skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting to see you write that. I feel like it's gotten better over the last 2 years, with the exception of discourse about COVID and vaccine. I feel like a (possibly informal) anti-vax voting ring existed for a while, but it seems to have dissipated.
https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statem...

Also posted on HN 2 years ago with ... zero comments"

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nih.gov%2Fabout-...
You don't "grow" into a manager, you just delegate problems to other people. The manager is a meta problem solver, the individual contributor are the real problem solvers.

Understanding the meta problem is not the same as understanding the problem and vice-versa.

Michael Jordan's supervisor is not Michael Jordan. They're people with valuable, non trivial skills that take time and effort to cultivate, but people don't buy tickets to go see a manager, just like customers don't buy manager deliverables, they buy individual contributor deliverables.

The customer doesn't buy issue tracker tickets, or speeches, or gantt charts, or burndown charts, or diagrams, or whatever manager deliverable of your choosing. They buy working software that is stable, performant and that has an ergonomic and polished interface. The manager's job is to facilitate an environment where that can happen. They are not the neurons of the team, they're more like the glia of the team.

That is, if you build a team consisting solely of managers and ask them to solve a problem, and designate one of them as the manager, they won't be an effective team. Did they really "grow"? Or they pursued a different track?
Alternate link: https://archive.is/Zd0ha
There are governments doing this already, for example Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund or NLnet's EU-funded grant programs.

https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources#grants
I’m one of the few that likes all these fees. Whenever something is free people just waste it, and mass/volume on an airplane is limited. And I’d rather have my base ticket price lower and opt in to fees for stuff that I actually value.
"composting food wastes separately (what a shame to send that to an incinerator)"

We in germany don't.

Otherwise sure. Reuse, reduce, recycle.

And I think it is ok, if in the process of transitioning from not caring and throwing all in the bin - towards sustainability, that there will be also lots of stupid things done in the name of ecology. (I have seen so much waste and inefficency, by people who think they do good) But it is all experimenting, on what works and what doesn't. Socially and economically. I am actually optimistic, that we get towards a sustainable society eventually, but I don't think, I will live that long.
I realize electric is the future and am looking forward to the changeover (even just the decrease in noise and tailpipe emissions will be a massive life improvement for people in cities), but I have so much trouble getting excited about these kinds of articles because whenever I take the hours and hours to actually follow the links through to the studies I have always found harms of ICE to be much more completely incorporated than harms of electric and benefits of ICE to be much less completely incorporated than benefits electric. It's to the point where I don't have the heart to put in the hours and hours to verify anymore.

So has anyone else followed all the links on this? Are they adequately accounting for the toxicity/environmental degradation from processing end of life lithium batteries, or is there magical thinking that somehow that process will become a lot better by the time a significant number of batters will need to be recycled? Are they accounting for the cost of the massive electric grid expansion needed to support this or are they obviously underestimating this? The article talks about trips to the mechanic like it is an environmental benefit rather than solely a cost benefit, but doesn't do the same on the drawback of the 20-30% cost premium for all electric vs ICE.

It seems like we are forcing a change prematurely with propaganda which isn't very smart because it sucks the life out of better alternatives given the current technology level. I.e. it would seem pretty obviously better to be spending political capital on changing zoning and building codes so that all the new construction, renovation, road building, etc. pushes cities to be more like Amsterdam and Stockholm (among others) going forward and have the transition to all electric take an extra decade or two as a result. That would directly convert car trips into bike trips and walking, which destroys even electric cars on the environmental benefit scale and could convert 20-30% of trips after a few decades of change. This would also have the large benefit of having the bulk of electric cars change over using later technology which should be more efficient and be a lot better for the environment (i.e. using sodium ion batteries or something even better).
If it is a laptop, yeah, not super practical, but there are plenty of devices secured by encrypted firmware that gets decoded on boot and stored in memory
The point is that the jobs are completely different. They require different skill sets.
> although in software, you have to figure out how to keep your keys out of RAM

I think you can do this with modern “trusted computing” modules.
It doesn't lose content as soon as you lose power.

One fun way I saw this was when working on LCD support in a bootloader. You do a quick power cycle and if the framebuffer location is fixed in memory and you don't initialize the contents, you may see faded traces of the picture from previous boot.
The housing stock of a city rebuilds itself over a 30-60 year timeframe though. So starting now doesn't preclude us getting ahead of things for the future. We need some gutsy Robert Moses type figures, utilizing modern knowledge and less racism.
Revenue is not taxed, only profit (revenue-expenses) is.
Agreed. I’ve done both, and while a good Engineering Manager has to be a good engineer (how is one supposed to supervise something they don’t understand), mastering one skill set more or adding a second one isn’t more or less “growth”.
In other words, don't call for help, because then you become the target?

