skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>For this reason, Carrot Problems greatly increase the value fo being an "insider".

>There's some fields where it really might be true that you can learn everything you need to know by reading books at the public library. But anytime people are succeeding for reasons they won't admit in public, it's hard to get a grasp on the situation unless you have private back-channels.

I feel this is a natural response when you're in a low-trust low-signal-to-noise-ratio environment. You have to keep things close to the chest and limit access, or else you'll spend all your time sifting through the noise. For example, the best way to reach me is by phone. But it's not enough to know my phone number to successfully reach me; you have to be in my private circle for me to pick up and respond. Everyone else is likely just scammers and telemarketers.
"A whopping 80% of bosses regret their initial return-to-office decisions and say they would have approached their plans differently if they had a better understanding of what their employees wanted"

sigh

The problem here isn't RTO or anything else relating to where people sit when they're working. These idiots didn't even talk to their employees before making grand decisions affecting their work situation.

This is, btw, exactly what's happening in my workplace right now. I guess more accurately they are talking to employees, but just straight up ignoring what they're hearing.
I would feel no hesitation to tape or sticker over any of those.
As a Firefox mobile user, I've never been able to go past that page for ~2 years.

And so I've stopped visiting websites that use that system (several per days).

There's no way to report that to Cloudflare so f*ck'em.
Hmm that reminds me, my kids are up, watching some idiot scream on youtube about video games. Time to go enjoy my weekend.
Institutions like MIT (where Fredkin was) don't really care that much about accreditation. Is anyone going to doubt your degree (or deny you a PE) if MIT decided to swap out a class that the accreditation society thought should be a requirement?

I was on the board of a private (primary) school and accreditation was make or break for it. But one of the values of the high reputation institutions is that they can afford to take chances: having faculty with "out there" opinions, some unorthodox faculty choices etc.

Honestly they should be taking more chances.
> Maybe it’s sociopathic to prey on emotions this way.

This is why greeks practised Rhetorics. Remarking on the practice, one philosopher said the exact same thing. He said, "You are using people's emotions to weigh in as against the facts of the case."
Exactly. In the words of Mike Stonebraker, "stake out a controversial claim and prove it true" is pretty standard career advice for junior faculty who are trying to get tenure. (At least in Computer Science.)
What do you mean? They just.. Do it? Nothing about an engineer precludes having good sense at other things.
Here, here. Science = the scientific method. It should be nothing more.
I would reckon lot of jobs such as teaching or translation have that as a requirement.
I love how they always talk about the poor artists which cannot make new songs due to piracy and then they chose to enforce rights on ... Sinatra and a bunch of other long dead artists who will never make a single new song.
I think GPs approach works for junior roles where learning on the job is acceptable. You're right that it would create pain for everyone if the lead/senior guy is having daily struggle sessions as opposed to taking the work to the next level.
You can’t do that all the time because players like to trash talk and banter and much of that cannot go on air. A good announcer is really nice. You can follow the game hearing it in the next room without having to see it.
Couldn’t agree more. You have every branch of the government right now doing everything they can to find dirt on Trump and Maga supporters while hiding every dirty deed done by the Biden family. Truly is sad.
It's not about managing. It's about the friction to reaching out for help and lost productivity from having to schedule meetings combined with inexperience making it hard to decide which problems are worth the friction of reaching out and which ones aren't. There's also the sense of isolation that being remote gives, because asking for help over a private message makes it look like you're the only one that needs help. All of this is still a problem regardless of clarity of expectations and tasks.

My preferences are likely going to change once I get more experience under my belt but I absolutely feel there are some facets of remote work that benefit senior engineers at the expense of junior engineers.
Author here. I understand what you are saying but this is not supposed to be full fledged social media kind of websites we want to run on phone. The site could just be a simple way for your loved ones to check up on you without calling or messaging you. I remember the Nokia web server used to share battery and other vital info on website. There are lot many things that can be done with a tiny web server.
It's not exactly hard, you can download web servers from the Play Store. The problem is that you'll need to set up port forwards and such to get traffic to port 8080 or whatever your web server of choice offers.

Termux can install nginx, PHP, and various SQL clients, so I'm sure someone can make a copy/paste script that'll set up a WordPress server on your phone.
I came to the conclusion on this specific question long ago that, like most things, it's mostly political. There's political/social power to be gained and lost by pushing negative stories about Boeing and suppressing negative stories about Airbus (and the opposite of course; suppressing positive stories about Boeing, pushing positive stories about Airbus). Just your typical information warfare.
How Dead is Moore's Law? [video]
Indeed, I talk about lots of stuff, as an old dev that has been through lot of stuff.

