skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On top of the decades of money and labor given by the US government,

>The U.S. government hasn’t loaned Nepal tons of money to build an airport using Chinese companies and labor

The US government has done that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautam_Buddha_Airport
Next step would be OS maintainers to make APIs for providing e2e encryption functionality and then app stores requiring these apis to be used for private messaging.
What is «tech» supposed to mean here ? Infocoms ?

The United Arab Emirates ? Well, lol, of course I do, that's way worse than the US.
Can you point me to an example of that happening to date?
It's easier to read the code you recently wrote, sure. But in real life people use and debug other people's code all the time, LLM generated code is just like that. Also, if you make it generate the code in small enough blocks you also end up knowing the codebase is if you wrote it.
The reason TikTok was banned in Nepal was due to the ongoing communal violence between Hindus and Muslims [0][1].

It's gotten pretty bad - the videos I've seen are very similar to those I saw of Gujarat 2002.

It's also election season in India, so there will be massive blowback in Nepal, as several provinces in Nepal are ethnically the same as Uttar Pradesh and Bihar - two major swing states in Indian elections.

The last time a similarly divisive election happened in Bihar, Nepal ended up getting blockaded [2]

[0] - https://apnews.com/article/nepal-lockdown-nepalgunj-hindu-mu...

[1] - https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/nepal-town-impos...

[2] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Nepal_blockade
I’m addressing the standard you originally set in your comment:

> it's been two decades since US Republicans could claim a slight edge on US Democrats in the popular vote (percentage of entire voting population)

This is false; the “percentage of entire voting population” that voted for Republicans in the House of Representatives in 2022 was not only a “slight edge” over the percentage voting for Democrats, but an outright majority.

The fact that Republicans won a majority of the popular vote for House seats also means that their control of the House is not, in fact, a product of “uneven weighting of geographic areas and a domination of party controlled gerrymandering oportunities” [sic] as you claim. If you apply the percentages of the popular vote to the number of seats in the House, you’d expect Republicans to control 220 seats and Democrats almost 208 seats. In actuality, the Republicans won 222 seats and the Democrats won 213, meaning both parties got “extra” seats (at the expense of independents and third parties) but the Democrats got more. Moreover, it’s not accurate to say the Republicans are unique in benefitting from the gerrymander. In Illinois, Republicans won 43% of the popular vote but less than 18% of the seats thanks to a Democratic gerrymander. Meanwhile in New York, the courts actually threw out an attempted Democratic gerrymander and as a result, the GOP gained three seats and the Dems lost four.
The thing that I find shocking about lobbying is just how cheap it is. In the FTX trial the amount they spent lobbying politicians for pro-crypto laws was released and we're talking low five figures. SBF even said lobbying was very cheap for the impact you can get.

Naively I thought it would cost millions to get a politician to support you but actually it's cheap enough a FAANG engineer could individually pay enough to lobby someone lol.

Edit: Literally the user base on HN would be able to crowdfund and organise a lobbying group greater than the NRA ($2.93M in 2022) if we wanted to - lobbying is such a smaller industry than I intuitively expect
> So when other people do it, hard and tricky questions are bad, but when you deliberately set your candidate up for failure by withholding concrete information, that's clever and insightful. Got it.

To me the worst part is the nonsense rationale to argue away using a database to store and query this data. Taken from the article:

> In theory you could write a pretty simple SQL query, and sure, Big Tech companies have giant data warehouses where you can easily do this sort of thing. But for the scope of a coding interview, you wouldn’t want to. Since this is not a distributed systems problem and the data fits in memory, why introduce the additional complexity and dependencies of a database for something that you can solve with 20 lines of simple code?

The blogger's problem statement explicitly mentions the system needs to track business metrics. Business metrics include things like clickstream metrics and the task of analyzing business metrics is exploratory in nature and requires dashboarding. Only an utter moron would look at those requirements and say "hey, this is a task for logs dumped onto a text file". There is no way in hell that this task does not involve in the very least a database.

This is yet another example of a technical recruiter evaluating candidates, and rejecting them, because they did not presented the wrong solution to the wrong problem that the recruiter somehow convinced himself it was the right one for some reason.
The positive side is that Debian isn’t the packager of record, so to speak: simplifying quite a bit, it’s pretending to be crates.io, just with a subset of the contents. That means that the developer doesn’t need to worry about it and can continue using Cargo and crates.io like normal, and the Debian packager, if there is one, just needs to translate Cargo.toml’s [dependencies] section into whatever Debian uses, and Debian-package any theretofore-unpackaged dependencies.

All up, this makes it genuinely practicable. I’m still not convinced it’s worthwhile (and it does make life a bit harder in other ways, especially in ways that I’m sure will become more apparent over time as the system gets used increasingly), but it’s not as unreasonable as it may initially sound.

