skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at Google for a few years and moved back to the Midwest afterwards. At first I was afraid to mention it even if it came up directly, but honestly I've come to realize that this perception that everyone hates tech companies so much that there's a stigma against it is probably more paranoia than truth. Whenever it does come up, I think people are put off by how much I preface it as if it's something terrible. I've since stopped doing so.

The truth is, even if some of this could be explained by social pressure, I really think most people in the world just don't care as much as you think they do.

More than anything most people just seem annoyed by tech companies.

Actually, now that I think about it, the most unwelcome I've ever felt for working in tech was in California.
Exactly, range anxiety is mostly a psychological disorder at this point. People feel anxious. But there's no good rational reason for it.

I come from a small country where realistically, you leave the country before your battery runs out pretty much from any point in the country. Despite this, a lot of people who definitely don't leave the country very often feel very anxious about range. It's completely irrational. There's always the weird uncle who somehow has to drive hundreds of miles every day while never stopping for lunch, restroom breaks, etc. that has this imaginary need to do all of that without stopping.

It's the Netherlands, if you are wondering. And for those few people that actually live up north there in say Groningen and actually do want to regularly drive all the way down to Maastricht, that would be about 230 miles. And this is about as long as it gets in terms of journey length "inside" (the fastest route is actually via Germany) the country.

The point is that you can do that on a single charge with most decent EVs. Of course you'll need a charge to get back. And probably a few other things like a rest room break, stretching your legs, or taking care of whatever it was that caused you to drive that far to begin with. Great opportunity to plug in in while you do all of that. It's called destination charging.
> 200 (1999: 600, 2000: 800) people who have contributed to fetchmail

That doesn't sound believable. How did he come up with these numbers?
i'm just starting to get into deep learning so i look forward to understanding that sentence
Thanks for the correction. Just updated it to be accurate... for now. :)
OP, bear in mind that you're still learning a great deal from all this. It's not a valueless activity. You're losing interest once the challenge and novelty have gone. It may not be in your interest to punish yourself into finishing something like this. Turn it into a superpower - you'll make one hell of a consultant.
> Cans from the fifties and sixties still work. Nobody wants to use them; they are heavy, uncomfortable, have poor performance, need an amp to drive, and use huge old school connectors. They are from a time when music was enjoyed seated in one place.

And there is still a market for them because some people still want to enjoy music seated and do nothing else at the same time. Of course, plenty more people want something else.
One of the docks I work on is frequented by a pigeon with a blowdart embedded in its neck. I have tried to catch it a few times, but I am not sure that removing it would not harm the pigeon even worse.

One day I ran across two young men on the dock carrying blowguns. I remarked that I was wondering how the pigeon ended up with a blowdart in its neck. They claimed that neither of them were the ones who shot the pigeon, so it is apparently still a mystery which local asshole is putting darts in pigeons.
Very cool. At first I thought this would be about project management using Monte Carlo for target dates.
Sendinblue Becomes Brevo Reflecting Company Growth and Platform Evolution [pdf]
I’d say it’s the exact opposite, since it prevents petty arguments over formatting and style.
> The pinnacle of design is a product that works flawlessly until the day you are through with it

Indeed, but for maximum utility, the second hand market is included in the "you" here. Things can continue to be useful to someone long after the first owner is through with them.
A modern spin on this:

SIM card from stork tracking device have been removed somewhere in Sudan and someone ended up using it in their own phone racking up a huge bill for the environmental group.

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-44645217
The behavior of ultra low cost airlines is often inexcusable, but understandable, and why I don't fly them. Their employees are usually not allowed to make "good reason" exceptions because exceptions are nebulous and passengers may argue why the next time isn't a "good reason" and airlines want that money. It's like a flying cruise ship; the fare gets you a chair and nothing else because the everything else is where the profit comes from.

(This business model is why we are seeing a rise in junk fees and "surcharges". Airlines and cable companies and hotels got away with it for so long with no major pushback that everyone else feels emboldened in light of this economic slowdown.)
Here's my question. If this person has a 4sd IQ, why can't they just educate themselves?

One explanation that occurs to me immediately is that this person was really good at scoring IQ tests but otherwise not especially smart.

