skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In my opinion this project is about 20 layers too abstract to actually produce working and useful software. But it's not virtue signaling if they're actually trying to do the thing, is it? Virtue signaling is when you act like you're doing something virtuous and then don't.

If one belives avoiding well-known tools and (english-based) programming languages is likely to actually make it easier for contributors using those languages to contribute to Wikipedia in those languages, then it's real. If one believes that this is not actually going to result in more usable tools, and the intention of avoiding tools from English-speaking Westerners is signalling rather than actually getting better results, then it's virtue signalling.
Since when has everyone been able to have a job they liked?
In other words, you keep trying them because they improve your life. This comment would be funny if it wasn't posted 20 times a day.
> Roughly 68 percent of the universe is dark energy and 27 percent is dark matter.

Dark matter is hypothetical and dark energy is assumed but some studies purport it's standing as questionable. The more popsci I read the less I want to read
Haha - I love this! Excellent, witty, accurate. Kudos.

Sorry for low content response, but, too good a joke to simply upvote, IMO
FWIW those bathtub ducks are made of vinyl, not rubber, but more to the point given that it's hollow it's not the density of the material that determines whether it floats. A steel aircraft carrier floats too.
Being an adult entertainer on the internet is a real job (and may be one that pays the bills.)
This 2021 New Yorker article: How Your Family Tree Could Catch a Killer (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/22/how-your-famil...) was incredibly illuminating and changed my perspective on our sense of privacy. With a surprisingly small fraction of the world's population sequenced, we can still match a sample to a person whose sequence we don't have. To quote the article: "Genetic genealogy, it turned out, could function as an all-purpose de-anonymizer".

So perhaps be less upset that Mom signed up; our DNA really isn't ours in the same way the documents on our hard drive. You were never going to be able to opt-out.
Also antibiotics. Even the name is sinister.
By “unknown third parties” do you mean the hackers? The breach was bad but not that bad — it didn’t include your genetic material.

> The stolen data included the person’s name, birth year, relationship labels, the percentage of DNA shared with relatives, ancestry reports and self-reported location.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/04/23andme-confirms-hackers-s...
Since Multics is written for modern or next-generation time-sharing OS at the time hence it must support multi-process and multi-user capability. This capability is represented by the multiplex terminology. In the early days of analog and digital communication, multiplex is the scheme to transmit and receive multi-user information in time or frequency domain.

If you think about it, much of the complexity of Multics come from its multi-user requirement with overly complex access control matrix, multitude of file types including design for multi-user support, etc. Thus the Unix name metaphor or pun is to make it the latter simple by requirement and design. Remember that Unix was started as a skunkwork and even the original PDP-7 that being used originally was donated by other department of AT&T if I remember correctly it was the sound signal processing department [1]. If it is an official project, the multi-user requirement will be there from the start since arguably AT&T is the largest technical company at the time and they will want multi-user from the get-go.

But after some time and considerable success of Unix, the designers probably looks childish due to the naming since they did introduce multi-user at the later stage, and toned down the exact meaning of Unix. What is the opposite of multi, it is uni.

[1] The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-strange-birth-and-long-life-of...
> If you believe you need to know if someone is competent in trick coding problems you should not be interviewing them for a senior role.

Better yet - don't reach out to employed, senior devs for a role, then play these "gotta see if you're a faker!" games.

It's like asking someone on a date, then asking for an STD test once they agree.
"These are the singles in your area" but government sponsored.
> Belly-Button Logic Works.

I stopped reading after this
Regardless of TOS, relatives who never agreed to the TOS may still have standing.

Will some non-TOS-signing relative who was impacted by the data breach lead a trillion-dollar class action suit?

