skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I aggressively clicked "not interested" on meme/fluff posts for a while and now when my LinkedIn page always starts with some sort of system design diagram. My next click is usually straight to the jobs page anyways.

The site will be done for once they start putting trending topics in the jobs page.
Indeed, the AWS/Azure certifications are quite popular/sought-after & the only ones that seem worth getting, even for non-consulting jobs.

Also the Java Professional certificates are the big ones for Java shops.
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If God is perfect, then He has no need to create

For various values of God, perfect, He, and need, which are debatable ad astra/ad nauseum.

if you're addressing God

What are the chances someone is not literally addressing the literal God, but is rather posing the question using that language poetically, with zero belief in an actual God? I'd say that’s clearly nonzero.
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_system:

The word "trust" is critical, as it does not carry the meaning that might be expected in everyday usage. A trusted system is one that the user feels safe to use, and trusts to perform tasks without secretly executing harmful or unauthorized programs; trusted computing refers to whether programs can trust the platform to be unmodified from the expected, and whether or not those programs are innocent or malicious or whether they execute tasks that are undesired by the user.
The state provides order. They police things and maintain the economy under terms we consumers call "good". That costs money, so we pay for it via taxation - logical and moral.

On top of that, a portion of your taxation goes beyond maintaining the state, and towards funding welfare. This is perhaps more controversial, but has little impact on the rich while providing substantial safety nets for the poor. This is where we are today; it's largely not considered immoral, except by people who disagree with the popular, democratic opinion.

Beyond that, UBI exists. That would be a lot of new things, and very scary. However, it's not that big of a mental leap to make; progressive taxes on business and individual wealth could be redistributed to those who need it more. If it's considered freeloading to allow citizens live above the poverty line, why let individuals and corporations extract infinite wealth? From a top-down perspective, citizens are being harmed by the businesses. We can either limit their profitability by setting the prices manually (aka Literal Communism), or we could redistribute that wealth in a way that encourages successful businesses to stay innovative. That all makes sense to me; if drafted well, I think it could be both moral and logical.

> How is it moral to give them value that you was working for?

I take it you live in Timbuktu, or are awaiting a particularly nasty IRS call. Unless you don't pay taxes, your money already goes towards everything you've mentioned.
So too might think the bedroom musician of 20 years, who never performs or releases, or the childhood sportsperson who never touches a ball again after age 18. The runner who never races, the intellect which never teaches. Perhaps ultimately, under that same precept of "external production = merit", the human being who lives many decades and never reproduces. (not my belief! merely a reasoning)

But I think such judgements are human constructs, mirrors of the biological imperative to put 'our offspring' out there in the world, these things we have gestated so long. Why should they not acquire a life of their own?? - we ask - gaining us ongoing wins in their own right, and contributing their threads to the future?

Is serving that imperative the moral, the ethical, even the simply enjoyable pinnacle of endeavour? For some of us, yes. I'm not judging it. But for some of us .... strangely, no.
Millions of Workers Are Training AI Models for Pennies
Aren't people lonelier than ever, have fewer friends than ever, live alone more than ever, fall out with their families more than ever?
As a cure for boredom.
It's alarming to see this particular blend of ideas without any historical acknowledgment. The mix of Nietzsche's ideas about the superman, a messianic belief in the transformative power of industry, and a paranoid fear and hatred of "wreckers" who would deny and destroy greatness all have an awfully dark history.
nixos solves private keys and tools switch easy.
for folders, i ended up with overlays.
just follow origin upstream remote locally so that http and file united.

i mean if remote is https github com slash dzmitry lahoda slash web3.nix

than local is /home/dz/github com slash dzmitry lahoda slash web3.nix

navigation is easy. forks easy. no project1 or client 1. just navigation overlay. same works for consumption of knowledge and learning.

one may do codespace with nix easy too or many local homes.

nix and path overlays is superior and easy to maintain.

nix makes remote, local, ci, codespace, user switch, depending on dlmany versions of same repo super easy.

even by unix idiots like me.

that not full schema so. there are tags and data properties (security, size, files count, uniquiness of copy).

so decide if store local or remo only, git and syncthing same time, torrent and syncthing, gdrive and git, keepass and syncthing, what devices, ipfs. any combo.

tags when overlays (forced hierarchy fail). when git forks, than many remotes with overlay following most active fork.

that approach partially fixes some of my mental issue i guess. oh, i want to install zfs to fix duplication.

hardware keys for security i use also. thesd days can mix same key, but held ssh, crypto, aws creds on same device.
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/10/637722786/jury-awards-termina...

>"We are sympathetic to Mr. Johnson and his family," Monsanto Vice President Scott Partridge said in a statement following the verdict. "Today's decision does not change the fact that more than 800 scientific studies and reviews ... support the fact that glyphosate does not cause cancer, and did not cause Mr. Johnson's cancer."

