skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seriously, stop and re-read the above. You think the current incentives are natural and we must accept this?

No one is telling any individual company to do a specific thing in a vacuum. The suggestion is we re-shape the incentives we have created as an industry and society. It's about values, and we should bucket the discussion because the current batch of MBAs in charge at these companies, who will likely all be gone in 18 months no matter what, are focused on the immediate? Come on. That's not how anyone should determine what their values are.
I might agree with you over a relatively short time frame, but it sure feels like we came a long way since trying to get multicast to work or getting more than 5 people into a session.
Pleased to see Asianomentry on HN. Fantastic YouTube channel. All of his content is well made and fascinating. I would recommend starting with “The Amazing Silicon Wafer”: https://youtu.be/sIRfWyyOFPg
The bullets in this post are surprisingly applicable to executives, and CEOs in particular. The lack of awareness of the first list is very common among new CEOs. And the second list has some solid advice to improve things.
PostmarketOS v23.06
There is no reliable scientific evidence that changing telomere length affects human life expectancy.
Opal is quite good, as webcam hardware goes. Still a ways to go on the software, but this sort of thing takes time.

iOS phone-as-camera is exceptionally good, but if you need your phone during a meeting, that’s not so great.
> I don't see why students can't go to another state to get their education.

As a non-american, I am baffled by this way of thinking. Higher education is supposed to be a way to ensure that a state is self-sufficient in terms of some core competencies by retaining a small number of workers specialized in compiling, developing, and sharing industry knowledge.

Is West Virginia so empoverished that they can't manage to support the two dozen or so teachers required to support an engineering degree?
Is there a similar illustration to the Quantum Entanglement phenomena?
Something I yet to have to fully understand how that is possible?
On Zoom there's annotation which works pretty well for this.
If you think a white kid growing up in that house in SV had comparable opportunity to most people in the US, your understanding of most people's circumstances is not even in the ballpark with reality.
And how are you going to write all the functions for the countless different combinations of types? This is what many users of the mtl library do and it's clear that it doesn't scale, it's error prone and the code is often not even much more readable. Clearly, some kind of mechanism that is easily composable without ceremony is needed. The real problem is that lifting/unlifting monad transformers which are not monad morphisms (mostly those that have some kind of state) is inherently unsafe. This is where MonadTransControl and MonadBaseControl classes come into play and the whole controversy surrounding them. Haskellers have debated for years about the correct semantics to use here.
> It’s of course useful, the question is it useful enough to warrant its own instruction

I argue: yes absolutely.
I just assumed that was the case, it made using it a lot funnier, and more interesting to poke and prod.
Desktop link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeLite
I'm amazed at the extent to which Google Meet's user interface remains at a preliminary technology demonstration or undergraduate project level of user interface design. The grid/gallery view is barely functional:

- you have to pick a number of tiles to fit on the screen, it cannot deduce the right number automatically

- the selection for this is buried in an options dialogue

- there is no facility to hide participants that don't have video from the tile grid, wasting screen space with useless squares containing an enlarged initial

- there is no way to flip to a second page of tiles if there are too many people to fit on the screen together, you just get a random sampling of call members

- there is apparently no way to drag to resize the space dedicated to the screen sharing display versus the video tiles

There are also other ridiculous limitations and rough edges, like the chat box silently truncating messages at about 500 characters.

It is as if nobody who works on the product is forced to use the thing.
TL;DR

> In tiny Rappahannock County, the newspaper still serves as the hymnal of our civic religion. It’s a tradition that we need to rescue in rural America — and emulate in our cities.
Show HN: Zcache – dependency free Python key value cache based file storage
What?!? Video calls are the primary way people my age communicate with their friends, at least in my bubble. Bascially, I’m either using discord if I’m gaming or facetime otherwise. I facetime with multiple people almost daily.

This is virtually everyone I know my age irl in California.

