skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we're broadly in agreement but I'm responding to the bit about "What will happen to the 5% profit margin business? Do you think customers will keep rewarding them?".

If you only ever reward investments with high rates of return it leads to atrophy in boring yet essential sectors of the market. Supermarkets, like you mentioned, have a very low profit margin (usually 1-3%). Can you imagine what would happen if no one was willing to invest in a supermarket?
> So in my opinion, the primary purpose of automated tests is not to avoid failures, but to speed up development.

Such a juicy premise, let's dig in. In my opinion the primary "speed up" to development comes in allowing changes - especially sweeping refactors - to happen without worry. As a corollary, they provide "primary source documentation" on the inner workings of the code so that less-experienced developers can approach such tasks without worry. The value of these are exactly the same regardless if your tests take 10 seconds or 10 minutes to run. The only difference is that we've sped up our critical path development work by not focusing on hyper-optimizing tests. And to start out the gate with such a premise but then fail to provide any data related to the effects on developer cadence, in a data-heavy writeup!?
usual caveat that fundraise announcements can happen anywhere from 1-18 months after the actual round was raised so dont read too much into the timing

but also linkedin says that had up to 50 employees. highly doubt they were each making like 500k/yr cash on average
I'm sure you've started figuring out the tricks to finding positions that are friendly to people with criminal backgrounds, but if you're checking for positions on places like LinkedIn, they have a flag for people posting jobs that shows they are open to candidates with criminal backgrounds. You'll see the postings show "People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply" which I think is placed on the job description if an employer selects the "Fair chance" flag.

So you could narrow your searches down using "Fair chance"

Others like Glassdoor just use "People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply"

Now, whether those employers really mean it, or if it's a legal requirement they check that box, I'm not sure.
Your analogy doesn't fit here. There is no scenario where accessing the accounts of 14,000 banking clients would then blow up to several million clients' accounts. Any bank that even offered this "feature" would, yes, be at fault.

There seems to be some transitiveness going on here. Let's go with the banking scenario: I give my son access to my checking account, and I also give my business partner access. My son is a dumbass, and uses the same password for everything. Now my business partner's info is taken. His parents get hacked as well.

From 14,000 to 7,000,000 is quite the amplification. That's on 23andMe and nobody else.
If the 'normies' discover Mastodon, the biggest problem won't be enshittification. I run my own instance, it can't be enshittified because I have no profit motive. On the other hand, it can be spammed, and I've already noticed several instances of ActivityPub spam that I've had to deal with.

Think less Facebook, more e-mail.
I hear it’s allowed though if you drink a verification can
Does go have something similar to spring, or is there a framework baked into the language
What's my best bet for cost-effective and convenient external local storage? I have a ton of photos and large videos which are consuming tens of GBs on my main computer's hard drive. Just get a cheap thumb flash drive?
If you use a Worker in front of it, that’s allowed to serve any type of file.

If you’re just putting Cloudflare’s regular proxy in front of it, then I _believe_ their standard “web assets only” policy applies.
Exactly, and the culture premium of Google has evaporated so they can only compete on comp alone.

I quit and don’t regret it at all, everybody I talk to there basically just says they have zero inspiration and shuttle between pointless meetings and are only there for a big paycheck. In my view, that’s a pretty miserable existence - one needs passion to thrive.
I'm in a discord with him
How Severe Are China's Demographic Challenges?
> ... Orange Spain's RIPE password was "ripeadmin"

if it's a thing at Orange Spain and they're reusing that excellent scheme for several services (the excellent scheme being adding "admin" after the name), they're in for a world of hurt...
Yeah I have 3.5TB of photos. Backing them up redundantly is a bit of a pain but just a few external drives will do it, though requires manual syncing
CAS 761: Generative Programming (Winter 2024)
Light reflecting off a lake is polarized. That's why polarized filters remove the glare in lake photos, etc.

All reflected light is polarized (or at least partly polarized, since some surfaces are quite rough, and except when reflected by a mirror, although the rough surface part still applies). It's why we can see Haidinger's Brush on a clear sunny day.
I'm also a student of his, and later met him socially on a few occasions as a graduate student (in a different institute).

Undergraduate students were all in awe of him, but I got the impression that he did not particularly enjoy teaching them (Unlike other professors, however, he did not try to delegate that part of his responsibilities to his assistants). He seemed to have a good relationship with his graduate students.

