skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's slightly different, the HO report was only disclosed yesterday.

This was someone who thought that Bard had leaked embargoed (at the time) vulnerability information prior to it being publicly disclosed/patched.
Is it just me or are there a lot of "Old Man Yells at Cloud" type stories and comments on HN?

I've lived in the SV bubble for most of my life (my ABCs were Altavista, Brocade, and Compaq) and based on my memory looking at my parent's career experiences, it almost always was a corporate experience.

I vaguely remember older neckbeards at my dad's office complaining about how the 70s and 80s in tech were amazing, and I'm sure their mentors in turn rued for the days of Bell Labs and National Labs in turn.

In 2023, the 90s and 2000s are roughly the same distance that Reagan and Carter were back then.
It could also just be part of an industry maturing.

Competition has picked all the low hanging fruit and it’s all more or less become another commodity industry.

There was also the switch from people who were naturally attracted to SW dev., CS and EE, to now people who specifically pursue the industry for the perks and not because they’re into it -I think that’s maturation. I think this started about 2005 or so as things became inflated. The dotcom boom certainly perked the ears of many new college freshmen back then and they eventually entered the workforce.
I have likely spent 1 hour applying for cards, loading them into Apple Wallet over 3 years. If you are doing the math on opportunity cost for something you spent 1 hour over 3 years, you are already wasting your time.

To be honest, the $50k argument isn't comparable. It's like saying "Oh you have a side gig making $10k/year, why don't you just invest $200k in a money market fund instead?" First, someone could do both. And second, it's not even a logical comparison.
Terrifying on the same level as Ken Thompson's "On trusting trust".
In theory even a capacitor could be listening for a serial activation
code and then go short or open circuit to modulate a new signal onto a
wire.

Where the hell does that leave us?
Just last week, a law requiring cursive handwriting to be taught in elementary schools was enacted in California. (AB 446)

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...
Not sure I agree. Most of my classes had recorded lectures and good notes from the TAs, but I still found taking hand written notes to be helpful. I even tried switch to a laptop then switched back after less than a semester.
Yuuuge disclaimer: I made it, but Boot.dev is a collection of game-like interactive courses focused on backend web dev. It's all in Python and go for the most part.

I will say I don't think certs are a big deal, and they wouldn't be the reason for doing Boot.dev. Its all about learning the concepts and putting it into practice by building cool stuff
Also to begin with having to shorten lecture material/notes on the spot because you can't write fast enough seems like a way to introduce errors. Not really superior.
I agree with your overall point, but note that computation doesn't actually increase entropy (we can do reversible computation, e.g. using quantum gates, Toffoli gates, billiard-ball computers, etc.)
This is one of those sentiments that needs to go away. It's so... Reaganomicsy.
I seriously struggle to tell the difference between certain types of low quality candidates during interviews and people that just bounce around looking for the next shiny thing. I say this as a manager/developer/founder that comes from a very hands on background.

The obvious low quality candidate that is east to spot is the person that cannot answer the first question i always ask (write me a function, in any language, that takes an array of ints and returns the sum - half don’t ever pass this question the other 25% fail to consider or be able to discuss what might go wrong at runtime), the majority though sound very smart, can code, but put into a team just want to fixate on issues that serve zero value to the end user.

Oh and i should add, when you tell certain developer personas things like: youre not here to decide what problems to solve, youre here to solve the problems the product team wants solved (they think about this all day, let them do their jobs) they get all upset and moody. I always encourage other devs to speak up about solutions and opportunity but we need to let each player in the team do their position, if we try do it all then this stops being a team.

This to me feels like the reason we have a billion js frameworks and why no one wants to hand roll an api, but would rather fight with Apollo for hours. Being a developer has turned into a pseudo academic task, but with no interest in the process behind research.

It’s such a shitfest out there, and frankly, I’m pretty over managing these folks. I’ve been doing contract work for about 12 months now and it’s been a fresh experience that I’m hoping continues for a while to come.

Plug: if i sound like the kind of person you want helping with something feel free to ping me.
The problem with your example is that you are making the assumption that someone with 10 years of experience is less likely to make mistakes in practice than the person with 0 years of experience. I've seen several examples over my career where the technically "more experienced" individual is not truly the better suited for the job. You won't know that until you hire them and, in my opinion, is a good reason for why you should pay someone based on the job (so long as they qualify for it). It doesn't mean that everyone needs to make exactly the same amount, because I think there is an argument to be made for someone who has more tenure at a company to retain them and for their role-specific experience. But that shouldn't be a >5% difference.

