skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're cursed by our own creativity. The tech has a handful of positive use-cases, and a seemingly infinite number of nightmarish abuses that even its inventors are terrified of. But they will continue to develop the tech, or someone else will in their place. It's a huge, exciting, valuable advancement that could change the history of our species - not exactly the sort of thing anyone would want to just walk away from.

It's not the most dangerous thing that man has ever built, but it is dangerous, and it's probably the most uncomfortably personal.

The following was encouraging:

> In late 2021, the scientists began to run new experiments. First, they were curious if an algorithm trained on one person could be used on another. They found that it could not — the decoder’s efficacy depended on many hours of individualized training. Next, they tested whether the decoder could be thrown off simply by refusing to cooperate with it. Instead of focusing on the story that was playing through their headphones while inside the fMRI machine, participants were asked to complete other mental tasks, such as naming random animals, or telling a different story in their head. “Both of those rendered it completely unusable,” Huth said. “We didn’t decode the story they were listening to, and we couldn’t decode anything about what they were thinking either.”
Not sure about calm (I feel like there's pretty much always some wind), but the rainy season brings lots of clouds. And even outside the rainy season there are days cloudy enough to impact solar generation.
No? I plan on working 30-40 years - I just want my investments to grow throughout that time period so when I retire I can live off what I've earned.

As best I can tell, the only people that want "growth above all else" are the top .01% who have enough money in the bank that they can make all of their income from buying and selling stocks, as well as the hedge fund managers that get a cut of the short-term profits.

The average working-class folks that just put money into a 401k couldn't care less if this quarter is a record quarter - they care what their investment does over a much, much longer period of time.
Israel set up troll farms years ago to attack, debate, downvote and report opposing content. It's the front channel.

https://electronicintifada.net/content/inside-israels-millio...
Lance Detweiler and the Theory of Nymity
Because it’s overbought and most of the coins are at island tops. If you don’t know what an island top is, look it up.

Plus, the house always wins, and you ain’t the house.
If anything it’s allowing senior engineers to do the job of junior engineers.
> Crypto (excluding bitcoin)

FTFY
Satoshi might not even be real.

It might be funded by intel agencies for all we know.
The thing I find interesting from an anecdotal perspective: the second half of 2022 and early 2023 were pretty brutal, with loads of layoffs popping up in my LinkedIn feed. However, at least for software engineers, things seemed to at least stabilize a bit around late spring or so of last year - it even looked a bit like some companies cut too deep, and I saw a bunch of my engineering colleagues find new jobs.

Since the start of this year, though, things seem to have soured. I've seen a bunch of fresh layoff announcements, and these ones genuinely surprised me because they were from companies I thought were doing well.

Just curious if anyone else has noticed a similar pattern.
Jerry (YC S17) Is Hiring PMs, Engs, Data, BizOps (Remote)
Vision Pro is already changing everything we know about Apple
This is a valid concern, the actual value of BTC and ETF might diverge wildly. Never a better time to actually own some
If you changed the global allocator to this... and put the stack on it... any reason you couldn't use pointers mostly as normal. You'd run into issues as soon as a library used mmap, but other than that...
I believe in normal circumstances its neglegible and not worth worrying about.
Most USB-C (and other laptop chargers, for that matter) are of the double-insulated/"Class 2" variety. This means that they're galvanically separated from the primary circuit and not grounded to a protective earth conductor.

For EMI reasons, there needs to be a connection (via a very small capacitor) to the primary side. This creates a measurable, and as you've noticed sometimes even physically detectable, voltage leak from the primary side, but is completely harmless since it can't actually sustain any meaningful current.

More details here: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/216967/23924

If it really bothers you, you can get a three-prong USB-C power adapter. These can just ground the EMI to protective earth, and you won't feel anything.

You can convert most Apple laptop power supplies into one by using a properly grounded cable, for example; they have a grounding connector (which is not connected to anything using the regular duck head adapters, though – hence the phenomenon of "buzzing MacBooks").

The phenomenon of being able to sense it using your fingers is called "electrovibration" and is actually quite fascinating. There's research into being able to use it as a form of haptic UI feedback!
Ex FAANG Senior engineer here. I don’t think the gap between a senior and juniors is that big, and seniors shouldn’t be so complacent (if they were)
I use a pretty deep dutch over, and it's really the key to getting a nice crumb. Since home ovens aren't steam ovens, it helps to use a small (but big enough) chamber to let the loaf steam for the first half of the bake. I've also seen people use an "inverted" dutch oven or buy a bespoke cloche for the purpose.
Easy to cast stones. (Unsafe code especially seems like a very low quality dig to me, for an allocator: theres going to be some low level base to a system. And not like glibc was authored in a memory safe language either.)

Sure there's problems. Unix won and multics lost, and we have half a century of accrued complexity around that, and a couple weekends of hacking isn't going to get us all the way back to a perfect Single Level Store.