(Class action, with the goal of putting a healthy fear of the public into abuse-inclined industry. Not the class action goal of letting a misbehaving company pay off liability with a small percentage of their gains from misbehavior, in exchange for making a few lawyers wealthy.)
The idea of model architecture making fast hardware design easier is what makes https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad so interesting.
Coding interviews are proxies for IQ and/or work ethic. If you're good at coding interviews you're either reasonably intelligent, reasonably hardworking, or some combination of the two. They're not supposed to represent what you do on the job. They're just a screen for people incapable or unwilling to pass them.

It's also easier to objectively evaluate coding interview performance compared to "softer" interviews, which is helpful to reduce bias in hiring decisions.

It is not an accident that coding interviews became the norm. Many of the most successful engineering organizations in the world are known for their coding interviews. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they're an ineffective tool.
How much water was used for animal agriculture? Both bitcoin and animal agriculture are unnecessary and only serve to please certain people.
> But, perhaps most importantly, for a senior software engineer coding is still supposed to be fun! I want every senior engineer to code because they think it is still cool, fun, interesting, and exciting. Coding is not a chore. I want you to feel guilty when you are coding during work time because you feel you are having too much fun at work and you should really be doing something more worthwhile.

> Don’t have that feeling. Even for a senior engineer, coding is worthwhile. Just don’t do it so often and so much that there is no difference between you and a more junior engineer...

This is rather incoherent. Am I allowed to have fun?
lots of Anthropic shilling from this account
How did you get the voices? They have a strange accent.
I'd assume: "with the understanding of a layman who believes the marketing claims they make without understanding the problems inherent".
$1000/day is $125/hr. That’s a lot less than $200/hr. That’s the difference between being a top 10% earner and a top 5% earner.
Summary: coding interviews are terrible, the job will be all meetings, and the people running both of those are ignorant.

It's your duty as a senior engineer to overcompensate for all of that. Pay will be the same wether you do it or not.
The simplest explanation is not that Apple is colluding with multiple national government's intelligence agencies which all specifically agreed to a conspiracy against Firefox's mobile browser notifications.
google, listen, stop talking the talk, walking the walk when you have something in real, your Bard for example, is still one decade behind chatgpt, your gemini has not even made it better and you're announcing you had a chatgpt killer, don't drive your reputation to ground please, it's in decline over the years.
At some point the writer showed someone the script and said "I'm going to make this" and a bunch of people looked over it and said "thor, dinosaurs, hitler ... bullets going through the phone? right, ok, sure."
The Merlin app has transformed my nature/photo walks, and got me interested in birds.

I never realized how many unique birds I was hearing as I’d walk through an area until I turned this app on. It opened a whole new awareness, and helped me remember which bird calls go with which species.

There’s also something incredibly cool and satisfying and beautiful about the resulting spectrograms. Watching the shape of the bird call appear visually in realtime really changed my experience of listening.

I blame this app for making me buy a birding lens for my camera, which had previously been used primarily for landscapes/cityscapes. I highly recommend giving it a try.
The summary includes no details of the testing methodology, just results.

No hardware. No justification of the games.

I love gaming on Arch. But I am stupid enough to use an nvidia card, which means that I have no Wayland. I am eating shit due to the drivers every few months. There are a whole host of good games with awful DRM that I can’t play. Steam is good but it’s still DRM.

The summary provided article gives the vibe that it wants to pump up Linux’s tyres rather than either demonstrating Linux’s superiority or making the case that you should be gaming on Linux.
As the article says, Proton was used. So no, it's not limited to natively ported games.

Note that Starfield and Cyberpunk 2077 are named.
Maybe you are not quite recalling what happened when photoshop was released, it completely changed a whole industry of wet photography professionals. Those who would airbrush models, create montages from literally cutting and pasting.

Also, we told we were going into an age where anyone with $3000 for a PC/Mac and the software could edit reality. Society's ability to count on the authenticity of a photograph would be lost forever. How would courts work? Proof of criminality could be conjured up by anyone. People would be blackmailed left, right and center by the ability to cut and paste people into compromising positions and the police and courts would be unable to tell the difference.