It seems like an incredible perversion of justice.
I tried too. Awful. And the biggest chumbox I've ever seen in my damn life at the bottom.
As far as I remember it wasn't for word only. At least the dog (there also was a cat and I think a robot) were used as the windows file search companion as well.

See https://youtu.be/lnOxTJwTmcc
I feel dirty having had some of those tabs open.
Wallaby.js is a no-brainer tool for writing frontend unit tests. I see a lot of people at work struggle with unit testing. For the productivity boost it gives, it's easily worth the cost.
It was sure a good stress test for my eyes.
Larger companies breaking up happens all the time too. It’s part of the natural business cycle.
I just think dang hasn't forgotten the last time this was posted.
Having such a list on two American sites is noteworthy. On pikabu.ru, there is no war going on. Mass censorship.
If it's an existing language, companies may be employing people to work on it. E.g. if you want to work on Swift, go talk to Apple. Lots of people contribute to LLVM and GCC while being paid to do so. Search "company name" + "compiler".

If it's a language which doesn't exist yet that you want someone else to pay for, it's on you to make the case. In academia there's some funding game to play. In industry you probably have to build the thing first, at least to prototype level, then persuade people it's a good idea.

You'll probably also find cases where people do their day job for the first 40 hours of the week and their passion project for the next 40 hours, but ymmv maintaining that workload.

Remote / office tradeoffs as usual.
https://tracxn.com/d/companies/pingsure/__clamU-HXgBp5EVVJT1...
It's a different set of tasks and skulls but having a background in the relevant domain is in my opinion required. Working in ML, having a manager that doesn't understand statistical significance, or even key metrics like precision and recall is a recipe for unhappy employees and bad decisions.
H3: Language Modeling with State Space Models and (Almost) No Attention
> In the new situation, hacking, targeted interception and data access operations get an automatic extension beyond the actual target of the warrant. If a warrant is requested to intercept the communications of a specific hacking organization, the warrant now also extends to victims of this hacking group. Or, more concretely, if your computer gets hacked by group X and there was a warrant to intercept the traffic of group X, the Dutch services now gain automatic approval to also intercept your communications or hack you.

I guess I can see that being useful occasionally, but it also seems ripe for abuse. Just plant a mole in a hacker organisation of your choice, get a warrant against them, and now you can have your mole hack whoever you like, giving you the automatic right to hack them and intercept their communications
That helps, but the losses in solar panels means it’s never going to be close to just putting the plants outside.
That would be less interesting, since it's the method taught in every first course of linear algebra, right?
Enzo Clinic Labs breach, including test results [pdf]
I just got a copy of this notice in the mail; looks like they lost the entire patient database including "patient names, dates of service, clinical test information, and, in some instances, Social Security numbers."

The company is a major provider of clinical tests in the North East.
I’m sympathetic to what you’re saying, but I don’t think it’s worth arguing with antinatalists. Antinatalism is a self-solving problem.
Governments investigate imperfect weapons. Consider LSD.
Wait until he finds out JSX actually comes from PHP (it was first implemented in php by Facebook).
It looks like the comparison images at the top have inaccurate captions?
Yes I did, because they weren't as good. The good stuff was all within the four walls at Google and probably one or two other companies?

As a consumer, Google Search, Translate, Maps, Earth, Photos all have had impressive capabilities for a long time now; and I don't think any upstart could have hoped to compete with that. I, of course, think that is no longer the case with many researchers freeing themselves from the Google / BigTech Vortex and striking out on their own, having a very different strategy to enable other upstarts around them.
> While the president publicly said that, his actions were different.

Sure. Certainly no one ever accused the Trump administration of well-coordinated messaging and communications strategies. Nonetheless the fact that the president was personally constrained by the needs and conventions in the rest of his administration isn't much solace to an ally trying to figure out how much reliance to place on US assistance in the future.

The somewhat awkward truth is that a large portion of the republican political base at this point have turned inward and are deliberately hostile to organizations like NATO. That's not good, but it's not something to ignore just because the existing policy apparatus (the "deep state", if you will) is holding it in check for the moment.
"what's it have to do with" fastest is not best when it's the most insecure and furthest behind - to the point that it's holding back the internet like IE was back in the day. the fastest piece of shit car is still a piece of shit car.

"support" more support of an insecure, antiquated and unsafe browser is still support of a bad browser.

"same % as google" google does it because Apple did it and didn't get blocked. AKA: price fixing and market collusion. both should be blocked from it.

"it would have no effect" you are saying that alternatives wouldn't affect the price? You're full of...

competition would absolutely affect prices and alternatives would absolutely give real competition.

just because Apple supports the 5s with a shitty and limited browser that's faster but still hamstrung (your attempted points about Saint Apple and the Holy Safari) ... that doesn't change the fact that competition would lower prices as that 80% would absolutely be cut into by a massive number of companies that don't want to give the mafia a 30% cut.

