skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I suggested in another comment recently, I'd refrain from buying a Tesla simply out of concern for what Musk might tweet. He has flooded the zone with so much BS that I have no idea what he actually stands for at this point. How do I know he's not going to come out as a white supremacist or as a genuine fascist? There goes half the resale value of my car, if he does.

He has already alienated a big chunk of the company's most loyal fan base. It seems clear that he's not getting more rational or less erratic with time.
Idk about everyone else but when it comes to anything running in my car, _anything_, there is no such thing as excessive "playing it safe". It's a 2 ton mass of steel barreling down the highway at 70+ mph next to other unpredictable 2 ton masses, please for the love of God, fight to maintain that culture of "playing it safe", regardless of what you're working on and for what purpose.
I stopped then too. I've also stopped using Twitter/X, FB, Insta and all walled gardens really.
The per document model is actually super easy to write apps for outright, just unfortunately fairly painful to package existing apps into. Ideally if everyone was writing apps specifically for Sandstorm it would be a non-issue. :) It's also extremely hard to get a consistent experience across apps without it: When every app has it's own concept of file management, it's impossible to build a unified experience.

I think Sandstorm as a startup was, if anything, just too early. (I remember people questioning why anyone wouldn't trust Google back when it started!) I suspect in several years everything comparable that isn't Sandstorm will look a lot more like Sandstorm than Docker and such.
"Upstream, Me, and Downstream."

Everybody can use those groups to arrange the universe, but there will be widespread disagreement over who belongs in what category. :P
Most of the comments here seem to assume buying stars is about making personal profiles more attractive to hiring.

I doubt that's the motivation here. I think this is about projects themselves wanting a high star count in order to attract users, customers and investors.
I Found that to be a very interesting, thought provoking read!
It's hilarious to me that it's hard to determine which you believe is which.
I wonder if that would do anything for my plantar fascitis...

I made a mistake in shoe choice for a vacation one year, before I knew how much my wife absolutely insists on walking at least 10 miles a day. That was 8 years ago and I still have pretty severe pain almost every morning.
Other platforms have ways of making this difficult. For example kaggle doesn't count upvotes from users with too little prior involvement, and stack overflow's new user votes also don't count until that user has enough reputation.
Those principles apparently don't include very strong environmental beliefs because there is absolutely no weigh (see what I did there) that the Rivian, which actually weighs ~7500 lbs, about 1.5x the Tesla X, the heaviest Tesla vehicle, is not significantly worse for the environment both in a one off (producing all the extra material that makes up those nearly 2400 lbs) and in an ongoing manner (moving those extra 2400 lbs takes more energy, which requires more of everything in the energy pipeline).

Presumably, if they were considering a Tesla at all, they didn't actually need a large pickup. So, to spite Elon over some political beliefs, he produced several extra tons of CO2 and is going to be emitting more CO2 on an ongoing basis, even if his energy source is 100% renewable (unlikely) as even wind and solar still (and for the forseeable future) have non-zero CO2 emissions due to mining and production of materials.

I understand why people don't like Elon. He's pretty unlikeable, even if you don't disagree with his politics. I just dont' understand why they let it influecne their purchasing decisions.
Talked with Sales:

- first salesperson said: "We are anticipating the Newer XPS 15 laptops to be launched by Dec last week or by Mid Jan that comes with 14th Gen Processors and preinstalled Ubuntu OS on them".

- Second salesperson said they don't have an ETA yet.

- Third salesperson said "The product development is working on these 2 models, we are soon expecting them to launch in next 3 to 4 weeks [Nov 13-20] but the exact date of launch has not be shared with us ... the Precision models will have these options [Ubuntu] ... the XPS 15 will not have the Ubuntu options".

- Fourth salesperson said "by early 2025".

- Fifth salesperson said "we don't have a date"

- Sixth salesperson said "we dont have eccurate date, you may see it XPS laptop with 14th gen chip in the end of December ... and it may not come with unibuntu option ... You will see Precision laptops with Ubuntu option"

Oh and they do have a Precision from 2023 pre-installed with Ubuntu[1], somehow wasn't visible before.

Dell sales and support is pretty, so have to ask multiple times.

[1] https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/precision-3581-...
We did this 5+ years ago at a managed hosting company, just for 3 days worth of data. Was still invaluable for figuring out complex events.
This reminds me of a somewhat similar scheme Mozilla is doing (https://www.fastly.com/blog/firefox-fastly-take-another-step...) and my concerns about running my traffic through a proxy run by for-profit company haven't changed one bit.
it's crazy that US puts the best and brightest immigrants through lots of hell, when other immigrants can just walk through the southern border of America, or fly into US and just stay and setup a decent and quiet life and, don't have to deal with the hoops of proper immigration

And for that matter, that applies to immigrants to Italy, Canada, England, etc etc
I don’t understand what this means, but you can always change the laws to allow the migrants to vote I guess?
I can't read the article because of a paywall, but if there aren't serious qualifications to this argument, it's total garbage and it's amazing that a serious participant in AI research considers this an argument worth making.

