skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LinkedIn is like certifications now:

There's an entire industry around claiming it's important, using it, optimizing it, etc.

But all of that is orthogonal to getting actual work done and the skills to do so.

... or in other words, LinkedIn is what would have happened to Craigslist, if CL had decided they wanted people to spend more time on the site, instead of concluding their business as quickly as possible.
>the other half's more interested in culture wars.

Are they? Looking at the polls[1], it's not really clear either way. For instance much more republicans think that "the state of moral values" is a "big problem", which seems to suggest they're "more interested in culture wars", but at the same time for "racism" the numbers are flipped.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/06/21/inflation-he...
Control of materials is a far bigger hurdle. If you try to procure materials which can be used for bombs/chemical weapons/.. in significant quantities you will get noticed pretty fast.
I will echo the sentiments of writing for yourself as the intended audience. Write content that would benefit and interest you — especially when you solve problems that aren’t super well documented yet. I also just put an email address on my blog and let people reach out to me that way.

I would say my last three job positions I got because of my GitHub and my blog. I do not have a degree, so my GH and blog are where I am able to demonstrate my technical know-how. My most recent job interview, the people interviewing me used my blog (which was listed on my resume) as content for questions about my skills and interests.

Regarding negative feedback, I would say that you may encounter some, however, in my experience, people just won’t read your blog if they aren’t interested. Additionally, you likely will only get people who really care about your content if they have to email you — and everyone who has reached out to me via email has been thoughtful and constructive in their feedback to me.

Additionally, many people in my real-life circles don’t really find what I blog about as that interesting. That’s why writing for you and nobody else is critical.

If curious, you can find my blog in my HN bio, and my GitHub handle is the same as my handle here :)

Good luck!
You can but it's back to depending on code to get the totals. This is one spot where IMO being able to visualize the data by seeing the rows and have immediate feedback on the sum is useful. You can continue dragging or use CTRL + SHIFT clicking to select more stuff as needed while letting your brain decide what should be grouped together.

With a SQL / code approach you have to account for these things without being able to see them and then adjust the code afterwards to include your custom groupings. It ends up taking more time. If the categories didn't change every year it would for sure be worth it to code up a solution since you'll know the edge cases by looking at the existing CSV but it's a moving target because it could change next year.
Yeah, see my edit. I realized that like a minute after responding haha
Focus on the Inputs
I've heard this before, of course [1]. And it may be. But it doesn't really matter because far-flung parts of the universe cannot interact with each other. Which assumes universality of some physical laws, like relativity. An assumption which cannot really be tested. Even if aliens have FTL, it will, by hypothesis, only function in their part of the universe, and so cease working in ours.

In truth, I'm quite happy with the physical laws we have. It means that we are protected by a strong natural barrier. It gives us time to figure out how to become a great civilization without interference of a conqueror. Odds are against us[2], of course, but that need not stop us from giving it the old college try!

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
Wrong page.

I'm referring to this page: https://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/settings...
So I started social accounts for the Carolina Code Conference that I took over this past March. LinkedIn has outpaced them all and they were all started at the same time.

Content is delivered equally to all platforms, aside from a couple of experiments here and there.

Here are the numbers from a couple of weeks ago…

LinkedIn is by far the leader in the house, with 538 followers outpacing our 440 Substack subscribers followed by Instagram with 103, Twitter/X with 85, YouTube with 55, Threads with 30, Facebook with 18 and Mastodon with 16 followers. YouTube didn’t have any content until September, so that’s encouraging. Facebook has been a real disappointment so far.

Probably going to be shuttering the Threads and Facebook accounts soon to focus our efforts where it makes sense.

Despite the low follower counts, Mastodon has seen pretty good engagement from the followers that are there at least.
I grew up on '60s and '70s WDR electronic music; it was super important for me in my teens, not only musically, but also as a gateway to my interest in computers, signal processing and European history.

They mention in the article a bit about the political push against experimental music in the 1930s, but it's interesting to consider that the re-surfacing of such music was also very political: the West were very happy to broadcast free and progressive music across the wall. I definitely have a feeling that experimental music has become a lot more niche since relations softened, the extra funding and promotion has dried up a bit, and now the world of that music has moved almost entirely to the back rooms of various universities.
Possibly dealing drugs (or prostitution), hence not wanting parents to access their messages? The highschools in my small UK city that are known for having drug problems are the ones with the richer kids.

It seems like poor kids have to get in to crime first to afford drugs, richer kids can just use their pocket money. YMMV.
Kubernetes Container Startup Autoscaler
NIST identifies types of cyberattacks that manipulate behavior of AI systems
This is a quote from DHH from LinkedIn:

>Of course we gave them a login. We’ve been publishing apps on the App Store for over a decade. This was not a low-level mistake. It went all the way to the app review board.

