skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure thing. I don't want to make any unfounded accusations, but I observed some unstable behavior on my pfSense installations. It wasn't clear if it had been hacked, or if it was just buggy, but it seemed more like a hack to me. Because it's installed as a proprietary blob from a "trusted" source, I couldn't do much troubleshooting. This was shortly after the opnSense mockery, which reduced my confidence in the professionalism of Netgate.
https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/ssk8zj/til_in_2017...

Also, while exploring other options, I found that OpenWRT provided much higher bandwidth on the same processor/memory footprint. I was able to reduce the VM CPU and memory allocations after switching.

Finally, there were a number of features I needed that pfSense just did not support. One was IGMP snooping, another was IPv6 using a provider tunnel.
It could be that the expectation that AI will be able to replace tech jobs in the near to medium term (or at least lead to greater programmer productivity) is in fact influencing current C-level hiring decisions. Interest rates have plateaued and the consensus is that they could start dropping in the 2nd half of 2024.
> simply committing a 12 or 24 word seed phrase to memory

That's absolutely out of the question for almost any human being, especially given the timeframes involved.

> There will be phones like Saga [...] There will be apps like Fuse wallet: [...]

Again, we're talking about a timeframe of decades. How many of these will even still boot up after that amount of time? None of these seem safe to just throw in a bank safe deposit box.

> make their espressos. Some will just stick k-cup in a machine and hit a button

I'm really not a coffee connoisseur by any meaning of the word, but even I know that what comes out of a k-cup machine is brewed coffee, not espresso.
Desalination is a different process to heating though, for instance the sea won't lose excess salt to the atmosphere.
It's because the demand is larger.

If 99% of jobs are CRUD, and you have a tool that automates the creation of CRUD, say hello to driving Uber.
It reminds me of TIS-100 and Shenzhen I/O by Zachtronics.
>>> finally reaches its ultimate form of a centralised list maintained by the DTC

> simply show wallet addresses for all the Bitcoin they hold

DTC's database is not where the Bitcoin is. It's still on Bitcoin's decentralized blockchain, just like always. That's the ultimate authority no matter how many centralized forms you stack on top of it.

At least with this structure, there are separate, distinct entities for custody, market making, transfer agent, etc. to reduce the incentives to self-deal and print fake paper securities and commodities.

So a huge improvement on the current state of affairs, where FTX or Binance handles all of these functions, with no segregation.
> Maintaining an open-source library as part of your proprietary codebase? You can use metahead to publish and synchronise part of your code in its own public repo. Accept external contributions and check them against your internal usage of the library. You have the choice to make as much or as little as you want public, with file-granularity filters.

I've wished for this in multiple open-source oriented companies.
What’s the difference between this and e.g. GBTC?
The article is more a "see that crazy thing you can" do then a "thats a good idea".

It also introduces some neat little known tech.

Even if "serializing" state for carrying it over with a controlled restart the File Descriptor Store might still be an interesting case use (in some cases, in others it might a problem). Also you probably would dump bincode or similar for such a "carry over state" serialization, there is very little reason to go with strings.

Through there are some major differences:

- PRO: This approach works with types which do not implement any serialization mechanism or e.g. cyclic data structure. At least theoretically you could carry in-progress futures over a restart with that (practically it's a horror story to try to do so which likely won't work most times).

- CON: This approach has issues with types containing any form of pointers, references and similar. They all also need to use the special Allocator and then there are issues if after the restart the mem file isn't mapped to the exact same address range. This makes it way harder to use, bugs can be subtle introduced and lead errors you normally can't have in rust without unsafe code.

- PRO: You don't have to move/copy anything around, so if you e.g. have some huge splatted (i.e. flat in memory) structures this can safe quite a bit on upstart time. (idk. lets say some 1GiB bit mask for some kind of caching)

- CON: Debugging the carried over state, or e.g. copying it between systems is not possible or at least much more complex. Reboots might also be an issue (I have to check).