Really, what’s being presented is Rust without crates.io (the domain name and content host), but with crates.io (the packages).
Yeah, sure. The bad guys will attempt to circumvent the WAF, and, if it is just regexes, will do it after the Nth attempt. However, bad developers will not normally obfuscate their code multiple times to the degree required to evade the static analyzer.
Yeah I agree, I was responding to

> If legislators feel strongly ideologically about an issue, no amount of lobbying will make them vote the other way.
> If crates.io goes down or access is otherwise disrupted then the Rust community will stop work.

As someone who has worked in a big corporate their entire career this statement is bizarre. This has been solved for Java for over a decade.

Builds don't access the internet directly. You host a proxy on-premise (Nexus/Artifactory/etc) and access that. If the internet location is down, you continue as normal.

> You need only one author in your maybe-hundreds-of-dependencies tree to be hacked, coerced or in a malicious mood for you to have a really bad day.

There are products (Nexus Firewall) that can check dependencies for vulnerabilities and either block them from entering the network or fail CI pipelines.
3.5, or GPT-4? I'm told the latter is worlds better, that they aren't even in the same ballpark.
This website is a throwback to a design choice that (thankfully) has mostly died off - choosing a mid-grey for your text, making it much more effort to read.

I used to have Stylebot pinned to my extensions to fix it, but haven't had to do it in ages. Designers - please don't do this.

(I think it comes from people designing on much higher contrast Apple monitors and not testing on anything else)
IT is getting more and more industrialized and I expect those moves will happen again and again.
The short answer is that we're talking about the EU. Thats a US thing.

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.
I think the point was that conservatives wanted to believe they had a legitimate grip on reality even though the mainstream social networks kept banning them. Having their own echo chamber safe space let them pretend they were on equal footing with the rest of the world.

It's a veneer of legitimacy for an ideology that relies not on factualness but bravado...
I just think you might be onto something
Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu which is based on Debian. Also, Linux Mint offers a "Debian Edition": https://linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php
I assume the answer is pretty simple: many people shop on a budget, and spending more on better tomatoes isn’t often included. Thus we end up with producers lowering cost instead of raising quality. The consumers who do spend more are already served by the existing markets.
> But that's not because the Darktable folks did something wrong

As a survivor of "let's have three different ways to apply a TRC curve at the start of the processing pipeline" — hard disagree.
> This is why it's important to have a reasonable legislature and laws.

And multiple points of control. In the EU the council acts as a check on populism through parliament (even if the nazis took over parliament it wouldn't give them a lot of power), parliament acts as a check on the council (even if the heads of 70% of EU countries decided something, parliament gets its say). Neither of those are the executive so they would be unable to push through laws which favour specific countries or groups of countries (as the commission are supposed to act primarily on behalf of the union, in the same way the US president is supposed to not favour his home state). Then outside of government you have the judiciary who look at the laws passed and interpret them in line with other laws, throwing out ones which are incompatible.
On the note of youtube channels, I can wholeheartedly recommend Prompt Engineering [1]. He has great videos and hands-on tutorials, not just about RAG, and also maintains the LocalGPT repo [2] with 17k stars.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@engineerprompt/videos

[2] https://github.com/PromtEngineer/localGPT
They don't feel strongly ideologically about an issue
DNS Leak: How It Works and How to Implement It (2019)
It's quite obvious which system is better if you look at life expectancy and infant mortality.
These repetitive one-size-fits-all InfoSec questionnaires are a big part of the reason we started Platformed (https://platformed.com) to automate the process for vendors.

As a smaller vendor selling into a larger organisation you end up spending a lot of time rephrasing the same answer, which often boils down to "We don't have this very specific control you're asking for, but we do have an equivalent more appropriate for our size or business which is ...".
Collaborative UXs are much easier to "get right" then they used to be. There are a great many libraries to help like yjs. We added it to a prosemirror based block editor, including polish like multiple cursors and fun things like that, in less than a week.
It wouldn’t matter. The dev office will always exist in China and always be beholden to the CCP.

Love the CCP sympathizers downvoting. Can’t argue with the truth but can downvote.
I agree with this. There are cases where it produces good results, but there are also cases where it produces bs, and it's not always obvious. I find it to work fine for cases where I know what I want but could use a starting point, but it often invents or misunderstands all kinds of things.

The most frustrating situations are those where it invents a function that would miraculously do what's necessary, I tell it that function does not exist, it apologizes, shuffles the code around a bit and invents a different function, etc. It's the most annoying kind of debugging there is.
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This all comes down to the cache coherency protocols. And it's not surprising that you see increased latency with zen4 microarchitecture because, as one of the parent commenters already said, it's almost as if you're running a NUMA architecture within a single physical chip.

When dealing with NUMA we know that cross-socket, or in this case cross-CCD, latencies are always higher than the ones within the same socket or same CCD. Usually multi-fold.

