skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meh, this problem is super, super common. I have many random electric devices that charge using USB-C that don't have the pulldown on CC.

Maybe I should get/make a shim for this.. a USB-C female-to-male thing that just passes through everything but has a pulldown on CC.
The article seems to miss the point that we are able talk about these differences in terms of containers as they are abstracted into a purely software system that are reproducible. Versus a customized hardware+software system with no means to reproduce it. Containers were a huge step forward because they raised so much more of the software stack into a simple, repeatable, defined systems than were previously much harder to obtain.
We very much agree, and are aiming to tackle exactly this problem with Continue. Curious to know more about what you've tried and learned. What are the limitations that cause you to return to ChatGPT?

On another note: we purposefully refer to ourselves as an "autopilot" rather than "co-pilot". While at first glance pedantic, we think there is real value behind the idea that developers should be in control. We want to get out of their way, rather than injecting AI everywhere. An autopilot should feel like less of a separate entity (a pair-programmer) and more of an extension of yourself, a part of your own brain that you can call on to more easily complete particular tasks.
> the journalism school extended a written 5-year tenure-track offer

The original offer wasn't tenure-track, it was tenured — she already had tenure at the far-superior and more-liberal institution 100 miles west of TAMU (of which I'm a graduate). "After hearing about the concerns, McElroy agreed to a five-year contract position without tenure, which would have avoided a review by regents. On Sunday, she received a third offer, this time with a one-year contract and emphasizing that the appointment was at will and that she could be terminated at any time. She has rejected the offer and shared all of the offer letters with the Tribune." [0]

[0] https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/11/texas-a-m-kathleen-m...
Thanks for posting the original source. Extremely weird indeed.
Chatgpt paid for coding outside my usual proficiency or for brainstorming. Ive been experimenting a bit with the API via tools like GPT-migrate. Cant go back now
> I'm not muddling anything, I'm equating them

Even then, the rhetoric is counterproductive. If I'm arguing jelly beans and Snickers are both candies, it doesn't help to call each of jelly beans, Snickers, and a set of the two by the same name.

> I'll go ahead and stand with Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

You choose a good quote! Read it again. Nobody here argued for the merits of implicit biases. Just that it is different from what many people consider racism.

The Reverend MLK, Jr. agrees. He uses different terms for "the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner" and "white moderates." Because the latter, while--as he argues--harmful, isn't equivalent to the former. In drawing that line, he strengthens his argument, and shows how the moderate stance resembles the extreme one.

If we rewrite his words with your rhetoric, it would involve refusing to distinguish, rhetorically or ideologically, between the KKK'er and white moderate. In doing so, King would have not only told a mistruth, he would have also lost his ability to sway the latter.
The scoop: Scheme and Janet are great, but the author wants a more standalone language. What makes the difference is the breakloop, a full-blown REPL that opens when an error in a program occurs. Not a stacktrace, not a debugger; just build from the point where it's currently broken.
A version history sounds great, but it's not really the problem I'm talking about.

I'm adding features and content to legacy Wordpress websites where the clients are liable to change config and add and alter content themselves via the admin portal. There seems no easy way to automate deployment from local development into production without accidentally erasing someone's changes, and to keep up to date with production without losing your own work.

It seems like a tricky problem to solve, and maybe a bespoke version control system might be required (e.g., throw CRDTs at the problem?), but essentially I should be able to diff and merge between my local work and the production version while clients are making their own edits.
It looks awesome, but I'm too lazy as of today to go back to Emacs. I usually just use VSCode close to the defaults for my (mostly) Python and JavaScript development. I don't code full time, since I'm on a CTO role.
This is frustrating to read, and I hope that my reply doesn't come off as too snippy. But it really feels like people will do anything, including throwing away rights to privacy, infringing on free speech, and ignoring the advice of over 100 civil rights advocacy groups -- all just to avoid breaking up a few companies or directly legislating algorithms.

I just do not understand how weakening constitutional rights is on the table for you and so many other people before antitrust is.

It's not even the least invasive compelled speech option! If you've got to target speech, then on one hand we have, "giving the government the power to decide which platforms are liable for what and requiring that teenagers have their speech surveilled online even though multiple government actors involved in the bill are open about the fact that they'd like to use the government to suppress LGBTQ+ speech and consider all LGBTQ+ expression to be harmful for minors", vs "force social media platforms like Facebook to use a timeline rather than displaying algorithmic content."

Both would be compelled speech, but if you absolutely have to compel something the second is a lot less dangerous than the first. Every time these conversations pop up there a few people gesturing wildly at the word "antitrust", and everyone else is saying, "well, we've tried literally everything possible, maybe we're at the point where we really do need to build a surveillance apparatus for every teenager in the US, there's just nothing else we can do."

