skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a YouTube video I always consider underated for helping the engineering minded understand being correct is only on variable in an argument with your company.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY&pp=ygUXbWl0IHByZXN...

As for an actual movie for fun I would say Pumaman riffing by the MST3K crew, but that is for a specific crowd. I'm not culture enough for this discussion.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GnRxbH5Ay4I&pp=ygUHcHVtYW1hbg%...
When I'll have the "power" to do that, I'll ask for dedicated tests engneers. As now, we can implement some scripts (external to the codebase testing suite) for e2e testing.

About the code inspection and regression testing, I'll try to apply what you suggested, thank you.
Ha! "waterfall with sprints" indeed. Just spent about 14 months operating that way. Manager wanted a demo every 2 weeks, fair enough in itself, but expected monotonic improvement. Two months into that, we really needed to rip it apart and fix some of the less than optimal early decisions, but the pressure to keep "checking off features" meant we just kept finding ways to tack new things on.
> I’ll just block ads, alphabet is doing fine anyway.

But as the OP says…the problem is that this is not feasible on mobile or TVs.
You can enable moderation on any GitHub repository and have the same thing.

https://docs.github.com/en/communities/moderating-comments-a...
You can quite easily get GenAI to rewrite some code blocks from Cobol to Java. The issue is getting it to do it at scale and reliably.

I think it's possible, but I think it's a 10 year research path.

IBM will get folks to buy into this and then incrementally refine it for about 5 years. At that point they will start lagging the state of the art because they will stop investing. In about 10 years there will be various tools available from many vendors or opensource that will significantly automate it and we will call it solved.

In reality there will be some niche jobs for folks to use the tools, and those folks will both work hard and get paid well.
I was listening to Gang of Youths the other day and was surprised to see they only had 6k fans on Deezer.

I'd maybe compare them to Kings of Leon (2.2M fans) or Mumford & Sons (0.9M fans).
Which distro, though?
> The question is why isn't there a path for recourse when you're only a false positive?

Because it's hard to do that without making it easy for fraudsters/scammers/etc. to understand how they got caught and why, and improve. It's way easier to just not explain why the account suspension was triggered..
No because I can leave a social network and go to some other website or publisher that allows me to publish whatever I want. The worst thing that can happen is that they delete my comments.

You can't escape the state. If they don't like what you post they'll beat you up and put you behind bars. Not good.

Regarding your "democratically appointed censor" point, freedom of speech means that I should not be a slave to whatever the status quo is.
I wonder what's the current performance delta between FreeBSD and Linux
yeah, I found that to be a good approach, we're doing the same thing where possible.

Thank you
My nerdiest use for my e-ink Android tablet: I have a whole offline Wikipedia
How to have a normal email capture embed with Substack and Next.js?
I hate to tap the "news" part of the domain, but what is new here? Is there a recent significant advisory (doesn't look like it)?
Mozilla's FTP was a lifesaver when i was configuring/updating old, barely functioning Windows desktops. Glad to see them keeping it alive.
Oops, the :r to remove the extension is zsh; I'm so used to writing scripts in it I sometimes forget translating it to sh/bash (should also quote the variables in (ba)?sh).
Hard sci-fi books by Daniel Suarez. Former IT consultant, so tech details in books are pretty realistic. And since these are relatively recent books, tech and humanity challenges are up to date. Currently reading Daemon, a book about all-powerful A.I., nowadays seem more plausible (hopefully we're not there yet!) then in 2009 when it came out. I can also recommend two books about space travel - Delta-V and Critical Mass.
Surprised to learn that google doesn't make use of certificate pinning in these apps.
I think you're reading me wrong. I'm saying that I've accepted exactly this: I was never as good as I wanted to be as a musician. I did always judge myself more quickly and more harshly than anyone else would. I did accept that it wasn't going to be a sustainable career.