In generally for many use-cases this is pointles, and for the times where it's not pointless it's often either brittle or too limited and in turn better avoided. Through for a very few use-cases it can be a huge boon.
> Most everything except photovoltaic is thermal.

Huh? Solar, Hydro and Wind are all non-thermal sources of power.

Edit: Technically I believe Solar can function as a thermal plant as well if you are using mirrors to concentrate light to produce heat.
That was fun. Thanks for sharing
This is cute. Nice job. Good feels. It reminds me of some of the things I made in my interaction design classes in art school.
The point of the video is that structural factors in the music industry destroyed ("killed", such that it was "dead" by 2012) rock music. So that's what we're resolving: is the video's argument credible? And it is not.

I'm the one who introduced the term "linear radio" to this conversation; Beato doesn't use it. So, what matters isn't the precise definition of the word, but the concept. You'd like to call a Spotify playlist "linear". Ok, fine. That doesn't change my argument! The shared, scheduled, broadcast delivery system for music died because people drastically prefer the option of listening to whatever they'd like; for instance, they'd rather avail themselves of one of the 18.7 million Apple Music and Spotify playlists they now have access to than turn an FM knob to one of 3-4 corporate radio stations that play 4 songs in a row before running 45 seconds of commercials. That latter delivery system is what Beato laments, and whose loss he credits with ending rock music.

Note that part of my argument is that I don't grant his premise that rock music ended, or that the shift in attention from rock to hip-hop had anything to do with this stuff.

I have no doubt that corporate rock screwed people over in all sorts of ways (Lowery doesn't so much, though! Go track his article down, it's interesting, he makes a case for the corporate rock structure subsidizing a lot of work that couldn't have happened otherwise, and unit sales numbers just don't work out to numbers that can support the marginal rock band). The problem is: Beato isn't making his central case, that producers renting amps and drum kits out to signed bands due to the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is why we didn't get 3 more Verve albums.
There's a difference between being bearish and being fully anti crypto and just spreading conjecture. Being bearish is very normal, being rabidly anti crypto on every crypto thread on HN like a couple folks who are in this very thread is being in a bubble.
>Summary: "I visited CIA Langley, parking was a pain, security was a pain, and the food isn't very good." OK, whatever. Everybody who's worked with DoD or the three-letter agencies has that experience.

While this summary is perhaps accurate, it isn't always just about what was written, but how it was written. While I enjoyed reading the article, laughing a few times, I can't say the same about your summary.
Given that we do both, the actual question is whether Netflix manages to offer us one exclusive offering per month that ticks the box. This particular January, it is setting itself quite nicely for the year :)
> It's also not 2007 anymore, the low hanging fruit has been picked, most things that can be digitised and turned into services have been

I think there's plenty of low hanging fruit left, especially when it comes to improving current systems that we assume inherently have to suck simply because they always have.

Plus there's new fruit growing every day. There's potentially huge opportunities in improving social media right now. Who would have guessed 5 years ago we could see legitimate vulnerability in the major platforms?
I would suggest a shift in language.

I don't mind coming to work either. If it's in my home. I do mind coming to work if it's in the office ;)
i'm curious: the first time i heard the name FreeTaxUSA.com i thought "it must be a scam", slightly because of the name, until someone else i trust mentioned it and said they used it and i finally looked into it

is this rare/uncommon/common?
I would argue that any PR helps drive subscriptions.
Same reason why people have always invested money into startups - the potential for greater returns than parking them in safer investments.
How many people even have a safety deposit box?

Many banks don't offer them anymore, and in some countries they have a disturbing tendency of getting robbed, with absolutely no recourse for the depositors (since contents are usually unverified and uninsured).
Not USA made, but Farer has some interesting designs https://farer.com/
What scares me a lot is that, I believe, many companies will see inexperience as an asset. Good experiences engineers know things, and sometimes/often that's kind of inconvenient for business/product types, whose conceit is that they think their idea is great and that it ought to be simple & dev "resources" should just do it. Sharing power is less fun than being the boss, than the uninformed feeling in charge.

