skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's how it works though. You go after the weakest , least sympathetic, least able to respond, and set the precedent.

Sorta like weev. There are plenty of reasons to not like the guy. But that's the case that made changing the numbers in a URL a possible felony.

Anyway, once they get that first win, they pick on a slightly larger target, and cite the first win as precident.
I like the reference to ”…the big red shiny button…” in Space Madness
My favourite Blender Studio short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cMxraX_5RE
what the heck is harmful about that?
> I have a simple front-end test that I give to junior devs.

What is it?
I have a non traditional background (non comp sci) and while I understand complexity I wouldn’t have immediately arrived at the solution like this.

I think that rather, I would have done well because I know after doing hundreds of these both as the interviewer and the interviewee that using some sort of Map along with some vague rumblings of “space/time complexity tradeoff” is very often the solution for these types of questions. So I would have immediately gone there first by instinct.
A Lot of Damage in Grindavík
For those who aren't familiar, the word "algorithm" is derived from al-Khwārizmī's name. See page 2 of this book for details.
Your comment sounds like you think open-source work would be _more_ expensive than closed-source work, or did I misunderstand? That would seem surprising to me.

I would assume some people (clearly a minority) would be willing to take a small pay cut when working on FLOSS.

E.G. could someone be paid slightly less at GitLab versus the same role at GitHub, if they believe in GitLab's principles
GPT Crawler – Turn Any Site into a Custom GPT with Just a URL
> The fight is never over.

Checks and balances are working this time hopefully. Regardless our
(good) multi-stage processes and multi-chamber structure and even,
regardless matters of lobbying and money - in the moment of quiet
while smoke is still on the wind - look for the shooter. "Who wants
this?" and "What are their fears?" leads to a better leverage point
closer to values than parameters.

There are a lot of people in the world right now anxious about the
digital future. The EU Commission seem to hear too much from
Chicken-Licken's gang of sky-repellant gizmo salesmen and not from
calmer humane optimists.
I do not make fish. I put my fishing rod and bait in the river, and I get a fish. But I still say I'm a fisherman.
It can't solve problems it was able to solve before.

It's not able to output complete code.

It always adds comments, even when I ask it not to.

It doesn't follow instructions in general.

In complex issues it has less "memory", that is it's not able to observe multiple constraints at the same time. The limit was much higher before.
http://drophere.co A meditative take on urban exploration
The idea was initially to build a PoT around international travel and productize in real life( IRL ) experiences(think in the moment serendipitous discovery in a vacation). Though the idea did not quite work out, I used the tech I built to power this demo that preserved the in the moment idea. See description https://github.com/itissid/drop_webdemo for more details

Designed with care and extensively using AI and Human intelligence
https://github.com/itissid/drop_webdemo
> From what I have read of communism it is not based on a personality of playing the victim, and constantly looking for something to be outraged about.

It absolutely is. Proletariate vs bourgoisie in Marxism and Maoism. Kulak in the Russian revolution, Red vs Black identities in the Chinese cultural revolution. Only in the modern Western incarnation, it's ineffective to leverage economic classes since Capitalism leaves everyone better off economically than Communism (even the Communists have documented this). So instead they put their effort toward stoking racial divides and social justice to create the aggrieved class that can be leveraged as activists.

It's no coincidence that nearly all social justice thought leaders are self-described Marxists and that huge swaths of their literature view the world through that lens.

When someone tells me they're a communist. I tend to believe them.
This is Hacker News, not CNN. I frequently see earnings discussions and post-mortems about companies I've never heard of. This could easily have been one of them: a niche social network struggling to make ad revenue.
In the EU, lobbyists need to get registered.

Here's a few examples of registered organisations that lobby the EU:

* the Electronic Frontier Foundation https://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/public/consultatio...

* the Mozilla Foundation https://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/public/consultatio...

