skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
scaling? nah, I'd say to just choose at runtime a sane text size (only to avoid using the same pixel size on a 1024x768 as a 5k screen) and set the number of rows and columns to fit the screen. Even if there isn't enough to fill the screen that's fine.

> Seems a bit overkill for something people rarely use.

Okay, but a lot less so than a full GUI with mouse and thousands of colors, like many motherboards have gone to.
Is it possible to add a legend? What do these colors represent in terms of visibility?
Once you get into the nuts and bolts of cyber insurance you often find you aren't covered in that regard and it is becoming extremely expensive
It's a popular western myth that Israel consists mostly of Europeans. In fact, a majority of Israeli Jewish people are Mizrahim, all of them of middle eastern origin, and themselves victims of a series of counter-Nakbas that took place during and in the wake of the Arab-Israeli war. Yemen, for instance, was once a center of middle eastern Judaism, but the Yemenite Jewish community fled pogroms there en masse.

(For that matter: Jewish people in Europe also fled pogroms, even after World War 2; by way of example, 40 Jewish people were beaten to death with iron pipes in Kielce after a child and his father spread a blood libel story.)

One reason Jewish people get prickly about rhetorical attempts to illegitimize the entire existence of Israel (the "river to the sea" stuff) is that all of the surrounding countries have comparable legitimacy. Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, all drawn up by European powers. Jewish supporters of Israel notice that it only seems to be the Jewish people whose residency is so questioned, and not, say, the Alawites who run Syria.
> an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,'

Anyone who knows anything about convergence & asymptotic behavior would beg to disagree (based on the given assumptions).
This is awesome, the UI looks beautiful.

I've noticed you've provided Go, Python, and Node SDKs. What's the general tech stack for these? I assume your usage of Protobufs is for a consistent schemas between languages?

I ask because I'm curious as to how much work it is to define new SDKs for other languages, as I'd love a Java implementation - Ideally the SDK should be a pretty thin wrapper, simply calling the gRPC service with some minimal error handling, is this the case?
I agree - I also think it's a lost cause. Everything will be "reinvented" with AI now, including terminology.

Think about "an operating system for the cloud". What's that?

Could be a hypervisor. Or a Javascript framework. Or Office 365, or ChromeOS. Who even knows at this point?
As someone who gets paid to find ambiguity in language, cf. being paid to write broken software, IMO the term "finished software" does not leave much room for competing interpretations. It seems quite clear.

As a non-graphical software user, I have been using finished software for many years and I actually prefer it to the broken on arrival variety that has become increasingly common today. The type that can be a Trojan Horse for pre-approved remote access in the form of "software updates".
Eww, no. Rational adults examine our social norms, ask why we have them, and challenge those that make no sense.
I thought it collapsed years ago. Had no idea it was still alive
> you don't come out the other end with any tangible real-life skill, that would be useful outside of the game.

Replace "the game" with "the small sphere of specialisation" and this applies to learning a great many things which don't generalise, many of which don't make you money either.

Your friend doesn't have a critique of video games, he has just discovered relaxation and/or hobbies.
They are also doing the same thing with apartment rents by all using the same rent pricing company that keeps raising rents across the city. It's all collusion to raise prices.
Most users will never hook up a thunderbolt device so why not just have USB?
There’s a list of Nitter instances here, if the flagship instance isn’t working (this happens from time to time): https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
It's not "refreshing" to hide problems.
Lenders could internalize this risk, which is miniscule. But mortgages in the United States are a subsidized product. The real problem is that the lender wants to sell the note to Fannie/Freddie, who require title insurance.

Title insurance is a total scam. Title insurers pay 3-6% of their premiums in claims [0]. Compare to auto insurance, which is ~80% [1], or home insurance (~50-70%) [2].

[0] https://www.ceicdata.com/en/united-states/title-insurance-in...
[1] https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2023/05/12/72...
[2] https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...
The logo reminded me of Raven Software. Good times!
Every feature has a cost, whether realized or not.
Why would that be the only realistic way? Larger vehicles have more space for more battery capacity, and for stuff like school buses they don’t tend to go super far distances. I don’t know why it’d be a problem. The 300mi seems excessive honestly.
>> They are writing law in MS Word and negotiating any changes in law by sending paragraphs over email, which they check once a day at most.

Fair point. But, I don't think it's good enough, at this point.

Software is not new or marginal anymore, and the business of software certainly isn't.

Practices like terms and conditions... Its not something lawyers can't see. I've heard the same thing about patents and I don't really believe that either. Patent lawyers, specialists and reviewers are nerds... They're not "boomers."

There are no more excuses. It's just makes suck now.
> Brave is what Firefox could and should have become.

A little known Chromium fork?

