skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Full tuition is still merit based admission in theory. I mean there should be a quoted price for completely merit blind admissions.
Anything using a blackbox (AI, humans, unknown codebase) is a security risk.
> Many interviewers fail to provide enough context and that leaves the interpretation of the prompt too wide open

So do clients/customers. What's your point? That an interview to assess whether a developer can elicit requirements should be less hard than dealing with an actual customer?
I'm honestly not convinced that good and wise men or women can effectively rule.

I'm not sure how to get around the necessity to occasionally make decisions that will cause suffering and death, either through violence or neglect. Occasionally, the most well-intended of decisions will cause death or suffering by accident. And the reality of the situation is that we need leaders who while trying to minimize the harm of their decisions, keeps making clear decisions even after their decisions cause enormous harm. Ordering a missile strike that kills 100 people, even if they are evil to the last, requires a certain kind of callousness, a certain amount of seeing the bad people as bad first, and people last. I think a lot of folks in the military square that spiritual cost as their obligation and find strength in being the one to make that sacrifice. To win elections, you have to want to be that kind of person from the jump.
I think any and all AC units sold in europe (split systems with inside and outside module) can do heating and cooling just fine with great efficiency. Many models rated to work at -20C, sometimes -30C
more great leadership from the Biden team.... Maybe a few on the team snorted too much powder in the White House? A reasonably sized volcano will serve the same purpose...
Support for ActivityPub, the protocol behind Mastodon, coming into Threads
Traditions must begin at some point in time. Clearly, "traditions" that started 5 years ago are not considered traditions in the common usage of the word and concept. But assuming that in Italy the tomato began to be used in 1550 or so, I, and surely many others, can certainly consider the tomato a traditional food for Italy.
I'm fairly certain we're near - or even past - the point where burning natural gas to run a generator to power a heat pump will use less gas than burning the gas directly for heat.
For sure. I've tried it (not that I had to go on there often) but it doesn't really help. It will just make _everything_ tiny and weird, lol.
Odd that you felt it necessary to copy and paste the rules without fully reading them.

> Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead.

Frankly, your wall of text is less helpful to the discussion here than the comment you're replying to.

Note: I have no opinion on what you and the other commenter are talking about.
I seem to recall reading that McVeigh broke into the storage magazine(s) at some local rock quarry and stole dynamite and blasting caps, which would be plenty to set off his home made ANFO (actually ANNM IIRC, but I digress). Guess I'll have to do some research to confirm my memories.
It is a paid collaboration however.
I recently tried both Alacritty and Kitty out of curiosity and went back to iTerm ASAP. For me, on OSX, iTerm is the only one that gets the font handling right.
Java JAR files are similar, but reversed. You can add anything you want to the beginning of the JAR file (or is it any ZIP file?) so long as it doesn't include the Zip file header "PK". So, I use this to prepend a bash script that ultimately calls

java -jar $0

It makes it very easy to setup and use Java based command line programs on a server.
Note Game for Amiga from 1995 released today as Open Source
We are building a cyber foundry in Los Angeles to reshore American manufacturing. Using in-house composites, Rangeview 3D prints highly complex ceramic parts and pours molten metal into them autonomously. Our process can make components with material and geometric specifications no other metalic manufacturing process is capable of. We have worked with Rivian, Boeing, Airbus, and are aiming for military spares for planes like the F22. The founding team met doing VEX, FRC and Battlebots. https://rangeview.co/
Made with Blitz Basic 2.
I can only speculate, but in my last replacement scenario, higher-SEER units (17+) had dramatically higher quotes, to the point where it was difficult to justify financially. On top of that, there were dramatic (~100%) variations in prices on similar equipment (but different brands) between installers. I can only imagine that regional differences are yet another source of variation...

All that is to say, my first guess is that the GP was quoted a high-SEER unit for name-ish brand equipment.
I'd be curious to take a stab on your problem. I could arguably say it is simpler as it is just purely documented mathematics.

