skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is tangentially related to cheating and interview, but if my first internship in the field told me anything, it's that your ability to sell yourself is often more important than your actual ability. My internship manager was a dev with a lot of experience and he was the one doing 90% of the job, but he was not very good when it came to communication toward the higher ups. His co-worker on the other hand was the exact opposite: Not a very good dev, but a very skillful sweet talker. Guess who got raised more ?

Anecdotally, I have seen this with my friends and co-worker from school. The one who were good at marketing themselves often went further faster in hierarchy than the skillful ones who had trouble marketing themselves.
Does WebGPU present a permissions dialogue or does it just work automatically, allowing drive-by cryptominers?
or are the hamsters taking their union mandated break?
I actually worked for a firm the staff of which was 99% near-shore contractors. Had some great folks there that I had the pleasure to work with. Can't really say as much great things about the US-based C-level structure, but that's neither here nor there.
> Each seeing themselves as a logical peak of the progressive arrow history, especially post-enlightenment

I'm not actually sure this is the case of pre-modern civilizations. I don't think they really had a conception of history moving in a progressive arrow, they tended to think of time as being cyclical and things would just naturally rise and fall. For any given person their lifestyles were likely to be broadly similar to their grandparents' lifestyles and the pace of change would have been very slow and manageable.

It's really not until the age of sail and discovery of the new world by Europeans that we start to see transformative changes within individual lifespans to the actual fundamentals of peoples' lifestyles and foodways and how economic production works. Before then it's just like, every 100-200 years or so barbarians attack you while you're militarily weak and your empire collapses and everyone gets raped and/or enslaved. So it goes.
> All a robots.txt is is a polite request to please follow the rules in it

At least in my country (Germany), respecting robots.txt is a legal requirement for data mining. See German Copyright Code, section 44b: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/__44b.html

(IANAL)
This is completely irrelevant to the article and response
My intuition would expect the two to be correlated.

All anecdotal evidence I've seen points to the language mattering a great deal since only those people who are enthusiastic about niche languages, tend to put more time in learning/practicing programming and all other things being equal, spending more time on a skill correlates to being better at said skill.
Come on. Julia is >10 years old. This was a language design decision many years ago, the shortcomings of which have been addressed much later when it started to be clear that it is a problem. Native code caching is available only since 1.9. This is great that the team worked hard on them, but if this was not an issue right from the start, Julia could have been in a different place today.

Hence, my ranting.
I thought the exact same. Creating a new type of robots.txt but making it do the opposite does not make sense.
The cleaner was on holiday from the 5th to the 8th. ;)
YouTube is the modern-day video library of Alexandria. Yes, there are many negatives to it running the way it is, but it's undeniable that such a powerful gathering of information resources is available only on their platform.
Their old pre-acquisition status page had automated up to the minute stats. Their new status page often takes hours to reflect when something is broken.
What a corrupt way to view the world.
A wise man said regarding pornography: "the problem is not that pornography shows too much of a person, but that it shows too little."
The conflict has been going on since 2014. I'm interested in what was actually predicted.
Similarily, reminds me of "bitcoin" the currency and "Bitcoin" the protocol.
I have no idea of the actual data, but I believe that percentage in waste plastics of those kinds (PE+PUR+PBAT+PLA) are something like:

95.0% PE

3.9% PUR

1.1% PBAT+PLA

so, even if these newly found microbes are effective and come into use they probably won't make in practice much a change, and - as you say - every year it comes out some article about research on these microbes (including some with potential for "eating" PE) but no news about them being used industrially.
neither Gazwa-e-Hind nor Islam as one true religion was not cause or even ideas behind partition.
And speaking about Gazwa-e-Hind, while conveniently ignoring Akhand Bharat, is pure propaganda.
If you read about Jinnah in old school history books which unfortunately are being edited out by NCERT in India, he was never was religiously motivated.
His idea was Muslim population would be a minority in Hindu controlled state, which wasn't far fetched, look at Indian politics right now, which runs on the basis of Muslim hatred.
Also claiming things like Gazwa-e-hind(Ignoring Akhand Bharat) and Muslims believing in one true religion and then saying India is tolerant or Muslims and secular becomes an Irony. You can't run both ways.
Also the violence during partition were on both sides, not just one side.
> The market for this seems pretty obvious - teenagers. iPad seems like the default computer for kids these days and kids like to create.

