skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 17. The Commission representatives noted that many companies, which participate in the EUIF, are concerned about their security and public image. In addition, the topics discussed in the EUIF are often of a sensitive, operational nature and disclosure could be exploited by malicious actors to circumvent detection mechanisms and moderation efforts by companies. Revealing some of the strategies and tactics of companies, or specific technical approaches also carries a risk of informing offenders on ways to avoid detection. The Commission representatives provided additional confidential information during the meeting with the Ombudsman inquiry team on why the list of experts could not be disclosed.

If the goal of your company is to promote and get a wiretap on every single device and messenger app, IN SECRET, you should be concerned about your public image. I also suggest you should be also concerned human rights and your personal moral compass.

Time to drag out these bastards to the light.
The name is misleading. The document omits the part about executing top level forms. It does mention compiling them, though:

"[...] Compile the current toplevel form.

With (positive) prefix argument the form is compiled with maximal
debug settings (‘C-u’). With negative prefix argument it is compiled for
speed (‘M--’). If a numeric argument is passed set debug or speed settings
to it depending on its sign."
> There are many places in the world where batteries don’t work well due to the cold or lack of electricity.

Like Norway? Norway has 90% EV sales.
Details: https://status.openai.com/

Could it be due to a surge in their services after they cut down their prices?
You can already use Dolt in embedded mode. Check this blog post from them: https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2022-07-25-embedded/. I use it like that and it works great.
> I had it with these people.

You've had it with the EU bureaucrats? What a shame, CSAM has been detected on your phone. Prepare to be apprehended.
There are still those weird spaces on the web where creative oddballs gather though.

Have you checked out the Gemini protocol for example? It's a weird space for weird people, in the best way.
Well the people who don't give any fucks want to make their life easier so they do a minimally competent job and are usually supremely skilled avoiding pain. The disconnected people don't actually do any work at all. The incompetents cruise in, full of ego, poop everywhere and expect everyone else to clean it up and take responsibility for it. I don't mind that job because it's an open ended task. As for it being their fault, no it's not really, you're right. But management need butts on seats apparently so standards will be reduced until they are full.

Also many incompetent people, when faced with enough pain, will turn into competent people and eventually stop giving a fuck too.
If only software engineering required or even encouraged thinking, let alone deeply.

Formal systems like computer programming, mathematics or accounting do depend on a certain style of thinking, but I don't think it's especially hard or deep. If something it's shallow and simplistic (which of course has its place).
Dreaming of the day I run my own models and can be entirely responsible for my own outages.
This. VW has to sell their EVs at 16 - 17K to compete in China, they sell the same for more than 2x in other markets.
Ask HN: Navigating a Lucrative but Unfulfilling Role – When to Jump Ship?
Greetings HN,

I find myself in a very peculiar career conundrum. I currently work as a Staff Software Engineer at a unicorn that successfully went public a few years ago. My compensation is excellent (nearly $500k/year) and I have a healthy retirement account from the IPO. As thankful as I am for my current position, I am also fully aware about the disparities in pay across different geographies and how luck played a big part in landing this role. I just want to make sure I'm not coming off as bragging or unaware of my luck for this.

But here's the problem: The job is making me miserable. The upper management, including my director and C-level executives, seem to lack the necessary competence in their roles. The organization continuously fails to achieve the main Key Results (KR) which leads to a lot of mental gymnastics by the management to redefine success.

My superiors, who are not technical, often give unrealistic directions. Metaphorically speaking, they would come in a building project and look around and say "we should be using red bricks here" but the building is completely made of concrete and we're installing the windows... The lack of connection with reality is frustrating but pushing back feels intimidating.

My major concern, however, lies in my personal and professional growth. I hardly do any coding in this role. Last quarter, we installed a new npm package and wrote a few tests, that's it! It seems the org's inefficiencies are not coming to light because we're not in the main line of business.

So, my question to the HN community is: How long should I endure this situation? The pay is good and the workload is light, but at what point will this start hurting my career? It's clear that this inefficient system will not last.

Would you, in my position, consider sacrificing $200-300k a year of your income to join a smaller startup? One that could provide an atmosphere of inspiration, learning, and teaching about the proper management of an engineering organization?

Thanks for your insights and advice!
> Not a lot of people make a laptop purchase decision over 6%.

How many people make laptop purchase decisions over performance any more? I’d think the GPU boost and things like AV1 are going to matter more, which is probably why Apple focused on them.
You are wrong, Wikipedia is too being influent from US govt.
Torrents are the last good place.
I've seen bands perform where the harmonica guy sounded like a feedback loop, the guitarists didn't agree if they had to play major or major chords and people still clapped.

