skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve seen this many times. Only exception was an early stage startup where they really only hired extremely solid folks. Larger or even small but very hierarchical companies have been full of mediocre performers.
You're using a different definition of plagiarism than Harvard uses. I also think Harvard's definition is overly broad, but that's not the point. The point is that a student would be punished for engaging in the same conduct that's at issue here. The double standard is the problem. The president of Harvard has broken the same rules she has enforced against the University's students. For them, the consequences are serious.
Contractors can be billed to a project, it’s much easier to pass with the finance dept than justifying why one new hire should get 4x what someone else with the same job title gets.
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I think any wireless mesh like this runs into issues with scaling because you cannot efficiently route messages between a bunch of moving nodes as the network topology is always changing. You have to use a flood network, which is also what Meshtastic does [0]. Flood networking wastes bandwidth with every node repeating itself, and it gets even worse with wireless that's a shared spectrum.

All these mesh networks have a max hop limit, to prevent messages from bouncing around the network repeatably, but also not guaranteeing messages reach their destination. Meshtastic defaults to 3. Gotenna I believe is also Lora and is also 3. Bridgefy is bluetooth and has a 250 max hop limit, but also a 7d TTL, basically not close to real-time.

It could be made better by having statically position nodes that keep track of the nodes it can reach. And then having all these statically positioned nodes communicate with each other on a different wireless spectrum so you don't interfere with regular nodes. Since that topology isn't changing, you can efficiently route message between them. Now that's basically just regular wifi mesh.

[0] https://meshtastic.org/docs/overview/mesh-algo
What's something cool going on in the world of quilting right now? I get a gift card at a quilting store for a family member every year but not too familiar otherwise. The store near me looks like a cool space, with lots of room to work on quilts in it. Kind of like a makerspace, a little.
If you yourself feel like an under appreciated superstar this kind of article will surely resonate with you (it is HN after all). I personally find the premise unlikely, without good process you cannot get a larger group of people to do anything consistently.
That's why taking the money out of the click is effective.

There can be other models for making money, but methods that really on casting a wide net and driving low quality traffic is the thing that shouldn't be indexed or at least labeled as such
It's clear from context, there's obviously a
I strongly recommend slogging through both the old and new testaments in that case. Bang for buck, you're not going to find a better lens on western paradigmatics
How is it not mobile friendly? I check it on the phone periodically and have no problems. Have much more issues with Reddit.
I haven't found any of your claims to be true. Aiming for utopia is how we've achieved literally everything as humans from cavemen to now. Though you're cherry picking the worst of humanity, the best of humanity also came from aiming for utopia. Indeed, all the terrible rulers you mentioned could have been from people not aiming for utopia.

Larger aims may not be achievable, but they're how we get smaller changes. There is indeed criticism for criticism's sake (a lot of people use it to distract from improvement efforts). If we stick with that, we'd never have repealed prohibition because people would be worried about, "what if we repealed it the wrong way, we shouldn't aim for a utopia where alcohol prohibition is repealed, we should aim for something smaller, like 1% beer, repealing prohibition is just a utopia we'll never achieve".

Welp, turns out aiming for the utopia is how we repealed prohibition. We imagined the world we wanted, and we made a part of it happen, and none of it was due to criticizing other countries.

Let's just take as an example, a criticism you have of a different country. You can come up with the example. Just explain how your criticism has lead to making our own country better than it was. Remember: that's the only valid positive use of criticism: improving our reality.
I'm on the west coast of the US and it's 11:38pm Dec 31st so someone "jumped the gun" posting this by at least 90 minutes.
To be fair there are a lot of people who are familiar with tech stuff and have just never actually learnt any sort of "dev" properly before who I would consider as beginner.