For reference: I’m ~30.
Leaf Pronoun
Slack allows you to highlight the other persons screen doesn't it?
But when coding objc you don’t use the C part.
A perfect example of this is the young-earth creationism movement, which is a fully fledged cargo cult in this sense. It publishes legitimate-looking books and papers, has intellectual leaders who are highly regarded within the group, and an army of well-trained foot soldiers on YouTube and other social media sites. Cargo cults are by no means limited to Polynesia, or even less developed countries. They are everywhere.
>If you don't pay, it generally has real negative consequences.

If you owe a lot of money on your credit cards, the lender will actually sue you - rather than selling the debt - and then put a lien on your property. I once bought a house in an estate sale which was also a short sale (I do not advise this) and both American Express and another bank had done this to the prior owner who owed $20-30K.
We switched to using pop once I discovered the people behind screen hero made it. The ability to pair and also draw on the presenters screen is a massive win and it also shows the whole screen with annoying non removable bar like teams.
How would either approach be different? In both cases you would have to rewrite the code that directly interacts with your Excel library.
These options got GUI icons to appear for me (on Manjaro, an Arch derivative):

targets.genericLinux.enable = true;
xdg.mime.enable = true;
xdg.systemDirs.data =
[ "${config.home.homeDirectory}/.nix-profile/share/applications" ];
Heh, one thing I can tell you- it is NOT easy to define the hard problem in a way that allows a neat theory. It took me a couple of physics degrees + years of work, and really, a lifetime of obsession. And I am not done yet.

But you are right about the social problem- consciousness studies is terribly fragmented, and everyone agrees it is mostly full of nonsense (only disagreeing about which parts are nonsense).

Motivating serious examination by domain experts is extremely difficult - completely independently of the coherency of your ideas, and to some extent even of your pedigree.

You can try to solve this social problem by personally climbing the status hierarchy. Or by doing your best to distill a convincing introduction to a few minutes of reading.

This is an attempt at the latter.
The Boring Story of Software 3.0
Sharing my experience solving a "boring" task with AI agents.
This is one of those "revolutions" I struggle to wrap my head around. Even if such an AI system worked without a hitch, I think I'd end up using the traditional Skype model of video calling real people more often. It just doesn't feel "obvious" to me, but maybe I'm terribly out of the loop.
Woah take it easy. Mr SBF has been a major contributor to the Party and has been very helpful. Why are you investigating him? He's one of us.
It's super interesting how many things that sci-fi predicted would be ubiquitous and essentially got right because they seemed obvious -- and then this; something that was predicted with that same "obviousness" and it didn't much happen.
No, almost everybody saw Google rising. Their capture of the search market and the relatively quick translation of sales from that was a very prominent event in tech circles. And Facebook wasn't relevant during the initial establishment and rise of Google (Facebook's first billion dollar sales year was 2010, 12 years after the founding of Google).

Steve Ballmer (then CEO of Microsoft) swore he'd kill Google and bury Eric Schmidt - this is 2005 or earlier. Google's sales for 2004 for reference were $3.18 billion (for Alphabet now it's $282 billion).

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2005/09/1106/

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/court-docs-ballmer-v...
I found it interesting as a novice. I get the marketing bit but that was at the end. The rest seemed easy to understand. What bits were misleading?
> Insiders at GCHQ and the FCDO said the attacks were enabled by a member of staff “probably accidentally” downloading malware hidden in an email.

Whoever makes an email program with a good sandboxing feature will be rich. I guess it's difficult, if you get an AutoCAD file do you spin up AutoCAD inside a sandbox? (Not saying that AutoCAD files are at risk of carrying malware).
"security through obscurity" as an insult.

Sorry, but obscurity is a big part of security. Always has been, always will be.
Well it's worse than that. It's surprisingly common to read a paper and discover the abstract doesn't match the claims in the body of the paper itself, or that the claims don't match the data in the tables. And of course press releases about a paper sometimes don't match the paper abstract, etc.