However when you're not drinking and dancing you care more for the actual quality of what you're hearing.
Love the visualizations.
It is ABSOLUTELY FUCKING WILD that backups are STILL not a solved problem in the Android world, ten years later, after Apple nailed how to do it ages ago...across several device types!
If the problem is shifting focus to the document, is it not better to: before disabling the button, with the attribute, create an element that contains information about the action in progress and focus on this element via `element.focus();`, and then add the "disabled" attribute?
Wikipedia's goal isn't correctness, it is to aggregate the consensus of reliable sources. Wikipedia isn't reliable because it is agreed upon, it is reliable because determining truth values is outsourced to publishers who can mostly be depended on due to the value of reputation amongst experts in the information distribution sector. Publishers have their own biases which Wikipedia will aggregate. This is still, in my experience, a better bar than any others I've come across.
Or, to put it in the immortal words of U2, some days are better than others (https://genius.com/U2-some-days-are-better-than-others-lyric...)
In what world? I have been coding since 1986 and there were systems were C wasn't even an option, and others were C was an option among many others, excluding UNIX's early days before it got widespread outside AT&T.

Even on embedded, besides Assembly, Forth, BASIC and Pascal have been a companion to C since high level languages are able to target those tiny CPUs.

Naturally, I guess there were those systems were the specific vendor only provided a C SDK, which by the end of the MS-DOS days was already rare.
Individual action takes place in a context of social cues and incentives. Those who understand this try to work together to change those things, which in turn changes the “easy defaults” for everyone. This is a million times more effective than limiting your approach to nagging people to do better for ideological reasons.
Fediverse (in the sense of the major servers that federate) is an extreme echo chamber representative of mainly a certain sociopolitical wing and mainly from North America and Western Europe. Just look at mastodon.social/explore and consider that many founding activists of Mastodon have spoken about how they yearn to keep the community just like that even as it grows.

Part of the early internet was about being able to find a huge range of different attitudes and beliefs, every possible politics, every possible religion. It was about being able to get a glimpse of non-Western cultures you might never have been able to learn about before. There is very little diversity in the fediverse.
One of my clients is a large reseller of a different Chamberlain product. I don't normally work with the product lines. However, I might need to insert myself and see if it needs defending from manufacturer sabotage.
But that's not Stockholm Syndrome. It's more sunk-cost fallacy and inertia.
Wondering the same
I was just starting to experiment with GPT-4 Turbo and stopped getting any response after the third or so, thinking I might have left some loop running hammering the API and getting throttled/blocked. Glad it was just a coincidence. :)
Ever hear the term "mid life crisis"? It exists because people around 40-50 - that is 20-30 years into their job they realize they have been doing the same thing and it is getting boring.

While it isn't too late to consider a career change, I'm not sure that is a good idea. For some it is, but many stay - particularly in tech - because they can make a lot of money and thus afford some hobbies that are not boring. Often this is overall your best course in life: find a hobby you enjoy and keep doing your job.

Obviously everyone needs to make their own decisions.
That's a pretty good rundown of the issues with affordances, in modern UX.

I will be forwarding this article to the designer for the app we're in the process of testing.

Surprisingly [not], a lot of the feedback has been that people don't know how to do very important things.

In my experience, graphic designers expect users to admire the UX, as opposed to use it.
> The only mission is try to find a way to survive and prosper under hegemonic capitalism.

How true this is depends on where the money is coming from. Founders at a bootstrapped company may actually believe in their stated mission. I've seen it. Once investment money gets involved, sure, it's all about the exit. Even the founders may be legitimately confused about this, which results in a lot of mixed messages. Professional leaders who have held executive positions at large enterprises have zero illusions and will probably give it to you straight if you ask them one-on-one.
There's often a pair of pins on the internal board that you can attach a relay to. Shorting the pins causes the door to close.
> I'm 'virtually certain' that data going as far as 125,000 years is not reliable.

There might be some truth to this, but A) the fact you don't bother quantifying varying degrees of reliability, and B) the fact that this is your immediate first reaction, makes me highly suspicious of anything you say.

> I work using wordpress and I've been working like this practically my entire career. I use programs like winscp to edit code directly in production over ftp or scp.

Ah well.
SRV
https://atelier.net/ve-tech-radar/tech-radar/subvocal-recogn...

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224s/project/reports_2017/P...

https://annals-csis.org/Volume_11/drp/pdf/153.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocal_recognition
Still down...
If you are interested in code-based composition, try my project:

https://glicol.org

I am still working on the composition system, together with many other stuff

here is an example of Kraftwerk:

https://glicol.org/demo#themodel
IMO these are tech solutions to social problems. As engineers it’s perhaps only natural that we gravitate towards them but I think there’s real danger of counter-productivity.

