skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The fad of using blue LEDs for power indicators only makes this problem worse. The human eye features special receptors sensitive to blue light that are not only used for vision.These cells are also used to detect the blue light from the sky, coordinating our internal Circadian rhythms to the Earth’s day/night cycle. Exposure to artificial blue light can interfere with this system, with research suggesting it may have a negative effect on sleep cycles.

This is always repeated but I seriously doubt it’s ever actually relevant in practice. Like does anyone actually suffer from a sleep disorder that magically goes away when the evil blue LEDs on their devices are switched out for red ones?
I think the sort of more general point, rather than "build something great that someone at Apple notices", is that Graduate and Internship programmes are scale businesses. They get thousands of people applying and will hire atleast dozens, probably some FANG are hiring hundreds. So yes, we're all special snowflakes, but that's not what this process is for. It's about harsh rounds of easy to design problems to winnow the field.

This totally changes when you're a specific candidate with skills Apple values. What this guy experienced wasn't an interview process. They had already decided to hire him before what he described as the interview process. They already know he's good, he experienced the talent acquisition process. The bit that happens when the company has already decided to hire you and is now doing everything it can to sell you on the job.

If someone outside of recruiting contacts you about a job at a company, you will not experience a normal interview process, because they're already quite likely to want to hire you.
I know Brosnan because my initial meeting with hard sci-fi was by reading a Polish magazine about sci-fi which printed one of his stories. Good times.

He was a great author and I'm sad that he will not write any more stories .. he is unfortunately dead.
Yup, and that reproducing it is a copyright violation.

Still a copyright abolitionist though. Maybe now more people will join the fight?
Apple has pockets of excellence. It used to be most of the company, something about how Jobs ran it, inspired people much overqualified to apply, and not even for very high salaries. At NeXT infamously a PhD (EDIT: in comp-sci, or physics?) worked as a janitor as he simply wanted to be around Jobs and cool smart people.

Currently entropy is getting to Apple in many ways. iTunes and Apple Music didn't use to be mediocre, but are now. Siri is very mediocre. OS quality is declining although still pretty good. Hardware division is excellent, but most hardware divisions are.
I don’t know if this is tangentially related, but don’t we encode text in our neurons in a way a human can’t understand either? Is the storage relevant here?
I wouldn't take it back. It was a singular experience in my career. I learned a lot. One of the cool things they did was have monthly talks for the interns from the executives. One of these was an off the cuff talk from Steve Jobs himself.
What are the odds that we end up just making things worse.

I live in Australia and think of the cane toads being introduced to eat the cane beetle. In this can I worry we overdo it and cause an ice age.
This is nice.

If I were doing it, my design would consist of:

(1) A bike pump (goes up to >200 PSI)

(2) A pressure tank

(3) Two valves

I would pump up the tank to ~130PSI, getting my morning exercise in. I would exhaust it through the coffee. If I wanted to get fancy, I might have an extra intermediate stage so I can use fresh air, rather than air which has been through my bike pump.

I'd like to be able to buy something like (any) of these. My requirements:

- Cheap

- Reliable

- Makes good coffee

Nice-to-haves:

- Compact

Anti-requirements (which should make this possible):

- Fast to use and practical in a fast-paced environment.

I make one cup of coffee a day, and it's a ritual. I'm okay with this taking a while, needing to work a bike pump, or whatnot. Slow is okay.
That's probably fine. AWS S3 or say Google Cloud or Dropbox doesn't have these issues.

There's plenty of long lived providers.

That's different from if you had a service called, say, pirate-share with a search function that has options like "artist" and "director". These difference matter.

As far as I know, the courts have looked at anonymous file sharing sites as closer to the second group than the first.

I remember when the internet was basically only anonymous and I think it was a better time and that's kinda why I like tor. The problem is most people seem to only go there for crime as opposed to some weird ideological commitment to how online engagement should exist.

It'd be nice if there could be a more healthy balance between anonymity and crime that's more encouraging for people to be anonymous but somehow less supportive of criminal activity.

Basically I think "influencer culture" and branding oneself has destroyed things
What are the odds? I'm currently dealing with some relationship issues, part of that is codependency, and this is one of the books that's doing the rounds in those spaces. I've been reading Codependent No More myself, which is an older book, kinda preachy, kinda Alcoholics Anonymous, lots of religious undertones etc etc, BUT it also lists a lot of symptoms and behaviours that I've recognized in my personal life / relationship; self-sacrifice, "rescuing" behaviour, obsessing over the other, controlling behaviour, emotional self-deprivation (err, ignoring one's own feelings), anxiety, low self-worth / confidence, guilt, shame, etc.