Do you think it's corruption when they inform the EU of the risks of legislation (like eIDAS) and fight against potential loopholes (successfully in the case of eIDAS)?
> What I really miss is a common format for package managers with a uniform, simple and well documented API and a fully FOSS implementation.

RPM? You'll never get everyone actually on a single format, but even then between LSB and just its actual popularity it has support on most distros (even if only by way of converters like alien)
Hi everyone, Alex here, one of the co-founders of DocuSeal.

We're using Ruby on Rails and Vue to build DocuSeal and it really helps us to stay lean and ship features fast while being bootstrapped.

Here is a short list of what the tool can do:

- Automatic eSignatures

- Multiple submitters

- 10 document form field types

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- AWS S3, GCP, Azure Cloud files storage

- Open large files up to 500MB

I'm happy to answer any questions!
Yeah, probably. But it's not as if they had a lot of good options during those years. They had to jumpstart their post-soviet economy. The west did a great job dangling the right amount of carrots in exchange. Then there were the technical challenges of reverse engineering and removing Russian command and control system to be able to utilize those nukes.
Corecursive #94: Platform Takes the Pain, the Inside Story of Spotify's Growth
If Trump loses only a fraction of a percent in 2024 he still loses.
But I wasn't asking about how ё gets transcribed. I was asking about how the Cyrillic letter е, from the first half of Семён, gets transcribed. Why write Semyon instead of Syemyon? Why Lena instead of Lyena? Why nyet instead of net? Why Yekaterina sometimes and Ekaterina other times?
> If you learned programming in the pre-web era then you weren't able to learn how programs work by studying the shipped artifacts

Why not? You can step through an assembly program just as easily as a javascript one...
You may think it did a good job because of your limited CSS ability. I'd be amazed if ChatGPT can create pixel-perfect animations and transitions along with reusable clean CSS code which supports all of the browser requirements at your org.

I've seen the similar claims made on Twitter by people with zero programming ability claiming they've used ChatGPT to build an app. Although 99% of the time what they've actually created is some basic boilerplate react app.

> middling generalists can now compete with specialists.

Middling generalists can now compete with individuals with a basic understanding assuming they don't need to verify anything that they've produced.
Inherently different things:

- the social graph underlying every post and content producer (one of the reasons FB introduced graphql)

- the recommendation and advertising algos that are interdependent on the content feed

- the realtime “fire hose” nature of the feed integrating a huge number of disparate data sources

Again I don’t like FB the app and I’m not on it. But even its core product is vastly more complex than a forum.

FWIW I’ve developed social networks and forums professionally; social networks are inherently more interactive. My first real exposure to front end dev was when I worked on a social network. If I had to build the same webapp today there is zero consideration of writing it as a backend rendered application or restricting to only progressive enhancement. It would only put off the inevitable migration to real FE tech.
Avanci Takes Aim at the Tech Giants
super relevant tool to get leads from Reddit and Twitter, excited to see this expand to IG DMs as well!
I think you might be missing the conspiracy. Yes politicians are the ones causing the damage, yes they ultimately bear the responsibility. But you have to see how the interests of the rich are given a priority in any political system. Without the rich asserting their influence into politics, by persuading and demanding their interests in public policy, the politician is but a boring bureaucrat, neither making harm nor good. However with the rich conspiring with the politicians, the harm they do to the common people is ultimate.

I will not admire anyone who’s interests are looked after, compensated, subsidized, and payed for by our politicians. They are nothing but bastards, they deserve no praise for having been put in their place of privilege by circumstance and conspiracy.
> Contrary to what this heading suggests, nothing has been "decided" here. This article is not only inaccurate, it is falsely misleading.

The heading indicates a committee adopted a position, and that's true.
I'm curious as to how this would work in practice. For instance, if an individual is able to complete their sprint while juggling two other full-time jobs, does this imply they should have taken on more tasks?

