skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is an unfair rhetorical trick on both sides. In terms of orders-of-magnitude there numbers in the debate there are probably something like hundreds of people who are appalled by WEI and of those maybe there are single digits of them are criminals. AND there are criminals who support the WEI.

The argument is also foolish. Almost the entire legal system is supported by criminals, it is nothing but a series of controls making it more likely that people don't face punishment. Criminals would _love_ stuff like prosecutors having to provide 'evidence' and juries and whatnot.

Just because criminals are in favour of something doesn't make the thing bad. Criminals can be philosophically correct, just like the rest of us.
Trying to explain something ("A led to B") is not blaming. And again, the poster followed up clarifying that.

Constantly taking the worst possible interpretation of everything and divining the worst possible malicious motivations at the drop of a hat is one of the main reasons these debates turn in to such drek all the time.
The notion that this is poisoning the well is also supported by the general pattern: retreating on an idea that others thought was bad, avoiding literally any discussion of the technical/cultural criticism (despite that it apparently still existed legitimately enough to postpone the proposal for now) and 2/3rd or more of the post spent implying that [all|some|who knows] of the opponents were abusive bullies, and that maybe the idea was actually fine. (Setting the stage to absolutely re-introduce with the new framing "inauthentic traffic" in 6 months.)

Note also, avoiding any discussion of the web open or how it entered into the decision to postpone, supposedly. Though, that also wasn't said, just sort of implied with the half-hearted smiley-faced plea for compromising.

I am not emotionally invested because I see this as inevitable and don't care, I'll go live in the woods soon anyway, but this is just icky to read.
I completely agree. His conduct and replies are absolutely top notch. I'm in awe of his commitment.
Can you explain what this API is for and how it’s presumably abused?
People are really reaching to smear Elon Musk
> Among the many things I would do if I were the President would be to pardon this guy of any and all crimes he committed while hanging such signs

Which would generally not be federal crimes, and thus not pardonable by the President.
Apple has claimed that they don’t allow China to intercept communications using these keys. They’ve said on the record to the WSJ that they don’t do any combination of these things, and they left very little wiggle room in their denials (Google Apple China encryption keys WSJ). If you could show that they were compromising security for the Chinese government but not making any allowances for the FBI, and that their executives were lying about it, it would be a massive political scandal. There would almost certainly be congressional hearings, simply because any one of {Apple, China, tech executives caught lying, tech executives secretly collaborating with foreign governments} is by itself an opportunity for Congresspeople to get their face on TV and this would cover all the bases. Following this there would be huge US government pressure for Apple to (at minimum) cease collaborating with China to surveil its people, or else to offer the same capability to the US government. Potentially Apple’s entire business in China could be jeopardized if it was predicated on secret collaboration, not to mention their whole supply chain would be even more at risk. In the long run Apple might maneuver out of the situation somehow, but in the short run it would certainly affect them very badly.
An alternative read is that the poster is trying to discourage further physical threats, doxxing, and other abusive behavior they're receiving for doing their jobs, by appealing to the bad actors' self-interest.
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NIST standards on RNG are not as random as expected?

Or do you mean certain folks intentionally chose substandard implementations for some reason?
Crop loans that went bad due to storm damage? Seems possible in that part of the country. Though I'd presume those are insured?
sometimes you need all of that data in-process. when you move that state into redis, you still need to perform i/o to access it. when speed matters, this is troublesome.
I feel, as someone who has observed and participated in HN for years, that the moderation doesn't do much good. I mean, I'm sure that HN would be worse if there was no moderation, but there's simply not enough moderation to go around. One or two people can't handle the sheer volume of, well, shit on here. There's a lot of shit. The HN guidelines are violated multiple times in practically every comment thread.

I find myself becoming my worst self on here, whether I want to or not, in reaction to others being their worst selves too. It's difficult to rise above the fray. Dang must have infinite patience, but I don't, and most people don't seem to either. Dang sets an example that few are willing to follow. I also feel that he gives people way too much lenience. It's like, "I see you've violated the guidelines badly multiple times lately. That's not cool. If you don't stop, then I might have to ban you, someday in the future, or maybe not. I'll give you one... hundred more chances." I'm exaggerating here, but only slightly. ;-)

I know that some commenters think that HN is great place for intelligent, friendly discussion. I personally don't understand that. It's like we live in different worlds. But I'm certainly not alone in seeing HN as "toxic", something mentioned in the linked article, as well as by people I know elsewhere. I come here for the topics, which are often very interesting to me, yet all too often I come away from HN regretting my participation. Maybe this is just a bad habit that needs breaking. :-)
As a single person, sure. But the price for a couple or family is still an absolute steal. Where I live the monthly price of the duo price is just under the cost of one meal at a down town food court for 1 person. Skip lunch once a month and in exchange not have to think about torrents or iTunes? For me and my spouse? Done with no debate at all.
> But almost at that same moment, Netflix has listed a $900,000 job opening for an AI guru. That doesn’t feel like a balanced approach to me.

