skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say Hugging Face Daily curated papers on Machine Learning to follow the trend
https://huggingface.co/papers
What are the tornado (or extreme weather in general) stats for other States (the world)?
> For example, I once rated all my employees as "superior," and for good reason: They were the most productive team in the plant. HR kicked my evaluations back and said I needed to distribute my evaluations more "fairly." "Fairly," of course, meant "bell curve." That caused a few outstanding employees to be undervalued and, as a result, under-rewarded. Since pay was tied to evaluation ratings, they didn't get the raises they deserved. Or the opportunities.

If you're ever in this management situation, you can try working the problem up the chain. (At least your own immediate manager, or possibly up and sideways, if you're empowered to do that.)

One of the times I did something like that, for a peer who was undervalued, and who'd confided how upset they were at the runaround they were getting. The person who could fix the situation was an exec 2-3 levels up. Since I was allowed to interface throughout the company on some things, I went and explained the situation to the exec, and something about the impact of this person. The exec agreed, and quickly unblocked HR and management to fix it.
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Thomas Jefferson wasn't even present for the Constitutional Convention. If you really wanted to summon a ghost, you would summon James Madison.

With regard to the feeling underlying the snark, the reason judges have power to overturn laws enacted by the people is that the people agreed to be bound by the Constitution as the supreme law of the land when they ratified it. We thus have to take into consideration what they believed they were agreeing to. If a judge could just decide whether a law was good or not solely based on their beliefs and judgments, you are basically having a philosopher king who rules solely based on his wisdom.
Actually, that's how the world works most of the time. Superstars also know it and are used to it from early childhood. They are expected to carry the load and equally importantly, the team is expected to listen to them. It works like this in all walks of life, because simply put, human beings are not equal in ability.

Things break down when the team and management stop listening. That's when the superstar actually gets frustrated and leaves.

Truth is, when it comes to a competition between two groups, it's almost always two bunches of mediocres sprinkled with one or two superstars. The group that wins is the one that listens to their superstars. This applies in war, in sports and in the corporate world.
Have you ever tried freelancing or having your own company? I never worked in corporations and honestly cannot see myself ever there, considering the money I’d been making freelancing will never be paid to me by any company in the world if they’d just hire me.
My biggest problem with Synology continues to be their Kernel version being very old. They were still shipping version 4.4 this year and only the new product this year gets version 5.10.

And you dont get Kernel version upgrade in between DSM.
Now that is how you spend new year. Also beginner dev ? Dont be so modest mate.
i am not a fan of jobs but i don't see how you can look at his career and see a string of failures. breakout, apple ii, lisa, macintosh, laserwriter, next, pixar, ipod, iphone, ipad. he was an asshole who cheated and abused other people to manipulate them into realizing his visions, but he manipulated them successfully. astoundingly successfully actually
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2:00pm did a mix of safe and stupid. Still no clue what the actual issue was tho, so sounds like a regular day in the office for me.
> but he got very, very lucky first.

Which period are you referring to? Because he got fired from a company he founded, that’s the ultimate humiliation. It’s hard press to say Jobs was given free passes.

Compaq piggybacked on IBM’s success. Not much of vision there, and ended up being swallowed by HP. Apple is the most valuable company today, in large part thanks to Jobs’s vision and execution (iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, OS X)
I think the better question is, if we didn't think they were so good at this stuff, why would we limit their access?

I believe the US possesses the human capital within it to compete with the likes of China in terms of STEM, but American society does not value this ability at nearly the same level as Asian (including India) countries.

Anyone who grew up in the US can gut check this. Which is more prestigious: MIT/Caltech or [insert almost any Ivy League]? The average American will pick an Ivy League. That, not our latent ability, is going to be the seed of our eventual dethronement.

Granted many from Asia might also pick an Ivy League, but I'd wager a lot of money that the proportion that picks a tech school will be much, much higher than America.
> layers of semantic shielding.

I love this term. It describes perfectly something I encountered during my days as the sole technical support for a small ISP. I got really good at routing around it in my customers brains.

I would ask "have you installed anything?", they would say no.

I would ask "do you have any new programs or stuff?", they would say yes.

Because to them, installing something was like adding something under the hood of a car. Since putting in a new program didn't involve taking the cover off the computer, there wasn't anything "installed".

There was mismatch in our definitions of terms. I had to figure out how to route around it. I got really sensitive to things like that, and routing around it.

Semantic mismatch might be another term for it in my case.
Email is a great note-taking tool for debugging sessions
Good points! It would be very interesting to see the comparison
Do we really need flight attendants? Feels like a legacy thing that could be automated out. Amazon should try to run an airline. Would be interesting to see what they come up with.
This would be a bit of fun if the locations of the reports were correctly attributed. I was reading a few of them anyway, and most of them sounded like reports of human aircraft at night while the juicier ones were vague memories from many years ago, highly likely to be embellished by the frailty of human memory let alone anything else.
Writing books remains a tough way to make a living
Is it feasible to create a mesh network using Bluetooth on participating smart phones?