The MBA'ification of various sectors keeps resulting in disaster & decline, but empowering craftspeople & laborers to do good seems to remain deeply unpopular by most businesses.

Whether businesses care enough to share ownership with the dev "resources" is a somewhat scary ongoing balance. It's sick to say, but to me it's unclear what concerted forces will help maintain experience & knowledge as a useful thing, amid a hyper-capitalism running amock. I hope my fears here are deeply unjustified.
Well the point i am trying to make is that your explanation on why it work for you is probably wrong, and even more the advice you generate from your theory can be dangerous and counter productive.

> Right, that’s called propositional logic. It’s perfectly valid to make “CICO works” predicated upon whether you follow it correctly.

Well no. And that really the core of the issue. I see that you didn't answer to the example i gave you.

But if we want to be pedantic :

1 - There is no definition of "works" in propositional logic.

2 - Here what i understand from your logic deductions :

A - CICO can be rephrase as : For a given individual , for every time duration t : delta_weight(t) = CI(t) - CO(t)

B - What you are saying is : for a given individual , for every time duration t : delta_weight(t) = CI(t) - CO(t), THEREFORE, for every delta_weight, there is a time duration T, and CI(t) and CO(t) such that delta_weight = CI(t) and CO(t);

And my point is that B is false (empirically), and does NOT follow from A (logically). And to repeat myself you can try this game with room temperature and thermometer readings.
This blog says that a custom OpenAI gpt consists of:

Behavior: You can give it a detailed set of instructions to guide its answers.

Knowledge base: You can add your own company files for the AI to draw information from.

Capabilities: You can use either OpenAI's existing capabilities (like DALL·E, Browse with Bing, or Data Analysis) or your custom capabilities (other actions the AI can perform).

https://zapier.com/blog/gpt-assistant/
The prices are definitely out of control if it's a significant fraction of the cost of a dev.
I'm trying to identify the kind of music I like, and it's not particularly obscure, but I feel like it hasn't been made before and after 90s and early 2000s.

It's a range from mellow to energetic. On the mellow side we have trip-hop/lo-fi. Clear enough. Plenty of radios for this. On the energetic side we have complex beats like Prodigy. Seen a couple of radios. But in the middle, feels like there's nothing. I'm looking for bands like Garbage. KT Tunstall is similar. The only way I could describe it, is that it's jazzy/bluesy rock from 90s and early 2000s with cool/elegant sounding beats/bass. Quite a lot of Russian rock was like this too in that period. If anyone can identify what I'm talking about, give any pointers, I would much appreciate.
And maybe the "Thanks Alice! For help with the orphanage..." still seems a little informal because of the exclamation point. So I got to thinking, when are they appropriate? Something like:

"Boom! The sudden explosion rocked the mine-shaft, causing a cave-in that blocked the exit and filling the corridor with an almost asphyxiating amount of fine airborne dust."

"'Help!' she cried as the giant sea monster drug her under the water..."

...seem perfectly acceptable. I don't know, maybe they just seem informal, and so shouldn't be used in communications where you want to be taken seriously. E=m·c²! Seems like you are trying too hard. But that's a bit strange now that I think about it, because exclamation points also seem like a lazy way to keep the readers interest. So it is potentially doubly cursed; trying too hard, and yet you are too lazy to even do that right. So maybe that's reason it requires a lot of finesse to use exclamation points properly! And a good excuse to use them sparingly.
It's still pretty funny seeing people cope about Twitter. Turns out you don't need that many engineers for a feature complete product.
If anything I would expect a pop in demand for software engineers from ai. Those who know, know you can’t just ask chat gpt to integrate with the business by wiring a prompt.