This approach seems to only be effective if one team member significantly outperforms the rest. If a company's sprint is easily manageable, does this suggest that the team size should be reduced, potentially leading to layoffs?
The invention of cars didn’t provide more jobs for horses. I’m not convinced artificial minds will make more job opportunities for humans.

A lot of that high level work is probably easier to outsource to an AI than a lot of the mundane programming. If not now, soon. How long before you can walk up to a computer and say “hey computer - make me a program that does X” and it programs it up for you? I think that’ll be here before I retire.
Does a default judgment (no show) set any citable precedent?
It wasn't meant ad hominem, I am really wondering. I feel in a bubble.

I once spent an hour researching the responses on reddit and hackernews. Turned out if these profiles are fake, then they are really good. F.e. age is >5 years, they argue about sport teams and seem really human.
I don't know, Dallas to Sydney is a 17 hour flight now. If it takes 30 minutes on a rocket from Texas you have 16 hours to do everything else and you'll still get there faster.
I have a lot of juniors floating around my co-op and when I watch them use chatgpt it seems it becomes a dependency. In my opinion it's harming their ability to learn. Rather than thinking through problems they'll just toss every single roadblock they hit instantly into a chatgpt prompt.

To be fair I've been doing the same thing with simple mathematics into a calculator in my browser that at this point I'm pretty sure I'd fail at long division by hand.

Maybe it won't matter in a few years and their chatgpt skills will be well honed, but if it were me in their position I wouldn't gamble on it.
Other social media platforms also provide that ability. I suspect the reason has more to do with TikTok's specific algorithm advancing divisive or otherwise controversial content more than other systems.
The 16th hole traditionally uses that pin position on Sunday to intentionally create such drama. The golf shot was not near impossible at all. It was the occasion that made the shot seem magical.
Even beginners can pull off these kind of shots, and that's what makes people fall in love with playing the game.
I only use the azure API and did not notice anything
Landauer's principle is about memory erasure, not storage. Charles Bennett talks about this in one of his papers.
> As far as I can tell looking from the outside the US system is set up so that if you aren't ridiculously wealthy yourself you pretty much need lobbyist money to fund your campaign to get elected.

Considering their whole country started as a place where only wealthy male landowners could vote, and they literally deify some of those wealthy male land and slave owners, as well as their written works, it's no surprise really.
It is impossible to even have anything resembling a "free market" for healthcare. Free markets in that sense require that what's being bought be a commodity: it can't be something that's life or death, the buyer has to be able to shop around, has to have perfect information, and has to have ample differentiated options within easy reach.

None of those are likely with (especially non-elective) healthcare.

Healthcare must be treated as a human right, not a profit center.
> The question is how the profitable part would do if disassociated from the all the loss making parts.

Probably pretty well considering it's profitable. Good thing one of Trump's favorite things is to go bankrupt in which you can indeed separate the loss making parts from the profitable parts. Although obviously not great for local labors when their invoices are to the loss making part.
Gpt 4 has been working OK for me, but I’m not using the code executer.
There are people who value open source and there are people who value assets. The point is that there isn't a single market rate for the two offers since they aren't the same thing.
I am intrigued! Can you say more? Did anyone get caught?
Making a video about a specific sound, talking through the whole (first?, hopefully) example.
Denmark's hell week as critical infrastructure orgs faced cyberattacks
This makes me laugh so hard, it's so trippy
Whitey On The Moon is just as relevant now as it was in the 60s
How I quit my $600k data engineering job at Airbnb and made $600k in 7 months
I’d never have been able to buy my Amiga A500 which really got me into coding with a paper round in my early teens.

It also spurred me on to study harder in school because I realised delivery jobs were not a great career.

I think if we had more kids with menial jobs they might end up less entitled.
I just booted up my 2009 MacBook Pro since it's the only machine I still have with a CD/DVD drive. Some keys are not working (eg R, T, P, probably others) so I had to use the accessibility on screen keyboard.

