skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Real science is reserved for those with real expertise! As the self-anointed gatekeeper of real science I decree that other peoples’ work fails to meet the minimum standard I have set for real science! Mind you not the work other actors in the scientific community publish and accept among their peers - they are not real scientists and their work is trivial. For shame!
It depends on your frame of reference. To the end user or in a conversation about "can I install Linux on the family PC", maybe there is no distinction. To people posting on what is a tech forum considering the root of the issue, there is. This is the latter.
does exercising options constitute receiving it?

once you get into the complexities that apply to investors and rich people, income is a slippery concept. you have a hot dog stand and pay yourself 10k, is it salary, dividend, capital gain, return of capital? maybe you didn't even make money after depreciation, inflation.

"Income, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them." - paraphrasing Alvin Toffler

That's why most economists prefer VAT, simple tax based on the value of work when the work is monetized at any stage of production. (you still need to deal with progressivity, income from capital gains / interest / dividends / wealth creation, the cash flows that cause those to arise are subject to VAT if not the animal spirits but that's another matter)
What is your geography? US non-tech hubs still have plenty of openings (for lower pay)
Yeah - agree that the Django path to add REST endpoints alongside HTML ones is not the best. I like Flask for this reason: it walks the line between HTML rendering and JSON responses really well, IMO.
What I hate the most about work is businesses don't care about making stuff good, society better or solving problems. They just want to make money. Yet, they pretend they care. Microsoft doesn't even care about having a working search bar, no it needs to run AI and show ads instead. They're just trying to fuck everyone over to make a buck. And if you don't want to die in the street, you have to participate in similar activities. There's just no pride.
That is very rose-tinted view of the situation. Crucially the keyboard can not bypass the input handling layer of OS, it can only send simple scancodes. That has huge implications on how KB firmware level key remappings work; you can only send scancodes that the OS has in the keymap, and the resulting key press event is still completely dependent on the current keymap. Furthermore, to accomplish more complicated mappings the keyboard will end up sending multiple scancodes, possibly with modifiers, on single keypress, which can make creating application level keybindings problematic.

Ultimately I think the USB HID protocol is bit too crude for these programmable keyboards, because now I need to juggle two sets of keymaps (one on KB side and another on OS side) to accomplish what I want, and it in no way works reliably across computers or OSs. Either that, or OSs should provide better facilities for remapping stuff and handling arbitrary layouts so that keyboards can revert back to being dumb again.
I don't know. I don't use it. I'm not even using GitHub for my primary software development.
Ubuntu is still based on Debian testing.
Well they did call you and tried to trick you into letting them use it.

But assuming they obey the law they did not used your samples.

So there are privacy laws in place? Also they could have been cleaning old results/samples and this was one step.
I suspect people with a good network are saying "yeah it's fine, getting offers, things have never been better", while those without a good network, who rely on going through the grind of the job application process, are saying things are terrible.

So have to bear that in mind when people tell you how well things are going.
I'm worried that reading and writing the intermediate pipes can be too slow. Is it possible to use some binary format like Fortran? (Is the binary format of Fortran faster?)
And there is reason why they focus on "Ukrainian" (borderland etymologically btw) instead of "Russian" or even "Little Russian". The therm "Little Rus" was first used for Kyiv in sense of it being the center of Rus - Rus proper and "Greater Rus" meant the wider area of their influence. Russians (as we know them today) managed to turn this around and made it a derogatory term.

Even more - the "Rus" became first to mean "Slavic Orthodox faith follower" and it covered multiple nations, even non-Slavic ones. The fact that Russians call themselves now by this name is not an accident.
I would put myself in that set, but it depends on what you want to use the fingerprint for whether it's a good idea.

I prefer things exactly as they are currently. I don't want my fingerprint reader to be able to unlock the keychain. However, I do use it for quickly unlocking a laptop who's keychain is already unlocked. I do this probably 10 to 15 times a day. If I had to type my long-ass password every single time, then I start to not want to lock the laptop if I'm only running to the bathroom or something, which is a very bad practice.
Short term: zero anxiety, I'm at top 5 (very optimistically) to 20% of software engineers and have good visible achievements, speaking, etc.

Mid term: this is where I have the most difficulty predicting. AI might get good enough to put most devs in 5 to 8 years. I give that 20% of chance but it's not 0. In that case only thing I could realistically do is management (lol), work in construction or gastronomy.

Long term: I don't plan to work more than 15 years. In 10 years I should have good enough finances to retire, and work for few years more to solidify it. I don't care and don't plan for black swan events.
I heard another criticism/disagreement earlier, that the US Mil advised the UA Mil to concentrate their forces but UA decided to spread them out more, for reasons.

Also that the West's slow pace of delivering arms delayed the offensive and allowed RU to build up defenses more.
Attacking the participants in a systemic shift is 100% useless as it doesn't target the culprit.

