skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're selectively ignoring parts of the comment. "Darwinian opportunity ... [which is] self-solving" is clearly referring to the death of a person who blindly followed GPS directions for a mis-configured app. GP was saying that anyone who dies because an app told them wrong information was not "fit" (darwinian fitness) for survival. Expressing no remorse or desire to prevent preventable death with the justification that it's allowing the species to become more fit is eugenics.
You will never get promoted and will never get hired without experience. It's rigged because management roles are reserved for narcissists and psychopaths.

If you are not a sycophant and a yes-man you will fail as a manager because you will be pushed out.

This whole industry is toxic, from hiring to constantly reinventing the wheel and to the daily work.
[June 2023]

Likely submitted because Axios are paying for this article to be advertised on Twitter.
The Spicy Web: Vanilla has never tasted so hot
Yes, hell is other people's code, haha. But you don't need microservices to write modular or encapsulated code.
Without fixing leaks and insulation, you've done the tech equivalent of throwing large amounts of resources at the problem rather than fixing the root cause :) Your CO footprint will be far better if you decided to fix the leaks & insulation.

This is a pretty broad topic, and you can watch videos from this channel to learn more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dReyrSGokEQ

There are options to do a full passive house retrofit, or just add exterior insulation if you have the funds and inclination. Plus you can get better air quality with filtered air, lower mold/pollen issues, lower noise if you care about that and overall home comfort.

https://www.buildwithrise.com/stories/passive-house-retrofit...
Compressed Arbitrary Sections in ELF
It’s definitely not for the timid or mediocre
5% is low? You mean that having 1/20 people buy your product after seeing an ad is a bad outcome? If I sold just about anything, I bet that having a 1% conversion rate would be a money printing machine
That might be fine. He's the guy who says he's on Mount Kilimanjaro. Where is he actually? Don't know. IP address looks like France.
If you ask me, I would even remove the whole karma system on the account level, and keep it only on the individual comment/submission level. I consider it a feature that there are only a few famous posters, and most of us are generic anons and the overall karma count doesn't really influence much (unless your total is way in the negatives...)
It's not that simple if you want JSX.

https://legacy.reactjs.org/docs/add-react-to-a-website.html#... if this is up to date
LinkLab: Rapid IoT Teaching and Experimentation Platform
Try encoding video in real time or NP hard optimization problems (e.g. generating bitstreams for FPGAs) instead of running something as trivial as a database and a Webserver.
The delete submission function on HN doesn't work.
Good point. I made it like this today — you buy rendering seconds once and use them any time. Also, minimum bundle cost is 4$. Thanks for helpful feedback!
MediaTek is just killing it.

Ralink never really figured out how to make good drivers nor how to sell chips nor make APs. Them getting acquired by MediaTek in 2011 was a sensible change.

And it took a long time of seemingly not much happening, slow buildup. MediaTek trying to be a force in Chromebooks with the high standards for drivers there had helped the company enormously, I'd wager, to get good. What a long struggle that must have been! I wonder how much was MediaTek, versus oems/manufacturers/google, doing the work.

Today MediaTek is executing incredibly well. Great great great board here with numberous generation leaps. Available way before anyone else. With a good driver story.

Qualcomm is still slowly getting mainlined/upstreamed, but still has one foot in their awful boat anchor qsdk model of development that makes actually supporting &using their hardware a nightmare. And they are just so much slower to ship anything. And they have such awful shopping game, such terrible availability. Compex seems to be the only company willing to put up with Qualcomm & actually sale SBC and they're absurdly expensive & not always reliable & the availability is slower & less reliable.

I really wish there was more real competition for wifi in general & wifi AP cards & solutions. MediaTek is at least here doing what others won't: making chips, supporting them with mainline Linux, and shipping those chips to lots of people who want to make boards& devices. I'll take it.
> Assuming they don't reproduce large sections of copyrighted works

They do (or did). They showed the text around the search term, around a page or so, which made it possible to reconstruct the whole book without that much effort.
I think it's a culture thing in SV/VC//startup world and I think that group is very public, outspoken and sure that they speak for everyone.