Brave has some privacy advantages by default. Firefox has some privacy advantages with configuration. Both are useful.

Vivaldi seems to have been more successful as a power user's browser than Brave has had with 1 eye on cryptocurrency and 1 eye on privacy.
There's also a pair of massive lawsuits alleging IP theft/infringement from ARM and Apple.
Why use Chrome?

I'm curious, for those of you who use Chrome ... why do you (vs. another browser)?
For those who don’t know, this is a quote from Mass Effect. If you are reading this and didn’t know that, you are in for a treat.
My point is there isn’t a “correct” way to become a game developer— by your own response you showed that there are frameworks you can use, WYSIWYG editors, you can code a framework from scratch in a high- or low-level language, or you can work with an AI to make something that works.

This person successfully developed a game. Just because it isn’t how others would have done it doesn’t minimize the result.
Yeah totally it's the same thing. The bottom line is you now have an extra 3% to "play with" between you, the seller's agent, and the seller that would have previously gone to the buyer's agent. How you split up that 3% depends on who's got most of the leverage in the scenario.
Unless you wanted to be a research biologist, does the precise mechanism driving evolution really matter? And the ideas did turn out to have some merit with epigenetics, right?

Sure it's largely wrong, but it's a strange sort of indoctrination to care about. Sort of like how we tell children the story about electrons being balls that orbit the nucleus. Wrong, but only important for physicists and chemists.
Very sad to see.

OpenMW is a very similar project for a game of the same vintage - Morrowind. Still in active development (last commit 1 hour ago as of writing).

To think Bethesda would be fine with openMW, but rockstar had to shut down openRW.
I had this exact thing happen to me when I tried to reset a Mac and wipe it clean. Would not start up and went into this doom loop when booting with the apple logo and a black screen. No amount of key combinations worked. I had to drop into DFU, which is a huge pain to get into to begin with and then use another Mac to recover.
Considering how many people choose to be republicans and democrat's I don't think this is a home school issue.
Barbara Bain (playing Helena Russell in Space 1999) married Martin Landau (captain(?) Koenig in same). They had a daughter Juliet Landau who played - IMO played rather well - Drusilla in Buffy, the vampire who was about fifteen sandwiches and eleven cupcakes and a bottle of lemonade short of a picnic.

Was very surprised to discover that link.
Why Halloween is an ecological disaster
This article is about replacing programmers with AI.

I, personally, will celebrate, since it'll allow me to explore opportunities I would not have time for on my own. And I'm not worried for my career, since 99% of people will still be unable to think and write coherently enough to use the AI tools.

And I think the reality here is not so much being unwilling to pay artists as the budget being extremely low. If I've got an art budget of $10 for a quick experiment like this, I'm not going to hire an artist, I'm just going to use the circle tool in GIMP.
Too much money being thrown around on BS in the LLM space, hardly any of it is going to places where it matters. Ignorance on the part of investors.

For example, the researchers working hard on better text sampling techniques (i.e. https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.00666), or on better constraint techniques (i.e. like this https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03081), or on actual negative prompting/CFG in LLMs (i.e. like this https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/issues/24536) are doing far FAR more to advance the state of AI than dozens of VC backed LLM companies operating today. They are all laboring in relative obscurity.

HN, and the NLP community have some serious blindspots with knowing how to exploit their own technology. At least someone at Andreessen Horowitz got a clue and gave some funding to Oogabooga - still waiting for Automatic1111 to get any funding.
> He is trying to eliminate the competition,

Funny way of doing it, going around saying "you should regulate us, but don't regulate people smaller than us, and don't regulate open-source".

> you must report to the US government about how you created and tested your model.

If you're referring to the recent executive order: only when dual-use, meaning the following:

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(k) The term “dual-use foundation model” means an AI model that is trained on broad data; generally uses self-supervision; contains at least tens of billions of parameters; is applicable across a wide range of contexts; and that exhibits, or could be easily modified to exhibit, high levels of performance at tasks that pose a serious risk to security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters, such as by:

(i) substantially lowering the barrier of entry for non-experts to design, synthesize, acquire, or use chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) weapons;

(ii) enabling powerful offensive cyber operations through automated vulnerability discovery and exploitation against a wide range of potential targets of cyber attacks; or

(iii) permitting the evasion of human control or oversight through means of deception or obfuscation.

- https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...
Really... I just had the worst experience just trying to limit my sharing since my employer signed me up to a retirement account with them. No automatic prompt, had to be forwarded around and finally to a human that had to verify several things and information for me just to limit my sharing. The first call I got stuck with the phone robot and it wouldn't accept any input. The second call was 18 minutes to just get that done.
Ask HN: Does LeetCode/HackerRank make you a better developer?
I know this is question is very broad, but bear with me.

