skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose most people want to monetize everything. Articles about how you can monetize writing articles, so you write these articles about how you would monetize and the cycle never ends and the web because harder to navigate.
Now you need a clever app that filters through the BS.
> Dorfman's tone lacks the subtle disdain Dr. Crane has for his radio callers.

Kelsey Grammer I know was cast as "Sideshow Bob" on the Simpsons before he was a radio host in Frasier, but I always thought he brought a lot of the Frasier character to the Sideshow Bob character. The disdain manifesting of course as homicidal rage with Bob.
"The wallpaper must be original, created specifically for this contest, and released under the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license. Therefore no submissions using AI art will be accepted."

Fine KDE, be ignorant while lamenting for decades about Fear Uncertainty Doubt tactics by proprietary vendors.
Shades and Ivy Lab, plus anything on 1985 Records that clocks in at 85 bpm.
Exactly!

Look, RJ Reynolds was perfectly within their rights to market cigarettes to young children, and shops were within their rights to sell to young children. It’s not their job to parent children.

And if I want to open up a strip club across the street from the neighborhood public school, why should I be prevented by zoning laws? It’s not my responsibility to parent someone else's kids.
Also quality control of tech at places like Amazon and others like it is so poor. I’m not spending a $100+ to get fake or broken products.

Rather get my electronics at Best Buy, Target, or Apple Store whether in store or online.
best blog is from ran prieur - also a great source of other interesting blogs.
The problem with these kinds of websites is the user base is never "normal" people. Nor is it just a bunch of tech people, most don't even know these websites exist. It's people who are against the status quo, for various reasons. They aren't coming to these platforms because they are functionally better, but because they better align with their values. Their reasons never enter the mind of the general population because it's not relevant or on their mind. Anyway, this all makes for a small amount of similar content that can easily feel politically motivated or oriented. They also often require multiple unintuitive steps to even start using it, that's simply not gonna fly for the average ux enjoyer.

With that said, I believe I've noticed a shift in a noticable number of average people's attitudes towards corporate abuse and privacy violations. I've also seen more services with privacy oriented marketing. Many people may not seem to care about their privacy, but from what I've seen, a lot of people do, it's just difficult to navigate or have any idea of what to do or where to start, or know what is even true or false. I've had numerous people who I talked to about it in the past start paying more mind to it. One person actually got very serious about it, like myself. Seeing someone else as concerned as myself didn't bode well with me, because it does cause me stress and anxiety that other people shouldn't have. Ignorance is bliss. I know I went a bit off topic here but I felt like writing this and didn't see anywhere else more appropriate.
A similar thing happened to me. It's absolutely bizarre when it's happening and even more so in retrospect. Every engineer knows it's a product that no one wants. That experience triggered terrible burn out for me.
There's still benefits to having real bodies in the same physical space, a closer analogue would be closer to a video call. But that's far less spontaneous.
That's fine. I'm more concerned that the (replacement) hardware on my own device is not malicious, than I am with the hardware on other devices that are already outside my control. My trust model doesn't include them to begin with. And to the extent that my OS trusts those devices, at least any bugfixes can be pushed via software update.

As the article notes, there is a simple way to stop this attack, which is to disable bluetooth. I already do that by default.
Nobody here has mentioned the real reason public blogging has died off, which is that with the modern public Internet, the risk of being attacked - doxxing, harassment, or simply the grind of moderating comments - has completely eliminated any desire any normal person would have to interface publicly (or anything more than pseudonymously) with the world apart from a profit motive.
Before you hire off-duty police for private security, shop around a little. In the past, some concert promoters have hired the Hells Angels for security at a considerable discount.
That is the history of the Beowulf manuscipt, nearly lost without ever being found:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37918169
Welcome to the 21st century American friends, enjoy your stay.

God knows why it took this long.....
Looking at the qualifications and past experience of this pick I am starting to wonder what exactly was the rationale behind this? The only work history listed in her resume is as a consultant, and as "Holly Million the Shaman Artist".

This will be interesting to say the least.
I blog just for the hell of it. No client side trackers, no ads, just the spew of thoughts I need to get out of my head by vocalizing them. It costs me money every month and brings in no revenue and I fucking love it.

https://jaylittle.com/

The personal, honest and vulnerable (emotionally, not security-wise) internet is still out there, ya just got to look a bit harder for it nowadays.
To be fair, there’s a significant proportion of sitcoms that are just regurgitated formulas.

Some studio is almost certainly feeding sitcoms and standup comedy into some horrific LolLLM, but it would almost certainly reject prompts such as “The gang goes black” or “Frank gets molested”, and the outcome of “The gang makes Lethal Weapon 6” is unlikely to be even half as entertaining.
Don’t you already get free filing below some income threshold?
I have logged out. Also tried yt-dlp but logging out and web is easier for search etc.
This was a lot of fun. Reminded me of one of the earliest C programs I wrote when I was learning to code on Win98, before I really knew how computers worked. I was curious: "What does the rest of RAM look like?"

