skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw that movie too. I think is based on a book though.
As far as I can tell the pizza places near me use regular cardboard, so the threat mentioned in this article (ie. plastic coatings) is a non-issue.
Reminds me of a "bad trip" or OCD patterns. I sometimes think about how little it takes to derail the human mind, by trauma or ontogenically, and how wishful the idea of a human-like AI then seems.
A senior engineer can work through a hard problem assigned to a junior engineer, resulting in a well-implemented hard feature and a less junior engineer. Just because a junior engineer is working on it doesn’t mean by default it’s an easy problem—how are you going to grow your engineers otherwise?
Yep. The asinine requirement that we regurgitate what has already been reported to the government offends and steals from every U.S. taxpayer.
Other vehicles don't work this way. That's why it seems to be a strange design choice.
Yes - we've changed the URL to that from https://web.archive.org/web/20070117233154/https://www.there... now. Thanks!

Submitters: it's suitable to post archive links in comments but not as submissions—so please don't submit archive links unless you've googled around for a current rendition of the article and have satisfied yourself that there's really no other way.
> I'm going to map it all out, then tackle it in smaller chunks. I'll hit the easy, quick tasks first

I didn't even get into coping mechanisms, but breaking things down into lists helps a lot. I am a one-man team at work but I still do stories and tasks and epics just to give a sense of progression.

I taught at a summer camp over the summer helping kids make games and all of the boys had serious attention issues, using a physical task board with sticky notes helped keep them on track and prevented them from losing morale.

> maybe those small wins will give me the motivation to tackle the bigger tasks

It sounds like you know exactly what to do. Usually I find starting is the hardest part, once I'm deep in the task it becomes effortless.

Finally, I wanna say that introspection is really helpful. I got diagnosed as a kid and never got medicated or anything, I never gave ADHD any thought until recently when I did some introspection and tried to understand /why/ I operated the way that I did, and how I could work around that. Asking why X was so easy but Y seems so hard is usually a good place to start. Good luck!
I'll never understand peoples' obsession with equating telemetry with spyware. As an application developer, I need to know that my application is working appropriately for my users. It's not sufficient to rely on manual bug reports. If someone doesn't like that, then that's perfectly fine in my opinion. Just don't use the product. To accuse an application developer of spying on users is a bit much imo.
I have struggled to find work my entire life, but people like this get jobs. I hate life
For those people it’s pretty automatic as it is, even free.
Why do you have the intuition that a dense embedding space could preserve full semantic meaning? From what I understand from embeddings is that they are inherently lossy. At least with a textual summary you could have an agent verify the summary actually accurately represents the information that it's meant to summarize.
its also may be limited on iops/s. you _can_ really just work with latency, but you need to consider the pipeline depth.
1. What you’re asking for (“The option … where the device encrypts files before uploading them to iCloud, iCloud may scan the encrypted bits anyway to do their legal duty, and that's the end of the story.”) is impossible.

2. The division you envisage (“The software running on the phone should be representing the owner of the phone, period.”) is wishful thinking. Do you think the JavaScript in your browser does only things in your interest?
Back then you could use what phones were available from your carrier. There was no such thing as BYOD. You had to have the carrier support the Apple device and that was only possible through the AT&T deal. Without that deal the iPhone would have died a quick death as it wouldn't be usable.
Also, defining something as <X> doesn't necessarily cause it to be that, but with adequate ~training[1] (basically, cultural beliefs and behavioral norms) it can make it appear as such. This phenomenon surrounds us constantly, and is filtered out from our experience.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect
Re-Imagining the Command Line Interpreter
I don't know about you, but I don't tend to have breakfast and lunch over Zoom.

While I did go out to lunch with coworkers more often while working in the office it was almost exclusively with direct teammates, and other groups I occasionally saw where also on the same team.

Now that I'm fully remote, I will typically do a few "hacking sessions" over Zoom every week. Its much easier and more comfortable than standing over their shoulder in tiny cubes we used to have.

That said, especially now that i am fully remote, I've been trying and mostly failing to get developers especially across teams to talk and collaborate more. But its not too suprising: I was recently in a call and I was introduced to another developer who I replied, "Yeah, I know you. I was in the cube next to you for 2 years and on your team for 6 months."

Remote creates some new challenges, but its a culture thing, not a technology thing.
In my experience, the best raises are from getting a new job. What were raises like for your engineers that stuck around for 10-20 years?
- "should be holding Amazon responsible for deliberately creating a situation where it obfuscates culpability"

I'll be the unpopular downvoted guy and propose that it's actually a *dumb idea* to regulate the buying and selling of books, and to invent new forms of liability like "the bookstore didn't "vet" the books they were selling and therefore they're legally liable for the various consequences of people reading their wares". I think that's reactionary, illiberal, and destructive: and I think it will misfire. I don't want bookstores to empty their shelves of anything remotely "is this maybe theoretically dangerous in any context some rich person might sue us". I don't want a world of empty bookshelves; I don't want a censored, bowdlerized world where books are "banned by default" until they're proven "safe". I rather a vibrant, fearless marketplace of unregulated books, many of which *are* shit—but that's always how it was. This new, temporary emergency is neither.