I'm writing, in all earnestness, to say that I'm glad my 80 year old mom is still my biggest fan. For what it's worth, my father told me when I was 15 that I'd never be any good and I should give up music, so family isn't all roses. I was just drawing on this as an example of how family can alleviate that itchy need to be recognized which can lead people down a path of self-pity as opposed to a balanced view of their own importance (or lack thereof).
Who will they compete with?

The next town over. The theory is that if the town is good enough, rich people will pay a premium to live in this town rather than then one a few miles down the road. Then businesses will pay a premium to rent commercial space there since it will give them access to a 'better' class of customers etc. etc.
This is what nepotism is. It does not have to be that the person benefiting from it is incapable. Most of them are normal capable, some better then average some worst.
I suspect the real moneymakers for such startups have very little to do with ALS. ALS demand is fortunately small, and can't lead to VC desired growth curve. Imagine instead using it in a classroom to ensure the kids pay attention. Or making sure you see the advertisement.
Therr are multiple whale species that live 100+.

Also take into account that human lifespan in the wild without medical tech is ~40
Dropping kanji will probably make the language even harder, due to the huge amount of homophones. It won’t be impossible because clearly Japanese people can talk with each other despite the homophones (pitch accent might help a bit here, but I doubt it would be easier than just learning kanji.
It is easy to detect what people are looking at. Solved problem. It’s difficult to effectively use such a low—bandwidth signal, and that’s where LLM come in. You need an LLM to anticipate what the user wants to say. An LLM fine-tuned on the user’s needs may have sufficiently low entropy that the small number of bits/s you’re getting from the eye-tracker can reliably identify the intended message.
Sorry for this bad experience. We are working on improving this (code/activity at https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody). In particular, we’re making it so you can do this all from your editor more easily.
For example, use of “land grab” to describe a normal real estate transaction.
Not obvious to me. There are thousands of underpopulated cities (Detroit, etc.)
On the movie side, I'd suggest "Dark City", the 1998 neo-noir sci-fi film directed by Alex Proyas (more famous for The Crow). Not sure why it isn't more widely known - I think in some ways it got overshadowed by The Matrix which was released not long afterwards but I like it a lot.
A Turing machine has infinite tape. Which can be implemented in terms of RAM but can just as well be implemented in terms of sequentially addressable IO, and pretty much every real-world computer has that, so it's a meaningless technicality as while there are practical limits on our ability to feed it more input, those are not conceptual limits of the machine.
The iPad is great for reading and great for video:

- ebooks
- web articles
- RSS
- newspaper
- tv series and films
Erlang is the big fly in the ointment here. It's very inefficient. In fact it makes rather ridiculous performance sacrifices in the interest of stability, and encourages you to make it even worse.
Worse, but Unique
I would love to hear pg's analysis of the business case for this company.

By my math, 5k people in the US are diagnosed per year, and if your keyboard costs $1k, then your ARR is $5m, and maybe the company valuation is $50m. Numerically, this is pretty far from the goal of a typical YC company.

I hate to be so cold-hearted about the calculations, but I've had a few friends get really passionate about assistive tech, and then get crushed by the financial realities. Just from the comments, you can see how many startups went either the military route or got acquired into VR programs.

The worst I've seen, btw, is trying to build a better powered wheelchair. All the tech is out there to make powered wheelchairs less bulky and more functional, but the costs of getting it approved for health insurance to pay the price, combined with any possible risk of them falling over, combined with the tiny market you are addressing makes it nearly impossible to develop and ship an improvement. I do hope that we reach a tipping point in the near future where a new wheelchair makes sense to build, because something more nimble would be a big improvement to people's lives.
I’m sorry about that. Our code (https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody), which is open source (Apache 2), doesn’t do anything to move the cursor, so I have no idea how that would have happened. Would you be willing to try to repro that in an issue or give us some more info so we can look into it?
This is conjecture. OTOH I measured while I designed the LuaJIT IR.

1. An array index is just as suitable as a pointer for dereferencing.
2. What matters is how many dereferences are needed and their locality.
3. Data structure density is important to get high cache utilization.