However if I need to do quiz, or coding exercise, closed book style, only Java and C#, to a lesser extent C++, would be a viable option for me.
"I'm ok" is the punchline, not the status. The status is "police are on their way, car is operable, I can explain more soon (no rush)"
Oh, same thing about the app stores. When Epic vs Apple popped up, MS was very vocal about what constitutes a fair cut for the store operator - as long as it was desktop or mobile. Games however, according to MS, are obviously very different - their XBox store actually making them decent money is totally unrelated.

I guess good for the consumer, as long as MS is losing a bit.
What a rabbit hole to fall down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyfQVZHmArA

> Humans doing the hard jobs on minimum wage while the robots write poetry and paint is not the future I wanted

~ https://nitter.net/KarlreMarks/status/1658028017921261569 (possibly ~ An AI too...)
The compsci analogy that comes to mind for me is mesh generation:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_generation

There are many triangulations, but they approximate the same underlying model.
I think it's pretty clear from context what happened... his son was in a car accident where he hit a bull with the car, the bull died, the car was damaged, and the son is fine. Yeah it's not a James Bond movie plot but I think that's kind of his point. Not every event needs to have an action-packed narrative. Sometimes things happen and we need to convey the state of things in a way that avoids causing a strong emotional action, because that would distract from dealing with the situation. It's pretty much the opposite of a movie, where the the goal (generally) is to provoke an emotional reaction, rather than convey information.
They're also dropping the mathematics department, getting rid of the graduate program and keeping a skeleton crew, I guess to teach other majors, somehow. It's unclear how that will work given that graduate students often do a lot of teaching and assisting.
iOS can with some caveats https://apps.apple.com/us/app/worldwideweb-mobile/id16230068...
This is essentially written by bitter ex or current employees.

Professors often approach public debate by assuming everyone else is braindead, rather than puzzling through conflicting information.

For example, they immediately dismiss the president's claim that a demographic change contributes to this issue as "false" because the US birth rate may have been very stable. But that says nothing about parents in the WVU area, which we know are either older or moved to other states.
NYC and Vegas also do this, but most have some kinda mute
> The incentive structures in science encourage novelty

I would modify this statement somewhat.

The incentive structure in science today encourages following the money. Very little research these days is done just for the sake of research or discovery. Science is expensive, and scientists who want to have a job, like it or not, have to fish to where the fish are swimming (where the money is being spent), which typically means delivering the narrative sought by those who control the money.

The most salient examples of this today are saving the planet and electric everything (cars, trucks, planes, water heaters, stoves, etc.) --which are usually connected. The first of which is ridiculous beyond description and the latter is so unimaginably far from being attainable it might as well be labelled a fantasy. Yet, these narratives are pushed because they have political power through emotion that results in votes (you can divide people) and the only money being spent in research is in support of these narratives --not research, confirmation propaganda.
This is too “brilliant villain”. Too many chain links of logic to actually implement and make work.

I suspect it’s the far more evil banality of “we paid for this office space and it’s pretty awkward to explain to the board why we have this red line item for a ‘10 year lease - office space’ and nobody is in there, so let’s just force 100s of people to come back in against all common sense and metrics that show this is a bad idea.”
Sure, let's define best as "that which wins". Moloch is the best!
When someone who refers to their monitor as "the CPU", and can't tell the difference between a programming language and an operating system, starts telling you how you should be doing your job because you've got it all wrong...

How much do you listen to their opinion?

(Unless of course that matches your manager to a T).
Imagine a mixture of 1984: Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

On the specifics of the lawsuit.. well if the law us bad, then change the law. But not following the law is not nice.
Could say the same about nyc.
And yet the company where I work can't find enough Flutter talent.
I wonder what would be the performance characteristics of using the top 2 bits to mark 63-bit integers. So 00xxx are positive integers and 11xxx are negative integers. That way all integer operations stay simple and you just need to check that the result is in the correct range.
Is anyone keeping track of what the most popular Vim commands are?