We live, and we should live, in a culture that's fearless to speak and write and publish and bookmonger, and it's really dangerous to attack that foundation of liberal society which we depend on, just to go after one bad guy that's the villain of the moment.

("And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?")
I think i’m missing something here, could you not just mmap() the file in and let the kernel take care of memory pressure for you?
Have you ever seen an organization filled with service-oriented employees and no doers? Zero-interest rate policy has lead to having more Senior Director of Jira Board Management and Lists of Tasks type roles and not enough people that can do the work. I'm not opposed to the idea that others can be a catalyst for the productivity of others, but you need the others for anything to get done, otherwise it's necrosis.
Ask HN: Alternative News Websites/Feeds
I'm looking for news or feeds that would allow me to mark news as read, so I only get new things. Most news websites or aggregators like google news have really little change over a day or two. Something else related I was looking for would be something like delayed news where I would get the important news from like 7 days ago (so unverified or unsure information would be naturally reduced). I don't mind if it has a fee if that removes ads. And I don't want partisan sources.
Recent and related:

Ask HN: Is SICP/HtDP still worth reading in 2023? Any alternatives? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36802579 - July 2023 (98 comments)
Or like a metal coffee pot
Not very good. These were highly skilled engineers that could easily have commanded better salaries, elsewhere.

That meant they stayed for other reasons.

I wonder what those reasons could be?
Not in the originating Mulder's case.
At what point do you saddle it with morals? Or test for evil?
All I had to do was read the title of this article and the first sentence to understand that this is an example of what's wrong with the software development industry. I would rather work with people that act like good people and are human, than to work for the idiots measuring your every breath looking for a reason to fire you.
Yes, I've seen some good articles about how just some basic terraforming can make a huge difference of how much ends up in the aquifer. A bit more could really help.
Interesting! I saw it as illustrating that computation (or some act of "deciding" in the abstract) takes energy and is subject to thermodynamics. But then as consciousness and computation have some kind of relationship, there must be thermodynamic implications of consciousness.
There were fascinating protests against footbridges when first created in London, as the people felt they were losing their priority against the car. I copied out these notes from the book Leadville about the history of the A40 and the building of the first footbridge here https://www.flickr.com/photos/justincormack/256217251

The Bridge of Fools, the first footbridge over a road in Britain

In 1938 the inhabitants started to protest about the rising death toll on Western Avenue, the "Avenue of Speed and Death". They petitioned the Ministry of Transport to impose a speed limit of twenty-five or thirty miles an hour. The ministry said that would be an "ingenious provision" to save lives, but it would be against "the whole object of constructing a road free from congested traffic".

On 21 July 1938 the protestors filed across Western Avenue from the Approach, and then back, causing a huge tailback. The next day the Ministry arranged to build two bridges, one here and one by Gipsy Corner, much to the disgust of the protestors, who thought it would encourage cars to drive faster and to force pedestrians off more roads onto bridges and subways. A week later a thousand people demonstrated again for "their right to cross on the level".

In September the hastily erected bridge was complete, and five hundred people demonstrated against it again. The bridge became a tourist attraction and it was "quite usual to see people from other districts coming to look at it".

In October torchlight processions were held on the road every evening for a week, with a dog with a red light attached to it and four bearers carrying a coffin, and placards saying "We want crossings not coffins".

The war brought and end to the protests, and for a few years the traffic.

from Leadville: A Biography of the A40 by Edward Platt
Shooting down a NYPD drone because they’re trying to see if you’re having a big party is a good way to become a career criminal. Involuntarily.
> the pro-Elon crowd shrink and get quieter

Source?

> he really has been screwing up bad, and in ways that are indefensible by anyone with common sense.

Examples?
In 2000 there was a storm like this starting Monday afternoon. So most people left before or during the start. I think there was only 500 that were stuck for a few days. Since then I've always been aware this could happen. One of my friends was up there and bailed out yesterday for that reason.

One of my long term thoughts about the event is the BLM really needs to require those guys to buy and install ground protection mats to put on their gate road. Probably cost $300k for a mile of the stuff or $10 per participant.
The comment I replied to

>> Most phone manufacturers have since added a prompt asking the user if they’ll allow data to be exchanged.

>And doing it badly. I am sometimes using external keyboard connected via a charging hub. The Android phone happily accepts keyboard input regardless of "charge only" setting.

