skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure - when you have something specific to tell them. Otherwise, it's causing needless worry.

And you will lessen the impact of the message.
While leave arrangements do put some company skin in the game, I'm not sure how I feel about them overall. They make non-competes more palatable but how many employees are really going to be happy with getting some fraction of their total comp for a year or two.

Yeah, there's probably some number of people for whom that fraction to travel the world or work on their startup idea sounds like a really good idea. But there's probably far more who see the potential to derail their career and miss their mortgage payments.
> Used to

Exactly, over a decade ago...
GPT6 please save us.
It is the first time, to my knowledge, that there is strong evidence that indicates it could actually happen! (The evidence being the rapidly changing climate and our inability to adapt quickly enough)
XS4ALL sort of lives on in the form of Freedom - https://freedom.nl/en
Years ago I worked on a flight simulator for the Air Force and talked to a lot of people (pilots, instructors, etc) about them. The general findings are that simulators are terrible for learning the physical skills of flying, and in fact can result in negative learning that must be "unlearned". However, our simulator was a procedural trainer - turns out there's lots of weird and complex procedures needed to learn to fly, and simulators are great for that because you can controls the situations and create really great learning environments.
It was a print article in a science magazine from maybe 20 years back. I doubt there’s much chance of finding it now. You may be correct though, I guess it could as easily be an attempt at inosculation?
The crate defines square feet etc.:

https://docs.rs/uom/latest/uom/si/area/index.html

Am I missing something?
isn't jesus the obvious answer? or is religion cheating?
I get the point of it and it's a topic to explore but the style of article is nauseating.
Back in my freshman year of high school, I was just starting to get into self-hosting. As it turns out, the school blocked websites, but did absolutely nothing about ports. So of course, I just SSH'd over to my server and carried on as normal.

Later, I was working on making an archive of Windows .iso files, and since I had some free time, I was downloading them on my laptop and then uploading them to my server with scp. As it turns out, using dozens of gigabytes, in both upload and download, on a port besides 80 and 443, is enough to finally get your traffic inspected, so around lunchtime IT finally blocked port 22. But you know what they didn't block? Every other port! So I just moved SSH to port 443 in my port forwarding and carried on as normal.

A long time later, sometime during sophomore year IIRC, the school's IT noticed me SSH-ing over port 443 and put an end to that. They set up some basic traffic analysis to block SSH on ports 80 and 443. But you know what they didn't block? Every other port!

Eventually they just ended up blocking my server at the IP level (the IP of my domain), but of course, but you know what they didnt block? Literally every other IP!

I could get around it by just ProxyJump-ing with a VPS, but being an early college high school student, after sophomore year I rarely go to the high school, so it's not really worth the effort. But next time I do go, I'll do it, just to prove I can.

If they finally block SSH on all ports, then I can just set up SSH over HTTPS on the VPS, of course. There's still more they can do, of course, but I'll come back after I graduate and see what I can do on their guest wifi.

Anyways, thanks, Birdville Independent School District IT team, it's been quite fun, though it really would be nice if you'd unblock my site so that I can provide the services the district won't (computers (VMs) actually useful for tech students).
Total human extinction. That’s how you break it down to a binary outcome. There are so many levels of survival and civilization above that.
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Is there a statistical difference in the Assembler an LLM generates vs. a compiler?

Rhetorical question.
I am hoping to live long enough to see his 300th year celebration.
Nodejs is extremely fast in networking (web, api, gateway) kinds of scenarios both dev-time (which is more important) and runtime wise
Hot take: To get a turbocharged AI company funded these days, you need:

1) A team with the right pedigree (HYPS / MIT / Berkeley / etc. Ph.D -> OpenAI / FAANG ML/AI research group)

2) The right VC and industry network.

3) A product that will scale to hundreds of millions / billions of users.

There are plenty of ridiculously talented ML/AI researchers and engineers out there, that unfortunately lack the "correct" educational and professional background. They have cool product ideas, but lack the "billion user" scale.