The Quantel Paintbox was released in 1981 and by 1985 was able to edit photographs at film grain resolution. Digital film printers, were also able to output at film grain resolution, this started the "end of society", and when photoshop was introduced in 1990 it went into high gear.

In the end, all of that settled and we were left with, photographers just using Photoshop.
This is an excellent talk for sure.
They tested games through compatibility layers that nowadays work for the vast majority of games, unless the anticheat specifically stops it, and Linux with a compatibility layer was still faster than Windows.
So instead of the richest companies setting the standard for what a TOS contains.... The richest companies would formally set the standard for what a TOS contains.
So beam search?
Which one provided more economic value to society? It wasn't Bitcoin, that's for sure.
> I want you to feel guilty when you are coding during work time because you feel you are having too much fun at work and you should really be doing something more worthwhile.

As someone who has fun coding: this guy's a lunatic. Avoid them in a work setting.
The man, the myth, the legend!

I would just like to thank you for continuing to stand up for what you believe in and fighting the good fight. Blessings be upon you :)
I’d be shocked if it was. Mostly because these are exactly the kind of bugs you find whenever you go digging into crusty old code. It would be more surprising if the image parsing code wasn’t vulnerable. And while these probably aren’t very hard to exploit, you would probably need to customize the exploit for the specific firmware and firmware version you’re targeting, making the bugs relatively unattractive to exploit en masse across a wide range of systems.
What benefit would you get out of doing that?
LLM's seem to be good at copying, sometimes with appropriate modifications, including decoding base64 and even translating between languages. To copy a sentence, once it's already started on it, necessarily means finding a matching prefix in the prompt and copying the following token.

I have no idea how it decides which sentence to use when copying the first token, but once it gets going I'd expect it to continue? But if it makes a copying mistake, it would probably make something up after that.

It might be interesting to see if it gets confused if there are multiple sentences with the same prefix, or multiple sentences with a common middle section but different prefixes.
And now a nation state hacker can use the same database to identify U.S. citizen descendants (to what generation?). Good luck with "illegals" style espionage
Unless you have two accounts for reasons (like I do) and now want them to be one. Then it’s an unfixable mistake that makes steam an annoyance.
You’re right, Bitcoin is directly comparable to a thing humans have done for sustenance for all of recorded history.
Will fix. Writing all these down.
> not difficult at all

Replying to my own comment only to admit that it is fairly easy to give yourself a task (ie. a problem to solve through the medium of painting) that will be perceived as hard, or even extremely hard. I do not negate the difficulty of solving creative puzzles.

You will experience that your ability to subject yourself to difficult problems will improve with time. That is, you will become better at what you do. This does not in any way correlate with creative style. There will be quite hard problems in non-figurative painting just like there will be in painting visually identifiable stuff.

The upside is that problems that were once considered complicated may not continue to be so. And, that you are your own employer, and you decide the when, how, or "if at all" of the solving.
Animal agriculture is unnecessary? Really?
I wouldn't use elegant and powerful to refer to golang.
Even if it's not, performance gap is not significant to use Windows. Gaming on Linux never has been better.
They ran Windows binaries on Linux using Proton:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(software)

Windows software running better on Linux than on Windows itself is not a good look for Microsoft.
Paul Graham essays? It's probably read Mein Kampf in several languages...
Well the reason why I didn't use google is because of a language barrier. I was using it to research packaging companies in a foreign country in a foreign language. In that case I really don't know what to type into Google.

Other times its generated links are when I prompt it something like "I want to use redux but simpler" and it tells me about 3-5 projects with links to their sites and usually thats better.
20% better performance, lower cost and most important... availability.
This feels like a "think of the children" type of appeal.

I personally don't have any murderous history to hide. But there are unintended consequences with all of these losses of privacy. As a peer comment has rightly pointed out, nation state adversaries now have these same profiles.

Maybe they can find a common DNA profile for an efficient bio-weapon. Oops.

