skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Truly digital.. As opposed to static, standalone files designed to be printed on paper (ie. MS Word, Google Docs, PDF, etc.), which still remains the norm in the industry.

Syntax highlighted has proven to make complex syntax more readable in other industries, like programming.

We use it to make complex business language more understandable and accessible to those with reading & writing disabilities.
For a low-power device, a microSD card draws something like 300 mW while writing (less than 100mA at 3.3V) , versus something like 8-10W for an NVMe drive (up to 3A at 3.3V).
Looked at it for 10 seconds and immediately found random 0s at the end of the document or unreplaced text like “Noel Llopis in his September 2009 article[#!NoelDOD!#]”
10 years of crypto and still no real use cases. Less than a year of chat gpt and the average person is using it to genuinely provide value.
My cc number is useless without access to my bank account. The hacker would also need to steal my phone and bypass the fingerprint scanner somehow to get in there.
I wonder what it is that we do differently such that I never hear of these problems from natively European payment methods. E.g. the payment platform iDeal draws directly from your bank account but there is apparently no significant trade in stolen logins. What makes that not as lucrative?
Ask HN: Leaving company but offered a contract role. How much to charge?
I am looking to leave my current role to start my own business. I anticipate this taking a bit more time than my notice period, so I need to earn some extra money, and my current company have offered the ability to contract with them. No one has thrown around any numbers yet but I wanted to build an idea of what was good.

I am currently the head of engineering for a small start up of about 25 people based in London. I joined a few years ago as the only backend developer and steadily built up the team, so I know the system inside out, especially from the backend side. I've got a lot of domain knowledge and specific company knowledge, and am probably one of the most key people in the technical team (for now at least). I'm still hands on and so am still a productive developer.

I've been offered £700/day a couple of years ago from other companies but because of the value I can add, I imagined it would be a lot more than a normal contract rate.

Has anyone had any experience with this before? What would you suggest as a starting point for discussions?
I agree it's a complete waste of opportunity to not make them look like B1 battle droids. I mean seriously, did they even think this over?
You really can't.

If you don't want to be homeless, you're either renting or buying, and in either case people are going to be processing your personal data. You're also probably going to need a bank account, which you also can't open without handing over personal data.

If you want electricity, you're then dealing with another company that is processing your data. Same for water and gas and internet.

Sure, some things are optional, some things can be worked around by buying in person and using cash instead of buying online. But a lot of things are just not practically optional.
It's not AI. As accurate as it may ever seem, it's simply not actually aware of what it's saying.

Conflating intelligence and awareness seems to me the biggest confusion around this topic.

When non-technical people ask me about it, I ask them to consider three questions:

- is alive?

- thinks?

- can speak (and understand)?

A plant, microbe, primitive animals... are alive, don't think, can't speak.

A dog, a monkey... are alive, think, can't speak.

A human is alive, thinks, can speak.

These things aren't alive, think, can speak.

I know some of the above will be controversial, but clicks for most people, that agree: if you have a dog, you know what I mean whith "a dog thinks". Not with words, but they're capable intricate reasoning and strategies.

Intelligence can be mechanical, the same as force. For a man from the ancient times, the concept of an engine would have been weird. Only live beings were thought to move on their own. When a physical process manifested complex behaviour, they said that a spirit was behind it.

Intelligence doesn't need awareness. You can have disembodied pieces of intelligence. That's what Google, Facebook, etc. have been doing for a long time. They're AI companies.

It doesn't help with the confusion that speaking is a harder condition than thinking and thinking seems to be harder than being alive: "these things aren't alive so they can't think" but they speak, so...
This is one of the many reasons that the entire HFT world runs on Linux.
If you can't pay the government using cash they printed, thar be problems in dem thar hills.
That goes both ways. I've seen "let's rewrite all company's code in Java/Go" more than once. Boring languages have their own fan base
I’ve been writing a bunch of GitHub actions lately and immediately fell into the habit of just using someone else’s action in each step.

I went back and rewrote almost everything to remove dependencies and I just write little shell scripts to do what I need rather than relying on someone else’s little shell script that hasn’t been touched it 2 years.

The fewer dependencies, the better I can sleep at night.
If you mock out one end of the test, can it really be considered end-to-end anymore? Isn't it just UI testing now ?
That's kind of the point, but also kind of not.

GPT isn't making true or false outputs. It's just making outputs. The truthiness or falseness of any output is irrelevant because it has no concept of true or false. We're assigning those values to the outputs ourselves, but like... it doesn't know the difference.