No one is saying that intelligence is the necessary and sufficient cause of malice. Full stop. No one is saying that! The reason no one is saying that is because it's incredibly stupid on its face.

Unbelievable that it should even be addressed at all. It drains the speaker of any intellectual credibility on the topic.

If the researcher is reading this, please do more homework.
The GP post is a bit simplistic, but it's roughly right.

Trump inspired politics is about personal exceptionalism for the very rich, reassigning blame to others, especially the bureaucracy, but also anyone who disagrees, objects or regulates, breezily brushing off any sense of accountability and treating people with less power or privilege poorly, often to the point of cruelty.
Sounds like you're arguing for the newer pyproject.toml Python packaging standards.
Tech is not solved. These basic storage issues still cause problems when doing it yourself or when done by trillion dollar companies.

It’s amazing a thousand billion dollars can’t make iCloud work flawlessly.
The car maker can void some warranty but it has no right to do what it did. The car is the property of its owner who can do whatever with it.
Principles, as the other poster mentioned. But I was in the market for a vehicle with certain properties, including being an EV. The Model Y checked a lot of boxes but couldn’t pull the trigger after Elon’s slide. It’s not as if I went and purchased an SUV because of tweets.
I recently converted to iPhone and one of my largest frustrations has been icloud. As people keep reminding me, it’s apparently a “sync” service rather than a “backup” service, which means that you cannot control the behavior of when things get uploaded/downloaded, data versioning, or even access the data in a file-like way.

This left me really puzzled who the users are that are requesting 12TB of storage. I see such huge storage requirements as firmly in “power user” territory, yet the service lacks the administration tools that I would think power users would expect. IDK, maybe it’s just me, I would just be very nervous uploading multiple TB of precious photos/videos into a service that has no concept of versioning. I’m using Google Photos as well as OneDrive in addition to iCloud because it feels difficult to trust.
Dupe? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37935502
Donut.c creator mods to only need shifts and adds/subtracts
Why on earth is there a lottery? Shouldn't we just rank them by the salary offered by their sponsor company and take the highest?
SUV. Rivian makes more than a pickup. (:
It's not ridiculous, and obviously it's not so simple, which is why it's a good nerd snipe. Obviously we shouldn't be nonchalant about engaging in thermonuclear warfare (and none of the armchair strategists get to decide this anyways), but it's worth going through the thought experiment. It's informative if nothing else, and if you can't see why then maybe you should try engaging in more "ridiculous" thought experiments.
Walking the call graph for repo-level planning of AI code edits
This looks interesting, but the examples don't really show off Marcel's power. The example you just gave without Marcel is:

find . -type f -mtime -3

The example on this page: https://www.marceltheshell.org/list-processes

ps -u djt | map (p: p.signal(9))

That's:

pkill -9 -u djt

The example for summing files by extension is a bit more interesting:

ls -fr | map (f: (f.suffix, 1)) | red. + | sort

Vs something like:

find . -type f | awk -F. '(NF>1){print "."$NF}; (NF==1){print ""}' | sort | uniq -c

That said, every time I look into one of these shells, I end up sticking with bash. When it gets to the point that I need something more powerful than bash and the Unix command line environment, I'd just as soon write a stand-alone program which I can check into version control, use on remote systems that don't have one of these fancy shells installed, add proper tests, etc.

This is a neat project though. I'll keep an eye on it.
This is bad, in a gaming setting, for several reasons.

You should at least make your frame limit be equal to your screen refresh rate.
gallons/mile or liters/km are volume/length. Volume units are length^3. Thus we end up with length^2.
Realistic, yes, but it's not a unikernel.

There are projects that permit statically linking a traditional kernel with a traditional application into a unikernel. NetBSD pioneered this with their rump kernel build framework, and I believe there's at least one Linux build framework that mimics this. The build frameworks cut out the syscall layer; an application calling read(2) is basically calling the kernel's read syscall implementation directly. Often you don't need to change any application source code. The build frameworks handle configuring and building the kernel image, and statically linking the kernel image with your application binary to produce the unikernel image.
this is just absolute art, and nod to ChatGPT for apparently giving hint along way
That version is missing some of the text. At least the paragraph starting "Perhaps I should explain to you here that although John Landy has". A bunch of other copies I found were also missing that paragraph.

