skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Great Desolation: Thoughts on Mastodon and Bluesky
> Unless the number you give is significantly higher than any of your potential employers are ever going to offer you, you are shortchanging yourself by giving that number--it means that you have now foreclosed potential higher offers that otherwise might have come your way. That is the basis of the advice given in the article.

That's why I said to give the number you _want_ up front.

This way, you don't have to worry about haggling up to get to a number you're happy with or getting FOMO over offers for more that might have been.

Otherwise, you're going to enter a negotiation with a recruiter who has way more information and access than you do, and you'll still feel FOMO anyway at the end result _while_ potentially losing out on getting what you wanted (which might have been achievable, had you stated your asking up front).

> What knowing what you are worth should do is help you to decide, on your own (i.e, without asking recruiters who have conflicts of interest), which potential employers are worth your time to even look at in the first place.

I've interviewed, and have worked at, several places whose comp ranges really surprised me.

I've also worked at Google, which is where I got paid the _least_ in my career thus far. (Note to readers: unless you really really really don't care about the money, don't EVER take a pay cut at face value!)

You really can't judge a book by its cover, and, again, recruiters know more than you about what their clients can (or would be willing to) afford.

Also, at the end of the day, recruiters are salespeople. If they think a candidate is a perfect fit for a client's needs, they (the good ones, at least) will absolutely go to bat to negotiate with the hiring managers for the highest comp package they can. Of course, it would be way more efficient to have a direct connection with the hiring manager, but that's not always possible.
That reminds me of an occasion as a kid in the 80s, when I sprayed some kind of impermeabilizer on a jacked. I fell ill for a whole day, face glowing red, from the exposure.

Might be a good idea to check if I have been exposed to some of this rubbish
This book has created a whole class of very annoying people who do nothing but repeat "How can you make this deal better for me at no cost to myself" in an endless loop and have no strategy for what to do when the other party isn't willing to negotiate themselves downwards for free.
Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn A/B testing from the ground up?
I'm not just looking for code, but also some math and intuitive explanation of the methods used in A/B testing.
Byju’s exposed sensitive student data, including loan details
The days of Firesheep
This list [0] of 17 people killed with rubber or plastic bullets in NI gives 6 by police and 11 by the army. I'd assume it skews higher when looking at all shootings, not just fatal ones.

[0] https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/issues/violence/rubberplasticbulle...
- blocking the only entry/exit point for other people who have places to go. Some of these are emergencies. What if you block an ambulance and indirectly kill the patient?

- creating a risk someone will hit you and be injured/killed/traumatized or even start a pile-up
Yes - shovel and bucket.
I took 50cm rings each, for a total of 9 for 4.5m. They weigh about 300kg each and could be rolled into the garden.
I got some scaffolding pipes and built a "gantry" over my hole. We could lower them by attaching a small chain operated pulley.
Signing clear-text content requires only slightly less infrastructure than encrypting it, for a less useful result. I don't want every party in between me and the destination server to be able to see the contents of my HTTP requests, even for static pages.

HTTPS is what makes the difference between an ISP being able to see that Alice is on WebMD and an ISP being able to see that Alice thinks she has a specific embarrassing illness.
Marcin here, one of the OpenTF folks

This repo [0] seems to still be licensed under MPL, so there is no need for an immediate action, but if there is a willingness in the community to take it over and improve, I see no reason why we wouldn't do it.

[0] https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-ls
Early access is a great way to outsource your QA. Triple A QA teams number in the hundreds, but for an independent game to have that many people playing it is a triumph in itself.

If people keep playing your game in early access, you must be on to something. There are tens of thousands of games people could be playing, but for them to pick yours means you are scratching an itch that can’t be found elsewhere, and that inspires developers create great games.

Early access does get flack for allowing people to release unfinished, often never finished games, but it’s a wonderful test of product market fit. If people try your game and like it, give you feedback to improve your game so even more people like it, it’s the ultimate positive feedback loop.
Every user I know who has left Ubuntu has cited snaps as a push factor. And their only mention of snap in this post is to say that they are fixing a regression from native Chromium? Tone deaf.
Can you quote an exaggeration or something sensationalist from the article?

The article has details and examples of their own experience (and it's titled "my feed", not "instagram in general"), they interviewed researchers/experts on the topic, reached out to Meta for comment, waited to see what happened after doing so, etc.
Going through the necessary steps to outline a course toward a stated goal, and focus efforts to achieve it just make sense.

I'm glad to see the Ubuntu Desktop project move in this direction - it strikes me as a mark of maturity.