It's like blaming a die for a high or a low roll - it's just doing rolls. It has no knowledge of a good or a bad roll. GPT is like a Rube Goldberg machine for rolling dice that's _more likely_ to roll the number that you want, but really it's just rolling dice.
Google problem now is not Reddit nor Twitter. Google converted in just a brand with really awful results and full of AdWords campaigns where it is not clear what marketers are paying for. It seems like they need to return to the original Brin and Page paper [1]. Google continue to do amazing things (e.g. AlphaZero, Project Zero) may be in the same way as Xerox Parc did amazing things in the past but nothing really new cames from the organization. BTW Google Workspace (e.g. Sheets, Docs, etc) is a good competitor in the office space. Good business execution, the search in Google Drive is awful.

[1] https://research.google/pubs/pub334/
I actually feel quite safe knowing that someone with more rigorous military training than police training, and with more familiarity with their service weapon, is ready to act in case of a bomb, knife or vehicle attack.
If you wanted something extra fancy you could even set up a Yeoman generator that accepts input parameters and builds out the starter project based on those.
I may be mid-remembering details, but

The first Mac development environment from Apple that you could run on a Mac was the text-based Macintosh Programmer's Workbench.

Superficially, it was a command-driven shell. But it was not hosted in a terminal emulator window.

The command shell was just a text document; you would type a command sequence, then tell the environment to execute it. I believe you could run it by typing Command-Return, but then I seem to recall you would execute the text by selecting it with the mouse and invoking "execute selected text" via a menu option.

There was no enforced distinction between input text or output text; commands usually printed something by way of feedback.

Overall, your command shell text document would soon get built up into something worth keeping, at which point you could save it to a file, or it was a complete mess you could discard. But visually, it looked more like Prof. Doug Englebart's legendary demo, or like Plan 9 Acme, than Bash in a terminal session.

In much the same way that Emacs is a Lisp Machine environment. Is it a document? A command? M-x e.

Later on, NeXTStep used SmallTalk ideas; Objective-C is close to being SmallTalk in C.

The columnar browser for object/command hierarchy is still used in the AppleScript Script Editor app (which predates NeXT).

The NeXT file browser had an area (the "Shelf") above the hierarchy columns that you could use for keeping references to objects you wanted to use later. macOS retained the Shelf in the Finder until ?? Tiger 10.4? But over time the shelf degenerated into a semi-customizable toolbar. You can't drag files up there anymore.
Don't know how Finland's government deal with Ukraine/Russian agenda, but here in Czechia, government acts like totalitarian authority. Blames Putin for every economical problems (there is official guide how to propagate problems with food shortage [1]), they block on DNS level (cz.nic) some websites that, according to government, spread Russian propaganda [2] and also announced that supporting Russian invasion is crime by law and Russia is terrorist state.

No wonder, that Tor users in Czechia rised over 60% since 2020, when government use totalitarian practices like state that they trying to fight against.

Also overall trust in government is historical low here. 74% citizens disapprove what government does here. [3] Which does not mean that we approve invasion on Ukraine at all. We host far more Ukrainian refugees as we should - over 500 000 which is 5% of Czechia population [4].

[1] https://www.mvcr.cz/soubor/krit-memo-putin-hlad-komunikacni-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_and_survei...

[3] https://pro.morningconsult.com/trackers/global-leader-approv...

[4] https://data2.unhcr.org/en/situations/ukraine
George Hotz Criticizes OpenAI at Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
How to Build Your First Algorithmic Cryptocurrency Trading Bot in Python
Thanks for the helpful feedback! We're definitely thinking about ways to introduce logic and conditional statements so you could for example manage payroll with single clicks across your entire workforce, only from the content of interconnected employment contracts.
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Oh I'm aware, but it sure seems like trying to compare now to the Pharohs' time or whatever is more of a whataboutism than actually trying to address the issue. Though it is interesting to think that being considered a god amongst humans is perhaps an even greater inequality than material wealth. Still, I'd rather have air conditioning and regular bathing than whatever your historical despot of choice had to put up with.
I've heard worse... Not to downplay it, but yea this is one of the more "out of touch" concepts.
https://savings.austinenergy.com/residential/offerings/cooli...

Some smart thermostats have links in their apps that search for local incentivized rebate programs. The mechanism of it is likely integration between the power company and the smart mfgr's cloud, especially to prevent blackouts during peak capacity shortfalls.

Edit: I have an ecobee4 (calls it "eco+") but I had a Sensi thermostat on PG&E that called it something else.
"Hacker" as in "Hacker news", was the idea.
Why would that be any more horrible than handing routine tasks and boilerplate to a junior and having to review his PR?

With the junior, I need a meeting.

With the LLM, I just let it redo.
It can be both. In fact it’s the BEST when both.
There is nothing wrong about the specific objection but, to borrow an analogy from Scott Aaronson, it is rather like dismissing the Wrights’ early airplanes as being slower than a train and only carrying one passenger. What is missing is an appreciation for how intractable the problem seemed five years before.
No idea, Israeli border security are weird. Like, for the first few times I went there, they treated my like a terrorist (i am concerned that someone may have placed bombs in your bag etc). The last two times, OTOH, it's just been like a normal airport.

