skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While that's not untrue, these kind of systems just lead to their particular type of witch hunts, where the people in power game the system in a way that they make their opponents disappear. Combine your system with a bit of selective enforcement and imagine that lawmakers create a law that's trivial to cross, and you get a police state very quickly.

I'd be all for a safer society, but there are at least three big problems with change that you have to deal with. One is that often, these proposals are not accounting for humans. Like the one above. Second is that you have to get there somehow. Make a transition from a current state to the next. If the reform is too sudden, society will reject it. Third is that you have to convince the rest of the people, if you're not a dictator. And I doubt that a dictator could have a safe and stable society to begin with.

I suggest that you read up on utopias that people have tried to build. Even the Wiki article is quite interesting.
Good for you! Doesn't make them not problems.
I get that this is outrageous, then again I find it hard to be outraged right now, this seems predictable given the rise of ad targeting and our past experience, e.g.:

- Ads that follow new mothers even after miscarriage [1],

- Age discrimination in employment ads [2],

- Cambridge Analytica was also mostly about targeting,

- probably many more.

Perhaps we should explore some actual transparency in the context of ad targeting.

[1]: "How to stop pregnancy ads following you after a loss" https://www.tommys.org/about-us/charity-news/how-stop-pregna...

[2]: "Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads" https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-ads-age-discrimi...
Remember the Target scandal way back when? [0]

They had done the sciencing and found that there are only handful of life events where a large change of behavior can be made relatively easily.

Graduation, marriage, giving birth to a child.

The angle as I see it is to sneak in through that window and make gamblers out of those young mothers permanently.

[0] - https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits....
If someone goes to that meaning instead of the simple one "to eat", as in carnivore, herbivore it seams that maybe someone has bigger problems that disliking a RSS reader for the name.
The last ads aren't saying climate change can't be stopped, they're saying that there's no viable way to replace oil and gas completely. Which is true. But The Guardian is a trash filled propaganda rag and says:

"In contradiction to the science of stopping global heating, big oil asserts that fossil fuels will be essential for the foreseeable future."

which is stupid. There isn't even such a thing as the "science of stopping global heating", that's something the Guardian made up. People (not just "big oil") are pointing out the blatantly obvious with this statement, even greens agree with that which is why so many talk about ideas like geo-engineering.

As for their earlier ads, they are stating things that were and still are true. Fanatics have created a culture in which people are punished for pointing these things out but climatologists did in fact claim during the 60s and 70s there would be a new ice age, for example, and they still don't understand the physics of the climate by their own admission hence the hot model problem.
Check out how many are wrongly convicted in the US (or anywhere, really). Now imagine what a bit of corruption in the law enforcement could do - for a price or a bit of power, you could get a strike on someone, anyone.
Vice and Motherboard owner files for bankruptcy
Almost, her website[1] spells it "Sylvia van Os", with a lowercase "v". In the Netherlands the spelling is mostly "van", in Belgium they use "Van" [2].

[1] https://sylviavanos.nl/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_(Dutch)#Collation_and_capi...
It wasn't doing that. It was saying to not comment, and offer some stereotypes of the US as a little insinuation as to exactly who shouldn't be allowed to comment.
There are plenty of people who are curious about Coalton but dont know enough about static typing it implements and see the github issue and become concerned and think that Coalton should be avoided. Lately there seems to be alot of parroting that Coalton is broken. Obvioisly it is not and I think that developers should write an explanation about what is going on here.
Congratulations to the team.

I was pretty interested in checking out this project back when I was researching different BASICs.

It was obviously way more serious than a lot of other dialects, even just in the general community vibe, but also the language / experience has some considerable depth and complexity to it.

There was less "ah, my childhood" nostalgia to the experience compared with other dialects, and almost a "don't even come here with your sappy nostalgia, we are very modern" aspect to some community discussions I read.

I would guess that this kind of community has to deal with periodic waves of really intense "will this component be modernized" feedback, some of which is more urgent and obvious, and maybe less gentle at the same time.

And while there's maturity to the tech, I'm sure it's also been hard to mature while dealing with the tendency for all older languages of a given dialect to be grouped and kind of objectively criticized from that outsider perspective, as this phenomenon must interfere with the ability to translate or understand even really good outside feedback.

The community also had the unfortunate experience where someone built a third-party docs site, which site then became popular with search engines, and then when it got outdated / unmaintained over time, no one could reach the site owner. So a lot of duplicate effort had to be made to establish a new SEO campaign on the FB Wiki, not just documenting the language there.