>He confirmed the company will appeal the decision "and continue to vigorously defend this product, which has a 40-year history of safe use and continues to be a vital, effective, and safe tool for farmers and others."

"Safe and effective"
Another popular use for Twitter is getting "from the street" quotes without leaving your desk. "Here's monkeysheen47x's opinion on the ballot measure." In case you want to know what people on Twitter think without checking Twitter yourself.
The futurists building a retro city
Deep dive into the Andreessen-backed plans to build a new, walkable city in Solano County, California.
God's answer:

I'm just an intern running simulations for my professor. I have seventeen other simulations with minor tweaks running concurrently. I am also living in a simulator, ironically created by myself in the parent universe. We are testing whether it's simulations all the way down and up.
I don't doubt that Google does the same thing, they are just as complicit in this duopoly as Microsoft.
… call me one of “today’s lucky 10,000,” but this is the first I’ve heard of the spacebar to get trackpad thing on iOS, and I’ve been using iPads (and later iPhones) since 2011 or so.

I’ve ranted here plenty of times about my late-80s aunt who will painstakingly document every tiny step to do something on her iPhone, with me patiently practicing with her, only to have something she’s gotten down change on her with the next update. It’s all very well to add new features, but for the love of older people (my mid-40s self increasingly included), do not change how common features work!
I think a TO would be how can we make the whole world more democratic, more self sufficient, more distributed with the lowest possible impact on the environment. And to do that, we would need to educate the world's population to never before seen levels. Technology is a byproduct of an educated population. 1/10th of everyone who has been alive is right now. This is a huge resource we are wasting with the subjugation of the classes.
In most modern democracies coalitions are the norm and one party winning and stamping their worst onto everybody the exception. Extremely uncooperative entrenched two party systems like in the US are not very common.

And guess what: in coalitions you get more of your parties program through (and thus increase the chance of getting relected) if you manage to convince the other parts of the coalition that your plans are reasonable and make some changes that they demand.

Sometimes that leads to "watered down" laws that are neither here nor there, but often this also leads to better, more practical laws that are better for more people.
I assume it's letters to friends and family, some work journals, investment spreadsheets, things like that.
I haven't evaluated to see who is right, but to your question they cite this link:

https://niemanreports.org/articles/npr-twitter-musk/

That says:

> A memo circulated to NPR staff says traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter, now officially renamed X, though traffic from the platform was small already and accounted for just under two percent of traffic before the posting stopped.

Again, I'm not taking sides here between "XDaily" and an internal NPR memo. This is just to give you the answer to your question.
To be at risk of an "AcKchYuALly". Gaussian Splatting has been around since at least the early 90s. There's even a few old games made with the technique.

The paper I think your referring to made the interesting leap that a 3d radiance field could be rerendered out as a field of Gaussian splats, and that this would probably run faster in modern GPU pipelines for real-time performance. It looks like they also have the nice property of being able to be shifted around in memory quickly hence the animation property seen here.
Sorry. No and no.
How are they guaranteeing it? is the set aside for severance part of the raise? is it diluting you further?
Yeah that's all fair.

But the problem is that since as the safety improves so does how people use it. More safe means we can use more since it's not as scary.

It's so safe we can spray it on the wheat two weeks before harvest to make sure it's good and dry. Hopefully it doesn't rain!
Can't recall too many pieces of writing that fail this hard at what they're intended to do? I mean, if you've never read any other technology-related writing ever, there's some stuff in here I suppose.

I think though, it best highlights what's missing from a lot of visible technological aspirations -- which is a sense of fun?
This is the nature of technology itself. It's a quandary that goes all the way down to the simplest form of technology: clothing. Clothing makes you more capable of being comfortable (or at least surviving) in a wider range of climates. Say, you go to the top of a mountain because of your Goretex jacket and boots. So you are now more capable.

However, simultaneously, you are also now more dependent. You're still at the mountaintop in a snowstorm. No problem. You take off your clothing, and now you immediately find out how dependent you are on technology.

This scales to any level of technology you can imagine. GPS? You know what time it is and you know how to get to your new friend's house! Battery goes out on the way? Uh-oh. You were dependent on technology.

The paradox of technology is that it simultaneously makes us more capable but more dependent (vulnerable).
This is cool but I never could figure out why it was named like an Imperial Star Destroyer.
I jest…but I have an emotional attachment to my HP 4000 LaserJet.

She might be a little slow to print, she might only speak PCL 5, she might have an external usb jet direct adapter…but she prints every time and never jams.
Can I buy music from Spotify? As in, be able to download a non-proprietary, lossless encoding of the music?

