skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why not?

because it can produce bad researchers, and thus cannot be trusted to indicate good vs. bad researchers

thus, it is a bad proxy for trust of individual researchers

>The same is true of an individual researcher

individual researchers are not research institutions, so the same literally cannot be true: one employs the other, the inverse is not true

> if they do, it damages their reputation, so they have an incentive to not

empirically speaking, they objectively do, and their reputation is not damaged, and thus above proposition about reputation and incentives does not appear to be true enough to stop it from happening

recall the topic is how to gauge individual researcher reputation in the first place. Either we do it on an individual basis or a group/heuristic basis, and of the latter, research publications are a better proxy than what school one went to, but the former is better than both
And conversely, when a dependency introduces a critical vulnerability, the AppImage or static build is unaffected.

But on a system where everything is updated at the same time through a package manager, I don't see that there's a material difference, unless you as the upstream app developer decide not to build against the latest security updates of your dependencies; but if that's the case, that's a completely separate issue from dynamic vs. static linkage.
I don’t know if this is accurate of overall consumer behavior. PC gaming has never been bigger, particularly among kids.

I see a kids ignoring the Xbox and PlayStation and going straight from the Switch to PC. The people who seem to be buying the PS5 are the 30+ crowd.
any link to openai refuting the claim?
Three sides curated from one source is not “all sides”.
If you look at the number of ex-CIA/intelligence now working for mainstream media, you'd have to suffer from a very bad case of American exceptionalism to suggest the fact they do not stand up to power (after Snowden) is NOT linked to their roles as state assets.
I really like https://github.com/jbensmann/mouseless as it will also let you remap keys to control the mouse. I went down a rabbit hole of key remapping, and can't remember exactly why I settled on it, but posting as an alternative for others to look at.

I thrive off caplock as a toggle for remapped keys. I turn my sdf-234 into a numpad and jkl; for arrows and some other text navigation binds so I never need to veer far from the home row. caps-/ for ~ I can't live without.
As a NixOS user (who doesn't even use the binaries), I would happily pin NixOS packages!

The point of IPFS is to decouple the names of resources from what's serving them. It's exactly what is needed for distributed libre software projects where many are willing to donate some resources, but few are able to donate all the resources.
So only people capable of auditing source code and build scripts deserve to be able to trust software? There should never be any other way to offer trustability?
They rebranded and split the company. WithSecure is the enterprise side, F-Secure is the consumer side.
At OrgPad, we apply a similar approach to all animations in the 2D canvas. You can try it out even on our home page which is actually done as an interactive OrgPage: https://orgpad.com. The motion is much more natural and smooth, as if things had a bit of mass/ momentum.

We have an internal debugger that can be enabled using a keyboard shortcut to configure the anim framework live. There you can play with many things including the overall speed of animations, spring stiffness, damping and more. This proved to be useful in recording buttery smooth presentations in 4K@120 Hz - with slow animations, there is just more time to render. :-D
The way you worded this reminded me about some language extensions for the Commodore 64 and 128 that hooked into the BASIC language tokenizer. I remember one published in RUN magazine, I think for additional graphics functions, that added new BASIC instructions that were all prefixed with @. Not only did this prefix invoke the new code while interpreting, it also namespaced the addition avoiding conflicts with existing BASIC code.
Graham’s institutional connections were infamous; they also famously didn’t stop the WaPo from publishing the Pentagon Papers.

Confusing the media’s (noted) biases for compromise is an error in principled media consumption.
Apache Doris claims to be over 10 times faster than ClickHouse in keyword searches. The link in the tweet points to a technical writeup that explains the work they done to achieve that. Inverted index was included in ClickHouse as a new feature a few months ago.
For contemporary discussion of this back in April, including where I dug up the Debian patches and Paul Eggert's take on this, and Rob Landley's statement about ToyBox fgrep and egrep, see https://mastodon.social/@cks/110232377928840323 .
Ask HN: What Do You Want?
Open ended question. What do you want? Why do you want what you want? Do you have it? If you don't have it, what is preventing you from having it? Do you want things that are literally impossible? Or technically possible but unlikely to ever happen? Do you think you would start wanting more or different things if you got what you currently want? Are your wants finite? Is there a point at which you could say, "I have enough, I don't want more"? Or will you always find something to chase after?
It's interesting that places value seniority and experience so much more in medicine vs tech. Things change daily in both fields--new procedures, new findings--yet tech seems to have far more ageism. Why is an older doctor so much more valuable than an older developer?
It’s a funny game because they all need their own clones of each model / product.

Feels like tech is making billions but is a little lost ?
For The Hill it's probably because they're usually left leaning but some of their presenters lean more libertarian or center
The never ending stream of articles of the form “Person with association to $topic has opinions on $topic” are exhausting and very seldom informative.