Most if us aren't that but we just continue about our business developing new features and squashing bugs. I like greenfield projects but the choices and freedom they present come with a lot of non-coding and missing infrastructure.

A nice brownfield project lets me check in code, see it auto built into the dev environment and have QA feedback the next day.
I think both are true.

Different drugs have wildly different addiction rates. Most people who use drugs are using the non-addictive stuff.

However, the people we traditionally view as addicts are almost certainly addicts even if they pretend they could quit anytime.
sturgeon’s law applies. most of the time they are right to.

put another way, 90% of code is a liability, 10% of code is an asset.

i’m not sure any code ever moved from one group to the other, though good ideas may be stolen sans code.

greenfield is the only way to grow that 10%. it’s the reason startups exist.

it’s like all the failed rewrites. those engineers gained knowledge and fitness through that failure. if their current employer doesn’t retain them, that knowledge and fitness will pay dividends to the next one.
Also, you can try it for free now.
Thank you so much for your work! Always great fun to read your blog.
Fine, then don't make an app. Your loss, not mine.
It's a great day when I've deleted more code than I've written!
Yes, the simulator is extremely helpful for analysis. I started doing the analysis on paper, but it's very easy to make a mistake and end up confused. The simulator is also very helpful when trying to understand complicated state machines such as the bus control circuitry. So I plan to put more emphasis on simulation for future projects. The tradeoff is that it takes a lot more time up front to get the simulation working.
That wouldn't make a whole lot of sense, they already had Ingress. They were based in the same maps (at one point people were using knowledge of Ingress to find secrets in Pokemon Go).

It really was only because of the Pokemon IP it did/does so well.
Point is to make the signal to noise on response too low for the scammers to deal with. Today, they can feasibly have a person look at every response and choose the most promising targets.

If auto respond to even 0.01% of scam email, they suddenly need to have tools to weave through ridiculous amounts of data. Expensive. Scam becomes negative ROI
For bad docs, my stuff worked pretty well following them. Is create-react-app really gonna screw up my project?

Will say that the React Native docs suck because they keep trying to shove Expo down your throat, which simply doesn't work if you're trying to actually build a production app, plus it keeps changing and breaking stuff. Or at least that was the case a few years ago; I haven't even gone there since.

Edit: Seems react.dev is beyond create-react-app and now it's pushing some overkill stuff that feels like corporate lock-in. Yeah that's a concern.
Yeah, I had forgotten about image recognition, I agree that the field has changed significantly because of AI.

Indeed, I was thinking mostly about LLMs, as it seems to me that this type of news presented in the article is mostly targeting that field.
But how do you know if it meets code? Isn’t the review what determines it.
WeChat has this feature.

When you authorize a third party mini program in WeChat to access your personal information, you can choose to generate a fake profile for the mini program instead of supplying your real information.

Here's an article in Chinese describing the feature:

https://www.woshipm.com/pd/2612572.html

Another article with slightly worth page experience:

https://jingyan.baidu.com/article/c275f6ba22f54ca23d7567c6.h...
I do agree in part. Scale matters, and the challenges humanity faces with AI are much greater than with any disruptive technology of the past.

That said, we've had similar challenges before, and society has adapted. I'm pessimistic about the long-term existential risks of AI, but the short-term disruptions to jobs and the legal changes that will be required seem manageable, and are not the doomsday scenario that the media makes them up to be.

> But I think it’s deeply problematic to take that analogy much further. Take digital art. I don’t think it’s fair to compare the impact of the advent of digital painting tools with the advent of tools that systematically ingest all paintings and the remove the need for the original artist entirely.