You don't have to infringe on the rights of every single minor in the country, you can break up abusive companies. It's totally allowed. We've done it before and it was great! Breaking up companies can be a healthy bonding activity for a divided country that's fun for the whole family and brings us all closer together, so just give it a try ;)
Author should do the same trip by train now. Seems like more people are taking advantage of the long distance Amtrak trains and thankfully there's been funding to keep those around.
At the expense of O(n) index access. At least Java and JS have compact strings. C# is always UTF-16 because they exposed too much implementation detail to be able to transparently do the compact string optimization.
I’ve heard from owners that have run their Bolts in rallys. They do well if you replace the OEM tires with something more grippy. It helps that all the weight sits low and in the middle.
Wouldn’t it be dangerous to plug this into a device that does not expect to be powered?
> This might just be a cynical atheist's interpretation of Abrahamic religions

There is only one abrahamic religion - judaism. Judaism confers eternal salvation and israel to the descendants of abraham. People forget that judaism is an ethnicity first and religion second. Hence why you can be an atheist jew. The convenant between god and abraham and his descendant is what makes a religion abrahamic.

'On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your descendants I have given this land, From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates...' Genesis 15.

Christianity is a non-abrahamic religion as the covenant is between christ and all of humanity. Hence why anyone can become a christian. Similarly with islam as anyone can become a muslim.
People typically remember their dreams when they wake up in the middle of one, and usually then the REM sleep stage. I remember some guy studying this, got his assistant to wake him during REM and found the dreams were pretty vivid when this happened.

Maybe you're just enjoying a sound sleep and waking at the "right" time.
My only problem with this logic is that you and I both know you aren't getting paid for the time you spend not at your job and that you don't spend all of your time in pursuit of work. I don't mean, "You don't get paid to brush your teeth" (But I am willing to bet you don't consider your hourly rate when you do an activity you are interested in or hanging out with your friends) but that you don't completely fill your day with money making activities. I think the logic here reframes the 'blame' off of you and onto something external.

But its perfectly okay to say that the benefits the previous poster mentioned aren't worth more to you than the convenience + quality of just buying a new pair of socks. Because the truth of it is that darning your own socks costs almost nothing.
very cool, wish it was crossplatform
That is strictly true. However, it is not hard to gauge which phenomena are cheaper to experiment on. I would rather see a hundred independent phenomena pursued than just one. Since significance correlates so poorly with cost, odds favor more results.
I have this problem constantly. I have to work with a number of hardware devices for my job (non-consumer hardware) that proudly claim USB-C.

But they also are exactly like the old USB-micro devices with a different port and don’t charge on real USB-C. So to charge them I use a USB-C to USB-A port adapter so I can plug in a USB-A to USB-C cable.

It’s horrible.
The majority of those bug fixes are from people who probably were paid by companies to work on them.

A couple of people with a bunch of fixes attributed to them seem to work for Red Hat, and several contributors have Collabora email addresses. A fair bunch of fixes would seem to be from members of a LibreOffice team at some company (based on bugzilla comments and email addresses). One contributor seems to be from a company that does consulting related to LibreOffice.

A few fixes are from people registered with what look like private email addresses or with email addresses associated with the LibreOffice or other open source projects themselves. But they seem to be a minority.

That doesn't mean it can't be interesting to those people, or to many people, but it also doesn't mean most of the fixes were motivated by that alone.

(Also, fixing bugs is different than QA.)

> While capitalism sounds nice in practice, it results in the destruction of the planet because the profit motive eats everything alive and leaves nothing behind for future generations.

As always, that doesn't mean communism (or some other supposed polar opposite) would work. Or that those are the two possible binary options.
In theory I agree, but how do you reconcile this with the patriot act, prism, and secret courts?

Before we can have a government that can run and create new services we have a culture problem to confront. You can't build civic e-mail when half the people want it to suck/fail so that sweet government money can be outsourced to their cronies or so that their patrons (thanks citizens united) don't get upset.

Who would get blamed if it sucks? The people who want it to fail and predicted its failure (a willing self fulfilling prophecy), or the people who tried to do it and put their names on it? Clearly the former should be blamed, but in practice it's the latter.
No, the "lab leak" theory is not so taboo that any serious scientist would throw out everything they know about the scientific process. You're acting as if a credible argument was made and shot down unjustly already, but no such thing has happened. You have no evidence to suggest that would actually have happened here, either. Just wild speculation about the worst possible behavior of one man in particular who does not in any way deserve your hate.