In crowded places like college campuses, we could run campus IM on it for instance
I know you already know this but wanted to clarify that technically ub can "go back in time" and not print those earlier statements.
Embedded is not the only low level work there is. Databases for example require a lot of low level knowledge, but the market big enough to pay well.
This probably the dumbest post ever submitted to this website.
me three! it was the first video of his I watched, so good and one of the YouTube classics that make YouTube so extremely special to me
I really like this viewpoint. I can understand more now why elderly people use the library so much (beyond the obvious technical divide).
keyCode is deprecated. 'key' would be optimal and more readable :D

https://stackoverflow.com/a/44213036/974045
I/O is considered a visible side effect, so compilers can't optimize away the call to the print and flush, even if UB happens immediately afterwards.
Why is that the better question? My question seems simpler. Can you answer it?
This is super interesting from an social movement perspective, but calling health care a "manufactured need" is pretty completely bonkers.
Pasteur and the beer of national revenge (2017)
we need more projects ditching "Analytics" just because its available, not because its needed.
Maybe it is this email exchange:

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1443263744906305543

second result on Kagi using “steve jobs email to eric schmidt”
Guys like Sam Altman did exactly not this. They gained breadth in what was specifically relevant to the problem being solved.
The other replies are massively overcomplicating things. A monoid is

- a set `X`

- together with an associative binary operation (let's call it `+`)

- and an element (`0`) such that `a + 0 = 0 + a = a` for all elements `a` in `X`.

Monoids are a class of structures, the collection of all arrays of a given type (with concatenation as the monoid operation, and the empty array as its identity element) is a particular example of a monoid.

Other examples include the natural numbers under addition, the integers under multiplication, functions `T => T` under function composition, booleans under and, booleans under or, and strings under concatenation. They're one of the simplest and most common algebraic structures.
If you use stderr, you get this for free: stderr is always unbuffered (see https://linux.die.net/man/3/stderr).
A lot of words, but not much substance. Sure we should surround ourselves with superstars and reward them appropriately, but very few people can consistently hire superstars.

Absent reliable way to surround ourselves with superstars we rely on process to lift the average for everyone.
Here is my "steamdeck os"
https://github.com/Cloudef/nixos-flake/blob/master/modules/s...
My, that's a VERY compact ssg/ssr web stack.
there's another one in Munroe (east side) http://www.letsplaycafe.com/
Certigo is ZeroSSL for all intensive purposes (as far as I am concerned) so probably close to all of them were acme clients.

Digicert has been pushing acme for a while now, but it's a bit annoying as you (my company) needed to prepay/have a line of credit for it, or some annoyance that didn't make it as seemless as LE/ZeroSSL.

I think for digicert any of the certs with 89/90 day expiry would be acme renewals with a near 100% certainty.
JovianOS is also similar to Bazzite, ChimeraOS and SteamOS but its based on Nix.
I'm pretty sure they can.

In practical terms, compilers are allowed to reorder calculations, and the print might as well not be there if it's after a crash.

In theoretical terms, once UB is guaranteed to happen then your program execution is no longer valid, the entire execution, and the compiler is not bound by any rules whatsoever.
Thank you! Yes, I think tangible projects are a really strong approach - I'm trying to figure out a suite of realistic projects, so students can choose the one they most respond to.
Admittedly, I don't understand about half of what is discussed on this site. However, I have learned and been fascinated by many topics and replies! This is a great site for the curious of mind. Happy 2024!
But if the compiler can prove that the code causing the UB will be reached regardless of the IO action, could it not assume that the IO action can never be reached, progagating the UB before it?
Process is required to get mediocre talent to churn out reasonable content, which is Steve's references to HP/IBM/etc.

Most people think they're putting out great content. But that's obviously false. One side of Steve's point about letting elite talent do their work presupposes that the talent is elite. Mediocre talent will do much worse work if not bound to process, and Steve was very, very good at rooting out what he thought was mediocre talent.
Freethink [0] has some interesting write-ups, their videos are pretty fun to watch too.

[0] https://www.freethink.com
great simulation !
I got done at 3:08, but was still on time, somehow... 8)
Older AGESA (part of the mobo firmware that handles system initialization) versions had a bug that prevented the chipset from recognizing and utilizing ECC ram properly even though the chipsets should support it. Check any motherboard in question for a firmware update which includes at least AGESA 1.0.0.5 patch C.

https://www.reddit.com/r/truenas/comments/10lqofy/
Despite a minor grievance about not making HN mobile friendly sooner, I have extreme respect for long lasting high quality things, and this is one of them.