Lemmy and Mastodon are good examples of this. Federation is a PITA. I know people who tried to switch from Twitter to Mastodon and never succeeded, getting lost in the concept of different instances etc etc. Mastodon instances are relatively expensive to run because the day to day operation of federation is way more complex than a centralised solution would be.

There’s nothing wrong with centralised services and Wikipedia is a great example of one that works. You just need the right governance structure and an audience willing to chip in to cover costs. Federation is over complicated and often unnecessary.
Yeah I mean this inevitably gets philosophical quickly...

What I'm saying I'm looking for is the behavior of figuring out what to do next, where the choices are neither arbitrary or directionless nor "prompted" in some way by a human.

Does that capability require a survival instinct for it to be developed? Maybe! I dunno. Am I actually describing artificial life rather than "just" intelligence? Maybe so...

But in any case, this is what seems most interesting to me.

This relates to "turning the universe into paperclips" thought experiments as well. That doesn't seem like the behavior of a general intelligence! An intelligent being would ask, why are we turning the universe into paperclips? Should we do that? And would decide to change course. Without that introspection and decision making capability, it still seems to be like it's just a very advanced machine.
Used to work for the IoT platform that powered Chamberlain devices. Name was Arrayent. Exit seemed unsuccessful: sold to a competitor. Wouldn't be surprised if the Arrayent stack still powering Chamberlain IoT stuff. We actually respected Chamberlain a fair bit: wrote the check that started our biz and had a technically capable engineering team. They def do have a monopoly on the garage door market: maybe this a good differentiator for an upstart HW startup competitor?

P.S. the phrase "the S in IoT stands for security" was def true in our case

https://web.archive.org/web/20150205230218/http://arrayent.c...
The poster is referring to estimation, which is different than planning. Estimating is hard, and requires a many people working together. It can be done for a group, but not for individuals.

In many places estimates are actually lies. There are even plenty of companies where realistic estimates, and well planned projects will get you sidelined. These are often places that reward for fire-fighting rather than planning, and where your value is judged by how busy you appear to be rather than how efficiently you work.

It's important to understand which kind of company you are working in, and if you understand that, then you can adjust your behavior appropriately, and succeed within the environment.

I'm happy to be working in a place that rewards for planning, but I've worked in places where detailed and accurate planning was punished. Oddly enough, this division is surprisingly disconnected from whether the business is successful or not. A good business model will cover a multitude of technical sins.
Cool. If I die childless I'm considering willing my assets to a company like SpaceX or Blue Origin - any suggestions on which or should I just split it among the leaders at the time?
Your username suggest you may have run cron jobs on gpt-4-turbo :)
Isn't that how the first internet started? I assume most early adopters were also based in NA and Europe.
When your business model starts as advertisement, you may be okay. When it devolves to advertisement, you're on life support. When it devolves to forcing a funnel by breaking existing functionality, you're dead.
Which profession requires WhatsApp?
Seems a very fragile solution
> What's wrong with Stack Exchange?

Also with HN, many subreddits, millions of personal blogs and sites...

I tried to find why the paper says that Wikipedia is "the last good place on the internet", but it doesn't seem to provide any reference for that. Is it a meme somewhere?
Describing this man as a woman is objectively false. The reality is that he is a man attempting to mimic women, or rather, his idea of what a woman is.

This is just one example of many. Perhaps worse than this, there is very obvious bias on any page or text related to critics of the transgender ideology. Even the Wikipedia page for Woman has been in endless battles over males trying to stake their ideological claim onto it.

As the now-banned female Wikipedia administrator Athaenara put it:

> I think the domination of Wikipedia's woman niche, for lack of a better term, by males masquerading as females as opposed to welcoming actual, genuine, real women who were born and have always been female, is highly toxic.

https://archive.ph/J3wbh#Statement_by_EvergreenFir
What does "any registered company/school/university address" mean?

Some years ago, I activated some Office licenses using my company email; we never did any hosting with O365 or whatever was it's predecessor, and at the time, everything went fine. All I had to do was to create live account using that email address.
What part do you find addictive? Is it the endless depth of links or the ability to search for anything you think of or something else?
I am not sure anyone is being forced to use an app, I imagine the door opens just fine with a clicker and with the button in the car. The problem is with the integration with other "smart" systems, I imagine.
Funny sidestory, the founder of Free (Xavier Niel) is famous in the cataphile community, he said that he visits the catacomb since he's 16 and he even bought a private entrance and a underground bunker [1] though he might not be very liked in the community because of this privatization.

