skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a handful of firms are indeed allowed to harvest he collective knowledge for rent seeking that would indeed be a shame.
Why do we allow K-9s to count as probable cause when they can be roughly as accurate as a coin flip? Eg. U.S. v. Bentley, where the particular dog in question had a documented 40.5% false positive rate in the field.
I'm not at all a fan of Ansible but I must have missed something here - has IBM somehow bought/taken over Ansible?
Only if you look at people with Twitter accounts.

Someone like me, who has always relied upon nitter to get Twitter information (and now that API access is locked off and anonymous browsing is disabled... I'm no longer welcome to Twitter).

Its ridiculous that Twitter looked upon the grand social network of Quora and thought... "We should copy that model". Closing off access to the website is the literal opposite direction, it will kill Twitter faster than any other decision made thusfar.
I love these stories.

I got service emails for the same year, model, and color Honda Civic that I own from a dealer in the UK. I am in the US. That alone was spooky.

The car was owned by somebody who matched my first initial, last name email address. (Edwin, I believe…)

I tried to unsubscribe. I tried to contact customer service. Nothing worked.

Each email would come with a little video walk around of the car. Eventually I started responding saying that their paint looked better than my car, etc.

I don’t get them anymore. I presume the owner sold the car.
I'm not worried about service life when I buy Intel NVME drives.
Not recently but my friends account was locked a few months ago and he was never able to recover it.
My friend had coffee delivered via drone (Canberra, Australia) and it was pretty fun. Certainly feels less wasteful (energetically) than a car & driver. The massive drone was pretty cool, too. That being said, Canberra is probably the perfect city for a drone delivery service, with so much open space.
The US’s secret sauce is that is an empire that can, will and does constantly project its massive military and clandestine power around the world to further its interests at all times, while never having to deal with any of its blowback. And then americans laugh at the EU welcoming refugees you created in the first place, or pretend the EU is socialist while laughing at its massive energy crisis caused by its completely batshit insane liberalized energy market. We are ruled by atlanticist neoliberals you put there in the first place.
75% of blood deliveries in Rwanda outside Kigali are done via drone (flyzipline.com)
It's tricky, because in many ways, this is achieving exactly what I, as user, want computers to do for me: give me information I requested, and only that. I very much do not care about who discovered/created/published it, except only if it helps me quickly ascertain the trustworthiness of said information. I do not want to be forced or prodded to establish relationships with creators or communities. I do not want their ads and upsells.

It's the same issue as with search engines providing "information boxes": huge win for me, but a mortal enemy for those who want to monetize anything resembling intellectual property.

> An LLM based internet seems to remove the creator and shim itself in between for the sake of business.

This sounds bad, and in some cases it is, but in others it is not. Content farms and recipe sites have creators behind them too.
> It's as bizarre as saying "What are Ukrainian civilians are doing in the Ukraine which is active war zone?"

No it’s not, most of the Ukrainians aren’t holidaying in an active war zone they are just trying to live.

Who purposely goes holidaying form a safe area into an active war zone?.
It's almost as if Arduino is sherlocking Adafruit. They have offered ESP32 in a small standard-ish form for some time along with basic iot cloud logging services. Adafruit has also used and contributed heavily used libraries to Arduino.
wait till you see the blocklists loud instances used to rave about sharing and updating and blanket blackholing entire instances
Testing somebody on a test that correlates with IQ that correlates with technical ability that correlates with job performance is not okay, because of the levels of indirection passing through a very abstract space (a Bayesian coefficient of 'smartness'), which has historically been used discriminatorily against groups that it would otherwise be illegal to discriminate against.

Testing somebody on a test that correlates with technical skill that correlates with job performance (and maybe IQ) remains within the easy to defend realm of the concrete.
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The police cannot issue warrants. They can ask. Only a court can issue a warrant.
Bend has very serious housing woes. The housing crisis, at this point, has spread out from the epicenter type places like the Bay Area.

One of my best friends here got priced out and now drives in 40 minutes from a nearby town. That's bad for 1) him and his family 2) the environment 3) traffic.

If you ask people on Nextdoor, they'll probably tell you there's also a traffic crisis, but it's not true.
Good technical interviews are generally looking to see _how_ you approach solving a problem more than whether you can ace it. There are also soft skills being tested like whether you can collaborate, communicate your approach, test assumptions rather than getting caught in a rabbit-hole, etc..

There may be some correlation with IQ as you propose (correlation isn't causation), but I can state unequivocally that there are people who have nailed tech interviews that had lower IQs than people who ... did less well.

Ultimately the premise seems shaky here - technical interviews are testing work-specific competence, not some outmoded and arbitrary "intelligence" metric which (to paraphrase the inventor) _was only ever supposed to be used to test for people who needed extra support_

Or to put it another way: if I'm hiring a carpentry apprentice, I probably want to know if they're likely to hit me or themselves with a hammer.