Personally, I've been using Vim for years, but I must confess that I use almost the same commands as I did in the beginning. Is there any good website that teaches useful tricks, maybe on a daily basis?
SlowMoGuys video on said topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJVpYL44jUQ
What would you do to collect this information? Keep in mind most of your administrative workers will be uncomfortable learning or doing anything new.
Kyle Bass had a great tweet recently on this too:

China's REPORTED GDP 'growth' for 2022 was +2.9%. In a year where Chinese LNG demand was down 22%, their real estate market (which represents 33% of Chinese GDP) was in the midst of a collapse, literally welding Chinese citizens into their apartment buildings, and the WeChat payments flowing through their system were down over 20% yoy. In 2023, YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT is somewhere between 20% and 50%, 48 local governments are in some stage of default on their debt (LGFV debt is approximately $10trillion or just under 60% of GDP), the majority of Chinese property developers are in default of their dollar bonds (71% are in default of over $180 billion in bonds), Xi has ordered all corporate and macro level dat to be severed to the West, and the Chinese government is reporting +5.5% GDP 'GROWTH'?! Reputable economists don't believe these numbers from the CPC
I think this might be an appropriate time to make the economist's distinction between the quantity demanded at current prices vs the overall shape and location of the demand curve. Lower prices would shift the market equilibrium to a different point along the demand curve, but there would still be far less demand for 8TB drives than for 1TB drives. Shifting the demand curve itself upward would require something like a big change in usage patterns causing more consumers to need 8TB of local storage. Without such a shift, consumers will mostly be happy to save money on 1-2TB drives rather than move up to higher capacities they don't need.
Is there a distributed archive project to save the content? I could donate a few TB of redundancy.
Maybe. For me personally, I'm glad I had the experience of what it was like to work in the office for two weeks when I was in between projects recently, because it helped reconfirm that yeah, I hate going to the office.

It was good to see people in person, but everything else was a pain in the ass, and the office is such a sterile and boring place (pretending it's not, with an arcade machine, shuffleboard, a small stack of board games, and a ping pong table -- none of which anyone ever uses), with lighting that seemed to suck the energy out of me.

I'm going to the quarterly party in two weeks (for the first time since I started working a couple of years ago), but I feel like I'm really forcing myself. It's just so inconvenient to head downtown from the far suburbs.
I wrote a bridge between macOS APIs and Common Lisp using the Objective-C runtime and it’s pretty nice to be able to work with system APIs at a high level, and not be forced down to “bag of bytes” C FFI. Hopefully, Apple’s move towards Swift will maintain the Objective-C runtime even if they eventually deprecate the language itself.
When do most people use text editors? I think wouldn’t be that surprised if somebody fist used a text editor when they first got into Linux or programming.
Are you aiming at that? Flutter should work well for that scenario. I'd use an IDE to simplify testing in an emulator, but you could manage that manually from the terminal.
If the previous suit against Canon didn't become a class action that doesn't preclude someone else bringing one.
I've been using Emacs for over 40 years but still find the shell my go-to sorting approach. Right tool for the job and all that.
I think it’s more than this. I’ve seen several Wikis grow to the point of uselessness from lack of curation combined with lack of “executive summaries”. Before this I thought executive summaries were for Peter principled idiots whose ties were cutting off oxygen flow. It felt infantilizing having to be asked to add them.

What I experienced and others complained about was the situation where I know we have a document about X. I can’t remember what it’s called, I thought it was “Y” but I read the whole thing and it’s not there. Now I’m clicking on random things seeing if I can find it. I don’t want to read eight people’s life stories. I’m trying to keep the details of my task in my head.

Start every page with “where are you and why should you care” and that problem starts to evaporate.

With scientists you have people who go through a lot of papers every year. No one paper stands out that much. So I can see how they’d run into the exact same problem.
>I have an oscilloscope at home
Why would you have it repaired by an expensive American when someone in China will do it for next to nothing?
Seriously: why? We had things like conscription before but the Covid response was the one that altered your view?
Build AI music tools. Make it easy for the next generation of artists and create a Cambrian explosion of new music to wash out the old, copyright encumbered works.
It seems like a different kind of boilerplate: instead the functions need to take a yield so you are threading the function through you program. I don't know if it's better to expect a return type or to force a function argument. I lean towards the former, but that might be because of familiarity.
You should not be concerned.
I do think a lot of people stream music who would otherwise pirate in various ways. But I don't really disagree with your basic argument. There's a never-ending stream of rationales for not paying for things.
I can majorly relate and can say you're not alone. As for providing helpful suggestions, sorry, I'm fresh out as I'm struggling myself.
Deep Learning Systems
I don't write crud apps, but if I did, I'm sure I could sort out which ORM is the right one for my usecase.
> Not sure I agree. It seems far simpler to comply with most regulations if you store your data in a centralised data store with good management features.

I don't think we disagree, it's just that we soon won't be allowed to physically store our data on the same servers because the EU deems it too risky. A couple of years ago you could operate 600 energy plants from the same few servers, but by January 2024 that will no longer be legal.

