skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
but is it much different that descendants living off the interest and dividends of some large sum of money that their great-great grandparents accumulated a few hundred years ago?

To me it is pretty much the same thing - not a fan of nepo-kids living off of trust funds they didn't earn - but if you are going to fix one problem, you should try to fix all of the almost identical ones at the same time and not get upset that disney is still making money off of something they created 100 years ago, and not be upset about kennedy's, rockefellers, and the like still living of the money their great-greats generated a hundred years ago.
I do agree that the default Mastodon web client should display a static page when the user has JavaScript disabled in their browser.

The issue is being tracked here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19953
You'll still find that the gtk file managers choke hard when you have hundreds of thousands of files in one directory (such as screenshots), taking minutes to load or even hanging and crashing. Both pcmanfm-qt and dolphin handle them fine and load within 30 seconds. I last tested this a year or two ago and every gtk file manager was roughly equally bad. Made me switch from pcmanfm to pcmanfm-qt (I didn't like dolphin as much).
The other recent research that's been interesting to watch has been in logic programming (Prolog and Datalog), where there's been a lot of papers extending Datalog with semilattice types that are more efficient for computing dataflow-type queries (and even getting lattice types added to Souffle recently), including papers like datafun[0] extending it to sound incremental queries for more efficient execution - and there's even a paper by the Egg authors using it for efficient eclass-based Datalog queries using lattices[1]. It also seems like there has been more work recently in actually integrating logic programming in existing languages and programs, like ascent[2], instead of it being off in it's own world like it seems has historically been the case.

0: http://www.rntz.net/files/seminaive-datafun.pdf

1: https://www.mwillsey.com/papers/egglog

2: https://s-arash.github.io/ascent/cc22main-p95-seamless-deduc...
Optimizing Scan Tests for Complex ICs
I dislike cheating. I've taken ~50 interviews and in 90% of them cheated:

a) I could hear their keyboard clacking when they googled the answer

b) they'd stall with "umm" and "ooo" while their friend googles the answer and shows it to them

c) (the best one) they'd memorize everything from leetcode style solutions and definitions to mathematics MCQs.

In my country, you're the odd one out if you have an exam or an interview and you don't prepare for cheating. It's a cultural expectation among peers to cheat to get ahead.

To work around this, I follow the advice I've read here on HN:

1) Ask them about their programming experience. Bugs they ran into, solutions they thought of, implementation of those solutions etc.

2) take a problem I faced in my work and present it to them and observe how they navigate the problem to reach a solution. They don't have to solve it, I just see their approach

3) just talk to them while asking basic language syntax and definitions. Again, the goal here is to check if they've memorized the answers or are they speaking from experience. If the answer is a regurgitation of some interview prep website, probe deeper to see if they know what they're saying.

The downside of this approach is, of course, time. It takes 40 minutes to an hour for each of these interviews. Time that sometimes I don't have and I have to move some stuff around to accommodate, work late to cover up or delegate. This approach has worked for me so far. I've hired 5 people in my team and all of them have been good hires.

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> I think the same is true for most people.

Sure, the same is true for me. But that's also a need that can be filled without working for someone.
https://tenor.com/view/two-spiderman-pointing-meme-gif-11796...
5-10 years ago I’d agree they were very good. My suspicion is that the base spam filter is not very good but it trains on your email history and becomes better. So my “newer” gmail accounts have very poor filtering.

Like I get all caps subject lines with spammy content that my grandmother would recognize as spam, but it blocks some personally written emails from other gmail accounts.
You can try an appeal that the network did not have adequate coverage in the area in which your son was injured in which case they would treat it as were in network, or see if it might have been covered under their emergency room benefit instead of as out of network.
> are they just trying to look greener

Absolutely not! They’re also trying to look cutting edge.
> you can only compare performance across a cohort

I can't accept this premise. Optimally the persons responsible for managing engineering staff should be able to independently determine whether the work being produced was of sufficient quality or not regardless of the cohort.

At issue here, I believe is that this is a difficult thing to cultivate consistently in many corporations and so there's some desire to create standardized metrics for performance against which a cohort is measured. Regardless, most large tech firms have some kind of well defined rubric against which the engineers are measured.
Whoa, are you saying I can tell Jinja to use some other combination of tag markers instead of {% %} and {{ }}? I had no idea you could do that. Where were you four years ago?!