That likelihood might generally correlate with IQ, but pretty sure there'd be both great and terrible candidates across the full spectrum
https://archive.ph/C5W8f
> People were not dumb

That people tend to think of our ancestors as being less intelligent is one of my pet peeves. There is no reason to even suspect that they weren't at least as smart as modern man.

What they lacked was the accumulation of knowledge that time gives. "If I see further, it's because I stand on the shoulders of giants."
I think there is a large proportion of people who don’t (and maybe even can’t) understand the difference. For them facts are things they agree with, and everything else is a lie.

It almost seems as if some people think that reality is everywhere subjective, and saying or believing something makes it truth, much like religion.
SimpleX – private messaging platform without user identifiers
But printing out the characters onto the page, and calculating what those pages would weight isn't the same thing as the change in weight for that ordering of bytes in memory vs a blank page. Where electrons have an infinitesimal but non-zero mass, memory (RAM or storage) thus weighs differently when full of ones vs. zeros. A gzipped copy of PrismJS thus weights somewhere between when the memory is empty vs when it is full. Which, for a 16 MB dimm, is roughly 1.46 x 10^-20 kg, or 14.6 yoctograms. Which is close too, but not literally nothing. For a gzipped copy of PrismJS weighing in at 2 kb, we get 1.87 x 10^-27 kg or 18.7 zeptograms.

Where a feather's weight is measured in grams, a feather is
0.4 * 10^21 times the weight of PrismJS, or a feather weighs (a lot) more. So their claim is true.

Interestingly enough, the same applies to electric cars. Full car batteries weigh an infinitesimally larger amount than empty ones. For a 50 kWh Tesla, we're looking at 1.8 nanograms. Which for a battery pack that weighs 324Kg (~750 lb) is less than a rounding error.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/34421/does-the-m....
I think we're past the point where Mastodon is obscure enough to need extra explanation in a place like this. This is a completely ordinary title form for people and organizations joining new platforms and technologies.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%22joins+Twitter%22

Notable examples:

Bill Gates: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1064772

Tim Berners-Lee: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=898727

The Pope: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4897631

The CIA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7862990

Warren Buffet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5645650

It coexists with other uses.
Apple's system caused me more pain in under 1 second than anything I've experienced in the past. That's on me, of course, for using so much of their hardware and software. But still frustrating.

What happened? I logged into an Apple service from the browser on my work computer. I should have known better, I get captchas everywhere when coming from our corporate network, so it's clearly on someone's shitlist. Well, even though my authentication was successful, including the verify-pin-on-device-you-already-own part, Apple said "this is a suspicious connection" and immediately logged out every last device, invalidated all sessions, invalidated the password so I had to change it. I was still feeling the pain from that for a week or more afterwards.

And now I have a simpler Apple password than the XKCD-style one I had been using, because I got tired of typing it in over-and-over-and-over-and-over.
Chrome doesn't have a TOTP authenticator, Keychain does. I don't use that feature in any password manager but some people really love it. Keychain will sync on any Windows/Mac Chromium based browser (so Edge, Brave, etc) plus Safari, so it's a little bit less locked in than Chrome but not as good as a standalone password manager.
Can you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the site guidelines when posting here? You broke quite a few of them here.

"Please don't fulminate."

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

It's fine to disagree but please do so thoughtfully and without the vitriol or putdowns.
They control the identities, and if they wanted to they could transition the identities at the price of—at worst—data loss. It’s the difference between having a blog using the Medium CMS and hosting and having one on a subdomain of medium.com—you can switch away in the former case but you’re completely stuck in the latter (which is why Medium took away the first option and Substack never had it).
need beta os to run this.
It's probably because exploiting humans with offering them "gig work" is still cheaper... that and bribing^W lobbying lawmakers to allow continuation said exploitation.
Ask every Dutchman to look at British rail and ask themselves “do we want that?”. If the answer is no, they’d better fight to reverse rail privatization
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To be fair, I doubt bandwidth has ever been a significant cost driver for CAs
The only downside is wasted time, and possibly wasted money if people get hooked into the productivity rabbit hole and end up spending ridiculous amounts of money on apps, books, gadgets and whatever else trying to be more productive.

I say this as someone who was probably like you once. I took a Big 5 personality test in my mid twenties that said that I had a low conscientiousness score which meant that I was pretty much destined to be a low earner as a high conscientiousness score is the trait most linked to high earners and achievement. What followed was probably a period of about seven years where I also tried all the meditation techniques whilst relentlessly trying to optimise my productivity, work and life, resulting in an inevitable burn out.