I escaped an authoritarian regime as a child, thanks to the same mother. I hold no ill will towards her, but I am deeply aware of the issues that bad actors can create with by compiling huge databases of otherwise unnecessary information.
Mistral LLM on Apple Silicon Using Apple's MLX Framework Runs Instantaneously
Yeah I doubt they’d have any copies, but maybe they’d know who to contact. Or maybe see if they remember anyone who was involved with the technical side. Those people might know where archival copies are stored.
> > 2D image library
> Maybe I'm ignorant but what's a 1D image ?

There is no such thing ("2D image" is still useful, to distinguish from 3D.)
Waller County Line BBQ - attached to a Shell and amazing.

Prasek’s Smokehouse - attached to a Shell and amazing.

Rudy’s is okay. Buy a six pack in the gas station and put it under your table. Much cheaper than their bottles of the same stuff. Their smoked turkey is good, tho.
You should be gaming on Linux, but you should be using AMD for it too :)

GOG games are playable fine, you don't need Steam to play them.
Quantum computer performs error-resistant operations with logical qubits
It's much more intuitive if you gritted your teeth and your wallet and played extensively with pre ChatGPT: in a sentence, it's the stochastic parrot nature of it. It is statistical autocomplete at the end of the day, even though thats usually deployed in a sneering tone.

You can do yourself massive favors by setting up the conversation such that what you need logically flows from the context. In the other case, they're just asking "what's the most fun thing to do in San Francisco" after throwing a bunch of Paul graham essays at it. Its hard to explain but it's sort of intuitive that a bunch of seemingly unrelated sections of text followed by simply "what is the most fun thing to do in San Francisco", a very subjective and vague question, in the context of a "conversation", would often not result in a precise lookup of a one-off sentence before

There's a sense of empathy that can kinda play into it. Ex. If I was asked to read 250 pages of Paul Graham essays, then asked to answer what the most fun thing to do in San Francisco is, I wouldn't immediately think that meant I should check what Paul Graham says the most fun thing to do in San Francisco was
LOL yes I've read Flatland. I was trying to sus out why the parent was specifying 2D image since that's the default interpretation
of "image"...
> Steam is good but it’s still DRM.

Yes, most games on Steam have DRM. Steam is not synonimous with DRM though.

https://www.howtogeek.com/813209/psa-not-all-steam-games-hav...
... is not part of the UK itself. But it is under British sovereignty.
Comment of the year (decade?), cannot upvote enough.
Have you tried the library of congress, Smithsonian, and internet archive? Not site searches, but contacting an actual archivist or librarian at those institutions.
New technologies are expensive at the beginning. Nothing new here.
The Birth and Long Life of Unix (2011)
It's a coarse filter but they don't really have much choice, otherwise it would become such a nightmare of rules and subrules besides the inability to inspect quickly for violations. I keep my Lithium Ion based packs in a detached garage just to be on the safe side and I'd never bring them into the house, not even for storage. Besides the laptops and the phones :(
Written as though it assumes coding challenges are the only way to demonstrate ability to code. Coding challenges where you complete a contrived task against a clock are certainly lame, but don't get it twisted - they are used simply because they require the absolute minimum effort from the employer, not because they are supremely effective. If you weed out a developer who can't code using an 'easy coding challenge', I have to wonder how your shortlisting process works.
Previously: "Three gaming-focused Linux operating systems beat Windows 11 in gaming benchmark" (120 points, 95 comments, 3 days ago)[0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38510805
Other recent titles:
* Normalization of deviance
* About losers, clueless, and sociopaths
* Anxiety in the workplace
* Try harder to suck less

Grim reality
It's a long border. 100 miles (=160km) * 8891km = 1,422,560 km*2. Google says the UK is 250,000 km*2.

