skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it's time for languages themselves to start defining what CI means, the way they currently define how builds and packages work.

They already include test frameworks.

It would be cool to have, at least as an experiment, a language with no snowflake horrors at all, if it runs at all, it's in the language or framework's One True Way All Tools Understand. Static typing, maybe even linter warnings as fatal errors, anything that makes adding CI a hassle just doesn't exist.

Maybe it could even refuse to run without full test coverage.

So you could take any project at all, click "Turn on CI" and that's that, there's only one CI config that exists.

I'm guessing the number of use cases would be tiny to nonexistant in the startup centric tech world, but they might be some of the least stressful projects ever made!
BrowserBox^0 landed me a couple of contracts related to web scraping, RPA, process integration and dashboards, but there were quite a few more whose contracts I had to refuse because they came with "grabby" IP clauses, like: "we will own everything you work on while engaged with us, including any related work", which completely tried to disrespect and attempted to abuse the IP protections I sought to create by putting my open-source work: 1) out there in the open, 2) under the protection of a C corporation, and 3) with both AGPL and commercial licenses available.

At first I couldn't believe this would be a thing done by US companies (I thought maybe people in other parts of the world would have tried this, but no), but ultimately I had to face the unpalatable reality that indeed they were trying to unethically trick me into surrendering my IP by using grabby IP clauses.

When I pushed back and went through multiple rounds of contract clause negotiation, their grabby language only got more extreme in iteration (to a ridiculous degree), essentially a legal "fuck you" to standing up for myself and my rights.

Essentially a ploy to try to use an employment contract to own all my OSS work, and when I brought up ways to clarify and mutually protect IP on both sides from any such contamination, they resisted, and ultimately refused. SMH disgusting experience.

I think the most offensive thing about this was that they thought I was such a rube that I could be tricked by that, and also that it demonstrated they would try this with others. I hate the idea that little OSS developers out there were seen as inexperienced rubes to be taken advantage of. It's so hurtful. What about all the other folks out there who weren't canny enough to protect themselves, or even read through the contracts?

For reference this is not just "default clauses". I've signed many contracts that had zero grabby "own everything related" IP clauses at all, in multiple US jurisdictions. This is entirely an optional thing and does not need to be included, especially not in the circumstances I was in. The resistance in the face of subsequent negotiations, only strongly supports the idea that this is a deliberate ploy. Please respect that I'm not going to name and shame specifics tho right now, I think there's other more apt responses. Consider the experiences related here a warning enough to be careful with how you protect your IP in your own dealings, no matter who you deal with.

Sometimes the public face a company presents is so different to how they conduct themselves. Disgusting.

0: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox
"IMO hibernate is obsolete."

Uh, no! Both windows and AFAIK macos (although they call it standby, not 100% sure they still do it on the Arms) use hibernate as a deeper sleep states for machines that have been sleeping for some length of time.

So, use case, unplug a laptop computer from dock at work on Friday close the lid, throw it in the bag, return on Monday, or maybe two weeks later after a holiday/PTO, open the lid, and it's precisely where it was on the Friday when it was undocked. (On topic bonus is that using Xorg all the windows move to their previous locations when the machine is plugged into the dock, while using a nvidia optimus setup, just positioning windows where they were isn't something wayland seems to be able to do consistently in my experience).

I don't think I've found an S2idle machine that can achieve resuming two days later in linux, and I've got a pile of them. Most of them will burn a percent or two an a hour. S3 standby machines (real ones not the ones faking it) can usually do a few days but they also have issues with the week long timeframes.

This is solved with hibernate, which is configurable in linux, and the machine i woke to type this on has been in hibernate is at 99% battery.

One of the nice things about KDE is that the system settings panel has reasonable configuration options for hybrid sleep/hibernate. Like on windows it shows the option to "While asleep, hibernate after a period of inactivity" or just use hybrid sleep (which writes a hibernate image to disk before sleeping, so if there is a power loss, it can still resume, which is useful on desktops that are sleeping).

So, no, some distro's (ex: fedora) removed the option during install and decided that compressing swap to ram was a better plan because they think people have slow EMMC storage and limited RAM, rather than fast NVMe disks and laptops with 32+G of ram and they are still getting regular issues with OOM/etc and now its an extra step if you actually want to have a chance of opening the lid on a laptop and picking up where you left off.

So, no, hibernate is not obsolete just because there is a subset of users who think their narrow use case means everyone uses computers like them. Nor is it any more hacky than any other suspend/idle mode in linux.

