skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Bribed" is a crude way to describe it, but in a manner of speaking, yes?

I think you might be a tad idealistic, and you might think I'm being a tad cynical. Maybe the truth is in the middle somewhere.

But throwing enough money at someone can talk. And not throwing enough money at someone can also talk. Short of being asked to do something unethical or illegal, what's wrong with that?

Can you honestly say all of the talented top engineers out there working for top paying companies are doing it for the pursuit of technological perfection, and aren't doing it at least partially for the good money?

I would say the same thing about doctors - people all love to say you should not get into medicine for money, but can we honestly say money isn't at least a factor in whether someone decides to pursue a MD?
It may be that the game has already changed and people are just starting to figure out the new rules. Im looking forward to continuing to slap my forehead in these "wish i had seen that low-hanging fruit" moments.

Suddenly being able to largely automate so many formerly human-only tasks using plain language instructions makes me feel like the nature of the computing experience itself may be evolving profoundly. It has been said that technological progress generally shifts people from being tool users to tool managers, and these language models certainly fit that trend.
There is a chapter on Finnish army field manual how to avoid detection from infrared cameras. Page 111 forward.

https://puolustusvoimat.fi/documents/1948673/2258487/PEVIEST...

For larger targets, like vehicles and camping sites, you can also set up dummies. E.g. empty heated tents, black trash bags and such that may lit up as targets and misguide the fire.
This is where I’m at too.

At least as far as I understand it today (leaving this comment in the hope that folks can help me expand my understanding)

Life on earth is not stable. We are in the final death throes of this planet. Roughly 75% of life on earth is behind us. Life has been here for 4Bn years and we have about 500m left[1] until our carbon cycles grind to a halt due to the earth moving outside of the habitable zone and all life on earth starts it’s final, and ultimate, extinction event.

This pending extinction event is not human made. It was coming regardless of whether humans evolved on this planet.

From everything I can tell, there is no making it through, let alone coming back from, this impending extinction event without “technology” that decouples life from the carbon cycles on this planet.

In 4.2bn years life on this planet has printed exactly one golden ticket for escaping that fate: humans.

We’ve done some bad things along the way to industrialization processes that can produce the technology necessary to get life off this rock - and to artificially sustain life on this rock as it becomes unsuitable for life.

But I’m not confident that the bad stuff we have done is sufficient to condemn our species and disqualify us as a suitable steward for this planet. Primarily because there is no alternative, there is no species in “second place” that I’d trust to evolve a civilization capable of getting life off this planet in the time we have left.

The eco-movements (outside of whole earth) have lost me. The calls for an immediate suspension of industrial processes, or the sentiment that life on earth would be better off if humans didn’t evolve to be what we are today, seems misplaced.

Without humans, and without our recent attempts to escape this planet, all life on earth is doomed to complete extinction.

It seems like we are in a critical several hundred year window where humans need to appreciate both that we are accelerating the end of the Holocene, a climate that was critical for the development of our civilizations, and do our best to slow that process already under way.

At the same time, we need to maintain the civilization that’s setting life on earth on an escape trajectory.

If we toss the baby with the bathwater we doom all life on earth to guaranteed extinction.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
I am guessing people who think AI is such an existential threat will try to kill it. It would be irrational not to
If it was so rare, then there would have been no need for the plethora of software made to get rid of malware like CCleaner and malwarebytes and ninite.com and so many others.
Forget stew? I understand the motivations for being anti-meat, even if I don't agree with them, but anti-stew? Stew is great, even vegetables stews. How can you be anti-stew?
I've found they always ended up in this weird "quality" gray area.

They sell a bunch of mid-tier items that don't really offer any actual quality or value over low-tier items. For items I really care about, I can spend a bit more and get an actual, high quality item.
Who told you to kill a process on a port without first understanding what process is using that port?
it's always possible to improve public transport, and it could happen fast if people would get their priorities straight; more options are car sharing and concentrating on more dense areas with walkable and cyclable infrastructure (keyword 15 minute cities).

something to watch instead of read: NotJustBikes
A Massive Cavern beneath the Antarctic is teeming with Life
>hey just went with somebody better

Yeaaaaah, that's not how any of this works. I've done 100+ interviews for MegaCorp. Who ultimately gets hired is ultimately a dice roll no matter how "data driven" we call it. Did you get a good loop? Was one of your interviewers in a bad mood? Did you end up with a hiring manager who "used to code" and now measures everyone against whether or not they use out dated OOP techniques everywhere? Ah crap, did you get Gary? That guy sucks so much. He asks "hard" questions to make himself feel good.