Zooming out any distance at all and it seems like most mainstream journalism is indistinguishable from mad libs.
As a professional laundry engineer, I second this notion. If I'd buy Miele for our 24/7 80ton/month laundry plant, - I'd expect it (with tech on site) to start breaking up on start of 3rd year. With every other brand they start by start of 2nd year. The problem with them isn't the price (5x the usual) but how they lock up every little replacement part and force you to pay for service for everything.
This happens to be the exact situation in Seattle. Bellevue is technically a different city from Seattle, across the lake and is where most of the tech is. But its rather low density, because the people that got in before the tech boom don't want their property values to go down, so there is opposition to allowing dense (5-8 story apartment buildings) development. This low density means that the median house price in the area is like 1-2 million dollars and only tech employees can even afford to rent in the area. And because its so low density, (and because people like living in the city proper instead of a soulless series of office parks) there are a TON of tech employees that end up living in Seattle proper. Which then leads to gentrification in Cap Hill, the University district, Ballard, etc. It also leads to nearly LA style traffic crunches during commuting hours.

In my opinion, you can't micro-target your way out of gentrification and sky high urban rents/prices. The only thing you can do is to take away the ability of local communities to oppose high density, build a lot of dense housing where you outpace the population growth and build out in basically every direction, and then build commuter rail lines to connect areas as you build out. Finally though, the city/state has to be the one to actually pay the builders for the housing to go up, not a developer which is where YIMBY experiments have failed. A developer that both contracts for the construction and then sells the finished product has all of the incentives to add artificial costs and delays when a municipality pays them to generate new housing on the market, because every additional building they add marginally lowers the value of every other building they have on the market.
> Tyler Cowen writes about feminisation at Marginal Revolution. No one, as far as I’m aware, has really buttoned down what that means and what it looks like.

Here's a thought - what's happening isn't feminization, but emasculation. Society has been dominantly masculine for the majority of history, so shifting away from masculinity is more de-masculination. It seems like an obvious side-effect of challenging arbitrary gender laws and granting women suffrage.

The rest of the article seems to consist of them lamenting the death of Victoria's Secret and Sports Illustrated. Methinks the authors have missed the forest for the trees, here.
I feel
Get Ready for the Full-Employment Recession
I’m left handed/footed. :)
Yes. Secure boot (HABv4) and storage (SNVS), secure RAM, ARM TrustZone®, cryptographic accelerators,
Related blog post that's worth reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36175655
> ACME in fact supports this, and I expect at some point CAs will be required to support it.

If you use ACME to get a certificate from CA1, then you can use ACME to revoke the same certificate from CA1.

But if the cert was issued from CA2 (via ACME or otherwise), there is nothing you can do about it. And even if the 'rogue' cert was also issued from CA1 as well (but under a different account), unless you have the private there is nothing you can do to revoke it; only perhaps get a completely new cert that 'supersedes' it.
There's always something running in the background (usually dozens of system services) so that's not a problem - plus they scale their consumption depending on power.

Plus the waiting on IO is when they're NOT doing something. When they do (playing video, listing files and rendering thunbnails, processing video in an editing app, rendering the next frame in game, playing a synth part in a music app, applying an effect on a photo, recalculating an Excel after a change, and so on) is when you want them to be fast.
Einstein’s quote about God not playing dice with the universe seems appropriate here.

ChatGPT’s universe is governed by probability as it applies to a training set.
In my culture we don't keep a live current in pools of water around the house. To many that may sound bizarre but it's how we've always done things.
Use a CC or debit that can limit charges. Privacy.com is a generic one. There’s others. Also Capital One, Bank of America, Apple Card and maybe some others have some semblance of control over temporary CCs.

Ideally one would want to be able to have a cap on the amount that can be spent in a given period.

Thanks for this! I had a temporary Cap One card on my cloud accounts. I’m going to switch them to Privacy.com ones to limit amount if I can’t find another solution.
I still think Web3D is the real Web3. Good luck this looks like a great start !!
Good heavens, for 10 years after college I was having "aha" moments about physics and math. Looking back I don't see how it could have been any other way, and it's crazy to think you can recapitulate 300 years of science in 4 years into the brain of an 18-year-old. But we act like that's what we're doing. Maybe that's what phd programs and postdocs are really for, not so much learning more but letting what you did learn actually soak in.
For [single mouse click] I use warpd on Linux almost exclusively.
I hope an equivalent [with the same configurability] will be available on Windows one day.
Details!

Seriously this is both hilarious and intriguing and deserves a long form blog post or something.
What role could meditation play in modifying this waiting period to refine the output?
When I picture the phrase "tech nomad" I picture someone working from hotels and campsites, short term stays. It must mean something else to others, as I am unsure how camping while working would drive up rent prices.
Who said there shouldn't be one? The point is there should be more than one, and that not all are a language/string library-level concern.