But even if that were the case, what this doesn't do is make any movement whatsoever as to the veracity of any "lab leak" theory. If you want to make that argument, do so. Nobody has, not credibly, even after these messages leaked. Where are the retractions, now that the cat is out of the bag? Nowhere, because they know such a thing would be indefensible.

All you have are implications, scuttlebutt, and postulation. Until someone actually presents the argument, all you can do is speculate, and that's not good enough for the scientific process to be relevant.
According to the developer, he has also written lld-link.exe[1] (i.e. lld that accepts link.exe flags for compatibility), which is already significantly faster than link.exe.

[1]: https://github.com/rui314/mold/issues/190#:~:text=I%27ve%20a...
Containers aren't about you. They're about the person you're trying to hand things to.

I got stuck creating VMs for testers for a distributed workflow (several services, several tools), and keeping those VMs up to date and working was a PITA, but far less painful than dealing with them filing bug reports based on thinking they were doing X when they were doing Y.

I ended up creating a workflow that felt like layers, so when Docker came along I didn't need a salespitch. I could just do what I'd done with a script instead of a runbook. Where do I sign up?
Bolt starts at $26k
Nope. I built one of these things years ago to control a parking gate. We did a lot of legal review due to customer concerns. There’s nothing illegal unless you facilitate certain behaviors that vary by jurisdiction.

The police have huge networks. Almost all speed and red light cameras record 7-30 days of continuous video. Typically those installations cover most entry and exit points of a city. The DEA operates interstate surveillance on drug corridors. There are LPR hits and driver/passenger pictures from Maine to Miami, for example. All legal because driving is a privilege, and you don’t have a right to privacy in public.
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We ran into the same thing with our new recruiting tool, discovered hundreds of fake applicants for the first remote engineering job we posted. We initially noticed that a large number of job applicants were using ChatGPT responses with our virtual recruiter, and showing drastically different scoring from non-fake candidates.

We started scheduling video chats with the candidates clearly using ChatGPT with our virtual recruiter, and they all got on the call and began reading scripts, and could not answer more unique phone screen questions like: What engineering principle is important to you?

It’s the most frustrating thing, taking up so much of our time and taking time away from strong engineers who deserve our time.

I heard a good podcast about this,
https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/133/

We’re testing a solution for this to keep our own product operating fast and delivering amazing candidates.

We’re also keeping a list of red flags:

- LinkedIn profile was created in the last year

- GitHub link has a generic identity, 0-2 followers, very little activity

- Candidate will say yes to a phone screen immediately, literally right now

- Or candidate will ask if the meeting is a technical screen

- Candidate will go quiet if you ask them if they are available to fly to HQ to meet the team for their final interview

- Job history includes large, non-tech enterprises where employment would be hard to confirm; think CVS, The Home Depot, Best Buy, etc

- LinkedIn About Statement is written in the third person

- LinkedIn profile uses generic language like “cutting edge technologies”

- Profile photos may be avatars, or look like stock photos

None of these things individually can indicate a fake applicant, but taken all together with language used with our virtual recruiter we’ve gotten good at identifying the fakes. We’re still doing a lot of tests to prevent discrimination on our part.

If anyone wants to chat, my CoFounder and I have become obsessed with solving this.
This happened at Uber ATC multiple times as well
materials costs are not the only consideration. they have to arrange for a secure supply, retooling, QC checking etc. to do it properly.

I imagine they got the cheapest engineer to make a functioning product. Changing their whole production line for a $0.001 component is hardly worth their time in this product segment, however debatable the ethics or PR of it is.
No moreso than using a USB-A to USB-C cable, unless I fundamentally misunderstand something
>How could we know unless somebody tries it?

Because the effort to build such a thing would be gargantuan. Think of all the work that went into the Linux kernel plus all the userspace programs and applications on top of it: you want to recreate all that effort because of a hunch?

I'm sure some people with more expertise in theoretical CS than me can tell you better why this is a bad idea, but consider we already have databases now, and different databases work better for different tasks than others. How is baking a database into your filesystem going to compete? What if you pick the wrong one? What if it sucks for certain use-cases that current systems (filesystem+DB) work better at?

Every time someone's tried getting better efficiency by baking things in at a low level, it hasn't worked out too well, because by forcing a standard that way, it prevents innovation (e.g., with your DB-as-filesystem, when everyone decides they want to work with JSON right in their DB, it can't be done with yours because it wasn't designed that way and it can't be bolted on because it'll break things, but with Postgres it's easy to add in).
I guess it hasn't came out because I don't personally work with a lot of user input or emojis in Java. When I do I'm normally using Python, and that uses Unicode transparently. Good to know.
Support can’t do anything, but they are often your only chance to get what you want: the message passed to someone who might be able to in the future.