In his class on compiler construction, he seemed more engaged (the students were already a bit more experienced, and he was iterating the Oberon design at the time). I remember an exchange we had at the oral exam — he asked me to solve the "dangling ELSE" problem in Pascal. I proposed resolving the ambiguity through a refinement of the language grammar. He admitted that this would probably work, but thought it excessively complex and wondered where I got that idea, since he definitely had not taught it, so I confessed that I had seen the idea in the "Dragon Book" (sort of the competition to his own textbook). Ultimately, I realized that he just wanted me to change the language to require an explicit END, as he had done in Modula-2 and Oberon.

Socially, he was fun to talk to, had a great store of computer lore, of course. He was also much more tolerant of "heresies" in private than in public, where he came across as somewhat dogmatic. Once, the conversation turned to Perl, which I did not expect him to have anything good to say about. To my surprise, he thought that there was a valid niche for pattern matching / text processing languages (mentioning SNOBOL as an earlier language in this niche).
Thanks. The video says in 400 years the surface temperature of Earth will be 100 degrees if we assume exponential growth of heat generation. So yea it's that clearly bad assumption of exponential growth that spoils it.
Rosemary and Oregano are free! Thyme is not.
GTK+ has Broadway to render GTK applications to the web browser. Qt has some ActiveX support, but you don't want that. Java/Kotlin has a bunch of frameworks, like TeaVM to run .JAR files in the browser, or Vaadin to write web GUIs like you would desktop applications.

I think most languages that have been around for more than five years have some kind of GUI framework that'll run in the browser.

Very worst-case scenario, you could compile a Windows executable and run them in BottledWine :P
Let your resume get you hired
Here:

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/02/the-i-in-llm-stands-f...

It seems to be gone off the first 3-4 pages of HN.
Wait, I think that might recursively turn into the singularity. So we can do it now, but around GPT-6.5 or LLaMa 5, unless this transformer-based explosion maxes out our silicon circuit tech by then, be careful.
> but also linkedin says that had up to 50 employees. highly doubt they were each making like 500k/yr cash on average

Cloud/servers/infra/where the bits live and move + people + misc biz expenses were assumed in my estimate.
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Would read that sci-fi
Sinking US cities already face 'real impacts'
> Philosophically, you can start ad hoc-ing functionalities on top of LLMs and expect major progress. Sure, you can make them better, but you will never get to the state where AI is massively useful.

Evolution created various neural structures in biological brains (visual cortex, medulla, thalamus, etc) rather ad-hoc, and those resulted in "massively useful" systems. Why should AI be different?
Then, just like the cell tower examples people have already given you, proximity is very much a differentiator between safe and not safe. We're really far away from those satellites. And people have already shown how low the radiation from those satellites actually is by the time it reaches you.

It is measured in nanowatts.

EDIT: Also, in another comment that I called out (later in this very thread), you said the exact opposite. What part are you talking about? Make up your mind. This thread has thoroughly disproven your concerns for every part of the signal chain involved, and yet you keep flipping what part you are talking about, disregarding that all parts have been discussed now.

I think you are trolling. Wrap yourself in tinfoil and move on.
That's an obscene cognition/cooperation to body weight ratio.
> Less familiar with how European sensitive networks are architected.

Some governments have physical tunnel networks to move people who matter around. Computer networks follow pretty much without a loss of generality.
Airdrawer.
Same thing with my nephew, though he did pick up on the cars.

He also was very confused by the “Ronald Reagan? The ACTOR??” joke but immediately thought that BTTF2 Mogul-Biff was supposed to be Trump.
Yeah it's sure not common yet but in a 2021 post Troy Hunt says it was already thousands:

> literally thousands of other services doing everything from providing their own password checker through to checking their customers' passwords on every registration, login or password change to see if it's previously been breached

(https://www.troyhunt.com/open-source-pwned-passwords-with-fb...)
Overview of Modern Feature Management Services
To be fair “no drums” is not a modern take. Also drums would not be as useful as accompaniment for as piano and organ for the old hymns which used to be sung.
This seems a lot more like someone deciding on Go up front and then pushing a process through to pick it - it wasn't the fastest in their tests and it was the only language without existing usage at the company, and basically all the qualitative advantages are either not very unique or not quantifiable or both. No other new languages besides Go were even considered, despite some that easily meet the criteria for consideration.
> I despise those stories where a writer tells you all about some mystery for thousands of words and then fails to deliver the solution. Usually with some metaphysical vamping about the unknowability of all things. What are you even telling anyone about it for? But I didn’t have an answer, and I still don’t.
This is Swift. It‘s just not being used a lot outside of iOS / Macos dev.
In a more "traditional" software team or even medium sized studio, I think the two are a bit more specialized with individuals focusing on each, still with some influence on the other i'm sure.
Taxes beat charity hands down. The rise of modern charities in housing, food supply simply mirror the decline in public housing and the welfare state.