The context is "I guess I'm basing this all on the idea that it's almost always a mistake to confuse how a program manages some data, vs how a drawing lib might. Your language shouldn't concern it self with how many glyphs it needs to draw... until you actually try to draw them."

This means that shouldn't be some generic "length" method, but appropriate separate-concerns methods (plural), some of which (e.g. regarding character width in pixels when rendered) even belong to a drawing lib and not the language at all.

The parent's point is that length (bytes), characters (count), and glyphs (size, shape) are different concerns. The latter would concern a drawing lib or a renderer, but not be a core string method (which should concern itself with the abstract notion of characters and the concrete notion of bytes).
America Is Headed Toward Collapse
https://archive.ph/EzYH3
That is what I am talking about. It could be either in the initial coin hand, because the performer just let it drop, or the performer could take it. There is no way of knowing.
You have to guess based on the situation, and the thumb part feels like a stretch.

It feels like more an intuition based thing that might relate to some level of intelligence which might correlate to having thumbs for certain mammals?
If they have real studios using it I'm guessing this just means plug and play HDR support? As opposed some previously working set up requiring tweaking it yourself?
Hardly related as this is more server-side, but it seems CentOS is getting a lot of traction with cloud companies these days.

Microsoft also apparently going large scale with CentOS-based Azure Linux.

The question is: What is the best solution going forward for desktop productivity software on Linux?
Hahaha. No probs Tara. I've been a long term reader of your site for probably a decade or so, and i've found loads of useful/ interesting stuff over the years because of it. I honestly don't know how you keep up with all the things you post about (do you ever sleep:-). Hope you and the family are well and keep up the good work;-)
If any HN readers are into RSS, monitoring topics/keywords and finding obscure stuff online I recommend checking out her tools/guides. She has some pretty creative stuff on there which are usually free to use/implement.
My partner and I recently returned from a road trip through Cali and were absolutely shocked by the societal issues in San Francisco.

You’d be walking down a built up high street which would, all of a sudden, turn into a tented area full of people with terrible mental health and drug problems.

It seemed to us that the big issue is a lack of any medical care which exasperates the underlying issues brought about by homelessness. We were terribly saddened by what we saw.

I couldn’t even begin to fathom how you would fix such a complex problem without the involvement and empathy of the whole country.

Even if you figured out a solution to the local issue it would only last so long as people would (rightly so) travel in from other states/cities due to a lack of working solution where they are from originally. And then you would end up back at square 1 when your local solution’s resources have been depleted.

One homeless man I spoke to told me that he ventured to San Francisco in order to get HIV medication as he was unable to get it in his home state, for whatever reason.

That alone highlighted the need for a nationwide plan which would align all state governments. Without a federally mandated baseline of care for these people I feel as though this type of issue will persist.

And I think that the keyword in all of this is _people_. We often forget that that is what they are. They had hopes, they had dreams, they have just been forgotten and are now labelled as a ‘problem’ opposed to a ‘person’.
right, so your requirement to watch anime has higher bearing than the comfort of the person in front of you.
Yeah NixOS has done some technical choices to require tons of data downloads, even if there is little modification of the content of the packages. Regularly my computer has 10 Gb worth of downloads because some high level package got upgraded and even if it's dynamically linked, the lower level packages still get re-downloaded from cache.nixos.org. It doesn't matter because storage is free right?
Seems true unfortunately, though you can at least switching between the modes somewhat convenient: https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=282649
> I guess that reflects the fact that debian is a distro from another time, when you had to be mindful of the resources you consumed.

I am inclined to argue that the fact NixOS is having this problem and discussion goes to show that you *still* have to be mindful of the resources you consume :)

While public cloud resources may seem infinite to some, at least the depth of the pockets of those shouldering the resulting costs should not.
Correct. Moreover, if you shift the goalposts (wealth is no longer/can’t be primarily defined by a balance in a bank account) then society will adapt and create different wealth constructs to make up for it. So, you’ll have the government caste with nicer perks and opportunities, and then everyone else from there on down.
When is Elon getting his?
Another tool which has horrible, non intuitive syntax. Whyyyy?
That doesn't change the incentive for the admissions committee to find a way to admit the left tail of legacies without criticism.

If they want to take all the money that's on the table, they have to admit all the kids whose parents they want to incentivize to donate, regardless of their test scores.
Related, this page has a step by step process of how the encoding process works:

https://www.nayuki.io/page/creating-a-qr-code-step-by-step

Previously discussed here:

2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24119124

2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18360847
Why not just like, become a regular expat and learn the local language, become part of the culture, and spend your money at regular local businesses? I don’t see the appeal of spending time and money at little SV in Medellin.
https://archive.is/20230603023911/https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Again: it’s hard to take this seriously. The Chinese government has direct control over all domestic news; in even the strongest sense, the US government exercises influence over mainstream domestic news.