Anyway, I think it's a pretty interesting project and there's a lot of things you can do with the language if you are interested in modern BASIC languages.
Studies not taking the vaccination status into account are not serious. This study even does not talk about vaccination status..
I am not saying COVID isn't cause heart attacks.
But this study is just embarrassing.
If we were using HTTP and not HTTPS, I think this would have survived the HN death hug. It's great in many ways, but it sadly puts a wet blanket on the whole low-powered server thing :-/
There are no downsides to preserving information, but there are all the downsides in the world to losing it.
Honestly I could kinda see going "Oh shit gotta bail! might as well grab my selfie stick that's within reach", but the whole sum of "could happen but not very likely" definitely points to the whole thing being on purpose.
Does anyone care to explain why on earth they don't have the "donate" button underneath their Youtube videos considering the number people who (still) appreciate the quality of their reporting on certain topics?
Is it because they get demonetized?
There must be some other reasons. Disney and Netflix are doing fine while pushing propaganda.
Nice. Thank you Suno! This is very good and will fit perfectly in my current projects. I feel like hugging your face.
My suggestion is to compare Tesla accidents per mile to non-Tesla accidents per mile. If people are being lulled into a false sense of security by AP then this should show up in the data.
Eddie Huang did a street food series with them that was also fantastic called Huang's World. I'm pretty sure it used to be called something else. What I liked about Vice was it all felt very unpolished. Huang, nonplussed, hangs with famous pornstar Jada Stevens while she's doing a shoot on the Bang Bus. That behind the scenes vibe dominated Vice video for a long time extending to their war coverage.
is it expected that every remote village has a smart phone?
It's OracleSQL instead of MySQL now ?
Probably enough data to support that WFH is against the status quo, takes effort to make it work and upper management isn't comfortable with it.

It's not for everyone, but nothing is.
TITO? Blah.

Lots of phones are open enough to install lots of things on. My daily phone has lineageos (I'm using it), which is an existence proof that you can run a kernel of your choice and userland of your choice, and my previous one had something called treble, which I didn't look into but also involved supplying your own kernel and userland.

If you have the ability to run a kernel and userland of your choice, what can't you do? I know something you can't do: applications that require much electric power. And something else: applications that require many people (or even everyone) to run the same software. But really, if there were to be some sort of cambrian explosion it ought to show up on my daily phone or one of the many similar ones.
“…the majority of online ad revenues have gone to tech giants such as Google and Facebook-owner Meta.”

Stifling out competing voices.
I feel like this should be increased to include “read and generate pdf’s”.

I’ve worked at a concerning number of places now where needing to do waaaay too much with PDF’s has inevitably become a core part of the product.
The processing power modern phones poses is insane.
I would guess because it simply wouldn't make a difference to their bottom line.
Hmmm. Fair point. I got this argument from a HW engineer I know. You forced me to think more about what he was saying. His point was actually that the TSO model requires the HW to keep track of more stuff. More stuff uses more energy and adds latency to every memory access. It also limits how many accesses the memory subsystem can handle in parallel. He points out that ARM, RISC-V and even ia64 (Itanium) chose the relaxed model because it is better.
highest quality, sure... You probably don't mean things like this, right

https://www.vice.com/en/article/mgbx9q/how-to-make-breakfast...

Appears catering only to millenials wasn't the best idea.
This was always so.

Pre-covid my entire team was office and I was the only remote. Without wanting to brag, it's factual: my Drupal knowledge made it worth for them to keep this up. Post-covid my entire team is scattered to the winds. You couldn't get them to come to the office because almost no one is within the same metro as the office.
The author could be in a different timezone, so don't get overly disappointed unless you haven't heard back from them in a few days. :)
> Whether that's "purely capitalist" or not, it's still not safe to be a leftist in the USA.

I don’t disagree.

Remember that “shocking” scene from the Newsroom years ago where the main character had the audacity to suggest the US wasn’t the freedom-est country in the world?

The rest of the world just nodded and said “yeah, we know”.
> you don't imprison someone for an astronomy theory

Every time I spend some time on dating websites it occurs to me that it might be a good idea to imprison people for astrology theories. Given the adequacy of evidence they had at the time, astronomy, astrology, it's just about the same thing, so I can sympathize
Intentionally Bad User Interfaces
I personally prefer building custom images for these distroboxes, where I set up entire toolchains etc inside. So then my OS is immutable, but also all the build tools and whatnot can be rebuilt using a simple podman build command.