Congrats!
Right. I never claimed that LE was hiding this fact. I'm just saying that requirement is very problematic for me and makes LE a suboptimal solution for my purposes.
I guess people got burned-up way too many times by the media sensationalizing cancer related studies (on both directions).

I wonder if this is a reliable phenomenon that will eventually happen to other kinds of fake news.
Python translates really well into Go. You could probably learn both at the same time
The monomer is tetrafluoroethylene, which is a gas:

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

As I understand it, the three concerns are:

1. The manufacturing and processing of PTFE is usually done in water with a fluorosurfactant mixed in. The fluorosurfactant varies from nasty to extremely nasty.

2. PTFE could potentially degrade into something less benign than PTFE.

3. PTFE has mediocre thermal stability — it starts to decompose a bit at temperatures that you can easily reach with careless cooking and, notably, it starts to decompose while it’s still a solid. This makes any kind of theromoplastic processing (extruding, molding, etc) a bit nasty. I think the decomposition products are gasses. They are noted for killing birds and concentrations at which their presence is not obvious to mammals.
So very similar, just no hard D?
Another option for NixOS is bootspec-secureboot, I'm using it with no real complaints: https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/bootspec-secureboot
I share the same perspective. There's a notable subculture dedicated to meticulously refining their note-taking, to-do lists, and other organizational tools. It appears that communities like HN and various tech circles tend to have a heightened interest in this, which makes sense since tech enthusiasts often enjoy fine-tuning tools just like writing scripts for tasks. However, akin to yak shaving in programming, there's a parallel phenomenon in personal productivity tools. While I appreciate Obsidian and similar tools (though apparently not as much as the next guy), it seems somewhat futile to invest excessive energy in crafting the perfect organizational system, as in reality, most of what we jot down or bookmark goes untouched. So, while it may feel productive, as you rightly noted, it can often be a form of procrastination.
Yeah it's even cheaper. Although it looks like it's about the same in proportion to approx model size/expected quality? They haven't launched any >13B model yet, although they plan to.
The export-subst attribute was new to me.

Here is a description of what it does:

If the attribute export-subst is set for a file then Git will expand several placeholders when adding this file to an archive. The expansion depends on the availability of a commit ID, i.e., if git-archive[1] has been given a tree instead of a commit or a tag then no replacement will be done. The placeholders are the same as those for the option --pretty=format: of git-log[1], except that they need to be wrapped like this: $Format:PLACEHOLDERS$ in the file. E.g. the string $Format:%H$ will be replaced by the commit hash. However, only one %(describe) placeholder is expanded per archive to avoid denial-of-service attacks.

https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes#_export_subst
I liked Unity though.
I don't mind them doing stuff like this, hardware-backed disk encryption shouldn't take the massive amounts of time/effort that designing, building and maintaining a desktop environment or display server will.

I guess they need to say something other than "we're the systemd/dpkg/GNOME distro that everyone's familiar with".
Not really, because accusations of being a shill or astroturfing are considered against the site guidelines and is generally downvoted.

If you suspect a shill or astroturfing, send an email to dang so he can investigate and actually do something if it is happening.
The LM industry valuation would be way smaller if they were not laundering behavior that would be illegal if a human did it. If "AI" were required to practice clean-room design (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design) to avoid infringing copyright, we would laugh at the ineptitude. If people believed the FTC-CFPB-DOJ-EEOC joint statement was going to lead to successful prosecutions, the industry valuation would collapse. https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/EEOC-CRT-FTC-CF...
Friendly aliens trying to reach sustainability is such an awesome idea for a mod! (or Space Age feature @devs???)
Yeah, be equal, call Bangkok by its full name.
Although I’ve had suspicions about the convenient timing of COVID putting an end to the Hong Kong democracy protests, I haven’t come across any compelling evidence to support this notion.

I’d advise taking the journalist’s words with caution, considering that her work (including her book) on the subject has faced criticism for lacking in details, presenting controversial scientific analysis, and omitting expert perspectives. This was pointed out in critiques of Markson’s thesis about the events in China.[1]

[1] https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/09/sharri-markson...
Ask HN: Can LLMs be trained to operate robots?
As a complete non-expert, I'm curious what the SOTA is. OpenAI and others have demonstrated multimodal LLMs where you can prompt using a picture and text and get code output. How feasible is it to have that code control a robot arm? Is it limited by training set, or something more fundamental?

As an example, consider simple setup of a robot arm and commodity camera. An operator wearing a VR headset can see through the camera and the VR controllers can move the arm. The operator receives instructions ("arrange all items by colour") and proceeds to execute the instruction, which gets saved and added to the training set. Would a big enough training set be able to produce an instruction following robot arm?
Wow, I was genuinely curious about this, but I see curiosity is met with downvotes now.
“This community of farmers will definitely be fine when their farms fail, because they don’t rely on technology. Please ignore their tools.”