I found an audio version on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3-SrS15vb8 that had the missing paragraph (starting at 8 minutes in).
Doesn't have to be internet-accessible though. Even if they need to interact with the "open" internet, they can do so through a gateway - there are many industrial-grade, DIN-form-factor VPN routers that will take an internet feed and some VPN credentials and spit out a "clean" VPN'd port so your vulnerable thing can stay isolated from the open internet.
> I don't think very many players did all the Starfighter trading challenges. patio11 or tptacek might be able to confirm, but I vaguely recall being one of like 100 or so to do all six levels of out of 10,000 that started

As far as I remember, at the beginning and for quite some time the Stockfighter trading challenges had reliability and performance issues (server capacity). So I decided to wait a little bit for the product to become more stable, and then get into the challenges. Unluckily, at that time Stockfighter was already decided to become shut down.
dog and cat life expectancy seems to have a fatter tail compared to humans
Thank you. I really needed it.
The role of software in spacecraft accidents
besides some gems i usually found in sports threads i really don’t miss it at all
https://youtu.be/xmGRGv2jEkg?si=fc2-sWBduBPLD3hq

Interview explains…
Of course this will work. We want the people who do the jobs that have the most impact on the economy.

> 1/ this will incentive IT and software jobs and marginalize other fields with lower pay (physics, mechanical, chemical, etc).

Why!? If those people are important they can be paid well too. There are plenty of chemical engineers that make good money.

> 2/ this would mean only bigger software companies would get a chance and people would willing to work in startups will stand lower chance.

Startups can pay too. In any case, most startups don't sponsor H1Bs because of the uncertainty associated with the process.
Why this focus on the weight of the vehicle? It weighs what it weighs, just like a Tesla SUV or Cybertruck - if and when they are delivered - will weigh what it weighs. People factor in all kinds of stuff when they make their purchasing decisions including whether or not they want their funds to go towards subsidizing someone they'd rather not see gain more power. That's a principled decision and it should be applauded.

That they could have chosen no vehicle or a non-pickup/non-SUV isn't part of this discussion, the decision was 'Tesla or something else' and it went to 'something else'.
Why are either of those things a problem? Why do we need to spread H1Bs between industries? Why do small companies who pay less deserve cheap foreign labor over large companies who pay more?
It turns out doing things the "correct" way is harder than just not doing that.
"No Uber drivers to exploit", is what I meant to say.
I'm going through a terrible time, I'm a dev. And last 3-4 months I found the salary has decreased on all openings by a good 20-30%.

I've been at the same company for 15 years. Last year we got a new line manager and he is a bully and makes a lot of our lives miserable, recently he started targeting me. I thought it'd be fine because I can move on with my experience but because of the market I feel trapped and I've now got depression from the stress and being unable to sleep. I take pride in my work and put in more hours than the team but there is no pleasing him and upper management don't care because they love his reports.
A country's registered voters vote to support policies that aid their employment prospects.

That doesn't seem so difficult to understand the motivation.
It’s a sort of placebo effect. Diagnosing someone can create or amplify the effects of the diagnosis.
>Being able to prove opt-out using a watermark tech like this one, maybe even encoding provenance, could make for very interesting legal battles.

That's... not how copyright works? If you're infringing on copyright, "the author didn't opt out" isn't a valid defense. The valid defenses like fair use can not be opt out by authors. In other words I don't really see any circumstance where opt outs are a valid factor.
Bitcoin Blasts Past $31,000 as Optimism for BTC Spot ETF Surges
I just rented a Mazda with one of those terrible rotary dials. Something as simple as finding the nearest gas station, which takes like 2 touches on a touch screen, takes several pushes and inaccurate turns of the dial. It turns a 3-second affair into a 30 second nightmare requiring constant distractions and squinting to see which button or field is currently highlighted. It's the worst car UX I've ever experienced, even worse than a Tesla. I'll never buy a car with a system like this. It's suicide.
How do electric car ranges get determined? It’s called “EPA Range” so I figured that the company gives a car to the EPA and the agency runs it from 100-0 under fixed conditions. Is that not the case? Or would Tesla be doing some kind of VW-esque cheat here?
"Type 1 Diskette" was the IBM product description for its first 8-inch one; "floppy disk" was used for the same technology in some places before the first commercially-available products. Both terms were general, neither was specific to any subset of the sizes they would later come in.

There were probably some times and places where local common usage made a distinction between some of the forms then in use by using the two terms differently, though.
What questions were they asking you over so many rounds? Like how much more information about a candidate could one possibly need?
Firefox does not have PWAs or did they change their mind?
My son had a Nokia Phone8 in high school and loved the thing to death. Doubly so because he had the only one around. He couldn't do a lot with it but he really enjoyed the UI.
There are presumably shortages of domestic labor in fields other than high-frequency trading and AI (or whatever the top-paying job categories are).
Those block shaped seats look more comfortable than the real thing.
> who the users are that are requesting 12TB of storage.

Photo and video resolutions just keep going up and up.

I think the target group must be people that film a lot of video and take a lot of pictures.