Is this something we can and should all switch to? No. The costs are high, it's not practical. But I think over time, especially with the rise of CXL and rdma resurgent, we'll see zero-cooy zero-serialize techniques like this grow back & be huge performance wins for us, be much simpler to handle, even with the adaption we'll have to do.
Bro here is what psychotropics are: they function as restraints. Chemical restraints. This was the overt aim of the original creators of psychiatric drugs, so that they could remove actual shackles and leg irons and replace them with the drugs.

This is what enabled Reagan to close the asylums, because the victims, er um patients, would theoretically no longer require physical restraint in institutions, but could be chemically restrained wherever they lived. And it's true: the mentally ill are now turned out onto the street by the thousands, and restrained by use of drugs. They keep coming back for refills and new prescriptions. It's almost as good as a physical tether or leash.

Psychotropics do nothing to heal or cure mental illness. They place the user in an altered state of consciousness. They dull the intellect, they blunt the affect, they banish the wit. A person under the influence will seldom fight back or think for themselves. They become pliant and malleable to whatever suggestion is foisted upon them. It's quite effective in that regard.
I've definitely had to code up alternative front-ends routed through a server I own to access Google on slow connections. If it takes too long your browser just gives up, and the site isn't just "unusable" (slow to the point of being painful), it's actually unusable.
> I feel like I never know how to contact someone and can never expect a quick reply

MS Teams and similar products have a color-coding scheme (green - active, yellow - inactive, probably afk, red - busy, white - offline) that solves that quite effectively (maybe even too much). Have you tried it, and if so, in what sense did you find it lacking? Also, if instant gratification is what you're craving, then I'm not sure fully on-site has you covered either - people spend much more time away from their desks than at home (in meetings and other places). I'm also not sure if it's the best measure of what 'works', because every instant response for you is a possible distraction from their flow state for someone else.
I saw a comic on reddit once that the author had drawn about their driving test experience - real - showing her driving with her dad sitting in the passenger seat next to her while she navigated around some car park or test track with the examiner standing somewhere close by watching! And this was not the joke! (The joke was that her dad wasn't allowed to say anything helpful to her and the effort of staying silent was causing him to turn beet red and inflate)

I'm sure that's not particularly representative (actually I think it might have been a covid thing?) but the fact that it was even conceivable, and that few of the Americans in the comments seemed to fully understand how genuinely pants on head insane the situation being shown was, really stuck with me. Felt almost like a comic from an alien planet rather than a civilised foreign country.
Compare the average engineer to ownership and executive compensation and salaries my friend. Just because many engineers make more than average wages doesn’t mean they are compensated like owners and other senior level compensation packages… there is a massive gap.

Just look at the compensation gap between CEOs and software engineers:

https://www.dice.com/career-advice/income-gap-tech-ceos-soft...

I know people on HN like to think of FAANG salaries when they think of software engineers, but the vast majority get nothing close to that. And they are firmly in the “worker” category of salary ranges.

46 of 50 states have regressive taxation policies favoring the rich, and this taxation system is definitely regressive as it’s killing startups and small business’s ability to hire software developers by creating a tax punishment for doing so: a literal regressive tax as it punishes the working classes while favoring the upper classes (its definition).

https://itep.org/whopays-7th-edition/#:~:text=46%20states%20....

Poverty can look like raising a family as a single parent on a software engineering 91k average US salary in a place like NYC (when the CEO of the company you work for makes 30M a year). It’s not always Federal poverty levels that count.

I know it’s easy to dismiss this point of view as political, but that’s not my intention. It’s important that people realize how unequal even software jobs have become.
The trust would presumably have no meaningful assets so the "could be sued" would be rather theoretical, correct?
Certainly can just depends on the framework used. I know 11ty can server render them. Astro.build supports lit as well.
On the pricing that the other comments mentioned, if you happen to have friends coming from India -- it is less than $10 here. ;-)
RSC seems like a massive foot gun - given that you can accidentally bundle anything from the server.
Everything mentioned in the article is obvious to me ... however it has been hard won lessons over years and years and years.

Someone more freshly baked could probably get a real nice head start with the advice in the book.
Really? You don't think there is anything aggressive or vitriolic?

"Well, perhaps we should, I don’t know, read the IKEA website?"

"...that totally coincidentally happens to pay affiliate marketing commissions."

"Maybe we should be generous and ignore all the errors and misstatements above."

"...then congratulations—you understand air filters better than the Wirecutter."
What pays the most only loosely correlates with what produces the most value for society. It's easy to skim a percent here and there off hundreds of billions in volume shuffling around without the owners of those billions caring much, but it's much more difficult to see how that, on the whole, actually improves the condition of your neighborhood.
What about Lightning Network?
Software isn't a finite problem that gets solved. We make what we can, given our resources.