The sausage is what you'd expect if you remember one key thing: it's humans on the other side of the desk. They're finicky and arbitrary ceatures.
Can somebody recommend a simple app to do the following: keep a list of tasks and estimations of time required to complete them. When I insert an item between existing tasks, all the dates of subsequent tasks should be automatically updated. That is really all I need, but so far I have not find to right tool for this.
Arizona Premium Mattress. It’s basically, build your own mattress. Only down side, they are slooooooooow
No, it's not an echo of the Cold War. It's just another form of peer review and change management. Which some people are actually in favor of.

But if one is ideologically committed to seeing peer rerview as adversarial ... then that's the kind of viewpoint what one is committed to, I guess.
You don't need a third-party library to derive a pretty-printer for your types, it just makes it simpler. OCaml takes the approach that the core compiler doesn't do any codegen, that is left to PPXs (basically, middlewares which transform code) which run before the compiler.

You can write a pretty-printer yourself using the conventions of the `Format` module. Is it manual and annoying? Yeah. That's why the PPX exists. It's a tradeoff.
So, let's cut down the pedantry a bit. Even in the most pessimal reasonable orbits, up to an hour of outage in the middle of the night for 3-4 months per year is a very different beast from getting just several hours of sun per day.

Why?

- You still get better duty cycle from the panels

- The time the power is missing is very small

- The need for storage, etc, is low because it's a short period of relatively low demand that is missing.
Show HN: A teeny tiny LED traffic signal
For no particular reason, just for fun.

Source here: https://github.com/kfarr/cosmic-unicorn-playground/blob/main...

Uses the awesome Pimoroni Cosmic Unicorn https://shop.pimoroni.com/en-us/products/cosmic-unicorn
It is amazing, otherwise it would just be normal
Somewhat, but I think people vastly over-estimate their ability.

A common example is if there's any accumulation/reduction, compilers will almost entirely fail to generate SIMD unless you use -funsafe-math-optimizations type flags, because of non-associativity of floating point. Sum of squares is the classic example (not saying that specific operation is used in NN).

Explicit vectorization (e.g., using intrinsics) is almost always a relatively simple way to get orders of magnitude speedup compared to auto-vectorization, because of the above. Also because data layouts usually need to change as well (AoS vs SoA, etc.), though NN people seem to write decent data layouts.

I don't have any experience with `#pragma omp` type approaches which may be a middle ground.
Ikea is a good option in this market. And generally for household basics.
Well, in theory it could have. And likewise, it sure seemed to lessen the impact of the entire unvaccinated population (aka, the entire population) getting really sick all at once. Even as it was, hospitals were screwed and millions died. Quarantines and lockdowns were imperfect, as were the results.

Something about the relationship between the perfect and the good.
Money used to be fully decentralized and private before it was digital and controlled by banking systems. I see it as just a return to that norm.
Profit = revenue minus expenses.

I do not know what your point is, but business owners do not pay employees, even managers, more than they have to.
There are going to be a lot of "stranded assets" on a dead planet.
To be clear: you’re saying we shouldn’t believe any science at all because a snap reaction to an emerging pandemic turned out to be excessive?
Because methods to reduce our wasteful consumption, reliance on continuous growth and on the evidently harmful burning of fossil fuel aren't "hard sacrifices".

They are progress. Necessary progress.
I don’t really. If it didn’t work the way it did I guess most of my employers would have crumpled up my resume and thrown it in the garbage for not having the right credentials on it but because it is a level playing field for everyone I got some exciting opportunities.
As well as privacy, cheaper and more scalable for a web service to use a user's resources than server side jumps out at me.
ChatGPT _can't_ read a 4000 page bill in 3 days. It can't even read a 10 page not-very dense technical document without hallucinating wildly in its summary in my experience with ChatGPT4.
I don't have a singular, one-size-fits-all better option, but I explicitly included several options that I've seen work well either as the applicant or from the hiring side. I just wasn't going to presume that there's one perfect replacement that will work for every team or role.
And where are those being built? Overwhelmingly in Asia and Africa
As long as you use Jira and Confluence to track what you are doing and make handy reference notes, they work super good.

About showing burn down chats: usually they are shown a few times in early stages of the project, but don't get any attention anymore once they start showing unwanted or erratic results.

Also story points estimations/tracking (as opposed to time in real world units) : never saw it work in practice.

Whoever says software/hardware project time schedules are 'under control' or 'predictable' is probably joking.
> It's entirely ridiculous, for example, that a 1957 film like the Seventh Seal isn't yet in the public domain.