Happy new year hacker news
The odd part is that the recurring timer actually calmed me down. I can't perceive the passage of time, so having a prosthetic that forces me to ground myself periodically in the moment has been a blessing.

I use an Apple Watch, and it's a gentle tap on the wrist that's perceptible to me and basically no one else.
Berlin was the spiritual center of the cyberpunk movement back in the 80s.

Berlin has changed so much since then. It was a divided, post-apocalyptic city, “occupied” by two foreign powers. Lots of soldiers, draft-dogers, musicians, communists, and ex-Nazis.

Now it’s a pretty boring capital city, just like Bonn was back in the day.

I’m glad to see it’s still doing cyberpunk type stuff, like having bitcoin markets.
I don't think China "needs" American tech. My impression is that, while they have not yet reached technological parity with America, given the country's intellectual capital and culture, that can only remain true for so long.

And it only "matters" to the extent that we care about whether China surpasses the US technologically within a few generations. If you don't care, then I suppose it shouldn't matter to you.
Very simple response to “I have nothing to hide”: “ok then, mind if I go through your emails and text messages?”
Thanks! For me #1 is really important too. I think just trying, especially with software, is so important. The language is one I'm thinking about - some of my students are self-studying AP CS which is centered on Java, but that language seems more difficult to start building things you can see (as opposed to just HTML/javascript) but maybe I'm just not as versed in it.
DaedalOS – Desktop environment in the browser
I’m super impressed by how smooth it is on mobile. Winamp is a nice touch.

Creator says it took three years on the side to build: https://www.reddit.com/r/react/s/JZRRdq1Qv3
This rules. Pull back the curtain and vanquish the black magic. We should all know how this stuff works, if only to protect ourselves.
The arguments against for loops in Scheme returning the result of evaluation of the last form seems to be confused to me. This is what all lisps that I know of do for all blocks/functions.
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This is more or less correct. We can have systems to compensate creators that aren't identical to the copyright system we have today. If I were to rephrase my previous statement, I'd clarify instead saying: "I do not like copyright as it exists today."

As a society we want to incentivize innovation and reward things that advance society. One of the ways we do that today is copyright. It doesn't need to be the only way, or be done in the ways we do it now.
Good knowledge of fundamentals translate well into high level work.

Understanding the timeless things deeply will serve you much better than continually trying to understand what is hyped only to have to constantly move on to the next hyped thing before being able to get more thana superficial understanding.
That's why I incorporated a tiny company.

Sometimes, companies will interview me and then when I tell them my salary expectations, they usually pretend to be offended and refuse by arguing that it would destroy the salary structure inside their company. But that doesn't really mean anything because many of them are happy to book my consulting company at 1.5x that salary afterwards.
I mean, hacker news is fun and all, but i dont think its making me a better programmer.
Isn't there an open source Android mesh network? Based on Wifi or Bluetooth?

I thought I heard about mesh networks being used in protests years ago...?

Do we still not have something viable?
You're just describing the behavior of every society ever.

I'm not sure where some folks got the idea that they could say whatever they wanted in whatever community they wanted and not expect any reactions, but that's clearly an inhuman expectation. I'm guessing that attitude is a byproduct of internet commenting.

I guess you could call society an "ingroup" or a "cult" like you're doing. It technically fits the definition. It also gives you a convenient victim complex to wave about whenever you feel like people aren't agreeing with you enough. But let's be honest: not every social pariah is a Galileo.
You got the knack, bud, and that's all it takes. Plenty of people have finished CS degrees without acquiring the knack. But that's really all it takes. If you've got it, it's just a matter of time before you're knocking people's socks off.
>>> I quickly threw together an ugly frontend and posted it to digital ocean under an express server and prepped another project to repair my broken discord bot.

That is quite some versatile lingo for a beginner dev.
Love the ingenuity and thought put in to this, however it only applies to white elephant exchanges done by computers.

People do not make the same decisions as a program, and will often make choices such as stealing a gift to troll a friend, or letting someone keep a gift they actually want to steal because they think it’s the nice thing to do.

Also, almost every white elephant I’ve ever been involved in has a steal limit - either per gift or per person - which completely throws these results off. This limit is usually because one or two gifts are often universally seen as ‘good’ with the rest seen as jokes or fillers (ref. the scary accurate white elephant episode of The Office with the iPod).
It's crazy if we don't yet. Hardware decentralization is sorely lacking.
you can check GoAVL which is written in golang:
https://z-kit.cc/en/
It does control for education. Which is not quite as good but is probably a decent proxy.
I would like to add that, yes, tofu is added to meat dish as a complimentary, not exactly to flavor it with meat. When you say flavor it with meat, I would assume meat is the ingredient to flavor tofu, mostly it is not true, meat is the main dish, and tofu, eggs can be used as additional to the dish.

