skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a large perceived benefit of a DEI officer is to increase the number of officers and thus improve the desired demographic ratios among officers.

I think DEI is critically important for organizations as missing out of ideas because someone is discriminated against is a disadvantage for the organization. But I think this is really hard and threatens people in their positions who don’t want to be fired and don’t want to lose hiring authority. So lots of superficial things are done (like hiring DEI officers and lots of training).

I think it’s much harder to change culture and think that people need to internalize and adapt rather than having ineffective and distracting policies (eg, every position must interview one minority or every department must have a minority leader, etc ).
Indeed, I remember a while back there was a TikTok filter going around where it made old people look younger.

One of the people using it said it basically had cured her self-perception issues; she had been bullied for her looks as a child and internalized that she was ugly. But as an adult when she saw her younger face in the app, she realized immediately how the characterization of that face as ugly was just the perception of child bullies.

And it wasn't something that photographs could do for her -- it was the fact that it was her younger face superimposed on her current body, and that it was moving as she moved which gave her a new "way of looking" as you put it. In a sense, AI gave her a chemical-free trip.
If you are a big corp a security leak costs you 10 mil USD, it might make sense to pay. Instead of paying $50k for a one time security audit, you get a part of it in the form of a subscription.
I agree with your point but disagree with your reasoning. I think programs should always free memory at some point because then it's easier to reason about debugging memory leaks.

Practically speaking though, there are arena allocators that do exactly this - you allocate a bunch of memory at once, assign like-typed instances to "slots" in that memory region, and then deallocate everything all at once. Thus, the individual instance `free()` is a no-op.
Why have people with a job description that's explicitly about information security, when that should be everyone's responsibility, right? The reality is that some concern just won't ever be considered at all unless you put someone explicitly in charge and supply them with enough formal rank that they can't be ignored, as they inevitably would be without.
Dont be the architect be the guy who tells the architect what to do. Because they are too busy in meetings.
> you can post whatever you want, unless the algorithms decide it's against the community standards

To the extent that social media is like a village (a medium-to-large number of people expressing themselves), there have always been community standards in any society.

> mainstream social networks

People who sufficiently resent aspects of broader society can find smaller groups. These smaller groups will themselves have community standards.

The expectation of unfettered freedom of speech is at best naive, especially when the things people say incite violence.
CaosDB: An open-source software toolbox for data management
In car mechanics you may not see it, but some of your clients may have diagnosed - and fixed - car issues by themselves using ChatGPT.

That was my case once or twice already - didn’t get to a mechanic whereas before I would need to at
least call him and ask him what’s up.
Related tangent: highest possible recommendation for https://hpbn.co/ (High-Performance Browser Networking), an extraordinarily helpful book and website.
Actually, what it shows is both that getting ketamine while under general anaesthesia is roughly as effective as when taken without anaesthesia (40% here vs 45% in [1]), and as effective as just taking anaesthesia (their placebo treatment).

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3992936/
The problem is, when does it know that it does not know.
So it's Emacs, but we want features and not to be locked. Don't run propietary crap, trust Elisp repo like ELPA and NonGNU and you will be mostly safe.
How is the term mainly used?
There's a simple reference that doesn't even need to be quoted: SSRIs are approved for treating depression in all major countries on Earth. And this approval required they pass phase 3 clinical trials, demonstrating effectiveness over placebo.

Also, given that they are typically preferred over other classes of anti-depressants (try-cyclics etc), we also know they have demonstrated better effectiveness than other drugs.

Given all this, it is obviously up to the person flippantly contradicting well-established medical practice to provide citations, or rightfully be accused of spreading FUD.
MSSQL does have something closer to array agg.

https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/5542/using-for-xml-pa...
Nobody is getting suspended or fired over a spaces vs tab or vi vs emacs discussion.
I don't know, but Chris L was always a C++ guy, he never really understood Objective-C in my opinion, which is why Swift ended up the way it did. I doubt he ever used it very much, or had a deep understanding of it.
> Is this anthropomorphizing? Yep. But that's the best way I've found to reason about them.

I think it might be more accurate to say, "LLMs are writing a novel in which a very smart AI answers everyone's questions." If you were writing a sci fi novel with a brilliant AI, and you knew the answer to some question or other, you'd put in the right answer. But if you didn't know, you'd just make up something that sounded plausible.

Alternately, you can think of the problem as the AI taking an exam. If you get an exam question you're a bit fuzzy on, you don't just write "I don't know". You come up with the best answer you can given the scraps of information you do know. Maybe you'll guess right, and in any case you'll get some partial credit.

