skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now, we need to be spending all of our time off, which if you work for a startup isn’t as much as you’d think, developing a blog

If you read my post, you'll see that I'm not advocating for that. I'm suggesting the bare minimum: "Start a blog. Post an interesting technical article to it once or twice a year—something you’ve learned, or a bug you’ve fixed, or a problem you’ve solved. After a few years stop bothering entirely, but leave the blog online somewhere."

The point of my piece is that you don't need to dedicate huge amounts of effort to doing this kind of work. Do a little bit, stick it online somewhere and it will still give you a huge benefit compared to other candidates who don't have any public evidence of their work.
The article doesn't promise a $500k job, just that public portfolios stand out vs candidates without a portfolio. I don't think it's an especially exotic or unbelievable claim.
The problem with software's non-physical nature is that it has runaway market dominance issues. Software, especially software that interacts with other software, tends to be either open-source maintained by a "community" or a thinly veiled world domination plan.
China is nationalist authoritarian state capitalist, their external propaganda isn’t to spread Marxist ideology, it’s simply anything that helps China and hurts everyone else, same as any nationalism.

“What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do.
We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale.” Network, 1976

Further, free speech must be defended despite the modern liberal tendency to cut off the majority’s noses to spite nazi faces. If you’re gonna fight nazis, fight nazis, don’t throw out fundamental human rights. They know they can taint principles, signs, and symbols with their stench. Don’t give up essential freedoms out of guilt by association. These charlatans have no political theory, no examined ideology. It’s a power struggle and we’ve already ceded too much power.
Depending on how you define biological superintelligence, these persons already exist, there's at least two people in the world (on an SD16 scale) with a 200 IQ at our current global population, my IQ is in the "above-genius" territory and there are at least ~335 people as intelligent as I am just in the United States (and that's only statistical probability, due to global labor market conditions the number is probably higher).

Do you know what really smart people do? They don't do any of the things that AI Risk says will happen, they get jobs at Google (or insert other pointless white collar job on wall street) moving widgets by 1 pixel to drive an ad engagement metric by half of a percentage and get paid $500k+ a year in total compensation. Why? Because it is a relatively low effort way to fund a lifestyle that allows enjoyment of your intellect through experiencing the world in other dimensions besides the mundane of work.

The non-biological aspect is the only reason why AI Risk has any credence at all /in our current state/, because AI isn't distracted by a desire to travel the world and explore nature, or to read all the great works of literature and write their own analysis of it, etc. Biological beings, at least at this point in time and in the probable sense, have emotions and therefore have desires that range beyond whatever machinations you expect from AI Risk.
If you're in, you're probably lucky. Probably skilled, but lucky for sure.
Yeah and then add to that the websites which are not apps but still break :-(

As for noscript.it, I'm not aware of any existing lists, I have a short hard coded list so far. If you start a list I'd happily use and contribute to it :-)
On noscript.it I have an additional problem in that not all sites allow embedding into a iframe and some block the cloudflare proxy I use to get around that. I maintain another list for those pages, but it probably breaks for a lot of other pages also without any useful error message to the user.
Wait.. I'm trying not to get my hopes up but my dad lost his smell for almost 2 years now. The most he's gotten is a single whiff of grass like a few months ago and it made him cry.

Are you saying that if I bought this detoxthespike thing it might help? Obviously nothing is certain, but unless I'm misreading your comment the above link you sent helped with your smell?
I think it depends how big the group is. If the group is 3 or 4 kids, then yes, that will be a problem. If the group is larger where they can choose who their friends are and not be constantly surrounded by others with phones, then it might work.
"You can bet that the Google crawler will have its own "attestation token" but if you want to crawl the Web with your own code you'll be SOL."

Let's be real here and note that while most web properties welcome Google crawlers, there are many, many other scrapers/crawlers that offer zero value to web operators while costing resources.
Why is everything is a file a file correct?

It makes some things easier but it is not the only way - so this does need to be justified.
Software engineering is like if a car was built and thus "finished", but the systems it depends on (like roads, and gas stations) changed every N years (with N < 10).

Imagine the gas stations (operating system) changed the kind of fuel they dispense every few years. No, by no means a car (software) that is fully finished today would be able to continue doing its thing tomorrow, without ongoing updates.

This also happens in the real world, it's just that changes are more likely in the decades or centuries, so we as humans don't perceive them so well.

The fact that Microsoft spends a whole lot of money to avoid this, is circumstantial. Apple doesn't so much, and at some point your finished software will stop working with newer MacOS releases if you don't update it to the newer system versions.

Linux is even more of a moving target. Good luck having a perfectly well working compiled program today, and trying to run it in 10 years time.
I'm not sure what your stance on non-electric bicycles is but just a leisurely cruise is faster than I can sprint.
I think there's a deeper problem in that the program can't easily tell the compiler what to do - we have pragmas and so on but they're crap.

