skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least as far as a career in software engineering goes in the United States, the field moves so fast and is so thoroughly differentiated that it seems like it might make more sense from both the student's and the employer's perspective to replace the current university-to-job pipeline with an apprenticeship program of sorts. Given the emphasis placed on internships in college Computer Science programs, this seems to already be implicitly understood and inefficiently implemented on some level.

Come to think of it, the current socioeconomic equilibrium where students take out loans (or pull on their parents' purse strings) to fund their own education to provide more value to future employers than they ultimately get back seems woefully inefficient, not just for software engineering, but for most academic and industrial fields more generally.

Why not run application cycles or even scout students directly out of high school and enroll them in professional programs run by the organizations themselves in exchange for some number of months or years of discounted labor? Obviously, this isn't happening because it transfers risk from individuals to organizations, but it also seems obvious that, were it subsidized or enforced in some way (insurance?), it might lead to better, more equitable outcomes.

Has anyone else had similar thoughts? Or thoughts to the contrary?
I have a somewhat related dream. Have you ever read "I, pencil"? https://mises.org/library/i-pencil

Pick any human artifact. The pencil might be a good start, but really I'd prefer something like the CPU.

Start with what we currently know. How do we make this thing? How do we make the tools and materials and everything else involved in making the thing? Recurse all the way down.

And then - how could we optimize that? This thing we make is part of a massive global human economy, entangled with all sorts of other things. But what if we didn't care about any of that? What parts are unnecessary? What can we simplify?

How would you make this thing "from scratch"? For example, on a desolate, uninhabited planet. What could you bootstrap locally, what is absolutely necessary to bring?

The real end goal, for me, is: how would you build a human artifact that could self-replicate on another planet? What is the simplest such artifact we could come up with?

Could you do it without any pre-existing organic life? Maybe a CPU; certainly not a pencil, if you don't have access to wood. Unless you bring seeds and whatever else you need to grow your own forests...
LIGO Surpasses the Quantum Limit
I thought Ford had outlawed dealers doing that. Call Ford?
Do they provide a complete solution (you only need to tick a checkbox) or parents need to be power users and manually set up whitelist for websites and apps? Do they prevent children from using for example Telegram in locked mode?
I wish ARSTechnica would pick up this story and do a deep dive. They have done an amazing job keeping up with all of the shenanigans that incumbent telcos pulled in the case of the town/city of Wilson in North Carolina back in the day rolling out their Greenlight fiber muni broadband network:

- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/11/the-price-of-mun...

- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/03/cable-backed-ant...

- https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/02/fcc-o...

- https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/09/muni-...

- https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/10/city-...
Don't forget 'acted on'.

They're using this data to make sure people who criticise them can't acquire influence.

And it's all in secret, short of canny SAR's.

People can question if this is technically surveillance, but in context, that question is basically misdirection.
This is a very conservative and limiting definition of “artist.” I was always told that anyone can be an artist, even if their work isn’t classically “good.” Now the ladder has been pulled up by formerly inclusive artists. That’s too bad.
As far as I am aware, companies are largely very risk averse to this sort of thing and no e have yet made any effort to combat fraud. In fact, I am pretty surprised to hear about Shopify even taking this step.
Some of the music from other decades is certainly better than some of what's getting put out today. Growing up, I often preferred (much) older artists that were still known to whatever was bubbling up on the Billboard charts.
If they're not connected to the internet, does it matter?
I never tried the pen version. I actually have a very nice bench DMM that I picked up used for a good price. It's a bit of a "pearls before swine" piece of equipment in my hands, though. I've literally never needed the precision it has, or have done 4 wire measurements, or recorded a series of measurement over time, etc. But I enjoy knowing that I can if I ever need to.

That DMM gives me a similar convenience to what you describe, but I am almost never using a multimeter anywhere but on my bench -- that probably matters a lot.
Yes but kids who do not want to see porn (or people cut in pieces) will not see it accidentally. Isn't that good?
What you said is probably similar to what they said at the early invention of shoes.