Also, I don't see how people can't see that this is precisely the logic that contributes to women generally getting paid less for doing the same job. Anecdotally, I joined a company and had about 7 years of experience. My "peers" in performing exactly the same duties as me had probably about 25 years of experience. I was responsible for the 2nd largest revenue generating P&L that generated the highest profit margin (which I actually turned around from losing money in 6 months). I found out I was getting paid $70k less than "my peers." Are you going to tell me that despite performing the exact same job and actually performing it objectively "better" that I should have made less money? This is the kind of stuff that routinely happens to women.
US Restricts Sale of Nvidia Made-for-China Chips in New Rules
This is pretty cool, it is able to parse data out of a random pricing table somewhere in the page.
It does seem to just make up data it if is not found in the page (probably expected with LLM's), I wonder if you can reduce that with some prompting, or maybe verify the data is actually present?
Your schema page docs is broken https://singleapi.co/docs/schema
Exactly. One time I skipped out in 2-3 years of cleaning while dithering on finding a dentist in the new area I moved to. She presented me with an estimate involving about 8 fillings. (I had specifically asked her to keep to the necessary ones.) Shocked, I went back to my old dentist for a second opinion. He told me most of them must be just replacing amalgams with porcelain because he couldn't find any actual new decay.
It is mainly internal to the companies. I have my license and did not use it for a long time because the hypermarketing in the brokerages I was affiliated with was unbearable. I decided to hop back into it because I had the opportunity to start my own brokerage, an important part of which is I am no longer forced to have a minimum commission. My first decision starting back up was to offer all clients 25%+ off, something I could not do because of agent-broker agreements in my past affiliations.

I have to say it is very expensive to be an agent, mainly because you need a huge marketing budget and most people are wasting your time - either because they can't afford a house and don't realize it until you sit down and walk them through the numbers, or are intentionally just using you with no intention to have you even potentially represent them. There is also a lot more work involved in listing a house or representing a buyer than people give credit to, which is often discounted as almost nothing (as I see in this thread as "just do X or Y" - exactly like people do with devs thinking they should have an advanced website for $200. BTW, 90% of FSBO wind up being sold with an agent. It is not as straightforward as it seems.)

I would not be able to operate offering 50% off. So yes, I think fair trade is a bit lower than the typical 5% (2.5% per side) charged in northern California, but it is not 2-3% either. My personal lowest commission is 1.5% for one side, and that is for extremely high value property. I am without a doubt one of the poorer Americans on this site, and have a family to feed, so I cannot be convinced my work has no value but everybody else's work here is worth 10x. There is no doubt a real problem in the industry and I refused to work in it for many, many years until I found a way to sidestep it. But purely monetarily, it is not of the magnitude that is naively assumed. For me, the far bigger problem is in attitude; in marketing at all costs.
Legislation in favour of the consumer is almost starting to seem detrimental to the startup founder. The number of barriers, prerequisites, requirements, etc that a founder needs to consider pre-launch is bordering on insurmountable.

This might just be me feeling like this, but even considering geo-residency in some of my early prototype designs feels very odd.

I was optimistically hoping PaaS providers would catch up and fill in the middle ground. But seemingly for every Enterprise customer I'm manually filling out a document declaring our data residency, our vendors residency and how we use certain data.

I'm an advocate for privacy, but f* me this is getting to be overwhelming.
This seems very clearly a bot post. This is a non-sequitur to the other comment and the way it redescribes the context seems fishy and too artificial.
Aren't stilts actually worse for a direct hurricane hit? They are great for flooding but terrible for hurricanes.

Some kind of underground waterproof bunker is probably the safest, but not sure those are going to be real popular.
Banks require insurance to get a mortgage. Increased borrowing costs (effectively) will reduce what people can afford and lower the value of the land (and house).

People do live in places where you can't get a mortgage. For example, I'm thinking of a rather sparse community on the big island in Hawaii that's on the side of a volcano. However, both the land and the structures people build are much cheaper.

It seems like in the limit, it's basically like a campground, and if you need to move then you move.
I think SO could pivot towards a Q&A site that people can ask and offer only opinions about software issues rather than factual answers
For the majority of life existence as we know it (meaning, a proton gradient separated by a membrane), living systems were immortal.

Some external circumstances could change reducing them to a pile of oxides, but the systems themselves were perfectly self-perpetuating -- i.e. time-independent, or put another way 'given enough time' is not sufficient.

Of course, before the heat-death of the universe entropy-reducing systems will break down, but that's not an interesting observation.

> Some physical processes decrease entropy locally, sometimes by incredible amounts.

I think that's the more interesting observation. How to qualify life beyond only 'local entropy reduction systems'.

My uninformed opinion is that it is both 'entropy-reducing' and 'context-dependent' systems that should be considered 'alive' (not sure though that this is sufficient). Dependence on their context means that those systems will have a feedback-loop with their environment, allowing for example non-linear causality and thus complexity to emerge.