Like, there are a whole lot of reasons the article listed for why this won’t work in the future. You can’t just negate them because it works now.

It’s not just a breakdown in civilization - it’s a dramatically changed and broken planet in this scenario. The Amish will starve just as fast as anyone else when crops fail or it doesn’t rain for years on end.
AFAIK Gore Tex are pretty rigid about how it's used with significant QC done within the factory using it to ensure a consistent experience. Then of course, I'm unsure how good that QC really is.

(I work in the industry, but not directly with these sort of things).
Did you read the message I replied to? It was the experience of someone with ADHD reading the article.
I do know there is vague / high-level interest in this kind of approach though I expect this would require a lot of work from the compiler, especially when it comes to figuring out what traits need to be compiled.

Already, rust splits crate compilation into two passes where dependents are only blocked on the first pass and linking on the second. Maybe an intermediate is to do the first pass everywhere and then use that to decide what can be dropped from the second pass.
The Endless Reminiscence of Your College Days
I'm sure the admins are tracking the last 48-72 hours on HN and seeing evidence of your suggestion. It is a coordinated start on many sites and services. Timed for the energy build-up around the debate, the surrender, and even the Richmond song. It will take great discipline to keep communities from being leveled or downgraded over the next year.
The ice cores that will let us look 1.5M years into the past
If people truly use /r/worldnews for entertainment, I guess that is fine, but I highly suspect quite a few people use it to gather information or form an opinion, and that is highly problematic.

Not only are the vast majority of opinions propagated there terrible, the topics and framing of articles is highly biased and astroturfed. I think I can pretty accurately spot Reddit/twitter politicians in the wild, and it is always kind of sad, because there is so much conflicting propaganda coursing through their heads that little of the unique person supposedly holding those views shines through. The reason I can spot it is because I was there as well a couple of years ago, but luckily was able to cut out those toxic influences from my life.
Seems like the inevitable conclusion. I reckon hashicorp overestimated how much of a moat they have.
A First Look from NASA’s New Air Pollution Satellite
> I would love it if cargo had a mechanism to run all build actions for a crate inside a firecracker vm

Why not go in the other direction? A tool that can set up a VM with source code and build tools based on a declarative file? That could work for any language - not just Rust. Sort of like a completely local CI system.
Thanks! I am happy to hear you liked my desktop environment. This type of project is my passion and I am always comparing mine to others and seeing what more I can add/do to make it cooler.
Trump's the Trumpet -- whether you like it or not.

If you don't have a spiritual understanding of what is REALLY going on, you'll just increase your confusion reading nonsense like this.

NOTHING IS LIKE IT SEEMS. Never been more true in history of mankind.

We all will see the collapse of the Old System, and a New System arise. Many surprises are awaiting! Not everyone will like it, but most WILL, I can assure you!!
I might be wrong but mathematically we would call a 2-dimensional object a matrix and a 3- or higher-dimensional object a tensor.

Now I guess since the described auto grad algorithm works for arbitrarily high dimensional objects it makes sense to call these objects tensors.
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> The other piece that makes it difficult is that LLVM is a separate also large project.

There is the Cranelift project which is intended to replace LLVM on the back end while you're coding, testing and debugging.

> Cranelift focuses on just-in-time compilation with short compile time being an explicit goal of the project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranelift
I see your “first do no harm” but I’ll counter that it is probably better than the alternative, which is to do nothing. And it may lead to people seeking professional help. It’s something for the unfilled gap in between, it’s not a replacement for professional help.
It certainly sets expectations and gamers have really adapted to it / seem to receive the whole process fairly well.

I don't game like I used to but I was playing an early access game recently, got a pop up on a keyboard shortcut to submit a bug with a screen shot and the game state.

Total win win for everyone.
Yes, it's intrinsic in the genome but implemented through such a complicated mechanism that attempting to understand these things from first principles is impractical, not impossible.

In genomic science we nearly always use more cheaply available information rather than attempt to solve the hard problem directly. For example, for decades, a lot of sequencing only focused on the transcribed parts of the genome (which typically encode for protein), letting biology do the work for determining which parts are protein.

If you look at the process biophysically, you will see there are actual proteins that bind to the regions just before a protein, because the DNA sequences there match some pattern the protein recognizes. If you move that signal in front of a non-coding region, the apparatus will happily transcribe and even attempt to translate the non-coding region, making a garbage protein.
https://archive.ph/WygpE
But what is the goal of the distro? If the goal is appeal to every user, then they should remove Snaps. But what if the goal is to appeal to casual users only?
TIL! I like it.
This is a reasonable question - we might have found some sort of "no free lunch" theorem! But as others have pointed out, so far no such inevitable tradeoff has been found, which in itself supports the view that it won't be.