Professional runners today already use an "external device," aka running shoes. If they ran barefoot or even wore mediocre shoes, they would perform worse. As long there's no external energy powering the device, I'd still consider it running.
I find it very amusing people we're outraged about "WAP" and considering it a new low for music.

The songs popular when I was a child and a teenager:

"Baby Got Back"

"Kim"

"The Bad Touch"
So so a nice feature (irony), now there will be a single point of control for all your traffic. Point controlled by Google and the US...

Also, it is a proxy, not a VPN, globally meaning that they could see in clear if not all the content of the traffic , at least the destination that is now hidden by TLSv3.

What is interesting is also with something like that they can grow again their ad and saas revenues: now they can easily identify "same users", also you could expect things like websites requiring authentication provided "transparently" by these proxies.
Octogenarians saved democracy by mailing everybody ballots with their names on them. Controlling distribution channels is probably more important than anonymity, which is why the article points to things like “impact assessments” and other blockers to free distribution.
That’s not how the law works.

You can’t take things from a house because they didn’t lock the front door.
Running Julia on Graphcore IPUs
I've been around huge numbers of EV drivers (at Apple HQ for years, myself included) and affluent yes liberals no. independent thinking nerds fascinated by the technology is what i think you're overlooking.
The performance is actually much better than most people from that skillset originally expected, and it generally gets better performance from arbitrary code paths/machine logic than Rosetta does.

Rosetta outperforms it because of hardware assistance, not because Microsoft's implementation is bad (let alone "terrible").
The story was not flagged, even though you feel it shouldn't have fallen of the front page (moot now they're merged). A flagged story will disappear, but after that it's HN algos that decide what sits on the front page.
I believe wealth tax is the best fix for the root cause of inequality.

I see the root cause as being this observation: If you have power, you can use the threat of it to make people do things for you. Wealth is liquid power, and the threat of using it doesn't spend it.

The effect of that is that inequality has a natural tendency to grow: those with a little more can use that as leverage to get even more and repeat that process over and over.

Widespread progressive taxation is the most effective tool I can think of to act as a damping force on that positive feedback loop.
You can make watermarks that survive manual transcription. But then you have to get a lot more clever than replacing whitespace with different whitespace, and instead encode information in parts a human would preserve. Word choice, spelling choices, punctuation, etc. provide a lot of space to encode a signal. Basically anything used by traditional authorship detection/stylometry.
It will go badly for at least one campaign; the news media will then trumpet that example of why AI will never work for political campaigns; meanwhile everyone else will keep on using it.
I've seen these and personally find them absurd: like large just to be large.

https://www.gmc.com/electric/hummer-ev/pickup-trucks-suvs
I was dreading what Netflix were going to do with the Dahl books. I was sure they would balls them up and make them, for want of a better word, ...Netflixy.

Wes Anderson[1] is just a perfect fit though. The shorts are so, so good. Everything about them is spot on. The casting, the sets, everything.

I couldn't imagine anyone doing a better job and I hope they do more.

Of the current run, I'd pick The Swan myself but I reorder my favourites every time I rewatch them.

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1. My bias is that I've never seen a Wes Anderson film I didn't think was magic.
> All this, and not an extra cent in their wages.

> "There's not much we can do for them apart from say 'thank you'," says Sarandrea. "We send them a certificate of appreciation every five years. When they retire, we give them a memento."

You could... pay them more for the extra risk they take? Very American brain movr, don't pay more for higher risk, and then proudly state it. Patriotism at its finest.
Yeah it is. Desktop is the gui. Heard lots of good things about Orbstack as the gui replacement.
Possibly where we're headed is an expansion of the first layer, but it already exists. You currently need to use your real identity to do things like access banking and file taxes. You also need to provide your age to access services like porn and gambling.