And no, session management isn't the same, and most apps don't know what to do (particular on linux) when the machine needs to shutdown due to low battery. And plenty of applications don't consider part of their data to be persistent. Scroll back buffers in the terminal apps I use for example.
I can also create a model that only output the best response to “what is 1+1?” and still say in some aspects is as good as gpt4.
A distinction should be made between public funds from specific agencies with specific engineering goals in mind (department of energy, department of national security, NIST, etc. etc. etc.), vs "science is good we need science, health is good we need health, tell your local bureaucrat buddy how you will use science to fix health and collect your paycheck" funding (NSF, NIH).
That's crazy about the missed reply. Maybe it was just email filters influencing fate! An abomination, but fascinating. Cool story! :)
> The relay resistors are dissipating 900mW (They’re 1W rated) which gets them to about 60 celsius above ambient

Yikes. Get some 5 watt resistors.
Isn't Go the New Java in that sense? I am no fan but it seems industrial strength for this kinda use case.
I bet companies have years old zombie pipelines running without anyone's knowledge because Jenkins lacks discoverability.
Cool. I’ll set up at your work desk to kick off another one.
If you're going to judge Chinese opinions, and try to understand it's culture based on what their foreign ministry is doing, should the world stereotype and generalize about Americans based on the behaviour of the Department of State?

That would not be a particularly flattering portrayal.
Strictly speaking, nothing is falsifiable once you actually define things.
> Fairly certain most DIY electrical work is strictly verboten in the UK

No. You can't touch the consumer unit, and there's a restricted zone around bath/shower for example (by distance), but most things a homeowner might want to do are perfectly legal to DIY.

> the US, but the UK is noticeably more safety-obsessed.

Crikey, are you joking? Internet forums are awash with US concern over 'code', and to extend beyond electricity: food safety, FDA guidelines, all sorts of common senseless rubbish.
It's very heartening to see all of the stories here.

I've put the last few years of my life into working on komorebi, a tiling window manager for Windows[1], https://notado.app, a content-first social bookmarking service, and https://kulli.sh, a "bring your own links" comment aggregator which shows you comments from hn, reddit, lobsters, lemmy etc. on an article all in one place.

Unfortunately I was laid off after 5 years with the same company last month, and nobody seems to care about any of these projects when it comes to recruiting. There are people who use them that have reached out to me very kindly offering to make referrals, but the job market and mainstream interview processes value LeetCode more than shipping real code these days.

[1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi
The popularity of discord servers and subreddits, or for that matter closed facebook/telegram groups, speaks otherwise. People want control over their communities.
It's differently work, for sure. I know from experience: my DevOps Discord is 5000+ members strong :)
My experience : I taught 7th and 8th grade summer school math for a couple months.

The curriculum for this class included additiong and subtraction. About a fifth of the students struggled with this.

Additionally about a fifth of the students couldnt really read beyond the level of simple words/phrases (see bob run, etc)

This was both an opt-in and a remedial session. There was no grading at all, only an attendence requirement. So effectively anyone who failed all their classes in 7th or 8th grade could show up to summer school, do nothing, and get passed on (and really, even if they didnt meet the attendence requirement, they got passed on to the next grade anyway)

It struck me that this is likely what their entire education had looked like up to that point : failing to engage at all with their own education, and being effectively ignored and passed on to the next grade.
It's not specifically, but it's a common suggestion to gamers coming from Windows. As a result there's a self-reinforcing cycle where it becomes better for gaming because people put effort into it, despite that not necessarily being a focus of Arch as a whole
I have a tangential question: How can I know which of these self help things are helpful and which are just snake oil? I can't get disciplined and I'm desperate. It's hurting my job, it's hurting my home life. When I decide to take a shower on the weekend it takes me 30 minutes to an hour to actually get up and walk to the bathroom. Then it might be another 30 minutes of scrolling before I actually hop in the shower.

I'm desperate for something that works. I'll pay any amount of money for something that will make me sit down and do things. I've sat down and listened to literally every single Huberman Labs content I could find. I'm trying out brain.fm's free playlists on youtube. I downloaded EndeavorOTC just recently and it's wildly expensive but at this point nothing else is working. I know the problem is I'm just lazy and I don't want to make lifestyle changes. Great. Now with that agreed upon, what the hell do I do? I saw a doctor when I was young and he said I definitely don't have ADHD. Should I be seeking a Vyvanse prescription anyways?

I've read all of the books I could find looking for the one that will fix me. Will this one work? Do people find any of these actually helpful?
Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces
The fact Signal was provided with funds from CIA and other US government affiliated organizations is interesting (and a bit concerning). But we should rely more on the technical aspects of the app than conjectures. And in this aspect, the end-end encryption of Signal is sound and reliable.
My top recommendations for understanding and improving how you learn are the Coursera course Learning how to Learn and the accompanying book, A Mind for Numbers. Absolute game changers for me, and many years later I continue to practice and leverage what I learned from them.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Mind_for_Numbers.html...
ChatGPT Plugin trained on scientific papers: SciSpace's ResearchGPT
Just had to share my recent discovery in the AI and research space – SciSpace's ResearchGPT.