Following that, I like many others on here, have ended up just using a few text files for organisation and I am probably more organised than I have ever been. I use one file with day headings with tasks underneath that I plan to do on each day. And then I have other files for projects that just contain lists of tasks relating to that project. When I'm ready to work on one of those tasks I move them into the main file. It's that simple. I am happier and more focussed than I was using any of these other systems.

I make my text files in Obsidian, other people use org mode, some people use Google/Apple notes and others use Vim and plain text files. Even though it lead me to where I am now, I still look back and cringe at all the wasted time and energy I spent investigating and using all these other systems. I've done comments on reddit and elsewhere outlining my own overly convoluted systems that I might go back and delete in case someone stumbles on them and they lead people down the wrong path. KISS, Keep It Simple Stupid, really is the best strategy. And I suspect that also applies to regaining control with breathing which is why 4-4-4-4 works so well.

I remember the enthusiasm and confidence I felt when I thought I'd found some great method and how much I wanted to share it so don't let me stop you if that's what you want to do. But I'd wager in five years you'll have forgotten all about this, you'll be using something far simpler, and you will probably also cringe if you do remember it or come across an article like this from someone else.
CookieConsentSpeedrun: A cookie opt-out game
test && commit || revert (2018)
There is a way in activitypub, but Mastodon itself doesn't support it well. Takahē supports it (https://jointakahe.org/).
Partner dancing, rock climbing, joining a running club, judo/bjj, volunteering, yoga, woodworking/making, etc.
I would phrase this differently: money matters more than I thought relative to my personal sense of accomplishment. I also do believe I get more value from applying what I've learned than any temporary boost a better grade would have gotten me.

Remember no one cares about grades when you have some relevant experience. And to me, intrinsic achievement matters more to me, by definition. The only think that could go wrong is to change your mind about what matters later in life. I've lived half my life and my values haven't changed that much.
RedHat owns Ansible and IBM owns RedHat.
The way that we deal with CAs now developed so much after these issues were disclosed.

It is actually adding to my argument. The NSA and any other government entities REALLY WANT to control these certificates. However, our interaction with CAs became much more secure now because we learned and developed things like CT logs. Major browsers are removing entire CAs from their trust store if shady stuff happens ASAP. You can’t do the same with TLDs. This argument is made frequently on here, why would you even want to propose to regress into stuff like DANE…? DNS servers are such a bad trust anchor, if you could even call it a trust anchor at all.

If you want to discuss further, I ask you to stay on topic instead of name calling.
To add more context. The task included interfacing with a 3rd party API that was poorly documented. In order to even see what a response looked like would have been incredibly hard without a debugger. Dumping it to the console would have been many pages of nested JSON. So sitting there twiddling, trying to make sense of an API doc that didn't provide a clear description of the results rather than just run the thing and see what it did was the wrong way to go.

A debugger is as much "help" to an engineer as a hammer is to a carpenter. In my experience, engineers who don't use one are a detriment to the entire engineering organization wasting time and money.

Anyway, yeah I dodged a bullet on that but it's such a pain in the ass that I went though a two month interview process only to be vetoed at the end like that. During that time I spent about two weeks to learn an esoteric API that I'll never use again. Oh and it would have been highly unlikely that I would have even used that API in the job. It was just a requirement that I learned it for this particular interview. ...and no I'm not going to commit it to memory just so I can pass a coding interview and if that was the expectation then this whole situation is even more ridiculous.
Same thing that happened to self driving cars, bloodless blood tests, the 'Metaverse', and 'Social Media but with Nice People'.

The point of the thing is to have an impossibile to achieve project that is nonetheless popular enough to generate endless rounds of new investment.
I see this as a rough parallel to "is the printing press a threat to illuminated manuscripts". Maybe it is under a very narrow view, but overall, improved propagation of ideas has led to improved dissemination of ideas, and it will this time too. People who's narrow world has been disrupted will perform all sorts of mental gymnastics to tell us how we're going to be worse off for it, but we won't.

Ironically, internet discussion forums democratized specialist knowledge that you previously would have had to be in the right university or research circle to access. SO monetized that, and now we've moved on to complaints like this about further democratization of knowledge and (to quote another post) that knowledge being "stolen".
> Your storage space is divided by 2^n going from n levels of voltage per cell back to SLC

it's not that bad, it's divided by log2(n).
> It's more the equivalent of hiring billions of cops and having them w

That itself would be unconstitutional. There is also the "spirit of the law" which is "you're not allowed to go digging around to find ways to violate these rights by inventing outlandish schemes that no one could imagine in the late 1700s".

When technology has no other effect than to cause the same result that might be accomplished by hiring billions of cops to watch everyone, then that effect itself is, without a doubt, unconstitutional.