The invention of photography in the 19th century certainly had the same, if not greater, impact for painters. Yet artists adapted, and paintings were able to coexist with the new technology. Photography opened up new avenues for art, but it didn't eliminate the demand for the traditional art form.

So will happen with AI-produced art as well, I think. The markets and our media feeds will be flooded with it, but the demand for human-produced digital art will still exist. It will be challenging to filter and curate human art, especially as the line will be blurred, and many human artists will take advantage of AI. But I don't think any of it will entirely make human artists obsolete.

Anyway, this is all speculation from my side, so I concede that I may be wrong, but it's interesting to think about, and time will tell.
They got off easy with your analogy.
Reselling access to Langchain and LLMs
Impersonation of a public official will actually get you thrown in jail, for some odd reason, much faster than assault will.
If you want to explain something in a loose fashion, that works.

It doesn’t work so much for proofs in a lot of mathematics, especially because the “common ground” you speak pf starting at would be hours of explanation behind what you’re trying to say.
Really cool to see my hometown represented on here.
How do you feel about the GeForce Partner Program?
My local weather station says its always hotter than the surrounding areas, due to the cement and asphalt in its location.
Fedora 40 Considers Telemetry
https://wa.me/+theirnumber
I usually order a custom pc from professional services.

I deal with choosing (the enjoyable part) and they guarantee the configuration works and assemble ot. IMO it is good value for the money.
I'm not a usually a huge fan of buzzwords and I usually give trends time to pass before bothering with them but this is an advantage of micro services that I really like.
Q-Zandronum: A modern netcode implementation for Doom Multiplayer
How is that a problem? It’s the hardest sporting event in the world bar none for a reason. You don’t need to be in tour to do a 200km bike ride. As far as I know, you need to qualify for Boston and NYC marathon, olympics and all. This is similar
Most 401K money is invested in index funds, which include GM, Alphabet, Meta, etc...

These aren't victimless crimes, just that the people suffering from them are indirect (economic crimes always have victims).
A Brief Guide to Hiring in Niche Languages Like Elixir
Have you studied gender queer and lawn boy? If not, don't worry, your children will.
Sad to hear the news, I have 7 years of langchain experience on my resume, now what am I going to do!?
More expensive and a pain to go to the conference. I guess that's a big part of why they're attempting to extend CalTrain to Salesforce Transit Center at a ridiculous per-mile cost.
They changed their pricing structure so it's not a good self-hosted-gallery alternative and lack of easy sharing/etc. make it higher friction than sharing sites (with far more engagement there). It had some tolerable workflow tools when people primarily used lightroom, but it's not as well integrated into other stuff, especially mobile phone workflows.
How to verify your domain on Nostr and Bluesky (for micro.blog users)
WhatsApp has always done this (to my knowledge). Phone numbers -> name resolution is done using your contact list. At least last time I checked.

Usernames are not given much weight in the UI--there's no guarantee that my username reflects who I really am. Feels rightly more suspicious IMO to see a message from an unknown number than from "~Elon Musk".

I believe this happens regardless of whether the app has contact permissions or not.
Threads may end up being the best place for exactly that. Uncontroversial content on a stable platform.
Cool! Lets say I have thousands of documents that I want questions and answers for. Would your solution work for this? I wouldn’t know which documents to send with the prompts though as I want info on the aggregate (like trends and most mentioned phrases or words).
You would have to change the entire type system to make it C# like. TypeScript makes radically different assumptions about static typing than C# does. It also would be difficult to come up with a run-time type representation that was even sensical (due to unsoundness), let alone efficient. It isn't just a compiler flag that you want, its an entirely new language.
Who knew the Sun was hot?
"Apple knows what's good for you" has been their motto since the beginning of times which is why I never had an Apple device.
Microsoft announced they were integrating GPT-4 into the office suite so I wouldn’t be surprised if google does something similar with Bard
In – or out? Wimbledon considers replacing line judges with AI
Am I unusual in enjoying both?