I can't recommend the book per se, it's a bit dated, but it lays a lot of groundwork and identifies a lot of traits so it has its place.
GitHub-drama: “This conversation has been locked and limited to collaborators.”
Ask HN: What are the popular AI tools used by developers these days?
The problem is that "leetcode" is a definitely a thing that exists in "FAANG" interviews.

The biggest stumbling block with leetcode is that you shouldn't be programming like that in real life.

"make a linked list" no, just use a library like everyone else.

"Implement addition in python but with string inputs", "no you can't use the built in x" All of that "clever" shit should be filtered out at PR/MR/diff review time.

All of this "clever shit" is exceptionally bad programming. We don't live in the 80s anymore. we don't need to make our own sort algorithms. just. use. a. Library.
Aha, I repurposed the XDG download directory to point to ~/scratch/, since most of those files are downloaded in my browser. Now I dump everything into that directory that hasn't been sorted into my hierarchy system (which is divided into ownership or source, then type or relevancy).

Having strewn files about is so stressful for me, I have to squirrel it away in one place or it will drive me batty. I'd rather have one directory holding all of that crap, so if I ever have a "screw it" day, I can `rm -rf ~/scratch/*` and be done with it.

Have you tried to sit down and create a hierarchy that makes sense for your way of thinking? I spent a weekend working on it a year or two ago and it's made things SO much better. I won't suggest any particular structure, but here's a rundown of what I put together: https://imgur.com/a/QVehjvy

I love reading about people's directory or symlink structures.
> Object-oriented (OO) and functional languages differ in many ways, but it’s arguable that how each paradigm models data is the defining characteristic that separates them. Specifically, the question of modeling different variations of related data and the operations on those variants.

Then why is the first example they present about organizing behavior lol
Your premise is a little self-referential. Civilizations imply civilized, ours and theirs are both going to think themselves civilized, but might not recognise one another as such. Aboriginal Australians didn't find the colonisers of that continent particularly civilised and the colonisers didn't find them civilised. Our planet could be seen as so uncivilised as to be a worthy candidate for annihilation. Or building a space bypass through our solar system.
Computers aren't humans and LLMs aren't human brains.

We have no way to reconstruct memories from a preserved brain (yet). The exact ways in which humans form memories and store information isn't even known yet; we're still drilling into the specifics from higher-level concepts.

Modeling the human brain like nodes with weights ignores a lot of biological processes. Blood/oxygen flow, hormones, neurotransmitter decay, physical locality, chemical delays and interference from things like myelin sheaths, and other physical processes affect the synapses that are partially mirrored by computer simulations of neural networks. Unlike neural networks, human brains also don't work based on a single clock signal triggering input and output from all notes in instant steps.

Human memories are also not just "data in, weights out". They are heavily modified by things like mood, concentration, language(s) spoken, context, and emotional triggers. There's no way to feed a dictionary into a brain. Memory preservation consists of multiple stages, with differing memory types, involving various brain segments with dedicated functionality that can actually grow back due to neuroplasticity in some cases.

Efforts are being made to emulate living cells on computers, but LLMs aren't that. Inversely, efforts are also made to feed brain cells artificial signals and train them to play video games, which results in different behaviour compared to the systems we use for LLMs or other AI systems.
That's funny. Reminds me of the time I had auto-Shazam going on my phone for some reason when I walked into 7-11, and this guy was singing "Because I Got High" by Afroman. He sounded enough like the actual song that Shazam triggered off it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeYsTmIzjkw
Umm.

"If two records had a similar name and the same date of birth, or a similar name and exactly the same postcode, then they were considered a match. Important: Companies House data only publicly provides the month of birth - not the day.
In a general population that would not be reliable for matching identities because there is a high probability that two people with the same name are born in the same month and year. However, given company directors represent a significant sub-section of the population, we felt that this matching would be acceptable for a public showcase."

So in the (much much much more common) case of all the directors called John Smith, rather than the directors called David Robert Joseph Beckham, just how reliable is this assumption?
Police catch 300 drivers breaking law in three days using AI
Clickbait. This isn't a FTE with TC, it's an internship. Unlike Apple, most MANGs cut internships to functionally zero. You're never going to get a corporate coding job without multiple rounds of technical interview because common sense.
Ha, learn 2 Galileo...
You can just buy[1] Qt, which is of course why they chose the dual-licensing model in the first place.