Hi, can you please integrate your self into my business and increase my revenue by 20% and cut cost of workforce by 30%. Here are the master passwords to our aws account, jira, and payroll. Thanks! See you when in back from my 3 month vacation!
I suspect this has a lot more to do with interest rates than anything else, and as painful as everything is right now, I wouldn't make any firm conclusions about the future of our industry until rates have come back down.
I regularly (in a large city) have to cross a 4-lane, median- divided (with trees) arterial to get to a bus-stop. Its lightly-posted speed-limit is 35 mph, but more recently drivers frequently approach this crossing at 50 to 60 mph (or more on weekends). (The location has no lights or stop-signs nearby.)

Even after dark when the vehicles lights are (usually) on, it takes a couple of seconds to decide whether to wait or cross to the median, for a second period of observing. I'm not disabled (or a child), but even so I have to wonder what/if these drivers are thinking/using. I also wonder why there's no technology to photograph, record, analyze and report these severely dangerous violations.
If you put the global allocator on this there is a huge load of other issues you can have.

Like needing to allocate a fixed amount of memory for your whole program upfront or juggling multiple fds.

Or that there is some state you can not carry over even with that and if you try you can easily run into soundness issues.

Or that the state saved might be "in between" operations in a very unexpected way and in turn unsound.

etc.
What if the work these folks do to increase market efficiency does produce real-world value, as slower verifiable economic information would increase periods of uncertainty and price slippages?

Or the HFT engineers producing research and products that speed up general compute, such as accelerating SHA and ED25519 signature verification, so that their trading shops get information faster?

I wonder if there are actually a lot of third-order, downstream effects that society gets by paying engineers to just make computers and telecommunications faster.
How does one go about identifying the CIA operatives attempting to hide in your interview pool?
I don't believe codec makes meaningful difference. Most biggest difference should be by integrated small efficient amp vs bigger amp.
> The obvious answer first off: cell phone usage while driving.

Find a double decker bus (if you work at a tech company some big silicon valley tech busses are double decker) and sit in one for a drive, and look down into the cabins of people's cars. I'd say a good 30-50% of them are on their phone. We don't treat scrolling-while-driving as a serious crime and as a result everyone is totally distracted.

I would say we should treat it like drunk driving, but the USA also doesn't treat drunk driving very seriously (you can have multiple DUIs!!) either so that's not a good standard.

You should really lose your license for a few years if you are caught scrolling instagram while driving.
The soft launch of a luxe product with little fanfare and few buyers is "changing everything we know about Apple?" Hyperbole much?
> I never understood why many on HN have been so cynical [...]

You ask the question and then proceed to answer it.

> Satoshi [...] gave a gift to the world, but it sadly got co-opted [...] In hindsight it was probably bound to happen, because money buys influence

Because anything of value and fungible will invite exploitation by monied interests.

> and taken over first by small-time grifters and now by the big boys at Wall Street.

There is ample evidence to indicate that the predominant grifters are not small-time operators.
Electricity from nuclear is neither limitless nor free. While we would have been much better off (in terms of global warming) if we had not hobbled nuclear power generation decades ago, at this point it's cheaper and faster to build out solar and wind than nuclear.
They used it because it was the best technology available at the time. And many regulations were put in place to ensure watches for the railways were more accurate than the ones built for the masses, because of those crashes you mention. The railways really drove improvement in watchmaking.

I’m sure the railroads would not bother relying on syncing mechanical watches today, there are much better and more accurate tools. I say this as a fan of mechanical watches.
But has anyone here seen any evidence of AI impacting software jobs? Maybe my company is just behind the times, but I'm seeing no indication that AI is going to displace anyone. Copilot and GPT-4 are convenient and speed up certain parts of the job, but the parts they impact aren't where the bulk of my time was spent anyway.
I agree that would be a false narrative to some extent, but in this thread I don't see a better explanation. Just the idea that in e.g. parts of the USA they have been told it's impossible to control their weight, so they then go on to eat too much and exercise less than in other places and other times in history, doesn't make any sense to me as an explanation. Apologies if that's not what you're saying.
I think the parent is talking about buying the ETF inside a tax sheltered account.
They explicitly did this in the 00's. Some circles of top companies over a decade ago were convicted for having anti-poaching agreements amongst each other.