The amount of slippage in what's being claimed as papers get summarized is far too large in some fields and a major contributor to distrust in science, as it causes authors to try and have cake+eat it. Get challenged on an untrue statement you made to the public? Refer to the body of the paper where the claim isn't made, or is made equivocally, and then blame journalists for "mischaracterizing" your work.

It probably is possible to pick up signs of pseudo-science automatically with ML, but you'd want to use really big GPT-4 style LLMs with large context windows and detailed instructions. We're not quite there yet, but maybe next year.
Yes, but the performance penalty becomes glaringly obvious as you are constantly dereferencing (composition, relationship and function) pointers and thus generate misses..
The future of Internet Search in the era of LLMs
It’a not that simple. Older content might not have webp images variants available, or styling might be optimised for newer stuff and cause old pages to reflow, and many other things like that.

Key web vitals change over time and it’s often a mix of content, styling and scripting that needs to be optimised to fix CVW issues. Revisiting old content and rebuilding old assets might not be worth it.

I’m not talking from a perspective of maintaining a personal blog, but a product web site that currently gets about 1.5 million visits from organic search per month. It’s not CNET, granted, but not a trivial site either.
I think Oracle is/was run by salespeople. They wanted you to pay a fortune for a database. Even if you could use a free database, they wanted you to pay a fortune for theirs. Because theirs could do a barrel roll and a hand-stand at the same time.

Then of course when sales went down, you can always threat and extort your current customers: https://archive.is/Tbvw0

Microsoft just wanted to protect their windows thingy and pretend the internet didn't exists. They couldn't so they tried to embugger it. Once they had dominating market share with IE6, they simply said they weren't making money on IE and weren't going to update it any more. So they left it bug ridden for 5 years until the next release.

Google shows up, with all their bondage and evil intentions carefully wrapped in satin and free beer on tap. But now the beer is finished and the satin is worn out. Everybody is hungover and tied up. The sounds coming from the next room is like something is being strapped on.
Can you give an example exploit that goes from a data bug to full control given dynamic dispatch?

Less runtime / static guarantees may mean you pass the wrong class type to a method, but typically all that happens is that that object cannot perform the right selector. I can sort of see this being slightly chained to get some mild exploit, but I’d imagine this is pretty edge condition / rare as it would need to respond to the expected selector in the right way useful for exploit.

I’ve written a ton of obj-c and work in it, and almost never need or see the use of C.
Yes - unpaid charge-offs are more derogatory than paid ones - I'm not sure that hits (say) a FICO score but lenders that look at a full report can tell the difference.
Well, first result on my search engine links to an UN specialized agency (FAO) document.

> Forests perform important buffering functions, such as cooling effects, the interception of precipitation, and water infiltration and retention.

https://www.fao.org/sustainable-forest-management/toolbox/mo...
How is it more complex? As far as I know, they release the Qt libraries and tools in a dual L/GPL-commercial license.
acrobat does a ton of stuff. there are lots of tools that do some of the things it can do, but I don't you're going to find something that's a complete replacement for free
Those women might be disappointed when they meet you, the jobs must have interviewed you in person and decided that you were sutiable anyhow despite your cover letter.

...and what is the point of creating stories if your thought hasn't gone into them?

It writes incorrect regular expressions and meaningless makefiles and you have to be an expert to spot some of the mistakes which means you can only be safe about using it if you don't need it that much anyhow.
Statements like this are a lot more useful is you _say_ what your age(ish) is
Landlords that own entire apartment buildings are parasites, so there's not going to be very much sympathy. Most parasite species are mitigated much more directly once detected by a human host.
Which age is that? The only people I would video chat with in a social context would be my parents. Everything else is work related or meeting in some association. Early thirties.
Again, it's integrated in vs code and GitHub codespaces. If you open your project in vs code it detects the devcontainer config and automatically launches the container using docker, connects vs code remotely to code in the container, and pops open any terminals or tool executions in the container.