There is Mikhail Blagosklonny's theory of programmed aging, in which aging is a byproduct of helpful developmental processes. This does seem to imply we need to mess with some pretty fundamental metabolic processes (hence mTOR inhibitors). That's close to what you're suggesting, but it still seems achievable.

Since all organisms are made of somewhat-similar cells, the bristlecone pine, the immortal jellyfish, long-lived tortoises and so on, are all important existence proofs that negligible senescence with no ill-effects is possible.

As they say, the goal is to die at age 150 with the body of a 30-year-old in a freak skydiving accident! It's been good to see longevity research move decisively out of crank territory in the past 15 years.
feels like the conflation of "free open-source software" in the Stallman sense with "nonfree open-source software" muddies up all of these discussions/judgements on how software should run

nonfree open-source software offers the right to repair, a promise that the code you use will be free forever, and the right to inspect (security/functionality). for some developers those rights + promises are enough.

the author places common business models at odds with "OS philosopy"...not sure that's true. at odds with Stallman's definition of free software which has some pretty aggressive moral tilt ( https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/is-ever-good-use-nonfree-prog... ) ...but outside of that, I think most of these business models are actually Just Fine.
Not to mention that the US economy is effectively wholly built upon Urban-Hell-Sprawl Commercial Expansion that only pushes consumerism.

If you drive through any city in the US, as compared to major modern cities around the world, while all cities have their problems, US cities and towns are downright ghetto very large fast-food plastic chain stores.

Social services are a joke, politicians are a joke, transportation is a joke, etc.
> They wanted $$money$$

Did this forum forget why for-profit companies exist recently?
The black square may have been Malevich’s famous painting.[0] Even if you got nothing out of it, it has long since become part of the canon. A great deal of literature and later painting makes reference to it, so one benefits from seeing it in a museum and learning about its historical context regardless of what one thinks about the painting itself.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Square_(painting)
I interpreted that as meaning stop using LE, not stop using HTTPS. But in context, I see it can be reasonably interpreted either way.
I don't think there is a future for TFE in the face of OpenTF. It's a dumb Terraform runner, the competition has far more features and integrations with other tools. The BSL was HashiCorps way to curtail competitors and it has backfired spectacularly.
Or even worse, Alice was just curious because of a conversation that happened and now her advertising profile will mark her as an insurance risk.
I was under the impression that a lot of the cloud provider plugins were developed in close collaboration with, or even by, the cloud providers themselves.

At a glance, three of the top four contributors to the AWS provider are from outside of Hashicorp, and two of those three are AWS employees.
Tim O’Reilly on AI’s Role in the Attention Economy
We need to use this AI moment as one for deep self-reflection about who we want to be, and how we want to act. We need to understand that when an AI shows us bias, we should be thinking about how we trace that back to the source. For example, racial bias in sentencing algorithms originates from the biased decisions of human judges. It takes humans to elicit that bad behavior. A model doesn’t just do it on its own. We need to fix us, not just the mirror.
> Community-driven - so that the community governs the project for the community, where pull requests are regularly reviewed and accepted on their merit and changes are proposed through a public RFC process

IMO if OpenTF wants to quickly pull ahead, they'd do well to quickly revive popular but neglected PRs from Terraform, inviting those authors to rebase on top of OpenTF and quickly getting them merged.

The RFC process will slow them down here, at least for features, but presumably there are still old bug fixes that died on the vine, too.
It would be stupid cat-and-mouse game because it would make all previous versions of legacy Terraform irrelevant, and is unlikely to cause much harm in the long run because the same protocols can be implemented by other tools.
Haha ya that one is a great parody. Flash actually had tons of these, but RG was the best. I have the file (/Users/Public/Documents/Flash Files/Windows RG Build 207.swf) on my website and run it via Ruffle.
This is not, in any way, a direct response to my comment.
“and the water sheets on completely blocking the pores“

Yeah, that's apparently the key problem: the shakedry product line (exposed membrane) was incredibly good at breathability, but I guess the usage restrictions (no backpacks that would rub off the membrane) should be taken seriously, considering the footprint.
Speaking truth to power has always been a cornerstone of journalism, so I don't know that I would attribute this to growth hacking (although this is HN so I guess the startup distortion lens is always on).

They are writing and publishing compelling investigative content, I think that's why they are getting the traction they have (plus the team has a proven track record from previous work).