skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, I'm not saying that's what it SHOULD be called, I'm saying it's a useful term for something we experience. At some point the wrong definition becomes the correct one, that's most etymologies.

It's why people say "and I" as an object and don't know what question begging is or whatever. It just doesn't matter in the long run.
I was hoping for some sort of audio stream to listen to my database changes.

High notes for inserts, low rumbles for reads or something. That could be pretty interesting actually.
interesting thanks for the heads up, i really appreciate it! I do need to find some sort of monitoring to ensure the db's are staying insync.
They also have iOS and Android apps, maybe a web app too. Their apps do a lot of integrations with various streaming services which probably has a decent staff to maintain as well.

That’s just tech jobs. They also have markering, design, logistics, distribution, accounting, HR…..
You keep using the word nurse. We're not talking about nurses, but the aides that do all the dirty work - bathing patients, changing diapers, etc.
That's a beautiful way of looking at the experience of being conscious of self, thank you for sharing it. I'm going to keep that in mind.
Garden leave probably won't be a thing anymore. The main reason it existed was to prevent lawsuits related to non-competes and loss of income. Basically they didn't want the non-competes challenged.

Now that that doesn't matter, they may just not offer it at all.

Or it might go the other way, where they offer you a year of salary and bonus to keep you away from competitors.
Now, everybody knows that gigahertz is a generic unit for fast used by the Gig Economy, when they rent a user's processor for free by making them pay for a subscription!

(More correctly, it's a rating scale for user processors, like, Gig-A-rental, Gig-B-rental, etc. So, if you target 2.1 times Gig-A-rental class processor power available in the user base, which is also known as "Hertz" among insiders, you're targeting 2.1 GigAHertz.) ;-)
I'm also an anesthesiologist. Would be interesting to hear what you are working on.
Building open source AI language models with Stanford’s Alpaca LLM team [video]
There is the classic case of the Linux kernel dereferencing a null point and then check if it is null. Then the compiler removed the null pointer check because dereferencing a pointer means that it cannot be null without invoking undefined behavior.

This is just horrible. C started out as portable assembler. Now essential instructions get deleted. The C standard is a horrible way to define a low-level programming language. Obviously, C is a sharp object. But standard C is a sharp object that jumps at you.

I had a lot of fun writing C. The same way you can have fun writing assembler or do other level stuff. Compared to low-level kernel stuff, C is not a big problem.

I'm talking radically different architectures. Virtual memory has a high cost in the implementation of a CPU. There could be other architectures, capability based, segment based, etc. But if your CPU has to run C efficiently, then you probably don't want to go there.

There is a lot of cruft, like ASLR, that only exists because memory is a flat array of bytes.

As long as the primary goal of a CPU is to run C efficiently, we won't get beyond paged virtual memory.
I'd go as far as to say that those of us posting on HN on a Wednesday consider ourselves both clever and lazy - I do! - and so the joke is little more than puffery bait.
Thoughts on AI and AI-Veganism
Some day my friend, someday.
you can follow the laws of the state you physically work in, and no employer in a different state can do anything to you regarding a different state's law
Any issue with Reddit offering a API only to not maintain it, or uphold any sort of SLA uptime, or not worry about releasing breaking changes every week?

Having a public facing API is not trivial or cost free.
Which approach suitable for you
No one wants a dirty phone.
No, you misunderstand. The lenses between your eyes and the screens will give it a focal distance of something like ~2 meters. So from an eye health / focus point of view it will be like staring at a wall 2 meters away all day (which is possibly better than staring at a computer screen .5m away!). This is why nearsighted people still need some sort of accommodation in VR.

The thing to realize is there's two different kinds of focusing: the first is the one everyone thinks of which is how your two eyes work together. They point together when focusing close, and spread apart when focusing far. But separately each eye also can focus individually. Try covering one eye and holding up a finger at arms' length for your other eye to focus on. Then switch to focusing on the wall with that eye, and back. You'll feel your eye muscle making the adjustment.

