skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not directly relevant to the article, but I'm in the middle of a unique-for-me experience re salary negotiation. My interview process with a FAANG reached the point where I had a verbal "yes" and was invited to share my salary expectations for an offer to be created. I gave a certain number and explained that it is based on my current compensation in the same location, plus some extra because the role would be for a higher title. The FAANG recruiter said the result was out of the salary range for the role, which was not terribly surprising. I answered by reiterating how I'd come at the number, that it's effectively just a guess, and explaining that I'm happy to consider any offer they make, which is accurate. At this point, they essentially stopped negotiations, and the offer appears to have gone up in smoke.

Now, I understand the psychological impact a too-large number might have on an individual. But this is a grown-up company. I gave them the gift of free information about the salary market and then invited them to ignore it. So I'm baffled by the response. The only explanation I can fathom, besides mundane ones like the headcount being withdrawn for reasons unrelated to my hiring process or the verbal yes being unreliable, is that they are unwilling to give away their own salary info to someone they believe will noever take their offer. And that itself is quite odd, since it implies their numbers are so uncompetitive in this location that they're unwilling to credit my assertion that I'll consider any offer.

Alternative takes?
I just tried this and got "Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at file:///home/**.js. (Reason: CORS request not http)" in firefox
I'd willing work on it nowadays, Node is really fast. Deno is really fast too, and TypeScript makes it pretty amazing to work with.

I think the ecosystem needs love again, because outside of Fastify I feel like server side JavaScript that isn't targeting a Lambda or Cloudflare worker type environment is a little spare of good options.

That said, Fastify is pretty amazing, and if you use graphql the main GQL servers are usually Apollo (JS based) or GraphQL Yoga (Also JS based), and they're really good.

One area that intensive JavaScript needs work on though is Machine Learning / Scientific computing. `number`, `BigInt` and `Math` aren't enough here. We need more built-ins added to the language around this (particularly around `Math`) IMO
I developed this tool as a practice and composition aid. Real work in creating music still needs to be done by musicians.
That seems extremely petty if true.

FWIW, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_web_syndication_tec... notes that Atom was a side-effect of RSS being frozen. Also FWIW, Dave gave Atom (then Echo) a tentative early endorsement:

"If and when it reaches closure, I will recommend to UserLand that they support the format, both for input and output, and I will help to the extent I can to write drivers for the software. I will continue to answer questions for the people working on Echo, and offer my opinion when it appears to be welcome, but will step back when it is not." — http://backend.userland.com/2003/06/26

And, true to his word, Dave added support for Atom in UserLand products in 2007.
I've been waiting years and will wait more for PyTorch etc to work under Mesa rather than install RocM
Interesting that the top major of student loan holders is Nursing
https://educationdata.org/student-loan-debt-by-major
Also student loans and the funding of education and the artificial scarcity and perverse incentives that it produces is one of the direct causes of the shortage of medical professionals of all stripes in the US.
https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/lawmakers-fixes-healthca...
As the OP that I responded to argued, the risk of loans prevented him from pursuing a degree. That risk most definitely plays apart in prospective medical students deciding to enter the field because if they fail at any point in that journey they are directly responsible for a ungodly huge sum of money.

Also the moral hazard argument is a red herring to rage bait the blue collar segment of the population and disregards the breadth of actual majors of student loan holders. And secondly it still does nothing to address the actual government policy decision that gave rise to this problem.
The policy of student loan (public and individual student risk) vs direct public funding (public and institutional risk).
> I wonder if there's a possibility that this will shake Youtube from it's dominance.

Sadly, very unlikely. I recommend AdBlockers and YouTube app alternatives without ads to basically everyone and the vast majority of people would rather watch ads than deal with installing something even if it'll take a few seconds.

There's enough of us (adblock users) for Google to want to take profit from but not enough to make a dent in YouTube's monopoly even if we all moved to something else.
What about search engines?

If you post something to the public internet, you lose privacy ... that's how internet works.

For this we have robots.txt and authentication ... if a site allows you to browse their content, it's free to take, whatever the purpose.
Ads also constitute a security and privacy threat and are frequently an attack vector for phishing schemes - even on Google search. I'm not going to disable my adblocker and risk becoming a crime victim.
obviously not there yet, otherwise AMD stock will be doubled.
Supreme Court Rules Web Designer Can Refuse Work on Same-Sex Wedding Announcemen
Its an annoying bug, isnt it? Will fix it ASAP!
https://archive.ph/iW601
Huh, almost all of my CDs work great. Are you talking about pressed CDs or CD-Rs? The latter definitely have a much shorter shelf-life than the former.
Firebase at large seems too good to kill. They could sell it instead.
> Does the clothing you wear sport a logo?

