skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I applied for a vb6 job circa 2000 and was sent a timed exam that required detailed knowledge of its library. I was like, oh, you actually wanted me to really know it. At this point VB had Intellisense for 2 versions and I couldn't imagine actually memorizing its crazy library.

Anyhow, a real programmer definitely got that job.
My hello world in php. Requires php.

Hello World
I forgot about that argument. I think it's not ironclad because "code is speech" seems like a stretch to me. I guess I'm being a bit unfair; when I say I want ironclad principles, I mean the kind that you can interpret literally and deduce whatever correctly. Admittedly harder to do.
Mastering NMAP: Your Guide to Network Exploration and Security Auditing
Good point on contact lenses.

On 1., leaving space for glasses limits the FOV so I'd assume Apple is not leaving that gap (which would also justify the production of prescription lenses from the start, for a product that isn't even shipping yet)

On 2. I don't have the stats, but this study was interesting: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8569398/

> The distributions with significant changes included males that were significantly more myopic and astigmatic, while females were more hyperopic across the age groups. Furthermore, myopia decreased, while hyperopia, astigmatism and anisometropia increased with increasing age.

So,

- parents and children have a high probability of having a different correction

- A man/woman couple has a high probability of having a different correction
Great answer! I shall ride this pony until the wheels fall off then.
They also killed each other for land. Sometimes they starved.

As for us, we’ve already emitted too much. If we merely stop it’s still going to be a bad century.
Don't think I'm too crazy but last time I checked:

1. Yes they are microcontrollers.

2. Yes they use C/C++. (check the libraries/SDKs, 1 layer under the hood it's all .h/.cpp files, and most of the arduino calls are just #defines)
I've tried so many different stacks over the years but I always ended up in the same cycle:

- Spend a lot of time finalizing the stack

- Spend a lot of time styling the new blog

- Migrate some of the posts from the old stack to the new stack

- Write a 1-2 new posts in the new blog

- Stop writing

- After a few months, I come back to writing a post and realize there are dependencies to upgrade, scripts to run, and what not. I give up for at least a year.

After 10 years of having gone into this cycle over and over again, I'm currently using the following setup:

- IA Writer -> Gitlab -> Cloudflare pages

To write a new post, I just have to create a new file in IA Writer and save it. That's all.

A bare bones shell script blog.sh converts markdown into HTML (locally on my mac), invokes git push to Gitlab. And there's a 'Pages' project in Cloudflare which listens to changes to my Gitlab repo, and just statically publishes whatever's in the 'site' directory.

I've written more posts in this new stack than ever before. And I think the best part is that I just need to 'create new file' and 'save'.
As someone who's manually setup Ghost blog, I'd heavily advise towards just paying for Ghost hosting. I wasted hours setting it up, and I gave up when it came time to configure emailing.

Anyway, here's my blog post on it. I actually pay 20$ to AWS to host my Captain Rover server, but I have multiple web apps running.

https://rhymesworldwide.com/self-hosting-this-blog/
Weight on head is a real issue.

There is a big difference in comfort for even a pair of glasses.
Windows XP was great. Windows 7 was best. The rest fall short of those two.
> Our economic prosperity is based on a growing productive population.

Yet a growing productive population, in modern societies, relies on cheap (usually fossil) energy, which brings two problems: 1- fossil energy is not unlimited, and we're soon at peak production. 2- fossil energy brings climate change, which is very very bad for our survival at large.
Something that I’ve noticed at my company and other companies friends work at is an increasing number of software engineers who do not write code at all. They just write documents, comment on documents, go to meetings, and ask questions in emails. Lots of these types where I work and where my friends work (very well known companies). I do not think this is healthy for a company to have its mid and senior devs writing no code in the numbers I’m seeing.
Sure. We're not really disagreeing, just talking past each other. The more robust systems are to prevent abuse, the better.
Violating a license isn't illegal and it's still unclear whether generative AI licenses are even enforceable civilly due to open questions regarding IP rights.
Are you sure? It's been accepted as common practice in my 15 year career so far, across multiple industries including automotive, finance, and marketing.
You know, not everything and everyone is a hitler-comparable situation.

Now, there is currently a genocide going on in one of the discussed countries so if you were going to draw a hitler comparison I think it should be there.
It's gaming in the same way that a slot machine is "gaming" or how Android is Linux. True in some sense but still not at all in line with the general usage of the word.
Reachable users vs effort to reach them.
In particular, picking up plates by "pinching" them is a great way to build grip strength, which is often a limiting factor when lifting heavy. So it is directly beneficial to the main exercise, not just a side-exercise.
Only if you try to sell it... Otherwise its legally protected.

https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/5857

"Free use" legality of these models is what interests me the most. For instance, what if someone releases an excellent model specifically for producing entire Harry Potter stories?