> I don't think the constitution would prohibit hiring billions of cops, if

Why, though? That's the real question. Do you think the point of it was to just create a few hoops for the authorities to jump through, maybe for shits and giggles?

Why do you think this?
I recently needed to book a hotel in a medium-sized town. There is a shuttle I need to get to leaving on one side of the road, and three different hotels on the other side, immediately across from the shuttle stop. I can’t book any of those hotels because this “Main Street” is 6 lanes, there are no crosswalks for 1 mile in either direction, and the sidewalk on the 3-hotel side doesn’t exist (the only way to get to any of those hotels appears to be to drive).

Whereas if I was in a car I could turn left from the 3-hotels’ lot into the lot where the shuttle is stopping in under 1/4 mile. It’s absurd when you can drive for 1/4 mile or walk for 2.
The perimeter security element is often overlooked. You’ve got a lot more very valuable assets to secure. In the European (particularly Nordic ) scenario it’s really not implausible that special operations teams could be dispatched to hunt dispersed aircraft on the ground. In addition, it’s a much wider area to offer short range air defense of.

I believe the targeting problem created by dispersal outweighs these downsides, but they’re real and have to be mitigated. That costs time, money and people.
In some similar cases, “against” would even sound odd: “I fought with my sister” is far more common than “I fought against my sister”.
> rather pay consultants and contractors truckloads of money than hire a few FTEs at FAANG rates. Ostensibly the reasoning is that it's easy to cut back spending on vendors than to lay people off

Or maybe it has more to do with accounting practices or with liability. We're talking F500 HR logic here.
Having worked in other sciences (neuroscience for me), I’m not sure what catastrophic obvious errors you’re used to seeing. The vast majority IME are like this, except with even longer feedback loops (on the order of several months).
Not entirely accurate as it counts only users with accounts that saw this post on a particular day and time and decided to participate:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30210378

https://ae.studio/random/where-does-hacker-news-live
Usage of `auto foo = val;` was causing multithreaded code to end up serializing
IBM acquired RedHat who made Ansible. I believe that’s what the parent comment is alluding to.
It's not just this, but also that Espressif CEO's expressed their desire to focus on RISC-V[0].

Thus, a new Arduino platform is being created out of a deprecated family of MCUs, the Tensilica-based ESP32s.

0. https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/espressif-moves-exclusively-...
Red Hat owns commercial side of Ansible and Red Hat was acquired by IBM
Doesn’t seem like a valid comparison
Arguably the "problem" with other async/threading frameworks is that they build threading on top of iterators/coroutines. In this case they would be orthogonal, so it's probably not as bad as you think, though almost certainly some clever developer out there will do something stupid with it that will also get very popular (my bet would be abstracting goroutines and coroutines into a single thing)
With or without ChatGPT, my impression has always been that technical interviews focus more on communication than a solved problem. They don't care if you use AI or StackOverflow to write your code, they want you to demonstrate a meaningful understanding of the problem and how to solve it. If you blindly copy and paste code that you can't explain, interviewers will know.
Yeah, if the exercise is in using a poorly documented API, and the answer depends on fiddly bits of trivia around how the response is structured, then a debugger is absolutely the right approach, even during an interview. You did the right thing here, and the interviewer is a dummy.
Speaking of Amazon's account process, I have a really annoying problem with theirs. Apparently I somehow managed to create two amazon accounts with the same email address, but different passwords. They have different order histories and addresses and everything, but the account name is identical. It sometimes makes it confusing to tell why an order I placed hasn't shown up.

Interestingly, I can't change the password on one account to the password of the other account. The attempt fails. Which is... somewhat concerning.
> that you’re scared, stressed or overactive and distracted,

I believe that would come under overactive and distracted considering the author states "Maybe you're doomscrolling a social feed instead of working on that important project."
From a European perspective: regulation is just catching up. Risk assessment and safety frameworks have been established and (non-autonomous) beyond line of sight operations are slowly becoming feasible to do on a regular basis. Operating many drones (+ manned vehicles) in the same airspace needs a traffic management solution (U-Space) which is also seeing some initial trial runs now.
How fun!

The "natural" way to convert bits to grams (ie not based on any specific technology) would be to combine Landauer's Principle and Mass-energy equivalence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer's_principle

However even then, you still have to choose a temperature (eg STP) which is ultimately an arbitrary choice.
On a semi related note, WordPress recently acquired an activitypub plugin that does exactly what it sounds like. [0]

So as a corporation you don't really need a mastodon instance to broadcast your stuff. I think most organisations will go this route. (and i suspect threads hopes to piggyback of this for content).

[0] https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
As another comment pointed out he’s known for “On Bullshit”, but his other books are great. I was lucky to see him lecture on the topic of love.