On GitHub codespaces it gives you a button on the website that is literally one click and get vs code in the browser connected to your dev container launched in their cloud--you don't even need vs code or anything installed and can code from a tablet for example.
A long career working hard and building a reputation for delivering hard stuff well and building the right network that I used to good effect.
I feel like a good half of machines I find with glitchy graphics drivers seem to show bits of textures from one application inside another application - indicating memory contents leakage between contexts. Chunks of webpages from Chrome appearing in 3D games seems common.

And those are accidentally caused leaks. As soon as someone starts storing actually sensitive data in graphics memory, I'm sure lots of methods to deliberately cause leaks will be found.
There is very little difference between being early and being wrong.
Personally, I am tired of corporations having to pretend that both major US parties are equally valid choices. Neither is perfect, but only one is institutionally corrupt and unethical.

The biggest problem that the US has right now is that if you support one of those parties, you probably think I am talking about the other one right now. Certainly not unique to the US, but it's shocking ~49% of the US has accepted "hurting the other guys is more important than helping me" as a philosophy.
Sounds like Salesforce has gaslit their customers into believing any bullshit their marketing department dumps.
Useless Car
It is equally naive to assume that a retail investor could judge which professional fund managers are scammers, which are rainmakers, and which have a real edge.
> The position implies a 'living' will not be permitted by means of creativity.

You're begging the question, here. Also, you know that there exist people who distribute creative works for free, and make money by donations, sponsorships, patronage, and grants. Therefore you know that the statement as you have made it is false, and that you should be looking for a weaker one.

edit: I don't know how somebody goes from "weaken the chances" to "not be permitted" in subsequent sentences, and in addition tries to derive "not be permitted" from "weaken the chances" through the weasel word "imply," and still feels like they're engaging in good faith argument. If you're confident, you don't need to make up a position for your opponent, and your position is not as weak as you're making it look.
This is all true except for the claim that monads are Haskell’s trickiest part. Monads are Haskell’s most infamous part but far from the trickiest. There are a lot of Haskell libraries that make the type system twist itself into a pretzel to achieve some really funky things. See Edward Kmett’s lens library for one example.
I never suggested such a thing, I wanted to know why it's better than just Dockerfiles and it seems vscode integration. Everything else can be achieved with docker, compose and/or makefiles.
While we're talking userContent.css hacks, I'd be delighted to share my snippet to make code blocks look like (simplified) Mac windows in case anyone else wants to play with it.

There's definitely room for improvement but I don't think it looks half-bad: https://i.stack.imgur.com/xcyoE.png

@-moz-document domain("news.ycombinator.com") {

body {
font-family: -apple-system, "Adobe Clean", -apple-system, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;
font-size: 11pt;
color: #828282;
background-color: #1B2835 !important;
}

* {
font-family: -apple-system, "Adobe Clean", -apple-system, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;
}

* code {
font-family: "Fira Code", "Monaco", "Consolas", "Courier New", monospace !important;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
font-size: 0.9em;
}

code:before {
content: "⬤⬤⬤";
position: absolute;
top: 5px;
left: 12px;
color: #ccc;
letter-spacing: 3px;
-webkit-text-fill-color: #ccc; /* Will override color (regardless of order) */
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px;
-webkit-text-stroke-color: #223b4f;
}
code:before::first-letter {
color: #ff5f56 !important;
}

pre {
background-color: #234 !important;
border-radius: 15px;
padding: 30px 0px 10px;
border: 0.5px solid #223B4F !important;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 1px #123;
position: relative;
}

table#hnmain{
background-color: #1B2835 !important;
}

a:link {
color: #bfbfbf !important;
text-decoration: none;
}

.c00 {
color: #cecece !important;
}

.cdd {
color: #768696 !important;
}

.c5a {
color: #465666 !important;
}

}
Let's make this concrete. Let's say you're CNET—your target audience is millions upon millions of people who are interested in tech news. What is your alternative strategy for telling these tens of millions of people that you have a new article on topic X?