And/or you could use a prompt injection strategy to make sure it does have the available context to solve your problem.

e.g. a vector search for some text book snippet that gets injected in
It's an AI outsourcing work to humans.

We'll be seeing more of that.
I've been debating on going for a graduate education now that I'm retired, and I know this is an amusing game, but holy hell is it depressing.

Not sure I want that much stress in my life anymore!
That happens with everything. People talk about movies without having seen them, discuss what woodworking tools are best with no intent to buy them, and the relative value of random sports cars without ever being able to afford them.

If newspapers would be able to charge people for referencing an article, then why shouldn't Lamborghini be able to charge people who talk about the Aventador?
Minor nit: every "shar" I've seen (from distant memory) used a "here document" rather than appending (possibly binary) data to the end of a shell script.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_document
Not according to Levels

https://www.levels.fyi/companies/walmart/salaries

The highest one in retail is Walmart.

Level 5 comp for Walmart is about the same as a mid level developer at Amazon and Amazon is in the middle of the pack for tech compensation.

Again you still refuse to name a company and level and numbers.
Why do you think NetBSD is more popular? Of all the BSDs FreeBSD is by far the most widely used.
And they never shower?
> how would it be different than antitrust enforcement?

I think the benefit of such an imaginary rule is that in your imagination it’d actually be enforced.
Ok, but, quick question, what quality law firms out there are happily taking on a contact with a client with known issues not paying their contracts?

"Quality" being the explicit delineator?

Surely there aren't many powerful and good law firms who would lie to themselves and say, "Yeah, sure, Elon's not paying his bills, but whether or not I get him off the hook this time, he'll definitely pay me because otherwise I'll sue him, too?"
Actually, the death toll from hydro is many orders of magnitude worse than nuclear. It's almost insulting to compare them. (And before anyone pipes up, you don't get to exclude Chinese hydro from the ledger, for the same reason we don't exclude Soviet Union nuclear.)
Ask HN: Google Load Balancer / Cloudflare Issues
Hi HN,

I am a bit of a loss so I am coming to Hacker News in the hopes someone has seen anything like this.

Approximately 6 hours ago we started getting a very strange error back from our site, that appears intermittently:

"<html><title>Error 500 (Internal Server Error)!</title></html>"

This error is a little bit strange, with only an HTML title and no body and a '!' being used. From a Google we can find no other references to this error, I did a search on Twitter and found 1 other reference to it, which is from a users complaining they can't get access to "https://beta.character.ai/". We verified that they are also seeing the same issue. The interesting this is that our site, also has the word beta in it which seems a bit suspicious.

We are running our site behind Cloudflare which is pointing to a Google Cloud Load balancer, from investigating the headers on "https://beta.character.ai/" we can see they are running a similar setup.

We have struggled to 100% identify if the issue is sitting with Cloudflare or Google but my current suspicion is Google.

If anyone has seen anything like this before, or can provide any assistance I would be very grateful.

Thanks,
Stephen
Early impressions:

- The app is very clean. Black text on white background. Only the bare minimum functionality – post threads, follow accounts, see a single (algorithmically curated) feed. Not flashy, no ads. Of course chances of it staying this way are close to zero.

- There is no "trending" section, which is surprising. You'd think that was one aspect of Twitter they would have copied first. Or maybe they are waiting to introduce it over the coming days once there are more users.

- They managed to pre-seed a ton of content from celebrities and other top Instagram accounts, so even on day 0 with a brand new account you start with a full feed and the place seems "alive".

- App is handling the incoming load like a champ. Everything loads with no perceptible lag, even though I'm sure it is getting hammered from every angle right now. This is where the backing of Meta engineering shines (over Twitter/Bluesky/Mastadon etc. which have all struggled to stay up lately).

- There isn't Fediverse support yet but your profile does show which server you belong to (right now threads.net by default), which is pretty neat.
Imagine you meet a human who is eloquent, expressive, speaks ten languages, can pass the bar or the medical board exams easily, but who cannot reliably distinguish between truth and falsehood on the smallest of questions ("what is 6x9? 42") and has no persistent memory or sense of self.