I consider myself a strong engineer. I have 14 years of experience, I'm mostly autodidact, and I can learn new stacks/technologies pretty easily.

Being an autodidact, I don't possess a degree, however I know about basic algorithms such as binary sort, quick sort, graphs etc.

Recently, I started to interview again, and some interviews require HackerRank test. Some tests are designed to evaluate a specific knowledge, say SQL or multithreaded programming, while other questions are purely algorithmic (in the style of: "find if a string is an anagram").

I don't have a problem with specific domain knowledge questions, such as SQL or multithreading. I do have a problem with purely algorithmic questions. I never used binary search, or needed to reverse a string as fast as possible, in my career.

And, sadly, I start to question my career. Do I suck at those questions because I never worked with something algorithmically hard? Do I suck at them, simply because I'm not used to solving them? Are they even good evaluation tools to understand if the candidate is suitable for the work he/she is going to perform?

So my questions is: do you think that being able to solve LeetCode/HackerRank questions (not brute forcing them, but rather understanding the underlying algorithm) help you become a better developer (rather than better at solving these types of questions), or are they, mostly, useless and it's better to build and ship software?
If this works as advertised, it will make LMM/LLM-RAG systems more effective. I've often found it amusing how as soon as we encounter significant limitations in the architecture, we come running back to search algorithms to help it along. I'm not one of those people that consider this some sort of moral slight against the LLM/LMM's intellectual capacity, my view has always been that it's a system that is or isn't intelligent, not a component. It's just funny considering some of the early "This will replace search!" prognostication which like... yes, it probably will in some sense be an integral part of future search, but the potential is so much more exciting than that.
It’s the same thing. You have to ask why a few more times, but you get to the same place.
I appreciate logical correctness, but it isn’t helpful in this case. It’s very clear how indoctrination is meant when we’re talking about parents denying evolution and claiming the earth is merely a few thousand years old.
More like a school that can easily exclude problem students. Public schools don't get that privilege.

Seems like the same lesson as private academies that were used to enforce de facto segregation. Run away from the scary change, and try to keep doing things the old way. It's just not sustainable the way public institutions are.
This is the reality of where the pay/don't pay falls down.

If your records have been encrypted and taken, you have already taken a reputational hit to sensitive information. If you can recover your operations then you shouldn't even think about paying the ransom. However, if your systems have been encrypted AND you can't recover them AND not having your systems is catastrophic to your business continuing then you may consider paying the ransom. Hopefully with a renewed understanding of how important it is to have appropriate information security controls in place.

The only way not paying ransoms will happen, is if it is made illegal or there are significant penalties as a result of doing so. Otherwise, for some businesses not paying the ransom when their systems are offline is too risky.
Obligatory: We already have a open-source tail -f; it's called `tail -f`. (Kind of /s, but much like the infamous dropbox comment[0], it sucks that there exists a problem for this to solve in the first place.)

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
This would be great if true. Any source for this?
Definitely agree about the toolchain, I was referring more to code execution on the OS itself.
Correct, and this is something I've used to my advantage before. It's not a huge one, but when all othet things are equal...
> Text-only BIOS setup was the norm for a long time

Long-time Thinkpad users scoff at that ... while the figure of a duck suddenly enters their minds..

(Yes: I clearly remember my pre-USB thinkpad having a graphical BIOS with windows, icons, and a duck-shaped mouse cursor).
I have an account and half the time when I follow a link from HN to Twitter / X it just throws an error that something went wrong / can't load the tweet. And video content works even less often than that. The site seems like it barely works at this point and is rapidly becoming a ghost town. What a waste.
The H265 patent licensing situation is famously a mess and has been a big barrier to adoption. Except in circles where people worry less about that sort of thing: Warez, China, ...

The licensing shenanigans of H265 was a big motivator for creating AV1, a royalty free codec.
Further blatant abuse of their monopoly.
big if true. IMO wework defined a whole era of startups / working in tech, offering a cool environment with the flexibility to grow, shrink, or change locations as needed. it was also a great place to have an office for networking purposes.

even though it's had its fair share of controversy, I'd be sad to see wework shut down.
For Facebook some videos require you click on it to get the progress bar and annoyingly you then have to click the unmute button to hear it.

Related - if you search Google for a video and it finds a video on a Youtube /search page it will play it but it pauses when you tab away from it. If you want to listen to it in the background you need to move the tab to another window or open YouTube and probably watch an ad.
They make you code under pressure for sure.
I am quite sure that most religious people would not even take offense at the idea that their religion is at least partially about control or related to control. That's actually kind of the point of a lot of it. "Trust in God and follow his commandments" and all that stuff sort of implies that there are rules you should be following and that you have accepted the responsibility to try and follow them.

