skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can't help much without a raw packet. Can you get a capture from the firewall?

Or failing that, setup some other way to capture packets (does iOS do reverse tethering? or you can setup a different wifi access point and capture packets between that and the firewall, etc)
As you note in your edit; we already have to watch for that pitfall :)

so really the best way out is to be as verbose as possible imo; a = a + c or auto nodep = *nodepp; nodep->next;

Compilers and compute performance have grown to make the difference negligible for code output and compilation times but they definitely take a lot of mental complexity out of such scenarios (anything helps when grokking 10k+ lines of code).
Peter Singers founding ideas, sure.

Will MacAskill, nope.
Api longa, sprinta brevis
Potentially the same way it knows how to translate concepts with no mappings in that language pair in the dataset. Like i said, not every language in an LLM's corpus has something in another language to map to.
Ask HN: What does the world need from software engineers now?
I’m at big tech making rich people richer. I feel that poverty is one of the biggest problems in America and I don’t really feel anything I do directly, or at least with a large impact, helps resolve of those issues at a macro level. In fact, I’d wager 100% of work all my friends in software do doesn’t directly resolve necessity problems in the world today.

My question is.. are there problems we NEED software engineers for BADLY today? What are they? How to break into the area?

I’m 28 and would like to know if I should spend my time pursuing other fields like law and policy to help improve the world instead of writing software at big tech
If you find pleasure in something that gives you pain, you're a masochist. A sadist likes inflicting pain onto others. Since you seem that you like helping people I'd say it's more likely you're the former. I appreciate the mutool advice!
I assume you mean intellectual property rights, not physical property rights?
"on hand" being metaphorical here, because if you actually have anywhere near that amount of cash some cop could civil asset forfeiture you.
Spray can vegetable oil is labeled like this. 0 calorie label because each spray's caloric content is below the threshold. Even though we know that oil is 9 calories per gram.
> But I can proudly and honestly say I’ve never been sanctioned by a court for filing anything frivolous.”

What a noble man
Yep, it absolutely sucks. And while the average person in this circumstance has some limited recourse, they certainly have no guarantee of being made whole.

But here’s the rub: I’ve seen very intelligent people run up against the legal system before - some civil cases, some criminal. The ones that came out well were the ones that realized their opponent was an uncaring machine designed to grind people into dust in a competition whose rules they found alien. The others thought they didn’t need an attorney, and that their intellect would carry the day.

Totally unfair. Biased against plenty of disadvantaged people, even. Sucks, but them’s the breaks.
It is highly possible to take a whole day the first time you cook something new. Being a good cook is as much about managing time and processes as it is learning the recipe.

The more you cook something the quicker it is.

There are many shortcuts, such as:

- cooking rice in the evening before.

- Cooking extra.

- Using a pressure-cooker.

- Using a mini oven.

- Using the griller for more heat.

- Sometimes using the microwave to pre cook things can lead to faster times. (Not often for me).

- Purchasing partially prepared items. Pre cut carrots etc.

- Using a deep fryer.
> When I propose living in urban areas and eating a lot less meat

Yep, that's on track with degrowth. The whole question then is: how much do we need to remove? Realistically, given how much we need to cut our CO2 emissions in the next couple of decades for hoping to keep the climate in a "bearable" state (as per our climate models which more and more appear to be optimistic themselves), we will have to remove a lot of stuff.

> Your idea of "doing less" seems to entail something more, can you give some examples.

Aviation has to mostly go away. Most meat, most fishing too. Individual cars in cities need to completely go away (at least in countries that can possibly do it, e.g. all of Europe) and public transportation has to be dramatically increased everywhere. In the countryside, people will probably still need small electric cars to compensate for the lack of public transportation.

We need to electrify trucks (because they bring food into cities), that's much more important than cars (not that it's easy to remove cars, but if we remove trucks, cities starve).

Cities should not be too big, they need to stop growing (same thing, it takes energy to bring food there). All buildings need to be properly isolated (for heat/cold).

IT needs to change. We don't need 5G to watch TikTok on our brand new smartphone in the bus. We don't need clouds for everything, not everything has to always be connected/tracked/serving ads, we don't need AI for everything, we don't need every single commit to run a CI on the cloud on 50 machines, etc. To me, this all says "we need to make good IT that makes sense", and as a developer I would like that. Since I started programming, I feel like IT has become a big joke of for-profit bullshit.

Because of the reduction of fossil fuels, importations will go down. We need to deal with that. Produce what's most important locally.

