the OP is talking about sounds like a distorted version of that danger: a nuclear EMP could directly fry microelectronics, a solar storm is a kind of EMP (solar EMP), but is missing most of the effects that could directly damage microelectronics, and many people conflate the two.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse#Types
You could add Dassault Systèmes, Schneider, Safran, Thalès, Dassault Aviation (best fighter plane in the world, sorry Lockheed Martin...), etc...
Segmentation.
I can't find the tweet, but I wrote a while ago that this is a convenient place to segment your userbase. Lots of times, folks using a tool for a hobby project or skunkworks won't care about SSO. But businesses on the up and up definitely do.

Therefore, if you are selling a tool, SSO is a good thing to charge for. Won't discourage hobbyists from kicking tires, but does let folks who value it pay for it.
It’s fascinating, as well as disheartening, watching the massive pushback to labor advances in real-time by corporate owned news media and by their helpers on social media. The layoffs seem to be a catalyst to claw back power, even if it is a side effect and not the sole reason for occuring.
> Propaganda piece from economists

Weird, propaganda doesn't tend to come from economists in my mental model. To be fair, the one economist I've seen seriously looking into this is Nick Bloom, whose research on the descriptive statistics side of things shows WFH Hybrid is here to stay.

There are some commercial real estate folks predicting a cratering of comm RE values if WFH is continued, but I'd argue that's just capitalist creative destruction at its best.
Why even bother then? If your code shares the same database then it’s a single service. Anything else is just unnecessary overhead.
Trojan Source: Invisible Vulnerabilities [pdf]
What an absolute mess. In the meantime I'm glad to have seen alternatives like yasb[1] popping up.

[1]: https://github.com/denBot/yasb
Most mid-level and senior people have not learned the skills to mentor while working remotely. It's just tougher to have off-the-cuff conversations. With fewer of those opportunities, that means what could've been a 5 minute conversation and resolution to a technical issue becomes a full day for a junior engineer, and they have fewer opportunities to ask seniors since they're worried about being a bother. I'm not trying to force people back into offices, I'd rather adapt, but I think anyone new to the industry is at a disadvantage in the interim.
Novo Nordisk must be a huge fan of the food pyramid. A company riding the wave of humans eating themselves to death.

The world is an amazing place!
I've never heard of a "smart cane", I'm curious why its a dumb idea?
This response feels… oddly passive aggressive to me. Idk if that was intentional? Like, I listed a few things and I just wanted to know what you wanted a link to. The answer is still “it depends” on what you’re trying to unpack.

SHAP is a great tool for unpacking deep nets on image recognition. Show which pixels mattered and which did not. Very cool.

Various dimension reduction or attention tracking or whatever exists for unpacking generate text and what not.

If you want to understand the nuance of a particular output you’re best off looking at the distribution of next tokens and their pre-temperature weighted sampling.

Different questions require different tools. Why did the model choose that phrasing? Why did the model choose this answer instead of that answer? What made the model make a certain claim?

A lot of it will be driven by the context assuming that the model works. So if you ask “Is X good or bad and why” the majority of text will be on the “why”, but the generation of that text will be contingent on the initial tokens that determined if it should say “good or bad” first. The model does not come up with a reasoning for its assertions, it comes up with an assertion and then creates a reasoning to defend it (in this question format at least). So perhaps that is all you care about?

Anyway, it depends on the question.
Grading with ChatGPT
The question was less about whether or not SmartMatic and Dominion's case was true, as whether it would damage Tucker Carlson's or other host's reputation and brand. I don't think that the legal case is going to damage their reputation with their fans one ounce.

And this isn't necessary some "right wing delusion" either, both sides protect their own. Blackface didn't end Trudeau's career. French Laundry hasn't ended Newsom.
I've used Nix at my last 5 jobs. It's how I learned it (mostly as a build tool and package manager). I also started to use NixOS for my desktops after using NixOS for server config at a few of those companies.

emacs isn't hipster imo. Maybe some people treat it as such? But I learned it in university when I was learning to code in C and Scheme and never looked back. It's always been the boring choice.

I'd say they are very practical choices for a specific type of person who likes principled software and hacking.

I don't blog about either of them though :)
Nix is not a "required skill" by any means, but it fixes a very annoying problem that you may-or-may-not face related to dependency conflicts. NixOS also has atomic updates.

I think calling it hipster is a bit odd. Its not like I would say Java is a bad tool because I don't use it for embedded stuff. Java is fantastic for enterprise and even start up contexts.

Similar arguments can be made with emacs. Its a text editor, and you can do a bunch if stuff with it. Vim is also good. Jetbrains is also good. There's a bunch of other good ones. It probably depends on what you're doing. It'd be a more meaningful discussion if you defined a problem space.