I remember a Jon Chesterfield pointing out to me that people mistake inlining to be solely about call-overhead and not specialization - you should be able to nudge the compiler which one you want if at all (the "don't do anything" case being more often desired than pass-authors might think, myself include)
I don't believe the EMH is settled nor that markets follow a random walk. There is academic literature to back up both sides of both of those beliefs.

Things aren't as settled as you make them out to be, and that's OK. What's important is that you have enough confidence in your methods, whatever they are, to stick with them. In the end, the stickwithitness may be more important than what you stick to.
Checkout neon.tech
Germany, too. Very common to see very young children riding the U Bahn or S Bahn alone.
Anyone remember having to pay for cc on Solaris? [0] It was horrible and a terrible way to treat developers who are writing software for your OS!

We have been conditioned for a very long time to not need to pay for low level developer tools and to pay for support instead. I'm surprised they even tried to license it like that.

[0] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/12731/usr-ucb-cc-la...
Complexity, I'd imagine
I buy stuff with bandcamp, then import directly onto my navidrome server in ALAC.
If you want to come across better, consider grouping multiple sentences into a single paragraph.
How did open-appsec develop a Web Application and API Rate Limiting feature using ChatGPT?

To make things interesting our team decided to take an experimental approach to developing Rate Limiting feature and we tasked two developers, Ned and Dan, to create it, only using two different techniques - Ned designed and developed the feature using traditional techniques while Dan used AI-development tools, namely ChatGPT Large Language Mode. What happened is quite fascinating and we're excited to share the outcome in this blog. To read more, click right here!
> Underlying hardware/OS/firmwares/JVM/etc change.

OSes also can be "excellent products". They don't need yearly updates, there's nothing inherent to them that would prevent them from being made perfect, finished and never updated again.

The only case when an otherwise perfect OS would truly need to update is when new hardware capabilities require OS-level changes to support. Sometimes it may be beneficial to expose these new hardware capabilities as APIs for apps to consume. But again, adding new APIs shouldn't break the existing ones. For example, on phones, this would include things like notched screens, fingerprint readers or multiple rear-facing cameras.

> Dependencies break.

Don't update dependencies. Pick one version that serves you well and stick with it forever. I'm serious.

> Security updates.

It seems like we've already realized that writing code that deals with complex data structures received from untrusted parties in memory-unsafe languages like C is a terrible idea. If you exclude memory safety vulnerabilities, the attack surface shrinks drastically. You'd run out of security vulnerabilities pretty fast if you'd have any to begin with.

> Your house/car need maintenance. Your cities roads/bridges/tunnels need maintenance.

Houses, cars, and road infrastructure are made out of atoms and exposed to elements and stress of our imperfect real world. They wear out. Code doesn't. In 100 years, the bits would be the same they are today (as long as you use a reliable enough storage medium).
The article didn't expressly say that in the title because it was clear from the context.

The author is clearly talking about blogging to demonstrate expertise and creativity in the technical domain, in order to stand out positively.

The author did not make the claim that ranting about your fringe opinions online will make you stand out positively. In fact, they didn't mention the impact that would have at all.

You are fighting a straw man.

> When you're like me, it's not

It has nothing to do with being like you. You're not standing out positively because you're choosing to post things that make you stand out negatively, and the author made no claim about how that would impact you as a candidate.
14 is way too late to start, so you are correct.
Not significant from a situation/narrative perspective, but Roberto Carlos’ impossible goal always comes to mind https://youtu.be/ZnXA0PoEE6Y
If you're listening to this message, you are the resistance.
We have similar anti-discriminatory rules in the various parts of eu.
The answer is always: 'prove the discrimination'.
Candidates can rarely afford to even consider bringing a case.
Republicans' excess death rate spiked 43% after Covid-19 vaccines arrived: study
He was credited with "attracting very smart and ambitious people", not building those companies, and that's what I was referring to. I think it's debatable that he "built" those companies, but we should be specific when we're analyzing a person's qualities.
This will not help Threads retain their audience. Only Elon Musk can retain the audience in Threads.
I actively seek out open source maintainers when hiring. I recently hired an engineer (who happens to be Indian) I found via a popular package he maintains. I don't know how common it is to do this but, somewhat self-servingly, I think that employers who select for open source contributions may offer a better environment than those who don't.
Various links don't appear to work (Documentation, Leadership, etc). They're all anchors with no id.
Anecdote - I've used their domain search tool quite a bit and I've never run into an instance of a domain suddenly being unavailable when I go to register it.
This article recites the habitual capitalist doctrine and world vision that one can find everywhere. Unfortunately, it's full of holes.