In the real world these two kinds of focuses normally operate in sync. If you want to look far, you'll normally both point your eyes further apart and adjust the individual eye focus for distance, and when you want to look close, you'll point your eyes kind of together and adjust each eye for near focus.

But in VR, your "focal distance" is fixed at the generally comfortable ~2m I mentioned. However, because it's a 3D world you can look near and far, and in that case you'll change how your eyes point but not the other kind of focus.

So I'm not sure to what extent that causes problems, if any, but it's different from staring at something a few centimeters away.
The paper lists the algorithm (which is relatively simple) but basically it is much more efficient than repeating test cases.

You can see that that must be possible fairly easily. Consider two algorithms:

1. Classic binary search - test each element once and 100% trust the result.

2. Overkill - test each element 100 times because you don't trust the result one bit.

The former will clearly give you the wrong result most of the time, and the latter is extremely inefficiency. There's clearly a solution that's more efficient without sacrificing accuracy in-between.

Skimming the algorithm, it looks like they maintain Bayesian probabilities for each element being "the one" and then test an element 50% probability point each iteration, then update the probabilities accordingly. Basically a Bayesian version of the traditional algorithm.
We are going down the path of using Azure SQL Hyperscale to address availability concerns:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/s...
You don’t need to rely on anecdata, there are a ton of studies on this.
For example:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9685075/
> Caps Lock can be a useful feature.

Being a Windows user I have an AHK script I run on every PC I work on regularly. It remaps Caps Lock into a special modifier key but does so in a conditionally timed way which keeps Caps Lock working as it normally does as an on/off toggle - but only when pressed and released by itself. If I use Caps Lock like a modifier key by holding it down and hitting another key simultaneously then Caps Lock works like a modifier - which I use to remap other home row keys like arrows etc.

This works transparently while giving me another very useful modifier key right on the home row without giving anything up. It's especially useful on laptops where I don't have extra modifier keys like my custom desktop keyboards but I now use it everywhere. Here's the relevant chunk of AHK script:

CapsLock::
KeyWait, CapsLock ; wait for Capslock to be released
KeyWait, CapsLock, D T0.2 ; and pressed again within 0.2 seconds
if ErrorLevel
return
else
if (A_PriorKey = "CapsLock")
SetCapsLockState, % GetKeyState("CapsLock","T") ? "Off" : "On"
return

*CapsLock::
return

#If, GetKeyState("CapsLock", "P") ;Your CapsLock hotkeys go below
i::Send {Up}
j::Send {Left}
k::Send {Down}
l::Send {Right}
m::Send {End}
u::Send {Home}
y::Send {PgUp}
n::Send {PgDn}
h::Send {BS}
`;::Send {Delete}
-::Send {–} ; Alt+Minus = En dash
=::Send {—} ; Shift+Alt+Minus = Em dash
a::^a
Space::Enter
q::PrintScreen
r::F5
s::Browser_Back
d::Browser_Forward

Capslock & LButton::WindowMouseDragMove()
Capslock & RButton::WindowMouseDragResize()
I'm lucky enough that my main hobby's primary discussion era is an old-school phpBB, and it's likely not going to migrate to Reddit or Facebook or somewhere else. It's great. Content is fully indexed by search engines and can be easily searched using those engines. Decades of FUD from cloud providers and centralized services have convinced so many that hosting your own server is difficult and expensive and scary and just not something normal people do. Online communities really need to get back to self-sufficiency.
I think at least in my case I dropped fusion360 when they decided they weren't going to support the last windows machine in my house capable of running it (aka an old win7 machine). I again tried to use freeCAD, but ended up Atom3d, which is probably a better choice for the kinds of CAD stuff I was doing which was 100% stuff for my 3d printer, most of which were simple boxes with holes, standoffs, and the like for random PCBs. I mean I should be able to do that with freecad, but if it takes me another 20 hours to figure out how to make it work, its not been worth my time vs just paying for the base atom3d license (which is like $150/200 for a perpetual license).