The complaint here isn't the use of age and/or identity verification for anything at all. It's using it to access social media. There isn't much in the way of a good legal reason to do this and previous attempts have seemingly been shut down by courts. Children are currently allowed to enter and occupy congregation spaces also used by adults, i.e. churches, parks, community centers, libraries. Private clubs are allowed to ban children if they want to, but have never been legally required to unless they specifically provide adult services like strippers and booze.

This also, of course, seems way less workable than real-world versions. At least in person, if a child presents a fake ID, a bouncer can sanity check that they look like the photo and look like they might actually be an adult. 12 year-olds with pocket change to spare can pretty trivially pay a poor person who doesn't give a shit to scan their retinas in Sam Altman's world coin face reader and hand over their private keys and now they've got a fake ID that no website can call bullshit on. Even without that, a kid can easily get an older sibling or friend to share a login, just like my wife's younger sister used to borrow my wife's ID to get into clubs and bars or I used to buy cigarettes and liquor for my friends because I had the earliest birthday.

Policymakers don't want to admit it, but it is ultimately up to parents to police what their children do on the Internet. There is no automated system that can't be beaten until they figure out a way to hook up a blood prick to your computer and check telomere length to estimate your genetic age, assuming we don't figure out how to reverse that, and even that can't prevent a child from shoulder-surfing an adult.
1Password detects "suspicious activity" in its internal Okta account
DMCA? Does Mazda think we're going to start downloading cars because of this?
CE's cousin, WinMo was my phone favorite. WinMo6 was the right direction for software to go; it was fairly inviting to developers and a diverse, healthy ecosystem had sprung up around it.

But MS wanted Apple's level of control more than anything - certainly more than they wanted success. They poisoned their loyal userbase with Phone 7 and every good (mobile) thing they had died in that grave.
LLVM Looking to Better Collaborate Around Common AI/GPU/FPGA Offloading
Bundle your backend code to single file just like you'd bundle f/e.
GenAI really is a competitor for a lot of commercial illustration and photography. It isn't a complete substitute, but there are lots of situations where a layman fiddling around with a GenAI will get a perfectly acceptable result in a couple of minutes. If it doesn't already exist, I can easily foresee that online publishing tools will have integrated GenAI features to autogenerate an image from a caption, or an illustration based on the text of an article.

Some artists may well benefit from being able to produce more work more quickly and be able to capitalise on their ability to use GenAI effectively, but I expect that many won't; they are likely to see their incomes decline, or lose their livelihoods altogether.

That isn't an argument for stigmatising or banning GenAI, but we do need to recognise that it's a real problem for the people affected.
And let's not forget the recent failure of AMP.

Resulted in URLs ending in .amp and sad failure of an application.

Once as an attempt for content control.
Good Lord somebody is in a mean-spirited downvoting fug today.

Hope you feel better soon. :)
Yeah! We call that liquidity
Note: it will still work, it's just not supported anymore.

It's sad that such discontinuations don't come with an open-sourcing to allow community based support if need be.
This is a pretty cool article but calling the Voyagers “obsolete” is killer comedy. Ok yes and what non-obsolete technology has passed the heliopause and can be patched from 130/160 AU away.
If sheer size had anything to do with it, we’d be speaking Russian or Chinese…unless you are referring to the American Empire and not just the States…
I liked having a web frontend to git, which was often much less cumbersome than figuring out the right diff/log/branch incantations. Also, as a cvs refugee, I felt weird committing to just my local repo and not having another place where "the truth" lived.

None of this functionality had anything to do with social features; it simply helped act as my bridge between centralized and distributed source control.
that's a very good point

macrovision was a DRM technique applied to DVDs

it worked by very slightly altering the signal such that humans wouldn't notice, but prevented VHS recorders from making a decent copy

macrovision removal devices were ruled as circumvention devices and hence illegal in both the US and EU

this poisoning approach is essentially the same idea as macrovision, with pretty similar intent

so I don't see why systematically removing it wouldn't count as circumvention
> There are two sides to this argument:

It is a disservice to users of the service to whittle down this issue to 2 simple points. Under Google's lead, YouTube has been offering a service - as we've been accustomed to accessing it - since 2006. That's ~17 years.