The rest of this piece is an apologia for rampant profit and shareholder value. It doesn't begin to actually address the differences between northern European us taxation and civil society, or the USA and Canada.

Ponder this: which economies have the lower health costs and higher standards of living and life expectency.
But... in fairness its not feasible to extinguish rando person's school / hobby project.

Even if it "takes off", how can a commercial entity extinguish a person's motivation to keep building something they want?
LLMs seem like the least efficient way to accomplish this. NAND gates, for example, are inherently 1-bit operators, but LLMs use more. If weights are all binary, than gradients are restricted to -1, 0, and 1, which doesn't give you much room to make incremental improvements. You can add extra bits back, but that's pure overhead. But all this is besides the real issue, which is that LLMs and NNs in general are inherently fuzzy; they guess. Computers aren't, we have perfect simulators.

Consider how humans design things. We don't talk through every CPU cycle to convince ourself a design works, we use bespoke tooling. Not all problems are language shaped.
It's not rude at all.

First, the commenter could have been paraphrasing a longer conversation that led to that question.

Second, the "I used to be somebody" conversation is more common than you think. Asking "If you were somebody, what happened?" is usually the question that is being invited to be asked if someone brings up this topic.
The idea that there has been no progress in functionality is silly.

Your whole brain might just be doing "information compression" by that analogy. An LLM is sort of learning concepts. Even Word2Vec "learned" than king - male + female = queen and that's a small model that's really just one part (not exact, but similar) of a transformer.
if they were spending that much on cloud/servers/infra they wouldnt have a revenue problem... typically
> I'd warrant nearly all of them, though it may take a while.

Why guess when the other commenter has the actual data...?
The redox-os post mentions cosmic desktop, and future wayland support, which may now already be almost implemented?

The System76 blog appears to have updates regarding COSMIC DE:
https://blog.system76.com/post/the-spirit-of-cosmic-december...

Components of Cosmic Desktop Rust-based Desktop Environment: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch#components-of-cosmic-...

cosmic-comp/src/wayland/handlers
https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-comp/tree/master_jammy/src/...
> Also didnt Airtable just layoff 230 people 4 months ago. now they're acquihiring?

What was the reason for the layoff? Layoffs often just mean something like "we overhired/overinvested in this area, and it turns out that area is less important to our strategy than we thought."
And what's controversial in picking a unique password that nobody else in the world is using?
(and hasn't been leaked yet, actually)
100%. It beats any and all forms of socialism. This is why Americans are extremely rich and better off than everyone else in the world. Just look at American weapons. It's state of the art and soon to be controlled by AI and autonomous software.

Most planes actually fly themselves already so fighter jets just need to use AI designed for destroying enemy fighter jets and tanks with the help of transponders for identifying friendly robots and weapon systems.
Google defaults to Passkeys now [1], and has very aggressive heuristics around logging in [2]. They also maintain their own version of HIBP internally [3], and will force a password change [4] under certain circumstances.

They are doing this because when they have high assurance of your identity (and your account hasn't been taken over), that is the best time to issue the cryptographic credential (the Passkey) which improves go forward security of the account. Over time, accounts should filter over to Passkeys, and at some point, they will likely deprecate passwords (or require high confidence you are you to login with just username and password, vs a Passkey). I've had a discussion with someone on the project at Google, and they could only say "stay tuned" about what comes next. To be clear, I'm not divulging anything beyond what Google made public in their blog post and a bit of speculation on my part.

> Do you think google is deactivating people based on HIBP? If not why do you think everyone else should?

TLDR "password resets and account lockouts vs deactivating users" and "because it is good practice to protect your users and their data from compromise"

[1] https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/passkeys-defa...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[3] https://security.googleblog.com/2019/12/better-password-prot...

[4] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/98564?hl=en ("If there’s suspicious activity in your Google Account or we detect that your password has been stolen, we may ask you to change your password. By changing your password, you help make sure that only you can use your account.")
Make up your mind. You keep saying one thing, then the other. People have proven over and over again that the radiation from the satellites is too low to be a danger to you at this distance, and the same goes for the terminals, which are what you are on about this time. Literally all points have been discussed in this thread. None of it is risky unless you are literally sleeping on the antennae.

The risk from ALL parts of the communication is very, very low. How many times and ways do you need to be shown this?

You even ignored my initial comment hours ago about old radio towers. Those were measured in megawatts. Modern digital delivery doesn't need nearly the bandwidth, which is why it is safer than what you are worrying about. Even old children's walkie talkies expose you to more radiation.