Kicad though, 100% its not perfect, but its good enough for anything i'm doing.
Ask HN: How can we help the Reddit mods?
Reddit is a cornerstone of the open web. But it seems the current management has set its mind on turning Reddit into a closed platform, just like all the other big social platforms:

- Blocking users from accessing Reddit on mobile on the web.
- Killing 3rd Party apps via prices 10 times too high.
- Neglect the user-friendly, old version of Reddit.
- Forcefully redirect new users who visit the old version to the new version

If they go by the playbook of Twitter, Instagram, FB and Co, their next steps might include:

- Kill the RSS feeds
- Completely close down the old, user-friendly version
- Take away power from the mods
- Restrict searching to logged in users
- Restrict full reading to logged in users

Amazingly, the mods on Reddit have managed to stand up against this tendency and organized a strike which (contrary to what the management says) really hurts Reddit.

Now that the agreed length of the strike is coming to an end, the web is at a turning point. Will the last platform where users have at least some power stay intact, or will it fall?

Hacker News is the most intelligent bunch on the web. What can we do to help the Reddit mods to keep the steering wheel in their hands?
This is how memes or memetics or just language works though. Things often get called something they aren't and if it sticks it sticks. I'm not saying it's correct or whatever, just that it stuck because it vaguely gave a name for something people experience and didn't have a name for before.

Look through any etymological dictionary and you'll see this phenomenon. What does a computer have to do with "to strike" in PIE? Something! But it's not the literal meaning.
If you have an employee in NY you need a foreign entity in NY and it must abide to NY law.
Yeah, that is what running a business is like.

People are unintentionally grading him on a _huge_ curve, essentially "what if...all I had to do was code and App Store?" That would be nice, I get the impression he's had a fun ride so far where that was pretty much it. Now that the thing he's selling isn't free, he can pound the table and quit, or run the business.
> wikigenesis

I like it. Better than "reification."
There's a great, if rather old, word for these machines: "tools".
I find it easy to mute and put the ones I don't frequent often in a folder and only go there when I need to. I only actively visit and contribute to 2 Discord servers but that number might grow if the reddit communities stay dark (and I don't blame them for doing so).

I would take Discord over Slack or Gitter any day of the week. Slack only retains 90ish days of text chat which makes it an awful platform for open-source projects to use. It hurts my brain that CNCF and Kubernetes use this as a platform. At least in Discord I can search thru years of content and discover a discussion instead of asking the same questions over and over.
Don’t connect to any ISP?
To appear trustworthy.

Account says buy bitcoin - user checks history and sees 7 year old account with thousands of posts, many highly upvoted, so assumes source is sane and not astroturf.
Facebook spends $500m annual on moderation. That's a top-down estimate of moderation costs for a large website.

You can try to do a bottom-up estimate, but how much do you think it costs to moderate the (8th?) largest domain on earth? More or less than that? More or less than what Reddit's current operating income is?
best guess: they have been NDA'd and the dirty work completed by temp workers or contractors.
1) As always it depends on the query. For categories like cars/engines, gardening/landscaping and DIY stuff I've found that a Bing search often outperforms Google because it returns a dedicated section for internet discussions that isn't focused completely on Reddit. Here's an example of that section from a search about manifolds for an old engine[0].

There is a TON of (actually good) community discussion on such topics on "the old internet" as long as it doesn't need to be timely.

For topics that need more timeliness, I don't have a good answer. The internet in general is so enshittified that maybe Reddit is the only good answer when the alternative is AI-generated garbage.