#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
for (int x = 0;;x++) {
putc(*(char*)x);
}
return 0;
}

I was mezmerized by the strings from the uncompressed BIOS ROM being dumped back at me, "American Megatrends".. etc. Eventually this process crashes of course, when it runs past the end of mapped memory locations.
ONNX Runtime has supported this for years - https://onnxruntime.ai/blogs/pytorch-on-the-edge
Yea I didn't want to layer too many points in one, but actually I was thinking how Shakespeare's models for comedy inadvertently make for great RPG scripts
Maybe?

Personally I've never used a virtual whiteboard that was any good. I blame the much smaller area and the mouse input.

Of course if your ways of working mean you can collaborate without any need for whiteboards, I guess things could be fine. Clearly, things like the Linux kernel get along OK without such collaboration.
Actually, posts on HN routinely lead me to several fantastic blogs! So yes, there are people writing interesting stuff in a blog as opposed to byte-sized nibbles on social media, and I enjoy them.

Thanks for these recommendations. :)
I dunno, I like the human touch; music genres aren't an exact science (is this blackened death metal or deathened black metal? Is there a difference?). I mean the data is there; see https://everynoise.com/, probably linked elsewhere, for a very big list of music genres + examples that IIRC come from Spotify's data lake. That can be used to train a model, I suppose.
Gonna be another Mozilla, it seems?
> They are going to lose their best people

I doubt Arseny is going to leave over this.
>> A ping on chat and within 1 min multiple people can be in the discussion without even having to move.

Have you ever tried this? Half of them won’t reply to you for the next x hours, others will have meetings, and others will say not right now I’m swamped. Most of those excuses are because they can’t be bothered joining a “quick call” with you, not because they’re actually busy.
Super speeder in Georgia gets $1.4M ticket (blamed on programmers)
Aren't there places away from the conventional protocols where people still blog and the world is innocent?

I'm serious. I came across some of these communities nearly a year ago while reading about solar powered servers. And after I forgot how I found them, I've thought of them about once a month and wondered what the hell is wrong with me for forgetting.

They were incredibly neat and niche spaces, full of very idiosyncratic websites and things that had no commercial point. It was fantastic.
I wonder if this deterministic labeling of persons as good/evil as a whole is what Nietsche meant with "slave morality"?
In case you are looking for the essay on the = sign, this is what Google Bard said:

The reference to the essay by Andrey Kolmogorov in the paragraph you provided is:

Kolmogorov, A. N. (1930). О понятии числа [On the concept of number]. Matematicheskiy sbornik, 38(3), 3-19.

This essay is in Russian, but an English translation is available in the book "Selected works of A. N. Kolmogorov, Volume I: Mathematics and mechanics" (1991).
I have tried to find this content and could not for some reason.

Can you please try with `curl` command to produce the pastebin output so we can test it from our side?

UPDATE: Never mind, I have found it!
Unconfirmed
So yes it is a false positive, but it's not the type VAC is concerned about.

What AMD did was like crossing the DMZ. It doesn't matter who you are or what your intentions are. It's not possible for normal applications to do this unless they're specifically trying to.

You cannot cross the DMZ without special permission, and even then it's more likely valve adds it directly to the engine instead.

There's more "accidental" type of detections which would be false positives too - but this is a clear line in the sand AMD crossed.

---

There is no anti-cheat that will let you do this. You contact valve and work with them to add support in engine. What AMD did was insane.
US Digital Service and the current White House MO around digital service delivery [1] operates a bit differently. IRS modernization [2] [3] will be owned internally. Their systems are the iceberg under the surface, the website for citizen consumption is the little bit above the surface. They're hiring people who know what they're doing (from page 15 of the modernization pdf):

> Our overall success will depend on several special legislative proposals and regulatory
authorities that we believe are appropriate for an effort of this scope and importance:

> Engaging the Office of Personnel Management to utilize existing direct hire authority for
IT modernization positions and/or broadening government-wide critical pay authority

> Seeking reauthorization of IRS Streamlined Critical Pay Authority that expired in
2013

> Ensuring funding is available for multiple fiscal years at somewhat predictable intervals.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-room/2023/09/22/fact...

[2] https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-modernization

[3] https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1666 | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36976331

(please consider a tour of duty: https://www.usds.gov/apply | no affiliation, just an engaged citizen)
Higher Quality Random Floats
Have you ever been to a small town in America? Outside of a few regions, Walmart is all they have...so that sort of nixes points 2 and 3.