That’s what the rep said they would do here.

And sadly that’s the most you can ask for.
Starship economics change everything. Today, it costs on the order of $1500/kg to hoist something to orbit with a Falcon 9. Even if you add a zero to Elon's predictions of $15/kg with Starship, you're still reducing costs by 10x, which means zero-gravity manufacturing at scale, space tourism for 100 people at a time, etc etc becomes possible.
I used to work in the industry. A few things I’ve seen make it into production maps shown to largeNumberOfUsers are phallic objects drawn as lines on the map and series of what appear to be random test lines drawn as roads in the Arctic. Neither of these examples are great publicity if they are discovered on a finished and shipped product people are paying for.

Interestingly, they’re also a lot harder to catch than the slur naming example
I think it's just possible that some of what you refer to as "culture war" content might actually be rather important. So one rather suspects that dismissing it in this way suits your ideological inclinations, rather than your objective assessments of the world.

Furthermore, on HN you are supposed to respond to the article's content; not to what you suspect the content is based on the "outlet" and title. If you are unwilling or unable to contribute to HN along those lines then the community would appreciate you not contributing at all.
My dude, he says they're worse. I don't think that's the rhetorical win you want here.

I'm pulling back from that by equating them, taking a more moderate stance. But you're right, I shouldn't water down MLK's thinking here; the implicit racists are substantially worse than the outright racists because they normalize the behavior and try to push black people down through unjust tranquility.
> raising the standard of living

Ah yes, you must be referencing the Holodomor here. That sure raised the standard of living. Marxism-Leninism is, without a shadow of a doubt, a fundamentally evil ideology.

> rapidly developing industry

What industry are you even talking about (-oh that's right, the Soviet obsession with steel)? Have you ever actually been in the industrial cities of the Eastern Bloc? Have you toured their inefficient brutalist factories? The same factories that ended up being shuttered in the 1970s. Even ignoring the grave human rights abuses, the communist satellite states were bureaucratic behemoths that collapsed under their own weight. It's like you've never even heard the word "Perestroika."

But in any case, the communists not only persecuted my great-grand-parents for their religion (they had to flee from Ukraine), but also stole my grandparents' land, and destroyed my parents' youth. I was also born in communism (I barely remember the Romanian revolution as I was an infant) and posts like this remind me how quickly people forget and that the Jewish people are really onto something in never letting us forget the horrors of the Holocaust. In similar ways, I've taken it upon myself to never let people forget the horrors of communism.

> despite being a feudal backwater in 1917

Imagine calling regions that gave birth to cultural gems like Prague, Budapest, Kyiv, or Warsaw "feudal backwaters." Did you know that in 1884, Timișoara (the Romanian city I grew up in), became the first European city to implement DC electric street lighting? Backwaters my ass.
That's an article about why having a toilet on a space ship is a very, very good idea.
AI Art models are completely dependent on human labor to function. "Out-competing" human generated images will damage the commons and make it harder to train these models over time as they push human creative labor out of the market, if we believe it's even competitive.

Personally I think this guy has a point and he's pointing to something that I don't believe a lot of ai art advocates have considered: the attention economy. There isn't actually any scarcity in the current market for artistic content. There are literally millions of people producing art every day, and the market is very winner take all. There are few artists who are able to support themselves on their work, and their skills are exceptional and specifically in demand. My theory is that the supply of AI generated content will be so vast, and the perception around it will be that it's low effort and low quality, that so called AI artists are going to have trouble distinguishing themselves in a market where they're saturating it and all using the same models. I think your perception of this market is flawed. Art is not a fungible good like food or clothing.
Yes change the entire production environment to accommodate the development environment… it’s a lot cheaper to just switch developer laptops at next refresh
>Wouldn't debts to China end up being enforced by the worldwide banking system ?

No. What gave you that crazy idea? The banking system is dominated by western nations; why would they care about backing up China's claims?
I've sometimes been able to escalate to the right people and effect change, even when I have to go through a seemingly uncaring customer support team.

I was inspired by patio11's "Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and You."[0] It changed the way I raise disputes with companies as a consumer, and it's gotten me good results.

The tl; dr is that large organizations have things they're afraid of, and they typically have processes in place to prevent them from happening. If you figure out what the company is afraid of, tie your grievance to that fear, and it will pressure the company to resolve your issue.

With credit reporting agencies, they're afraid of regulatory incidents. If you give signals that you're gathering evidence for a complaint to regulators, they'll work hard to resolve your issue. Other companies are afraid of a complaint to a distributor or the potential for a lawsuit. They're usually afraid of something, and if you can figure out what it is, you can get the attention of people with the power to resolve the issue.

[0] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r...