I was surprised it still booted up and I was able to use the optical drive.
My first access to the Internet was through an Amiga, over a 9600 baud SLIP connection. I installed AmiTCP and a Mosaic port: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMosaic
Here's a better interview question:

What is the problem of using later job interview stages as validation for early stages and what would be a better metric for validation.
It's a downpayment, though. Political careers are often short; subsequently the politician will get a high paying 'job' at one of the firms funding the lobbying. That's the real payoff.
I'd be curious to see how a non expert could perform a non-trivial programming task using ChatGPT. It's good at writing code snippets which is occasionally useful. But give it a large program that has a bug which isn't a trivial syntax error, and it won't help you.

> In programming you don't have to worry too much about hallucinations because it won't work at all if it hallucinates.

You still have to worry for your job if you're unable to write a working program.
> However, it creates an incentive where the general public has an incentive to see the product fail.

Maybe Colin should make tarsnap free for bus drivers? ;)
SpaceX's Starship gets all clear for Texas takeoff
I imagine their proposal loses to Starlink Direct to Cell, not mentioned in TFA.

https://direct.starlink.com
Streaming and longer context lengths for LLMs on Workers AI
Been using the new 4 for mid sized code snippets with no problem pretty much every day.
If the country with the most reasons to call "FAKE!" during the Cold War didn't accuse NASA of faking the launch... why are you? The government lies all the time but this is a ridiculous hill to die on.
I've not used blender but it seems to me that Chrome is doing that too (at least it's doing that on my machine )
Stick with the top 10 globally, and then maybe the top 4-5 per region. Start reading books published by people affiliated to those think tanks, and recognize that OSINT is largely dead after 2022.
It’s more challenging because you need to accept updates in format v1 indefinitely even after you apply the v1->v2 migration, which makes it more like maintaining an API with backwards compatibility than the usual SQL migration pattern. For example, let’s say you start with a last-write-wins CRDT for an object of shape { name: string, bio: string } in v1, and then decide bio should use a convergent rich text data type like Peritext. If you do a naive migration and change the type of the field in-place, how do you handle updates from old peers doing a LWW set on bio, when now the data type you expect is a Peritext delta?

And if you’re really peer to peer, you’ll need older peers that don’t understand a new format in their user space software to avoid applying updates that break compatibility for them.

Geoffrey Litt documents the challenges in Cambria, see https://www.inkandswitch.com/cambria/
AFAIK, the go and chess models played themselves to improve. They weren't limited to pieces of recorded games played by junior players, like SO.

So far, coding LLMs are not generating code, compiling it, running it, checking the output, timing the program, fuzzing the input, etc. When they can train themselves, they will improve.
> Brooooo how do you even. I wish I had that time it takes to get this good at Blender. I might actually end up releasing some solid indie games.

Keep in mind that the Blender Open Movies are made by professionals who've been doing what they been doing for a long time, and there is a whole team making those, with roles specific to the area.

I don't think you could single-handedly create something like that at the same timescale as they created it. They basically have made a proper studio at this point and they're fine-tuning the workflows and processes of Blender by doing these movies.

So don't feel bad if you never would be able to create this alone, it is a team effort after all.
I've had it craft legal letters in German. Very good content
> or you can join multiple libraries into the same project/build system umbrella (e.g. glib/gobject or the whole of QtBase)

This also seems worse than the status quo. So instead of having 3 or 4 dependencies I now only one that combines 20 different ones I don't need.
RWKV Language Model: RNN with GPT-Level LLM Performance
Wow what a terrible article. The guy just got tired of programming. Everything his buddy looked up he could have hacked out but chose not to. All the tools exist to code at whatever level he wants to. Just sounds like he lost the spark. The other day on hacker news a 17 year old kid wrote a debugger and was asking for help. That’s the spark.
There is a setting to enable the STEM feed in the export version. Try not to be an ableist.
> But by that time, many of today's mid level programmers will be able to do stuff high level programmers do today.