I'm pointing out that "data transfer" claim is technically true (ie. a keyboard does transfer data), but not the threat that the article describes (ie. file/media transfer). You can certainly pull off some sort of an attack with only keyboard/mouse input, but it's far harder to pull off and much more obvious.
How many millions of people go mushroom hunting?
I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say here: what policies being denounced by economists you follow?
The shop I go to offers a 50¢ discount to people who bring their own coffee cup. It's not that hard from a hygiene perspective: they have the cashier (who is already handling "dirty" money) walk over and fill the cup.

(I drink black coffee so I don't know if that applies to the specialty drinks; those are made by someone else.)
And to add: in spring time many Finns pick a deadly poisonous mushroom (Gyromitra esculenta) and boil it 2x5min to remove the poison and cook it as a delicassy after that. Never heard anyone get poisoned by it.
Comes with grit.
Given the NYPD’s track record of abuse, I wouldn’t even say ‘inevitably’ and just go to ‘shortly’, or even just go with ‘already occurring but so far successfully covered up’. Based on their historical track record anyway.
The people I feel for are the ones that change countries and mistake a deadly lookalike for what is an edible mushroom in their country.

Google is letting me down but I believe something like this happened to a Vietnamese family in the UK.
I filed 2022 taxes with FreeTaxUSA. Pricing was very reasonable ($15 total for fed and state combined). The interface was better than I expected for such a low cost service.

Prior to FreeTaxUSA, I used TaxSlayer, H&R Block, and Intuit. Intuit does surprise me by charging roughly the same as a CPA firm but for a "do it yourself" service.
Oddly, I'm getting a server not found for archive.ph.
Is Calligra still under active development?

The last stable point release was over 3 years ago.
I've always loved looking at books and bags in thrift stores for that kind of stuff.
The geography of South Korea seems to help. Typhoons collect into snow on the rocky mountains, that melt throughout the year into clearly defined rivers without much penetration into soil. There is an ecological buffer that some parts of India don't have to maintain levels of drinking water throughout the year.
> There is a contingent of Congress that does not want to make tax preparation easier because it aligns with their narrative that taxes are bad. The more painful tax preparation is, the more sympathy they find with this narrative.

I’m guessing you’re making a thinly-veiled reference to Republicans being the ones holding this up. Congress has had Democrat control many times over the decades, they could have pushed this through any time. Perhaps both parties share blame here.
putin assassinating people who displease him is not even remotely a new trend
I disagree with exactly that: I watched the intro live as someone in the industry (so it isn't "history" to me), and I and many others, including Andy Rubin [0], definitely saw it as a paradigm shift at the time, for the two reasons I stated. BTW, it was also a common belief in the industry that the emphasis on web applications was basically a smokescreen, because the SDK was not ready and Steve didn't want to focus attention on something that didn't exist yet.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/20/5229618/android-started-...
Recent and related:

Paper cups are just as toxic as plastic cups - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37259619 - Aug 2023 (87 comments)
The Way to Succeed in Learning
Hey, if the 1990s DEC hardware still works, and it'd be more expensive to change it...

There are PDP-11s running nuclear plants today with support contracts to keep them running until 2050.

PDP-11s.
This article discusses the potential dangers of entrusting artificial intelligence (AI) with the task of determining truth. The authors argue that AI chatbots lack transparency and can be influenced by biased training data. They highlight the risks of AI systems being perceived as the ultimate arbiters of truth, which can lead to misinformation and manipulation. The article emphasizes the importance of human discernment in establishing truth and warns against the potential Orwellian nature of ultra-intelligent chatbots. The authors advocate for a focus on AI safety and ensuring that technologies work for human benefit.
> We recommend Microsoft Word for rich text documents like .doc and .rtf

Doesn’t Office require a paid license on top of the Windows license, unlike WordPad?
The horrifying part of this is

> Instead we would measure stories delivered, or it may have been story points (it turns out it doesn’t matter), because these represented business value. We were using something like Jira, and people would put their name against stories, which made it super easy to generate these productivity metrics.

I have never worked anywhere where middle management measured individual engineers via issue-tracker metrics. That seems almost implausibility dysfunctional. It’s not just measuring a hilariously wrong thing at the wrong level of granularity, it’s also disempowering the line manager from evaluating their own people. Is this a real thing companies do?
> environmentally good

> drive-thru

So which one?
https://db.cs.cmu.edu/mmap-cidr2022/
I've done guerrilla repairs to things, one time I replaced a missing screw on a revolving door, because I knew otherwise it would never happen. I replaced a ton of missing screws in some seats at a laundromat, I can't stand to see things that only need a minute of attention and a dollar worth of parts just accumulating around me in the world. I refactor things without permission, but only small, easy to undo refactors.