Suddenly, they want to change the very nature of their business model. It is no longer the YouTube we've been accustomed to accessing for those ~17 years. A no log-in required service, ad-blockers, plenty of browser extensions, etc..

Let's keep in mind that YouTube made ~$29.2 billion in revenue in 2022 [0, 1]. They reported 2.7 billion active users in 2023 - this makes them second only to Facebook.

Its YouTube Premium Service has 80 million subscribers (as of September 11, 2022). Netflix, in comparison, has 247 million subscribers worldwide (3rd qrt, 2023) [2]. Disney+ has 146 million worldwide subscribers (3rd qtr, 2023) but they've been bleeding subscribers [3]. These are actual Premium Video Services.

YouTube is trying to be both an annoying (ad-ridden) general video site and a very expensive premium site. I call this arrogance.

Basically... YouTube is doing very well financially right now ($29 billion). They want to make even more money because $282.8 billion (2022) in revenue for Alphabet is not enough [4]. We can all see the greed.

The problem... Google wants to do this by changing the core of their business as far as access is concerned. It is this change to their core business model that we are up in arms about. It will no longer be the same site.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube?useskin=vector

[1] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/youtube-statistics/

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/250934/quarterly-number-...

[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1095372/disney-plus-numb...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.?useskin=vector
China completed its first international oil transaction using the digital yuan
> Cooler Screens' CRO, in the same interview, describes the devices as "a six-foot canvas with a 4K resolution where brands can share their message with a captive audience."

> I'm not sure that we're really captive in Walgreens, although the constant need to track down a Walgreens correction officer to unlock the cell in which they have placed the hand lotion does create that vibe.
This was well reported on in February.

https://fortune.com/2023/02/15/elon-musk-tweets-boost-joe-bi...
I read almost all of the Lord of the Rings trilogy on a Windows Mobile phone in the 2000s. They were a great tool for the time, and I much preferred them to the Blackberrys that were more popular with many of my coworkers.
Marcel (my successof of osh) supports using past commands in a few ways:

1) Command recall, like any shell.

2) Edit of a previous command, giving you access to the command in $EDITOR.

3) Abstraction. For example, suppose you want to find all files recursively, looking for those changed in the last 3 days. You could write:

ls -fr | select (f: now() - f.mtime() < days(3))

To turn this selection into a reusable command:

recentN = (| N: select (f: now() - f.mtime() < days(int(N))) |)

This is basically a function on a streams, that takes an input N, and filters for files that changed in the last N days. To use it:

ls -fr | recent 3

I don't understand what EXPLAIN would do. In SQL, EXPLAIN helps you see the actual implementation chosen for a non-procedural statement. Marcel, nushell, etc. have no optimizer, so there is no invisible execution plan, that would be made visible using EXPLAIN.

Transactions: Might be feasible with a shell built on some kind of COW filesystem, but I'm dubious of how much transaction isolation is really possible even then.
And yet, despite benchmark numbers, my point still stands. For all the usage I listed above, my old Android is perfectly serviceable. Not once I was using it and thought a better CPU might speed something up, because nothing was slow. The phone never feels hot while using it.

When I try a new phone, I don't see any noticeable difference in speed. Everything loads more or less the same.

A better CPU (even one twice as fast) on a smartphone brings virtually no benefit at this point. Half of "this is pretty fast" is still "pretty fast".
One of my long term plans is to do software development in the domain of infrastructure. Think developing Kubernetes itself instead of “just” using it.