Earlier in my career, I was stereotyped as a "maintainer", but now I've been a self-employed indie developer for years, so all of the code is mine.

Once your own code gets to be 5 years old or so, it's almost like maintaining someone else's code. It's like, why in the world did I write that before??

I guess my focus has always been on the product and the user experience, so I don't make the code itself central to my work and my identity. The code is not the product.
What’s the counter-narrative? That the sudden, rapid temperature swing only coincidentally happened after the industrial revolution but were somehow going to happen anyway? That the greenhouse effect is a woke myth?
They have also productized integrity, which is amazing to see (and worth supporting).
Yeah but everyone knows that is obviously the biggest issue. Nobody was really concerned about the Python code which is the part that you said will go swimmingly—that's table stakes for a change at all. We already assumed the pure Python code would upgrade easily; a change would have no chance whatsoever of being accepted otherwise. Everyone is worried exclusively about the C extensions, and always has been. This seems to have been presented as a new approach to GIL removal that fixes the problem with C extension breakage but it's just the exact same old approach we've always been considering that breaks the C extensions. No-GIL ain't done until all the C extensions run, especially NumPy.
There are specialized reddit forums about that where you can give your budget and preferences and people help you with picking the right parts. They will give you a pcpartpicker list or you can start giving one and they will tell you if it is ok.

Even if I consider myself well versed into hardware, it was great to see peoples feedback on specific motherboards and ram combinations for example (in my recent experience this is usually the biggest pain point).
Interestingly, they danced around it. It's one thing for conference organizers to not say it in case they want to come back, but normally local news will try to put it in a broader context.
Homelessness. Theft. Human poop everywhere, safety.
Discussed recently on ATP[1] - this is a huge security hole. If you give access to all photos, apparently the app can search through the EXIF data to extract locations and timestamps, and build up a very accurate timeline of your whereabouts.

1: https://atp.fm/542
I'd describe the acquisitions as a strategy to keep on top, particularly when they have the advertising machine to turn audiences into gold.

What I don't understand is how funding for new social media startups has collapsed so completely in the U.S. Insofar as Facebook would buy (or want to buy) any potential competitor that seems like a pretty good exit plan. Today there is more concern that the government would get in the way but I think the funding collapsed happened before anti-trust got fashionable again.

I think you're right that Threads won't appeal to journalists like the way Mastodon is not appealing to journalists but particularly Facebook deciding news is not great for business since news organizations are demanding to get paid and news is provocative and inflammatory (who wants to put an ad next to a video of a little bomb dropping out of a drone on someones head or next to somebody getting viciously dogpiled?)
No. Reincarnation leads to a paradox: How would the last life before the universe’s end’s deeds and sins be karma’ed?

It actually only works in a religion with a proper afterlife. Not one in which everyone is saved regardless and go to heaven no matter what. One in which punishment is one-to-one to the sins in this life, like Islam.
The most dangerous silkworm in the world
Afaik no one has yet caught the “jetpack/drone” that would occasionally fly around lax. Pretty busy airport loaded with defense contractors nearby, should be hard to walk away from something like that but it happens.
“Something tells [you]”? Based on no chemistry/biology knowledge, nor any apparent knowledge of how long aspartame has been used or any studies of that usage? Or even where the WHO recommendation is coming from?

Come on, now.
Terrible advertising too. I never heard of any of these besides Pokemon Go and Ingress.
A lot of it for me is cruft. Apparently this cruft is very important for other people. (HN is very STEM biased). I come here for industry news. I typically read the front page for obituaries for dead products/services/platforms that I should know about going forward, and to see what new things I should be using too.
very convenient, the first words in the article are: "The global warming industry has declared..."
https://lemmy.world/post/1194010
On androids you just don’t have this issue because manufacturers will stop giving you updates so quick that most of your experience with the device will be without them.
Info on the author:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Milloy

Hint: He's a well-known climate change denialist.
This is exactly why for karma to work an afterlife with proper punishment and rewards need to exist.
I am a sleep talker, at least for me it would be very difficult to disclose classified information in my sleep because my sleep talking is mostly babbling, not words. The few times I have said actual words it's very simple sentences like "let's go."
It doesn’t know, this is the most distant it has detected so far
In this case the users of the app are our clients employees. No location access is not an option for them.