In my opinion, though, the amount of extremely high-quality free and open source software that is available to include in one's programs is so great, it really is worth spending the time to create a proper FOSS licence compliance plan and form a OSPO (Open Source Programme Office) in your organisation to execute it. If you actively pursue the benefits that can come from directly contributing to existing FOSS projects, the rewards are even greater.

[1]: https://www.qt.io/pricing
Why would I need that for? nanosecond accuracy? GPS indoors?
Especially for Senior Developers I think systems design questions are more interesting. They usually don't just have one right answer and you need to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches. They require knowledgeable interviewers of course.
Then again, I'm not working in a huge corp, so I don't know if this scales.
Eh, you're not allowed to use the extra tools without consensus from the rest of the community, so end of day you don't really gain much, and you can do pretty much everything without them.

(By way of experiment: one particular admin had their admin bit disabled and it took people a over a year to notice that they'd done so.)

Personally I still think 90% of the regular editors should have the tools anyway, but people kept inflating the requirements, or actually rejecting admins on the basis of "we have too many already"

As tomodachi94 points out, being a wiki admin ideally should not be a big deal. It just sort of became that way on English Wikipedia, unfortunately.
Similar theme, not great literature but still a good, quick read for people who work in tech: The Phoenix Project: https://itrevolution.com/product/the-phoenix-project/
It also doesn't resemble "real" work with regards to gathering requirements, clarifying ambiguity, weighing up trade-offs, making sure code is clear, etc. It tends to be a rote regurgitation exercise.
If you want to ensure all the foos in a box are bar-ed, why not just bar them before you put them in the box?
Bored Apes investors sue Sotheby's, Paris Hilton, etc. as NFT prices collapse
Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell. I finished it yesterday.

It's a collection of articles the author wrote for The New Yorker around the middle of the last century. The stories are portraits of weird, eccentric people and peculiar places in and around New York. Mitchell describes his subjects with dignity, without putting them on a pedestal.

The author is a very good writer and his stories are enjoyable, but only after I had read the book to the last page, I understood what makes this book so great. The stories tell you as much about the author as they tell you about the protagonists. I started the book to get a glimpse of the old New York and finished the book with a great curiosity about the author himself.
I realise this is a different scenario to op, but be wary of Apple recruiters claiming a LeetCode-lite or homework assignment driven process. My own experience interviewing for a hardware division role in Tokyo was that it's a complete lie.
Try Rawtherapee
"The fact is, if I can see a bright glow on the ceiling because I left Caps Lock on before retiring for bed, that’s a problem."
Except those options are inefficient or too expensive, and so far germany is not implementing them.

Renewables are quite pointless without a energy storage solution.

Electricity is difficult to store, especially when you need to store between seasons.
Siri is the worst piece of software I'm forced to interact with daily. iOS is also near the top.

GP didn't seem to be saying they didn't think about that software. They were saying they didn't have a good reputation, which is true.

Apple is actually astonishingly bad at software considering the amount of money they have to do it properly. Even Google eventually got Android to a place where it's very resilient and rarely buggy, but iOS has bugs for me almost daily where I have to reboot to fix it.
Probably the most useful mtal from asteroid mining will be platinum for use in catalysts.
> Then again, I would prefer there WAS Bluetooth and it broadcasted a notice, and a reflective LCD would be fine too.

Why use a simple circuit that is definitely going to work when you can implement a complex software based solution to do the same thing?

Honestly there are times a status LED is really useful for quick troubleshooting, I don't want to find some weird menu on a PC of have to get a shell on a server to see whether network came up on a device, if that device even is a PC, it could be an IOT device that the literal only way to even control it is through the very network you are connecting and also receives it's power over said network cable.

Sometimes utilitarian is exactly what you need, I don't need a fancy screen on my washing machine or dishwasher, it's a utility item I need to know it's doing what I told it and that is that.