I think this is a dishonest comparison. This is a very high end position, one of the best in the world. It would be like saying “Netflix is paying the Rock $50M for a movie, so actors definitely have the upper hand.”

There’s way fewer actors and writers than programmers so it’s hard to compare, but I don’t think cherry picking salaries and then generalizing very useful (for more than blog views).
(CS/EE here who I guess won the womb lottery by being born in the States.) Holy crap, that's absurd and ill-informed on their part. There should be standards on the which accreditation of degrees to accept, not an exhaustive, under-maintained/-reviewed list of specific majors from specific institutions.

The US can only stay competitive by making it easy enough for global talent to want to come here and want to stay. In the past ~15 years, the US has really lost its edge on being the melting pot and welcoming immigrants in a nation built and populated by immigrants (except for native peoples).

PS: Not all CS/engineering degrees are created equal. There are some US institutions where their Computer Science (CS) Bachelor's degree is not accredited by a professional society while the Electrical Engineering (EE), Computer Engineering, etc. are. I switched majors to earn one that was ABET accredited. For new international students, it's vital to check the International Mutual Recognition Agreement (IMRA) for their degree to be sure it's widely recognized by the rest of the world. The cliche is a Russian physicist who ends up teaching US high school biology because of trouble with degree portability.

https://amspub.abet.org/aps/name-search?searchType=program&k...
Very misleading headline, he's saying he suspects some of those doing the intimidation might be criminals. It's unnecessarily inflammatory language in any case.

But this whole attestation thing should be killed with fire.

Companies (or governments) have no business putting anything on machines that you own in order to prove you comply with their wishes.
One thing I liked about Ada, the small amount I used it, is it has actual subtypes: you could define a variable as an integer within a specific range, and the compiler would (presumably) choose an appropriate underlying storage type for it.
Case in point :)
The funny thing is that I found myself generally agreeing with every point in the post, but seeing them as positives where the survey participants saw them as negatives.

> got yelled at, felt bad

> Constantly being told I was somewhat dim because I didn’t understand how to do things or what the unwritten rules were.

Well, yeah, welcome to any social group. Personally, I like that people second-guess themselves a bit, and self-limit what they post, to some extent at least. At the other extreme of the spectrum, we would get Eternal September.

> couldn’t find people or interests, people didn’t stay

> For me, it was that Mastodon seemed to actively discourage discoverability. One of the things I loved most about Twitter was the way it could throw things in front of me that I never would have even thought to go look for on my own.

I appreciate anyone making the effort to pierce their own bubble. However,

- I simply don't use Mastodon for that.

- I didn't like Twitter's suggestions

- And btw, Twitter's algorithms never had a reputation of piercing anyone's bubble.

> too confusing, too much work, too intimidating

> I’m tech savvy and have found mastodon simply opaque. [...]

I actually don't totally hate just a little bit of a technical barrier to entry. Quite frankly, that barrier is very very low.

> Discoverability/self promo is limited & typing out 6 hashtags is annoying. # being in the actual posts clutter things (unlike cohost/insta).

"Self promo is limited" sounds like a huge bonus to me!

> too serious, too boring, anti-fun

> ultimately, I just bounced off of the culture, because it wasn’t banter-y and fun. It feels too much like eating your vegetables.

I only follow people on Mastodon for the technical stuff, so I don't really need fun. But then some of those technical people I follow turned out to be lots of fun.

The average Mastodon experience is, I think, much more dependent on who you follow (and maybe your instance) than the average Twitter experience. As a result, different people will get very different things out of it. Of course, all my remarks above are very much only due to my own preference. But I do love my little corner of Mastodon, and this article inadvertently hits on all the reasons why I do.
I use a Windows VM to play VR games in, and with GPU passthrough it's pretty much native performance and buttery smooth.

I originally followed this guide [1] but have accumulated a bunch of little modifications since then. It's a good place to start if you're willing to really dig in.

[1] https://www.heiko-sieger.info/running-windows-10-on-linux-us...
Nope. Never tried the wavey one. I can't remember hearing of wavey walls/fences until a few years ago.