References show a lot of locality: 40% of all IR operands reference the previous node. 70% reference the previous 10 nodes. A linear IR is the best cache-optimized data structure for this.

That said, dereferencing of an operand happens less often than one might think. Most of the time, one really needs the operand index itself, e.g. for hashes or comparisons. Again, indexes have many advantages over pointers here.

What paid off the most was to use a fixed size IR instruction format (only 64 bit!) with 2 operands and 16 bit indexes. The restriction to 2 operands is actually beneficial, since it helps with commoning and makes you think about IR design. The 16 bit index range is not a limitation in practice (split IR chunks, if you need to). The high orthogonality of the IR avoids many iterations and unpredictable branches in the compiler itself.

The 16 bit indexes also enable the use of tagged references in the compiler code (not in the IR). The tag caches node properties: type, flags, constness. This avoids even more dereferences. LuaJIT uses this in the front pipeline for fast type checks and on-the-fly folding.
Movie: Circle of Iron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_Iron

Book: The one straw revolution https://www.nyrb.com/collections/all/products/the-one-straw-...

Music: Red Fang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnySn-ept5s
So you basically have the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy…does it have some towel storage system as well?
> Now more than 2+ decades later, even if India setups another fab, who knows how many decades it would take India to catch up with Taiwan.

I'd say it's definitely worth trying anyway. Maybe even more than the space program.
It's like saying "If I stop going to the AA meetings, I won't be an alcoholic"
Sadly the Netscape developers all died of dysentery.
Great commeny. Of course they can grow up to be happy. My wife is the only child and she’s great. I’m just talking about pronciple and more of a feeling. It’s not a law nor a rule .
For companies, rent is just the beginning of their cost savings.

Consider all overhead in aggregate: utilities, enterprise-tier Internet connectivity, computing devices and network infrastructure for all of them, break rooms and their kitchens, bathrooms, physical security for facilities, fire and liability insurance for everything, maintenance costs and staffs for all of the above, including your janitorial, security, and IT/desktop support team. More of which I haven't mentioned.

Companies worldwide should absolutely leap at the chance to slough off these costs. Remote workers, amazingly are also leaping at this chance to take on all associated costs of that overhead for ourselves, and of course these costs come with no subsidies or measurable wage/salary increases, so we get to absorb it simply as the cost of living.

The employer, meanwhile, is rewarded with all the drawbacks of consumer-tier, rather than enterprise-tier infrastructure, such as poor/slow Internet connectivity, devices and LANs that are difficult or impossible to support, LPL-friendly front doors, employees taking a few minutes on the clock to clean the kitchen or bathroom, and all the rest. It's definitely a paradise for us!
Eyefluence had an extremely impressive demo at AWE2016: https://youtu.be/iCZLll1l92g?t=480

> But there's way more to do. We've barely scratched the surface of what's possible with eye tracking and I'd love to take a second crack at it.

What do you have in mind? What would you like to see?
e.g. NixOS survey from last year.
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2022-nix-survey-results/18983
has Gnome as highest with 259, followed by Plasma at 201. Though, prob'ly NixOS survey population isn't a good representation of wider Linux users. (xmonad got 108 on the same poll).

Here's this poll from r/fedora from last year.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/z5pt2z/what_is_your... which has Gnome at 2.4k to KDE's 963.
A bit self deprecating. Too bad we are forbidden from commenting on these posts.
That EULA is a) unenforceable in many countries and b) does not constitute informed consent under GDPR
Historically in the Arab countries, people mainly rode camels or horses while wearing a dagger in their belt. A pointy scabbard would foible the wearer in the leg and groin. Curving the scabbard solves that problem nicely.

The blades do tend to be fairly short but longer than you would imagine as they too are curved.
enshittification of the word enshittification?
That’s another angle. Love it
YouTube Thinks I’m a Child
You cannot kick out the poor, because you need them to clean for you and make your food. At best you can price them out of living next to you.
Agreed, it’s a balancing act and it’s quute individual.
1) and 2) I can't agree more.