The first one ("writing a novel") is useful I think in contextualizing emotions expressed by LLMs. If you're writing a novel where some character expresses an emotion, you aren't experiencing that emotion. Nor is the LLM when they express emotions: they're just trying to complete the text -- i.e., write a good novel.
Meanings change

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_(slang)#Racial_context

>Time called the meme "Internet shorthand ... for a particular kind of racial violence white women have instigated for centuries—following a long and troubling legacy of white women in the country weaponizing their victimhood."University of Virginia media researcher Meredith Clark has said that the idea of a white woman in the vicinity of whom Black people feel a need to be careful because she would not hesitate to use her "privilege" at the expense of others "has always been there; it just hasn't always been so specific to one person's name".
It was known that Trump would win before the primaries started. Therefore how could it have been fair?

Mate the odds at that time were ridiculous. Don't think people in the betting industry don't know this stuff.
Emacs has deps on libraries such as pdf-tools with mupdf and telega with tdlib, but these are installed from the OS repos so they are trustful.
I had to buy a printer recently, too. When I saw those subscriptions my first thought was there will come a day when everything we "own" is tied to a subscription/account.

The days of actually owning something that you can self service/repair are coming to an end.
Most likely even that, if and when it will be done will have flaws that sooner or later will cause the fall

Purely from a logical perspective, preventing the data of a company operating in the United States and Europe from contaminating or coming into contact is a pure utopia no matter how much effort it puts into goal or any other company operating in the same or similar field.
There will always be a point of contact and a way for European data to be under the lens of some American agency or body.

In addition to Facebook is not really famous for its transparency in data management so any commitment to the contrary I see it as a paper promise

NATO's excuse that because the US finances then anything is allowed is a fallacious argument.
Yup, we've got one of these printers. Utter trash.
No kids here, but similar in that I remember sessions of long focus, and being able to do them repeatedly, for multiple days in a row. I typically can't do that as much now. Perhaps more to the point, I can't do them on demand. I do still have periods of 'focused flow', and they're great, but they just 'happen'. But... I never could just turn them on/off in the past either - they just happened far more frequently.

I predict you'll have more, just not as frequently as you used to. :)

FWIW, many of the things I used to have to spend long periods of focus on are now simple/common libraries that just didn't exist 30 years ago. Or, if they existed, there wasn't any convenient way of discovering them. So I find my productivity is still comparatively high, even with fewer number of flow states.
Is a DEI channel the appropriate place to discuss HR complaints? Wouldn’t HR have a place for that so any surfaced in a DEI channel would be directed to HR.

There’s a lot more to DEI than potential complaints and limiting inclusion just to protect that small percentage seems counterproductive.
So how does this compare to: edis, dragonfly, vedis, iceFireDb, qdb and rlite?
Beware of the Food That Isn’t Food
Ask HN: Have you started activities to replace roles in your company with AI?
Did you consider it? If you have decided for or against, what were your thoughts?
Why not? As long as you can send and receive UDP traffic, there's no reason why you can't do http/3.

Caddy and HAProxy both support the protocol. nginx doesn't have it in the public stable version yet, though there are preview packages available for modern server platforms.
8 bucks for a Big Mac at Lee Plaza on the Massachusetts Turnpike westbound! The funny thing is that the Eastbound plaza, on the other side of the highway, sells them for $6.69.
is it that easy? in which case what’s all the hubbub about?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_(slang)#Racial_context
I played the original Age of Empires when I was really young, I liked it so much I built my first website ever on geocities about that game.

I loved AoE 2 when it came out too. And yeah I loved the history immersion
You’re right in that it ought to be compared to the scale of profits, not a percentage, as many run on a loss during growth. But profit is still what matters. Including the promise of future profits.

Talking of the future doesn’t help much because both numbers will change. And punishing a company based on its future state is… not possible
I came here to see if anyone else noticed this and am confirming that there is a bug in the first slider on malloc(7). Indeed it only allocates two bytes instead of seven.
But they should. I really don’t feel safe around tabbers and the fear that someone could just lint my code at any time has me literally shaking.
Show HN: I built a web app for learning Vim from the browser as a 17-year-old
Hey HN!

After my own experiences with learning Vim, I wanted to skip the frustrating process of configuring a new tool before even learning how to use it. In an attempt to solve this problem, I started working on Vim Ninja, a web app that would allow developers to learn Vim through interactive lessons in the browser. It’s been a couple of months, and I’m proud to say that I’ve finally released https://VimNinja.com!

Check out a demo of the app here: https://youtu.be/reukQHKqMZE.

On the technical side of things, I used SvelteKit to build the entire app and Tailwind, which turned out to be an amazing decision. I actually really like SvelteKit’s filesystem-based router as well as Svelte’s brevity, and Tailwind actually makes styling a fun task for me. I’m using CodeMirror 6 as a base for Vim Ninja’s code editor, and I really prefer it over more feature-packed alternatives like the Monaco Editor, which is what I started out with but soon abandoned due to its worse performance when compared to alternatives like CM6 and the sheer amount of bells and whistles that I just didn’t need.
Where "significant progress" is defined as...