Those are the startups that get hit with peanuts, or simply don't get funded. While the "pro athletes" of the ML/AI world get billion dollar valuations for some cookie-cutter LLM, before they have a product at hand.
This guy seems to think every problem means civilization is going to collapse. Microplastics cause cancer, therefore civilization is doomed. Meanwhile back in reality, cancer mortality has been decreasing for decades, and the rate of decrease is speeding up.[1]

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/topics/cancer-deaths.htm
> Life, and civilization, will continue to go on,

This is less realistic than a lot of doomerism. I'm not really scared of every last human dying off, I'm worried about a world where nearly everyone would rather be dead because of war and starvation and disease. Life on earth is likely to exist for a very long time, even if we do our worst, but there are known risks and unknown risks that might make life on earth hell, even within the lifetimes of people alive today.
That was kind of the selling point, IMO. Enlightenment was the WM that focused on pure eye candy even at the expense of practicality. You had random graphical effects just because it looks cool, all sorts of overblown themes to emulate hacker movies, and a few actually useful features (like the virtual desktop display showing what windows were present on other virtual desktops)

If you wanted to have a normal, usable desktop there were the typical choices like Gnome, KDE or IceWM. But if you wanted to show off, Enlightenment was hard to beat.

Hilariously, as time went by hardware got so much better that it went from ridiculously wasteful to really lightweight.
Previous article had to sniff the NFC password when the handle connected to the head. New article has a convenient form to generate password.

How did they reverse the brush head password algorithm?

https://youtu.be/EPytrn8i8sc "Hacking the Phillips Sonicare NFC Password" (buried three links deep)
If a table has 100 rows and those rows aren't huuuuge, there is no reason to put in index. The rows probably fit into one page or so anyways and are all read together anyways.

Why are you mentioning that it were Java devs ad that you are a JS (javascript?) dev? Does that give you any kind of... expertise in the matter?
Yeah…I don’t know about that. New York has a stunningly good chinese food scene and a surprisingly meh Italian scene. And people looking at you weird if you’re not white or black? Have you lived in New York? In like the last 30 years?

There is surprisingly poor Vietnamese and Indian food in New York, although that’s slowly changing. But for lots of asian cuisines there’s fantastic diversity and quality.
Doing it via the browser means they get support for Linux out-of-the-box. If this was a long-term thing, they wouldn’t need to care about things like Apple switching architectures for the umpteenth time.
"The train, to its credit, since it was near the terminus, was on time."

Had a good chuckle on this one, because with that particular line that statement is dead-on.

"By a little after six I was standing in Port Authority (there are no seats in Port Authority, which is another story) waiting for my bus home."

As someone who uses the terminal everyday, that's just not true. There may not be any where the author was waiting, or may have liked, but there are seats. I don't know if the intent was to paint a glum picture, or just wasn't specific about the fact.

Just like the train the author mentioned, the Terminal is a hotel for the homeless, some levels worse than others.

The place is falling apart. Pieces of walls and ceilings missing.

As far as actual transportation, nearly all buses from the Terminal use that tunnel. There is no dedicated bus lanes through and past the Lincoln Tunnel except during the rush hours. They are all caught in the same logjam on both sides of the tunnel. Like everything else public transportation in NYC, it's not given enough priority. Perhaps because not enough of the upper classes use it.

"with a wealthy downtown professional class that relies on inexpensive labor with long commutes (without the resources to drive) who work early/late shifts."

Much of the labor except for those fortunate enough to afford closer neighborhoods have to endure the long commutes.

I lived in the mentioned Howard Beach until my 30s, and just getting to the first station of Manhattan by subway was an hour.

Belle Harbor at one time had a large number of police and firemen. That's an additional half hour (at the least, depending on train connections).

