skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a real kernel of truth to what you’re saying but don’t you think calling something a “cult” is a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy? You’re turning this into an “us vs them” thing when it never should have been one, by your own assessment. There’s no better way to politicize something than to group people based on some reductive binary belief and generalize about said group.
This feels very light on any actual information?

First it says one of the five companies given in the press release, so does that mean that 4 out of the 5 are actually going to be paying exactly what the FTC said in their press release? Where do the fines for the other 4 relate to what they claimed for this one? As in if the other fines are still higher than the claimed for this one, it still seems like a success and not "Do Not Take Illegal Telemarketing Serious".

Why exactly is there such a discrepancy? I don't see any explanation for why this is the case.
Problem is generative AI sucks at this. I've had multiple instances where it would say something like "you did this part of the code wrong fix it like this" and it would go "sorry for the confusion here's the code with your suggestion " then repeat the initial code or do something else entirely. GPT4, Copilot X, JetBrains AI - I've seen an instance of this problem in all of them.

Personally copilot is a magical typing speedup and that got me enthusiastic about next step - but it looks like next step is going to require another breakthrough considering GPT4 HW requirements and actual performance.

Chat interface as a search bot is the only use case I've found it useful outside of copilot - regurgitating relevant part of internal documentation as search on steroids, even 3.5 is relatively decent at this.
Forced to paint? Do they use prison labor or something?
It's more like "We don't serve homeless people or the unbanked." It is correlated with race but it's unlikely to be a dogwhistle for racism as many cashless establishments are neuvo liberal. An example is downtown Austin there's a popular cashless place called "Local Foods" that's more hipster than hobby.
Social media algorithms exploit how we learn from our peers
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I remember how often DoubleClick were the villains of tracking and privacy over-reach on early Slashdot, and then Google bought DoubleClick and became worse than DoubleClick ever were as top Slashdot villains and yet Google is still often called the heroes in the adtech space. (Though that sea is somewhat changing again as even more mainstream media catches up to tracking prevention.) It remains such a profound reversal to me.
ycombinator.com gettting renamed to y.com?
Dr. Universe: Why does it make noise when you snap your fingers?
Curious: do you use DND in Slack or block your calendar in an effort to protect your focus time?

(full disclosure, we're building a platform that integrates with Calendar / Zoom / Slack to visualize who is available, who's in a mtg, and who is in Focus Mode - the idea being to help people turn to one another in real-time, but without distracting people who need to focus. Would love to interview you for user research if you're up for it)
I don't think its the company as much as the nature of the product.

Fiber is simply in a completely different universe of quality compared to DOCSIS & DSL.

AT&T is literally the worst thing on earth... unless you have access to their fiber offerings. Then it might be among the best. I can get 5gbps in my area now but I don't bother. Internet is solved for me as far as I am concerned now.
Can you not use HN to promote baseless conspiracy theories? There's reddit and twitter for that.
I had a similar thought, but would I would like to maintain control what the LLM has access to. It would be difficult to prevent things you might temporarily have hardcoded or generally do not want to expose.

I started working on something for this purpose called j-dev [0]. It started as a fork off smol-dev [1] which basically gets GPT to write your entire project from scratch. And then you would have to iterate the prompt to nuke everything and re-write everything, filling in increasingly complicated statements like "oh except in this function make sure you return a promise"

j-dev is a CLI where it gives a prompt similar to the one in the parent article [2]. You start with a prompt and the CLI fills in the directory contents (excluding gitignore). Then it requests access to the files it thinks it wants. And then it can edit, delete or add files or ask for followup based on your response. It does stuff like make sure the file exists, show you a git diff of changes, respond if the LLM is not following the system prompt, etc.

It also addresses the problem that a lot of these tools eat up way too many tokens so a single prompt to something like smol-dev would eat up a few dollars on every iterations.

It's still very much a work in progress and i'll prob do a show hn next week but I would love some feedback

[0] https://github.com/breeko/j-dev

[1] https://github.com/smol-ai/developer

[2] https://github.com/breeko/j-dev/blob/master/src/prompts/syst...
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day

Teach a Nigerian to phish and he'll become a Prince!
So, no then.
just some good ole nostalgia for stalin's purges!
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> Having a math Ph.d does not cut it. It is mostly irrelevant actually.

Maybe this applies to the lower paying quant roles (Trader/Dev).

No chance of getting hired for a Quant Research position without grad school education though.
Epopee/epopea/epopeia is epic [Greek] poetry. That's a new word for me.
Author doesn’t mention it but I wonder if tried or considered Nix/NixOS’s reproducible developer environments and ruled them out for any reason. I couldn’t tell from the article if there’s something unique to his requirements that disqualifies them.

https://nixos.org/explore

https://nix.dev/
>If biodad is actually abusing the children, then yes, by all means, get out.

well kinda the point is that in the past you couldn't.
Its a bit surprising to see a journal like nature effectively whine about replication efforts falling short in what’s likely a very temperamental, context / environment influenced synthesis process of a new composition. Its not going to work immediately.