A star radiating away their stored negative entropy is an all give and no take, no dependency, full autonomy system. Of course they can still be impacted by external effects, but sustaining their own internal processes does not require such inputs, they are incidental to them emitting away their stored energy. Once started, their schedule (when they will deplete themselves, collapse, etc) is known and predictable, thus not alive.
Introduction to Launchd plist Composer https://youtu.be/gfRS-es2UH4?si=tNRSfu3svRsX8s3d 来自 @YouTube

I also made an introduction video for the tool
Patricia Krentcil "Tan Mom" latest Senate campaign ad [video]
It is very ironic.
There are sites that basically walk you through optimal strategies depending on your situation. It's super easy nowadays.
>Not directly

How can you possibly tell? Yes, Brownian motion looks random and meaningless to us, but how could you tell it does not look meaningful to someone?

>It makes life possible, but it's not alive by itself because it does not meet the formal criteria.

If you accept that the sun might be alive you must accept that water might be alive, since you can't definitively say that computation is not happening in either of them.

>Just like a single transistor is not a CPU.

I can't say for certain that a transistor is not a CPU to someone. A single atom could hypothetically be powerful enough to compute something.
This is a much better source for this story

https://niemanreports.org/articles/npr-twitter-musk/
Unless you happen to own the company that makes the machines, or manages them, or operates a significant number of them, or counts the votes. And even if those people can't, the public opinion is that they can, and that's just as bad.
Just to add to my previous comment. We use AI heavily today, and we're seeing a 25%+ productivity improvement. And our Devs are happier, as they get to focus on high order problems.
No mention of their return policy? IMO this is a huge part of the attraction of Costco - if you're not satisfied with a product for any reason, you can return it, full stop. They've had to rein in some of the more generous practices due to egregious abuses by customers (ie returning a TV after 2 years) but in general, buying things at Costco is a no-risk activity for a much longer time than any other mainstream retailer.
not an expert but the insurance companies need re-insurance sometimes which adds costs. the worst thing you can do is concentrate your risk. then one event could wipe you out.
Always wondered how this works on modern times, where income per square foot varies wildly per industry.

Let's say because of rising taxes, a bakery or a shop has closed and a lawyers office has opened in that spot. Who exactly us "the public" in this case and what are the "maximum benefits" that they are getting from that change? Because if I actually lived nearby, I sure wouldn't be happy about my favorite vakery/shop being closed.

And don't say "increased tax base" - for that, you can tweak existing system and increase income taxes so you collect more from the lawyers while still keeping bakeries alive.
So glad that tech companies are finally starting to address this, having bed bugs some ten years ago was the worst experience of my life so far. Valpas https://valpashotels.com/ is another option.
Probably need to attack the services then.

MLS is a service company, and Realtors are a trademark group.

Perhaps they have what some might call monopoly on the market.

Technically, you can list your property without MLS or without using a trademarked 'Realtor'. There are other agents that aren't 'Realtor'.

It's like complaining that Google isn't listing your ads for free.

Just like Google owns search, so you have to pay them to get listed.
For something which is useless without a much more expensive item (iPad), why doesn't Apple sell things like this at cost or for less? $79 seems like gouging for a device my kids are likely to lose or break.
Generally as a business scales it makes sense to add processes and standardization. But levels do not have to dictate equal salary. People are different, with different motivations, assets, and leverage.

Personally, throughout my career I've actively tried to earn less than coworkers. It gives me more wiggle room to goof off, makes my similar accomplishments look/feel a bit more impressive, and helps keep me off the chopping block at layoff time. I actively don't want to be paid the same as somebody with the same job title/level as me.

And I can understand why someone who adds more in terms of output and contribution would want to earn more than someone else who adds less.

Of course, there's (what I see as) good pay inequality and bad pay inequality (that which is driven by systemic injustice, discrimination, etc.). If a company thinks standardized salaries are the best way to fight that, that's a choice they're welcome to make.
That is a weird CEO picture. Is it AI generated?
> If they outlaw encryption but everyone encrypts, they can either do nothing or arrest everyone.

Whatever protection I'm getting from non-consensual surveillance, I am declining it.

I'm not sure if we're mindful of this but Gov's only ethical purpose is to serve us. Past that, it has lost it's way.
> many home services certainly take into account the area you live in even when it is irrelevant.