Many times when we say fish-flavored dish, for Chinese it means we cook it the same way as fish, use the spices we use to cook fish. The same goes with tofu. Chinese dishes are strong in spices, the flavor mostly comes from spices, and those flavor connects to your brain, that's how you can make a vegetarian dish taste like a meat dish, with the correct texture and flavor.

Although vegetarian is not a big thing in China, we do eat a lot vegetables, it is a must to have vegetables for every meal.
I'm excited to introduce my latest project - Afri AI, an open source artificial intelligence designed to make AI accessible for everyone.

Afri AI is built on top of deep learning models like GANs and GPT-3. It can:

Generate high quality articles and text
Produce and enhance images
Manipulate and process audio files
Turn any website into a usable API

I trained Afri AI responsibly using only open source and verified data. It provides factual answers and avoids misinformation.
We could even slap these on drones in a rotation to keep boosting signal for a sector.

There's so much possibility to bypass ISPs...
> When the models are open source, or at least may be downloaded and used locally for no cost, that would be the users of the models.

I think there's a bit more nuance to this. The profits go to those with the ability to run these models and to those with the infrastructure (or capitol) to run said models. I'm hoping this will change and we'll see lower barriers to entry as LLMs are made more accessible over time.

> And back to the biological comparison: I learned to read (and also to code) in part from the Commodore 64 user manual, should I owe the shareholders anything for my lifetime earnings?

This is more a philosophical question than anything else. I don't think there's right or wrong answer, but in my opinion the answers we arrive at should provide as much benefit to as many people as possible.

> As I got to the end of that sentence, a thought struck me: taxes do that. And in the UK the question of if university should be funded by taxes or by the students themselves followed the same lines.

I agree with your assessment and this model lines up well with my own opinions on reasonable ways to ensure equitable benefit from AI (be it ML, LLMs, or some theoretical general AI in the future).
Somehow I imagine a dev who works in vim (or emacs if you please), does not multitask like crazy, and read books instead of social networks or even hacker news. For some reason he doesn’t know git. Or no, not git. He despises docker.

That’s who I imagined.
This is an insanely nice Windows UI clone. Not only is the site nicely done, but I enjoyed reading the author's posts regarding their current life and future aspirations. The whole bundle of code + UI + content hits home. I hope the author becomes the senior software engineer they desire to be - they deserve it.
Return to Innocence
also UNO Platform (C#) which is suitable for simple or complex cross platform business applications : https://platform.uno/
Maybe you're right. Maybe I didn't read the thread. Thing is, you haven't demonstrated that yet. You could've, though. You could've really put me in my place by laying to rest the lingering doubts that you know anything about databases, at all. You could've, and yet you can't, because you don't, and so you didn't, and now it's too late.

Oh well! Happy New Year. Try sometime new. Read a book about relational databases for a change. Peace!
I've heard of Briar and Bridgeify and Serval and Meshenger, what others are there?
> This isn't about Mercedes' interest in the car, but the legal owner's interest in the car.

I anticipated this response, but apparently I didn't make it clear enough: The husband forfeited a certain amount of freedom of action through the behavior that earned him the restraining order. At this point in the divorce proceedings, where continued use of the car has been granted to one of the spouses pending a final resolution, and there is also a restraining order in effect on the other, there is no justification for the other spouse having a right to track the vehicle. If it had been stolen (which is not the case) and he was unable to track it himself, that would just be a consequence hehad brought on himself through his bad behavior.

If Mercedes did not have any interest in tracking the car, then that just removes one possible justification for its inaction.

> A restraining order says nothing about transferring the car title.

And this issue is nothing to do with transferring the car title.
> Why do you say that? To me, it just seems like more neo-reactionary rhetoric. It couldn't be that democracy, international institutions (such as the UN), etc. have changed the world - that we built a better world. That would be a threat to reactionaryism.

Because it’s the significant thing that has changed.

We’ve always had political institutions, and it’s clear how useful those have historically been at preventing war.

What we haven’t had is the ability to destroy entire countries (and likely the world) at the press of a button.

It’s not that I consider it desirable that that is the main reason, but I do consider it likely.
The reason Chinese people would say it taste like meat is not because it "taste" like meat. it taste like what the meat dish is supposed to be. Our brain connects flavor with memory, and Chinese people would immediately connect the sensation with the meat dish they had before, that's why we say it tastes like meat. Gluten, Tofu, Mushrooms, there are many ingredients in Chinese cooking to replicate texture of meat.
Excellent point! Bravo
Which one is easier to carry and make use of?

118g of silver which can easily be traded with just about anyone for anything.

Or 4800g of salt, which has a low liquidity and can be consumed (at ~20g max/day) or used to preserve foods.