In programming we have a similar phenomenon, that StackOverflow-driven (and I guess now GPT-driven) juniors have overtaken the industry and displaced serious talent. Because sufficient amounts of quantity always beats quality, even if the end result is inferior, this is caused by market dynamics, which operate on much cruder parameters than the sophisticated analysis of an individual noticing everything around them becoming "enshittified".

SO-driven juniors are cheap, plentiful, and easily replaceable. And a business that values less expense and less risk therefore prefers them, because it has no way to measure the quality of the final product with simple metrics.

The same mechanism is driving AI replacing our jobs currently, the avalanche of garbage papers by academics. This is entropy for you. We see it everywhere in modern society down to the food we eat. Quality goes away, replaced by cheap to produce and long shelf life.

If we don't fundamentally alter what the system sees as ACCEPTABLE, and VALUABLE, this process will inevitably continue until our world is completely unrecognizable. And to fundamentally alter the system, we need an impulse that aligns us as a society, startles us into action, all together (or at least significant majority of us). But it seems we're currently in "slowly boiled frog mode".
> The major SPA frameworks are all moving to an RPC model of all things, entirely coupling your frontend and back end together.

I'm not familiar with this development. Do you mean that for example React has grown a backend running on a server, querying the database, etc?

I know that backend frameworks like Rails and basically all the major ones added a JS layer running inside the browser and obeying to the backend. It listens to messages from the backend with changes to the UI elements and that saves full page reloads.
Oh! Sorry - hope you enjoyed my overboard response :)
It depends I guess.

If you solve a problem that had been around for a while and LLMs offer a new way of approaching it, then it can definitely become a paper.

Of cause one has to verify in sophisticated experiments, that this approach is stable.
"Giv den gas" = "Give it gas" meaning "Go for it" in Danish.

I know of several similar idioms in other languages.
I don't understand why the article makes it our to be unique.
It hasn't really changed that much in my view/area of interest.

SRE/Linux: recruiters are still reaching out weekly here

I've marked myself as "looking for work" on LinkedIn to get a taste. I'm trying to not jump in too early this time
A good friend of mine is searching as well. I'm anxious about the next year for sure. My friend recommended joining a support group, and I've now noticed many people who are out of work suggesting that. Even if you don't find something through that, it's a good place to get emotional support and realize you aren't alone, which to me is the hardest part.
Tree of Attacks: Jailbreaking Black-Box LLMs Automatically
"... Using tree-of-thought reasoning allows TAP to navigate a large search space of prompts and pruning reduces the total number of queries sent to the target. In empirical evaluations, we observe that TAP generates prompts that jailbreak state-of-the-art LLMs (including GPT4 and GPT4-Turbo) for more than 80% of the prompts using only a small number of queries..."
DeepCache: Accelerating Diffusion Models for Free
I agree, if he has been working since 2011 he should know a lot of ppl? He never worked in a team and can grab them on discord, phone, sms, text, skype, email, blog comment, instagram , snapchat, github account and see if they are looking where they are working now? Asking OP.
If you do enough measurements on that new prompt then I don't see why this shouldn't be a paper. People overestimate the value of "grand developments", and underestimate the value of actually knowing - in this case actually knowing how well something works, even if it is as simple as a prompt.

Compare with drug trials: Adderall only differs from regular amphetamine in the relative concentration of enantiomers, and the entire value of the drug is in the measurements.
good news! HTML, the programming langauge is completely pluggable so you can redesign it to your own tastes!

https://html-lang.org/#extending

and, in fact, HTML, the programming language, programs can modify not only themselves, but also the language itself, at runtime!

interesting possibilities await you, the programmer of HTML, the programming language!
Strongly disagree. I do think trivial work is not paper-worthy and it would be more beneficial not to publish such work, as it mostly a waste of time for the peer reviewing it and the readers who will gain nothing from reading it. It's no lie that most publish for the sake of publishing and this post just calls it out for what it is.
I'm in Canada and it seems like all the good paying jobs are remote for American companies (or would require moving to the states). Do you have any tip for networking when you want a job that is remote or in another location?
Plutarch's Parallel Lives is a great read though.
Plutarch is generally as reliable as his source material in the sense that things he wrote happened, but not necessarily in the way he tells them.

Plutarch selected the stories he told and modified them into moralistic narratives, but he didn't completely make them up. He is not reliable historian in modern sense, of course.
I was laid off a month ago, been looking since then and the market is pretty brutal.

Very difficult to get even screening interviews, portfolios of public work seem to be ignored, and even if you manage to get a screening interview, which is rarely with the hiring manager, you'll probably just get a templated rejection email from a person you haven't even interacted with the next day.