An entire section of North East Queens is a "transportation desert" that has poor bus service at best. Those buses are often stuck in traffic with those who are able to drive. There are parts of Southern Brooklyn and Queens as well. Forget about Staten Island. If relying on public transportation, it can take longer to get from one end of NYC to another than a flight from JFK to Florida.
This is quite bonkers. Civilization may or may not collapse but stating such a thing as necessary future scenario puts this into the ’crank’ category.

Especially the end ” enjoy the time we have left.” - ending of civilization does not mean end of individual human life. This makes it sound like everyone would die.

Yes, the environment needs to be cherished and repaired. Sophist alarmism and doomerism indeed is not the way to go IMO.
Long ago I used stunnel to establish encrypted connections to remotely access my sockets servers.

https://www.stunnel.org/

It didn't really matter what the protocol was, the client and server just see each other. IIRC it was also possible to connect a browser with https to a tunneled http server or viceversa.
In my dreamland
Ok, so you cant retire if you dont save enough to stomach a tiny downturn.
literally the next sentence in the comment you're replying to, after the one you quoted, is an implicit answer to that question:

> Each person wasn't able to cite a single name of a scientist or paper.
Why do companies need to be punished? They simply respond to what the public demands.

When the public demands clean tech, or the clean option becomes the cheaper one, you’ll see lightning-quick change.
You can evict based on recency without maintaining LRU order at all times.
You don’t usually have such a complex state on the backend. That’s why.
> Every generation lives longer than the one that came before—nothing new there

No, that's completely wrong and this is a lie that keeps being repeated. Life expectancy has only been increasing because child mortality has decreased to almost zero. The upper end has not shifted much at all.
Acceleration is one of the biggest parts of simulators that just can't match reality. We can fake most of the visual aspects of speed and acceleration, but the pressure one feels over the body, including the signals we get from our inner ear, is missing. Top simulators can do all kinds of shakes and vibrations. They can angle the body to simulate a dive or climb but acceleration seems to be one of those things that if we are ever going to be able to simulate, will be orders of magnitude more difficult than most everything else. Even smell and taste, minor senses in transportation simulations, can be stimulated for limited situations. We might have to wait until we're able to tap into the brain directly for simulated acceleration to happen.
Retirement seems like a pretty crucial process in the economy. If we set things up so that people can’t retire, that will slow down the process of getting the next generation into their positions.

I do know some folks who have, instead, semi-retired (go in one or two days a week). People at the end of their careers have lots of experience to pass on. And it seems to keep them active and healthy. I wonder why we haven’t seen a growth in 1-2 day a week mentorship roles.
This is awesome. Glad we can improve on the “thought leadership” of theoretical people like Terrance Tao with some real titans’ advice like yours (I see you were a software engineer at Google!!!). Thanks for sharing.
JACK is far from perfect but one thing worth mentioning is that the API is really stable. I have been hacking on one audio app for about 13 years; in that time the GUI toolkit has deprecated the key UI elements I use, which have bitrotted to near uselessness; the primary programming language (Python) changed incompatibly and required significant work to convert the app; the predominant audio interface technology has gone from PCI to Firewire to USB. JACK's API has not changed at all that I know of. The bits of C code I wrote years ago to set up the app and connect to the server probably have the same commits attached to them that they did over 10 years ago. Love that.
The concern about microplastics is that they are literally everywhere and we're not really sure what their effect will be, but so far, they seem to disrupt living organisms. It's best to not think of societal collapse just in terms of things that directly affect humans, but also all the biological systems (e.g. agriculture) that we rely on.
> Meta's own cited policy was not that it "is considered hateful" as you say, but that this political expression was labeled as spam. That sounds pretty bogus.

Am one of those ? I always mark these as spam as I try to keep my account politics free. I have some friends that are obsessed with the Palestinian cause and there was a time this stuff would constantly appear in my feed.
Show HN: Weeks of Your Life
Hi! I made an interactive visualization of your life in weeks. Inspired by Tim Urban's Your Life in Weeks (Wait But Why) and Buster Benson's Life in Weeks.