In another response he writes that the reviewers did in fact log in.
I mean, Graeber and Marx aren't really taught in Econ degrees either. Nor is Adam Smith for that matter.

They're all basically dealing with the philosophy of economics, but economics has transitioned away from being a qualitative field to a quantitative one.

Now Econ majors are expected to read Baby Rudin by their first year in top undergrad programs.

Source: attempted to become an Econ major in first year. Realized I don't have it in me to do analysis, so became a CS and PoliSci double instead, still got the Econ minor though.

Also take a look at EJMR (Econ and Finance's version of HN) - https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/why-baby-rudin-is
It was mentioned by my predecessor who was then my boss lol. I thought he was joking...
Ableton Live!
Statistically it might be safe, but the vast majority of people are still going to make decisions based on perceived risk.

As a customer, how else can you send your feedback to Boeing (and the airlines) that this level of perceived risk is unacceptable? It's clear there are issues at the company and Boeing is unlikely to respond unless there are financial consequences.
Just a note that this requires the admin to enable linger if the units need to be started before the user logs in and run after they logout.
I'd be curious to see the numbers on Planet Fitness. At $10/month, what is their percentage of members who regularly show vs never showing up. $10/month is easy to forget about, like a steaming service. A gym charging $50 or $100+/month is harder to ignore and I assume would have a higher percentage of members actually showing up. Not because people who pay more will be more likely to turn into gym rats, but because there would be fewer people brushing off the monthly charge as a rounding error in their budget over time.

I've been to a Planet Fitness once as a guest of someone while on vacation. It as well kept, I was able to find some equipment for a good workout, and it was pretty crowded (in August), and I'm sure there are a lot of regulars. The question is, what percentage of the overall membership are those regulars?

I'm not sure if they still do the pizza thing, but that always struck me as odd and what gave them a bad image in my book. I never wanted to be a member of a gym that appeared to be sabotaging its members. It makes it seem like the gym isn't invested in the success of its members. I felt the same way about the dentist giving me candy after a cleaning when I was a kid.
Sigh.

I was hoping to be a bit more productive. I haven't used them, obviously, I asked - 'what's the difference'.

They haven't even been named. Is this a troll?

You obviously miss my point. In this hypothetical I'm picturing a systemd system with services and mounts.

The recommendation appeared to be... have another service [or something] try to provide something that 'systemd', which is already present, can handle completely fine.

So, I repeat, what's the difference? What am I missing? What's better than having the thing managing your services also manage your mounts?

Between the lines I'm saying this isn't fancy work. I want these mounted and useful relationships and that's it. They serve a purpose; I need a compelling reason to replace init.
I got 33, would probably have got a couple more on a programming language/style I'm familiar with instead of whatever that is. (Spaces on the inside of round brackets? Empty bracket pairs with a space between them? No space between if and the opening bracket? Madness.)
I didn’t think there was a way to mute people, only to unfollow or disconnect entirely.

I find it annoying that I can’t tell LinkedIn to show me less of this, like I can with other social networks.
Poorer countries (I am from one) will want higher living standards and there are a lot of people in that condition. I think they will condone sea mining to reach them.
Thanks for that, I'll add that to my vocabulary.
jrb explained the origin story to me once in passing at a gnome meetup in SF irl ages ago. But the only part I recall is it involved Lennart and Kay collaborating on a new init system on their own... without rh even initiating the project. I got the impression that this was a sort of rogue effort from these guys.

Folks direct a lot of systemd hate at Lennart, but just take a look at the journald header[0]:
uint8_t signature[8]; /* "LPKSHHRH" */

== Lennart Poettering, Kay Siver, Harald Hoyer, Red Hat

I don't know the details but I heard at some point Kay and Lennart had a falling out within the project. By the time I got involved in journald development @ CoreOS, neither Kay nor Harald were visibly participating anymore... It was kind of annoying, as it left just Lennart to review any journald PRs, who was obviously busy, but eventually got around to it. I think it's worth noting that despite being the person who receives all the systemd hate, Lennart didn't promptly abandon maintenance of the project after getting installed everywhere.

[0] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/v255/src/libsystemd/...
Considering the cafe was started by a working journalist, I consider the inverse benefit of plausible deniability combined with the cafe being the perfect coworking space for yourself that you just happen to own and share with the public. I can think of better environs/arrangements as a patron or subversive in which to meet, possibly, but by branding the cafe in such a way, it almost feels like a dual-use LARP, which could be particularly useful to a working journalist.
> The 737 MAX series has a better safety track record than whatever car your family drives.

None of the car models I've ever driven have any recorded in-flight incidents. I highly doubt any of them were ever involved in an FAA investigation.