"The Dawn of Everything" by Graeber is a great counterpoint to this.
Full disclosure: I'm one of the authors of the tool mentioned in the video, IAMbic.

The premise: Cloud IAM can get messy as your organization scales and you need to enforce compliance and security policies. Existing tools are often siloed and don’t give you a clear picture of your IAM state across different teams and platforms. IAMbic solves this problem by syncing your IAM state with version control, regardless of how you manage your IAM. It captures your IAM changes in Git as human-readable templates that you can track, review, and modify. If you just want to use IAMbic to gain visibility in your environment, you can stop here. But, you can also use IAMbic to apply changes to the cloud via Git workflows and prevent drift on selected resources, because these files in version control are bi-directional.

Right now, IAMbic supports AWS IAM (Users, groups, roles, policies), Identity Center, and Service Control Policies, Google Workspace IAM, Azure AD IAM, and Okta IAM. Our vision is to support other cloud providers, and give you a unified and flexible way to manage your cloud identities.

I'd love to hear your feedback on the approach.
Axes not labeled. Come the fuck on.
Corporations will dismiss all of that as asshole Luddites, and do it anyway. You're not Google's customer. The advertisers are.

The only way to stop Google from treating the Web as their own OS is to take that power away from them, by switching to other browser engines.
Given that you want this to be part of PR/deploy cycle, I'd imagine most standalone options would not work. But you can significantly simplify your existing process.

1. Keep the primary copy on server somewhere -- in google sheets, or in Airtable, or even as Excel file on a shared drive. Make sure it has backups (or can be easily re-generated from csv in github repo)

2. Create an automation (github action, jenkins job, whatever) that takes current version of spreadsheet, exports to CSV, and makes a PR with new contents (and possibly submits for review)

3. In normal case, business employee changes primary copy, then starts the automation to create a PR. They can monitor created PR for any errors and/or merge progress.

4. There is a chance of accidental massive damage, like someone deleting the entire column by accident or restructuring data in incompatible way. That's when you step in and manually restore from backup/from csv file in github.

5. There is no locking, two business users might step on each other toes. But you say "only need to update occasionally" so this is hopefully fine for you...
Sure, but on the positive side, the Chrome Company has its own incentives.

Today, Google can provide Chrome as a loss-leader, making up for the "free" browser with ad revenue.

The new Chrome Company can't operate that way. It needs to make money on its own. Perhaps MS Bing offers more money. Or they build their own ad system. Or pivot into some other business area.

Anyway, I don't think anybody is arguing Google/Alphabet must be broken up, only that it's a tool that's available in the US, should we (society) decide other regulation is insufficient.
I'll fix it soon.
Are they actively pursuing WEI? Is there anyone who is?
Dramatic? The IPCC is perhaps the driest bit of prose there is.
$8. What? /month? ?year?

Also too, the About page jumps around. That's annoying. It doesn't need to jump around.
Come, now. There's no mystery.
Wondering what you can do?

First:

- ban Google all together in your personal life. No chrome and no excuses. Stop your bullshit or leave this profession.

- develop with and for firefox and friends only, introduce usability problems for chrome

- employ the same tactics as google.

-> Bundle firefox with the software you are distributing.

-> Like google did, remove the competition altogether from the users device.

-> make your npm-module or your website slower in chrome

-> show a popup urging users to download firefox, provide a link.
Refer to their current chrome as malware.

-> use as many tricks as you can think of to spoil the well for google.
Destroy search results, fill their storage with /dev/random, whatever your imagination leads you too. You keep telling us you are so smart. Show it.

- remember, Google's capital is data. Hit that and the beast will die.

If you are not ready to do this, you are part of the problem. "Maybe later". No, people have warned for years. I wrote that using chrome is "less than smart" years ago, and some people took real offense when I wrote that. If you don't act now and update your projects like I wrote above, you will never do it.

Secondly, tweet, write to tech journalists. But only after you did the above.

Thirdly, Google is evil and they know it. They care only about money and they trust you to find excuses. There are already some people who talk to themselves "Well, I see both sides really". Don't be that one.

Fourthly, I am very worried that the window of opportunity is closing now rapidly. It is late to defend our values, rights and future all by ourselves while all political parties gladly take donations by the millions. I am not an anarchist (nor a libertarian), and I would rather sit on my lazy ass like you.
However, the amalgamation of tech oligarchs and ruthless political factions is accelerating. They are happy to trade civil rights for something more tangible. Your legal rights are being eroded one after the other and you might lose the right (or means) to stand up for them.

If things go really wrong, keep in mind that while in theory one could burn the whole thing down, well, yes, a statement in public life would help for publicity. But PR is a hard thing if you don't have money. The easiest steps are outlined above.
> The down arrows appeared for me suddenly a couple of weeks ago but not for every post.