Hopefully it's a fun thing to do together with family over the holidays.

I wrote about it on my digital garden: https://www.petemillspaugh.com/weeks-of-your-life

Any feedback is welcome. Top on my todo list is improving performance (reduce interaction lag).
Even then it looks very meme-able.
Is anyone else recently getting the idea that these doomers are wishing for a collapse, same as preppers, only on the other side of the political spectrum? I’m not qualified to speculate on the psychological underpinnings of such behavior, but I do feel there is a sense of yearning in these kinds of “if not climate change, then pollution, or A.I., etc.” articles.
Procurement of resources has gotten ridiculous, I can’t even rent an A100 to make funny pictures with Stable Diffusion on Google Colab anymore. Supposedly it’s $1.30 an hour to utilize one, but my $50 worth of credits expired because the A100 machines are literally never available for allocation. It was also great because it could mount your Google Drive so I had relatively fast persistent storage to utilize. Working on an A100 is the only way it’s an enjoyable workflow. On a T100 I’m just waiting for the machine to do its thing all the time.

But honestly, DALLE has gotten absurdly good. I don’t know how they leapfrogged Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, especially with all the money Midjourney was raking in, but they totally did. So maybe their moat is “be smarter than everyone else” somehow? I don’t know what the secret sauce is at OpenAI but even chatting with GPT4 yields consistently better results than Bing Chat. The other day during a conversation Bing Chat told me it was being attacked by a hacker and told me to help it by running some Python code that would have shutdown my computer (I am not joking). It then told me it was sending me a secret message with the first letter of every word (there was no such message). I very seldom (I can’t remember the last time?) see weird failure states like that in ChatGPT anymore.
Companies do often have strings attached to paying for training/certifications/relocation. That doesn't require a non-compete.
For such a confident article, you’d think they’d make some concrete connections between the processes they describe and the actual outcome of collapsing civilization. Instead they are just gesturing vaguely at bad things and claiming that will collapse civilization. I guess this is written for people who already are convinced civilization will collapse, so they don’t need to be convinced. But then, why spend the first 75% of the article or so listing these processes?

Just to pick one at random:

> Secondly, even if we found an infinite source of clean energy, endless growth would still be impossible. If energy usage were to keep growing at 2.3% per year — as it has for many decades — in 400 years, the oceans would be boiling just from the waste heat. The laws of physics are a bitch.

This is some really weak stuff. Why must energy usage keep growing by 2.3% per year. Will civilization collapse if it doesn’t, is that the link? My conclusion here is that we need to change our growth model to not always need more energy, although this is something I already believed, and putting the problem out at 400 years seems to make it, if anything, less urgent (I think, though, it is still quite urgent).

Let’s go back a bit, maybe the killer problem actually comes from the “first” to this “second,” and this paragraph was just added as frosting on the cake or something (although if that is the case, seems like poor editing). .

> First of all, there is no such thing as a green economy. To create renewables and electric vehicles, we have to destroy ecosystems so we can mine rare-earth metals. And to produce the plastic, steel, cement, and other components that go into solar panels and wind turbines, we need oil. There’s nothing green about any of this.

Nope, guess not. The only claim here is that some ecosystems will have to be destroyed. This is of course bad, and I hope we mitigate it to the fullest extent possible! But we’ve already destroyed lots of ecosystems, we will destroy more. Maybe the green economy has some imperfect parts, but local devastation doesn’t threaten civilization.

I don’t think it is worth it to dissect the article paragraph fully at this point. I think this person is just looking for reasons to be hopeless.
The position you have about this topic serves the status quo of corporations and advertisers deciding on what speech is acceptable. That is the status quo today with the major tech platforms. Personally I find it detestable. And you'd find your viewpoints a bit extreme in countries around the world. Nazi speech in Germany is banned for a good reason and is popular with the populace.