However, your guess is right, the team have little trust in the process.
Now that there aren't really business critical new features, I think I'm successully not giving them pressure.

But, as already happened in other teams/context, when the time for an important business feature comes, the director/business could "override" me and giving the team extreme pressure.

About the deadline, I agree with you as a professional, but in this company they like to organize launch keynotes and stuff like that so we need to ship within the keynote date.

(vent mode) You wonder how the keynote date is set? I don't really know, with my boss I really don't see any transparency in that
would you mind providing more details about this? Is it any user agent header, or do you need to do some thing like curl-impersonate?
Sorry for being unclear: my point was about the "if business turns they have less flexibility" part (apart from, as you noticed, being of the opinion that overhiring is not a good business practice).
Why is this flagged and how can I vouch for it? I'm not German (Nigerian) but the leftist trend of unrestricted immigration will eventually push the European right and center so far away that we might see several strongman leaders across the continent in the next 20 years.

No matter how bad Africans and Syrians have it, you can't fail to admit that mixing people from incompatible cultures will lead to friction, and when that friction isn't addressed, eventually, extremism.

Or, have you asked yourself why it's often young African and Middle-eastern migrants raping and tearing up European cities at the slightest provocation? Yes, I say that as an African.

If European progressives don't take a hard stance on immigration and immigrant crime, I believe we might see a Hitler in Europe again, promising to bring order (like they always do).

Even in South Africa, millions of the locals (Xhosa, Zulus, Khoisan, etc.) still want to expel or murder the Boers who have lived there for centuries now. So, if you have millions of migrants in Europe, living off welfare, making society unsafe, and forcing their religion on others, better don't act surprised when the locals start fighting back by voting in law-and-order politicians to clean the mess.
"The pyramids give us the dimensions of our planet on a scale defined by the planet itself." - Hancock

It's a bit as if we had never seen a poem and stumble upon some text that harbors rhymes. You'd argue there's no intrinsic link between, say, pickle and tickle, you'd dig in each word etymology to show they wouldn't rhyme in their past forms. And beyond that you would deny the fact words rhymes because they are not in succession, and when I'd point out it's because the rhymes are crossed, you'd laugh it off.

It's not about convincing you (of what ? of some secret intent ? I'm not even sure this is the case). It's about how convincing it is. For that you need to model the cognitive process that interprets these coincidences.

Algorithmic Simplicity and Relevance - Jean-Louis Dessalles

https://telecom-paris.hal.science/hal-03814119/document

4.1 First-order Relevance
Relevance cannot be equated with failure to anticipate [16]: white noise is ‘boring’, although it impossible to predict and is thus always ‘surprising’, even for an optimal learner. Our definition of unexpectedness, given by (1), correctly declares white noise uninteresting, as its value s at a given time is hard to describe but also equally hard to generate (since a white noise amounts to a uniform lottery), and therefore U(s) = 0.
Following definition (1), some situations can be ‘more than expected’. For instance, if s is about the death last week of a 40-year old woman who lived in a far place hardly known to the observer, then U(s) is likely to be negative, as the minimal description of the woman will exceed in length the minimal parameter settings that the world requires to generate her death. If death is compared with a uniform lottery, then Cw(s) is the number of bits required to ‘choose’ the week of her death: Cw(s)  log2(52×40) = 11 bits. If we must discriminate the woman among all currently living humans, we need C(s) = log2(7×109 ) = 33 bits, and U(s) = 11 – 33 = –22 is negative. Relevant situations are unexpected situations.

s is relevant if U(s) = Cw(s) – C(s) > 0 (2)

Relevant situations are thus simpler to describe than to generate. In our previous example, this would happen if the dying woman lives in the vicinity, or is an acquaintance, or is a celebrity. Relevance is detected either because the world generates a situation that turns out to be simple for the observer, or because the situation that is observed was thought by the observer to be ‘impossible’ (i.e. hard to generate).