That's way too generous. It's ridiculous that films made before 2010 aren't in the public domain. We're all going to be long dead before this stuff enters the public domain. Our culture should belong to us, not a bunch of corporations. If they want to keep making money, they should have to make new stuff instead of endless remakes of past successful IPs.
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And what, you want them to do zoom calls and fly economy, or horror (gags profusely) , take the train like some common peasant ?

The audacity !
Nice flex but what about every other person that is not a sysadmin?
A lot of our conceptions of various historical events are based on artistic interpretations and maybe this will happen at a larger scale. I.e what do you think Washington crossing the Delaware or the Last Supper looked like?
I am a complete and absolute cynic on climate policies and outcomes, but battery technology is still having ridiculous breakthroughs day by day.

Ultimately if the base price of a vehicle increases the financial instruments to make them affordable in the face of regulatory disincentives for ICEs will appear.
So what do you propose? Picking names out of a hat?
Sometimes someone is passed by the interviewer, which is not the same thing as passing the interview. That is, they just pick someone, who may or may not be the best candidate.
Very different books, but both are good!
Nothing was sabotaged there. Custom key themes were removed because the whole concept of them was broken. The only one anyone ever seemed to use was the Emacs theme and that just broke apps because they didn't handle the case when an Emacs binding conflicted with the app's own keys. It would get even worse if you had your own custom key theme, there's nothing reasonable an app can do when you add a bunch of key binds that break its keys.

On Linux, WxWidgets is just a wrapper around GTK or Qt, so it would still inherit all the problems of those toolkits.
Consider the Foam Factory. We've bought a mattress and separately a foam topper from them and they've been great. You can tell they're legit because their products are listed in tables and because the styling on the website is completely out of fashion.

https://www.thefoamfactory.com/mattress/memorymattress.html
"Trusting the summary is another story." What story could we possibly be interested in that involves having chat GPT read a bill but we don't care about a summary of it being accurate?
one thing to consider is the person who needs to run explain analyze may not have any access whatsoever to the production database. Also, there may be no process in place to get someone to run it on prod on their behalf. Finally, if there is a DBA on production they may just say no.
Everything you ever wanted to know about Self-Supervised Learning
Related, a matrix with playable audio of all the vowels:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA_vowel_chart_with_audio
Mostly the former. The compiler infers the type of the implementation and ensures it conforms to the interface. But, you can further restrict the interface's type to hide details from the outside world.
> only done over the web for the convenience of not having to download and run it natively

Isn't that the entire point of web apps for a lot of people, both users and developers? I'm still planning on implementing a web backend for AccessKit sometime in the next year, to make this type of application ported to the web as accessible as the strongly canvas-based approach will allow.
I suspect the bottom paid tier of society such as seasonal workers on the farms picking fruits and vegetables, workers in meat processing facilities, drivers, and lots of others in the bottom 20% to 40% of society are getting higher pay. Not that it means their lives are now sunshine and roses, but a lot of our "cheap" goods were based on a lot of people being paid relatively very little.
They're still 5x more expensive than Alibaba. Which is where most mail order mattresses come from. Making a mattress costs under $100.
Carbon sequestration is trivial: we rewild destroyed ecosystems. We don't need to die waiting for Elon.

I await my downvotes.
Also, slaughtering as a process never was an issue for people. My grandma slaughtered chicken in her back yard.
You just listed off a bunch of ideas. A lot of thought and argument went into the current arrangement and you’re just giving us a brainstorm.
There's a wired dichotomy that I found with IKEA furniture, most of their furniture is cheaply made and won't stand the test of time, but some of their stuff just seems to be bulletproof and indestructible. Right now I'm sitting on an Markus chair that my parents bought for me in the 7th grade (I was 13 at the time), now I'm 29 and the chair is still kicking along showing no signs of giving up.
By the quote you posted, I was trying to imply that I'm speaking outside of any particular framework of law, but rather of ethics. Perhaps I shouldn't have chosen the term used in law, but I didn't know what other term to choose.

Law comes from ethics, anyway. It's an imperfect reflection of the ideal of justice, and in this case, it is my personal opinion that what Amazon did should be considered gross negligence manslaughter.

In any case, they literally killed people.
Even though I think it'd be a bad idea for users of the language to rely on gcc to compile their Rust code, what I'm replying to is the idea that having one compiler for all the languages used in a project is a good idea in the first place.

I don't think you should expect or want that.
Hah, I'm not anti-stew. It's a conception you run into a lot, that healthy vegetarian food is a brown stew of chickpeas. I threw that in there for the skeptical.
I think the point is there’s a lot hypocrisy of elitists telling us to reduce our emissions while they’re flying on private jets.
I completely agree with you, but I think the issue with something like this is the sheer volume of lobbying power that companies like Nintendo and Disney have to stop it.
I greatly preferred JC Penny Home Store as it had better prices than BBB but better selection than general stores like Target/Walmart (and I often liked the bedding/curtain patterns they carried better). Unfortunately their financial troubles caused them to consolidate the Home Store into their main stores, and the selection is now no better than those later options, and I've thus been going to BBB more often.

