skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lucky you. I know someone that has been trying very hard to get employed again but is now for two years without a single positive response. Sure they're doing 'something wrong', no doubt or their resume might be off-putting but your experience isn't necessarily the experience that everybody else has.
I want that kind of law for more than cars. I want it for everything. The problem with that law for cars is the Federal Kill Switch Law that might go into effect in 2026.
And Basic, Visual Basic, HTML, Javascript, the list is probably endless :-)
Beautiful AI-Based Products
Do you think intelligence services worked differently in the past? Why would it need force instead of legislation, change in personnel, different oversight, etc.?
> The previous significant update was over a decade ago. I’ve since evolved my implementation of GTD, but mostly I’m back where I was back then.

Bookmarked https://gtdfh.liw.fi/ to read later.
You might want to check the news about Russel Brand. Probably not the best person to link to.
Only if it's also "black" in the IR spectrum.

In fact, an object that is completely reflective in the IR spectrum, but black in the visible spectrum would get really hot really easily.
If you're just looking to store API collections locally, an alternative I use is a VS Code plugin called ThunderClient [1].

imho, dev centric tools that care about system resource usage should just integrate with the IDE when possible. It's already running!

[1] https://www.thunderclient.com
DRAM latency will remain a problem, no way you can make CPU a million times faster without bringing in memory on the same chip. And you could probably only have a few kB close enough to the core to keep up in frequency.

Most probably you'd see this tech in highly specialized interfacing circuits, like current GaAs chips.
I'm glad and don't see better solution than to use an algorithm to decide this over personnal choice. I understand the choice of using software. What I don't understand is why this software is not open source, heavily documented and the algorithm annually monitored, publicly reported and updated if necessessary by an open committee.

I personally prefer avoid being involved as much as possible in human life and death inducing procedure because that awfully stressful, but I don't see big problem on working on the software coding itself. What is problematic in this case is that the software was used to deinvolve everyone from the process and for what I understand the software developpement team was apparently tasked to make up the decision algorihtm and no human basic oversight was keeped during the attribution process.
Wait a second, I need to understand this better.

If you cargo build, can that run a dependencies' build including trying to compile C and stuff?
Sigh. I thought you'd something more to say :)
The paywall situation on Hacker News is really getting out of hand.
When’s the last time you had to do it. I never had issues either… until I was laid off in late 2022.
Even if people have "always" thought this, that doesn't mean they're wrong to think it today or that the complaint has always been invalid.

It's entirely possible that people have always been complaining about X and also that X is more prevalent today than it used to be.
Ohhhh yes, you're absolutely right.

Frankly, this is my first Android/mobile application, so I'm still trying to wrap my head around the limited screen space and whatnot.

I'd be awesome to get some syntax hints, or some form of better autocompletion (it only recognizes some basic statements/lang-delcared functions right now).

I'll follow up on GitHub -- thank you for contributing the discussion there, this is very exciting!
Here in Berlin Germany, packages are given to whichever neighbor in your apartment building happens to reply to the buzzer fastest, typically the ground floor ones. (Elevators are also uncommon.)

I'm friends with all my neighbors but I find this practice completely bizarre.
As a young, naive, trainee I met a guy once in a hospital who had smoked ONCE, turns out he had a rare condition that would cause severe vasoconstriction (his blood vessels tightened up, think why things like coffee, amphetamines, nicotine makes your hands cold). His capillary blood vessels however did not relax, developed clots, and he ended up losing his limbs. He dedicated his life to giving HS anti smoking talks.

I of course heard him and then after my shift had energy drinks, adderall, and a half pack of smokes. I don’t know that scare tactics work (at least for me) I need to experience getting my hand burned. I think many are like me. It’s not ideal. What I have found to work is motivating people, help them uncover their desire to live but it’s much more work and takes time. Time that most people won’t find anyone to have in our medical system.

What really did it for me was watching people in the hospital that can’t breathe and then struggling to go up stairs or swim. Oh man, they are struggling. Just at rest gasping for air while hooked up to supplemental O2. It’s wicked sad.

Beurger Disease https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK430858/
Wishing him all the best!
Agreed.

And what is worse, now that the program is confirmed in the open, is that there is zero debate on whatever it is a good thing for Denmark to participate in.
Simplifying Transformer Blocks
> Not to pick on the original post, but one of my all-time biggest data pet peeves is map diagrams that aren't normalized by population/some kind of denominator. They all end up as slightly janky population maps with weird anomalies that only make sense if you know the true denominator anyway.