For audio, isn't something like 99% of that market already covered well by GarageBand?
I like this idea. Of course it would have to be only to robots that visit a page disallowed by the robots.txt
These days I use https://kulli.sh as a meta comment aggregator on interesting links that I find on HN and a few other places[1], and this helps me find other like-minded communities that are sharing and commenting on similar content. I posted an article about how this works in practice for me last year[2], and I'm still pretty happy with this workflow both for content and community discovery.

[1]: Mostly niche subreddits, Lobsters, Tildes, a few Discord servers and forums

[2]: https://lgug2z.com/articles/finding-interesting-comments-dis...
ohh no, I meant, VR can augment the in-person experience... I'd rather play with the virtual cards that shuffle and deal much more rapidly... I'd rather us be able to be in this insanely interesting environment, etc...
The "petrodollar". But more fundamentally the bit of Bretton Woods that survived was the deal that the United States would guarantee the security of global trade (that's the Navy's real mission) in exchange for a discount on imports. Unlinking from gold only cemented their position.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrocurrency
Which phone comes with GrapheneOS in the market? For off the shelf phones, Apple is still one of the best option for privacy on the market. Market is being able to buy a phone as is, not install a 3rd party OS.
How Big Would a Coin Made of $1T Worth of Platinum Be? (2013)
Yes, if there's one thing Marxists are known for it is definitely avoiding authoritarian regimes. Oh, apart from literally every country that tried Marxism.
Only 65K users? Why does NOSTR have 10 times[1] as many users already? I guess you choose to close the doors and only let 65K users come in as Beta testers?

[1] Users with a profile are at about 2.2 million, see : https://stats.nostr.band/
corporate "challenges" cannot be solved with software, unfortunately.
Huh, that’s weird. I thought it was simply generally quick. Did you already have a paid account?
Yes. You need to really focus on decomposing your problem and use like "there is" "it is" and "it has" to describe the overall system instead of relying on it remembering everything. Which honestly makes code more organized and easier to read.
My experience is that it is usually ok to setup these kind of services. Takes few days, interesting and fun work to get new stuff going and tuned.

Problems arise with the operations. Nobody is confident with doing the updates since they happen so rarely. If system is critical, do you dare to do updates during business hours? Is there proper test system to practice updates? Is anybody prepared to handle recovery scenarios? Who is testing backups? How do you transfer the knowledge when people who originally built the system leave?
> some useful info about the website like what it is about, when was it published, the author, etc etc.

Aren't there already things in place for that info (e.g. meta tags?)
Does it matter? Hitler/Stalin/Mao also had 'good reasons' that they claimed for for doing the things they do. End of the day, the military is clinging to power
While its certainly not ideal to have incidents. To me, "almost every day" would require a longer pattern. The incident before yesterday was 5 days prior. Even if you go back more than a month, there are 12 days with incidents, so ~1/3. Less than half certainly isn't almost every day. Not really seeing a solid pattern in the times either.

Apr 17: 17:17 - 17:42, 19:28 - 19:53
Apr 18, 09:28 - 09:51, 14:35 - 15:29
Apr 19, 18:28 - 19:27
Apr 24, 12:57 - 13:27
Apr 24, 21:14 - Apr 25, 03:18
Apr 25, 23:26 - Apr 26, 00:29
Apr 27, 08:59 - 09:56
Apr 28, 12:26 - 12:45
May 2, 14:58 - 15:49
May 4, 15:55 - 16:23
May 9, 08:07 - 10:04, 11:32 - 21:14
May 9, 22:39 - May 10, 00:06
May 10, 13:00 - ?