Generally only really desktop-ish stuff stays on the host machine (e.g. i3, but also polybar and dmenu), but the rest goes into these distroboxes.
Hyper-threading is a misnomer imho. It should have been called "poor man's threading".
I consider "no response" to be a negative answer by default :)
Camper and caravan are fine too.
I personally only consider full remote position because even policies like "one day in the office every two weeks" would force me to live quite close to the city in which the office is and I absolutely want to avoid that if I can (and the market says I can)

To be on the safer side, I try to consider only offers from company that have no physical office at all, so it's quite impossible that in the medium term they call a "return to office" policy... I mean, they could always decide to buy office space out of the blue, but usually in those companies all the upper management is there exactly because they want to WFH for life
Engineering, the action of working artfully to bring something about.
If you look at a financial point of view lot of companies need to show that offices are still critical for working, because office valuations (that the company may own or long term lease) are plummeting.
WFH means no commuting. Someone could have childcare arranged for their working hours, but if they're suddenly leaving the house an hour earlier and getting home an hour later, they'll need to make other arrangements.
Those aren't so much stereotypes about the US as much as observations about the ways UK regulations might be different from people's expectations or experiences. I don't think they're saying "shut up Americans" as much as, "if you don't understand why this is a big deal for people in the UK, here is a list of things that might seem normal to you that seem bizarre to me." For what it's worth, I'm from the US, I took no offense.
Of course I have been lucky with who I've gotten to work with, but it wasn't only that. When interviewing we'd select for people that came to the table with good product mindset, or at least seemed teachable.

The whole leadership chain from CEO down needs to make sure everyone understands and works towards the company's goals. If someone isn't that's just the normal course of productivity issue resolved in the normal way. Sometimes it's because someone isn't as good and engineer as you thought and is resistant to training, sometimes it's as you say they're unfocused on the mission, either way having a layer of people whose entire job is juggling these folks feels like putting fingers in holes in the dam.

That's who I mean by managers, btw. Just because someone has "manager" in their title doesn't mean they're this thing. Plenty of critical product managers I've worked with.
I saw an example tag of “due:tomorrow” … which made me wonder if there is or could be or should be a macro system…

I.e. you tell dmsd to give a document a tag of

`due:@tomorrow` then the tool would assess this and give the document a tag of

`due:2023-05-16`

…or whatever the `@tomorrow` macro evaluates to at the moment you set it.

Another tag might have a key of “urgency” and (somewhere) you’ve configured that values associated with the key `urgency` must match this regex:

/^(high|medium|low)$/i

So if you try to set a tag `urgency:ludicrous` it will show an error message.
The author looks knowledgeable, and the text is certainly interesting to read, but I really dislike the slang here and there.. You know, people of whom you talk, were more refined than the bums on today's tv screen.. I suppose it is the author's "sense of humour". Or the absence of mine, but still..
Author of the guide here. I attempt to address this in the "Why do we need prompt engineering?"[^1] section.

> ... we used an analogy of prompts as the “source code” that a language model “interprets”. Prompt engineering is the art of writing prompts to get the language model to do what we want it to do – just like software engineering is the art of writing source code to get computers to do what we want them to do.

Borrowing from Oxford Dictionary, the definition of "engineering" is:

> the branch of science and technology concerned with the design, building, and use of engines, machines, and structures.

I think it's pretty reasonable to say that "prompt engineering" falls squarely in the realm of "technology concerned with the use of a machine".

[^1]: https://github.com/brexhq/prompt-engineering#why-do-we-need-...
I remember how cool their stuff was ~10 years ago.

Won't miss what they became.
They require the docs only for transferring out.

So you can still receive money, but you cannot access it.
The inability to train custom voices makes this useless for anything except generic TTS.

Why do AI devs keep shooting their own projects in the foot? This trend is upsetting me so much.
I like the idea of using a phone for a web server. There could be an app, a simple CMS, a simple CDN. Not much different from social media websites, but maybe more decentralised.

Then again, actual servers seem more reliable in practice; and decentralised platforms like e.g. pixelfed [1] work well for me for this kind of usage.

[1]: https://pixelfed.org
> also a reduction in racial disparities for heart attack deaths

This can be mean TWO things. Not just ONE as the line suggests.
Yeah, now look at the incorporation dates of these companies...
Regarding 3/ weren't most gains expected to be reversed due to vaping (sp one company: Juul)?
I think that "hybrid" is the worst of both worlds. If you attend the office you spend most of your time on video calls to people working from home. Need to run a workshop? You still have to plan it in a hybrid way using Miro and video conferencing for the couple of people who will make an excuse not to come into the office.
Recycling ‘end-of-life’ solar panels is about to be climate tech’s big business
I've always sort of thought of explicit state machines as a sort of failure state when it comes to finding a good abstraction for some logic. Explicit state machines are the sledgehammer that lets you bludgeon through the problem space regardless.