Globally it means degrowth, GDP will go down. But that does not mean going back to Middle Age. We can find a new number to optimize other than GDP, try to teach people that ultra-consumerism is not making them happier (it's actually killing us all), and there is a lot to do (typically the bike industry should go up, there will be job there, etc).
China isn't a problem, losing profit is.
Small trucks full of tiny packages.
Pretty awesome project, cool to show what can be done downscaling and running a customized game engine with the original assets like this. Cool!
Ammonia si-quat compounds already do this.
Definitely. CAD in the browser? WASM. High-end photographic computation in the browser? WASM. Pretty much everything else… not WASM
Same with brass and copper - copper has an antimicrobial effect in the same way.
As someone who learns quickly and gets bored this has been true.

I went very deep into a few products used by the Enterprises and Open source community. So deep as to read their source, their associated library source, and talk to their SMEs and partners.

If you can do beyond Tier 2 or 3 without being employed, you can leverage that knowledge to adjacent realms.

Now my questions require "that one person" on the internal product design teams to answer.

I have never been "known at the city's gates" but for one or two products I am.
> I wonder if there's any good data on the sentencing for cable theft broken down by race.

If there were, that would arguably be good content for HN.

In the absence of such data, completely baseless allegations of systemic racism are ideological flamewar and do not belong here.
There is more than just their first sentence.
But it’s not new. It’s been around for years. And I’m not really aware of any real uses on the web.

Other people in these comments have mentioned using it as an extension mechanism to other applications. That’s nice.

But what browsers use it internally? What popular JS/TS libraries? What big websites?

It seems Figma does, but I had to Google to find that.

It’s an interesting idea, but it feels a bit like VRML or something else so far. “It’s going to take off, just give it time.”

Some things will. Some won’t. But WASM doesn’t seem to provide enough above JS to overcome the “we can just use JS” hurdle for the vast majority of uses so far.
I said you have no clue about engineering, not about basic physics. There is a big difference between saying "but Proxima Centauri is a nuclear fusion reactor producing a ton of energy" and actually leveraging it.
> And that once they're in China, they lose that ability?

They partially do. The communism power structure is always a debuff. Loyality > Skills.
Building an Engineering Team: Remote, Local, or Hybrid
Yeah I was specifically considering that reducing the "windiness" of an area would increase the temperature

> A 2018 study estimated that generating electricity demand with wind power in the United States would warm surface temperatures by 0.24 degrees Celsius

https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/wind/wi...
A global cooling system is easily conceivable. The ISS uses radiators to dissipate heat into outer space. We could do the same. We could concentrate heat with heat pumps and pump hot steam, molten salt, or plasma up a space elevator and radiate the heat away.

Edit: The link points out that in 1,400 years we'd be using energy at the rate produced by the sun and in 2,500 years at the rate of the entire Milky Way. Even if we solved the heat radiation problem, it seems unlikely we'd be able to obtain fuel for our fusion reactors at a sufficient rate given the speed of light and the density of matter in the universe.
While the author is of course correct in his assessment, I do wonder if he is doing the same thing. Certainly his point could be better or at least simpler made without such a "dramatic" attack on storytelling. Stories make us less intelligent?!! Easy does it lad!
Also seems funny that author does not actually have first-hand experience of working or managing folks at Apple.
Surely if you don't hit, you can keep looking. Unless it's actually impossible for some reason.
One problem with "grow quickly, then switch", is that it often leads to high-growth institutions, factions, ideologies, and infrastructure.

Countries which grow quickly bake those assumptions into financial, industrial, economic, and political policies. They create companies, regulatory bodies, and financial systems which are predicated on growth. They create economic ideology and the mechanisms for promulgating it which are founded on growth. They create development patterns (most especially of urban land use --- the most massive impact of the automobile was on city and suburban landscapes), and consumption patterns.

Once entrenched, those are all exceedingly difficult to dislodge.

I'd argue that China is wrestling with this now, and that a fair bit of the disruption of the past few years (above and beyond exogenous shocks, notably Covid-19) involve this, as the CCP attempts to wrest power back from industrial, financial, and real estate interests.

Some European countries (notably the Netherlands and Amsterdam with its bicycle- and transit-centric transport planning), Japan, and possibly others such as Costa Rica, seem to have followed a lower-growth curve. These may actually find transition more viable.

At the capital of capitalism, the United States, transition faces absolutely massive obstructions in the form of politics, politics-expressed-as-social-values, economic interests, finance, real estate, land use, transportation, building codes (residential, commercial, and industrial), and more. Those are far more significant obstructions than actual technical solutions, and the more illuminating advocates of sustainability that I follow tend to emphasize this.