How am I dealing with it? I'm still applying away, it's not like I have much choice. Being frugal and trying to stretch the money we have in the bank. In the meantime I'm working on open source[1] and making programming videos on YouTube[2].

[1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z

[2]: https://youtube.com/@LGUG2Z
How to add prompt knowledge into research? By having papers about it.

Shouldn't be the tooling around it good enough that a few prompt papers don't overload the system?
It's completely false to say that NPR's funding comes directly from federal taxes.

And anyway the piece isn't "slanted." In contrast to e.g. the Bloomberg piece it makes clear this is a relatively minor international tax regime issue and some of the facts are disputed. The SC isn't going to weigh in on realized vs unrealized gains writ large. I mean, a bunch of them might be assholes and idiots but they aren't fools.
Work does not guarantee a decent living. There are many who work full-time low paying jobs. Many even need a second job to just to "earn a living"

As a European, it is really strange to see this attitude of "survival of the fittest" here on HN

The average HN reader probably works in an office with a decent salary. Why should we deserve better health care than people doing hard physical labor and have to retire early because their bodies are broken. The society is depending on them to function, so we could at least offer them adequate health care. Someone working in a factory or delivering your Amazon packages also work hard. Much harder than what I do.

The lack of humanity in one of the most religious countries in the western world surprises me.

The same can be said about humane treatment of prisoners. Abuse and rape in prisons have become standard jokes in American comedy. I guess they deserve it when they dare to steal your car...
> What do you think will happen to people who had their ancestry data stolen here?

Sounds like an absolute treasure trove for a life insurance company. Or, would you disagree?
This is awesome! Nice work.
AFAICT the phrase was "overtime for work above 32 hours". So anybody working 32 hours would get 32/40th of a wage, and anybody working 40 would get 48/40th.

But in my opinion, the overtime demand was just a "duck"[1]. Something easily negotiated away so that the union and company could meet in the middle. It's standard procedure in negotiations to make ridiculous demands so that you don't have to negotiate away non-ridiculous demands.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9137736
How does this avoid blank spaces? Does it parse and rewrite HTML or inject Javascript that does?
manim had a Discord.
Idk, lots of folks have been talking about “downturns” but I’ve been in the industry for 8 years now and I’ve never had to look for more than 2-3 weeks to get a job—and that’s while I was already working so I’d imagine I could find one even faster if I dedicated all my time to it.

I’m not trying to be contrarian or suggest that other folks don’t struggle finding a job. I’m just offering an alternate viewpoint. Maybe it’s my skill set that’s in-demand? (Full-stack JavaScript; React, Node, plus a ton of other stuff like Elasticsearch, DevOps-ish skills)

I’ve got a semi-decent resume and my managers typically give me feedback that I’m quite charismatic and easy to work with. Perhaps that comes across in interviews as well?
Cool project,I will test it in the future
Filming the crime and then covering it up isn't exactly going to work in your favour.
Sleep doesn't work consistently on Windows either, so avoiding Linux won't solve anything. You'd have better luck with Macs.

As for proprietary tools from hardware vendors, that's exactly the kind of software that users don't want. It's literally the whole point of this article. OC / monitoring / fan control should work with standard tooling. It should never require bloatware with flashy "gaming" UIs that advertises its presence in the taskbar and phones home all the time.

Also, as much as I enjoy tinkering with my computer, I'd throw it out the window in frustration if I ever feel the need to manually control the fan while using it.
Trivial means different things to different people. I’m not really a fan of LLM hype but it seems to me a valid practice of scientific discovery to evaluate the use and optimization of such models.
Old name with a very specific meaning. The therm "Little Rus" was first used for Kyiv in sense of it being the center of Rus - Rus proper and "Greater Rus" meant the wider area of their influence. Russians (as we know them today) managed to turn this around and made it a derogatory term.
That Nazis could use something for truly evil purposes is hardly limited to this but, I think, the concern is. You can imagine nazis transporting Holocaust victims and soldiers by rail, because they did, but I’ve never heard anyone argue against adding more rail infrastructure because if Nazis take over they could use the rail infrastructure to enable genocide.
One hop from the parent article is a discussion on why these researchers believe it matters.

Hacker News comments have been in a bit of an anti-academia, pro-business mood recently, so most relevant question copied below.

Imagine an (exploitative? Creative?) product launch for a probiotic yogurt made “to give you the biome of a true paleo”. We might want to ensure those whose mouths were swabbed to unlock that tag line were compensated.

> Q: What is microbiome ownership, and why is it important?
Weyrich: This means that someone could own or have rights to their own bacteria. The ‘next generation’ of probiotics to support health are coming from people who donate their microbes — not yogurts or fermented foods, so establishing a framework for people to own their microbes means that they could benefit or profit from the commercialization of these microbes. This framework is important for providing equal benefits for research participants, research teams and companies that may want to commercialize someone’s microbes to make ‘next generation’ probiotics.
> Would you say that "algebraic variety" is some incredibly common terminology just because it's common within a globe spanning subgroup?