2) In my experience, for factual information, it's just too much of a minefield. Try finding actually accurate information on Reddit about Roundup/glyphosate, for example. Compare what you find to the actual published research on the topic. It is very hard to find correct information on this topic on Reddit, and where you do see it, it will be downvoted to invisibility.
[0] https://imgur.com/a/8NNcwTJ
I feel like the whole team that build AngularJS (the first version) were the kind of people Napoleon would have shot.
lol what do you want here. "ok you're right, the approach that worked is bad we should have waited for the astute technical insight of an anonymous internet commenter two decades later." you got it bud A++ are you looking for work you seem delightful.
Faster than axum? Nice!
>It turns out that Apple added DirectX 12 support via something it is calling the Game Porting Toolkit, a tool Apple is offering to developers to see how their existing x86 DirectX 12 games work on Macs powered by Apple silicon. That toolkit largely takes place as a 20,000 line of code patch to Wine, a compatibility layer designed to bring support for Windows games to platforms such as Linux, BSD, and macOS.

>This is my hope for Mac gaming. In an ideal world, Apple would be in talks with Valve to bring the Apple Game Porting Toolkit to the Apple silicon macOS version of Steam (I am not as hopeful that Apple will bring it to the Epic Gaming Store) and that it will actively work to update the toolkit to support more games and even add-in patches when necessary.

I like the sound of this. Are there reasons why Apple would not want to go down this road? Apple silicon in an iSteamDeck sounds pretty enticing.
First hominin muscle reconstruction shows ‘Lucy’ could stand as erect as we can
Conde Nast is majority shareholder, not OpenAI, and they're not going to be onboard with wrecking reddit in an attempt to build a moat for another company. It's just silly.

Besides, if someone really wanted to get to the data they could just scrape it. Google, Bing & co index it after all. Bit of a pain in the ass but not impossible
You think mturk workers have the resources and expertise needed to set up their own GPT?
"Tested positive for" is a vague term - were they in effectively dangerous concentrations (fentanyl) or just trace quantities because of contamination of the molds in the small scale operation in a warehouse somewhere ?
Not really a GUI then, though? It's a UI (and from the screenshots, quite nice), but it's lacking the part that makes it "graphical" (which doesn't actually include "colors or borders", of course, we've been able to do those since CGA, and terminals, respectively).
The type system _may_ allow the type of a field to be based on the value of another field. I will investigate and, if possible, we would have to figure out a syntax that makes this possible to express.
All you have to do is look at what every other social media platform has done, which is devolve into an infinite scroll of the following:

- Kitty/puppy videos

- Exotic street food

- girls with shorts/leggings showing buttcrack or cameltoe acting oblivious or holding a product (i.e. using ambiguous sexuality to sell something)

- Someone doing some kind of weird elaborate craft as a form of spectacle

- Twerking or faux-twerking dances

- A person being kind to the homeless

- "you won't believe" compilations of various things like near car accidents

- Crazy/dangerous parkour

- Some green smoothie brand targeted at young people doing yoga

It's no wonder Reddit has been moving in this direction as well. People eat this shit up, they're more profitable as advertisements, require way less moderation, and are overall less of a hassle than hosting discussions.
GATE programs are underfunded and to the extent they exist they only make it worse most of the time because they basically are telling you: you are elite! and in your school you probably are, but you're usually still in the same school. Most of the time it's just pull outs.

Also, I wasn't screwed over. I live a charmed existence that I am thankful for every day. (=

eta: 100% agree we need to teach kids about failure. I understand the concerns about too much, but right now I don't think they are exposed to enough.
The incentives are "we will give you your full salary for 6 months, you have to work for only us, but we have no expectations of you."

Non-competes are "even if we don't keep paying you, you can't work for a competitor"

Nothing about the gardening leave incentives have changed.
Announcing the Open Source Subscription by F5 NGINX
Hm. FTP servers are pretty easy. "ls" to see files. "get" to get them. What wasn't easy was finding them, and then preventing them falling over when too many people tried to access them at the same time. Napster solved that with distributed file serving and consolidated listings of what was available.
Obese people have impaired brain responses to nutrients
If it helps any, I feel exactly the same except with environments swapped.

I think we're both just used to one thing over the other.
> A ceasefire during a battle is an example of a social contract.

This is absolutely false. A ceasefire is not a social contract. It's just bizarre to even claim this, as ceasefires are most often enacted in the context of ceasefire.. uh, treaties.