If not, Spotify is worthless to me.
Pretty sure there is a David Brin story about this :D
Some discussions of the lawyer story, in case someone missed them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36130354

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36097900

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36095352
The grammar and vocabulary usually stay the same. But there's no sense in, for instance, keeping a confusing "auia" instead of spelling it "había", instantly recognizable by the modern reader.
1973 Oil Crisis
You describing your experience with Spotify is my same experience with Pandora. It's awful, they have like 10 songs
This[0] is about the closest you'll get.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YW-5Flkiuw
Just because something looks weird to us does not mean it's bad. I can read the last sentence at about 70% speed, and I suspect you can too; that means within the 20-year time frame (facetiously) proposed, we could both easily adapt to this. And that's with bad choices intentionally cherry-picked by Twain to ridicule the idea. If the reductio ad absurditem is not really all that absurdum, that's a point in favor of the idea.
)-: This is why I don't use certain authenticators that assume one-and-only-one is safe. I guess people who make them either have stuff they don't mind losing access to permanently, or don't know the first part of the Backup Mantra: one is none; two is one.
You don’t spray roundup over vegetables and fruits
People can fork Google Chrome, yet none has done this so far. Not counting pretty GUI or some integrated extensions as a fork really. Google Chromium is genius marketing idea, hats off to the people who invented it, they convinced even programmers that there is some mythical "independent" Chromium project and anyone can fork it. Well, theoretically it is possible, but practically - not so much. The strategy is so successful that not even anti-monopoly departments aren't that interested in it.
> Can't you just change the volume on your device?

And this is the problem with YouTube shorts—they've been designed exclusively for the mobile experience without any consideration for desktop.

On desktop it's always been customary to allow adjusting the volume on each piece of media individually, because multitasking is not uncommon. Some people will want to be able to adjust the volume of YouTube independently from the volume of the video game they're playing at the same time. Or even just turn the volume down while still having full volume alerts from Slack.
Even that was a stretch I never got in any of them.
A 5 second search on Google shows Reddit r/privacy has threads for each of {AMEX, Visa, Mastercard, Discover} opt-out of marketing links.

I would argue that data brokers are so prolific in the transactions processing space that we should assume the onus is flipped and assume all companies are doing it until they can prove they aren’t (which is a pretty difficult task).

I also realize that other countries/governments regulate this space differently, so I’m speaking specifically about the USA.
Things are often not black and white.

Farmers used to plough fields after harvest. This kills weeds. It also uses a lot of power, so burns a lot of diesel and releases CO2. Ploughing also allows carbon trapped in organic material in the soil to break down and releases yet more CO2 as well as destroying soil structure.

Low/no till farming seeds directly into last year's stubble. This uses much less diesel so releases much less CO2. Organic matter in the soil builds up, trapping more carbon, and improving soil health. But now the weeds grow unchecked and destroy the crop.

A common variation of the above low till method it to 'cultivate' (sort of scuff up) the surface of the soil after harvest. This causes weeds to germinate. Then you spray them with glyphosate (Roundup), and can almost immediately start sowing your crop. This allows you to farm with much less carbon released, lower fertilizer usage (also reducing carbon).

Roundup allows farming with lower inputs and better soil health and less carbon released. That is why so many people defend its use.
Or just brush and floss properly?
We can't expect technologists to slow down and question what they're doing, but on an individual level, we certainly can slow down and question the rapid adoption of said technologies in our lives.
“Hey sorry hiring manager but your instance isn’t peered with my instance so you can’t see my job history.”
We're literally in the comment thread of a new stringly typed thing being introduced to the stdlib!
One of the OG ones, maybe. It was a quite widespread idea.
Maybe someone here would have advice for upgrading ancient OpenBSD installs?

I inherited some 5.x OpenBSD systems at my current job and I'm really curious how I'd go about upgrading to 7.4 - I have a feeling I'll be running into some broken links.

I'd really like to meet the person who was gung-ho enough to use OpenBSD in prod but seemingly treated them like a LTS system - not a "releases are supported for ~1 year" system.
regardless of the merits of apple design, believing the discipline of design is merely converging towards it is a pretty impoverished view of the field.
Jefferson had a religious book that some people disagreed with (unsurprising statement for Jefferson's library).
we play the game of "what would you do" not "what you wouldn't do". it's easy to have high moral ground and list all the wrong things. it's hard to actually make decision. Even in this "game"

And actually Ukraine compares itself to Israel. There were Israeli flags all over Ukraine and Zelensky want to arrive to Israel.

PS. this pathetic terrorist group has 20000-40000 thousands fighters.it shot 5k rockets in 1 week. Unknown how many people raided Israel, but there are around 1000-1500 bodies left behind
Ask HN: 20% of LinkedIn's recent layoffs were managers
1 in 5 of those laid off were managers. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but that’s higher than the typical ratio, correct?
I've updated QX82 to support more than one font, which you can load at runtime, so now there is no limit to how many different characters you can have. You could have a different character set for each biome of your game, for example!