My point is - sure, if you have more specialized attention smarter people will learn even more and even faster, I don't dispute that. But this idea that there's super smart people out there that end up doing store management because they weren't spoonfed the right information is just self-contradictory.
I definitely see the shell company problem, eg some tiny company that only exists to check a box and pass through the contract to a big prime...but what would you propose here? A two or three person company is going to be crushed by the DoD. Just think what it takes to get, say, FedRAMP approved or write up your STIGs or to get the magic FIPS certification. The asymmetry between DoD and a smallco is so vast that I feel the latter has no choice but to seek a big brother who can act as prime. But I agree, that is very risky for the smallco.
I added `dom-proxy` because that looked like the closest to a complete solution from a quick skim. Let me know if you want to swap for another one, though.
I believe the same thing everyone else does about the superiority of open-source software development. I just don't think this article is a good explanation of where that superiority comes from. In large part, the importance of Linux's code being open is that it makes it safer for large corporations (Intel, Google) to invest time in it; that has nothing to do with a bazaar ethic!
Most people recognize the reference, it's a very overused reference, hence PCs complaint.
Anyone have links to any of the good takedown articles on Cybersyn?

There's plenty of pieces talking it up. And plenty demonizing American CIA actions around those time periods. But the effort itself was such a incredibly simple lo fi system, such a style over substance effort. The screen was literally manually painstakingly updated ahead of time.

As an idea I see why Cybersyn was so successful & enrapturing. And CCRU is quite in that mold, was far and away first & foremost a vibe (albeit I think Chile & the people working on the project would have been mortally insulted to have that said at the time). I appreciate that CCRU was engaged in deliberate mythologization of technology, of cybernetics. Where-as a shallow "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" act like Cybersyn getting so outsizedly mythologized, being so popularized: that fires my cynicism up.
Well loads of right wingers complaining here because their so left wing.

You’re complaining they’re not so left wing they’re pro Russia.

On the face of it they seem to be doing the right thing cos both extremes are pissed off with them.
A ChatGPT client with audit logging
It's interesting to say 'a lot of eyeballs will do something' in a world where nobody believed it.

I think this thread overstates the reality of the very, very crude metaphor that illustrates 'why open source can work' - even if it is very flawed.

I think by now we all kind of know 'it depends' aka there's context to everything.
What's about online poker. Is there also a bank advantage if you play perfectly? Is it allowed?
Not the way LLMs do. Typically, humans are only hypocritical when they're trying to conceal their true values. For example, when someone makes a "states' rights for me but not for thee" argument, they don't actually believe in "states' rights." They're just cynically arguing whatever position will forward their agenda.

An LLM, conversely, will sometimes directly gainsay itself, hallucinating different versions of its own output from just paragraphs earlier. That's not just hypocrisy—that's not having any actual concept of truth beyond an imperfect idea of when a sentence does or doesn't look "realistic."
Right. If you want something that has perhaps a more profound and interesting description of the open source model (as Zawinski would put it, the "CADT model"), it's worth going back to Richard Gabriel:

https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html

Gabriel's essay is cited in Raymond's article. It's interesting to compare them; Raymond claims that Gabriel anticipated much of what his article was going to say, but I think they have markedly different takes about it.
What is your opinion of this paper Marcel @mpweiher?
But the reality today at least is that that is not how big, successful open source projects get developed. They are very much handled as large engineering projects, with architects and lead engineers for each area or feature at least. You won't get a new feature into the Linux networking stack without discussing and reviewing it with the network maintainers, for example. And ultimately you'll still need Linus' approval if it is a major feature.

It's also important to note that some of the major open source projects are currently, in practice, collaborations of multiple large corporations. At least this is clearly how Linux works (the vast majority of contributions are coming from corporate players such as Microsoft, IBM, Intel etc), Clang, Kubernetes.

Firefox and the GNU suite of tools are probably the largest exceptions, along with a few big projects developed by a single company with few outside contributions (JVM, ElasticSearch, Grafana, etc).
Not sure what editor you use, but most syntax highlighters these days can mix languages: you see this e.g. in HTML <style> tags and Markdown fenced code blocks.

As for 'out of order programming', I think that TANGLE-style reordering is a lot less important with modern programming languages: they don't do one-pass compilation and so can deal with forward references. Note that most of the cross-references in Knuth's program could be replaced with function calls or constant names, rather than the semiautomatic inlining that WEB performs.

I've had some success in writing literate programs in a Markdown file, with a small script to extract the code blocks into a file for execution. This seems to work fine, at least on a small scale, and is very easy to implement and then extend if needed.

Edit: and by “small script” I mean:

import sys
code = False
for line in sys.stdin.read().splitlines():
if line == '```': code = False # End block
if code: print(line) # Only output block contents
if line == '```md': code = True # Start block

It also seems worth noting that you can get much the same result just by writing a lot of comments; this technique is mainly useful when you also want more formatting than can be reasonably squeezed into plain text.
/edit
Sometimes, if an article is good enough, you can message dang to see if he might put it in the second chance pool.