Your point that Canadians are concentrated into big cities is true. But on the other hand, there are hundreds (thousands? millions?) of small towns all over the place in Canada, and all of the ones I've seen are clean, neat, nice, safe, and shockingly (to me) well-served by infrastructure. (not to say it's perfect; we've all heard of indigenous towns without water).
An excerpt from a WaPo opinion piece, earlier this year:

But look outside this golden world and you discover a
different picture. Real household income hasn’t increased
for the past 15 years. The average UK
household is 20% poorer than its peers in northwestern
Europe. A survey for the Resolution Foundation in January
found that 11% of Britons (the equivalent of 6 million
people) hadn’t eaten when hungry because they didn’t have
enough money for food.
.
.
Britain’s low-growth economy is not only relentlessly
reducing the country’s living standards (on current
trends, the average Polish family will be richer than the
average British family by the end of the decade). It is
also forcing everyone to pay higher taxes for worse
public services: The great British Middle Class live in
a world of petty crime that goes un-investigated let
alone punished, over-crowded emergency health services,
and ever-lengthening NHS waiting lists (Britain has one
of the lowest ratios of doctors and hospital beds per
patient in the whole of the OECD).[1]

[1]

Britain Should Stop Pretending It’s a Rich Country July 18, 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/07/18/stagnant-...
Me too, but you're doing a great job not only responding to things, but also giving more context.
Google really is an advertising company, it seems
Bitcoin was created ~2009. The cost is only going up, by design.
About 9 months before I graduated I crossed paths with a guy who'd started his own software business. He said "look me up when you graduate."

I knocked on his door a couple weeks before my last exam, and told him I was ready to start.

Unknown to me, he was overloaded, working 220 hours z month, and his wife was telling him to hire someone.

I wrote my last exam on the Wednesday, started work on Monday. That was 31 years ago last month.

Sometimes it's just right place at the right time. But I did make the effort to go to his office and knock on the door. Getting the first job can be hard, but showing people you're prepared to put some effort in, is always a good start.
I heard that in Japan they will almost never fire someone, for various reasons. So when it's time to go there are stories of peoples desk being moved to the cupboard for example.
Just logged into Bard to try it with the new Gemini (Pro) and I have to say, it’s just as bad as it ever was. Google continues to underwhelm in this space, which is too bad because OpenAI really needs some competition.
Yes, but does mean you can debug it?
> "2D image" is still useful, to distinguish from 3D.

No it isn't? You don't say "here's that 2D image you wanted" when you send someone a jpg.
If you've seen any of Werner Vogel's talks, you will notice that Amazon and AWS feel the same way. Any scalable service should be able to withstand the loss of some of their components and keep operating.
I use POP OS lately, and as much as I want it to succeed, it is unstable when running games. Civ6, random crashes. TF2? Random crashes.

I really dislike Microsoft, but I'm mid-30s, and my whole life, the gaming support for Linux has been tangential at best. I want to convert to Linux fully, but I can't commit yet. It's still too unstable. I have a feeling I will die unhappy and unsatisfied with Microsoft's marketing's answer to graphics called DirectX.
Hope the chips are good. They need as many gpus and specialized AI chips as they can get.
We did, it was only for a couple days for her brother's wedding during the winter so wasn't very crowded.

I lived in Japan for several years, love living there but don't like working there. I am back in the states on the east coast but I hope I can retire over there.
Even if they integrate ads well, Simple fact that Bard is costlier to run will hurt Google. If Search Engine profits go down by 60%, MSFT and OpenAI can still pursue it but not Google.
The easy answer should be TOS that are not non lawyer readable or not under N paragraphs are not binding. When you buy a house you don’t give 1 signature. You literally sign every friggen page including multiple places on the same page, TOS shouldn’t be different
I used to work with this guy and he used to send a bunch of these weird, rambling "thought leader" messages to the whole org.
I have a little bash script/alias that when you call it searchesy source directory for .git folders and lists all the parent directories in an fzf selector, which then cds to your selection.

I don't go anywhere else in my filesystem often enough to want anything more than that.