In other contexts, some authors have noticed the relation between interestingness and unexpectedness [9, 16], or suggested that the originality of an idea could be measured by the complexity of its description using previous knowledge ([10], p. 545). All these definitions compare the complexity of the actual situation s to some reference, which represents the observer’s expectations. For instance, the notion of randomness deficiency ([8], ch. 4 p. 280) compares actual situation to the output of a uniform lottery. The present proposal differs by making the notion of expectation (here: generation) explicit, and by contrasting its complexity Cw(s) with description complexity C(s).
The hardware doesn't need to go to waste.

At that point, cut all its connections from the Internet and use it as a dumb panel. Many people will say you should have never connected it in the first place anyway.

You can alway use a streamer box (custom Linux one, Apple TV, Fire Stick, etc) to give it "smarts".
The best is the simplest screens and tents. There are ones that can surround your whole bed.
Stop using Google if you want to promote alternatives.

Otherwise you're just rationalising freeloader behaviour.
Yes, I agree a sentiment against having more children is dominant mainstream. My experience has been that more and more people are ignoring this sentiment and going after it.

It’s an idividual thing and for myself I’m grateful to have as many kids as God gives me.
This depends on your definition of good. This seems to be an article aimed at clueless decision makers to persuade them to keep them in the IBM realm. It has all the good messages like IBM got an AI tool for you. You love mainframes. You are not in a dead end where programmers are retiring faster than you can hire replacements and migration is impossible as the remaining crew can't support the additional effort for making the change.

> scheduled for release in the fourth quarter, is designed

> Refactoring COBOL to Java is a difficult process that can take decades and often fails. IBM expects the AI tool will speed the process by an order of magnitude.

The good news with AI is that you usually get an answer even if it is impossible. And the company which way back was taken to court for it's vaporware can now point to the AI providing a schedule which will be impossible to implement. Either that or the DEA should raid it as someone is smoking something illegal there promising 10x schedule compression.
A decent question, I've wondered about Rust programs on openwrt but at the moment they're just too big! Linking the stdlib into every binary doesn't help, and the code is generally larger than the C equivalent. It doesn't seem unsolvable though, I'm hopeful. no_std rust binaries can be near competitive with C.

Binary size is sometimes a big deal. Two decades ago I investigated using C++ for an "embedded" linux ssh server, but decided the 30kB overhead was too large (target was a 4MB laptop). The server ended up being used in OpenWRT and other places, I'm curious if it would have happened if I'd gone with C++ instead.
Maintaining the System: how software update has changed
> you have to go pretty much bare metal to actually be lightweight

And yet here we are discussing WhatsApp which notably used Erlang, and I would not call BEAM particularly lightweight thing.
This is obviously a random coincidence - but there are ancient structures here in Scotland that were processed using fire - so called "vitrified forts" - where large quantities of rock were partially melted - how or why being a complete mystery.

So what's that got to do with Scotland? Well, Scots myths claim an origin in Scythia of all places which is pretty much in the area covered by the map in this article!
Before airbnb, the idea was crazy that you’d let strangers into your home. It’s still kind of crazy because one stranger could damage and ruin the experience for everybody.

Similarly one host could ruin it for everybody.

The lesson from Airbnb over and over again is that they choose profits over a consistent guest experience.

Airbnb support is like Google, they really do leave you in the cold if you don’t know an insider.

Uber/lyft have a faaaaar faaaar more consistent experience. It’s not perfect but much better than taxis.

AirBnb has NOT been better than hotels. Pictures and actual place could be off, many fees tacked on, easily lose thousands if you don’t like the place. Customer support will acknowledge the problem but don’t do much to fix it.
Maybe it's not a trap but it's certainly a way to exert influence.

https://cepa.org/comprehensive-reports/chinese-influence-in-...
> They pay the creators per impression even if you block the ads.

this is false. if they can’t show the ad they won’t pay the content creator.