You can't beat the flight safety record of most automobile makers.

Ground safety, sure, some cars are worse than others. But even the MD-80 has a pretty good record on the road. All that use and only a few traffic collisions.
I went to college in Trinity and the Book of Kells is housed in the old library.

Once you've finished seeing the book, you head upstairs through the Long Room, and that place is just special (they used it as the hall of the jedi)

As a student there you could visit for free. I used to just go up and hang in the library for 10 mins or so a few times a year. Loved it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Trinity_College_D...
If the kid is smart enough to get a "throwaway" device to circumvent parent supervision what makes you believe he won't be able to circumvent gouvernement internet oversight? Even China and North Korea can't prevent their citizens from doing so.
Safari, Firefox, and Edge all have a built-in Reader mode that doesn't exactly the thing you want for the device that you are on. Lots of extensions do this as well. There's used to be a handful of websites but it seems they no longer exist (they were also commonly used to bypass paywalls).
Yep, I am doing the $5/mo Patreon level because I love it so much.
Agree 100%

Also, worrying about negative comments is counterproductive. If you get even one single comment in the first year or two, negative or positive you should be glad. I have blogs that have ran for 10 and 15 years with a comment field but without a single comment*

* except the spam of course, which made me write a spam filter. That was a nice little project.
> Access all over the place – globals/singletons, "god objects" etc.
Crashes (null pointers, bounds errors), largely mitigated by valgrind/massive testing
Complete lack of interest in parallelism bugs (almost fully mitigated by tools)
Likely it was originally a 'nodeshell' - in other words, a title of a page without any content. So someone created the idea, then someone else ran with it and filled it in.

One thing that was great about E2 was that the same title (node) could and did have multiple 'responses' so even a factual node could have different pages with different authors.

Sort of a cross between a wiki and stack overflow. It meant you could have two or more consistent viewpoints that disagreed, unlike a wikipedia page that is a mixture of authors.
> there are platforms I'll use

Citation needed.

Seriously though, what alternatives should we consider?
> && and || (which mimics & and |)

I've always thought of it as mimicking * (multiplication) and + (addition), and you can actually use * and + in place of && and || if you wanted to (not advisable, though the idea can be used in expressions to produce branchless code, common technique in GPU shader code). I used to use this trick in TI99/4a BASIC which lacked "AND" and "OR" in "IF" statements, but because boolean expressions evaluated to integer 1 and 0 for true and false, multiplication and addition could serve as AND and OR.
If you want to start restricting people's freedom to improve healthcare, start by banning alcohol and tobacco.

It's worth considering why we don't do that.
Linkedin is the example of the clickbait engagement society we live in. Everything turns arround self promotion full of bullshit titles and descriptions of mostly thin air. Everybody is an uber executive leader responsible for mind blowing changes impacting the entire world.
LinkedIn started by hiring massive spam farms out of India. I don't know when it was ever respectable.
So inspiring for my work on the new OS I am creating: https://exaequos.com
I don't know of many great rails codebases to study and learn from. But over the years I've learned a lot from the example code that 37signals has published (from Basecamp and Hey). I cleaned up all the code examples I've saved and put them into a repo, along with links to the original articles. Maybe this will help others who want to become better rails programmers.
The proposition that no one has written a worthwhile book or had a new insight in the past 24 years is so laughably indefensible that it stuns me to see someone put it forth in earnest. To engage with it risks dignifying it beyond its stature. Rather than post my own list of books, I will link to this democratically determined list of "books that changed your thinking, changed your mind, enlightened you, helped you move ahead, helped you heal, in short, made a difference.":

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/21995.Best_21st_Century_...
I tend to prefer editors to IDEs. Lua is a simple enough language and my codebases have been small enough that my usual Vim sufficed at the start for apps like http://akkartik.name/lines.html back in May 2022. Over time I figured out how to do live editing, and lately I build my apps 95% in https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/driver.love. I find it to be quite a nice experience, particularly with 2 monitors. I open the app I'm working on in one monitor while running driver.love full screen in the other to make changes to it.

Carousel is for a whole new use case: building simple scripts right on my phone or tablet. Nothing else can do that as simply, I think. It's cross-platform but that's an experimental property I'm hoping to carry forward to other apps. The use case here is purely for mobile devices.
On the plus side, intuit saying something like this is exactly what I want to hear regarding a program like this. I would have been deeply suspicious if they were anything other than enthusiastically opposed to it.
>DHH really needs to control his temper.

What good would that do?
Swiss public transport is IMHO special in three respects: a) density of the network, b) frequency (even remote areas get a bus an hour), c) punctuality.