Since sprites are the same thing as fonts, this also means you can have custom fonts and switch fonts as needed.

It should work for creating something like Caves of Qud! I'd love to play something like that! Sign me up for the beta when you have it :-)
i did and am remote now. prior to that i lived in sf for 7 years. a lot to love about the city, but not enough to keep me there anymore. lack of decent affordable housing seems to be the root of the city’s problems and i don’t see that changing in my lifetime.

As a young man, moving to SF was stimulating and launched my career. But now as a middle-aged man it became too depressing stepping over junkies passed out in front of my expensive yet crappy apartment just to discover my car had been broken into again. all for the pleasure of commuting to a mostly empty office to have video meetings with international colleagues.

not to say that these problems are unique to sf, it seems opioids have devastated many cities in america as has unaffordable housing. a broad solution could be to reduce wealth inequality or heavily tax those who insist they need to own more than 3 homes, but that’s basically asking the powerful to relinquish their power, which rarely happens.
Came here to say this as well.

Great for learning the product and how to use them, and get the cert to prove to yourself you know the material.

I’d put the cert on LinkedIn but I’d be hesitant to put any on my resume.
Exactly. This should be used with care on remote hosts that are untrusted.

But for local development it is still superior to not having a password at all.
Luckily this kind of thing was announced this year:

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/05/16/apple-previews-ios-17-a...
The wobbling made me think of photogramettery/estimating volume with a camera paired with some visual model to detect peas or whatever. Without a concrete dimension though eg. lidar not sure how accurate.
One more step towards the next simulation level.
Are not all of Twitters published metrics down off their peak?

Ad Revenue is down for sure.
Shown how? I keep seeing reference to a webpage on Bandcamp that was published over 5 years ago.
This sounds great, except it's been proven the glyphosate is not the ingredient that kills the most weeds, the "inert" ingredients when applied alone are vastly more effective.

I always think it's funny when glyphosate apologists come out in droves to defend their favorite poison manufacturer. Maybe they actually drank the stuff when Bayer/Monsanto said it was safe to drink?
When it comes to toxic industrial chemicals, it's innocent until proven guilty... 50 years and millions of diseases and deaths later
Interesting! Can you please name some of these old games made with Gaussian Splatting? I would be interested to play, to get a sense why polygons won in that round (and likely to lose in this one).
I'm mostly against such an idea. While it's intuitive to think this is a good thing, I believe we take for granted a lot of the etymological information embedded in our spellings.

That probably seems like an intellectual concern divorced from day-to-day language use, but I think we take for granted how easy it is to figure out a word's meaning from its spelling once one has a grasp of written English. Words we typically think of as being clearly related, and pronounced as basically similar sounds are actually vastly different in basic pronunciation, and, thereby, reforming spelling in this way would eliminate visual relationships between related words that are otherwise totally non-obvious.

And all this to perform a phonological mapping that would be out of date almost as soon as it was settled on. To say nothing of the actual practical concern of arriving at a consensus on which phonemes in which words should be spelt which way, what of the absolute deluge of different accents to be dealt with for instance. That's before we get to the part where now English speakers lose access to all pre-existing literature after about 2 generations. The longer you look at the proposal, the more counter-productive it obviously is.
I'm surprised Dutch ranks so opaque for reading. Opaqueness in writing, I could understand - as 't kofschip and its ruder cousin evidence, writing Dutch has always been a problem of having more graphemes than morphemes.

But reading? There are constant and consistent spelling reforms of Dutch, which partially aim to make it easier to read. My experience of it is that it's overwhelmingly regular (minus your odd melk surprise.) And apparently despite this, literature going back to 1994 empirically finds Dutch opaque for reading.
xklb v2.2 – media toolkit, now with EDA and incremental-diff subcommands
> Google's system requires the deployment of an intricate, city wide network of smart traffic lights, driven by AI.

Did you just make this up? From the article: "company says that rolling the changes out can be a five-minute job that uses the city's existing management systems".

Google's system isn't about some smart AI driven lights. It's basically just AI developed light schedules for dumb lights. It doesn't require any deployment.

> Cities would likely have to pay Google to keep the network working.

Oh, you really did just completely imagine some system of your own.
It's such a shame they've closed their job board. It was the only decent developer-centric job site. Having a CV connected to SO profile was one place where the Internet Points were actually worth something.
They are replacing NTLM, not just killing it off, but it's not a drop-in replacement and so apps that use NTLM will need some remediation.

In particular you'll still be able to do the workgroup thing.
4% in May this year according to https://layoffs.fyi/
I dislike Comcast in the extreme, but I'll defend their right to give their network as many meaningless G's as they like. I welcome anything that hastens the demise of this idiotic marketing trend.