(I'll list these later, though I'm still waiting for XorNot to cough up. I'll give them a few more hours.)
Did Apple’s PR department write this? Like, I know they didn’t, because they’re not this stupid, but still this blog post has literally no substance. Apple has insane amounts of burnout. It’s also a large company. Some engineers surely get a ton of freedom to work on things. A lot of them get told that a feature is shipping at WWDC next year and whatever they complete by then is going on stage.
I remember getting a cease-and-desist letter, registered mail, from @Home because I was running a server off of my cable modem. Still, it was pretty amazing at the time! A 3 megabit connection (only 128K upstream, IIRC) in 1998 was nothing to sneeze at...
Having done a recent refactor + redesign of my personal website, I echo with this sentiment. It's much easier to go live sooner and do incremental improvements than launch everything all at once.
I don’t think the parent post was engaging in an ideological flame war. As a way to start educating yourself, I’d recommend reading about the correlation between long jail sentences and African American heritage.

https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/publications/racial-d...

(Edit: this DOJ report is more relevant to the time period of the article. https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/sfc-drmtsg8690.pdf)

Deny the bad sides of America all you want, but given US history, the parent presents a very likely hypothesis.
Non-GMO. This just means it doesn't have corn or soybeans.

Gluten free. No wheat.

All natural. This means nothing at all. The makers of 7-Up claim soda is natural because the enzymes used to make high fructose corn syrup are natural.

Fat Free. Probably lots of sugar.

No High Fructose Corn Syrup. Uses sugar instead of HFCS.

No MSG. MSG isn't harmful.

No nitrates. Often they just use "celery juice" which is naturally high in nitrates.

I once saw "dehydrated cane juice" listed instead of sugar. Come on!
Chinchilla's death has been greatly exaggerated. This article makes the same mistake as in the original GPT-3 scaling law of extrapolating from mid-training loss curves- but most of the loss improvement in the middle of training comes from simply dropping the learning rate to reduce the effective noise level from stochastic gradients.

If we want to judge the effectiveness of long-training small models, we need to look at _final_ loss as a function of compute, adjusting our LR schedule to token budget as we spend more compute, and then extrapolate on that curve- _not_ the training curve for a fixed budget. Another way to put it: you can't drop LR below 0, and LR schedule drives the shape of the training curve, so it doesn't make sense to extrapolate a curve beyond the end of training.

Of course, the overall point that long training produces gains holds true and Chinchilla says nothing about this- it only aims to minimize training compute.
And in Santa Fe, NM, and in Minneapolis, MN, and in many other cities and towns all over the country. If you want to get into it, find a chunk of iron for an anvil (railroad section, the anvil on a vice, even a sledgehammer held fast), a pair of pliers or anything to hold the hot metal, a hammer, and some nails; get a wood fire extra hot by blowing into it through a metal tube (curtain rod with the seam taped), can even build a fire on the end of a log and coax it to burn down into a bowl of coals, heat the nail until it's at least cherry red, and start banging away to get a feel for shaping the temperature-dependent "clay".

I gave away most of my blacksmithing equipment, but until I die I'll keep the wonderful feeling of shaping metal.
No doubt that career ladder could be easily gamed.

But, it is the best that we have and on average it works.

Rephrasing Churchill:

"No one pretends that career ladder is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that career ladder is the worst form of building hierarchy in the company except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…"

What are other, presumably better, ways to build a hierarchy in the company that has 1000+ people?
What you are describing basically just what all historians do. All historians are "debunkers," because to be doing novel research, they have to be disputing prior claims about their historical field of interest. e.g. Bulstrode is here "debunking" (incorrectly, it seems) the prevailing story about Cort's ironmaking progress.
Coincidentally, or not? A research team just started a 90 day effort to train a 1.1 billion parameter llama model on 3 trillion tokens.

https://github.com/jzhang38/TinyLlama
I actually think that a lot of the problem is the fact that "cable theft" is a class of crime all on its own!

"Sometimes, operators turn on a signal by accident or forget to deactivate it after a tenant stops a cable subscription. People are liable for any services they use in this way and it is generally advisable to contact the cable company to report an unexpected cable signal"

https://www.mylawquestions.com/what-is-cable-theft.htm

That's absurd, it can only be the result of corruption.
If the US military has such a good interviewing process then how do we keep ending up with generals who lose wars? Back during WW2 they fired or promoted officers based primarily on battlefield performance, which eventually worked pretty well for eliminating the incompetent.
> That's usually a major checkpoint for a programming language maturing no?

It depends on the goals of the language. Of course, compiler writers tend to be (relative) fans of their language, so they might want to use it more than might be wise.

But eg I wouldn't want to write _any_ compiler in C or Fortran or Cobol. That includes not wanting to write C, Fortran or Cobol compilers in these languages.

(But I think any language that you might want to write a compiler in should have algebraic data types and pattern matching at the very least, especially these days.)

Somewhat ironically, writing a Python compiler in Python would be an ok idea, but writing a Python interpreter in Python is probably not a good one.
Hardcore vim user with UHK here. I actually love that the caps lock key is remapped to esc in the firmware, so I always have the Esc where I expect it on any computer I plug it in (this is not unique to UHK of course).
In fact on the UHK, there is no "caps lock" key, it reads "mouse".
Yes, I missed that, sorry! You’re correct.
No it doesn't in most of the places we're talking about, that's the whole point.