So, I'm knee-deep in my PhD research, and stumbled upon this gem. It's not just another AI chatbot; it's like having a conversation with an intelligent research assistant. ResearchGPT relies on over 280 million relevant papers from SciSpace repository.

But here's the kicker – it's not just a search engine. It can seamlessly integrate citations from relevant papers, in the responses which you can directly verify. No more digging through endless references;

And it's pretty effective for literature reviews as well.. Throw a research question at it, and you'll get a well-crafted paragraph. Perfect for those moments when you're stuck on the intro.

What blew my mind is the ability to upload a PDF and ask for explanations and summaries. It's streamlined my workflow like nothing else.

I think ResearchGPT comes the closest to solving the AI hallucination problem, as far as i've seen. Every answer comes with legit citations traced back to the SciSpace repository. I can dive into research without second-guessing the AI's credibility.
I don't think it's a power to make a difference thing. I think it's just individualism and self-centeredness, as in "it's not my backyard and I won't see it so whatever, someone else's problem".
How about you just go to a professional, get your (presumed) ADHD diagnosed, and get on a known effective treatment for it? You don't need to do it all on your own - there are people who devoted their lives to treating situations like your own.
Expecting someone to implement an LLM in Factorio any day now, we're half-way there already with this blueprint.
If the great depression lead to hoarders what will Covid lead to? Lifelong TP Hoarders?
No, but consumer spending on black Friday is the top-line metric reported in the article.

And my point is that not spending on houses (combined with the bonus of fixed rate mortgages for those who got them before the rate hikes) means there's more cash around for so called "Yolo" expenditures.
Facebook, Twitter, etc. describe the tactics they devise to manipulate computer users as "products". "Products" that sell for zero dollars. In the real world,, one might imagine a product strategy something like

1. Create a product that solves a problem
2. Sell the product to those affected by the problem

Under the so-called "tech" company version of reality, the process is more like

1. Create a "product" that creates a problem
2. Create a "product" that purports to solve that problem
3. Conduct surveillance and sell advertising services to someone else

To me, social media companies rarely discuss their "products" (advertising services). They discuss their free bait, calling this "products". The service being sold is not even being sold to the person using the "product" (taking the bait).
Indian companies take fresh graduates and train them into mainframe devs. I was a little sceptical about shrinking pool of highly paid people.
One of the members of the core team of our open-source library https://albumentations.ai/

It was not the only reason he was hired; it was a solid addition to his already good performance at the interviews.

Or at least that is what the hiring manager later said.
Show HN: Caption – Generate social media posts from a given image using LLaVA
>People won't use Chrome if adblock is ineffective. They will use Edge, or Safari, or..., they'll use Brave.

This simply isn't supported by evidence. Most users today do not use ad-blockers at all. People who do are in the minority, though it seems the minority is growing as more people get fed up with ads, and learn about ad-blockers somehow. Most users just aren't as motivated to avoid ads as you think they are. And it's not just clueless non-technical users: look at the countless comments here on HN in articles of this type from technical people who refuse to block ads because they think they're somehow obligated to look at them, and who call people like you evil and immoral.

If adblock becomes ineffective on Chrome, I expect usage rates won't change much. If ad-blockers remain effective on other platforms and not on Chrome, I expect that users might slowly migrate to those other browsers, over the course of many long years, just like they did with IE, but it's still going to be a minority because, as it stands, it's only a minority that even cares. Other people are perfectly happy to be bombarded with ads.
Yep, that's a distinction the OP made I didn't catch at first, and only subsequently corrected my comment.

Even then, however, elephants have been known to modify branches (https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2002-10036-002), other birds in the same family (corvids) can manipulate wires similarly to the crows (https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0901008106), dolphins can use shells in non-obvious ways (https://www.wired.com/2011/08/dolphin-fishing/), etc. There are probably more out there that we just never noticed... and it's probably also a matter of degree and circumstance.
>I’ll often find something on Amazon and if it seems like it’s from a small business, I’ll check to see if I can buy it direct. (Arguably, this behavior is unethical on my part against Amazon, but whatever.)

According to whom? The people who think going to the bathroom during a TV commercial break is "stealing"?

Since when is comparison-shopping unethical?
This is just a fun project; don't take it seriously.
>One bank I use refuses to let you log in if Linux appears in the user agent string, but that hits Chrome too.