DEI goals are so vague as to be non-existent which make it possible to continue to use DEI as a moniker on the path towards ideological obedience.
How do the data rights broadly differ between OpenAI API directly and through Azure's endpoint?
Why should we? Repos like ELPA, NonGNU and CPAN are trusted enough.
1) Three-Body Problem series
2) Hyperion series (first two books especially)
3) Cryptonomicon
4) Cloud Atlas
5) Wandering Earth (collection of short stories)
I went your road. Sort of, and came back to development at the end of it. What I did was take MBA courses at university level, this is sort of what happens when you either want to or move into management roles in Denmark. At least the part of Enterprise organisations that I’ve mainly worked in. You can certainly transition into becoming a good manager without taking courses, but they were immensely helpful for me.

I was, and am, a good leader in terms of decision making, being assertive and having a general focus on the well being of the people around me. A lot of the MBA and management literature is focused on this, as well as how you communicate. It was nice to pick up some extra tools in those areas, but I wouldn’t say that it would have been necessary for me to do throes courses. What I am not a natural at is planning. It was during my stint in management I was diagnosed with ADHD, so that sort of stood in the way (and still does), and I had to spend a lot of time on “resource management”. This is where you have delivery targets and employees (resources) that you need to juggle to meet your targets, and it’s going to be a constant chaos. I wasn’t apt at this, I likely never will be, and as a result I got an immense amount of value out of the MBA courses targeting this area. Then there was the part I hadn’t really known about before, the budgeting and value realisation. I mean, I obviously knew what budgeting is, and how it’s nice to deliver value, but I never knew just how much finance and “bookkeeping” you’re going to do as a manager. Again, the MBA courses dealing with learning how we are all cogs in the machine were irreplaceable for me in teaching me how much of a different mindset you’re going to need as a manager compared to being an employee.

What ultimately led me to abandon management was that I didn’t actually like to manage people. I like people, I like working with people, but I don’t like managing people. I think you need to ask yourself if you would want to become a manager at Walmart, or a nursery home or something completely not-related to SWE and if the answer is no, then I think you really need to consider what exactly you want. Because management is a discipline in its own right, and it’s almost nothing like mentoring or being a technical lead.

If it’s really what you want, then get into networks with other managers. Look up where you can find MBA courses, edx.org has some cool intro CS courses, maybe they have something similar for MBAs to help you sip your toes in it.
How is people misinterpreting the result that way a fair criticism of their work?
if it doesn’t meet your needs, then don’t buy the device.

You use “customers” as if this were trying to be a full product. This is a weekend hack. Of course there’s going to be low-hanging fruit that could be optimized away.

Stop shitting on the guy’s earnest enjoyment. What you’re doing is akin to going to your favorite package’s issues tracker and making a P0 request like “rewrite it in rust, python sucks”
Space Man: good

Car Man: so-so

Twitter Man: bad

But Twitter was already a pit before he bought it. He fired all the people who held the line on its ongoing degradation, so it's getting worse.
Fascinating. I'd like to see a version of this with generations marked. It seems like there are more peaks than generations. For example, there's a peak at age 50 and another around age 60.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/technology/uber-workplace...
It is an old meme, but that said, a week to setup a dev environment is pretty ridiculous.

I try to have folks delivering business value even if very small within a week or two. I find it reduces a lot of new hire anxiety around performance if they can ship _anything_ relatively quickly.
Could it be that their financial packages is part of what makes it such an effective operation?
Obedience towards what ideology?
True, but Facebook has another such network - Facebook.

People hate it with a passion, but its core model has always been having real friends on there. Followers etc. are just an add-on.
Apache does this! And I do this in my own C web framework:

https://github.com/williamcotton/express-c/blob/master/deps/...
I've been taking oral ketamine for about 2 years now. Not super frequently, probably ~6-10x/year. I feel like it's been a pretty helpful addition to my life, but it's not what I expected at all.

To me, ketamine isn't really "enjoyable" or seem to modify my mood directly or anything like that. What it does do is shift my perspective for a few minutes and makes me introspective in ways I can only see as healthy.

Sometimes I think about my wife, my children, my finances, my work, my parents, cleaning the bathroom, whatever life issues I might be struggling with at that moment but the perspective shift brings a clarity to the issue and the solution seems obvious. I often want to jump off the couch and feel invigorated and motivated. (Of course ketamine also makes you fatigued so it's a bit of a strange mix of feelings). I mentally want to do things but physically I am not able to—that's fine though.