I probably would have ignored your post of it wasn't for the TikTok comment. Nix useage is sort of thoughtful-by-design, which is antithetical to TikTok use. Rubbed me the wrong way.
Running low on links alas, but I was somewhat relieved to run into the idea of Terror Management Theory a couple years back, which points out the conflict between safety/self preservation and the sense that life is running out. And explores how we cope. It was nice having some framing, having a perspective for analysis, with which to look at such the realest of real topics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_management_theory
My laptop is a 16:10 screen! I love it.
First, there are the cliches: "face to face meetings are better", "spontaneous collaboration", "out of sight, out of mind".

Then, there is the non-sequitur of people quit when the pandemic hit, it was because remote. Maybe it was a shit company already and remote just made it worse enough, did you control for that?

Last, but no least, what the hell do economists know about human behavior to do a study on how remote work affects it? It would be like me doing a study on ... Well, anything, I'm a college dropout, I'm not qualified to do any scientific research. But I still learned enough to spot a weak argument at best.
> it was often funny to me how little we had to validate the numbers we presented

Yeah, your clients expected you to be the expert, and honestly apply that expertise for their interests. In other words, they expect you to validate those numbers; if they wanted somebody they need to second-guess, they would just take opinions for free from a random web forum.
> But of course, only pervs who want to access porn would do that, right?

Are people actually afraid of some stranger call-center worker silently judging them, but not even saying anything out-loud about it because the call is recorded and they'd be fired if they tried to actually shame you?
Wanted (2010)
Sorry, I meant replay really broadly because I could not come up with a better term in the moment. For example, a password can be leaked in many ways (guessed, by a breach if the website has poor password storage, etc) and be “replayed”, as in the attacker just enters the password themselves. A code does not have that problem because it is temporal.
Renewables: End of a Cycle or End of an Era?
I'm pushing 50 now, but I'd already decided long ago that my ambition in the first half of my life is to accumulate enough wealth that I don't need to offer the second half to someone else to maintain my security.

Being compelled to do something on a boss's behalf sucks, no matter how interesting the work. I have hundreds of possible projects that I want to do, all categorized in priority order. I've done a number of them already, but the progress is glacial simply because the best hours of my days are taken up building someone else's product of dubious benefit to mankind.

I'm in countdown mode, counting the days until I can focus full time on my open source projects.
Most of it isn't repeatable, try it for yourself...
I feel like this is a management problem that needs to be solved. As the context has changed so should management style.
Even then updating the counter is still more work than tracing collectors do, which is nothing almost all the time.

> refcounting doesn't do pauses at all

At the cost of throughput.

BTW, I'm not comparing Java to Rust, just ZGC to Rust's GC. I am well aware that it is not used for most objects.
> I make 200-500 searches per day

That's a lot compared to my modest 20 searches a day on average. So I'd guess you're an outlier, since I do sit within their "30 searches a day" claim. I use Kagi on desktop while working, and on mobile outside of work. I've never hit my 1k searches/mo limit, but was honestly worried I would (and set hard limits to not exceed my limits). I guess I don't search as much as I thought I did. I really like Kagi and think it's well worth the $10/mo.

(I'd really like to hear how you're hitting that search volume, if you're open to share? I can't imagine hitting a search engine that many times a day, so I'm quite curious.)
Cat Park
Why we need more wars.
> Even if the decision to buy was made after too much wine, he's had plenty of time to sober up since then

Well if he has bad habits, like a lot of us do, then its not just a matter of sobering up like it's a one time event.

> But that charisma has gotten seriously dented now.

The guy never had natural charisma in my opinion - a kind of glamour perhaps, from the wealth and achievements. I don't see the comparison with Jobs though, who was a natural salesman - Musk is a terrible public speaker, and should probably let other execs in his companies do the presentations.

Regarding the Stark comparison - IMO it doesn't matter how involved he really was with the engineering, or that he bought tesla etc - isn't it impressive enough that he made stuff happen? Can you nominate a better candidate for that comparison?

I don't mean to be confrontational though, and I respect your points.
100% this.
I've been remote since covid. First job was transitioned and I mentored and onboarded people. It was alot of screen sharing, and messaging back and forth. This was no different (but better) then onsite where they would cram into my cube and try to take notes. Remote made this 100% better.
Next company, I was the new guy and there were issues getting up to speed. Nobody really owned the onboarding process and this "remote first" environment had alot of technical debt and poor documentation.

Now I'm at another remote first company, and it's great. I know who to ask and I get answers real-time or asynchronous, depending on what needs to happen. People are responsive and regular meetings keep us on the same page.
Documentation is stressed and kept up to date.
Grimes: Happy to Make $ on AI Deepfakes
It’s not enabled by default, but under Optional Features you can also install an OpenSSH client, making tools like putty no longer necessary
Put a lid on. Continuously take pictures. Look for deltas in the pixel values
It's been on a lot of mine. Typically at the beginning of the year when we set goals, I may have a goal to "learn more about X." Then at mid year/end of year review, I can say I read these books, took this online course, or attended a conference on X.