Both are bad, but equating between the two doesn’t do anybody any particular service: they have different proximate causes, and different remediations.
Did it forget? I actually checked this out recently and generics were introduced in 1.18 while chatgpt is only trained on golang up to 1.17. I realize it could also be trained on alpha release for 1.18 but it doesn’t seem to be and that’s a plausible explanation.
Yeah, not quite what I'm after. I want usb microphone into usb gadget. Bit of a pain that getting audio in takes an extra hat otherwise.
Online Banks Are Winning the Deposit War
"We spoke with 50 people who work with AI about what keeps them up a night, then took the craziest 5, embellished the stories (artistic license, y'know), then wrote a click-bait listicle about it."
> The motion is much more natural and smooth, as if things had a bit of mass/ momentum.

While I agree the motion itself feels fairly natural, there is a lag when you first start to move things around, which feels very weird. Once things start moving, they move as I expect them to, but only after a delay.

This is on Firefox 113.0.2 on Linux/X11 on a 4k@60Hz screen.
The boundaries between languages over time are as elusive as they can be between dialects in the present day. Most educated people can read English prose from the 1800s on a familiar topic and generally understand it. It's English. But to be fair, some will struggle. Further back in the 1600s, it's much harder. Does it need translation? If we go back to the 1400s, there's general agreement that it's Middle English, which is a different language, and it needs translation, as even many educated fluent speakers can't make heads or tails of it.

One of my textbooks in high school had a translation of Shakespeare into modern English, alongside the original text in both original and modernized spellings, with glossary and cultural notes. I'm not sure I'd have understood even it half as well without those.
The AI Hype Cycle Is Distracting Companies
https://archive.ph/5q7lh
Is this a 0 interest rate phenomenon?

Historically, old software hung around. And the new greenfield stuff had a high bar to clear to replace what currently worked. The momentum around something already in prod is pretty high, and big rewrites are hard, whereas incremental refactors are easier.

The last 5-10 years seems to buck this trend: you got promoted by claiming credit for some new service that does the same thing as a legacy thing (maybe even less, lol) but in Rust, or some new fangled framework. Sometimes this happens because truly, first principles, its the right choice. Other times, it can be dubious, but enough people have convinced themselves that staff is needed to do this. And directors and tech leads will get a promotion when its done.

Lately, I think there's a lot of frugality in tech: do we _really_ need to rewrite FooService? Do we really need to migrate to NewFangledThingX?

I think and hope there will be a renaissance in boring tech, and rewrites of something will be cautious and only done when first principles the old thing can't solve the problem anymore.

BTW, I've been in this field long enough to know we're all tech debt in the end ;). It's the nature of the beast that old things get rediscovered, and spun new ways. Don't get too curmudgeonly, nothing is ever truly original, but there are evolutions on ideas. And many fundamental skills stay the same: software engineering, testing, performance, team building, reliability, etc, will last a long time
Twitter fails to act on 99% of Twitter Blue accounts tweeting hate
Unlike HN posters, news organizations are generally expected not to promote unproven allegations as fact.

Even if you personally believe the CIA is still engaging in these types of behaviors, the news isn't going to claim that without evidence.
If this let's me format USB drives to whatever filesystem & flash ISOs on them then I'm golden with an iPad/Type-c with a decent middleware iOS app
I've been reading up on Soviet Rocket history and both Kurolev and Glushko were sent to Gulags for suspicion of organizing against the government. On the other hand they did do dome engineering work while there, so I suppose there were facilities that didn't conform to today's image of a Gulag
Job page mentions "Experience in [..] Proxies, CAPTCHA solving, or Browser tech is a plus" – so I guess that answers your question.
Yup, increasing the supply is the obvious solution but one that the medical cartel has actively lobbied against.
It's a paper about a (for now) internal product:

"In this paper we present CodeCompose, an AI-assisted code authoring tool developed and deployed at Meta internally. CodeCompose is based on the InCoder LLM that merges generative capabilities with bi-directionality. We have scaled up CodeCompose to serve tens of thousands of developers at Meta, across 10+ programming languages and several coding surfaces."

Looks like the InCoder model it's based on can be downloaded here: https://huggingface.co/facebook/incoder-6B
Thanks, I'm out of date it seems.
Libreoffice has been a huge mess for years. It's unreliable garbage for anyone who is trying to work with documents from other people. It might be OK for composing stuff from scratch, that is until it crashes while you're in the middle of a document. I've never found it reliable under any OS. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong, or what people actually reliably use it for
It stands for the sound you make when you cat a binary file.