Nobody wants to call in their location, nor do our clients want to setup some process for that.
I know for a fact that my electronics (including smartphone) is being monitored (including this post) by my government.

That probably doesn't surprise others. What isn't as known is that the government also intrudes into chats with other people on social media.

They don't just monitor, but actively interfere.

Edit: By the way, Nokias and other dumbphones (without physical off-switches -- the PinePhone has them, but good luck getting one) can also get their mic and GPS remotely activated. The partial solution is to get one with a removable battery and remove the battery whenever not in use.

iPhones can be hacked into through IMEI if you connect them, but are useful, encrypted offline-only PDAs if you don't install any app.

Also, if your electronics are being spied on by the government to this degree, chances are you are also being physically monitored.
Looks like it's a combination of strong antimicrobial peptides and good antibodies. (They recently figured out a defensin responsible for the fungus resistance). Not sure about if you can just pop these AMPs into human blood and how long the trial process will be though.
Bad code is still bad code. And correctly abstracting everything is still the ideal. Abstractions are like hinges. Too few and everything is a big fused mess. Too many and your system is a wobbly mess you can get lost in. You need the right abstractions in the right places.

For my money the way to do that is to start with as few abstractions as possible and only add them in the places you need them, when you need them. Start simple and refactor as you go. If you try to predict where the abstractions go before you’ve designed your system, you’ll get it wrong and then you’ll either leave your code with bad abstractions or spend far longer than you had to refactoring. (Since refactoring is harder the more code you have).
Found this article about how AI investment is kind of like the dot com bubble.

I totally agree with this statement. I mean shit is crazy out there right now.
Sure, to me a library is something you call, like ReactDOM.render(), React.useState(), etc, and a framework calls the code you create. You create files and modules for a framework in the way that it dictates, and a library doesn't constrict you in any way.

But defining react as a framework or a library isn't easy, the word "React" isn't just one thing. JSX, initializing script, and the app skeleton are all optional to using React, yet React without JSX doesn't exist, everyone does it, like bundling your web app is a must in production nowadays.

React wasn't so much a framework when it started, you could add pieces of react in different parts of your page, to the point people sometimes argued that it was overkill to have the entire page be a react app. It is slowly walking into the framework direction, and the new react.dev docs violently suggest you use a react with a framework. A developer doesn't just "start" using react in these times, they need to understand a lot to create a full project with react.
Only writer I know who discusses pure JS patterns that embrace those its dynamism is Raganwald Braithwaite[0]. For example, most people I know would call this hacky code[1], when this is just design patterns in idiomatic, non-Java/C#-constrained JavaScript. The truth, most devs desire intellisense and/or theorycrafting that comes with static types and compilers.

[0]https://raganwald.com/

[1]https://raganwald.com/2014/04/10/mixins-forwarding-delegatio...
Isn't it a bit strange to say "they should invest in it because over time it'll become profitable" if they previously had it for 25 years without it ever becoming profitable?
There will be endless shortages of coins and cash
I've been a Flickr user for what feels like decades. Even paid for the service for a while.

These days, I get an email about once a month or so from Flickr telling me that my private photos are over some usage limit and then threatening to delete them unless I sign up for their paid service.

I briefly tried to find my private photos so that I could review/delete/public them, but it wasn't obvious in the interface, so I gave up.

Given that they have been sending me this email for what feels like a year now and they haven't done anything, I'm just going to keep ignoring the email.

If they delete the photos, oh well. If not, oh well. Just seems like a super weird way to deal with people.