Even if it is a real breakthrough, material synthesis of a new material in any lab, and doing so reproducibly, is tricky enough that I am absolutely not going to infer / conclude from, or pass any comment on any replication efforts this early into the process. Its going to be an iterative process - which means one has to start somewhere.

Some of the quoted folks come across (to me) as just peevish.

Derek Lowe [0] has a far more balanced take on it, IMO.

His article was discussed on HN a few days ago [1].

[0] https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/room-temperature-s...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36957678
> After that time though, random calls were never fun like that.

My aging father loves to play with the scammers any chance he gets. One day he got the classic "Grandpa! Oh thank god you answered, I've been arrested in Vegas and I need bail money or terrible things are going to happen!"

After a few beats of shocked silence he launches into "BILLY?!?!?! The family has been trying to find you since your mom ran off with you 15 years ago! Where is she? Where have you been? Are you well? We just want you to come back home! We've had a PI looking for you for over a decade. Give me the address of the jail and I'll send our lawyer to pick you up."

Usually they're not equipped to deal with such a plot twist and just hang up.
They serve content at scale faster than the sites its scraped from. The number is just a guess, but data and hosting are not cheap.
Dealing with frustration is part of this job.

Also this is trivially solved through checking on the person twice a day and doing call reviews, thus making it at most a few hours.

Actually, this is a regular part of successful remote team building.

Meanwhile making the junior approach unannounced is counterproductive. I for one would rather have my interruptions at least scheduled if they can't be avoided.
> the experience of banging your head against the wall (for a bit) can be valuable

Yes. This "get it done as fast as humanly possible whether or not you actually understand what you're doing" is the most detrimental attitude toward beginning software developers I can think of. "Going down a rabbit hole" is a dismissive way of saying "actually figure out what the computer is doing" which is what actually makes you valuable to the team. If you just wanted somebody who can type in what they're told to type in, you're wasting a lot of money hiring computer science graduates.
Your idea of a violent and crazy person is someone who shouts at people that they are hungry and don't care if they die?

"Penny held Neely, in a chokehold on the subway train May 1 after Neely began shouting at passengers that he was hungry and thirsty and didn’t care whether he died. Penny forced 30-year-old Neely to the train floor and restrained him in a chokehold until he stopped breathing. A medical examiner ruled Neely’s death a homicide."

Also, even if you do have to put a person in a chokehold, remember this from the same page:

“Bottom line – at some point Mr. Penny should have let go before Jordan died,” the statement read. “There is no excuse for choking anyone for that long. Any reasonable person knows choking someone for that long will kill them."

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/14/us/daniel-penny-indicted-jord...

Also to note, Daniel Penny is not some random nobody like you are. He's a former marine, and should have known better because of his military training.
It would have been caught as the apks were uploaded to the store. Before anyone would be able to download it.
It's a purely populistic political move, as their far right party is campaigning against digital money, e-cards, EU. We had the very same campaign a few decades ago, when the EU demanded some overview over tax evasion accounts.
That is not my experience at all when defending the 2nd Amendment on here.
I wish everyone who builds their own note taking app would take that time and effort to contribute to Joplin [1].

I use Joplin for personal and Obsidian for work.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joplin_(software)
The US and UK's reliance on heavy bombing is thought provoking, but perhaps not as profound or unique as the author suggests: Germany attempted a similar policy at the beginning of the war (culminating in the London Blitz), and largely failed for strategic rather than technical reasons.

In other words: what really sets the Allied bombings apart is learning from the strategic errors that the Germans made (destroying entire industrial bases, not trying to smear small amounts of damage across the target's entire economy), not some uniquely "liberal" world view.
> The harder part was porting the algorithm implementation code. The reason was that I chose a common lisp trick of first writing a DSL in Clojure that was then used to write the algos.

Doesn't it mean that Lisp macros should really be avoided at all costs?
It's a pretty dangerous game to play in any case. One slight deviation in a planet's orbit can throw an entire solar system out of balance over not-so-long time periods. Before you know it, your lush green planet is hurtling out alone into interstellar space, dooming your civilization to a quick death on an icy rogue world.
This is in part why I chose to share the story. There might be dozens of people I can reach with my comment!
Regardless of what internet-addicted fear mongers might have you believe, the United States has not evolved into a state of lawlessness.