Regarding point 4, and your quoting of me - yes, people have. And some have been lucky in that they've made themselves multigenerational wealth in doing so. The guy who founded Costco did it, and made himself over a billion dollars. However, the Waltons have hundreds of times that amount. You can make a billion by doing right by everyone, or hundreds of billions by doing right by everyone not named you. I know what number I'd be content with, not sure about you though. (Hint: if you give me a billion dollars, I'm retiring tomorrow)

Regarding point 5, Walmart IS however responsible for spending vast amounts of money (generational money) over the years to enact some pretty anti consumer and anti worker laws throughout the country. It IS responsible for funding some crazy far-right politicians. It IS responsible for paying its workers so little that they are "encouraged" to go on food stamps and apply for section 8 housing.
And it would be entirely nonsensical, because just as your actions would be driven by cause and effect, so would their reaction.
They're even required to waive the penalties if you "acted with reasonable cause and good faith": https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-26/chapter-I/subchapter-A...
The A/B/C quote isn't about lone wolf devs, but is "A players hire A players, B players hire C players". Meaning really good devs want to work with other really good devs, but mediocre devs want to work with crappy devs to make themselves look better.

I still think it is kind of full of bunk, although it has some truth. A players do typically want to work with A players, but a lot of "B" players just want to have a mildly interesting job where they don't kill themselves and are happy to hire and be around other B players with the same attitude.
Public Transport Mapping Course Now Available in English – Trufi Association
Because i can. A standard Debian install doesn't provide the software we prefer because it appears to mainly focus on end user type desktops instead of providing a well equipped Unix toolbox. It's just great to be able installing a system that already has included all the nice tools and utilities we rely on since almost 30 years. And Window Maker is a good enough environment to run terminal emulator windows.
They are free for federal electronic filing, and charge a small fee for state filing.
Roblox is "virtual world business" for gaming, not workplace.

For Meta it's different, they're pushing for working and collaborating virtually.

It's not the same.
You might have additional deductions they don’t know about. There are also things like your filing status, # dependents, etc that can change.
Love everything about this, especially the chiptune renditions of the various themes. Channel 4 in the UK has a couple of episodes of Frasier every morning, and whenever it rolls over from the last series back to the first episode, everything just feels right in the world.
Resource I've seen to optimize landing pages
> who typically learn through social contact

Some people sure, not all.

> Within 45 minutes I came away from three separate conversations with spontaneous to do’s and ideas to put in motion, something that hadn’t happened during the past few years of video meetings

A very CEO-esque anecdote. "I had a great thought-leadership conversation in the elevator, we should all come back!"

> For many of us, “Zoom fatigue” is real.

I "Zoom" more than I did before, and during the pandemic. It has allowed me to almost eliminate all wasteful IRL meetings.

> There will be some remote employees who are not asked to return .... niche skill sets or significant institutional knowledge

Okay so the rockstars, ninjas and privileged executives can stay home - nice disclaimer.

> For managers of remote employees who choose not to move, I understand the burden this may put on you and your teams.

And? Suck it up I guess.
> that sort of GOF research is at the top of the list of GOF utility

According to the virologists who do it, not anyone else. Virologists conspicuously had no role in fighting COVID and didn't seem to contribute any particular knowledge to the NPIs or vaccines.
ARM's stock price seems to be surprisingly uneffected:

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/ARM:NASDAQ?sa=X&ved=2ah...
In 2003 or so, I was really amused by the ORLY owl memes, so I collected them and stuck them in a public directory on my webserver. I have no idea how it was found, but at some point my open directory got indexed by google.

I found out because my host emailed me saying I had hit my bandwidth quota for the month... 2 days into said month. So digging through logs I found the biggest offenders, there were forums where people linked just about every image I had.

A little htaccess magic later, any request that came from a non-allowist referer was instead served a rather crude message I quickly put together in MS paint.

No one contacted me about it, but it was amusing watching these threads where people were getting upset when they thought they were going to see funny owl pics.
Sigh, I'll bite, one more time.

> I mean, it sounds like this is not a new argument to you, so I expect you'll know what I mean when I say, "I think the astrophysics stuff is really good."

You are correct, and my response is the same one I give whenever a theist brings up astrophysics as an argument for god: you probably don't understand "the astrophysics stuff" as well as you think you do. Depending on what, specifically, you mean by "the astrophysics stuff", it's likely that you have misconceptions about a) what the big bang theory is, the period of time covered by it, and related implications, or b) the second law of thermodynamics, or c) quantum mechanics, or some combination of the above.

> That really does beg the question - what evidence would be good enough for you?

I don't know, but if a god exists, she certainly does, and the fact that she hasn't shown it to me is evidence that either she does not exist or that she does not want me to know she exists. Either way, the only rational position for me to take is that I do not accept the claim that the christian god exists, until warranted by evidence.