I believe you get access to downvotes after 500 karma, and only for up to a day after the comment was made
Even if lithium-ion battery-powered cars were as safe as gasoline powered ones, I can imagine the significant weight of electric cars is a major issue still.
Number of Japanese drops in all 47 prefectures as foreign population surges
I think a big part of the reason there's so much hype around this is that room temperatures superconductors have long been a famous, almost legendary undiscovered material in popsci. Theoretically possible, but with no proof that any such material actually exists. But now not only is this paper claiming that such a material exists, but also that they made some, and it's easy to manufacture and works at temperatures well beyond ambient. Seems almost too good to be true!

So in addition to any immediate practical applications there's also this element of cracking a famous long unsolved problem. It'd be like if we discovered definitive proof that P != NP, or a theoretical basis for FTL communications. Even with no immediate practical applications it'd still be huge news.
Why Login Failures Matter
We already have one, and building a browser is a nightmare.
CryptDB: A Practical Encrypted Relational DBMS
Financial and social pressure are the only ways you convince anybody to do anything that isn't biological.
You don't need all the world's information. You need to listen to the teacher and follow the lesson plan during class.

If kids could learn effectively and become educated citizens with zero adult curation or guidance, you'd be right.
You know why this is news.
100% agree. The average consumer shouldn’t have to the think about it at all. There are an insane number of potential problems in the world that need to be solved. Putting the cognitive load on individuals to each do a tiny bit on each individual problem is a stupidly ineffective and inefficient way to do almost anything. Much better to have either change made to how industries operate, or redesign how the system works so that whatever the desired outcome for individuals becomes the easiest and simplest option.
My hand tracking experience on my Quest 1 was unimpressive (though I haven't bothered to try again recently), maybe the Quest 2 is better. Even for just navigating the UI, the pointing part works fine but pinching to click was entirely unreliable.

With its eye tracking and much stronger hand tracking hardware I expect Apple's will work nearly perfectly, just a matter of how people support it in games.

Teleport movement is a big question for me, convention for that on controllers is to push the thumbstick forward, aim the targeting arc, and release. Will everyone be making up their own teleport movement gesture, and eventually the market will settle on an expected way to handle it?

Will games where you pretend to be holding something (mini golf for instance) feel weird with just hand tracking, and nothing to actually hold?
First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor Achieved Claim Scientists
> Who has been mismanaged for at least a decade

Do you think Google is better managed?
Is there any reason — other than "we're paying our graphic designers full-time salaries so we better get our money's worth" — why OSes have to change so drastically and can't be finished as well, only ever updated to add new APIs for apps and drivers to support new hardware features?
I wish the author would have put some actual numbers on the cost of the different technologies.
Arguing about tradeoffs including that information would be much more meaningful.
Can I just say, I absolutely love the functionality of this side and its linked sites? I really appreciate fast, simple sites.
It does work to build professional connections. A good number of my jobs came through people recognizing me from talks I've given, my writing, meetups, and working on open source projects.

However it didn't help much in the interview process. I've never been in an interview where the interviewer looked at my profiles on various code hosting platforms, reviewed some of my pull requests before hand, and came into the room with a good idea of what I do and how I work. They will still ask the same pre-canned questions they are forced to ask and we're back to reversing linked lists and memoizing tree walking algorithms.

It's good for getting to know folks which can help in finding places to apply to where you might already know some people.

But I doubt it's going to make you stand out in the interview process itself.

Update: That being said, I've been on the other side of the table and when I was the one setting up the interview process I made sure candidates knew that they could send over recent PRs they've made for us to review in order to bypass any coding exercises. I find it much easier to discuss the problem they were working on and seeing their solution is really helpful.
Does that seem easier for people to do than buying a Windows or MacOS device? If your oldest credit cards are through your bank it could wreck your FICO for quite a while.
Avoid resellers / 'cheap' registrars like NameCheap, GoDaddy. DNS propagation, domain 'locking', etc. is so much easier to manage and faster using registrars who care about their business. Hover comes to mind, recently I've transferred everything to CloudFlare.
The Compound Poisson Process
>Will it though? Googles main reason for WEI I assume is to combat ad-fraud. Ie. to prevent someone making a bot farm to click ads to earn money from advertising or exhaust competitors ad budgets or manipulate search engine user ranking signals.

Right. And so I ask this question: Why should I be forced to donate my data, CPU cycles, network bandwidth and privacy to one of the largest corporations in the world so they can address an issue (ad fraud) between them and their customers?

I'd note that I am not a customer of Google or their advertisers. Because advertisers are the only real customers of Google.

Edit: Clarified my point.
It also shows up in Rust, Python, and Typescript projects.
Apple has a new parallel linker which may or may not be of interest :
https://twitter.com/davidecci/status/1665835119331135488