Of course, there is a relevant XKCD

https://xkcd.com/1138/
I support forcing all documentation to be released, but be careful of overly invasive laws that help big companies execute regulatory capture because the new guy can not meet the regulatory requirements.
https://archive.md/mdejQ
> What's broken? Resumes are made to showcase the candidate's skills to a broad audience of potential employers. They're not specific. They don't say, "Here's why I'm the perfect fit for THIS role." That's about to change

This isn't really true, though. I haven't applied to a job without a specific resume since I finished school and was a totally fungible new graduate.

This is just AI spam as a solution to a made up problem.
So, the lesson learned is that people hand picked and backed by Peter Thiel enjoy monetary success in the start-up world. Success that beats the average college graduate. Who would have thought...

Edit: Gifted article

https://wapo.st/40teoVn

Just realized I can actually do this ten times per month!
Read your story post-- probably shouldn't admit to additional crimes they didn't charge you with :)
Doesn't seem to be a transcript of the same clip. It doesn't start like that.

Edit: This is the audio of the transcript you posted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClR9tcpKZec
The only billionaire I am 100% sure is a genius is Jim Simons. For the rest, the most common trait seems to be that they are good at spotting trends early
It’s strange because wind is supposedly overwhelmingly cheaper and better, yet even with tons of government subsidies and political will behind it, it still can’t be built. Wouldn’t something truly more cost effective be easy to build because it’s cheaper? Clearly something doesn’t add up.
Why? Anything on Omegle could happen in a park. Or a library. Omegle can't keep kids off their platform: their parents need to.
https://archive.ph/mdejQ
No it's not. The article seems to imply that if you pick a very select group of people, and give them money and access to a network of very wealthy people that it's surprising that they will be able get those people to invest in their ventures.

The article is also comparing this very small group with university student _on average_. If we look at university performance at the margin, we would really be expecting some of these people to have won a Fields Medal or a Nobel Prize-winning discovery.
Some newspapers are even starting to annoy me after i payed for a subscription to buy another subscription just to remove the ads.
Yep “paper cities” is what to google if you’re interested. We have a “paper bus route” in my neighborhood at bus stops that were removed 10 years ago, that serve the same purpose, as far as I can tell.
Literally chasing ambulances? Yes, that sounds dangerous and like harassment. Mailing an advertisement or leaving a business card or an email? No.
So the "excuse" for this is:
we couldn't get filthy rich by monetising our customers, so this is the only option? Seriously?
>You're just making the exact same mistake a second time in a row. It is evidence; maybe not full on undeniable 100% proof, but it should shift your priors about how you think about AI, and if it doesn't I would say you're ignoring obvious statistical evidence.

Anything can be called a mistake if you ignore crucial context. I replied to someone else addressing very specific points he/she brought up.

>would say a human grandmaster who regularly makes illegal moves at a rate of 1/300 does not have as deep or complete of an understanding of the game as other grandmasters who do not make those errors at nearly the same level or frequency. I think that's what most people would say about that person.

A GPT grandmaster would make even less mistakes. That aside because I understand it's not your main point, again this is more nuance than who I was replying to. You have said "does not have as complete an understanding" where the person I replied to said "does not understand the game at all". I feel like you want to argue against a point that was not present in the original discussion I was having.

>That feels like you're agreeing with the original poster?

The original poster is lacking the nuance to have me agree with him.
That is a fair rebuttal.

I was legitimately considering going to their office but it being a small company, in the medical field, and uncertainties about how individuals might react with COVID still present…I opted for a personal email to the owner of the company. Maybe I should have opted for the ‘cold call’ approach and just went to their office but I erred on the side of caution/ decorum.
Since the article is paywalled I will comment based solely on the title

No, it’s not awkward for colleges because any educated person should be able to comprehend that college is not a factory and outliers always exist. The fact that we’ve had successful people way before formal education existed should be enough to render the point moot.

The only one affected is the general public which will instinctively undervalue education and use this piece of information to skip college and live a worse life on average
I'm honestly surprised that I'm still allowed to put myself on two wheels with an engine in between, and ride down the autobahn at an insane amount of speed.
The article calls out the same thing is happening in colleges - Rhodes scholarships, incubators, scholarships galore - and does not match the success of Thiel’s programs for generating successful startups (11/900 is a pretty amazing success rate).
One fun thing to do is to prompt passages from the original article to ChatGPT and see it just run with it. It is a very strong Sokal Hoax generator.
Let me guess:

- Electron

- Postman was OK until it was enshitified, so along came Insomnia which was never quite as good as original Postman and then itself became enshitifed

- This too will suffer the same fate as the previous two and will gradually also adopt a busy, unworkable, confusing UI

This is why I’ve started using Hurl because that doesn’t even have a UI. Bonus: can be kept in source control and run as part of CI/CD.

https://www.communication-generation.com/enshitification/

https://hurl.dev/
I wonder how much this is GPT 4 actually inferring the details about what's on the screen vs GPT 4 recognizing the "shape" of Blender, getting the task (which is simple and has most likely a myriad tutorials online), and just proceeding step by step. Basically, whether just asking GPT 4 the same question with "in blender" in text mode didn't result in the same effect.