Source: https://www.githubstatus.com/history

Edit: This comment was in response to the original title, which has since been changed.
Bad Manors: The McMansion as Harbinger
If AI needs explicit information and context, surely it should focus on improving its context recognition rather than trying to fix that by inserting even more training data.

Regardless, I do agree that something like a robots.txt for AI can be very useful. I'd like my website to be excluded from most AI projects and some kind of standardized way to communicate this preference would be nice, although I realize most AI projects don't exactly care about things like the wishes of authors, copyright, or ethical considerations. It's the idea that matters, really.

If I can use an ai.txt to convince the crawlers that my website contains illegal hardcore terrorist pornography to get it excluded from the datasets, that's another way to accomplish this I suppose.
Could rhyme with PG's "Python Paradox" essay from 20 years ago: http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html

> It's a lot of work to learn a new programming language. And people don't learn Python because it will get them a job; they learn it because they genuinely like to program and aren't satisfied with the languages they already know.

> Which makes them exactly the kind of programmers companies should want to hire. Hence what, for lack of a better name, I'll call the Python paradox: if a company chooses to write its software in a comparatively esoteric language, they'll be able to hire better programmers, because they'll attract only those who cared enough to learn it. And for programmers the paradox is even more pronounced: the language to learn, if you want to get a good job, is a language that people don't learn merely to get a job.

I wonder correlations eckesicle found, and what languages would fit that profile today.
Google can pretend they're not IBM, but that doesn't make it true.

Google no longer innovates or launches products of note. They throw ideas at the wall, like spaghetti, and hope things stick.

Perverse incentives create competing products, dead end projects, and invariably everything created winds up getting cancelled.

Google got drunk off of easy search ad revenue. Their founding leadership went off to do zeppelins and politicking. Now that golden goose looks like it may be cooked.

Google had the Bell Labs of AI research, but their ability to build product around it looks a lot more like IBM Watson.

Over the next half decade, their top tier talent will leave and get venture funding to do their own things with their own equity.
Since I didn't know the acronym: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%E2%80%93length%E2%80%93va...

In fact, a key part of the subtls library is a simple class to make this relatively painless (it's currently just called `Bytes`, but perhaps something like `TLVCoder` would be a more informative).

It reserves space for the length field, and provides a callback to write it automatically once you're done writing the value: https://github.com/jawj/subtls/tree/main#navigating-the-code. It also enables the indented and annotated output options.
In-line images are up to the user agent. A Gemini client can permit the user to turn these on. Besides, Gemini being a protocol that aims to be hostile to tracking, made it a bit harder to include tracking beacons/pixels by not allowing those to be downloaded by default.
I think the cheaters tend to end up together over time without realizing it.
For the sim road racing, have you validated the simulation back on the real track? Did you learn new skills that are applicable in the real world with real tires, etc., or did you pick up subtle bad habits that you had to unlearn?

It sounds like a much more space- and funds-efficient solution, but I can also see how it could potentially create bad habits.

It does sound like an outstandingly good idea to get pilot seat time for familiarity with controls, procedures, etc.!
I remember Sergey skydiving onto the roof of Moscone in 2012, and everyone getting one of those cool
Nexus Q media players which they never actually released so they all ended up as landfill.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_Q
Well, I guess these things were probably kind of his intention all along, the "great" conman as he was. But I do wonder how he managed to fool so many voters?
Blanket blaming the media for everything does not help either. I almost never trust western media to understand the nuances of Indian politics. Everytime I visit home, I realize the Indian television media is always effusive in praise of the Modi government. The one exception might have been NDTV, but they had a management shakeup last year, so I am not aware of where their ideologies line up. Print media seems to be left leaning in general - Hindu, Indian Express etc. So trusting media at this point is a foolish exercise.