Watch how those numbers change as Apple is FORCED to allow alternatives to their shitty options and their mafia tactics are countered.

https://mashable.com/article/apple-allow-third-party-app-sto...

"Apple will allow third-party app stores, because the EU is playing hardball Is this the end of the 30-percent App Store commission?"
Discord doesn't want to listen to the users either. Looking at the current username fiasco. Change of system for idiotic reasons that no one wants or really asked for...
I think of it as horizontal vs vertical. An IC grows horizontally over their career as they learn new technical things. A manager grows vertically as they move up the chain and are managing more and more people.
Do human editors catch every mistake? No.
A compact overview of JDK 21’s “frozen” feature list
You can't in one comment complain about investigations using "made up priors" and then in another complain that we are investigating something which could actually provide a measured prior.
There's only me in here; most of us have an inner voice but it comes from our own thoughts not from any external source.
Sounds like a great way to cause a massive headache for innocent people: hack their computer so the government can then give them a digital proctology exam.
Clippy played by Gilbert Gottfried? That was not on my bingo sheet.

Compared with the Windows 95 video guide with Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry, you can really feel the different era of both Microsoft and maybe even social climate between them.

> flash animations (the contemporary equivalent of a viral video)

Heh. It's kind of hard to boil down what flash animations really were in essence anymore, isn't it? Clearly it's obsolete now, but something about limitations really does breed innovation.
I just don't like how often it's implied that management is the inevitable next rung on the ladder after staff or lead engineer. As if I'm not ambitious enough because I just want to be a good engineer. Employers sometimes dangle the management carrot in front of me, and some people have been outright confused when I tell them I don't covet a management role.
My only problem with AWS support is that they start every ticket assuming it is a basic, RTFM-type of inquiry and it can take a bit of effort to guide them toward more helpful responses. Once you get there they eventually get to your answer.

Here is a ticket I opened recently (paraphrased):

> Me: I'm seeing an S3 charge in my billing and usage report called "AMZN-Out-Bytes" what does this mean? I already read the list of billing codes in this page (link) and it's not there.

> Support: Actually the majority of your report is "DataTransfer-Out-Bytes" charges which is caused by egress traffic to the internet. For more information see (link I already gave them).

> Me: Thanks but I don't need assistance with that billing code, please explain "AMZN-Out-Bytes." And can you explain how it's different from "AWS-Out-Bytes" as explained in (link)?

> Support: As explained in the page you linked, "AWS-Out-Bytes" refers to data transferred between different regions in the AWS network.

> Me: Please explain "AMZN-Out-Bytes."

> Support: Please close this ticket and reopen it with the S3 team. (who ended up answering my question)

In comparison, Google support could only be described as hostile, seemingly looking for any reason to close the ticket as my fault.
You're not prohibiting anyone from using it. Nothing is stopping a business from using it, especially if the price is fair.

So does OSI have complete authority over the definition of OS?

Does their definition restrict dual licenses?

Have they thought maybe creating more lucrative OS models/standards would help their cause?
Changing job from being cleaner to programmer is also interesting wage but is not "growing into".
I don't think it says what to do if you just use ChatGPT for rephrasing and grammar. I guess you just don't cite it, in the same way you wouldn't cite Microsoft Word.
Mods are going dark... So who says they have not been moderating views opposing this? They have the tools and they probably have the will? Also we need to remember that in general they support authoritarianism and are against free speech...
Memos: Lightweight, Open Source, self-hosted memo hub
Is the general consensus that the equipment was intentionally turned off, or just that something happened that turned it off?
"We identified and prosecuted the perpetrators of Abu Ghraib. "

Partly. But yes, that is a difference between US and russia. Because there they got decorated.

"9000, LOL. OK, Olga."

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1293492/ukraine-war-casu...

So do you have better numbers?

Or in general, do you have actually intentions of being open to discussion, including the hypthetical posibility, that your initial position might be wrong? Because that is kind of the base for a normal debate.
Tens of Thousands of Dead Fish Wash Ashore on Gulf Coast in Texas
No no, dirt works perfectly as a natural scrubbing agent.
> Kroger is usually pretty good about adding shelf tags that highlight the digital coupon

Yes, it's there. You need to see pretty well to catch the small/thin font that says it requires a digital coupon.

See https://wehco.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2022... (much larger than real-life, at least on my laptop)

https://www.journal-news.com/resizer/bV2Abp4e1e1DhAfhn3KYrdw... (a little closer to real-life, though in real-life your face isn't right on the tag.)
And on NK there's no internet at all. So what? Why this fixation in changing the focus out of the US with whataboutism? Others' worse actions dont make ones bad actions better.
Sure, not arguing that, but it would take an overhaul of almost everything, that will not happen in a span of 20 years. But at the end of the day, the US doesn’t want this, at either the policy or the civilian level. We like going into 60k of debt to drive our big SUVs just a little too much.
The “circumstantial evidence” is only novel if the event in question is novel, which the emergence of a new strain of a virus is not.