I have a more questions to ask you based on your responses, which I've yet to receive clear, succinct answers to from any theist, but I think I'll stop here since it's clear I won't get them. Bye.
I truly believe that software engineers are just as productive when remote as they are when forced to commute to an office.

In that sense I like that these companies are forcing a return to office because presumably they're leaving talent on the table that I can hire and outcompete them with.
and another one, more clear video https://x.com/themossadil/status/1714376293700055489?s=46
Running Man was prescient
Concise reply:
What happened to reading blogs for the hell of it, instead of doom-scrolling social media?

Even one-two commenters a week can keep the spirit of a blog up.

But usually not one per year.
Yeah, if it were someone as important as an ISP doing it, you could easily be very petty and change it to an image that read "<isp> officially endorses <toxic political view>" (say, the statehood of Taiwan)
yes...how long did it take you to realise this?
While this is practically the best-case scenario for enforcing RTO (generous severance if you answer "no" and plenty of time to plan and get relocation support for "yes"), I can't help but feel like this is yet another instance of extroverted people who end up in management and leadership positions judging the importance of in-person collaboration for other people at the company's jobs based on their impression of how important it is for their jobs.

As a SWE who does IC and planning / TL design work, I find it immensely easier to work from home. I don't have to find a meeting room, I have one stable multi-monitor setup that I'm comfortable with for running and participating in meetings, and I can make myself available for "emergencies" early and late in the day without having to work my commute around that.

The leaders making this decision at Roblox have generous compensation packages (even for tech), and can likely afford to buy a new house every single year based on how much they earn. The reality for a rank-and-file SWE trying to secure housing in the Bay Area, especially near San Mateo, is much more precarious. No joke, if these companies offered to factor in a cost-of-living adjustment to compensation based on rent rates in the area surrounding the office, I'd go back in a heartbeat, but I spent enough time as a new grad commuting 90 minutes each way saving less than 10% of my paycheck after rent and basic living expenses, to where I would literally quit SWE work before being forced back to my company's HQ.

Mind you, certain economic classes of young individuals will have safety nets from their family and the support they need to not worry as much about finances. This will have a deliberate effect on the types of backgrounds that will become predominant among employees -- likely, folks already in the bay area who went to nearby top-tier schools and have upbringings that primed them for such a life one way or another. My experience thus far is that our remote teams at my job tend to be more diverse and the new-grad experience is less economically precarious because you have the choice of living where you want to. Caretakers and people with kids also suffer disproportionately with RTO vs. those younger or with less family duties, and this affects the population of employees drastically too.

As important as in-person collaboration is for mentoring, brainstorming, and culture, I feel like there's probably a way to create space for that without bringing everybody back to the HCOL areas where leadership tends to already own personal and commercial real-estate (potential conflict of interest, though this varies by company/leader in terms of the size of the assets).

I think the writing is on the wall though and probably every major tech firm will slowly creep back from "hybrid" to "well, 3 is the minimum" (see: flair bit from office space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7SNEdjftno), to having the real "team players" be the ones who can afford to come in 5 days a week. This was probably inevitable but I find it vastly disappointing.
The Tory government introduced this filing BS in Britain a while back. You never used to have to file anything with the Inland Revenue before the Tories.
Funny you bring that up, because 27% of all US Government systems run Linux. The problem is that the government doesn't give back any money, or contribute much code to the FOSS projects that they rely on. If they gave back proportionally like Linux Foundation Platinum sponsors do, they would get a return on their investment just in that they run enough Linux to benefit from contributing.

China has given money to FOSS projects far more than the US does, and there is an official Chinese Linux distro available to Chinese users. Nobody is forced to use it, outside of Chinese government employees on their work machines, but like a library, it is something of value that the state can provide to those who might need it.
GameMaker is a 2D game engine used by a number of highly rated indie games like Undertale, Hyper Light Drifter, Katana Zero, and Risk of Rain.

RPGMaker is a piece of software that lets you make top-down JRPGs generally in the style of the 2D Final Fantasy games. Because it takes that opinionated approach it's widely considered very easy to use. You're not fiddling with e.g. a physics engine when you know what genre and style of play you're doing doesn't need it.

Likewise RenPy is designed to make it simple to build Visual Novel style games, and as the name implies it uses Python, so between using an easy, popular high level language and taking an opinionated approach tailored to one genre/playstyle, it's a highly productive and approachable engine for newcomers and indie devs with limited time.
Well... free is cheaper than not free.
I gave FTuasa a go after seeing it mentioned here a lot. Unfortunately it seems the investment part is very manual compared to TurboTax. I have a couple of robotrader , brokerage accounts etc. on TurboTax it’s a few clicks and that’s imported, FTusa is tediously transcribing numbers off dozens of forms that I have no idea if I’m doing it right.

I reluctantly gave money to TT again.
Depends on if your life revolves around work or your work revolves around your life.