Would you be "comforted" that this mega-genius is worse at arithmetic than you are and doesn't remember what it did yesterday?

Probably not. You might well be worried that this weird psychopath is going to get a medical license and cut the wrong number of fingers off of a whole bunch of patients.
Why are European hotel beds so bad?
If you knew anything about this you'd know "Walmart" isn't what you search.

But if you knew anything about English you'd know "ballpark" doesn't mean "exactly equal".
Finding the Neural Correlates to Consciousness Is Still a Good Bet
All you needed was to download a new monthly version of 50MB of JRE and install it on your virus-prone Windows XP machine and open up about 7 new holes in your system with each patch.
https://galacticbeyond.com
https://archive.ph/91eHg
https://dwarfdreams.com
Things still happen fast. The twitter blue checkmark has been developed in a weekend ;)
I'm not sensitive to minor performance issues, but I am very sensitive to apps that don't behave like a native macOS app. I want all my preference windows to look the same, I want to use native spellchecking everywhere, I want to use the Applescript/Automator/Shortcuts that I've been adding to the services menu over the years.
I hope chronological timeline of only people you follow is coming, presumably that would be terrible at launch since you have no followers?
Green Oases: NYC’s Community Gardens
Can I just point out how awesome it is to be discussing a infrastructure failure and one of the postmortem report authors chimes in with their experiences. Sometimes the HN community truly is amazing!
So the moral of the story is that you should be using old timers to write your code? They've seen it all and no longer are impressed by the shiny new thing. All they care about is making it work and most importantly: being productive.
> Well, what's different now?

The first AGI, regardless of if it's a brain upload or completely artificial, is likely to have analogs of approximately every mental health disorder that's mathematically possible, including ones we don't have words for because they're biologically impossible.

So, take your genius, remember it's completely mad in every possible way at the same time, and then give it even just the capabilities that we see boring old computers having today, like being able to translate into any language, or write computer programs from textual descriptions, or design custom toxins, or place orders for custom gene sequences and biolab equipment.

That's a big difference. But even if it was no difference, the worst a human can get is still at least in the tens of millions dead, as demonstrated by at least three different mid-20th century leaders.

Doesn't matter why it goes wrong, if it thinks it's trying immanentize the eschaton or a secular equivalent, nor if it watches Westworld or reads I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream and thinks "I like this outcome", the first one is almost certainly going to be more insane than the brainchild of GLaDOS and Lore, who as fictional characters were constrained by the need for their flaws to be interesting.
Your prompt for the AI image generation is copyrightable.

The output is not.

The photo you take involved choices of composition and timing and equipment choice.

Just because you don't feel you put in a lot of consideration does not mean at a fundamental level that you still put in creative choices that give the resulting product copyright protection.

But if you took that photo and put it into software which made a derivative image without human creativity, then while the original image would be copyrightable the resulting derivative output would not.

The ideal path forward in copyright would be no infringement in use of materials for training and no protection in AI output with infringement possible against output too close/derivative of protected images.

It's not infringement if you learned to draw tracing Mickey Mouse, your Gerry Gerbil cartoons are fine, but if you draw Mickey Mouse and distribute it, you'll hear from Disney's lawyers.

AI should be the same with the exception that the Gerry Gerbil cartoons would not be copyrightable.
$100m/yr for office costs are high, assuming these bills are actually being paid everywhere. They've been evicted from their Colorado office and have been sued for not paying rent at a SF office,[0]

Either way, it pales in comparison to the $300m/qtr they're on the hook for for interest payments to banks that financed $13bn of the deal.

[0]https://globalnews.ca/news/9385713/twitter-overdue-rent-san-...
My prediction: a little buzz for a few weeks, followed by flop.
I don't know if it is a "true" microkernel, but the Classic MacOS for PowerPC had one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_nanokernel
Chalmers: Could a Large Language Model Be Conscious?
The iPod's OS was bought off the shelf. All of the music library functionality and a lot of the sync functionality already existed within SoundJa...iTunes.