What if the entire training dataset was reworded by an LLM so no one can prove it contains any plagiarized material?

Is the trainer going to get sued? What about the users? Would the entire model be "illegal" like a pirated book even though it ostensibly doesn't contain the book?
using this while traveling is a great idea, thanks for this
Society. Regular people.
I had not heard of him either.
Something like browser certificate transparency, but for search warrants.
That's the thing I don't get: the vast majority of people are not rich, and will never be. Why do they fight so bad to help the rich people pay less taxes?
In the US permission is required to make copies, prepare derivative works, distribute copies, publicly perform the work, or publicly display the work [1].

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/106
I'd add QuickBasic 4.5, though I suppose that was late 80s. I still have the book that came with it around here somewhere. It was the first programming language / environment I used where I felt I could go beyond toy scripts.
I just googled “download youtube captions”.

Upd: thought yt-dlp should be able too, and yep: https://superuser.com/questions/927523/how-to-download-only-... — potentially nice integration on a forum
Yes, it turned to mud, then oil.
Data lies. Throwing data in the face of real customer feedback is how end up at the lowest common denominator.
Interesting that the source lists 30% of measured traffic to be bots.
I was running some decently trafficked Internet sites on 386s into at least 1996.
But don't you see what a strange argument that is? It doesn't matter, the student did nothing wrong, I don't want to live on a planet where we put DRM into peoples brains (or AI for that matter) to enforce this absurd and overreaching idea of intellectual property.

And besides the publishers extorting thousands from young students forced to buy their overpriced mediocre textbooks, warrants any copyright infringement of any book anytime and forever at any scale. Publishers have lost all moral legitimacy in their copyright claims in my book. Copyright is not magic, it's a social contract at the end of the day and they have broken it first.
MDN has amazing documentation and is exactly what you're asking for.
I agree that the "BUT WHAT ABOUT UPDATES?!" hysteria is weird [1].

But realistically Windows 7 has a very small user base remaining, and an even smaller part of that uses Firefox. So what do you want Mozilla to do? Keep wasting resources on CI, testing, coding shims for missing OS features, and making releases for the benefit of the 12 people worldwide who depend on the W7+Firefox combination?

1. https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2202720-coomer
Either the hype is correct and we’ll have the singularity by then, or it’s not and it will look more or less the same, while running on commodity hardware.
If you are shutting it down, you can pay for the grace period. Period.
That is the calculus of a project that has been running for 1-2 years.

The calculus of a project that has been running for 10-20 years is often different.

I've explained why - and why in some cases the approach you advocate is literally impossible - in my other comments in this discussion, which I invite you to read if you haven't already.
Having the “dream job” is more unlikely than ever
Within the next 24 months that's what all engineers will transition to. Is it healthy or not, it's how it goes. Engineers move to abstract work like architecture, interfaces, and the implementation is handled by AIs, with humans just tweaking when it's not right.
Indeed I have! My current job is at a big corp but so far I've not yet encountered something that heinous. I'm sure that we deal with vendors that bad in some parts of this massive org, though. The quality of tools we have to work with seems to vary a lot from department to department.

Why do businesses spend insane amounts of money and go through painfully slow and laborious sales and purchase processes to buy software that is utter garbage?

Is it most likely to happen when their needs are highly specialized, so there's just not much competition?

I know that enterprise software often has terrible or dated UX, and I understand the reasons for that. But beyond the UI, why is software that costs $5 million more likely to be shoddy and carelessly made than software that costs $50?
Thanks, I'm going to do this from now on. When I share a video here I'll add the captions.
Do you mean that you don't understand why climate change is a major problem? That's a genuine question: I guess it is fine, but respectfully I think you should look into it. Because where we are headed now looks pretty bad, both for the half of humanity that will have to migrate because it won't be possible to survive in the outdoor conditions and for the half of humanity that won't want the other half to come to their country.
To be fair, it’s important to point out that the Bush administration politicized the intelligence apparatus. Specifically, Darth Cheney pressured the CIA into supporting his pet theories.