Maybe there is some more LIDAR capture that Apple has planned too, or any other kind of 3D content, that will take a lot of storage
If someone is referring to terms like institutional racism I'd expect a little bit of nuance on their part /shrug
https://mastodon.social/@rodhilton/109572674700288958

"He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets."
It's not though, it's for "specialized" talent. O-1 visas are for people with extraordinary talent.

https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/h-1b-spec...

https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary...

Originally H1Bs required $60k/year salary, which was in 1990 and indexed to inflation would be $140k. I don't think there's any need at all for a bidding process, the minimum salary just needs to be raised to $140k and indexed to inflation. (As it should have been to begin with.)
My daughters’ 2014 Volt that had a bug that would trigger a warning system that would turn off charging until it was reset. Paid a dealer $400 to reprogram (and didn’t do it right the first time and follow the service bulletin. Had to take it back). Write crappy code, get paid over and over.
I have a Redmi note 7 with a 351 single core score and I am perfectly happy with it. Just replaced the original firmware with lineageos.
And there's file system stuff: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28640159/what-is-the-dif...
> I don’t understand what this means

It means that politicians are going to protect the labor market for their constituents. Visa restrictions are a form of trade protectionism except that the "good" being protected is labor.

Sometimes companies win subsidies or protectionist tariffs just with lobbyists. Workers have actual votes.
What you’ve described sounds like a one-way conversation, if not an insult: I get to be (essentially) propagandised to and misled into thinking I’m talking to a real person who will pass my concerns up the chain, when in-reality I’m not going to be heard.

If any campaign does to me what you describe then they will have lost my vote.

Politics is people.
People bike and ski that fast every day with no protection other than a helmet.
Leaving aside the other reasons this is a stupid remark, Albert Einstein was rich and powerful.
Meh, gsync keeps it sane. But no, my screen refresh rate is 165hz. If it were to be running that many fps, it would result in ~200 watts of power be utilized. Maybe this is "good" for gaming, but it is def bad for my wallet who has to pay the power bill. Maybe when electricity prices go back down, I'll turn it up.
Microsoft to help Australia build 'cyber shield'
In the US at least, there's many, many, many laws still on the books which haven't been relevant for sometimes over 100 years, but nobody ever repealed them.

This sort of stuff gets conveniently remembered when someone is being persecuted (sometimes for good reasons in the case of a serial killer or organized criminal, or for bad reasons like someone who is just being critical of a public figure).

I for one hope to one day drink wine with my wife while watching movies in the back of our self-driving car, on the way to Disneyland from Chicago.
interesting — looks like would feel like running on pair of slanted pogo sticks, like
juggling springs with feet
U.S. income inequality grew through pandemic years, Fed survey shows
I beat the shit out of my plantar fascia when I took to longboarding one summer.

I basically had to stop any recreational walking for a year. I tried the Vibram FiveFingers and I think they helped (yes, I know about the lawsuit: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-27335251), but my equation for recovery is rest + time then gentle strengthening (and luck I guess, in the case of my plantar fasciitis). And ergonomic everything wherever possible to prevent future issues before they occur.
FramerAuth
>"No one sued us before we made it to market with our models trained on stolen property, and now we're entrenched with a billion dollars of legal defense funds and budgeted for the fines in case we end up convicted of robbing you — and now our customers pay us to externalize and disregard the robberies we committed to reduce their effort, so they have the moral high ground and we wallow in our wealth."

What about "all art is derivative to some extent, and training a machine artist based on existing art is no different than training a machine artist based on existing art"?
Bit of both, it seems.

https://youtu.be/ygvBSYwxqyE?si=N3PC7F5Vo5J8YtCT
A bit light on details but seems "Requested a report of administrative users" was the main outcome disclosed which I assume means further phishing and attack vectors on 1Password admins.

Any other takes?
Could be referring to the decision to turn the water back on in Gaza
you are absolutely right. just focusing on creating uber-techies won't get us very far. what i have in mind with educating the general public is more in a broader sense, to create an understanding and awareness of the challenges of technology, to give people the capacity to make value judgements and be able to evaluate which technology to trust.

malleable systems appears to approach this from the other side by pushing for technology that can be trusted because it is easier to adapt by anyone to their own needs (and therefore easier to understand)

even as a developer i want that. i have only recently realized how much of a barrier elaborate toolchains used to build software are to the maintenance and adaptability for my own needs.

subconsciously i have always preferred building software without a toolchain, but this realization has helped me to make that preference explicit.

any application i build now must be able to run directly from a source repo without any installation step. to be able to make changes at worst a restart should be necessary, but preferably not even that. using languages and development environments like smalltalk, lisp and pike i can build applications that can be changed at runtime, which greatly increases the malleability at least for those who are able to learn some programming.
It might possibly be a bad idea for everyone to consolidate all of the credentials and all of the auth flow mechanics for all of the things to a small handful of companies.