A quick look at any local court docket shows that thieves still get caught, prosecuted, and imprisoned. Real life is very different from sensationalist internet blogspam headlines.
The power of technology means anyone in the world can initiate contact with anyone else. Without a method to moderate initial contact, spam filters, ignore buttons, social etiquette, etc. our phones would ring continuously, our inboxes would get 10,000 emails per day, and our phones would chime continuously with push notifications. Spam is 99% of raw email traffic, and robocalls are a significant fraction of total call count. Nomorobo estimated 1/3.
I still think that is a culture problem. I have a team of engineers that frequently has a lot of junior engineers. I find it really REALLY important to reinforce the culture of "software development is a team sport" and provide concrete mechanisms to do so.

Junior engineers need help as the same rate they did before. They still need to ask for help. Remote work lets it:

- happen asynchronously & synchronously

- creates visibility of asking for help

- reduces this weird shame around it

- allows us to correct bad answers

- allows people to learn from others with the same questions

- self manages by capacity because the people with time are the ones that can answer questions

- produces an awesome collection of analytics: how many & what questions are being asked by who, Who is answering questions and about what?

Remote work is a communication and cultural change that a lot of teams have done poorly. I think most teams decided when the pandemic hit: "oh we'll use teams or slack. That's enough" and never thought more about it.
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It a useless exercise to have people do so for solved problems.

Sure, reinventing the wheel every time is a valuable experience, but it's not efficient to relearn how to do things every time.

This is like letting toddlers struggle to learn how to tie shoes themselves, sure they will eventually figure it out, but it's better to just teach people have to do the basics, and let people bang their heads against hard problems.
My TV runs WebOS. So I'm a WebOS user? Nobody will care that it can run in desktop mode, until people start using that as their daily driver. Spoiler: That's not a thing that will happen.
The weird use of "liberal" confused me, too. It's more "liberal" to bomb than to have ground troops do the killing, because it minimizes your own casualties? No, that's just efficient use of military resources. "Liberal" might be holding on to the idea of minimizing civilian casualties. (Though, in an industrial production war like WWII, that might be a significant handicap. And it wasn't the Allies that started the bombing of civilians.)

So, yeah. What's the point being made here? It sure feels like some weird axe is being ground, but it's done so badly that I can't even be sure what the axe is.
you're right that he's a horrible person, that's why: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbreaking:_The_Worst_Perso...
It's Chwe/Choi, not Chair.
If those certain countries have a very big population I'd say is more of a quantitative issue. If china had 10 scientists they couldn't pump as many papers, fake or good or not as if they're 1million scientists
Yeah I use a local credit union and they are not the worst but they have fees and will hit you with overdraft penalties and whatnot like any bank.
> Can I ask if English is your first language? I don’t wish to be rude,

Sure, no offense taken, and you are correct, I am not a native English speaker indeed, and while I know my share of idioms I was completely unaware
that “Giving it up easily” was an idiom specifically referring to getting laid frequently, leaving no room for ambiguity. Thanks for the astute guess and subsequent clarification, happy to stand corrected!

100% on board here, whoever wants to have fun and explore their sexuality in whatever way or frequency they see fit is a perfectly normal thing to do, and it by and far does not mean that person would be unable to commit in a relationship on mutual agreement of exclusivity later on. So the double standard and badmouthing is not acceptable by any means in any way, shape, or form.

I don't even compute how person A would "look like a fool" being in mutual commitment with person B if person B had their share of fun and experimentation in a previous period of their life. If anything, person B now knows exactly who they want to be with and what they like, so they're more likely to keep their commitment since they chose to commit armed with that knowledge!
Quite literally a meme: https://youtu.be/jlPaby7suOc?t=75

One of the funniest Conj talks ever.
The steps are simple, but it seems to be quite finicky and there are almost sure to be sensitive to important factors that we don’t have clarity on yet. If it turns out to be definitively shown to be real
You are aware that openwall doesn't make the mozilla vpn, right?
FTA: "Evan Zalys-Geller, a condensed matter physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, says that the resistance measurement wasn’t sensitive enough to distinguish between a zero resistance superconductor or a low-resistance metal like copper."

I have little knowledge of the field, but as an EE, I would have thought that making sure that you are actually able to measure the effect you are trying to prove would be step zero in an experimental setup, no?
I'm not sure how you're getting that from my comment.
uBlock Origin, SponsorBlock, Bypass Paywalls Clean, ClearURLs. On my personal machine, I also have Facebook Container.
I honestly have no idea what point you're tying to make. Could you please clarify?
Same here, but longer than 10 years go. Like 30 years ago. Never again.
> And while he claimed he's going IPv6-only, he set up public access via IPv4. That won't convince anyone to switch or upgrade.