I'm also an experienced meditator and have done traditional psychedelics, neither of those have improved my life as much as ketamine has. Meditation is simply really hard for me despite over a decade of trying and failing to make it a daily habit. Psychedelics work very well for introspection, but they're also terrifying and in my mid-30's I am pretty sure this is something I'm content with not needing to deal with again.

I once heard someone say that psychedelics are like color TV and ketamine is black-and-white. Somehow this describes the feeling exactly to me. Ketamine isn't nearly as intense as LSD/psilocybin and that's the best part IMO.

My life is in relatively good shape, but a monthly-ish tune-up with ketamine seems to have really been effective.
Apple, like all software companies, ships bugs. People who write software for their platforms also ship bugs, but sometimes they have to deal with the bugs that are in the OS and system frameworks. Sometimes these get fixed in future updates, but sometimes they don't, and in any case until then something needs to get done for software to work correctly, not crash, etc.

Apple, like most companies, does not provide official mechanisms to patch bugs out of their software. They also keep most of their system frameworks closed-source. However, it just so happened that they write most of their software in programming languages are are highly dynamic and easy to reverse engineer, allowing third parties to dig into implementation details when they need to, understand how things work, and most importantly, change things as needed. It's risky and dangerous work, but every major app you've ever used on an Apple device ships with several fixes like these at any given time.

The Apple of today has very different goals from their frameworks. Shipping symbols that help people understand how the system frameworks function is "needless bloat" that "exposes implementation details". Indirection and patching functionality is seen as overhead that can be removed for improved performance. App review does not like it when people ship self-modifying code, and as a result patching system frameworks is also not permitted due to codesigning. Swift in particular removes a lot of dynamic dispatch functionality, gets stripped far more aggressively, and compiles to code that is far less readable that what we had before.

What this really means is that we are moving closer to a system where what Apple ships is what you get. Being able to make tradeoffs in this area is necessary, but the ones Apple have chosen mean that they have to be very confident that they don't ship bugs. If they aren't capable of doing this, well, it's not a good tradeoff.
Telling people to shut up needs to come with a reference. Giving your opinion doesn't. The only people who care about the fact that you disagree with them are your friends and family. Strangers only care why you disagree with them. They don't know you personally.
> So your solution to small artists getting ripped off is to take away all the rights those small artists now enjoy, so they get ripped off harder and faster by "those already moneyed and in power"?

Yes. Those "rights" are not free. They have an immense cost to society. If we want to collectively support artists we can do so without stifling creativity.
No one needs to reference decades mature globally established best practice.
replace VSCode with any other code editor and it will still work.

Vim, Emacs, Sublime are all examples of bare products that aren't very special unless you add extensions that could potentially leak data and run arbitrary commands.

the fact that only a couple extensions have been found leaking some data involving only a few thousands installs, it's honestly a very good record if you ask me.
The Ground Speed Check – Tales from the Blackbird
>Mainstream desktop operating systems have weak security models that aren't fit for purpose in our modern online-first world

Stop using propietary software first, then we will discuss your "security" rants.
Perl users have been using CPAN since forever, so did LaTeX users with CTAN.
Ditto with Emacs users with ELPA and NonGNU. No issues with addons.
Never ever buy an HP printer.

Honestly I wouldn't buy an HP anything at this point, since if they do this with printers they'll do it for other stuff.
It has been a US/EU negotiation. Unfortunately the US is not willing to budge on its principle of “we get to look at whatever we want to without the need for a due process”.
This is not the main usage. Entitled people in general are entitled about everything.

Most Karen memes I see are about wanting to talk to a manager over some perceived slight like not enough croutons on their $18 salad.

That Karen’s also do racist stuff is not the main point of karening.
> Not really, if you are aware of that and have been actively been opting out of vscode telemetry

Or use VSCodium instead. https://vscodium.com
Like many others, I’m also building my own platform to accomplish this. What I’ve learned is the document preparation is key in getting the LLM to answer correctly. The text splitting portion is a crucial step here. Picking the correct splitter and parameters for your use case is important. At first I was getting incorrect or made up answers. Setting up a proper prompt template and text splitting parameters fixed the issue for the most part and now I have 99% success.

Also, the local model used makes a big difference. Right now wizard-mega and manticore are the best ones to use. I run the 16b ggml versions in an M2 Pro and it takes about 30 seconds to “warm up” and produce some quality responses.
Man I remember the arsenic-based lifeforms thing, always wondered what happened to that. I didn't know it was ever debunked.
If you talk to this tech person (me) I will not tout that I know what the next step in evolution is. I would love for tech and all “progress” to slow down so we can more efficiently capture its value. At the same time, the real vote we have as consumers towards what comes next is where we put our money and attention
I genuinely don't know. Those that I deem "unimportant" (i.e. you made me do this so I could do something else) get a reused password.

No, I'm not going to risk single-sign-on.