At a distance, analog fades out and the sound or image suffers. Digital is crystal clear right down until you can't differentiate the digital signal from the noise anymore. No noise is added because it is so easy to ensure a correct digital signal, versus analog that has no error correction and audibly/visually suffers from static and other interference from distance.

You're trying very hard to keep this thread going, but it's proven over and over again here that your worries are unfounded.
Parking minimums either serve no purpose (meaning developers would naturally provision at least that many parking spaces on their own accord, making the minimums a no-op) xor eliminating parking minimums will eliminate some parking spots.
I live in an area where Monomorium pharaonis is an invasive species, and there are many fruit trees in our city (mostly varieties of cherry and plum).

Leave this Mixture in a shallow lid/dish next to the Ant entry point:

1 part borax dish soap

3 parts granulated sugar

15 parts warm water

They will ingest the mixture, and return the payload to the colony if dilute enough. A few days later the slow poison should start to knock out the group.

Indeed, once a path is chemically marked it is very hard to keep ants out, and failure to remove a waste bin lures them in again.

Mixing kiln dried diatomaceous earth with water for treating the surrounding external structure also helps knock down anything with a chitin exoskeleton. It can be effective if a colony has attached to a tunnel system.

Best of luck =)
Thanks.

Also...holy shit, I haven't kept up on how precipitously prices for storage have dropped. Just saw a 10 TB external drive for only $150!
I can't answer for your parent, but for me it is the following. The main purpose of a test suite is to detect regressions in intended behavior. In a good test suite, if a test fails, then I can be sure that some part of the actual system would fail if I push this to prod.

Since the set of intended behavior is only a small fraction of all actual behavior, if your test suite pins down all actual behavior, rather than just the intended behavior, you end up with a very brittle test suite.
That is to say, a test failing doesn't tell you "this code is broken", it just tells you "this code changed".
https://archive.is/p8K1d
Anyone do IT for MRI/Catscan companies?
I was talking to someone that had a friend that worked for a medical company and made six figures setting up or maintaining/troubleshooting MRI/Catscan machines.

Anyone know where I could look to find a job like that?
Why not run your marketing team like The Bear? It works for the finest restaurants in the world. Here's my take on the French Brigade for startup marketing.
When I worked at the Research division of a large software company, one of my managers got upset when our unit tests (all of them put together) took more than 15 seconds to run, and he wanted to delete tests to get it back under 15 seconds.

He was simultaneously one of the smartest and dumbest people I've ever worker with. During that time, I did the best work I've ever done, and got the worst review I've ever had.
“Dear loyal customers, in these robust economic times we regret to inform you that we are laying you off. You have 3 months of support severance.”
There's no need whatsoever.

Every single password that's ever been leaked should not be used by anyone ever again.
Python is not in the list also, despite them using nodejs.

But when I read the following:

Based on these criteria, we narrowed our testing languages to C++17, Java, Node.js, and Go. The first three languages were already in use at American Express, whereas Go was not.

What I understand is that they did not really wanted to do a real benchmark but they decided to use Go first, and then they had to setup a kind of "bullshit neutral study" to pretend to leadership that Go was the best choice for all the languages that could fit the job.

Maybe it is the case in the end for them, but it is another subject.
Horses for courses. I've spent a lot of time playing in song circles at places like Luchenback, TX and for that my usual thing is to bring an accordion and a banjo- both of those really can cut through a bunch of guitars. And when I go busk, the accordion is a great instrument.

That said, both of those instruments really need a time and a place where they can fill a good role, and it's pretty easy to overdo either- I can busk effectively with an accordion only because I never see folks for more than 2-3 minutes. If I am playing a show it's piano or guitar.

To the grandparent post, though, please consider the harpsichord part on Stevie Wonder's "Superstition". I mean, technically it is a hohner clavinet, but that's just a modern portable harpsichord. That setting for harpsichord is super satisfying to me- I love playing that kind of growling funk. You might not like it, but it's a long way from most of what people think of as "harpsichord" music.
Software rasterized Pong game with WASM
Yes, well customers evaluate different products and services at different price points. Grocery store experiences and products are fungible enough that it drives margins down that low:

>Note that having a higher profit margin is not the only way to survive, having a lower profit margin to better compete on price and gain market share is another way too. Balancing the two and delivering the right product at the right price for your customers is the key skill, but it’s a moving target.
ChatGPT bombs test on diagnosing kids' medical cases with 83% error rate
"Scientists discover dinosaurs are particularly suseptible to bone diseases."
Yes, all of those would be technical. I did not know McK hiring skewed STEM.