Seriously though, thanks. That sounds like a much better option. Wasn't totally clear how to do it from the link you sent but will look closer into it.
That's fair, but your use case is far from any average users out there, and probably would scare most users away from Android entirely.
You don't get that feeling around solving complex logic puzzles in your brain. You do get to copy and paste
The good news is that those copy/pasters are probably going to be copy/pasting higher quality code if they’re using GPT4.
> I think you don't realize how it's a dog eat dog world out there and people will do anything to succeed.

The grifters and cheaters of our world are an opportunity cost. Who knows how much more productive or fair the world would be if we didn't tolerate them? By allowing them to succeed, we deny a world where they wouldn't need to exist.
Let me clarify the point. I don’t have an issue with the severance for staff I’ve had to let go for as layoffs due to economic conditions of the company. I’ve made those severance payments without issue.

My issue is more with letting go of people for performance reasons. Hiring someone for 2 months and finding out they are under performing still requires the severance pay. You can fight this with the labor board but the standard is high when letting go because of performance.

It’s a paradigm shift for most US based companies where letting someone go for performance reasons can come at a low cost.

It also means, in the context of this thread, that Mexico is at a competitive disadvantage to other south and Central American countries with more lax labor laws.
“What is the point of learning pixel art anymore in the generation of AI?”
Thanks for the response! It sounds like (in a good way) there's no shortcut. You build something, make it better, make it great, and talk about it for a long time to establish credibility.

Probably a good lesson in there for everyone.
No, I’d say you’re completely wrong on that part. Hitler/ Stalin/ Mao is a very bad example of institutions clinging to power through pure force. Each of those examples, had grand visions of what was right and why they were justified to completely take over the government. I would even venture that in each of those cases there was broad popular support at the start which led to the complete overthrow of the government.

An incident where power was taken to rule a country just because you could without any great moral basis was probably Pinochet in Chile, not many examples of this case exist.
Thunderf00t, YouTubes own cynic also made a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3VGDCa9fZg

We know we can achieve fusion, but as far as I'm informed we still don't know that we can take more energy out than we put in.
Sounds like someone has been talking to the base model
Pump their pooled capital investments.

Even if they’re not bought into Meta, they know people who are, or are bought into a fund; finance is “the old social meme network”.

TV is their Twitter; anytime something shows up on a CBS morning show it’s the old school form of Musk Tweeting GAMESTONK
Huge. I think 95% was table stakes 30 years ago. IIRC the average rate of a good predictor these days is 99.5%.
Is it not incumbent upon the admin to prove they didn't use the data for analytics? If so, that makes the data default-radioactive where before GDPR it was legally harmless.

And what is "analytics" exactly? If a one-person outfit happens to be skimming the logs and notices "Oh, neat, that's a lot of IP addresses from Germany," did they just do analytics?
Which is stupid. It's everyone's right. One side just understands the importance of it, the other tries their hardest to throw it in the trash.
These DEI programs are like those political offices from USSR. Now every company/college needs to have a DEI team, hire and train those people. You have an entire DEI eco-system of consultants who provide training services etc
Oh my, the current Excel in Office 365 still implements this.
I've noticed a trend with these types of articles.

The story is something like "Running X Business is Expensive", but when I look into it I usually see a couple themes.

- The business is not owner operated

- Key competencies have been outsourced

- Real estate is a cost center (or equity building is just conveniently ignored)

These pieces really just read like medium sophistication bean counters whining that their rent seeking play isn't working out so well.

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If you're not owner operated and you're outsourcing stuff like media servers, I don't really know what to say.

For example Regal has 7,262 screens and theaters supposedly blow $20-70k per screen on media equipment??? That's $150-500Mil that could have easily funded an R&D effort to capture some massive savings (barring some sort of vendor lock in that I'm unaware of).

If you want a cut of business's revenue and all you offer is basically branding and alternative financing, I'm not sure why anyone should feel bad for you.
Have you tried https://www.phind.com ?
It might not matter to you, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist, and choosing to ignore it is a clear signal.
https://archive.is/jhpB1
This is true of even the most public-transit-centered cities like Tokyo and NYC. It's easy to find commutes that are short as the crow flies but cover a much longer distance on public transit.
Anyone know if their machine config can scale to do hydrogen-boron fusion at a later stage?
Agreed, this is basically a case of someone getting fired and escorted from the building, something that happens all the time. If he has a case against the university, he'll get his day in court. He wasn't arrested, he wasn't tried, he certainly wasn't executed. The reference to Kafka comes off as self-indulgent martyrdom.
This is the wrong model imho. Humans can figure out a website. We only tire. An AI system does not. But can do the same thing.

Additionally, any cooperative attempt won't work because humans will attempt to misrepresent themselves.