So why do you do business with this bank? I have a bunch of accounts at different banks and other financial institutions, and have never had this problem. I'd never open an account at a bank this incompetent with IT issues.
Yeah, I think it's impossible to say, but I also think you have to think in relative terms. How is a nation (or empire) faring in comparison to its peers or competitors? If it seems to be in decline in some way, but everyone else is also in decline the same way, then they may still be at the top. America is having some big problems lately, but it seems like most of its peers and adversaries are also having big problems too.
Among all these feel-good stories, how about one with a bit different ending?

During my masters, I created a ML library that dealt with noise in dataset [1]. I implemented bunch of papers, but unlike your usual research code, I spent a long time obsessing about it's API, performance, created documentation, CI- the whole shebang. But then, like avg research code, I moved on and promptly forgot about it.

One day about a year ago the cofounder of a very new, small startup working on something similar texted me about the project on linkedin. We chatted for a bit, but as a guy who thinks he's too cool for linkedin, I next logged in and saw his last message about wanting to collaborate about 3/4 months after the fact.

Well they raised $25 million dollars a few months ago :(

[1] https://github.com/Shihab-Shahriar/scikit-clean
The longer my convo with ChatGPT, the more processing power is consumed
Hi guys,
When the conversation is getting longer, my laptop starts heating up. Am I the only one seeing this? If not, why would that be?
Less that spam makes them money, more than doing nothing about spam doesn’t cost them money.
Isn’t global variables at some point a requirement for performance? Or is there patterns that can do both?
Cute but childish. Would fit well in “young adults” section for girls and I wish lots of boys also read it.
Google are a formidable force in AI. OpenAI will have to continue to innovate at speed to stay ahead. Q* could be what they need to do just that, hopefully it works out. The more competition in AI the better.
If that's the case, just use C then.
> I will pay $100k today so that everyone in the USA can no longer drive their cars.

It's nice to know that you'd happily pay a sum of money you're capable of paying to ensure ambulances can't get their patients to a hospital, people can't drive their wives in labor to have the baby delivered, trucks can't transport medicine between cities, farmers have no efficient way to get their food distributed once harvested.
This is a very interesting concept and one I think most comments here are missing. This isn't a question as to why Mastodon (or "Fediverse") has yet to catch on in the wider public. It is more a question as to why scholarly societies are still organized around paid journals.

I think the answer to that isn't inertia or greed. I would argue that the tools of federation aren't necessarily suitable to that specific problem. There is a difference between tweets and feeds compared to peer-reviewed papers in magazine-like journals.

That is, Mastodon does solve a kind of problem that is related to closed groups of individuals collaborating on a moderated topic. And it allows those closed groups to broadcast their work into a network and to selectively include elements from outside networks. You could probably use those raw tools to create something that might sort of work for scholarly societies.

But it does feel a bit like trying to shape the problem to fit the solution (put another way, if you have a nice new shiny hammer, suddenly a lot of problems start to look like nails). I think the article is trying to suggest that federation is a tool that is flexible enough to fill that role, but I believe a significant amount of infrastructure would need to be built on top of federation to achieve such a role. And also, a significant culture and process change would have to take place within academia.

Federation might be a part of a solution to the problem, but no where near the whole solution.
They missed the events that made the United States a world power - the suppression of the Barbary pirates. There's an entertaining version of this as a YouTube video by Drachfinel.[1]

Up until the early 19th century, all the European sea powers, and the United States, were paying tribute to the Barbary pirates just to get into the Mediterranean Sea.
This was one of the largest expenses of the early U.S. Government. Then came the War of 1812, US vs Britain, which the US won. A side effect was that the US now had an effective, battle-hardened navy. Which was sent to Tripoli to deal with the problem.[2] Which it did.

The European sea powers hadn't been able to take down the Barbary pirates. When the US did, the US started to be taken seriously as a country able to project power. It also began the American style of warfare - build big hammer, use big hammer - which worked well up to Vietnam.

This is where the line "to the shores of Tripoli", in the USMC Hymn, comes from.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSBmGaLt5OU

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Barbary_War
> most developers I know (including myself), spend more time in meetings talking

And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention.
my personal experience agrees.
Overall be different and create fun to unique things on the web that get ppl's attention.. good or bad.

My first startup was a different idea and back in 2007 it was a very odd idea that received attention here (lots of hate ..some pretty vicious) and in various tech publications. I learned how to code and design during that time and I think both factors which I marketed when applying for jobs helped me more easily get my first few tech jobs.
This is exactly it. Factory construction is booming.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-factory-building-boom-...
Leo Beranek
That's a rad story!!! I want to believe!

What are you working on now? Are you still a huge x files fan?
For fruit flies.

Also, what?

>... circadian rhythms are the 24-hour changes in our physiology that synchronize with the day-night cycle and modulate when we are hungry, sleepy, want sex and have asthma attacks or a fever in the afternoon.