For every one BJP comment regarding safe-guarding minority rights, there are 5 which call for open discrimination. Even the video you shared, seems sympathetic at first glance, but Mohan Bhagwat has always prefaced comments with a subtle hint of "know your place in the hierarchy, and you will be fine". [1] I have never known Muslims to claim they were in any form superior. They are poorest minority in India. So that comment makes no sense.

So I only have to fall back on what I know from the people I am close to. All my Muslim friends feel less safe than they were 10 years ago. No one's come into their home and thrown them out, but they have to tip-toe around small things like eating beef, wearing the burqa, and offering prayers.

I suppose we have to ask ourselves, is it worth making people unsafe for practicing their faith in the name of politics?

We might fundamentally disagree on that point, and that is fine. In which case that is hand dealt for this country, and things will fall where they have to.

I appreciate your civility and I agree neither one of us is going to walk away from this thread having changed our minds.

[1]. https://www.outlookindia.com/national/is-the-rss-chief-mohan...
can it be duplicated?
Some people call it the petrodollar others call it American hegemony.
I don't think ownership (owning vs. working class) itself is the problem here.

You can see similar behavior (hiding issues, lying about them) in any scenario in which punishment is tied to the failure to meet the metrics. When the metric becomes the goal, people will game the metric in order to avoid punishment and/or reap the rewards.

The only kind of measurement that doesn't cause this behavior is the neutral measurement - measurement which is guaranteed not to change the decisions directly, but only serve as information which is later used in high-level optimization of systemic processes. In context of software companies, it would mean that status reports should only be reviewed in combination to other factors, such as tool used, features implemented, deadlines tightened, etc., and only to further understand how to optimize the process to avoid human error.

It's risky to implement that, because you have to trust your employees enough to say "you won't be fired because of your metrics, ever", but I believe it's less worse than having people falsely report good metrics.
> live in a world where they have no choice but to use Google SDKs and services

Which world is this? I’m genuinely interested not trying to be rude.
I'd add d) when all of the gains are captured by execs and investors, if you don't do everything you can to maximize your return and minimize your input, you're being exploited.

It's strange to me that anyone would care about people cheating at job interviews and not say CEO pay that's 1,000X the average employee. More power to those who can balance things in their favor against those who have everything to gain and nothing to lose.
Louisiana is more fun
This is kind of a straw man don’t you think? Really small startups sure but I’m sure many places that self host have an ops team that can and does respond to outages on their systems.
> and terrible codebases

Heh, don't worry you'll see plenty of those.
100%! I've worked with a ton of great Indian folks, but the "no" cultural translation is hard.

Just yesterday I was working through an issue, came up with a clear plan that critically involved notifying the customer before making any changes, after they'd been burned by previous uncommunicated changes.

Was in the middle of a busy day, so I didn't think and quickly asked if there were any problems or everyone was onboard with the plan: "Yes."

5 minutes later, as I'm typing an email to the customer, I get pinged: "The changes have been implemented. Kindly confirm with the customer they took effect as desired."

FML. My fault... but really hard to keep yes/no mapping in my head constantly, at all times.
I think the default is not to care about anything that doesn't affect you personally. I think it's the wrong approach to think folks should care because it's so obvious to you that they should. It's far more effective to explain why someone should care from their point of you than hand-waving 'everyone should care about racism because racism bad'
Movie theaters do have a labor costs advantage...

>Currently, lower-level movie theater employees lack mandated overtime in 28 states. Theater chains nabbed their Fair Labor Standards Act amendment in 1967 to exempt “any employee employed by an establishment which is a motion picture theater” from both minimum wage and overtime. The rationale for the exemption at the time was that theaters could not afford the labor costs because of low profit margins, poor box office and rising costs. While the minimum-wage exemption was removed in 1974, the overtime exemption has remained, to the puzzlement of labor experts.
How did she connect her devs with her clients?
I stayed in London for three years, then moved back to Italy because with the pandemic I had gone to the office only twice in 18 months, and because my wife and daughter didn't like London a lot; I was able to keep my job as a hands on team leader (Rails+React) with the same company I was working for.