No successful AI system will listen to someone's self representation because the AI system does not need proxies: it can act by simply acquiring all recorded observed behaviour.
Is HN allowing emoji now? ♟
Ha! Opened this wondering why someone would still be griping about the old Hayes AT modem command set - some 20 to 30 years later! :)
So, assuming this pans out, would this require Helion to deliver the power to Microsoft off grid? I guess my question is 'what regulatory oversight is typically required in these sorts of situations?'
Did log-structured filesystems really take off for mainstream computing? IIRC they suffered from write amplification and required garbage collection.

Journaling did take off in a big way, with NTFS, HFS+, ext3, etc. supporting it. This mostly removed the long fsck on most modern operating systems.

Of course, traditional filesystems + journaling are now rapidly being replaced by CoW filesystems.
> Plus there are no talkers or texters at home.

This is one thing theaters will never be able to compete with home viewing. Catch a matinee on a weekday while kids are in school, and you have a shot at being the only one in a showing, but it's not a reliable experience. I've done this before, I think for one of the avengers movies while I had a few weeks off between jobs and it was a great experience. Choice of seats and no one to spoil the experience.

Other people is the main reason I don't like going to the movies.
If the employer doesn't self insure, then their insurer will raise their rates because their employees have a history of expensive health problems. Which still leads to pressure to get rid of those employees. (Unless the employer based coverage is priced like marketplace plans, where only age, sex, and smoking are available to set prices; but I don't think that's the case for most?)
If they're the best the market has to offer, we ought to start demanding better competitors. Apple is a cardholding PRISM member with proven backdoors in their OS. They're also a noted pushover and were fine instating total iCloud surveillance when China asked nicely.

It's a victory if you want it, but utterly pyrric when both of the options on the "market" are useless for privacy.
Making a conscious choice about differences is fine. The BSDs and Linux share many things, and not other, on the basis of different goals. They're not different for the sake of being different. The vibe I'm getting from the way AT is different is that they're different for the sake of being different.
Water integrator – early analog computer built in the Soviet Union in 1936
Engineers Keep an Eye on Fuel Supply of NASA's Oldest Mars Orbiter
People are anti everything on HN… the question is how much on what.

There are a lot of people that defend the far and few apple negative comments.

The only way to prove this would be by doing some data analysis. Maybe worth it’s own post
The three acquisitions you mentioned all took place many years after the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998. Without the financial benefits conferred by that law (the timing and content of which benefited them more than it did their competitors), they might not have made all of those acquisitions.

A lot of people in this thread seem to be undervaluing those old school Disney characters, yes now Disney is huge and has a much larger portfolio of IP, but in 1998 they were a far bigger percentage of Disney's portfolio than they are now.

You're not wrong that consolidation is a problem. My point is that Congress changed the law in a way that helped Disney and at least partially enabled that consolidation. (In fact, it's fairly rare to come across a monopoly or any heavily entrenched corporation that isn't enabled in some way by government collusion.)

If you shoot someone, take all his money, then build a business with it, you're still a murderer. (Just now you're a rich murderer.)
Making Sense of the Great Barrier Reef’s Mysterious Green Donuts
As the author of the article, I would say it has nothing to do with money. It has to do with your definition of living your life in a more meaningful way. By return I don't mean money, but your energy, time and potential.

Also, I admire the group that optimized OS, but I'm just not used to teamwork. In my previous job, once I had come up with an idea of having a virtual pet, and they thought it was awesome, but when I said that you could define having any content, including a ball of lightning or even a nebula, no one seemed to know what I was talking about.
Electricity is a commodity. How could they possibly have a working product that they can’t sell? Just hook it up to the grid and there you go.
>during the Pokemon GO craze,

and what are people doing now that this fad is over?
> Do you also buy generic servers or PCs that way?

Yes, the vast majority of people don't install a custom OS onto their computers, either. So for the average person, this doesn't matter.

> What you're arguing is that I should be fine with Apple because you can't install another OS.

That wasn't my interpretation of the OP. The fact that it's possible, with a lot of effort, to get a privacy-centric device after the fact means nothing for the general public because they are never going to take those steps. So I think it's still reasonable to define "the market" as whatever the devices ship with.

It's great that we have the ability to install privacy-focused operating systems on some Android devices (I have one), but if I were to suggest this to any of my friends, they would laugh me out of the room. There is far less resistance recommending Apple products.
Does supporting only the mandatory stuff give you acceptable compatibility in the real world, or do too many people rely on things that were supposed to be optional?
For Django specifically, I believe you need to pass in a dotted path to a method that returns a Jinja2 `Environment`. There's an example in the docs: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/topics/templates/#djan...