That article does look great — gave it an upvote if it helps.
As an introverted self-learner, I can say I do not miss this. From LinkedIn, to IRC, to GitHub, to the hallway track at conferences the people part of our craft is more important than writing software.

At the risk of over-asserting your stance, I’d say you’re accusing introverted self-learners of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, when you are mistaking the bathwater for the baby.

The social aspect of the craft doesn’t require taking on 5-6 figures of debt (or being lucky enough to have a social structure from the previous generation that can foot that bill upfront). Most venues for education don’t even provide that great of a social network compared to the internet (elite universities withstanding). Not to mention most of this only applies to collegiate level study and not pre-k through 12th grade, which IMO is more broken then collegiate education.

As an introverted self-learner, I’d rather meet my social network while practicing my craft and take out a 5 figure loan to live on my own for 4 years and “figure it out” before moving into a big kid job. That doesn’t require our current education system.
It should be a huge motivation for hydrogen cars, which are also EVs but without such weaknesses in cold weather. It is very unfortunate that the article just dismisses this idea with just one sentence and zero explanation.
Can you share the blocklist?
My spontanous thought about the dodecahedrons' purpose:

Roman fidget spinner

(i.e. an object to play around with your hands to keep you more calm)
Maybe. I tried to find a catalogue of dodecahedrons, but I couldn't really find any in a few minutes of searching, so I'm not sure if all except one doesn't have any holes, or if there are more of them. Many of the images seem to be of the same few objects.

As for heat: how did people heat their homes? Rich people had their fancy underfloor heating, but what did poor and middle-class people use? In Celtic and medieval times they would typically use a hearth (i.e. fire) – it seems to me a candle just doesn't give enough heat, and you're going to need a hearth anyway for cooking. I would imagine that's also what they used during Roman times since that's what's used both before and after the Roman era.
Yes, there's no physical reason it couldn't be fixed. However, I think it's less a matter of computing power, and more one of architecture and training.

The inference-time code could be changed to keep a log of which neurons were activated the most when it generated a token. But then, how would we train it to use that log and report it accurately? Training on Internet documents isn't enough.

Chain-of-thought reasoning helps as a workaround. However, beware that even then, the justifications aren't a reliable explanation. There's an interesting paper on this:

Language Models Don't Always Say What They Think: Unfaithful Explanations in Chain-of-Thought Prompting

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04388
Great reminder to wipe down gym equipment before use, even normal ring worm can be a large hassle.
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Since I see a lot of people in the comments just talking about ChatGPT or just the generic term GPT I think I should remind everybody that Bing Chat and Bing Compose is based off of GPT-4.
> New bluetooth standard? New advances in noise-cancellation? You won't get them.

> Wireless headphones last a couple of years, where wired headphones last decades.

Those wired headphones that last decades also won't get any advances made during their lifetime...
I wouldn't spend money on web ads unless you can measure the effects directly. Spend $1000 one week, earn an extra $1000 the week after.
While I perfectly understand, I’m a bit worried about my own web browser ( Offpunk ) which uses python-requests and is thus very often associated with being a bot.

The browser has the goal of being light and downloading only the text and pictures (no css, no js). So we have the same goal here.
In many emergencies pilots will conduct an "emergency descent" down to 10000 as part of the checklist (or memory item). It is a dive that you would never otherwise experience in a commercial jet.
Forgive my ignorance, but I see 2 possible scenarios for the assets to be passed on to the heirs:

- simply transfer possession - in this case, there is no realised gains, so no need to charge taxes. they can be charged when the gains are eventually realised.

- realise the gains and transfer the money - in this case, tax is charged on the realisation of the gains.

What have I missed?
I benchmarked my cheap ($50) Walmart OpenWRT router that has a MediaTek MT7622 (dual-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor clocked at 1.35GHz); SQM is totally usable below 600Mbps or so.
Complaining about downvotes.

It’s even in the guidelines.
Apparently data and people who use it to make decisions have an anti-Tesla stance.
This is avoiding the core problem (mingling control and data) with security through obscurity.

That can be an effective solution, but it's important to recognize it as such.
Open source as open society deeply deeply motivated & interested me. Open source isn't only for open society, but I think it's best & can only ever hope to advance itself aptly & with good calibration when society sees themselves as reasonably staked in too, as more than just a consumer consuming something given to them.