Note that only a tiny fraction of your audience is already subscribed to some form of push notification from your service.
Three red lines
So most common online pdf tools like smallpdf.com and ilovepdf.com are blocked on office networks for obvious reasons.

Can we save this page as .html file on a local folder and run it from browser -- never triggering the firewall / websense blockers etc?
Tried reaching out through the email in your profile but the email is failing to deliver.
Long live the King of Kings Accession ritual in ancient Persia
No but hype tends to suggest that a tool can do everything and being bombarded by that kind of propaganda is annoying.
But you only know the derivative in retrospect, hence, he buys when the price has gone up (over 3 months) and stops when it has gone down. To me, it seems better to buy when the market has gone down for three months.
As a student in the 80's, I had sidejob as an enqueteur. The worst campaign I remember was for asbestos roof tiles. It was a completely inane questionaire the goal of which was to get people to agree to a 2 hr (sales) follow-up. I ditched that one after the first half day.
KDE Plasma 6 – Bug tracking vs. user support
For context,

The recent moves of Apple hypervisor being able to use Rosetta on intel cpu code it its already translated(Qemu does cpu intel translation) means that one can use Qemu to simulate x86 64 on Apple Silicon....
I stated three names in my comment: first-middle-last. It's also common to put more than one name, or hyphenated names, in any of those fields so this format suits anywhere more than two names, as long as they roughly follow the format first ... nth ... last. I think this covers all western names. If not, please give me examples.

The problem arises when the order is reversed (e.g Vietnamese), or when there's only one name and the form requires at least two names. And probably for other name formats saying around the world that I'm not aware of.
Not really. Academics are often EB2, but there is a separate queue for academics. They do not distinguish between origin in that queue. An Indian is treated the same as any other country.
Ah yes. The Silicon Valley fake-it-until-you-make-it scam which is borderline fraud that has been taken to the extreme to the point where it is fine until a whistleblower calls it out and gets kicked out of the company.

Only in Silicon Valley fraudulent wild claims and deceptive advertising is perfectly fine to get away with in order to inflate company valuations and to over-hype and grift to the general public.

AI is going to certainly be the next 'fake-it-until-you-make-it' grift for so-called repackaged LLM startups seeking funding from gullible VCs.
Continuity camera for people with a Mac and an iPhone is an enormous upgrade in visual quality. You can even apply effects like Portrait Lighting, center stage, and portrait mode. I frequently talk from places with iffy lighting and built in webcams just can’t handle the lower light like iPhone cameras can.
I'm a little late to the party but hopefully someone can still answer this question.

In order to solve the linear system of equations in this framework, you need to integrate a measurement of the system over some time greater than t_0 and tau. However in equation 12 you can see that t_0 and tau are functions of the eigenvalues and the norm of the matrix.

AFAIK the best runtime algorithms we have for computing matrix eigenvalues is still O(d²), so even if the thermodynamic part of algorithm is linear in d, computing how long you would need to run the algorithm for is still quadratic in d, so there's no real gain.

Or am I missing something here?
Never hiring anyone who isn't a good fit or will become a poor fit is a very high bar to set.

Regardless, Salesforce is large enough that if they're not encountering your hypothetical rare scenario every now and then then it seems unlikely that many companies on planet earth meet your criteria for good hiring processes.
It doesn't matter how many qubits you have if those qubits are too noisy to do anything with. Noise is the ultimate limit when trying to get a useful signal out of something. Noise is how the universe stops us from knowing everything about everything.
>Is it still blogspam if this paragraph exists in the end of the post?

I have no particular opinion on that question but, having read the original patio11 post, virtually 90% of this one is just paraphrasing of its contents.
I grew up under the utter misery of communism. Even my illiterate grandmother working the earth knew to always have a valuable or two put aside to bribe the party representatives in case one of us got sick or in trouble.