People are quick to complain that their new fangled fridges and washing machines and light switches and dishwashers don't last longer than the warranty yet they are exactly like you and don't see how something simple and reliable is significantly more cost effective than a fancy one that has Bluetooth radios and screens and software that goes out of date.
Consider a mega consulting firm with millions of von Neumann-like analysts. Together, they've processed the same vast data that LLMs have, but individually, none could. It's not an LLM, but its purpose is like ChatGPT: assisting clients with their tasks. If LLMs concern you due to their data processing, would a firm like this do the same?
Electrolysis is very very inefficient.
Which is why having secure connections enforced for the typical use case is doubly important. We can't wish a more secure solution into existence, this is how internet providers handle it in a great many places. Make TLS enforcement a very well hidden setting to turn it off/bypass, but don't let the average user anywhere near this.
Good job! I am still searching for a good solution which can identify songs by singing or humming the melody. There are sites (eg. soundhound) but these are not working all the time.. I think soundhound is working withoud machine learning. With the power of AI today, we could create something which works better. Like Shazam for music.
I was an active Wikipedian back in the early days (2002-2006), and I ran for adminship twice, each time I was rejected for petty reasons. If you don't have a "perfect" account, they will pile on opposes. The only reason why so many people became admins at that time was that Wikipedia was still pretty much a "greenfield" site at the time (It had only around 700,000 articles back then, which is ~10% of what it is now), and there were plenty of volunteers signing up. Now it has become more established, and more rules have kept new generations out, similar to how boomers keep younger generations out of housing and high paying careers, despite having more education than them.
It's Time to Abolish the University
Partially why I cooled the jets of SRE/SRM HR teams around 2016. The Googlyness was becoming less Googly classic formula and more political, corporate, and insane.
Are there any interesting examples you can give?
Well if use the tool to reproduce copyrighted content you are violating copyright. But that’s not the primary usecase and nobody in their right mind is arguing that.

The weights are not a reproduction of the content. They are capable of it but so is a photocopier a lot more and we didn’t ban those either despite them technically being a lot more useful for violation.

Nah, this is expansionist doctrine and agenda for copyright - these companies are trying to copyright style and locations in latent space now.
I've always found strange that we don't hear more about Apple in the comments here (tech, working conditions...), compared to other big companies. Are they so scared about Apple that they don't dare posting on an anonymous forum?
I said 'it goes beyond censorship', that means that censorship is a part of it but that it goes well beyond that point.

Here is the dictionary definition: "the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security."

If we follow your logic then killing someone or jailing or intimidating them is just censorship. But the bar for what is censorship is much lower than that. So if the bar for censorship is met by just targeting the media (for instance: youtube, to tell them to pull the account and not to let her back in) then that would be censorship and it wouldn't require threats of harm or restrictions on movement. That's active and possibly violent intimidation. Xi's government gets a free pass from the West because (1) we like the goodies and (2) he's not as bad as some of his predecessors. But meanwhile he's a thug and his government is acting in very thuggish ways to achieve their goals and the casualness with which censorship escalates into other forms of abuse is telling. And that's why we have different names for those other abuses. Those abuses are not there in the service of censorship, censorship is just one of the elements from a palette of abuses that a state can visit on a person.

More telling is how apparently a fragment of the HN audience insists they see nothing more than the control of information. Trust me on this: if your internet connection is severed and/or your online writings are officially erased that's bad enough, having goons come to your house, threaten you and threaten your significant other that's another level altogether.

Censorship doesn't require guns, does not require goons and in general doesn't have a prerequisite of violence. But threats of harm, or being sent to a 'reeducation camp' (I hate that term) especially in a country where people tend to just disappear aim to influence not just your writings and your media expression but your general behavior and serve to cow an individual completely, apparently successful. So censorship is only a sub-goal, and a minor one at that. This is all about behavior and coercion, hence the travel restrictions and targeting of groups of individuals.
The Phoenix Project is basically the same thing, but about software. I also found it more enjoyable to read.

https://itrevolution.com/product/the-phoenix-project/
Most (at least in my field, can't say about others) don't really charge, but yeah some do. And about open access -- some journals force you to choose open access (and hence more expensive) too.
Xdg isnt just config. Using .config (xdg config) on Mac is super weird.

Xdg is also, .cache (xdg cache dir) for data that can be cleared on reboot allowing you to use tempfs for it (of course you can't because a bunch of shit uses it as a persistent cache for things they should be putting in .local/share/. (Xdg data dir).

This whole mess is so utterly fucked I gave up caring and just let the mess be.
Ah good catch, I missed that. I agree that they probably could have gone through WP:BRD and gotten this into the article.

The article I linked in my original comment is different though and the user Valjean maintains a number of pages that they revert edits from and don't really engage in BRD in good faith.
I think the most significant term in the Drake equation is the one chosen by users of it to hang themselves on this week. It's an equation that pumps out a number between zero and bazillions dependent on imaginations towards a situation that is nevertheless a paradox. The only thing that can be said right now is that it's perhaps likely that the number is >1.
See reply above^ :)
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