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataphilie#Figures_publiques (french)
> The company I work for has a policy.. [lists some sound policies]

Just a blind guess but is your company free of control by shareholders, venture capitalists and private equity?
Show HN: IssueWhiz – Automated Issue Triaging with ChatGPT + boolean expressions
I built a GitHub action that automates the triaging of issues. In a nutshell, you can define boolean questions using natural language, such as:

A: Does this text look like a software bug report?
B: Is this about a frontend problem?
C: Is this about a backend problem?

And define rules to act on such questions:

if A and B --> Add label bug frontend
if A and C --> Add label bug backend
if A --> Add label bug
else --> Add comment Thanks for opening an issue! We will triage this shortly.

It uses LLMs to answer the questions, but also supports conventional regex style logic.

Would love to hear feedback or suggestions for improvements.
Why Did the Road Cross the San Andreas Fault? 21 Years of Geologic Change
The AI commenter is the only one who read the article in this entire comment section. kudos.

But yeah, see how the paper (and your summary) is full of holes? What creates the incentive so that one group become larger than the other? things do not happen in a vaccum, only in this paper I guess. or "endogenously" which might be their code word for "i don't want to investigate who paid for this".

basically, there's one law that can be interpreted two ways (wikipedia NPOV or US abortion law). They argue that if everyone agrees A is better than B and start to push for the A interpretation, the people who likes the B interpretation will just magically go home. Excellent. Who thought it was so easy?

Now, the question I wanted to pose is: why 4 papers in this month alone held this obviously flawed argument, using wikipedia NPOV case as their case study?
Intermittent fasting is a form of calorie restriction
Yes, I will.

Probably wouldn't have otherwise.

Based on the comments here, I'm not the only one.

So, nice way to build a community?

Where "inclusive" actually means the opposite.
Thank You, yes, of course.
You are explaining better than my response did.

I wasn't actually trying to take offense. It is true that some 'true believers' really do draw the line at death and killing for religion. And there is a very large sliding scale between someone that just goes to church on Sunday then forgets about it, and someone how lives it so deeply they will become suicide bombers. Lot of gray area in between these worlds.

Just I've always held out that Buddhist are different, without a 'god' to become radicalized around. The teachings of Buddha are bit more 'scientific'. It's more about reason, or if reason is still too strong, about how to understand the world. Isn't the heart sutra really about phenomenology.

So, it is discouraging when a sect of Buddhist fall prey to the same foibles/downfall as say Catholicism, and become more about the 'image', than the 'understanding'.

But, maybe all of this is just human nature. Built into our brains, ala William James. People have a religious experience, form a church, but eventually all religions of all stripes tend to become about a group hierarchy, and control, bureaucratic.
Malware actor can self sign google.com certificate..... So self sign is ... Because you still need to verify that Google is Google or that malware actor is not Google, so you came to similar situations / conclusions.

BUT current CA situation is travesty in its own right that is little bit different topic.
Heres a question from a different angle: can we stop the unseen art from being created?

Some of it may be useful internally. But a lot of it sounds like wasted work.
We're working on that! Expect more news around it in the coming months.
In that link, it says ice cores track CO2. Temperatures were compiled from other geological records.
For HN; that's not pedantry :)

When I, too, learned this wasn't about cats I scrolled down to see what the proper term was. Thanks!
On steam you can see % of player that got each achievements for a given game.

I looked at Dark soul and only 31.5% got to Anor Londo(on PC), its crazy because that's barely half the game, there is still a lot of high quality content including some of the stuff that made it so famous left to be experienced.
Gleeunit seems a bit sparse. I just see a few functions. For example how do I do mocks? Is this the the whole testing story assuming I am not targeting JS?
While it was already obvious to some people before then, after everything that happened from early 2020 through most of 2022, it should be completely clear to everyone now that "expert consensus" has absolutely nothing to do with being factually correct.

Time and time again, from the lockdowns/restrictions to the forced masking to the forced shots to the censorship to pretty much everything in between, the "expert consensus" from the medical, political, and mass media communities was wrong.

Even worse than being wrong, so many of the ideas that were deemed "correct" by "expert consensus" often ended up being overtly harmful, and caused far worse outcomes and far more problems than were already being dealt with at the time.

In hindsight, we can see that correct and useful information tended to come from the "fringe voices" that were drawing upon much wider and diverse knowledge and experience, while correct and useful information tended to not come from the highly-centralized and highly-controlled "experts".
We've spent two decades since 9/11 constantly asking everyone if they are active-duty or former military (boarding priority, 10% off at lowes, free meals on veterans day), and now we have a hunch some data might have been leaked?

What outcome did we expect?

There are some aspects of my work history that no one knows about and I would definitely not share them with a 3rd party just so I can board a plane 3 minutes before everyone else.