Ideally, could be tested with something that's less straightforward, and requires understanding the data presented in some windows on the screen. Like "how can I fix this error"?
The T-Shaped Developer
The way software companies work has changed. A new need has emerged — the need for T-shaped Software Developers.

Software companies are no longer looking for people who can do only one thing exceptionally well or do everything in a mediocre way.

Companies want people who can go deep when it matters but also be able to deliver other higher ROI tasks. This makes a company intensely adaptable - a critical business perspective.
I started recently (2 years ago) and running a small consultancy, and using part of the revenue to build my own product.

What worked for me was starting to give out small tasks via <your favorite freelancer platform>, often giving the same tasks to multiple individuals and then decide with whom I am going to stick.

Has been pretty successful for finding talent, not sure how much my anecdote weighs in though.

Working together with friends is something I probably won't do again, it's just too easy to cross damage professional or personal part of the relationship when there are issues arising.

So if you can afford it and have the time, I would recommend starting on freelancer platforms. It also allows you to make mistakes as these relationships do not require commitment from any side. Down side of course is, that you might lose good talent as they are also not comitted to you.
Well it's a pretty big difference in terms of intensity, sitting next to a radiator for a few hours is comfortable, but touching one would give me a burn in a matter of seconds (screw you whoever decided that my apartment must be warmed to 25 degrees)
If it’s trivial for a bar to validate, why not the same for a web site?
In '75 we re-used the memory of code that was executed only once to store stuff with IBM's system/370 assembler.
Copilot for docs is a horrible name for this demo. It feels more like a search engine concept, the knowledge base is up to date, and the answer is personalized.

But again, the naming is horrible, I thought is was a Copilot just for markdown.
I didn't mean to imply that cyclists are out there killing pedestrians all the time. That's the most extreme case, it's not that easy to get killed by a bike. Much more likely to get injured or have a big scare.
> The people that make AI make me sick.

It’s as if suddenly a significant number of ai people are hell bent on spam, ip theft, putting people out of jobs, spreading fear, manipulating and gaslighting folks, and so on. Almost as if after decades of irrelevance and frustration at memes about if then else “ai” attempts they seek revenge.

The tone was set by their thought leaders, in particular sam altman and the openai clique.

Taking a tech that was supposed to be a force for good and turning it into a toxic charade is quite the achievement. But gradually people are starting to push back.
They probably couldn't afford to sue a mobile phone provider :)

But some ambulance chasing lawyer told them they have a chance to win in this case.
A park is in public view.

A library is in public view.

Omegle was in private, away from public view.

No one needs to keep anyone off Omegle now, it is gone.
An org's learning curve. First time it happened on this scale. They will probably do a thorough post-mortem to make sure processes are improved next time.

Also, I hope they look at Twitter/X.
Ouch, get well soon Steve!
5. Hallucinate receiving money from hallucinated customers
That video would be hilarious if it wasn’t so sad.

The reporters literally camped outside this guys house, ran across his lawn shouting at him, chased him to his door, and immediately accused him of harming children. Then the scene cuts to the reporter describing that as a “civil conversation”.
actually, if it is serious, heart problems might be the best problems to have.

of course, hoping it isn't serious.
Core requires an account. Core Desktop is unreleased and not even in beta yet AFAIK so who knows.

My impression is that the Canonical folk think it's hilarious the way Reddit gets its knickers in a twist over the MOTD thing.

Personally I DGAF but there is a lot of info, fr'ex, here:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/804095/how-do-i-disable-the-...
We talk about Peter Thiel here. He is in a different league, money and network wise, than your average scholarship or university incubator when it comes to start-ups.
Right, if that is really true as a blanket statement, then it's an idiotic and short sighted law.

I have a yard, plant a rose bush. You walk in the yard, bend down to smell the rose but lose balance, fall on the rose bush and the rose pokes your eye.
According to the rule, I'm not liable for your injury?

Besides being unfair and stupid, this sort of thing is actually costing society enormous amounts of lost effort, goodwill and actual money. How much time has been spent on bs court cases for things like I described? How much of a tax is liability insurance on everyone? How much fun things will never happen because of fear?
This is amazing! I was just trying to figure out how to do this with drag and drop yesterday.
If you enjoy characters accepting the flop, you'll love the Czechoslovakian stop motion series "A je to!". Might just be my nostalgia goggles, but I think it's a gem. Example: https://youtu.be/tQ_sBzSaJIo?si=asx9J2nLex6QMpIy
I think this is the case being referred to, and it was less misgender, more harassment and public humiliation.