I bitterly told people before the second war with Iraq that there were no WMDs. Any well read, educated, intelligent person should have been able to confidently say the same.
I didn’t directly cite all relevant code that exists, there is more regulation cited by the links I gave you might need to follow. It’s easier to visit https://www.eeoc.gov/ and browse their “discrimination by type” pages under the “employees” and “employers” tabs. I’m not quite sure exactly what you’re getting at, but the EEOC doesn’t really use the word “bias” per se, they talk about discrimination on the basis of sex, age, disability, race, national origin, etc.

The NY law uses the word ‘bias’ pretty much only in the phrase “bias audit”, which is defined in the law to mean a yearly audit of the software to make sure it is not discriminating as far as EEOC standards.

The point is that there isn’t a new law about bias, and it’s not an ambiguous or undefined concept. It’s the existing equal employment opportunity laws, and all employers already know about them, and most (I hope) already adhere to them. I’m not suggesting it’s either complete or perfect, I’m just pointing out what the new NY law is referring to when it uses the words “bias audit”.
I don’t always know for sure what I want when I go into an Apple Store, but I never want to wait 45 mins for an appt! Usually it comes down to 1-2 questions about storage, photo quality, screen tech, etc.
Many foundational OSS projects use work and infra from universities. Many also use work and infra from companies that derive value from them. Partially I pay for it by buying things that those companies provide, partially I pay for it via taxes.

But for all people (inside or outside of the market) there is clearly a free beer (speech included) that you can use for personal or commercial use.

> Someone somewhere is paying even if you specifically aren't.

Someone is paying, but it seems like it is more towards "paying for the library" than it is "paying for a villa".

And in some cases there really isn't someone paying, there is just a person interested in the problem. That is surprisingly common in foundational OSS tech.
I see it as the same argument as whether Google is under the hook for its crawler going through the copyright infringing sites and having an index of the content, even if it isn't surfaced (redistributed) in the user search results.
>a person like me who lives in a developing country with restricted access to old hardware.

They probably meant:

with access restricted to old hardware.
It is not my experience at all, but I suppose you implicitly mean "in the US"?
Try buying a Mac in 1992. First you have to find a reseller. Then, they may think you're not seriously looking and ignore you. Some resellers are only by appointment. If you do look like you have money, they pick an option for you (Classic, LC, IIsi, IIci) and try to keep you in your lane. They upsell you a little on software and things like Kensington locks. Then you get to order it and it arrives a couple months later.
The Pebble was absolutely seen as tacky. Only worn by people who cared more about tech than visuals.
Is there an example somewhere showing how it works without signing in?
Have you considered using https://obsidian.md for the markdown preview?
> settings

is this a joke? ever tried user management with Windows 10/11? its a hellscape of clicking through the Control Panel, the Settings app, and countless crosslinked pages with no rhyme or reason. same for microphone levels. same for device management.
I think in my case (and almost everyone else's case) we'll never go Lyft-scale, but with about 100 AWS accounts (and a bunch of Cloudflare, On-Prem [Compute, Networking], GitHub and other providers) and 300 terraform environments we haven't had the problem you described yet.

To us, CI is about integration while Terraform is about reconciliation. Technically both could be categorised as 'jobs', but by that metric, a CD event is also just a job, and so is a migration for an RDBMS and adding and removing products from inventory.
But we don't call them jobs, because their specialisation warrants specialised handling. To be fair, we aren't based in the US so perhaps it's more of a localised thing.
I think it is inevitable. Why would anyone willingly give up their rights to tools of production? Correct me if this is a gross misunderstanding, but how can you get people to invent things in their garage when statesmen are trotting around looking for "unearned surplus"? And if the wealth will somehow end up being distributed to you anyway, and more work doesn't have any meaning, why try anything at all?
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Need? Fairly rarely. Not having to watch the battery percent tick down like a clock is nice though.

It charges when docked to my monitor at my desk, and I basically never have to worry about running low in any normal situation.

I can be in meetings all morning, plug it in over lunch, and be in meetings all afternoon without issue.

When working at home I can use it on the couch, or the patio, and when I'm done put it back in the bag for tomorrow without running to the charger.

Do I need it? No. I also don't need a nice keyboard, or a good monitor, or an ergonomic desk setup.
I also run Hugo via GitHub Actions. It took me about 2 hours of setting up; could've sped the process up enormously if I would've just copy-pasted the hugo-theme's example blog.

https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-github/

Example blog from one of the popular themes: https://github.com/hugo-sid/hugo-blog-awesome/tree/main/exam...
Who's forking Windows 7, though?
Heh. My father is one of those 12. He called me yesterday and mentioned he was going to be trying out some Linux stuff.
The objective here is framed as "I want to find a cheapest path that visits a sequence of nodes with specific goal weights [W_1, ..., W_n], in ascending order". This is a bit like a spatial path-finding problem where the objective is to find a path through a fixed sequence of waypoints, except harder, as we're not specifying specific waypoint nodes to visit but only that we visit nodes with some desired characteristic (total weight).