Now I'm looking for a new job, from Italy, and I'm finding that it's much more difficult to do that when you're already remote, compared to when I was in London. Lots of roles I could have applied before specify "fully remote from the UK". So, it's not so obvious that, if you move, you have as many opportunities.

PS if anybody is interested in hiring me, contacts are in my profile :)
How much honey potting goes on?
And of course, each project will eventually no longer be green field.

While it can help you understand code blocks, I'm not sure that it can help you understand an application as a whole.

I don't know that it can help discover edge-case types of bugs and suggest fixes. For example, the types of problems which crop up when system meets reality.

The can see this leading to a lot of spaghetti coded projects.
Hookmark – local links to any file on macOS
I'd say over the course of the 8 years or so we had the setup, it saved us $1600 in homeowner's insurance premiums, and when we sold it helped us get maybe an extra $10k out of the sale price, so around $11600 recovered for around $55k spent total. By the numbers, it makes no sense to do this. Realistically by the numbers, it never makes sense to do anything to a house that is anything above the minimum legal requirements and what is currently trendy and en vogue with buyers. Another thing I did on that house that I liked but made no financial sense was to put in /very/ good windows all around (around $26k spent) which netted around $5k at sale.

All in, I spent around $90k in 12 years on the house, and the outcome was maybe $25k returned at sale. When you look at anything like that you should really consider how long you think you're going to stay there. I had intended to live in that house quite a lot longer, but life situations changed and I had to move out of state, so off to sale it went. Nonetheless, I don't regret any of the improvements I made because I got to live with those improvements and have a house that matched my needs/wants/desires. If I buy a house again (I'm currently renting), I'll probably have it custom built. There's simply no reason in my mind to put up with lowest-common-denominator mediocrity and normalcy in the highest cost thing you will likely ever purchase in your life, and the folks who do that to return a few higher percentage points of ROI at sale are treating themselves like they're a renter in a rental property, rather than treating themselves like a homeowner. A house isn't an investment, it's a place to live that you can do pretty much anything you want with it.
Their software is no longer their software the moment it touches my machine. My bytes, my stuff. You can delude yourself into thinking "but licenses and EULAs say you can't", but the best Apple can do is beg that I don't, and make my life hard for me to do so.

Which is extremely telling of how little consideration they have for their users.
> The US Government has never defaulted on its debt under the current (~75 year old) global financial system.

Except for 1979:

* https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-debt-default-idUSN1E76A0...

* https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/01/heres-w...

* https://archive.is/jKayD
Another "one of github's myrad of services went down today where only a fraction of users will be affected" post, another swarm of "you should completely change your companies workflows by adding in the overhead of managing your own git hosting and collaboration tool" replies.

edit:// self-awarewolf: Another reply from me pointing this out. haha
to me, it's hard to beat iRacing in terms of the quality of the matchmaking and sheer density of available heats. The fact that you constantly find elite level IRL drivers on it I think is a nice endorsement that the overall experience is pretty good. It certainly can leave you wanting in terms of visual niceties and things of the sort, but from a pure racing experience, I think it is hard to beat. Is expensive at first, though :-(
> It's about as hard to remove a single data point from an LLM as it is to remove a single memory from a human brain.

Sounds like there is a decent story that can be written about the right-to-forget in GPT/LLM era ... similar to "The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" for human memory.

"Hallucinations" will be a main story-telling device in this one as well.
Alternatively: the likelihood of any one server going away tomorrow is small, but the likelihood of something in your social graph going away tomorrow is high.
What you’re saying is nonsense. Posts are stored in a merkle tree; you can’t just change stuff.

Don’t spread misinformation please.