Yeah but it's not against their TOS to buy the clothes and cut the logo out.

> Does your computer have an Intel Inside sticker on it?

Yeah but it's not against their TOS buy an Intel processor and take the sticker off.

> An Apple maybe?

Yeah but it's not against their TOS to buy an Apple laptop and put a sticker with a 4 pane window on top of the Apple sticker.

> Perhaps it's emblazoned with Lenovo.

Perhaps it is, but it's not against their TOS to put an IBM sticker over the Lenovo sticker.

> How about the car you drive? Does it not proudly display the manufacturer's logo? Did you ask the dealer to remove their stickers and plate surround?

Yeah but it's not against the TOS to..

Hopefully the point is clear.
exotic/adventure travel is even more rare nowadays. The rise of social media has funneled most travelers towards a few high-infrastructure hotspots like Bali, Yellowstone, and Barcelona. Historically, travel was performed much more 'blind', rather than following the internet-registered locations and reviews.
Thanks for sharing. Will try it
> I learned to code making mIRC bots

Hah, same. I went really far with mIRC scripting, much pain was had. Hard lessons that built a career i imagine.
Mass radicalization depends on mass immiseration; when most people are generally satisfied with how things are going, the cranks stay on the fringe. Smart cranks know this, and spend their time on the fringe organizing access to communications such that when people cease to be satisfied and start looking for radical alternatives, they're all ready and set to go bringing their program to the masses. Facebook has already shown itself to be great for that.
Ah, I read step 3 as "a bunch of data gets condensed into one public indicator" rather than "a bunch of data gets published"
> I think the real risk isn't that AI improves and gets better than an employee.

As long as they are less intelligent than us, they probably won't spiral out of control. The real risk is that they get substantially smarter than us. Gorillas can't control us, because we are smarter. We don't even actively dislike them, but they are nonetheless threatened with extinction. We do not want to be in the role of the gorillas.
I made it a habit to run `eject /dev/sda` (as root) before removing a USB stick. That flushes pending writes and makes it impossible for new writes to occur before the stick is removed and re-inserted.

Just `sync` also works but it's asynchronous, so you don't really know how long to wait until the writes are flushed to disk (especially for USB sticks which can be really slow when writing).
RAID cards back in the day, and some enterprise SSDs today either had batteries or capacitors in order to finish the write, even if the power turned off.

They tell the OS that the write has synced even when it has not as it has confidence that it will.
I also went to an elite university from a non-elite background, and in technology, it has not benefitted me - few of the Uber rich people I met went into technology-proper, those that did are largely mediocre and not valuable connections, and as far as I know none are VCs either.

I would have rather gone somewhere like MIT or Caltech where there are fewer legacy admissions/admissions from uber wealthy feeder schools, as I feel the value of my connections would have improved. I don’t think those schools are particularly suffering for reputation either
Most people you see on the media are unhealthy. From the largest to the smallest, they're mostly all unhealthy and performing very dangerous things like prolonged dehydration.

So it's interesting to see how much focus gets shifted onto obesity specifically while ignoring all else. It's all disgusting messaging, that young model selling you a perfume who hasn't eaten anything but an almond all day, that shredded guy telling you to buy compression shorts, those obese people telling you these pants stretch.
For me, it's more of a database to keep track of books I want to read in the future. I can't read everything immediately after reading a recommendation or seeing it mentioned somewhere. Mostly I use goodreads to organize this list. It ends up getting into the "read" list after, but that part isn't as important. And when I am approaching an empty stack of books to read, I go on there and try to pop from the top of the stack on my "want to read" high priority list.

Also yeah, the recommendation system is pretty bad. I can't believe they can't do better with all the ratings data they have. I get recommendations externally, but track them in goodreads.
what are the contemporary gold standards?
> The mercenary might get caught afterwards, before, or just be a Russian double agent from the start.

If you're going to make things up, it might be an entirely successful poisoning done by the girlfriend of the head of the gang, days after her mom's bills for cancer treatment were entirely paid off. Then, a rumor goes around that she killed him to get to a secret account, and the evidence is that her mom's bills were paid off mysteriously. Days later, she's found dead in an alley; people assume that she was a victim of another member of the gang - even the other members of the gang assume it, although no one is talking. Meanwhile, it was an agent that had been placed as a clerk at a local tax office, on his lunch break.