These people also tend up pick things up very quickly at the beginning and are able to use the right lingo after a few months of learning -- anyone who has done a few months of a bootcamp can talk/write like that even if they don't have a deep understanding of what they are talking about.
Ask HN: How to avoid sensitive data being part of LLM training data?
How are you making sure your sensitive data & PII doesn't become part of LLM training data.
When training data is small, manual verification is possible. But when data size is huge, is there a way to mask/filter out PII/sensitive data.
> That has been my entire career. Never seen it go differently.

In my "big tech company", there's a thorough (and I think overall fair) evaluation process, and a very high performer can earn a significant amount of money, e.g. 10x the salary of a junior. People are also strongly incentized to deliver through bonuses and stock refresher.

I'm not denying that what you describe exists in some (most?) companies, but there are tons of companies out there, and it's also up to employees to do their homework and find places that suits their values and ambitions. They do exist!
So something like X11?
Agreed. Scheme taught me that function invocations didn't have to be sullied with the risk of stackoverflow, and in-fact what appeared to be recursive was actually iteration and loop constructs were not needed.
Sandstorm really had this kind of feeling. Not that it presented as a desktop environment visually - but it offered a much more integrated “computer” of documents versus silod web site apps where you need to open each site to see the files in the app. https://sandstorm.io/

On the other side of things, you can just run an SSH + X11 server for remoting; and have fairly good integration between windows controlled by a remote process on your desktop, and windows controlled by a process on your laptop. Over fast links it’s nicer than RDP kinds of protocols.

Finally Plan 9 really runs with this idea - you can mount the processors of another system to use them on yours. Plan 9 is a distributed operating system, designed to make a network of heterogeneous and geographically separated computers function as a single system. In a typical Plan 9 installation, users work at terminals running the window system rio, and they access CPU servers which handle computation-intensive processes.
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Which timezone is used for copyright purposes?
My experience is very different to yours. The feed is full of AI fact-of-the-day accounts, whose post replies are kilometers of smaller AI accounts attempting to add more low-effort content to the original (or just plain non-sequiturs).

You have to wade through so much shit to see human tweets in replies to most popular tweets now. It's a demonstrable deterioration in quality.
No email sent out and charged on first of January for a mere 2$.

If there's a way to upset your customer base, that's one.

I had already switched off them my paid apps because of poor reliability and just had one internal app.

Shame because I love the workflow and the fact it's using firecracker.

This is the last fly.io sees of me.
This was posted 50 days ago - how does it reach first page again?
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=benhoyt.com
I think the idea here is folks get too enamored with / focused on the process and not the content or product result. Not that you don’t need process.
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Same. Also I’ve had some software error out as it waits for drives to spin up (in an NFS share context).
Previous discussion:

How to Drop Out - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=917051 - November 2009 (95 comments)
According to the transcript of the Congressional hearing https://rollcall.com/2023/12/13/transcript-what-harvard-mit-...

ELISE STEFANIK: It’s a yes or no question. Let me ask you this. You are president of Harvard, so I assume you’re familiar with the term intifada, correct?

CLAUDINE GAY: I’ve heard that term, yes.

ELISE STEFANIK: And you understand that the use of the term intifada in the context of the Israeli Arab conflict is indeed a call for violent armed resistance against the state of Israel, including violence against civilians and the genocide of Jews. Are you aware of that?

CLAUDINE GAY: That type of hateful speech is personally abhorrent to me.

ELISE STEFANIK: And there have been multiple marches at Harvard with students chanting quote, “there is only one solution intifada revolution.” And quote, “globalize the intifada.” Is that correct?

CLAUDINE GAY: I’ve heard that thoughtless, reckless and hateful language on our campus, yes.

ELISE STEFANIK: So, based upon your testimony, you understand that this call for intifada is to commit genocide against the Jewish people in Israel and globally, correct?

CLAUDINE GAY: I will say again that type of hateful speech is personally abhorrent to me.