No idea why.
We had this discussion at work too, and decided it was worth keeping our e2e tests e2e (no mocking, pointing the UI code at our integration environment). However, I think there's value in also having a set of tests that do mock the dependencies while testing UI flows because of how long it takes to run the real e2e tests. so "both" is the dream, with e2e tests being more critical.
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Is this "years of research" the reason why most Electron apps still start slower than - for example - IntelliJ IDEA, which is written in Java and Swing?
What were the challenges for the migration? Do the Wikipedia editors and authors transfer their works to Wikimedia when they publish it and so wikimedia can change the license as it pleases? If so, was the main difficulty just convincing the executives it was a good idea?
Take a look at the actual implementation on stackexchange, the slower impl is already doing the locking itself.
The difference in quality between the second (inserted, obviously professional) picture and the third (original from the nanosnap) in hilarious. Though it does look like a neat bit of engineering.
Do make sure that 100% of the input is from trusted sources because if not, writing secure Perl programs is extremely hard. The tainting system helps but doesn’t solve the problem.
I think if they happened, and we live, which probably isn’t likely, everything will be cheap ?
I've used these a lot in C# and it is actually a lot better, and common, to write some extension methods for common operations (e.g. standardized formatting). It's very common to see an "Extensions" folder in a C# project, where these will live.

So what you didn't notice is that you if you need to share SomeFunc across classes, you'd have to put it in a static class, so it's actually SomeStatic.SomeFunc(SomeObject) vs SomeObject.SomeFunc(). So you end up with a load of Utility classes with tons of static methods on them, or you do extensions.

But mostly the advantage is that it's actually clearer when you're reading the code.

It can also add quite a lot to discoverability in the right circumstances, not sure abut Java, but in C# you can include Extensions in global namespaces and so it just turns up in intellisense, without needing to know there's a special utility class.

Visual Studio has actually shipped new functionality recently where it will suggest extension methods (and classes) not included in your usings anyway, and then automatically add the using statements if you choose to use them. I thought this new functionality would annoy me but it's pretty clear from the prompt which objects are already in scope, and I only find myself occasionally having to clean up the using statements.

TL;DR; Looks a trivial change, but it surpisingly improves the readability of code, and the discoverability of home-grown utility functions.
Given that I've hired a bunch in big tech so have been talking to recuiters very often (and that I've done LinkedIn sourcing for said companies) I honestly don't think this appears to happen in Ireland.

Which is odd, maybe something to do with the fact that Ireland isn't in Schengen?
Not sure why you think python can’t do this. I do it all the time.
I love how RoboCop is this extremist satire against capitalism, authoritarianism, rogue technology, etc and we are actually living in a timeline where millions of citizens are plotting their way to be the bad guys in it. Millions of others are desperately trying to recreate the matrix. We're really in for it.
I rarely defend. Factorio is a great example of a good offense being the best defense. Just take out any biter camp that comes close to the edge of your pollution cloud, and you never really have to bother with defense.

> the game gives you a lot of tools to manage pollution

The popular Krastorio 2 mod adds even more: wind turbines from the start, more efficient ways to produce energy between steam and nuclear, and it even has air purifiers that reduce pollution. That's almost cheating. On top of that, taking out biter camps is a lot easier with the anti-material rifle.
> but she found the assertion that mass unemployment is 6-12 months away 'pure speculation'

Who in their right mind has been asserting that?
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You are postfixing your post saying that this "evidence" is not enough to support you case on its own. My point is that it is even worse.

You miss everything that disproves your opinion. The graph does not support your argumentation at all, there is too much noise. You need to explain how citations affect accidents. We fired most of our traffic cops in the eighties here, the number of citations plumeted. The number of deaths are on a steady decline.
While we're at it you can add the ucsd p-system to that group, although there was actually one iteration of it that came bundled with its own hardware (by Western Digital, with an overly complicated CPU design implemented partially in discretes!) rather than the other way around using platform-independent VMs. Sort of anticipating the similarly forgotten PicoJava project.
Who is still taking this guy seriously? His most recent appearance on Fridman is the perfect illustration of his shtick - spout a ton of acronyms, claim to be the smartest participant in every discussion, mock people who are actually accomplishing the hard tasks while monday-morning-QB'ing their efforts and when backed into a corner make an outrageous comment to stop the discussion. It was cute when he was a teenager but now it's just sad.
Considering that this lack of regulation resulted in Texas being only ”seconds and minutes” from a months-long blackout in 2021, I disagree that it is a good idea.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/18/texas-power-outages-...
Because what Google considers a good search result is not what users consdier a good search result.