I'm stuck at home now, with nothing but spare time, so I've embarked on a massive refactoring project... if it works, it'll be awesome... if not, I'll have learned a few new things about the problem domain. The itch that triggered it is simple...

"Almost all of the transistors in a computer, at any given instant, are just waiting"
You’ll still need cops in some form. Either civilian vigilantes, or a uniformed force. Too many people for anything else, frankly.

Even if you’re just trying to prevent the inevitable civilian vigilante groups from terrorizing people!
The state of optimus-manager explained by it's developer
Where in the EU was this? I don't think I've seen individually wrapped fruits be the standard for any of the 5-10 european countries I've been to (or the one I'm living in).

Certain things are wrapped (primarily cucumbers and similar), but that is just for more perishable things shipped in from the other side of the world and is for shelf life, not hygenics.
Was your comment written by an AI? If so, kudos to you, sir, for recursive irony!
Sounds like my grandfather of the same era. He wired up bomber control panels during WWII and was apparently quite skilled at it. He was a Jack of all trades, but he was primarily an electrician and a locksmith, though he did all kinds of tinkering in his garage and kept his ancient cars running. I stayed with my grandparents one summer when I was in Jr High. He took me out on electrician jobs where he'd have me fetch tools and wire. On one of them the inspector showed up and my grandpa introduced me to him. The inspector told me "I can always tell when Mel has wired up a panel - it's a work of art."

People from that era had to endure a lot of hardship - the depression, WWII. They often grew up on farms. This gave them a lot of experience with fixing and growing things. All around useful skills that most of us don't have anymore.
How is $90 Million spent in lobbying activity? Where does the money go?

Answer: https://www.opensecrets.org/news/reports/layers-of-lobbying
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media
So the Mexican military claims to use to track cartels yet in practice use it against journalists and activists?!

Perhaps I just fail at reading yet that's what it reads like.
I don't disagree with you here, but the problem isn't just think tanks at this point, academics have been doing it as well, with university departments having their ideologies of choice for decades, and it's a self-reproducing situation since they select they students/researchers based on their views.
I'm no systems programmer, but I remember trying to research mmap approach. It's been 3 years, so I'm not sure what stopped me, but something didn't feel right. Perhaps it was the lack of control over how memory is used. I could clearly see how not use it, and didn't want any fluctuations.

Edit: oh and I think I did come across some article like the one linked in the neighbor comment. It's starting to come back.
Track that $90 million, and publicize where it landed. Lots of corrupt politicians and regulators. I mean, I'm sure the money has been "legally" spent...just not ethically. Legal loopholes are deliberately left open...
What an awful idea. If you reject school, just let your kid play. Don't try to replicate school, and especially not with VR.
I think the survivorship bias is strong in this thread. This is a normal flow though when we consider where we are. Because of this, my suggestion is not to let the opinions of people online (whoever well-read and educated they might be) to act as a guide on defining a smartphone policy that suits you and your children.

I also would advise that what I see here are a lot of straw man arguments - "discovered porn online? we had magazines and we turned out fine thus porn is fine". This is also a great example of where the two meet and create a very dangerous and incorrect (in my opinion) argument. The porn someone used to watch in a magazine would be limited to just that - a magazine. Static content that wouldn't change, that wouldn't gather information about you and at the end, you would be stuck with it for the foreseeable future until you would get your hands on another magazine. Online porn on the other hand watches what you watch, it creates recommendations and reinforces whatever behaviours you show to it in order to keep you engaged. It also has the nasty superpower of being there all the time, at any hour in any day and creating a self reinforcing cesspool that cannot and is not good for your development [1].

We're very quick to brush off that children just watch a few videos online and that those videos seem to only yield positive things, but the simple act of being always connected has negative downsides that have been studied. I feel like we're dealing with climate change discussions where we're still doing studies to figure out if it's really there. It is. It's really there. And so is the damage this always online society is doing to children, from their sleep [2], to their learning abilities and retention [3] as well as damage to self and body image [4].

These were all found in a quick search but the literature on this discussion in particular, the effects of technology and screens on younger people speaks for itself. It is damaging and just because we have 50-100 people who were fine, doesn't mean that the rest will be. They might be! Nothing might happen but that does not mean that the result is guaranteed and we should be so cavalier about dismissing any possible negative discussion around the topic.

It's also crucial to remember that in the end you cannot control what kids do. You can't. Just think of all the things you hid from your parents successfully. Now imagine that the thing they need to hide is just a browser tab.

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/08/sexual...
[2] - https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s... (there are other studies on this, this is just a review of existing studies)
[3] - https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/pen-and-paper-beat...
[4] - https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2023/02/social-media...
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37363674