It is certain that a new strain of some virus is emerging right now next to a lab that works with viruses, because that is a thing that happens continuously in nature, and labs exist within nature. It’s also likely that such a new strain will not cause human illness, as most viruses do not.

SARS-COV-2 only looks novel to humans because it made a lot of humans sick. There were tons of allegations that HIV was created in a lab too. This says more about our self-regard than about the virus itself.
well, i'm not convinced that an EU force is viable. NATO has a pretty clear raison d'etre - attack one of us and all of us will respond. but somehow I can't see germany supporting france in west africa, or poland supporting italy in actions against libya.
Which helped china industrialize and develop nukes... The primary concern for china at that time was being invaded and/or nuked by the US and/or the Soviet Union. Also, it's silly to blame or praise Mao or Kissinger or anyone for the success or failure of a major country. Mao nor Nixon nor Xi nor Putin nor Trump are "gods". They are ultimately figureheads of the state/elites. You can easily tell what is propaganda by the way any media focuses on an individual rather than a system, elites, etc. Ever notice how it's always the singular Putin or Xi or Trump or Biden who is the "bad" guy in propaganda?

Also, if the great leap forward and the cultural revolution were as bad as the propaganda says it was, china wouldn't have been able to industrialize. China would have crumbled and become a vassal of the US or the Soviet Union.
Our university recently recommended the same thing, and I think this is a very bad idea for two reasons.

1. Not every sequence of words deserves to be cited. GPT-3 and ChatGPT are often confidently wrong about facts, why would you want to add a citation to this? When writing a paper, this needs to be fact-checked anyways, so why not add the original (actual) source?

2. It also breaks the citation graph. Imagine all papers now point to a catch-all reference from OpenAI (2023). Adding a citation is about saying where you got certain information from and this current format doesn't give enough to do that, it just points to the catch-all. With any other citation you can either look up the paper or—in the rare case of personal communication in a citation—ask the cited source directly. You can't ask chatGPT "hey, why did you say this in paper X" and expect a meaningful answer.
Personalizing LLM Interactions: Harnessing Generative Feedback Loops
I have spent countless hours there over the years. It was an after work place everyone could agree on. As you change jobs over the years, you still end up there, and you will almost always run into someone you know.
The way they're always open is nice too. Nothing like being able to satisfy 3AM munchies with a 5-10m walk to the nearest conbini.
> What happened to "I'll edit this .html file and FTP it up, with maybe a light sprinkling of CSS and js for any interactive elements"?

What happened are people being annoyed with hand-fucking html every time they want to write a blogpost started writing/using static site builders
“Until Somebody Invents That” Steve Jobs Apple Vision Pro Commercial [video]
I moved to Sweden from the Netherlands - i.e. another Germanic-language country just like (most of) the U.K. - and learned Swedish quite rapidly. I may use a non-Swedish word every now and then for something for which I do not know a Swedish term or where the Swedish term does not cover the concept I'm trying to convey but I do not "just use English" other than with my (Swedish) wife [1] which makes it far easier to join ongoing conversations without causing a stir by using English. Sure, most people speak passable English here but breaking into a conversation in Swedish using another language does tend to break the flow and changes the discourse.

[1] I'm Dutch, she's Swedish/French, when we met she lived in the U.K. and did/does not speak a word of Dutch nor did I speak any Swedish. I learned Swedish by myself but hardly ever use it at home other than when my children have friends over - I speak English with my wife, Dutch with my children and Swedish with the rest. Both children went/go to a French school to make the picture complete.
> What a terrible article.

> “Thirty-five-year-old scientists don’t get very sick with influenza.”

> It’s rare, sure

Then what makes an article terrible when you agree with the statement?
Megagame Assembly
Is there some good explanation, show a sinking titanic was heard both in london and new york, but a modern(...ish) MH-370 can just dissapear?

I'm sure that there are a bunch of factors in play, but tracking a plane seems like a relatively simple and a high priority thing to do, and relatively cheap compared to a total cost of a plane. GPS, satellite connectivity, battery backup and even in a case of a total explosion, at least you know the last location, speed and direction to try to find the wreckage.
Suburbs are unequivocally bad for the environment but saying they shouldn’t be subsidized isn’t saying they should be banned. A high fraction of our problems could be solved with market mechanisms to capture the cost of externalities like carbon emissions or habitat destruction, so those factor into people’s buying decisions. Tolls are one of the most important mechanisms for cities to do this because much of the 20th century was spent redesigning cities for non-residents at the expense of the local economy, tax base, health, and quality of life for residents.

We’re seeing this happen partially as the insurance industry adjusts to climate change drives flooding and fires but it’s incomplete and needs to be combined with zoning reform in many cities.