I'm not saying no other country can match this (I haven't been everywhere), but at least Germany or Italy can't.
For those who prefer typing entire words, I'll quickly refer to typelit, which has been shared on HN before: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24280937>.
Or just read Samuelson's or Mankiw's Intro Econ textbook. There's a reason those 2 are used everywhere from AP Econ all the way to intro Econ classes at MIT and Harvard.
see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat

(PS: can we please cut out the middleman and link to the original sites?)
Wow, this works great! On Android I recall getting the "simplified page" prompt but never found that to be all that great of a solution but using reader mode with Chrome is pretty neat. You can format it to basically be the same as reading a book from the Play store.

One nit is that if I tab away from the page and tab back the highlighted area is wiped from the reader pane -- assuming I had unhighlighted it in order to start reading.
The Varieties Of Religious Experience was a great read for me
You can get started with cooking on a gas camping stove like you can get started with AI projects on a Coral Edge TPU accelerator.
on no these are like fund houses, HNI family fund house clusters etc. The news is more than a year old BTW. (I was trying to sell an asset management SAAS to these).
> will get negative feedback

I strongly disagree. The most likely feedback will be zero, zilch, none. So, you should clearly write for your own sake only.

Also: I'd bet that 95% to 99.9999% of your visitors the first three to five years will be bots only.

Do it for your own sake, if you feel like it. Otherwise don't. Blogging is not anything to be afraid of, and you should really not think that your blogging matters to anyone but yourself until you have proof of that.
Swearing is becoming more widely acceptable, linguistics experts claim
They state clearly that they can't follow the call structures and often give up on understanding them.
> Java does not acknowledge the existence of errors. It believes that every fault is a programmer mistake

Oh, you're distracted by the stack traces, of which you have a strong opinion, but it's exactly the opposite. What modern Java code does is (in the wake of Exceptional C++) it accepts failure as a given. It does not matter what's the _cause_ of a failure, be it the programmer's fault or failure of a pre-dependend system. It's the job of the dev to ensure that the process can never leave a defined state. And the way to do that is to write exception safe code, and not to handle-all-errors (TM).
My answer is Yes.
In Europe / London politics are very much off the table for LinkedIn. It would be crazy to talk about anything except some charity helping in place X.
I am not sure anyone has an accurate idea of what's going on, including people running LinkedIn. Everyone just sees their own slice of the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
>> hotbed of activism

Funny that "activism" now just means arguing via text without any intention of convincing the other side of anything.
I'm not sure what you expect for "proof" but elsewhere they specifically give some examples of where they do it: https://safety.google/privacy/data/

> To offer features like place busyness in Maps, we apply an advanced anonymization technology called differential privacy that adds noise to your information so it can’t be used to personally identify you.
What would be awesome is if the IRS software would automatically prefill all the data and forms sent to it. It would be nice of your W-2, 1099s etc were all included and all you had to do was verify the information and enter any income not already reported.
Perplexity is actually pretty good. The main one was probably first to access internet in the responses. Even better, the labs site gives access to models with uncensored versions of models with zero guardrails. Has some pretty good quality models to select from, too, including Mixtral 8x7B. You ever wonder how to make crack? Just ask Perplexity Labs.
FAA orders grounding of 171 Boeing planes
I dunno, there’s a pretty convincing episode of Lovejoy about this.
'How can such a tiny woman drive a big truck?'
We use it and maintain it on the Lit team. There isn't a ton of time available for new features, but we'll keep it going for our use cases and accept contributions for new things.
I did read the article, I just missed that line, and I thought she still had her appointment because she has a website at MIT (https://www.media.mit.edu/people/neri/overview/).
Do we take the Big Bang seriously? As far as I can tell it’s just a vague description of what a “rolling back” of the clock until we don’t know how to go further might look like, under a whole ton of assumptions that are almost never stated. It’s interesting to consider in basically the exact same way the 7 day creation story is, and it’s quite likely that neither one is all that true - or all that false. Indeed they are quite compatible with each other, and incomplete.
Close to gpt-3.5? Because I’ve tried it and fine tuned variants and it’s been horrible. Next to useless on general tasks. No where near mistral 7 and absolutely not even close to gpt-3.5.

Best 2.7b? sure.

I have always thought of this model as something you fine tune for a very specific task or dataset.

For others that don’t strongly disagree with the parent comment, can you point me to some examples?
The thing where flags, arguments, settings, options produce a conflict and the wrong behavior.

Ex: Dropdown-Menü for <select> <a>, <b>, or <c> combined with a checkbox for [all] that grays out the Dropdown but doesn’t change the option to [all] if <a-c> is selected before checking the box.

See <update manually>, <install automatically>, <download only>, or [no updates].

Same for multiple handles trying to negotiate system settings and app settings for a database with api calls like the photos app, notoriously.
That was interesting but I have to admit that the parallax scrolling effect was very distracting.