I guess I don't see why control is necessarily a bad thing. Most people would say that something like self-control is (in moderation like all things) a virtue. Certainly I see a lot more people that could use more control than I see people that are so controlled (by either themselves or others) that they could use less.
The thing about creationism is that it also inherently tells you science is wrong, not to be believed and that scientists and the government willingly lie to you. That doesn’t set you up to get far and do well in the world as it is.
Based on: Forbus, K. D. (1985). Structure and interpretation of computer programs. Artificial Intelligence, 27(1), 124–127. doi:10.1016/0004-3702(85)90087:

"several important topics that students should be exposed to early are treated lightly, if at all. Its coverage of fundamental algorithms is spotty - sorting, for instance, is
not discussed at all.

Another problem inherent in this pedagogical approach is that it does not teach students many of the engineering skills necessary for developing efficient programs on 'real' computers. This can lead to a 'clean fingernails' syndrome.
where the student feels no program should be written or used unless it is utterly clean."

This is just one. I can't find the paper but Philip Wadler was the original person saying the exact phrase 'intellectually dishonest'.
Item 1 is "Your product must be 100% recyclable", which means most products (including calculators) cannot qualify for frustration free packaging. In fact, most of the "frustration free packaging" requirements listed are about the product, not the packaging. Item 11, "Your product must be prep free packaging", makes no sense.

Later parts of the article seem generated by an LLM or someone without good English and make little sense, e.g. the "Tell me the packaging requirement?" section, which says it lists the requirements but doesn't, or the "Does my product meet Amazon's requirements for frustration-free packaging?" section which starts "This question is interesting" and contains "Tell us what Amazon is looking for when testing products that are frustration-free. The bag must be packed in about 2 minutes. 2. Packaging of the actual product is not larger than 2 cm." What?
I meant something different by "anything goes." I am ~40 and was born in Eastern Europe -- but even in the US, back then there was still a strong value that a good life a combination of having a family and raising the next generation, ability to work to support your family and contribution to society through your work.

Whereas even in "my time" these values would have resonated with the tone in a public school, I am pretty sure that's not going to be the case today. But these values remain for me very central, and I would sacrifice a lot to ensure my kids are educated in an environment that supports them. A religious school that frames these values along the lines of "what G-d expects of me" would totally work for me separate from whether I literally believed in the religion. "Anything goes" by contrast to this is the vibe that it's fine to not do any of these things.

It's funny/sad to see eg on HN folks saying "oh, I don't see why it's important to have children, or to have my work matter." Right, but the fact that you "don't see it" is sad to me (you do you but I don't have to think it's great) and I don't want my kids to "not see it"
> seems to be able to paint... she's a painter.

That's perhaps a stretch; plenty of public figures have painted on occasion, maybe even sold a painting or two, but would not be considered painters.
Yeah, being a doctor is a certifiable profession— there are tests, governing bodies, standardized curriculum— are you saying the same exists for “game developer”, a role which could mean a hobbyist, indie developer, or someone working at a huge studio?

This really sounds like “real programmers write in assembly” to me. An AI is a tool, not dissimilar from a higher level language. This person used a tool to create something that didn’t exist before. The result is right there.
How many more things that you get made fun of for doing are actually the best things you could be doing?
Science just obfuscates the issue with a lot more layers of sophistry. Ask "and where did that come from" enough times, and you get to the big bang. The origin of that infinitesimally small speck containing all the energy in the universe is just as mysterious as the origin of god.

As an agnostic, I don't really have a dog in this fight, but science has no better explanation for our origin that the religious people do. It just sounds fancier.
The Catholic Church is a liberal outlier. It’s so far away from the median that many if not most Christian sects do not consider it as “Christian”. One major difference is that Catholicism acknowledges evolution as a truth so it’s no surprise that they consider us as heretics.

For context, I was raised as a Catholic, had well over a decade of theological study (including university level classes), and I’ve had significant contact and relationships with other Christians in the Southern US.

Most religious people do not have the privilege to attend a more intellectual leaning parochial school. Weekly 30 min sermons are not enough, but that is the norm for most religious people.
As did pretty much any PC motherboard/CPU/GPU combination from the past 25 years.
SICP authors were not the originators of Lambda Calc. Even a noob like me knows that!
Datomic is not a SQL database. You can simulate tabular data, but it is a very different beast. Datomic schemas are always EAVT. If you add an attribute, or deprecate one, there may still be values tagged to that attribute. That should be fine.

That something as simple as change--a universal condition of all systems--defeats so many schema designs in SQL databases should suggest that there's something wrong with the SQL databases.
YouTube where the user account can be terminated without notice, and with no recourse?
That's the job of an external cyber incident response team who can trace how it occurred and to check that the vulnerability has been appropriately eradicated and locked before resuming business operations