And you'd set something like `Environment(block_start_string="[%", block_end_string="%]")`
> it was a cultural difference that had to be respected

I strongly disagree with that professor. Dishonesty does not have to be, and absolutely should not be, respected. Even if it is a "cultural difference" [citation required].
For good workers it is better, as it is easier to get hired and you won't have to pick up a bunch of slack for useless colleagues who are impossible to fire. And if you are fired it's easy to find a new job. Hard firing is only good for employees who don't deliver.
Microsoft Word users can now export documents to Amazon Kindle
This is like saying my contractor put in a low quality roof, but it hasn’t collapsed yet.

The problem is while you can’t control randomness, on average those roofs do fail much more.

But more broadly it’s amazing how far developers on HN will go to defend things that will mildly inconvenience developers.
All the big tech companies I’ve spoke with over the past several months were still doing virtual “on site” interview loops.
Spiraling in San Francisco’s Doom
Problem 2 can be solved by "cryptographic erasure" techniques.

1. Encrypt the data with an ephemeral key.

2. Upon delete, just wipe the key. The data becomes unrecoverable.

I'm not sure about problem 1. A fast seekable stream cipher like ChaCha might help here (don't use e.g. RC4 for this), but a faster hash like BLAKE3 might be more appropriate. I'm happy to noodle over this some more. These are just my unfiltered thoughts.

If you combined the two: Each entry in the graph could have a public salt used for key derivation for the actual data. This salt would not be part of the DAG, but stored outside of it. To delete an entry, zero-out the salt and the underlying key becomes unrecoverable, which makes the data unreadable, without needing to change the history of the DAG.
You can find all the code from this article on GitHub [0].

- [0] https://github.com/vmware-labs/webassembly-language-runtimes...
Good to know there's some tolerance for adding primary keys after partitioning something this big. Could you have aborted if it wasn't going to complete within your window?
IDK what you mean by consumer, but I've routinely had desktop computers running 24/7 for several hundred days without noticeable glitches on Linux (BTW I run Arch).
It’s part of Unicode 1.1 and has later been styled as an emoji: https://emojipedia.org/chess-pawn/
This is a personal anecdote about something orthogonal to the article. A few months ago, I wrote an exam to get an AWS certification. Before the test, I had to take the adjudicator on a virtual tour of my exam space. My space was small so I had to do near gymnastics to give the supervisor the sight lines that she needed.

Solutions to this already exist and I find it somewhat heard to believe that a company like Pearson knows so much more than Amazon.

I wonder if this is a situation where companies know there is cheating, perhaps even have ways to identify it but cheating just isn’t treated as a strong enough negative signal in the hiring process to be worth fighting.
@Jeannen I really like the thinking here...But instead of ai.txt - since the intent is not to block, but rather, to inform AI models (or any other presumably automaton) - my reflex is to suggest something more general like readme.txt. But, then i thought, well, since its really more about metadata, as others have stated, there might already be existing standards...Or, at least, common behaviors that could become standardized. For example, someone noted about security.txt, and i know there's the humans.txt approach (see https://humanstxt.org/), and of course there are web manifest files (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Manifest), etc. I wonder if you might want to consider reviewing existing approaches, and maybe augment them or see if any of thjose makese sense (or not)...?
Or they're the "smartest guys in the room!"

/s
ePrivacy Directive says you can’t store that cookie without consent (since it’s not in any way essential).

More generally: analytics mustn’t rely on storing anything on the user’s device for its functionality; that’s why people head in the direction of fingerprinting.
>Like, there was a time where this kind of personality type would just go get an MBA

One nuance that may help explain how the change happened is how the status of CS has changed in the last 20 years. Maybe its just my age bias, but there seems to be a perceptible change of how CS majors are viewed by society and that changes the type of people attracted to that curriculum.

It used to be that CS and engineering majors were the nerds who, as you say, "simply thought making stuff was cool." Nowadays, though, as CS commands a disproportionately large salary, it has higher status. This tends to attract more people who are in it the reasons of status and money, rather than for a fascination with the work. Anecdotally, when I ask people why they got into CS a surprising number now say something along the lines of "because it pays well."

It's my opinion that change in perspective can bias how one views cheating. If the curriculum is just a means to an end (i.e., if school is just a means to a degree, which is just a gateway to a job/paycheck), it seems to make cheating more palatable.
This is why I left the tech industry. Nothing but losers with no skills getting hired. No sympathy for anyone fired
I’m not even sort of locked to google.
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