Talking about all this again brings back some memories. My hands freezing from digging in the rocky soil. My hands aching from swinging the club hammer I used to compress the stones around the oak post to form a foundation. Trying to start the chainsaw in cold weather. Taking the tools back to the toolshed in a squeeky-wheel wheelbarrow. All good memories. It's been forty years since I made a fence but I could do it tomorrow with no problem, and gladly.
It doesn’t fit your experience because you are one of those people who are truly passionate about music, precisely as Gioia was talking about. But from what I have been seeing from listeners both young and old that I am acquainted with, people are often just putting their trust in the algorithm to play them something nice as a background music.
On top of that, the listing said the salary was $300k-$900k. I would bet money that the actual person who gets hired will not be making $900k right off the bat.
Yeah, probably. DMA is always an issue when you're using PCI for graphics, so caveat emptor.
This is actually a very good article. It leans a little towards caricature (insofar as it takes the detached perspective on HN of people who seem not to inhabit HN regularly, and so seems more inclined to credit the criticisms), but not nearly as much as I was expecting it to.

This was also a very accurate description:

> Skipping from thread to thread felt a bit like arriving at a party where half the room was sipping non-alcoholic shrubs and the other half had spent the afternoon tailgating in a stadium parking lot.

Reading N-Gate still cracks me up today. But the person behind it was a bit vicious in ascribing to all of HN the motives/aspirations of Y Combinator. His/her description of who inhabits HN seemed much more to the point when directed at YC instead.
The majority of the EU population can buy it directly... https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-7-availability... says:

> The full list of countries includes the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Japan, Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, and India.

I get that plenty of countries don't have official Google Store support, but it's a bit like saying there isn't a Samsung store? I assume you're free to buy the phone elsewhere in the EU, or even in countries that aren't directly supported by Google, and activate with your own carrier.
Tough nut to crack.

"Not long after the Saudi journalist was killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, the CIA assessed with high confidence that MBS had personally ordered the killing, but intelligence officials never spoke publicly or presented evidence."

How many journalists get their deaths investigated at all, let alone laid at the door of a...whatever you want to call their government, and what it is to the US'.
I quite like Android in it's more libre form, disconnected from artificial manufacturer-imposed restrictions, ie. LineageOS.

I tend to purchase hardware based on the availability (or likely availability) of 3rd party ROM support.
If it's obvious a spectrum analyzer will help, but GPS signals are very weak and you won't be able to see anything without special equipment. (-125 dBm at the Earth's surface; that's ATTOwatts of power.)
As someone who has lived their entire life outside of OR/NJ, I cannot stand full-service gas stations (slow, silly, annoying) and will go well out of my way to avoid the few that still exist.

I used to routinely drive between PA and NY and always made sure I had plenty of gas so I didn't have to stop in NJ.
Future headline: Google Employee accuses HN commenter of "threatening kill[ing] with fire".
The main benefit of the threadsafe builds was reentrancy support for multithreaded web servers (e.g. IIS / some apache MPMs). They were only slightly slower for single-threaded code.

The new PHP 8 fibers are only coroutines on a single thread, but PHP has had fork/join since 2001 (!), which works pretty well with Linux CoW.

There has been a pthreads extension since about 2012. However keeping a 1:1 pthreads API prevents some optimization possibilities [1], so the new hotness is php-parallel [2], which will transparently copy closed-over variables to a subinterpreter.

1. https://github.com/krakjoe/pthreads/issues/929#issue-4106367...

2. https://www.php.net/manual/en/philosophy.parallel.php
As a technical user (I was rooting my phone to get upgrades and remove bloatware and I was jailbreaking out of iphone), I got bored out of doing customization. I just want something to work and do the stuff I need to do. If I need to tinker, I will buy something to tinker with, but I don’t want that in other areas of my life. I don’t want to modify my fridge or my washing machine (I know what I should learn to do it). If my iPhone can no longer do what I need, i’ll switch.

And these days, I’m against the kitchen sink. I watch movies on a TV (there’s always one anywhere I’ve been) I read books on an e-reader, and I have a DAP for listening to music (except today, streaming is becoming more convenient for general listening). And most of my computing is done on my laptop. My phone is very much an appliance because I don’t need it to do much, just that it does it reliably.
Nice! I enjoyed playing it.
One bit of feedback – the "Include Tiny Countries" toggle seems to have the same appearance in both states, so I'm not sure which is on and which is off.
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To be fair, the message to use condoms was the answer to the problem of transmission.

It still is more of less.

It wasn’t idiotic, it was all we had.

Education about transmission vectors coupled with availability and normalisation of the use of condoms.