> Not eating your coworkers' food in the office fridge is another example of a social contract.

This is a better example (though still a very poor one, as we have laws against theft), and the key here is that a social contract is implied or implicit. Why would free API access be an implication of using reddit's service? Almost no other social media website does that.
maybe google should fund some of the api use then... they are benefiting directly.
It would be pretty easy for someone to clone your app and just take out the ads.

If you're required to give access to all data with an API for free, it seems it would be hard to run any of these websites without having a massive loss.
It won't be on the same level until there's a consumer investor frenzy, for which there's no vehicle yet.
I love your acronym formation there.

There's another thread running at the moment about BARF degrading the machine's performance. I don't have enough information to be confident, but it sounded plausible and likely.
I've been using this extension called "Crackbook Revival" which allows you to set timers upon visiting certain websites, in a certain time range like 9-5. I have it setup on Reddit and Youtube to do a 10 second delay before loading the webpage.

I think one of the important tricks to using friction productively is to not use it too aggressively. A lot of people get started on this idea, but they almost instantly find themselves turning the friction back off because it's too much. For example, staying logged out of every website all of the time sounds like way too much friction for me, but Crackbook works because if I really want to watch a Youtube video, waiting 10 seconds really isn't all that long.

More research on what types of friction work, and what types of friction don't work would be extremely useful.
"A step by step guide to Silent SMS Attacks and Security" (2021) - https://www.firstpoint-mg.com/blog/step-by-step-silent-sms-a...

https://firstpoint911.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads...
hmmm what about traffic congestion on SMSC and inter-carrier connection congestion latency?
Focus on the Happy Path with Step Functions
Family BASIC user-facing programming kit for the 1984 Nintendo Famicom
I know someone that got a HFT non-compete for $300k over 9 months with only a few years of experience.
I think this take is rather disingenuous, especially the tech vs non-tech comparison you mentioned. Most, if not all, of the market winning products have come from tech founders/engineers. So tech people actually do know things better about what customers want. Its when the product has gained traction and it goes beyond a certain inflection point that these non tech pm types swoon in. They hype up tropes about tech folks lacking people skills or not knowing how to deal with customers. This is ultimately self serving for them because then they get to sit in the very lucrative position between the customers and a growing product, without actually doing any of the hard work involved in getting the product tech stack up and running and fine tuned.
PRF WebAuthn and its role in passkeys
This is a great point! In order to find out, perhaps we should engage some experts at a leading research institution to do some wider studies that are able to account for such factors. Maybe Stanford could do it?
Hmm – capture fleeting thoughts from the terminal
They won't because they wouldn't be able to use them, just like the GDPR and U.S. cloud providers.

The EU knows that leaving the market wide open without regulations is basically killing any chance of EU-startups existing.

You think China would've had such a big tech scene, if they hadn't limited U.S. companies competitiveness?

The GDPR demonstrated this, it kick started many companies, because U.S. companies with their infinite money supply can't buy their way into every market anymore.

Plausible, nextcloud, EU hosting companies and many others got a huge boost from the GDPR.
And not just extremism, but problematic. A cursory search of Disboard will find all sorts of sexual/BDSM communities that are openly aimed at minors.
Content sites living off ads revenue with APIs should require API users to display ads. End of story.
There's different notions of privacy. Discord isn't going to protect you from someone deliberately stalking your posting history, but it is more private in the sense that it is, first and foremost, comprised of communities who want to manage who participates. A Discord server is the equivalent of a local pub with a specific audience.

And in that context not being crawlable is very much a good thing because communities require spaces that are to some extent fenced off, nobody holds a meeting in a train station. In an age were publicly scrapable information becomes subject to automated surveillance or vacuumed up by AI systems it's not surprising and justifiable that people move to walled gardens.

Not to mention that a lot of discord chats are conversational. And the default for casual conversations is that they're ephemeral, for good reasons. When you have a chat in the analog world, you don't expect that to be scanned by everyone for posterity.