If we're making things up.
Aren't the 'roots of math' fully empirical and inclusive of all sets? How can roots be changed without a redo of the universe?
The Computer will protect your cubicle. The Computer is your friend. The Computer wants you to be happy. Happiness is mandatory. Failure to be happy is treason.
Sketch doesn’t have all the features of Figma, but it is backed by a sustainable company who haven’t taken on vast amounts of funding.

We really needed the real-time collaboration features, which Sketch didn’t have at that time so we went with Figma. I was concerned that it only had a couple of years left in its current state, which sadly seems to be true.

Penpot is an interesting upcoming alternative, though it’s not ready for prime-time yet.
AlmaLinux should just start their own RHEL, with blackjack and hookers...

They have a company behind them, they have values, so why ride Red Hats coattails? Start your own distro.

They could even try and make it somewhat compatible with RHEL, in the sense that famous proprietary software like EMC and Dell stuff could run on it. A lot of times it's just a matter of having the right RPMs, environments and strings in all the right places to get them to run.
It's pretty simple: If I don't know of anyone who does X, then X practically doesn't exist within my universe.
It's a shame everything used to come with a diagram. Now we resort to CT and x-rays.
Take heart -- I've been in a position to see the source to a lot of high-end software, including some games, Windows, etc.

One thing that it all has in common is that the source is rarely better than ugly. It's unlikely that yours is any worse than most others.
This app is a hobby project and is in the initial phases. I removed the option for chords like m7b5 in the UI for now. I will re-enable it when I finish performing tests on GPT-4's response.
How about the ones that surveil your usage of the device and phone it all home to Samsung?

The issue isn't bloat - the issue is spyware.
Love this, this may actually help me to reduce my consumption of Youtube videos even further. That would be a good thing. All creators I like are also on other paid platforms. Thanks google for helping me migrate.
FWIW they did it[0]. Alameda is promise based AMD from the same folks that were key in AMD being successful when it was so successful

[0]: https://github.com/requirejs/alameda
The doctor refusal step has already happened in Florida. They passed a very vague bill giving medical practitioners and organizations the right to refuse care based on religious belief: https://www.aclufl.org/en/press-releases/aclu-florida-statem...
> The same thing can also happen in RSS feeds […]: Entity-encoded HTML strings or CDATA HTML strings do not have any guarantee of well-formed-ness.

I wrote a podcast validator, and I don't think that's true — every RSS feed must be "well-formed" XML.

(Note that all "valid" XML documents are "well-formed", but "well-formed" XML documents are not necessarily "valid".)
When the legislature writes laws that give the President the power to modify or waive student loan debt in the case of a national emergency, and then we have a declared national emergency - the court has absolutely no grounds to say, "That's not what congress meant when they wrote the plain text of the law". It's absurd on its face - even more so for a body that pretends to be "textualist" when it suits their political goals.

Whatever you think of the actual forgiveness plan, Biden clearly had the power to enact it. John Roberts will go down as one of the worst Chief Justices in the history of the court and this majority with their incoherent opinions and complete flouting of ethics norms will likely be responsible for a complete revamp of the SC.
On my projects it kind of works. Given the usual driver installing work. Depending on the card you'd have to use some env flags like HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION to make it not crash.
Haha! love it
AsciiDoc still has no footnotes, but only endnotes. Therefore not really useful for writing non-fiction books. As org-mode files are only text files, you can use any editor you like. If you want all the goodies (agenda, TODOs etc), you have to use Emacs, yes.
Of course it did. This is how AI is trained and becomes profitable with current business models. It uses your content without paying you for it to generate new content.

AI can be one of the most powerful forces in the world but it needs to pay content creators. If people stop creating new content for AI to train on then it will get stale.

AI can be the product of our dreams and our passions but we need to make sure those who choose to create and share content to train it are treated fairly and compensated when applicable.
Somebody please rewrite that thing over URLs, static site generators, rss and cloud functions. We would loose search (delegated to internet search engines) and perhaps hashtags (at least for a while) but it would be largely the same for the main features and scalable without need of federation.

You would still not be able to edit tweets to some extent, and we would be back to be able to get just the last x tweets for a given user, but for sure we would stop this madness.

There are a lot of tradeoffs to be made, but the core functionality to get things working for the core use cases would still be there.
> how significant was Evi Nemeth's UNIX administration handbook to you?