Leaving aside that it came up often enough back in the early 1980s when I was working on the first draft of Magma (known then as Cayley) and having discussions with John Cannon, Charles Leedham-Green and George Havas, I would not say that it's as common among mathematicians to use the term as it is among air travellers and pilots to use city codes.

All air travel workers deal with destination codes, generally on a daily basis.

Not all mathematicians work with Abstract Algebras.

> I'm not finding this discussion especially enlightening.

Agreed. Your example certainly struggled for relevance.
Concerned, in a job right now but finding something new feels tough. I've been a bit professionally isolated so don't meet up with many other programmers or really talk to any in a professional capacity at the moment.

Also trying my hand at a masters which consumes more time.

Edit: I am occasionally applying for new things. My work skills are a bit out of date (still a perl dev) which has been a problem while looking for something new before which isn't great.
"How are you dealing?"

Short answer; not well.

Long answer; I'm currently stuck in a job with an employer that I hate, that is slowly destroying my love of the work, and I can't afford the time it would take to leave, upgrade my skills and get into a better situation.

For context, I am a versatile service tech for industrial machines. I have zero certifications in anything only because I never needed them before since I keep pretty good logs of stuff I work on in my spare time and that typically serves nicely as a portfolio. I'm in my mid-40's and realized I have hit the upper limits of what I can do without certifications and an upgraded skillset.

I'd love to move into the world of PLC programming and cybersecurity in an industrial setting. I've expressed this to my current employer, but it's clear they want me to stay where I am at, so I'm more or less on my own if I want to grow.

I have been quietly looking for a company that offers opportunities for this type of learning and makes an effort to invest in their people. Nothing that comes up are positions I qualify for since I lack said certifications.

I realize this is my fault, of course, and could have been avoided with different decisions in my youth...but now I am panicking because I'm having trouble seeing what my next move is and that is something I've never had to deal with. In the past, I've been blessed enough to interview well and prove my skills, generally landing a new job within two weeks of leaving the old. Now I can't even get recruiters to call me back, with their bars being set historically low.

I'm at the point where I'm open to night school (sacrificing pretty much all personal/family time I have left) but I have no idea what viable institutions are out there, and what's a diploma mill to be avoided.

If anyone works in SCADA, cybersecurity for industrial settimgs, PLC programming, etc, I am open to any direction you can provide. Lord knows I am not getting it from the folks I'm surrounded with in the industry.
The sad state of Western education in one graph, COVID just accelerated the trend.
I have very little anxiety because i'm not overpaid
Here's a simpler approach; not sure it does what you want; mostly just read / decode / display:

https://github.com/rickhull/device_input
There's no drive to save for the future of you feel like there's no future.
another +1 I can't recommend Processing/p5.js enough
> Nowadays, I don’t actually like Hacker News that much, but back then, just seeing yourself up there and knowing, “Hey, this is a place where people know, oh, it’s a big deal you get on Hacker News.”

Interesting!
A lot of people run with developer mode enabled permanently, especially extension developers, both professional and amateur.

I've seen no downsides myself.
Agreed, but also "privacy" is an abstraction that layers over the actual thing that people are worried about.

Any answer to why do you care about hiding this information? can all be boiled down to the fear that "[person or group] might use [private data item] to create [bad outcome] for me."

So the thing people actually care about is the risk of bad outcome, not the actual data itself.

If your theory is correct, then the focus should be on the prevention of asymmetric power imbalances in societal transactions that can even create [bad outcome].
But this case has two points to counter your assertion...
- They were receiving income (via interest payments for loans that weren't actually used).
- They have a controlling interest in the company - your assertion means they can effectively defer income indefinitely? This was the situation Congress was trying to solve - otherwise we go right back to everybody keeping all their money offshore.
How can you think that this isn't obviously illegal lmao.
The OS volume on macOS is read-only these days, and due to how universal binaries are implemented, just putting a 32-bit version somewhere else would probably not work without a major redesign (in addition to making them more vulnerable to tampering compared to the read-only volume).
You might find this interesting. I skip the X layer and just access linux device events directly, in Ruby here:

https://github.com/rickhull/device_input
How many bodies do UK museums have stolen from other countries? The British museum alone states 6,000 human remains of which I don't know how many are non-UK.

>"Held in a number of departments for display and research, over 6,000 human remains are in the care of the Museum"

https://www.britishmuseum.org/our-work/departments/human-rem...
> People overestimate the value of "grand developments", and underestimate the value of actually knowing - in this case actually knowing how well something works, even if it is as simple as a prompt.

I think this depends a lot on the "culture" of the subject area. For example in mathematics, it is common that only new results that have been thoroughly worked through are typically "publish-worthy".