This is the major flaw. Sites can't go ipv6-only. In reality we will have parallel ipv4/6 networks in place until the wheels fall off
I wanna smoke what the gatekeepers are smoking. “No, you don’t understand science! It can come only from fancy journals. You cannot test the properties yourself!”. Meanwhile Varda goes brrr.
How would they use the information? I can't understand what they should get out of it.
That’s why I said “good looking” and “physical attraction” rather than generically “beautiful”. No doubt people can be “beautiful in person” but still “objectively ugly”
>Whole point of WEI is that you are following Google's rules.

That would be the point of the Google Play attestor. With WEI sites can use anyone as an attestor. It is up for attestors to compete in providing a valuable signal to sites.

It's not anticompetitive because you can come up with your own standard of a secure device and get sites to trust your attestor.
I was about to give up on a career in software development when I found Clojure in 2007.

Rich, I'll always be grateful to you for creating a language and community that got to the root of so many problems our industry still faces today. I'm confident it will continue to change the world as it has my own life.
I think that's a good point. There's also the fact that most (nearly all?) spam calls come from India, where lots of people know English.
To the extent that there is any historical continuity between then and now, the 'liberal' USA still tends to value heavy bombing as a way to condition enemy forces into surrendering. Something it has a poor overall track record of.
> gone through multiple failed and successful replications so far

The "successful" replications are partial. No one knows how to make a large enough sample of LK-99 that can be tested to definitely show superconductivity (or not) at room temp and ambient pressure.

IMO the most bullish research done yet is the theoretical research.
Confidence – Spotify'a A/B testing tool
GNUStep isn't a window manager, it's a development framework... think OpenStep, not OPENSTEP.

People use it with WindowMaker but people can also use it with whatever other desktop environment they're using.
I severely doubt the nature article would look much different if written today
it won't. it's just a band aid.
I once had a remote coworker who looked very similar in Zoom calls, and I'd subconsciously assumed he was probably kind of small and skinny.

When we met in person for the first time the guy was shredded and really bulky, he could probably bench press me. You can't guess someone's physique by their head!
Why the /s? I happen to agree with that statement.

Part of being a senior engineer is to use the mentorship skills you developed along the way and make judgements about how much struggle is right. Every new person should have a more senior partner with whom they can ask the dumb questions and not be made to feel dumb.
Android port of Emacs to be merged into the main tree
Po Lu's port of GNU Emacs to Android has been approved, pending a couple of minor checks, to be merged into the main Emacs tree and thereafter maintained in-project like any other supported architecture.

(Editorial commentary: This is an amazing piece of work by Po Lu. Yes, it works on LineageOS. Users / testers / contributors welcome, as always!)
Didn't the indian team have a big chunky rock of LK-99? Considering that the majority of researchers can at most create a tiny grain of it where there's still parts of it that aren't levitating, the conclusion to me is that their findings are largely useless.
> No doubt people can be “beautiful in person” but still “objectively ugly”

“Ugly” is inherently subjective.
It is very strange and there must be a deeper reason. I don't know if this is

- Retail shareholders doing grassroots PR

- Some kind of "magical technologism", belief that the rapid technical gains of the 20th century are the natural state of things; unwillingness to accept that future improvements in material science, computer science, chemical science will be more marginal

- Shallow press coverage and overenthusiastic fans who have a disproportionate impact on online discourse

Or maybe all three?
So you had to switch to C++ because Clojure / Java wasn't performant enough?
Does 5G tech open up a possibility for a municipal network that isn't in need of burying fiber/cables? Or is there no spectrum to intercommunicate?

https://go.siklu.com/blog/the-32-flavors-of-5g-and-how-smart...

"Smart City" sounds like a corporate buzzword and tied to the moribund standards quagmire of IoT, but all we really need is connectivity. Is there a reserved spectrum for municipal 5G networks?

I have a Starlink and while it is expensive, if you are rural, it is like having cable internet (as in, not-gigabit) anywhere you need it.
It is you who is snarky and combative. You are making asinine comparison to slavery to shut down the dialog.
This is probably a good thing, wasn't there a story about someone getting violent threats about their handle? In a market, it is possible for prices to go down too, and this seems like a reasonable thing to depreciate
> default to consistently ask for help

Don't necessarily blame the developer - there's a _lot_ of pressure from the PHB that doesn't understand the difference between HTML and Linux to "get it done right now" and they think (for no reason) that nagging somebody else to do it for you is the most efficient way to do that.
I don't think it'd give them access at any time but related data/code for gets sent to OpenAI when you use it, all LLM models who work with code work that way, otherwise it'd be unfeasible.

However, OpenAI pinky promises they don't use API data for anything, like training. Maybe that makes you feel a bit safer, although probably it shouldn't.