Never encountered it. I presume it was available in the UK, but my Unix courses in college didn't use it, and after college I started off as a CAD operator, using Tektronix SVR4 workstations with 4109 terminals running Teknicad, which is where I became quite intimate with SVR4 as I was a bit of a computer nerd ;)
I have a pre-built query for that on all my templates using spot instances:

https://github.com/rcarmo/azure-stable-diffusion#cheapest-sp...
`import(...)` returns a `Promise`, so it can resolve in the future after the file is parsed and compiled.
I could have hoarded it for myself by paying myself a higher wage, or I could have fired all my employees and hired my family members.

I suspect this happened more than a few times.
$100B wealth migration tilts US economy to the South
> No single change is going to produce AGI. We're going to have a lot of forewarning, and it'll be obvious we're opening Pandora's box.

I don't know. vision seemed like a huge evolutionary leap. Just about everything has eyes, because anything without eyes died.

There may be a way of looking at the world humans haven't thought of. maybe it's something structural in the kinds of concepts we can actually represent. We know limits about formal systems and that some things can't be built using those formal systems.

Not to be all doomer about it, but that's the awesome thing about evolution. Some times the roll of the dice pays off big. We're searching because we don't have a good model of the problem space. If we knew what was out there, we wouldn't be searching.
Most of your examples are literally works of fiction.

The possible exception:

> The creator of the first hardware perceptron in the late 1950s predicted it would be sentient with a decade.

I can't find a reference for (just tried searching, a few variations, no hits where they made that claim).
Use DICE and the once-legendary Battlefield series as an example.
And what’s even better is our culture in-turn celebrates sociopaths as successful role models.
I recently unblocked ads on a website that I use semi frequently in an effort to contribute to them as they had crossed my threshold for something I feel I should pay for. The page erupted into animation and sound. I immediately turned my blocker back on. Sorry website, you're quite useful but I won't subject myself to that.
>Nobody seemed to have an issue with giving loan forgiveness to businesses. Why do we allow businesses to socialize their losses and privatize their profits?

Which loan forgiveness program are you talking about? The PPP loans was explicitly designed from the outset to be forgiven, if they were used for payroll. In the end it was a roundabout way for the government to ensure people continued to get paid during lockdowns, not a way to "socialize their losses and privatize their profits".
Sure it is. I've used it via require.js. There were other ways too.
From https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/06/supreme-court-strikes-dow... :

>> On Friday the justices upheld that ruling, finding that Missouri has standing to challenge the debt-relief program because the financial harms to MOHELA from the program will also harm Missouri. Missouri created MOHELA to help state residents obtain student loans to pay for college, Roberts reasoned. It is operated by “state officials and state appointees, reports to the State, and may be dissolved by the State.” If the debt-relief program goes into effect, he observed, MOHELA’s revenues will fall, “impairing its efforts to aid Missouri college students” – which in turn “is necessarily a direct injury to Missouri itself.”
I use an ad blocker and I haven't gotten any such notifications about this. Are they only deploying it on certain devices and not others?

I exclusively watch Youtube through the browser on desktop.
Israel no longer gives you any visa stamps in passport.

https://www.touristisrael.com/the-israeli-passport-stamp/974...
My impression from being somewhat involved in the (early) communities of Rocky and Alma, is that the Rocky people are quite a bit looser with violating EULAs, ToS, etc. Sometimes that is the superior approach, but with something like RHEL rebuilt it makes me nervous. Alma by contrast are very professional. Rocky also has an antagonistic view toward Red Hat, while Alma views Red Hat as partners. People can hate on Red Hat, but without them none of the rebuilds would even be possible. There's still a lot that Red Hat could do to kill them if they wanted to.

Anyway my main point, I'm not worried about Alma getting wiped out, or about them making a bad decision that ends them in legal hot water and jeopardizes the project.
> <sweeping generalization>

I suppose you're not a big fan of puppies then?

> right to repair

This has absolutely nothing to do with copyright except that you lump them both together under "freedom". That's your arbitrary grouping, not mine. You're free to use tape to fix your copy of Harry Potter if it rips. Nobody has ever disputed that. You're not free to mass produce copies of it and sell it for profit.

I am arguing that it's okay that an author enjoy copyright protection on the book, and you're here saying "you're telling me I can't even tape a ripped page in MY copy of Harry Potter!?". It's inconceivable to me that you're making that argument in good faith. I simply do not believe you that you don't see the difference in those situations. If you're about to make the argument that in order to repair a John Deere tractor, you need the right to copy their code into your own competing line of tractors, you've gone off the deep end.

> Perhaps you should revise your expectations to be realistic?

Perhaps we should all work to bring about the world we want to live in, instead of playing Prisoner's Dilemma?