When negotiating a price, how much a buyer is able and willing to pay is always relevant for a seller. (And vice versa for a buyer).
it is specifically in Detroit, they have lots of empty lots as businesses fled the city proper for the suburbs, now as the city is bouncing back there is an incentive to just hold onto empty lots so that new buildings around you increase the value of your land.
Aren't you describing Microsoft Windows? The revenue moved quite dramatically from that platform to the two big app-store platforms.
Most mortgagers require home insurance as part of the loan terms. They will increase your monthly payment due to offset the risk of their stake in your property. It's like paying for insurance, without any of the benefits.
The way they get around this in Sweden at least is that you pay a company to do the look up for you and then no one knows who looked up what or why.
I'm confused. I would call my QA manager and ask them to show me, if I was in the situation you state and needed that information. Why would someone who's managing a large project be specifically skilled in the specialized actions of a Quality Engineer?
Yeah, I would like Cisco not to ship software this easily compromised but in this case I don’t think it’d be unwarranted to contact the victims’ CEOs and say their network team is incompetent. Not leaving this stuff exposed to the internet is an entry-level skill.
I can appreciate how it might seem redundant.

I personally find examples of people fundamentally misunderstanding LLMs and misusing them in new and novel ways interesting. Eventually, it will probably be an everyday occurrence, but for now it's still percolating into different areas.

This person summarizes how I feel about it:

> If not malicious, then this shows that there are people out there who don't quite know how much to rely on LLMs or understand the limits of their capabilities. It's distressing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37904674
cool now just make my congressman agree so this stupid EARN-IT bill gets dropped
Not sure about these increases, but livable structure below the 100 year flood line will trigger a huge insurance increase. Fully elevated homes are done that way because otherwise insurance costs would be prohibitive. Other building methods and materials (like HardiPlank) also cut insurance costs.
Author here. (Thank you for all the comments!)

Yes, I know SSH tunnelling and compiling your own Android are tall orders for the average user. Here I'm just hinting at some examples that are well-known among us geeks, but there are easier to use alternatives to all that. I suspect Protonmail is as easy to use as GMail. VPNs are so easy to use nowadays. The UX on Signal isn't particularly challenging to the average user of WhatsApp.

There is a lot we techies can do to educate normies and respectfully push them in the right direction, but we keep on neglecting that responsibility under the excuses of bad usability, lack of features, or convenience for users.

On an earlier draft I also had a sentence like: “a big effort in usability and outreach is needed”. Definitely so.

My point is not that we can get all EU citizens to switch to SSH tunnelling and Purism, but that we IT professionals should spend more time and effort educating a fraction of the population to move the deal in the right direction and avert catastrophe.
> attempting to use the Declaration of Independence again on the first note yielded several sequences along the lines of ‘abfdefghiijklmmnohpp’.

If the two un-decyphered noted use the same approach as the decrypted one, a couple of idle thoughts:

I wonder if anyone has tried the same text but with positive/negative word index offsets?

It would presumably be hard to extract a plaintext unless they are based on different texts that have a canonical form. Many books differ slightly between printinga due to errors and/or corrections.
Exactly, there are 0 cards that would give cash back equivalent to what I've spent. I suspect it's like $100,000-$150,000. So being conservative, it's a 5% 'cash' back card.
People care about decentralization, they don't care about projects that are thinly veiled attempts at extracting money from them under the promise of decentralization
For those wondering, this article is about the difficulties of distinguishing genuine fossils of single celled organisms from similar looking inorganic features. It has nothing to do with the defining what life is or recognizing forms of life fundamentally different than our own.
Why would you be worried about driving an ICE in wet conditions at all? They don't have issues with this unless you drive under several foot of water.
I'm brazilian, but living abroad almost a decade:

Brazil:
- Needs more capital for even very simple projects, like infrastructure, clean water supply etc
- Finance/banking sector is really well developed, better than every country I've visited
- Brazilians need to learn english, it's the world's language and so many opportunities are missed out
- Companies still see Brazil as a country that the legal system is messy, power of law isn't thought to be as most first world countries
- It's a country with a lot of potential, but to unlock it, Brazil needs to find something that its good at, that isn't commodities
I don't think this is very good value, the best thing about the apple pencil is how good the pressure sensitivity is and this one doesn't have it.

For note taking you don't need an apple pencil, any pencil for a tablet will do.
Huh, could be that the doc is outdated then. Thanks for the info, maybe I'll give it a try after all!
dbus is just a protocol that needs something else to actually transfer the data.

Normally, that's a socket in /run/dbus/system_bus_socket
Expert Wasted Entire Life Studying Anteaters (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qXD9HnrNrvk)
A lender or seller does not have to use any specific credit score. Many businesses calculate their own credit score based on borrowing/repayment history, and some do not calculate a score at all.
> Land value is therefore a really weird part of the economy that allows people to charge money without doing any work or providing any value in return. If we confiscate all the money people charge to rent or buy land, nothing changes because no work was ever happening. The land is still there and still just as useful. Contrast that with anything where work is actually done - the industry would collapse if you confiscate the money. Taxing land value therefore allows the government to reclaim the money which those people should not be able to charge in the first place

You say they shouldn’t be able to charge for it, but instead of disallowing it you just change the beneficiary?