Most places aren't Venice, built on islands with nowhere to expand, and wanting to preserve their ancient architecture. And NYC, where AirBNB is about to be massively reduced, doesn't have any risk of being hollowed out into a shell.

Most places should just build more housing. Then locals aren't priced out at all. That's just supply and demand, basic economics.
Has the Singapore model lost its shine?
Maybe there are power features or something which makes Notepad++ better, but for my usage Kate (https://kate-editor.org/) fits the same niche.

Fast startup and good UI for quick edits on individual files. But it has enough features to technically be an IDE (including LSP integration apparently)
As a fanfiction writer, I find the entitlement of authors and corporations over work that I created gross. I transformed their work into something else, advertising the original work and making a bigger market for it, and in exchange we get C&Ds and copyright claims. Someone writes a reskin of The Odyssey and then a corporation claims every derivative for 75 years.
It depends if "preservatives" means butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT). Some may not consider salt a "preservative."
I thought and continue to think early Clancy is excellent — basically everything that became a movie with Harrison Ford or Alec Baldwin, plus “Red Storm Rising” — but even before he brought in the ghost authors, his reactionary politics started to get in the way of the stories. Yeah yeah, I can stand a feckless Democratic pol who just cares about getting elected as a dramatic fool/foil, but as I recall his last solo works went way beyond that and just got kind of tediously offensive for anyone who didn’t share his particular politics (even accounting for the typical politics of the average writer of military fiction).

It was actually kind of a surprising turn, because Tom Clancy on TV on the day of 9/11 was one of the most level-headed commentators about the vast majority of Muslims (i.e., not terrorists). And there’s a video of him presenting at the NSA in the mid ‘80s that shows him to be a very bright, very funny, very personable guy. Got the sense that in his later years, American politics just started to make him angry, and in my view it adversely affected his work.

But at his peak, he was damn fine at his craft.
Trees are also nice places to rest under during farm work.
> If you want to do something incredible, sacrifices often need to be made.

As mentioned in another comment if you’re not a founder this is a waste of your time.

You’ll be better off and will make significantly more comp at a public company / FAANG if you want to work this hard for someone else.

This philosophy is what founders sell to young engineers to burn them out for peanuts and pizza while the founders get an OK exit if they’re lucky.
I do the same thing.

The way I try and address this is by basically turning off my inhibitions on my first pass of anything. Literally just start spewing stuff, whether its code or writing a tweet or blog post, making a presentation, etc. Then my second pass is with a much more critical eye and I start editing or reworking big chunks.

Rinse and repeat! Has been working for me.
I think that if you were trying to decode one of those languages you would take the same approach and observe coordination behavior, “there is a deer to our left” -> tribe goes left.

You need to start somewhere. Maybe you would never be able to decode the non-functional communication without a Rosetta Stone or common language root.

The point is that at least some of language needs to cash out into a description of the physical world. I’d argue almost all of it, even in modern societies.
I did some work for a civil engineer with a professional engineer credential. He worked as an expert witness and on the interpretation of ASME code for boilers and pressure vessels. He could turn around a report on a code interpretation in hours to a day or two for around $50k USD. He had/has about a $15M home and never hurt for coin.
Data Exfiltration in Chatbots: ChatGPT, Bing Chat and Claude [video]
> The main issue China has is just that they have a population decline problem which will continue to get worse over the next 50 years

cough Industrial Revolution cough Black Death cough
Yep. You listed all the bullet points. It's incredible how few managers will actually even discuss what engineers actually want.
The way many a wokist agenda sucks out live of something fun.
I guess it really did depend on the mood and demeanor of whatever technician got sent out on a given day.

Back in those same years, it was a painful, nonstop pendulum swing every month-or-two, between a) cripplingly unusable internet, and b) working Internet but with absolutely every channel unlocked for free.

Everytime something happened that required a technician to come out while it was in state "b", it always triggered a stern talking to to teenage-me from a tech and them putting the filter back on and ruining the Internet again until finally the next time another tech presumably couldn't fix it without again removing the filter. I frequently had successive visits that left me stranded in state "a".

Comcast, man.
This reminds me of when the FBI caught a child kidnapper using a blurred street sign.

Law Enforcement and Search & Rescue would be smart to hire these people
Don’t read the article before commenting? I’m way ahead of you. :)
The desire is to be able to freely install apps on device with an Apple CPU that fits in your pocket. You can't build your own phone with one, because they won't sell you the CPU by itself. You can't use the CPU in a Mac for that, because it's soldered to something that won't fit in your pocket. So you're left with an iPhone, with a troll bridge between the user and the app developer.
Yes. You can talk to whales. Will they understand us or will we understand them? That's a different question.