This article nicely lists the core-to-core latencies between the Intel and AMD microarchitectures: https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/07/17/genoa-x-server-v-cache...

So, if you're able to somehow take advantage of this knowledge in your code (e.g. by scheduling less latency-sensitive tasks to the other CCD), you may be able to improve your overall performance.
Great to see I'm not the only one here who isn't fixated on 'how' so strongly that they've stopped asking 'why'!
Except it's not a "actual job" setting. It's an interview.

Especially for more junior people it's selecting on confidence, because especially in a hiring setting they don't want to "seem stupid" by asking questions. I guess this is also a problem for more senior people. It's just a different setting than "actual job".

If you want to ask if anything could be clarified then ask.
You might be right, but having politicians who are not ideologically pro-affordable healthcare is a really sad state of affairs
What does ‘better’ mean here? Eg TikTok is better at personalising recommendations where facebook tends to give more generic content, so TikTok may better give people what they want but also be more addictive/have a stronger filter-bubble effect.
Because shell command injection and process spawning time are not always acceptable side-effects.
That's probably true, there is lobbying in the UK so I assume countries within Europe have similar issues but I don't truly know.
Every serious enterprise runs a Rust proxy - and indeed Artifactory / Azure Artifacts and others support this.
The EU parliament did its job pretty much 100% correctly in my opinion. Their job is to consider the laws the EU commission suggests and thats what they did. They correctly determined it was a shitty law and voted it down.

In my opinion you should be upset at the EU commission, and especially commissioner Ylva Johansson from Sweden who seems to be the one pushing this stupid stuff.
Exactly. At least you have to show that you know what you're doing and it's deliberate. Depending on the seniority, I expect some kind of justification in the comments, like "it's O(nˆ2), but since the input will be very small, it's ok".

In real life people do a lot of O(nˆ2) code without realizing, and usually it's just some unnecessary loop inside another loop. I want to know that you care about some things.
> Soil microbes interact with plant roots to generate low voltage. Specific electrodes planted in the soil convert the voltage into a low current that acts as a stimulus for plant growth by boosting metabolic processes, including photosynthesis.

> Seedlings were grown in 3 kg pots, filled with the mixture of red soil, sand and treated with fungicide for inhibiting the fungal infections

It would be very interesting to take the next step and try this in different soil types especially what would generally be considered as 'better' or 'more normal' (say no-til farming with rich soil-life, balanced amounts of minerals, etc - not 'red soil mixed with sand'). Just thinking out loud, but it might be possible that this 'convert the voltage into a low current' actually happens in such less sterile soil type automatically because it already has anodes and cathodes.
Not to be unkind but simply factual: the author is clearly not a great developer. e.g.:

"At one point, we wanted a command that would print a hundred random lines from a dictionary file. I thought about the problem for a few minutes, and, when thinking failed, tried Googling." Really?

"But he had no idea what a pain it is to make an iPhone app. I’d tried a few times and never got beyond something that half worked. I found Apple’s programming environment forbidding." Perhaps. But compared to what? Yeah, it's not using VI to write Javascript or whatever he considers a programming environment.

Power tools didn't stop people from making things.
Autocad didn't put architects out of business.
Finite element modelling didn't destroy civil engineering.
Quickbooks hasn't destroyed the need for accountants.
Word processors didn't destroy writing.
Google translate didn't remove the need for translators.

LLMs will be a power tool for good developers. I think many underestimate what it'll take to fully replace good or excellent software developers and what they do in totality.
Base64: https://chat.openai.com/share/3793da6d-4634-4e13-9cc4-ce9983...

ROT13: https://chat.openai.com/share/ae7c311d-ab23-4425-bdfa-c2314e...

HEX: https://chat.openai.com/share/4b0740b7-53c0-4776-bb00-ab65b4...

What kind of encoded string did you use?
Even if you just look at healthcare, consider that in the US even the well insured can only afford to be ill once. After that, your insurance becomes expensive, and you're usually not covered for a whole set of potentially related things.
So no, “it’s the law” doesn’t apply to you. Answer the question or I’ll answer it for you. Thanks for playing.
That's exactly why I mentioned Kanye. All the influence with none of the outcomes.

Perhaps Swift should postpone a concert until one such disagreeable law is changed...
From the description, it sounds like the team has started excluding him based on similar communication gaps as the manager is seeing.

That’s a material deficiency, that even an autistic employee is expected to fix.

It’s hard; no doubt. But if you had a person for whom coding didn’t come naturally, they would still be expected to fix it even if working on the issue is harder for them than for someone else. Similarly, even though soft skills are harder for autistic people than for others, there is still a minimum standard you must meet.