Although PREP is now available for some as an option.
It's a welfare position for some exec's cousin. Slap the AI buzzword in the title and it makes it sound like a plausibly serious job, so others buy in.
I hope there will be a requirement to identify "AI" in the writing credits. I would not want to subsidize any movies that were written by an AI. The human writers are pretty bad, but at least they are people and deserve to earn a living.
My challenge is why is this relevant? We pay anesthesiologists a lot more than baristas, we pay lawyers more than teachers, we pay civil engineers more than accountants. It’s about labor markets and paying the price an individual will accept vs their other opportunities given their skill set and the market demand.

I would note the writer vs ML product manager roles aren’t related. If you click through there’s nothing about generative AI or LLM or SD or anything related to content generation. Looks like run of the mill ML role, likely associated with recommendation engines or some other engagement generation role.

N.b., I don’t think they would pay $900k for a writer unless the writer is some heavy hitter star power writer. Rather than a salary my understanding is these roles draw down royalties, which as a variable annuity can be worth far more or far less, but encompass a lot more risk. Also amongst the creative talent they often make the least afaik.
Check out ErsatzTV and dizqueTV. I’m working on a Saturday morning cartoon channel that uses Adult Swim fillers.
If the cars caused the mindset then the mindset would necessarily be delayed by two generations because mindset and worldview changes require new humans.
The intent is to make no GIL the default eventually.
50% retention month on month for a free, low-friction service would actually be very, very good. Tbh, I'd assume it's lower than that; 50% is unrealistically high.
If they were launched aboard a voyager probe, 46,000 years of cryo-sleep would be enough to get them halfway to Alpha-Centauri.
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The article claims Netflix is hiring AI positions to "replace creative professionals":

> It looks like they’re hellbent on replacing creative professionals with bots, and the faster the better.

The linked AI job listing doesn't say that at all.

You can find the listing here: https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/278437235 It says:

> Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence is powering innovation, from personalization for members, to optimizing our payment processing and other revenue-focused initiatives.

The author has either ignored the facts or imposed their own ideas on to the situation. This take breaks down as soon as you check any of the facts.
> But almost at that same moment, Netflix has listed a $900,000 job opening for an AI guru. That doesn’t feel like a balanced approach to me.

They listed a $900k position for someone who does machine learning platform planning. Every single recommendation you see on Netflix is powered by machine learning and has for a long long time. It is the core of their business and impacts every single user interaction with the product. And as the linked article itself notes the job isn't about content generation. Tying this into the AI hype is really disingenuous.

edit: And looking at level.fyi Netflix was paying the same last year for ML talent.
>> I am advocating a GIL per-thread model with an explicit feature for sharing selected objects

> Is there a PEP or something written about it? I don't like this idea at first glance. Feels like another hack. Though I have to admit it sounds better than the annoying multiprocessing approach.

This seems very similar to Perl's ithreads model:
https://perldoc.perl.org/perlthrtut#Shared-And-Unshared-Data
What's a more neutral phrase for that, IYO?
How many applications have you sent?

Oh average I send 250 applications in a job hunt to get about three offers, two of which are for positions I actually want.

It's my opinion that in general people don't have a proper expectation for the volume of applications necessary to find a good fitting job. Or dating to find a good partner, for that matter.

Many of my friends often "settle" for the first company that gives them an offer because the job hunt is so tedious and emotionally exhausting. It requires a shifting of a mindset imo: every rejection is not telling you literally that you're not a good fit. First of all, I've met very few people that are good at hiring or evaluating engineering ability, let alone their own engineering needs. So most rejections just come from that lack of skill in that area, they failed to realize or evaluatedthat you would have done a good job for them. Second, it's not a reflection on your ability, it's just that you require 197 rejections to get the three offers. It just takes that. If you settle in for the ride I think it goes better.

I've blogged about this in regards to boot camp grads: https://blog.calebjay.com/posts/bootcamp-job-search/#the-res...

Whenever I mention this people often say that that strategy is too impersonal, that I'm not leveraging warm leads enough, etc. Of course you should also do this. And attend meetups. All the steps, lol. Treat the job search like a full time job.

I will say this round of my job hunt my numbers are off. I'm at 80 resume sends to one call back. I should be at about 20 call backs now. It might be because I'm full remote now though.
In Python, asyncio and multiprocessing packages can get nearly the same or better performance for IO- and CPU-intensive tasks respectively as no-GIL multithreading (and are more performant than GIL multithreading), with only a tiny fraction of the pitfalls. For any use case where the last few percent matter, consider not using Python (which will be much much more significant).

Regardless, we did somehow end up here, and there's plenty of multi-threaded Python code that would benefit from no-GIL, so I support the proposal just from a practical perspective. But when designing a new codebase, you'll almost almost almost always want to avoid Python threads, even with no-GIL.