Given that the Second Intifada saw over 800 Israeli civilians murdered in terrorist attacks, it is not unreasonable to interpret "globalize the intifada" as call for murdering Israelis and/or Jews outside of Israel. And if the President of Harvard admits it happened, we don't really need to know the exact dates in order to know that it did happen.
Is that really a problem as long as Synology supports it (we're paying money, after all)?
that's hilarious, thanks

but yeah, it's true, the paradox of intel is that they can get it so wrong in the big picture and execution and integration but sometimes the little details are so right. I225V is a mess. Sapphire Rapids has 700W transients above average. But idle power and interactive scenarios on client processors is a dream. They still tend to be better than AMD on their driver side and general platform validation and stability (as much as that has been a doubtful thing and continues to be going forward, it's true).
This is why stuff like smart antennas and beamforming were invented. But for a system like LoRA that has a very low thoughput (AKA slow in the time domain), it's not an easy concept to apply in mobility.
> I contend that it is already unethical for doctors/lawyers to NOT be utilizing LLM-like systems]

Bah. I was working on an appellate matter recently that involved some nuanced applications of well-known precedents. I tried to use GPT-4 to assist in exploring the issues, but I found it useless. It was unable to engage in a sophisticated discussion and instead preferred to speak in canned generalities. For what GPT-4 was offering, a quick trip to a bookmarked treatise on Westlaw would have been just as easy, and trustworthy.
I think this varies by corporation, but large corporations at their root have a desire to treat their employees as cogs, because that is the simplest system for them to implement. It is on the employees to make it clear that they are not cogs, which is why politics tends to be a much bigger factor in such companies.

If your corporation is not compensating you enough to deal with the additional headache of politics, I'd try working for a smaller company.
Show HN: sshfs on Mac without macFuse
I managed to get SSHFS working on Mac w/o using macFuse, by using Docker as an intermediate and connecting it to the Mac via a Samba share.

Performance seems okay.

I was mostly curious if it could be done, but also would rather not install custom kexts.

The README needs some work... I just put it together.

Biggest struggle I had was getting r/w access, and not just read-only.

https://github.com/jzombie/sshfs-mac-docker
Thank you so much! 2024 will be an awesome year for 64-bit RISC-V Gadgets (like Ox64), I'll write lots more :-)
> Aiming for utopia is how we’ve achieved literally everything as humans from cavemen to now.

That’s objectively false. Many advancements have come from people aiming for personal prestige, wealth, or a host of lesser goals. Even ugly things like coercion have played a major role in moving humanity forward. The raw materials for the Industrial Revolution were often sourced from less than ethical approaches.

Utopia just isn’t what motivates most people to do most things, it’s lesser goals like lunch or impressing some girl at a party. On the other hand Utopia is often sold as an excuse for people to do unpleasant things today for some future reward. Cults thrive on Utopia, society runs on more concrete objectives.

> Welp, turns out aiming for the utopia is how we repealed prohibition.

False.

Many people who worked to repeal prohibition still thought the world would be better without alcohol, you can read people who actually argued this, they just didn’t know how to make it work. By giving up on perfection they achieved a beneficial change.

Again society is really complex. It’s likely some rule to be part of a perfect society and doing the opposite to be an improvement today. Euthanasia wouldn’t be part of a perfect society because there wouldn’t be pain or suffering in a perfect society. It’s a compromise and an important one.

> Let's just take as an example, a criticism you have of a different country. You can come up with the example. Just explain how your criticism has lead to making our own country better than it was. Remember: that's the only valid positive use of criticism: improving our reality.