I get that they're an useful intermediate state for parsers and so, but still. I'm no fan.
Ultraino: Open Phased-Array System for Narrowband Airborne Ultrasound
Traffic from Hacker News, I guess. :-)
Yes, same as all the elite universities
Asus Ally Emulates PS3, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360 with Ease
That was prime VICE
They should, but perhaps that way they'd have filed for bunkruptcy sooner
They did release the official API, its for PaLM 2, part of their Vertex AI thing inside the Google Cloud (GCP) console. Search for "Model garden".
I made this one using Whisper: https://pastebin.com/XCBULY0U
> The difference here is, your home directory is tightly integrated.

lxd supports this too, as well as configuration profiles and a default configuration profile. So the only difference is in default configuration and perhaps ease of configuration.
> Must take unreal determination to fly that far with a near-mortal injury and a literal weight around your neck

And imagine the irony of then being shot by a hunter after you make it to your destination. But hey, at least it became one of the most famous storks in history...
Because they don't know it exists.
Zero will always be Zero.
But their demise is not only a problem of 1 Billion in liabilities but also of not finding new revenue streams.
> Why are forum admins beholden to archive their data in perpetuity in case someone wants free advice or knowledge?

Because otherwise their work was wasted.

> Do you maintain a freely-available repository of all of your knowledge and experience, in case someone else wants to consult it one day?

I would if I could, I’ve already contributed what knowledge, bandwidth, and money I can to the Internet Archive. What about you?

> While the openness of the (now-ending) early days of the internet was liberating and allowed knowledge sharing on an unprecedented scale, the downside is the huge devaluing of that knowledge and skills.

I cannot even process how wrong this is. Objectively the preservation of knowledge and skills is a good thing, and you cannot devalue knowledge, which is itself priceless.
> not a single thread behind a few layers of abstraction, so you get more out of your hardware

just-js holds spot 5 of TechEmpower web framework benchmark round 21.

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21
It amazes me that any major organisation believes pitching themselves at a minority group of deniers of the commonly-held views of everyone else - that most people therefore find abrasive and alienating - makes good business sense.
Should I continue to work at FAANG or move to startups?
I've worked at 2 FAANG companies in my 6 years of being in tech. I feel like my work is monotonous and there aren't enough interesting technical challenges to solve.
I've been programming since I was 12, and I've always been very passionate about it. I still work on open source projects, do hardware hacking and learn new tools every once in a while but I feel like I used to do so much more when I was a teenager.
I've never been a fan of the hustle culture, and I also have a ton of hobbies outside of work/programming that I like to take part in, which is why I greatly value having a decent work life balance; something which startups aren't necessarily known for.
My fiancé works as a PM and he strongly advises against joining a startup. He says that being a woman, I wouldn't be taken as seriously and my skills probably wouldn't be appreciated as much in a startup. (Although I've personally never faced much discrimination working at Big Tech).
I'll be getting married later this year and plan on having kids few years down the line, so I really want to work on something exciting and have an intellectually rewarding career before I start coasting and focus on motherhood/family life, and not be stuck as a random Staff Engineer.
What should I really do? I'm having a hard time deciding.
"A principle isn't a principle until it costs you something." - Bill Bernbach
Just – A small V8 JavaScript runtime for Linux only
It's doubtful that a phone can withstand the tidal wave of requests that follows from being on the front page of HN.
That’s an uncharitable summary of that comment.

A better one would be “please understand that this is talking about advertising and regulation in a country with norms very different from your own. If you don’t know the difference, don’t jump in with comments about how you think things should be.”

Like if someone defends this advertising under the First Amendment, that isn’t very relevant to the UK is it?
Look at this graph comparing saturated fat consumption and rate of heart disease:
https://www.cureamd.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Saturated...

This data comes from a book by Chris Knobbe, MD studying consumption of different fats. It is supposed to be released this month not sure if it has yet. Blaming saturated fats has basically been a complete lie IMO.
Has someone played with the opposite in a sense of not only recognising words but also evaluating their correct pronunciation?
I may have expressed myself poorly, what I meant is that their interesting and quality reporting quickly became rarer among the huge amount of articles like the one you posted.

I guess that they tried to go for the click baity route of odd content to get more views, a route that is full of competition and has a hard time retaining recurrent readers.

I would've preferred they stuck with building a (definitely more expensive) niche of journalism in the spirit they were initially founded.
have you seen Blazing Saddles of Mel Brooks?
decided to end it at 71 by drinking poison instead of escaping
The same people who pay when the humans get something wrong and the batch is crap I suppose?
I'm pretty sure that line gets repeated because it rhymes, Your brain thinks it is catchy.

It certainly isn't true in general.
We Get Almost Bankrupted Because of a Documentation Typo