Now you say that even where that infrastructure was the product, the work was still regarded poorly. That is so sad! How come such a thing can exist? Wouldn’t the business fail in the medium term?
This is a related question but how do mere mortals or scrappy hardware startups afford to work on devices with USB4? Outright purchases of USB4 capable scopes are outrageous. Rentals aren't cheap either.
About 45 mins. New crew and plane but kept our same seats.
>> I am like that is a giant ball and chain around your neck broham... Nothing about that says "debt free" or "freedom.

Mortgage debt is not a concern, houses can be sold on a market. If you feel that having no mortgage empowers you, then that's great for you! I don't think this "fear" applies to everyone. Debt can be used very strategically.
Exhibit A for why NVIDIA has smoked them into irrelevance in AI.
Literally the entire document debunks your assertion that the Russians have no nuclear weapons.
It's very wealthy people in the first world and very poor people in the third world.

Poor people will stand up and walk inland.

The rich will do anything they can to convince everyone else to pay for their property losses
Cool, goodluck.
I see this attitude a lot where legal is involved (which is a lot of places). It's a very peculiar sort of "if this then that" which seems to subvert normal human communication. E.g. in this case, a standard human train of thought would be that, because one of the reasons given for not pursuing it is funding, the EFF might offer to fund this person, who, circumstances now being different, might then agree to be the defendant. Now maybe there is a problem with that, but my point is that your response seems to choose not to acknowledge it. I don't think it's malicious - I think there is just something about the way legal works that trains people to think and speak in this slightly non-human way.
You probably want to use that the other direction:

Rewrite the party line into the vernacular and emphasizing the particular concerns of target voters.
That itself is an ahistorical take. Tax as a percent of the economy has gone through the roof, both as a percent of GDP, and as inflation adjusted dollars.

If you compare to a benchmark like the 1940s, tax% of GDP has more than doubled, and GDP has increased ~4x. This means someone today taxes are about 10X the taxes (controlling for for inflation!)

Consider that 40% of US GDP now is collected in some form of taxation.[1] 40 cents of every dollar earned is taxed and spent as the government chooses. This is more than between FDR and Regan, and much more than the 20s (~15% of GDP).

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Federal%...
Under the Sherman Act, the criminal penalty for conspiracy to monopolize is up to 10 years in prison or $10M for individuals, and up to $100M for a business, OR up to twice the monetary benefits to conspirators OR up to twice the money lost by victims, if those amounts are over $100M.
Why almost all companies make their systems difficult to customize and introperate with?

Lately I've been fighting with things like iOS, Chromecast, "smart" lightbulbs, vacuum robots and smartwatches and all of these go out of their way to lock these down and force their shitty and buggy and probably illegal spyware on me.

I'm honestly asking why this is the default. What do the companies have to lose in people making their products suck less?
I think I understand, I've also fallen victim to losing track of things, so I understand. If you haven't, maybe having a policy of trying to have zero security issues in the backlog would help here? That way things can't get lost, and if they're closed then at least the other party can see their issue has been closed and act accordingly (maybe try and escalate or something if they still think it's a real issue).
> My bias is that I've never seen a Wes Anderson film I didn't think was magic

Me too - I think he's getting better over time though and I'd love to see more Dahl adaptations by him. He really lets the writing shine through.
I'm talking about being unable to switch out existing images from laion 5b, for example, with glazed versions to poison the dataset.
The problem is that confidently wrong comments are posted to social media like HN and Reddit so frequently that you'd actually be wrong assuming sarcasm most of the time.

So now you're just admonishing someone for trying to engage a comment instead of identifying the epic "anime run funny" humor.

IMO the sanest policy is to just allow people to respond earnestly to posts even if it might be a joke.
I think the subjective time here is especially relevant. The post previous mentioned having a conversation with ChatGPT about the topic. ChatGPT probably had multiple human lifetimes of conversations during that one conversation. Would it think of humans the same way we think of trees? Too slow to have meaningful behaviour? Maybe on H100s not just yet.