I don’t run things. But if you want a real example of a criticism benefiting the USA, how about giving women the right to vote.
"Pokemon-style game made with JavaScript and p5.js" would probably do just as well.
Because ability does not mean desire to work :P
I show up differently in their accounting ledger, and because investors scrutinise that, management will optimise for it. Instead of employee cost (which is usually tightly controlled) I now show up as an external service next to extortionate cloud bills (where nobody knows or cares what they pay for anyway) somewhere 2 levels deep in COGS. Being the cheapest service provider looks a lot better on paper than being the most expensive employee.
Peer-to-Peer decentralized networks for economic transactions
> people do not own Kias or Hyundais as they're pretty terrible vehicles

It seems to me that both Kia and Hyundai are in the Top 10 of new car sales in the US.

https://www.carlogos.org/popular-car-brands/

From my anecdotal experience, Hyundais are excellent rental cars. And pretty popular as used cars here in Europe, too.
I have no idea, but I'd assume the timezone of Washington D.C.?
Not mobile first in 2024…?
I like the "Give quick feedback" widget, no-nonsense one-field form. Thought it'd be nice if the website remembered when user closed the widget.
My point about Synology being the MS of NAS is actually about this. Spend a little development time making DSM more portable but with a caveat of no support on non-Synology hw.

I think we'd still arrive at a weird place where we see people buying Asustor or other NAS hw just to run DSM even if it's not supported and but not a complete hack.

People buy convenience and DSM offers everything NAS related it really well.

I suppose they have internal plans to make DSM go the other way and lock out attempts like Xpenology. They aren't late either as other rival is still miles behind.
Going monk mode for 3-6 months is good for a man.
I hesitate to write this, but I think a counterbalance is needed. In software development, there are things you can measure. For example, you can put a new starter on a big pile of bugs and say “get through these”. You can measure throughput of work tasks, or story points, or lines of code. Can people game this stuff? Yes, but managers can be the check on such things (and have managers of their own).

I know someone that works in a sales oriented profession and who manages a large number of people. Their company is ruthless, you get only a couple of weeks to demonstrate you can hit the targets, and after that maybe a couple of weeks of grace after the hard talking to. Less than 50% of new hires make it through probation. Staff that survive all have the same attributes: excellent sales ability and focused determination. It also allows in a high percentage of narcissistic bastards though.

I don’t like the idea, but I wonder if a similar metric based probation would achieve the same in this industry. If you want people who can pump out quality content at a higher than average rate, set the bar high and cull ruthlessly during probation.
Thanks for reminding me of the heartbreaking loss of my iPhone 4 that ended up on another continent.
The Tensilica based ESP32 MCUs as well. I‘ve heard register windows are more common in embedded.
This one: https://moleitau.work/portfolio/berg-overview/
That's a whole lot of commenting from someone who clearly doesn't know what meshtastic is.

It's text messaging with channels, some provisions for nodes transmitting sensor data, and some location data.

It's not intended to provide TCP/IP networking.
It raises the barrier enough to stop the lowest-common-denominator forced-obsolescence crap from becoming popular. If an individual can make software that lasts, big companies have no excuse.
https://nammayatri.in/open/ - Raid hailing service that uses beckn

https://ondc.org/ - P2P commerce network that uses beckn
Plan B (built on top of Plan 9) and Octopus (built on top of Inferno) were closer to that - Plan 9 and Inferno had the fundamental operators but not the environment to exploit something like that, whereas Plan B/Octopus had interesting idea of "Personal Mainframe" which centralised a single person's computing experience, while making the peripherals composable.

This meant for example that you could have your "personal mainframe" in your office, then go with your "laptop terminal" to a conference hall, and when it came to your presentation instead of attaching the laptop to a display, a room-local computer could be used for its resources like screen and audio. All the while you have continuity because applications stored the state on your "mainframe"
> The idea that the NSA is staffed with "uber hackers" is a Hollywood fantasy.

Inversely correlative, the idea that the NSA/CIA/FBI are staffed by incompetent technologists (hackers, devs, etc) is a Hacker News fantasy.
The rise and fall of replika [video]
I've also built myself an HTPC for gaming on, and it works amazing since Valve gave us the Steam OS 3 UI.