Not without reason some cheeky devils already renamed "Artificial Intelligence" to "Artificial Mediocracy". AIs generate code that is mediocre. This is a clear improvement if the programmer is bad, but leads to deterioration if the programmer is above average.

Thus, AI won't lead to your scenario of mid level programmers being able to do stuff high level programmers do today, but will rather just make bad programmers more mediocre.
Similarly being unhappy with pulling dependencies without using a system package manager, in part because it seemed tricky to make them work with a compiler version from system repositories, this is something I wanted to try as well, and finally tried now. After having rustc installed, had to install 157 more packages in order to get argument parsing (librust-clap-dev), but it is still faster than cargo updating its package index, and then it actually builds!

Would be even better if the dependency tree for a basic package was more modest, about 157 times smaller.
Drake Passage doesn't pose the same ecological risk, of course because the ecosystems are acclimatized to such a passage being there, but also because it's in the southern ocean surrounded by strong currents and cold water that mostly does not mix with the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. So many of the species at higher latitudes are essentially trapped on their respective side.
> Does this apply only to "two vietnamese men" or also companies like sony, nintendo etc., when they happen to forget about the fair uses clauses?

Who advertises on Google: "two vietnamese men" or “companies like sony, nintendo etc”? Both cost Google money through bogus DMCA filings, but one cohort also brings in a lot of cash.
Very cool! Thank you for sharing this. I would love to see a picture the aforementioned alarm clock setup as well.
Novel backdoor persists even after critical Confluence vulnerability is patched
I was thinking more of the 95% numerical extermination of the poppies themselves, not exactly the farmers.

I imagine the farmers are still out standing in their field, just not a poppy field any more.

Food crops are bound to be more sensible from what we know now.
> Private messages won't be scanned for now, but what about the certificates in web browsers that could be swapped at will by any certificate in the control of some EU apparel so that "encrypted" web traffic could be sniffed and MITMed?

That was a (probably) unintended consequence of the eIDAS legislation, where specific Certificate Authorities must be trusted by browsers to enable digital certificates and signing to work EU-wide. This has since been corrected and the legislation explicitly states that those CAs and the regular CAs can and should be kept separate, thus MITM won't be possible unless the browser chooses to mix things.
From AI to sustainability, why our latest data centers use 400G networking
It makes it way faster when you can right click, hold, and release on the item in one smooth motion. I believe most pro software is like this, it's hardly breaking convention.
The right lesson to learn here is "manage and maintain your software as it's used in the real world, as that will tell you where you need to invest time" not "prematurely optimize every algorithm just in case it becomes a problem".
If it's any consolation, the running water is more valuable than the soap. Sadly, time under the running water is a major factor in how much stuff you can dislodge from your hands, so two seconds isn't going to accomplish a lot.

The soap is independently helpful, but it does occur to me to wonder how much of the additional value it brings is due to the automatic requirement to spend more time with your hands in the water, lathering up and rinsing off.
maybe "it's not a bug, it's a feature" ?
They have quite a list of sponsors: https://fund.blender.org/

Like EPIC giving them 1.2M: https://www.blender.org/press/epic-games-supports-blender-fo...
It advances content by interest/topic as opposed to intentional divisiveness, follows or otherwise. You see more of what you watch.

There isn't another platform today that connects you as rapidly to people with shared interests. IG is trying with feeds
The answer depends on the specific CRDT algorithm in use. For complex data structures like the ones behind collaborative text editing your intuition that the updates end up looking hierarchical is generally correct.
No, I am saying that if a project is open sourced, and there is sufficient demand from people willing to pay for support, maintenance, etc, someone will come along to meet that demand.

If there isn't then the original commercial company was obviously never viable either.

Since an entity getting payment for maintenance can neither expect to collect a monopoly rent for the code, nor is required to pay one to anyone else, the cost of maintenance becomes the market price.