It just checks off that you did what you said you planned to do.
That was a wild and complicated read, please consider using paragraphs and better structure next time.

Doctolib have been massive since well before the current government came into power, so what the hell are you blaming them for? The contract for Covid vaccine appointments? If that's the first time you heard of them, you're not representative of the French population at large. And yes, it absolutely made sense to give a contract to a company that can deliver now (with hiccups at the beginning) instead of wasting time on developing something from scratch.

Yes, many doctors don't have assistants nowadays, which makes the experience better for 90%+ of the population and saves on admin costs. The UX of a few clicks in an app (where you can differentiate doctors of course) is much better than calling, waiting for someone to pick up, and then negotiating dates while they're pressed. Also, doctors' offices (where there are a few doctors sharing space) usually still have assistants, as do clinics and the like, so for those that can't use an app there are still alternatives.

As for the public IT systems, you have got to be kidding. I came to France in 2012, and I can tell you that in the last 10 years there have been massive improvements in public IT. Most of it is actually good and usable - France Connect, ANTS, Impots, Ameli, etc. are a breeze. You can schedule appointments, do administrative stuff (like order new documents, submit tax info) quite easily and accessibly.

Urssaf's website for autoentrepreneurs could be better though.

Ah, the good old "the current government is destroying public services". Which services, exactly? Ameli's budget has been steadily increasing every year under the current government, since well before the pandemic. With less than what they ask for, but still increasing.
Well, I'm not a mathematician, but I will hazard that since we have a global population of somewhere around 8 billion we can ask ChatGPT (the cheap one to draw up an estimate for us). Sadly it doesn't wanna be more specific, however I am willing to entertain the number could reach millions. Just the impact on air traffic would be catastrophic, nevermind whatever happens to all the satellites that didn't exist for the last one.

```It's difficult to give an accurate estimate of the number of lives that could be lost in the event of a global-scale transformer destruction due to a Carrington-level solar storm, as there are many variables that could affect the outcome. However, I can provide some information that may be helpful in making an estimate.

A report by the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) suggests that a large-scale transformer failure due to a geomagnetic disturbance (GMD) could result in widespread and prolonged power outages, affecting multiple states or even the entire country. The report estimates that the total economic impact of such an event in the United States could range from $1 trillion to $2 trillion, and that recovery could take years.

If we assume that the impact of a GMD-induced transformer failure would be proportionate to the global population, then it's reasonable to assume that the number of lives lost could be in the hundreds of thousands or even millions. This is because prolonged power outages could lead to a wide range of consequences, including shortages of food and water, breakdowns in transportation systems, and disruptions to medical care.

However, it's important to note that the actual number of lives lost would depend on many factors, including the severity and duration of the power outages, the availability of resources and emergency services, and the ability of individuals and governments to respond effectively to the crisis.```
It’s a bit bad practice to assume all research that promotes an opinion you agree with is truth, but anything against what you like must be propaganda.
It feels like it's doing cold reading
Your explanation is not much more than "trust me, I'm right". That is quite dismissive. Maybe you if you were in person you could give him examples or a better explanation of why he's wrong. /s
Twitter Birdwatch (Community Notes) Paper [pdf]
I work remotely and am a big proponent of remote work but onboarding is definitely a huge challenge. Getting young people up to speed is doable if you are using a lot of standard frameworks about which you can find information about on the internet. But it gets really if you need very specialized hardware and software and also use processes that are required by regulation. I work 8n medical devices and I have noticed a lot of our offshore don’t really understand things even after years. It’s probably solvable but you need management that understands this and puts resources into onboarding processes.
I’m not sure it’s as ridiculous as you seem to say. Apple is the worlds most valuable company, and it is not an advertising company but a pretty straight up technology company. Google is certainly advertising, but the science, math, and technology that go into their product is amazing - and the advertising but subsidizes all its research. Amazon isn’t an advertiser, while it’s a retail and logistics platform, it’s mostly planet scale technology infrastructure company. Then you’ve got Boeing, Tesla, etc.

That the EU doesn’t have a meaningful (in terms of revenue production) technology or engineering industry and the top company is a company that makes money by stamping logos on handbags should be concerning and not dismissed. I wish Europe had more innovation, we would all benefit from more people and more companies innovating.
>Where do they find the time to play like this?

For me it started in university when I had more unstructured time and continued post graduation because I found it more interesting than most TV, video games etc.

Feels surreal to see “normies REEEE” type sentiment applied to old-software hackers on a hacker forum :P
The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped
Same boat here. Care to share what switch you ended up landing on? I'm still searching… :'(
> Isn’t it sad that USA’s most valuable companies are advertising agencies?

really???

Apple is not an advertising company.

Amazon is primarily AWS, The retail division does have advertising but its not its primary business although it is growing.

Microsoft has Bing but its by no means anywhere close to having revenue close to its other products.

Google is the only company that is advertising focused.