May be a bit different now (as others said, free money is gone, so competition cropping up is much harder to do and much less a concern), but the tech boom of the 2000's very much worried about becoming the next MySpace to some startup's Facebook. That's why tech salaries became so high to begin with.
Their is diversity in the non-immigrant population.
Satoshi Nakamoto means Central Intelligence Agency LITERALLY!!!! Just the facts
I want a thing like the rabbit, but it is with open source hardware and software. I might even be open to having ambient listening if I could host all the data.
So what happens if the bacteria spreads to people's guts when they don't have diabetes? Seems like a risky thing, or maybe it would be rare like autobrewery syndrome.
That might be so, but are those engineers being worked into the ground to make it happen?
One could argue concentrated solar power [1] is thermal as opposed to photovoltaics.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_power
I don’t have a citation for you at the moment, but I recall reading estimates of something like 4,500 F-35s anticipated to be produced over the program’s lifespan. I think I also recall that being something like a 50/50 split between the United States and the rest of the world, but I’m even hazier on that.

Taking a quick glance through the table you linked, the closest equivalent I saw was the F-4, which is a multirole fighter that was used by the US Navy and Air Force as well as broadly around the world. About 5,200 of those were ultimately produced, and that number is close to what I recall reading about anticipated F-35 production. For a variety of reasons, it’s a very different world now from when the F-4 was introduced but on balance a mid-four-figure production run for the F-35 feels about right.
That's what seemed to be the most likely intended meaning, but the comma throws it off.
Soft delete seem like a similar issue to the entity-attribute-value systems that some people build atop relational databases in order to have 'dynamic' tables, effectively writing their own database.

I'm not sure the ideal solution in either case, but I think software should use the database primitives as they are intended, rather than building their own primitive operations on top.

In the case of delete, one idea might be for databases to natively support a recycle bin - shadow tables that contain deleted records, but I'm not a db engineer.
Submechanophobia has a wikipedia page, which also indicates that there is some scientific research into this phobia (which does not have a good explanation). So it's not a one-person problem.
This is incredibly genius, I'm in awe. Never could I have thought that one design a computer without firmware or BIOS and still have it work. I could also imagine how it came to be ... you know electronics well, and here's a CPU thing you've never used before. So you design your "computer" and then, when it works with RAM and all, you plonk the CPU in it, too, almost as an afterthought.
It’s an 8 year old phone … iPhone 6s was released September 2015…
I’ve seen some crazy examples when things like Datadog become part of the stack or you have a really big “GitOps” operation with loads of SaaS things all chained together to deploy, audit, manage, etc. a build pipeline and a cloud deployment. Then there’s all the stuff like Zoom, Office, Google Workspace, and more that everyone needs.

It can get crazy fast, and once you let stuff into the stack it’s hard to get rid of it. This is particularly true when it becomes part of a process that is in turn tied up with compliance or is used by a lot of people.

Major source of “cost disease” creeping into our industry. I’ve taken to calling the overall phenomenon “low interest rate architecture.”
I think you are probably shower and bathe in water that flows through pipes, so it seems absurd to be concerned about the same water/pipe combination used elsewhere.

If you don't shower or bathe or use modern plumbing infrastructure then please, by all means correct my mistaken assumption.
I just finished a day of skiing. I am taking off my thermals. Thermal is an incredibly broad term to let yourself pigeonhole it to a first association.
Apart from 0.1 XMR, I don't own any crypto but feel criticizing the people posting articles or even reposting is kind of unfair. There are plenty of other subjects such as Mickey Mouse copyright or resigning University presidentS that get over posted also. There are even some self promoting articles posted daily four weeks on end. I find it quite easy to skip over HN titles that I am not interested in but if someone finds this too difficult there are filtering tools that have been shared via show HN available to solve such matters.