I feel like people spend more effort trashing & talking down software in forums like this, than it would have taken to make an even mostly-constructive tiny little data point that could actually help open source, and open society. The author, a NixOS user, almost certainly had plenty of basic technical chops they could have brought to bare within mere seconds to get some first level idea what happened, which they refused. The malice/concentrated-negativity, combined with the lack of effort, to me, invalidate my willingness to take someone seriously.

There are plenty of good valid useful ways to share the view & be part of open society. Just trying to tear out the supports of the building & make it crash down- anger- is not an acceptable enduring view; it's an ok initial reaction, but eventually realer more mature cycles have to begin (unless despair & ruin is the objective)
in Europe. details may vary but overall eCall is a EU thing, and so is homologation and regulations for safety features.
Yeah I understood his comment but plastic would be just a wrong word for it.
SGTM. How about you make some of those changes to the article? Of course you may end up with possessive authors who revert, but the Edit button is there for a reason :-)
* is all you need
Is there any county where a loan is counted as income?
Notes on rarely-seen game mechanics
I recall seeing a video of a car who managed to drive in a blocked zone and stop on rails, and eventually got hit by a train as it was unable to drive out - arguably because the driver opened the door, and afterwards the car automatically switched to parking or something.
like many people. the majority of my collection is sitting in a drawer somewhere. pihole is a honourable mention and use case if you are looking to put them to use.
Imagine being a dude in Africa. You work so hard making your arrows nice and straight.

Eventually you end up with maybe 5-10 in your quiver. You patiently crawl up to some birds, take aim, and BAM - perfect shot right through the throat.

And then the bloody bird flies away with your arrow.

Edit: I also want to add - poor bird. Must take unreal determination to fly that far with a near-mortal injury and a literal weight around your neck
Is there some kind of effect where something is so well known that it doesn’t get brought up? Like a reverse bathtub curve?
I'm not sure TWS buds with the shape of an AirTag would work, but I do think they could make them with something like an easily removable cap on the stem that holds the cell in place.
> He's an enthusiast, so frankly I don't trust his opinion.

To call Mr. Luckey, the founder of Oculus VR and designer of the Oculus Rift, "an enthusiast" seems a bit diminutive. Do you not think the Rift was designed with the mass market as its target?
Each representing failures of prose to appropriately characterize multi-dimensional performance into simplistic concepts of good and evil.
Because if you do art, you want to make something unique. Artists don't create exact replicas of the same object so often that a hundred of them are found over 1000 years later (which implies that there were probably many thousands of these).
All of what you said is true, for us. I know LLMs aren’t magic (lord knows I actually kind of understand the principles of how they operate), but they have a much greater computational and relational bandwidth than we’ve ever had access to before. So I’m curious if that can break down what otherwise appears to be complete obfuscation. Otherwise, we’re saying that encryption is somehow magic in a way that LLMs cannot possibly be.
wouldn't i be faster to use ram as a swap for vram?
Oh but the function is well known: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-184
Yes. Your userbase will not give a single shit about how thoroughly tested your game is or how elegant your code is. Mainly since you'll give up on it long before they ever see it.

It's a game. Treat it like one.

TDD is great for your day job, where you ship bulletproof software for work. Nobody does work for fun. Look at how many games are written in Java.

For a personal project, only write unit tests to ensure specific bugs get fixed. No more. This ensures you do the least possible amount of Work.

In the end, you'll say holy shit, I have a ton of bugs to fix-- that guy was full of shit. But you'll have a functional game to fix the bugs on within a year, rather than a pile of exquisite code that does nothing after a decade.
It's a bird It's a plane It's pizza Drone delivery in Seattle
I'm not a biologist but it seemed fine to me.
I really wish this sort of thing was automatic, transparent to the user, and built into the Julia runtime.
A Man Who “Saved the World” (2017)
Warning: if you're sensitive seeing injured animals. Link has an image of taxidermy of one. (Though I suppose all taxidermy is injured animals one way or another...)
In 2010, UPS Flight 6 in Dubai was brought down by a fire that started in a pallet of Lithium Ion batteries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPS_Airlines_Flight_6

The article claims that there’s one incident per week for these passenger-owned device fires on commercial flights. When they happen in the cabin it’s spectacular and terrifying but the bigger worry is when a fire smolders out of sight.
Yet expecting the HN audience to be curious and to criticize a review for laking scientific precision when it was posted here is very much in line.

We should strive to be more curious and to demand more science.
Roughly three years old I think. But if you're referring to the same ad fraud rings I'm thinking of: yeah, a few did get shut down (which iirc was a first) but there's plenty of new operations taking their place. Ad fraud is a relatively cheap way to make money if you can scale up your operation, and most perpetrators don't get caught or punished. Although that may change in the future.