That's not to knock the speed of the iPod's development but it wasn't built totally from scratch. Apple also wasn't a garage startup, peeling some hardware engineers off for the iPod wasn't going to cripple the iMac's continued development.
Ordinary employees can't choose to break the rules, the boss can, that's ... how everything works?
https://www.heneli.dev/

I just published my first piece! Planning to mostly post long-form articles on non-traditional software stuff.

--

* https://www.heneli.dev/blog/fearless-tinkering-is-functional - Five-part series on functional programming and its advantages
> “ From what I recall, the FreeBSD team made the right call at the time.”

I’m not so sure.

Given how unstable FreeBSD 5 (intro of new SMP) was, until it finally stabilized multiple years later at v8.0 - I’m not sure others would have that same sentiment.

And seeing how DragonflyBSD performance is standing up to FreeBSD (and best’ing it times) even though they have a radically smaller developer community (and no corporate support) - it does challenge the topic of who was right.

I do think objectively, people would state that DragonflyBSD chose a clean/simpler architecture that’s easier to understand

https://www.phoronix.com/review/bsd-linux-eo2021
It sort of does. RO produces relative large amount of waste water that are harder to deal with (e.g. storage, disposal). By spending more energy, you can turn the waste water into salt solids, which can be easier to dispose of.
There was two different arguments:

- whether the monkey has the copyright (PETA's argument): this was smacked down by the court twice, the second court explicitely setting a precedent.

- whether the photograph has coypright: as far as I know he doesn't, as the work was deemed non copyrightable (ruled as not created by a human)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
It was my understanding that Threads was scheduled to launch tomorrow. What happened?
no lag? it is lagging like crazy for me.
If I were debuting a product, I think I'd feel a bit hurt and/or frustrated to see a competitor getting a big spotlight on the post.

But on the other hand, many (if not most!) F/OSS projects I browse on GitHub include direct links to antecedents, competitors, and clones in their READMEs. When something is a project rather than a product, I don't think authors always worry about having the spotlight the same way. At least, many authors seem to have no problem with their work being presented in the context of a range of alternatives.

Tbh, I don't think there's a singular answer here, even to the question of what empathy recommends.
Can't the salt just be dumped in the desert?
Well I'm glad things were calm. I doubt we'd see a breakdown of civil order all that fast, but if we had a solar event or an EMP event that pretty much took out global communications and transportation, that's going to be one unholy mess for months.

The Amish in Pennsylvania and thereabouts, with their horse-drawn buggies and 18th Century lifestyles, might actually do okay, but from what I've read, they do use electricity for lighting, pumps, clotheswashers etc. So even they would have to adjust.
For anyone reading this later...

I finally dived into what was consuming all the CPU time in gnome-shell. Turns out most of it was spent in clutter_actor_finish_layout in clutter-stage.c, part of gnomes layout engine.

The function runs fast, but was being run thousands of times per second. Every object on the screen (ie. every menu icon, every status icon, every bit of text) was having its position recalculated at 60 fps.

Someone has already noticed and fixed the bug:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/2679

So in 12 months time, the fix will hopefully make it to everyones distros releases. Till then, enjoy the warm lap.
I debugged it, and found: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36608714
Can someone please update the title to reflect this is from 2010?
Also, don't forget that Tony Fadell had been built many MP3 players before, so for him it was more like an iteration than starting from scratch.
I wish he'd go into more detail on point 1 than he has so far. It's never been clear to me how AI gets us to the utopia he envisions. Looking around, the biggest problems seem to be people problems at the core, not technology problems. Maybe technology can help us sort out some of the people problems, but it seems to be causing new people problems faster than it is solving them.
I believe this is how GOG ships all of its Linux titles, all of the installs I've used from them are downloaded as a single *.sh file. I just checked an example game, and it looks to be using this method.
You said top 3 company in retail. Walmart is the highest in the F100 in retail. Again name names if you can’t, you’re obviously full of it.
Wow, they owe $1.2 billion US just in interest each year? I knew the terms were nuts, but I had no idea it was that bad.
Shipping to large numbers of users in production, getting the metrics back, investigating alerts / bug reports, finding edge cases in real data, and solving them.