Alienating your entire team would count as falling below a minimum standard on teams I’ve worked on, especially if they were being avoided for work as in the OP’s example.
We homeschool our two kids for two years now, because both had made bad experiences in the conventional school system.

It took us a while to find our pace, but it is going very well so far. There is plenty of homeschooling material out there plus a rising number of distance learning curricula that you can pick from.

I recommend that you take a look at the school curriculum of the high school that your child will potentially join and work backwards from there. For the most part, prerequisites will boil down to language comprehension, as well as science and math :)

You as instructor will have to prepare though. We have workbooks for grammar and math, but we let them choose what books they want to read. We also have science material, like electronics kits, geologic samples, microscope, models of the human body, a few apps for geography, etc. Once a week, they meet with a private tutor.

We do not have a fixed schedule, because both kids do a lot of sports and we want to let them play and roam when they're in the mood. We usually let them chose when to work on something but require school work before screen time. We also use a point system where they receive a sticker for each completed task. When they're done with a month worth of stickers, they can pick something small from the toy store, but the stickers also help them to see what they've accomplished.

This is what worked for us, but I recommend that you try out different strategies and see what works best for you and your child. Becoming a home teacher can be a challenge, because you'll have to help your kid cross that motivational barrier quite so often and that will naturally result in conflict. Just keep in mind that the relationship to your child is more important than whether you achieved all of your daily schooling targets.

Good luck!
thinkpad x200s from march 2009 - steadily approaching 15 years -, still works great to read news-sites, browser hackernews, watch some vidos on youtube etc. ... using the current version of linuxmint / mate edition :))
Were you using a 1986/1987 386?

I know everyone has super rose tinted glasses when it comes to OS/2, but try it on period hardware, with what shipped in 1987. Its terrible. And yes it runs great on Pentiums or anything new under emulation as clearly the larger fault is 1987 hardware, namely the 386.
In the past, I used PARnet to connect two Amiga computers via the parallel port.

This was a time when computer networks were a novelty to me. The unique aspect of this setup was that the required cable could be made at home. The ability to access and browse the filesystem of another Amiga through PARnet was a special experience, especially given the technological context of that time.
Why did it rarely work?
I’ve used Placemark for well over a year to build custom map-based graphics for torontoverse.com. There are a lot of web apps in this space now, and always QGIS, but I personally felt Placemark struck the right balance between simplicity and power.

Thanks for building it!
Windows know their own contents, but Wayland doesn't. "Compositors" do know which PID has which window, though. Hence why there are "compositor"-specific alternatives to xkill.
> Robert Murray-Smith

After watching his videos every day for months now I am still not sure where on the "technical genius" to "free energy advocate" spectrum I should place him.

I mean most of his builds are technically correct (e.g. most of his generators produce a voltage), but he often glosses over details that in practice make the idea unfeasible (e.g. a voltage does not help you if the generator can not provide enough current).

Other times he is just wrong ... just because whales and "tree-spinning-things" have similar "wings" does not mean that you can blow up the same shape to a wind turbine size.
(The reason behind that is that the smaller you get the more viscous air becomes (relatively) ... flies and other small insects literally swim through the air because of that. Imo that could be an explanation why the tree-spinny-things have a similar shape, they are just small enough that they "swim", too.)
In my day, I've bypassed all kinds of expensive fancy security products in five minutes.

This guide, linked from the article, shows some simple evergreen bypass techniques (section "WAF bypass cheat sheet"):

https://habr.com/en/companies/dsec/articles/454592/
I was jaded by this proposal as well, but jaded by the EU in general?

GDPR, forced interoperability from gatekeepers, the 2 year warranty on anything bought online

This attempt at breaking encryption completely stood out with the usual things

The EU seems like the only governmental organization that's working well to improve my life, in my country. Everything else is either decaying or opposing my values.
I'd love to know who was in favour of the new better proposal and who was in favour of the old proposal. A clear insight into their values. It's EU parliamentary elections next year, I'd nearly argue those supporting this new better proposal would be a good voting choice next year and to steer clear of those in favour of the old proposal.
Oh, that’s sad. Placemark was a very nice as it was for collecting geographical objects where the associated data is well structured. This is always a hurdle when integrating the generated data into other systems.

My coop has been working with something resembling to placemark: https://cocarto.com but our business model is not to sell it as a SaaS (which is always very difficult, and requires a lot of capital to reach enough customers) but sell a service to companies and administration around it. That’s why it’s FOSS from the beginning.
Just fire all the employees and you can keep all the revenue for yourself!
> https://www.patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/SKM...

page 26 (or page 24 in in-document numbering) ... amazing that Thorn was just an "NGO" .. instead of the company that wants to sell filtering tech.

so, can we get the actual expert opinion of these wonderful folk?
I think unaligned customers are discriminated in favor of--more likely to be browsing around the server's midnight and get marked as visiting two days.