I hope this is a restructuring and not a shutdown. It will be crummy for there to be no stores filling the gap between Target and William Sonoma.
Those are the definition of luxury beliefs.
It's probably stolen but I see it a lot from influencers and all over tiktok.
made a tiny app to link notes in apple notes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35698521.

mostly use it myself
Your enemies want you to think eternal outrage is unhealthy. That's how they eventually win; They can play this game longer than you're willing to play it.
Thank you. That's helpful to know! :-)
We need a “!RemindMe 10 years” feature like they have on Reddit.
How was the SaaS product pirated? I've always used that to refer to a delivery model where the software is centrally hosted. Was it that people were sharing their logins?
"Critics of coercive measures targeting private planes point out that a ban would only reduce carbon emissions by 0.2%, based on study of the direct cost of private jets alone."

https://flybitlux.com/what-is-the-carbon-footprint-of-a-priv...

Just admit you're not really intending to "do your part" at all. You just intend to whataboutism everyone else for the forseeable future.
But… if the animal is treated well during its lifetime, and slaughtered humanely (as painlessly as possible), almost everybody isn’t going to have a problem with it. You are then getting into religious beliefs which most are not going to agree with.

Admittedly a lot of current practices are pretty horrible.
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I still feel like interviews are entirely weird for everyone involved. It's not a real reflection of somebody's performance. Perhaps some people cannot work well with someone watching them think. I'm one of those people. I get a lot done at my job, but I need time to mull things over and sit with things in order to come to something that makes sense. Interviews only reward 1 of 2 things: people that are fast, efficient thinkers (this is good) and people that have very good social skills and can convince you of something they are not.

People who cannot perform socially or technically on the spot in a completely unnatural setup are sort of left in the dust. I'm not sure i have a solution other than throwing out technical interviews and actually trusting peoples prior work. I have work in the public (published academic papers, patents) but none of that seems to mean anything in an interview lol. Its only about can you perform right here right now for 1-4 hours.

I've said it on other threads. (1) trust peoples past employment, use background checks or something to make sure they actually worked where they said they have worked (2) look at their body of public work if they have any (3) just hire the people that look good off those two metrics and youll probably end up with a good employe 90% of the time and save countless hours and dollars. I'm almost convinced random choice + team vetting of resumes + a little background check would be just as effective as endless technical interviews.
We have a solution to this problem, it's build more nuclear plants and electrify everything with nuclear and renewables.

Unfortunately, we are shutting these plants down instead of building more of them.
Dumb question but what about mirrors? Couldn’t we redirect sunlight to a fixed point on earth that has solar panels?
We are already at 1.2° C. This is despite the fact that the El Niño index is negative. There is over 50% chance that we will experience a year in the next five years where the average temperature is > 1.5° C above the pre-industrial average.

This is dire. I think we need to admit defeat, and declare a climate failure. Our goal going forward should be to do everything that keeps the temperature as possible. So far the goal of 1.5° C seems like it is taking us to 3-4° C by the end of the century, 3-4° C is basically an end of the world scenario.
Eh, frankly, I think that does a disservice to the people buying the stock.

Were a bunch of people buying into the meme stock hype? Sure.

Does that make them financially illiterate?

Well, the folks who bought Hertz sure look pretty damn smart in hindsight even though at the time they were being described in similar ways, so... who's to say if they are illiterate or just have a different view of value and risk?
Somewhat misleading then?
>Imagine if you bought a car from somebody, and they secretly kept a spare key and periodically used your car to run their personal errand.

It's worse than that. It's like you bought a house from somebody and they secretly left cameras all over the living room, bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen so they can get 'telemetry' ostensibly to improve the next house they build, for 'safety' in case there's an accident, and to 'protect the children'.

I think people are so overwhelmed and anxious that there's no space for fighting back against this kind of over-reach. And even if you did have the time and space and energy, how would you even go about it?
> Who believes in that anymore?

Plenty of people in countries with functioning public services and social safety nets.

> Merchants refusing taxes are just as legit as those who chose to pay taxes

As a point of pedantry, they’re in fact illegitimate in the literal sense. (I don’t intend this point as serious argument, just thought your phrasing was bit funny in the context)

> Many merchants just want to skip the fees

I completely agree with you here, it can make sense for a small business to prefer cash for that reason (and it’s equally okay for a customer to choose whether to do business with them).