However I did it a while ago and went down the HoloISO route. Would you recommend that I switch out for something like Bazzite, or are the benefits good but not *that* good that I'd have to spend a day reinstalling all my games?
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Didn’t detect my VPN. Hopefully this technology sees wide adoption!
Happy New Year HN! May 2024 bring you love, peace, and prosperity.
Im testing ways to explain the overhype issue with GenAI. The current iteration I have is harkening to Coke vs Pepsi.

LLMs, like Pepsi test incredibly well with the first use.

It’s a different story once you start dealing with it long term, hallucinations being a core issue ( feature, not a bug - so its not going anywhere)

With that said, there is 1 place that it will work well: Code. Since words are law and product, this is a straight productivity boost.

The other place it should have an impact is law, however nothing akin to a law copilot is making the rounds. I’m curious why. Is there simply more code available to train on that cases? Does the word length of legal documents break context windows?
> 17 million people voted leave out of the UKs 67 million population.

As an Australian looking on at UK and USA politics, a month doesn't go by where I don't think "there, but for compulsory voting, go us".

We have in our parliaments the some of same "sell my grandmother for a vote" politicians as everywhere else. But once their true colours become apparent the system corrects immediately. As in, in my local state there was a change in government after a decade, who by rights should have had their 10 years in office. But among many stellar decisions like "lets make bikies in jails wear pink - that'll show them", got thrown out after one term.

It's ironic how it plays out. Most Australian's don't believe many of their fellow citizens are smart enough to vote, and many strenuously object to be forced to vote. And, when everyone votes, the result is very mediocre. Mediocre, as in unimaginative, unsurprising, toward the centre, we don't want no stinkin' idealists thank you very much.

It seems the common man underestimates himself.
I love the feature that lets you edit blog posts like a Notepad file :D
one thing a friend was suggesting to me was that he thinks the difference is that human intelligence is analogue while computing intelligence is digital. there are nuances in our thinking and language that current digital systems cannot compete with until the become fine grained enough to appear analogue.
> "Hamas is playing the land grab card against Israel".

What do you mean by that? Comparing Russia with Hamas seems like a massive distortion of reality, not sure you meant to do that.

Israel is occupying internationally recognized Palestinian lands of West Bank and a blockade on Gaza. Just yesterday the Israeli foreign minister suggested sending Israeli settlers into Gaza illegally and drive Palestinians out for good. Hamas is a terrorist organization, who kills civilians, but let's not pretend that the IDF is any better.

And the US is a colonial power of the 20th and 21st century. It just hasn't done it the same way as the Europeans of 17,18th,19th century, mostly because there are different tools available now: culture export, dependence on oil, dollar as reserve currency, global free trade, and the rise of corporations.

Noan Chomsky says the issue of Palestine is resistance against colonialism. [1] [2]

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lUQ_0MubbcM&pp=QAFIAQ%3D%3D

[2] https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-12-02/israel-gaza...
I agree, however, if the disengaged coworker(s) and OP's consequent lack of motivation are both symptoms of the work itself, finding a new gig could lead to more satisfying work.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38701381
What a mind bend. I picked it up as a foreigner in Glasgow when I found out I was living downstairs from one of AG's friends and also muse / basis for a character in the book. Found myself regularly lost, re-reading large sections of it with different contexts / interpretations each time. Have held onto it the last 16 years and lent it to many. Not too many have finished it!
He probably got shut down by some mice. Hopefully he isn't not the late slartibartfast.
I like the comparison of content over process. In my experience a small team full of highly skilled engineers that are motivated to get stuff done don't need much process because they will do the right thing. But once the team gets to a size where that isn't possible, you have to implement and enforce process in order to make sure that those who don't have that skill can be effective at their jobs.

Nothing drives me crazier than working with people that are solely focused on process (and reporting), than considering the process in the context of getting the job done properly and efficiently.
NTFS is also case sensitive, however case folding is done at search time according to default windows settings.

Windows apps are expected to handle case sensitivity gracefully in non-FAT filesystems.
Gameboy was THE mobile first platform when pokemon first came out. I see no issues here.