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-64905216
This is the pretty standard issue of, as the US drifts further and further to the right, anyone who stays relatively stable is now accused of being liberal or leftist.
Is he referring to some specific event or it was generally just too difficult to run?
Right, but that trick is not so useful if you have a different section than .text only, and that's what GP is referring to.
For anybody looking to read up on this, the official name for the internal investigation of 'kabelsamarbejdet' is Operation Dunhammer (translated to Operation Typha).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dunhammer
I never get used to the fact that the segment for executable machine code is called “text”. Anyone know the history of that?
> Kids these days don’t even know how to use the ternary operator properly.

You mean not using it at all? 30 years of coding experience gives you opinions.
Game of Life but no Gorillas?
Discussion on HN 21 days ago with 75 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37941807
Lots of conversations on RLHSTP (Richard Herring's podcast) about comedy that end up in similar discussions : https://www.rhlstp.co.uk/
Circumstances seem to have changed somewhat. I just hit the status page and it’s showing issues since last night :

Update - We are dealing with periodic outages due to an abnormal traffic pattern reflective of a DDoS attack. We are continuing work to mitigate this.
Nov 08, 2023 - 19:49 PS
Flowers who are given special attention and fertilizers perform better than the garden variety. Surprising and awkward for all industrial farmers.
> The whistleblower's revelations, obviously very serious and substantiated, have effectively been buried.

Unless I'm reading this very wrong, the "whistleblower" didn't blow the whistle in public, but rather privately reported that is superiors were talking too much to the press?

The people accused are at least big fans of secret deals with foreign intelligence agencies (I never understand how people can claim such a thing is compatible with democracy).
Ask HN: How do I build a drone?
For context, I'm planning to build a drone for my end-of-year project for a class at school, and I hope to train it to autonomously navigate virtual environments and head towards given points within. I've worked in Rust, Python, JS, and am currently learning Go and C++. I'm also learning Autodesk Inventor for a separate project right now.

Does anybody have any resources that might help me get started?
Watch Alex Hormozi on youtube
NetBSD binary packages backend is down
https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/x86_64/9.3/All/pkg_summary.gz

At the moment, anything not cached on the frontend Varnish servers return 503.
What's the goal behind making them exchangeable? The usual plan is to recalculate embeddings whenever the model changes, or when moving between systems.

You'll almost certain want to update the model over time, as the input distribution changes, to maintain good accuracy. So you need to keep the original source data and recalculate embeddings as needed.
Better Way to Hire?
I think college is broken. But my question is whether it’s broken and useful or broken and harmful.

Initially I dropped out of college to work on internet startups in the 90s. I didn’t make a billion but I learned skills and made a good living and was definitely the highest earner out of all my college friends for at least 10-20 years.

But I went to night school and got an undergrad and masters and now work in a field with a lot of very educated people phd/md in a non-bullshit way. And I wouldn’t have had that opportunity without my degrees, even know I had the same skills and knowledge.

Is it right that I was filtered out by degree and not by capability? No, it’s not right, but it happened.

Practically, I’m not sure what to advise my kids. I’m leaning toward college because taking out loans and having 60% of the money go to admin staff and mega gyms is just overhead to opening more opportunity.

And I think the college route has a higher median outcome as I wrestle with was I lucky or will everyone with skill and obsession in an area be able to support their families.
It's kind of remarkable that most are not even based in Europe. Google, Microsoft, law enforcement - I'm sure there were comprehensive criteria in their selection, but that doesn't sound like the correct kind of crowd to advise on matters of privacy and security.
I don’t think it’s so simple. Many people have other values beyond material wants.
Ryan Bigg – Ruby 3, Hashes and Keyword Arguments
I think you've misconstrued this case. The preacher was arrested for shouting and harassing a person in a public space.

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-64905216
Solara looks like an interesting Python webapp framework. Any differentiation w r t Streamlit ?
Ability to communicate trumps actual competency every time in a typical career.

People who are senior to you got there because they have a superior ability to communicate, not because they have any competence. This will range from people who are so communicatively capable they can silvertongue their responses to utterly conceal incompetence/laziness to their own management to people who have slight competence but better communication and so get promoted over the most knowledgeable/experienced/capable in their domain.

Twenty years ago I thought these type of people were an aberration. I’ve come to realise that in fact, they are the majority in any business/corporate hierarchy.