Aside from that, we're now entering a world where you need to do comply with regular audits on data field levels as well as an explosion of access roles. I'm not sure how you would manage that in a traditional centralized data store, you probably could, but we do it with OPA and once you do that, there is no difference between using a monolith or micro services because it all goes through the central policies.

You could argue that the energy sector is a bit of a special case, but it's even sticter in anything related to the financial sectors.
React Native may be a good bet, while testing with an Android emulator. However, you won’t be able to build an app-store-approved iOS app without Xcode tools, which are not officially available on Linux. The CLI tools for building mobile apps are definitely not up to par with the IDEs though.
In the event you were unaware of this, angle brackets are a form of quoting in markdown and other forums such as mailing lists. Multiple brackets are intended to show threaded conversations.

You quoted a statement that wasn't part of our conversation and seemed misplaced in our thread.

Based on your displayed reading comprehension level it seemed prudent to include the thread since you were unable to piece a few previous sentences together and were mis-quoting previous statements.

I've also decided to break out my sentences so they are easier for you or your screen reader to work with.

I hope whatever bot this is training works out well and can help improve its comprehension levels. Don't get too tired typing one sentence answers today, drink some water and take some breaks.
Found this one while browsing the catalog. Cool.

https://github.com/nasa/astrobee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk-1j3sXTqA

Three NASA Astrobee free-flying robots have been operating inside the International Space Station (ISS) since 2019. This astrobee repository contains source code for the Astrobee Robot Software, consisting of the flight software that runs onboard the Astrobee robots, a software simulator, and supporting tools, primarily written in C++.
A quite large number! Not to mention those who died if other causes but hadn’t had a cancer diagnosis yet.

But we’re talking about cancer incidence not deaths. Which—like the “rise” is autism—is quite likely due to early detection & patient awareness than external factors.
why can't you just exec a python shell command to do the same thing? i'm actually slightly puzzled that "FFI" is its own thing when every language has a way to exec shell commands
*its. ugh.
Thoreau made a similar argument after his carelessness started a major wildfire, stating that once he lost control of his campfire, it was "as if the lightning had done it". His neighbors weren't impressed, and I'm not impressed here either.

This thinking is just bizarre. ~20M people are dead. If SARS-CoV-2 arose from a research accident at the WIV, then those deaths were all avoidable, simply by not funding research that was already considered to be an unacceptable risk by many academics (Relman, Lipsitch, etc.) before the pandemic, and actually defunded until 2017. These were real people, mothers and grandfathers and friends. Would you not rather they hadn't died?

The WIV was funded by the American NIH, and used techniques first developed by Ralph Baric at the University of North Carolina. If SARS-CoV-2 arose from a research accident there, then the American government is in no position to blame China. On the other hand, that gives the American and Chinese governments a collective incentive to downplay that possibility, as seems to have occurred.
Be careful next you're advocating for social housing like a communist.
Is this why Exxon is the leading manufacturer of Li-ion batteries?

https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/who-we-are/technology-and-c...
You really don't want your phone's radio activating to serve random http requests, most of which are probably going to be bots, and people loading websites really don't want to wait for the latency that would be involved with your phone serving web requests.
Music piracy is almost non-existent post spotify. Streaming service fragmentation and geolocking has resulted in more video piracy but it still is less compared to what it was.
> I thought it's possible to purchase instance without public IP

Last I checked, no. Beta / coming soon perhaps.
The entire premise of the Scientific Method is dissent and skepticism. Fallacious claims that "big science" is effectively an arm of the government because of research grants and other funding is not dissent, it is a feeble red herring.
Modeling also allows you to create an infinite number of instruments much more easily, and could allow someone to fine tune an instrument to just their liking
Maybe.

Or the employer interprets higher than average turnover on other things, like greedy, disgruntled workers leaving for better pay, or some other completely unrelated thing to RTO policy changes.
Dark Mode and Marginal Benefit
I want to build a LLM that can look through my own documents, what tools do I need here?
It's no worse than what you would find on 4chan.
This is the first time I’ve even seen an emoji in an HN comment. What?!

Unicode Character “♥” (U+2665)

♳
Ransomware with no key provided from a jurisdiction that won’t extradite if discussing threat modeling around generic org weaknesses. Everyone is vulnerable to a sufficiently resourced attack, one simply needs to understand their adversary’s defense budget (incident response arrangement, cyber insurance limits) and attack surface.

Educational purposes only, not legal advice, don’t do this.