Consider how the state space is encoded -- it isn't valid to model each node in the graph by total weight, as that erases the detail of which plates are currently equipped, which we need to determine the edge costs. That's shown in the diagrams, where each node is represented as a multiset of plate weights.

Another part of the state space encoding is subtler: it's only valid to visit a node with goal weight W if we have previously visited all goal weights W' with W' < W. This constraint is implicitly encoded by the nodes and edges considered in the transition graph, and the ordering of the nodes from left to right. For this problem there's no need to augment the state space with an extra state variable to track how many goals or which goals we've already achieved, that's implicitly tracked through the total weight and the construction of the transition graph. Nodes and edges that violate this have been excluded from the transition graph, e.g. there's no edge drawn from node {0} to node {10, 25} -- as that transition causes the path to fail to visit a node with total weight 15 and total weight 25.

Suppose we were to change the objective from "visit a sequence of nodes with these specific goal weights [W_1, ..., W_n] in ascending order" to "visit a sequence of nodes with these specific goal weights in _any_ order". The problem becomes _much_ harder, a variation of the traveling salesman problem, and starts to resemble some industrial problems, e.g. some kind of resource constrained vehicle routing delivery problem.
you'll never get it again, nobody wants to recreate its magic for the modern web / operating systems.
This is part of the reason why "engineer" is a protected title in many places.
We have been working extensively on this and the answer is: it is just not good enough at 'managing' agents yet to do this reliably. We are using AI to generate tool descriptions that get fed in, but making them collaborate is very hard.
If this is true, one wonders how Maine managed to implement such a law.

Having an effect is not easy. This does not mean it is not possible, or that not trying is a good policy.
> It got unfairly flagged despite I provided the full tweet as a comment.

Is it really unfair? Your link isn't accessible to a non-insignificant portion of the HN audience, therefore it seems reasonable to flag it.

It isn't reasonable to expect/force people to read comments before flagging content for being inaccessible.
We do the same. Bed on the floor, but new sheets once a week = pure luxury.
Knowledge is relatively limited. A big part of it is the mechanics of the test. There’s a pattern to the questions. AP tests are similar - a teacher who worked as a grader gives his or her students a massive edge.

The norm in school is a grade based on number correct. SAT is a composite score with different weights and treatment of answers. When I took it, an incorrect answer deducted points while a blank answer was neutral.

When I was in school, the good students got 1280-1450, and the prep classes would yield 40-100 points in most cases. It’s an optimization exercise. If Johnny can’t read, Kaplan isn’t gonna save him.
> Do you have any examples you can share where contact tracing lead to less restrictions compared to another area that did not engage in contact tracing?

I recommend thoroughly reviewing what I wrote that you quoted, and then contemplating the relevance of your question to the topic at hand.

If it helps, the effectiveness of contact tracing is not relevant to the discussion.
I personally think porter’s five forces on its own is a weak tool for strategy especially within the context of tech businesses because actually the advances in technology and the emerging dynamics they create are harder to predict than they are for businesses that are proud to be analogue and so therefore predicting with any certainty the shift in trends etc is harder.
Don’t get me wrong, porter’s 5 forces has its place but there are way better strategic frameworks to use particularly within the context of tech.

I think more businesses need to be focused on how to create value, especially more so as AI becomes more pervasive and integrated into everyday life.
It would be helpful to focus less on what the competition is doing and how to compete, and more advantageous to look for ways to create value to people’s lives that they don’t already have. Who care’s what already exists, let’s think of something that doesn’t exist yet and work out a way to make it work in such a way that people really want it - so much so that they will pay for it, or immerse themselves within it so much that they’re willing to sacrifice their privacy, data etc in order to have this new thing that adds value.

I think a lot of entrepreneurs do this by accident because they don’t care as much about what everyone else is doing, and they’re less averse to failure.

^ this is all just a matter of my own personal opinion however. Plenty of people will disagree.
An even more bitter pill - a lot of Americans still apparently believe there were WMDs found in Iraq.
HN users are generally pretty good at predicting the exact opposite of the future. Every obviously good product like Dropbox is claimed to be useless while every obviously crap product like Mastodon or the Librem phone is hyped up as the future.