Why is every search result for even the simplest yes/no question a 1500 word article with 2-3 picture and an embedded video? Because that's what Google thinks is a good search result!

Google penalises your search ranking if users quickly navigate away from your page - this means if you have a page that quickly an efficiently answers a searchers question you get penalised whilst the site that buries the answer two thirds of the way through pure blog spam gets rewarded.
Given that this is a place with a disproportionate number of "internet randos" who have experienced the same problem, I'd say that it's worth asking - and then weighting responses by level of experience.
ingy is batshit insane (and great fun to collaborate and/or drink with) but even he didn't expect text templated turing complete YAML to happen.

helm does still (last I checked) allow you to use your own transform script rather than the template engine so for private helm charts you can use https://yglu.io with data in environment variables to get less fragile templating if you can get away with doing it that way.
No One Is Happy About Diversity Efforts at Work
I was at a house party full of non-tech YUPPies (economics, politics, etc.) over the weekend. Every single group was talking about ChatGPT. I couldn't get away from it.
Prior: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35874898 1 comment
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No, we're in a hype bubble. This one includes several meme complexes, the largest of which is shouting "LLMs/GNNs are AI!"

By applying the label AI, they bring in the connotations of all the stories we have told ourselves about djinn, golems, robots, HAL-9000, Skynet, and (not frequently enough) the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
I don't recall Twitter running a denial of service on itself previously? Do you?
University of Oslo may have a room named after Simula, but that's nothing compared to Aalto University in Finland, they even have a computer science professor named Simula: https://people.aalto.fi/olli.simula
That's why 3D secure exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_Secure

Blame your government for not caring enough to have it implemented
>One thing I’ve seen a lot is people misunderstanding credit cards.

Practically all the credit card haters turn out to not understand credit cards, it's almost hilarious. Are people not taught even the very basic of financial know-how from anyone?
give https://passkeys.guru/ a try and see how it works compared to what you know
It’s GitHub, not HackerHub. That the story is reported on Hacker News is irrelevant.
Luckily capitalism solves that bit for them. Just gradually automate jobs so people can't make a living and they'll slowly die off in the gutter bit by bit. The slower it, is the less chance of a revolt.

To paraphrase that old quote:

>First they automated the artists, and I did not speak out because I was not an artist.

>Then they automated the writers, and I did not speak out because I was not a writer.

>Then they automated the office workers, and I did not speak out because I was not an office worker.

>Then they automated me and there was no one left to speak for me.
> I sincerely hope that the next round of EU laws tackles this instead of privacy. It's just as big an issue, especially if you're running a small business.

At least in Germany, you can file for a court order ("Einstweilige Verfügung") against Google - that usually works out and is relatively cheap, a couple hundred euros. Consult a lawyer, I think most EU countries have a similar instrument. Do note, you might have to file for an order both against the Google Europe HQ in Dublin/Ireland and against your country's Google office.
According to Joe Gioia in "The Guitar and the New World: A Fugitive History", "the blues" as a term for ennui, depression, or sadness and later a style of music (or several, really) comes from the expression blue devil which "first appeared in the early 1600s, coinciding with the dramatic increase in the New World production of indigo dye." He describes the conditions on the indigo plantations as "a hell that would have given Dante pause".
Yeah, finding a pretty complete article about dictionaries and having to scroll down after finding your exact doubt in one item in the table of contents is very painful. I feel sorry for whoever goes through such nightmare. /s
I don't know about ML but if you want to learn applied stats I would look up andrew gelman's or one of the newer books on Bayesian Inference ones using Stan and do them cover to cover.
> naive YouTube search seems to be either straight up wrong garbage, highly superficial, or expects lots of math preparation.

Like what? Which youtuber? Which channel? The blacklist is so vague that I think helpers here need more examples to narrow down the scope.

Also which portion of software engineering? There are absolutely somewhere do not require any math, but that means ChatGPT is also invading in those labor intense areas because everyone can do it.
This style of command interaction via buffer was kind of how a lot of early systems worked and it's kind of sad how this method disappeared and was replaced with the Unix shell (and I assume VMS) command/response flow.

Consider the C64 BASIC environment. In that case not a "buffer", like emacs, but just really the text screen memory, but same effect. To repeat a command, move the screen arrows up and hit return. Execute any content off the screen. It's nifty.
I have Chrome as default browser, and don't use Microsoft login on my Windows.
Async might be a wrong abstraction for high-level programming: green threads/goroutines are so much easier to use.

On the other hand, writing a state machine for handling concurrent events/transitions is literally async done manually. libuv, any high-performance network server, UI events handling are all like that.

I agree that doing low-level async right is difficult and might be an impractically long process.