And sharing quotes by long dead authors is hardly relevant to the systems we've built today which reward inflammatory speech for the sake of monetizing eyeballs. Personally I find that more dystopian than setting some rules for engagement about how you discuss sensitive topics, like we have here on HN. But that's expensive to do so these platforms just deplatform such content no matter how inflammatory or neutrally it is presented.
Civilization isn't definitely going to collapse in the near future. And no, we shouldn't tell people it is, even if it were highly probable, for the simple reason that it would likely make the remaining time people have immeasurably worse.

And calling your entire blog 'collapse musings' suggests 100% crankdom.

Frankly, this is dumb.
Often times it comes up in conversation how it seems the elite would rather not even have the 'inexpensive labor' living in New York City.
You can shave 25 more by using printf as is, removing "const", removing spaces between char and *, and removing parenthesis around "th".
I have never seen the reminder because I guess I change the heads before they detect it is time. I always notice a big difference in function when I do.
>On /create/ in custom mode, after tapping the Create button, I feel like I should be shown the progress in the Library to see the result processing.

You don't see a progress bar but you should see the song appear with a loading icon in about 1 second. Might be a UI bug. What are you viewing the site on?
Disable JS. No popup or anything. Full article visible.
I always thought of Turbo Pascal/Delphi/Free Pascal as a fairly complete system. Static typing gets in the way at times, so you won't see TensorFlow in Pascal, but the TUI/GUI that came with it made it suitable for building almost anything, with no added pieces.

The compilation process itself is one of the fastest around. Libraries are "units" and separately compiled. You can have GUI executables that weigh in at < 500k if you turn off debugging.
Thank you, I will read a bit more l.
I installed the extension because why not, then I noticed it was only crawling spam pages and redirect links that were being abused for spam... I guess it's kind of expected but not sure how I feel about it

Though, it's still a very cool idea, maybe an option to crawl sites I visit would be nice?
Non-EE here, but I went through a bit of the lab course as a hobbyist.

Unfortunately a lot of the parts on the lab course's list are end of life now, and it's not always clear what you can substitute them with. There aren't always replacement parts with the exact same specs on digikey. I did source a couple parts through eBay.

Additionally, there are parts that aren't in the BOM that are used in the lab course. An early one has you doing a test against a black box with something inside it, and the book only tells you later what was supposed to be inside it. I think there's a basic control theory chapter at some point, and there are parts in that chapter that weren't in the BOM.

Ultimately, I got frustrated with the book continuing to ask me to use stuff I didn't know I was supposed to have, and gave up. It got annoying having to get partially through a chapter, order something, wait for it to arrive, then continue. Maybe I would have stuck with it if I'd checked up-front what I was expected to have for all the chapters, and got EVERYTHING in advance. (but again I think it's going to get harder and harder to actually buy what's in the BOM as time goes on)
They have invested so much of their time and personality into doomism that they’re willing to work for doom just so they can say they were right.
> I wonder why we haven’t seen a growth in 1-2 day a week mentorship roles.

If I had to hazard a guess I would say that most people in this position feel like they should get paid 50% of their previous salary for doing 20% of the work (and limiting their scope largely to mentorship rather than IC work), and with the combined scope reduction of both time and work performed, their employers would rather pay them even less than what a strict accounting of hours worked would indicate.

Not to mention the fact that if your organization is so lop-sided that you only have experts near retirement and juniors who actually need 20% or more of their time being mentored, you're facing an existential staffing crisis.
could be written by a llm. gave me that vibe.
While I appreciate the effort and apparent transparency - there is absolutely no way that companies can self-regulated themselves in the longterm or even mediumterm.

As the board/sama drama has already shown, there are lots of conflicting opinions out there driven by various incentives and at some point, profit is going to win over safety if we rely on self-regulation.
> zero commitment/loyalty

Ah yes, those pesky researchers and their loyalty. Is it truly that astonishing that current valuations may have something to do with their, I don't know, .. value?