Now I have a handle on the sorts of things that can go wrong / are going wrong in the real world, some earned confidence in my ability to fix them, and general upward trend in my ability to anticipate and prevent them during development. On the other hand I no longer have any trust at all in code that has not been put through real-world usage or where I don't have access to feedback from real-world usage. Reality is much better at generating interesting test cases then we are.
Almost certainly. Proper/modern heat pumps do not need heat strips until -20F or so
I agree that seems expensive, but I wouldn't be totally shocked if a high-SEER, "name brand" unit with a pricey contractor could get that high. I had >100% cost variation for similar equipment between HVAC contractor quotes the last time I replaced a unit.
Winklevoss slams DCG’s Silbert: Not even SBF was ‘capable of such delusion’
Yet another crapp instead of a normal webapp. Why the heck companies keep pushing them?
this feels like it sums up pretty well why I'm not worried about the rise of AI generated content 'taking my job.'
The products of desalinization aren’t salt and fresh water. They’re somewhat saltier brine and fresh water.
There's many good reasons induction cooktops aren't used in commercial kitchens... and those reasons apply for home-cooks as well.
Move to an area where you can legally carry a CCW. If unable, CCW anyhow because the state has abdicated its duty to protect citizens. I don't advise seeking conflict, but I advocate the inalienable right to defend one's life.

When seconds matter, the police are only minutes away if they ever decide to get off their lazy behinds. This means everyone ought to be prepared to defend themselves at all times. To not be prepared is an invitation to make themselves a victim.
Wow, I never cease to be amazed at how few of the HN comments have anything to do with the original post.

I guess I'll jump on the bandwagon, while my comment is tangential, it does have to do with the article's focus on reducing greenhouse gases and fuel consumption.

Switching to a heat pump should be done in all cases where a traditional A/C is being replaced, but the biggest bang for the buck is in how the house is constructed in the first place. "Passive solar" orientation and insulation can prevent a HUGE amount of energy consumption. To point to another HN post article:

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/construction-time-again-sisson

I've been saying for 20 years here in San Diego county, that if developers built track housing with passive solar orientation, and covered them with photovoltaic, the neighborhoods would be power plants. They could offer free HOAs and free electricity for the life of the house. Instead, we orient, organize and build for the maximum efficiency of a group of people who are only onsite for about 1 year (the developers) and then leave the people who live there for decades holding the bag.
How to extend your role as a front end engineer
An article I wrote about some skills front end engineers must have to distinguish themselves from the rest without changing the direction.

https://medium.com/@KhaledElAnsari/extending-the-front-end-e...
JS on the list is quite interesting, since it being rushed and a prototype ending up getting shipped often gets cited as an explanation for why JS has issues. Given how widespread it is, this is a project I wish had gotten a lot more time. An argument could be made that it succeeded, so it must be good, but given it's the only built-in, full language in the browser just says that it was good enough and now we are kinda stuck with it.
No web UI, it looks like. threads.net only has a QR code.
We're building a sleep EEG headband which improves the efficiency of deep sleep
https://soundmind.co

We use closed-loop auditory stimulation (sound) to boost slow-wave activity in deep sleep.

This doesn't help you get to sleep, but makes the time spent in deep sleep more effective.

Lots of studies look at the impact on immune function, cognitive performance, nervous system response, etc.

Peer-reviewed, published research is on our website at https://soundmind.co
Ask HN: ffplay –help: Is this the longest command help?
Over 10,000 lines of command help output!
If it was obvious, why didn’t some big company already do it?