Commercial software used to be painstakingly written in assembly, with little more than simple text editors. An average Python programmer today is 10x more productive than that, yet there are vastly more developers now.
I think everyone will have different behavior sec for their funds, with the options now ranging from simply committing a 12 or 24 word seed phrase to memory and buying ETF shares.

There is shamir secret splitting, multisig, MPC, secure enclaves with biometerics, etc...

There will be apps like Fuse wallet:
https://www.fusewallet.com/

There will be phones like Saga:
https://solanamobile.com/hardware

I think how one handles their wallets will be much like how people make their espressos. Some will just stick k-cup in a machine and hit a button, others will become full-blown coffee enthusiasts that carefully measure their beans, de-static their grinds, and extract for the exact right amount of time.
Have you considered that perhaps, just perhaps, it's a bad, inept and tone deaf video that is absolutely correct to ridicule? It's a possible interpretation!
I got the IKEA air quality sensor, and it's always around 5-6 μg/m3, but my bane is cat hair. We have two cats and there's always hair in the air. Is there a filter that will remove those out of the air, and stop me breathing them all the time?
This response seems silly. Do you not take shower or baths in tap water? The issue is the same.
Factorio: From save game to remote code execution
> Well, after Musk fired 80% of twitters engineering team

"Fidelity believes that X is worth 71.5% less than at the time of purchase, according to a new disclosure that runs through the end of November 2023" https://www.axios.com/2023/12/31/elon-musks-x-fidelity-valua...
Which is doubly funny because a common childhood rhyme here is “My name is John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt” - if you can’t handle that name you should rewrite your program.
I agree. This is the kind of thing I'd love to see more of on the web.
> Rust actually is a nice language. C++ requires deciding which features to use?

With Rust you have to choose which features to use. Unlike C++, with it's "you pay for what you use" model, Rust's features are arguably still broken, unstable, and under active development. See async rust for example.

> don’t know modern C++ but it seems to have a kind of cult like indoctrination where everything else is wrong and only each persons flavor is correct leading to endless bike shedding.

Indeed you don't know what you're talking about. Adopting a style guide is not the same thing as joining a cult.

C++ has been in active use for around 30 years, and modern C++ for over a decade. People use it just fine, and don't feel the need to evangelize. Other communities sadly still appear to feel a constant need to reassure and convince themselves they didn't made the wrong choice.
Same as anything else really: A sheet of paper and a safety deposit box.

You die, your heir or executor takes the appropriate paperwork to the bank, and then they get the contents of the box.
Corporations tried selling us intelligent fridges for decades. It doesnt mean it was true. Nor does it mean a procedural text generator is intelligent. It performs well at emulating intelligence but it’s about as intelligent as a rock - it can be used intelligently but on its own it does nothing.
Eh. Most people I see who are super concerned about synthetic biology safety aren't the people actually working on it (in contrast to things like AI, or even more innocuous technology like social media). That includes me. I've worked in synbio for >10yr and consistently the danger is overhyped by people who don't get it.

> dire, irreversible consequences we can't even begin to predict them

No, they're dire consequences that you can't predict, probably because you don't work in the field. There are lots of ways to predict what could happen.
Autocomplete can make this moot too
Not really. How much you care about tone is certainly personal, but it's extremely easy to consistently analyze tone and sentiment from written or spoken text. This stuff is not mysterious.
The lump of labor is real.

Ask coal miners who couldn't reskill. The consensus is that we'd've been better off just putting them on UBI than through retraining.

Once they die, and the lump balances are cleared, only then does it "not exist".
Yeah that's why all the programming jobs disappeared after 4GL languages made us more efficient, and then when intellisense happened the industry got even smaller. The real tragedy though was all these open source libraries.
yep true, if anything the ai hype is helping the market.
Technology-wise, isn't it a lot easier to build a coal plant than it is to build PV panels? Obviously this is not a problem right now, but imagine a disaster scenario where a good amount of high-tech industry is non-operational. Or even a geopolitical crisis where we lose access to enough of the raw materials or manufacturing capacity to make the panels.

(Does the US even manufacture PV panels? Or are they mostly -- or even all -- built overseas?)
It’s like those old “People’s Democratic Republics” which never actually are.
tell me about backpacking through the andes. one question - where do you sleep ?
That's what the "social recovery" ideas are for. It's a framework for doing key management across multiple trusted parties under controlled conditions in the hypothetical case your primary keys are inaccessible. You could have your executor hold a key, for example.
Exactly. The author of the article uses little details to call into question the Wirecutter write-up, but overlooking something like this does exactly the same thing about their own write-up. It was the first thing I thought when I saw H13. "Well, H13 has an H, E12 does not, what are the odds that HEPA starts at 13?" I'm surprised this didn't occur to the writer.
It all blows up when some system somewhere doesn’t like that it doesn’t know your middle name and so adds NMN and then you have a failure to match.
Of course they were. Stars, clouds, conversations, gardening, chess, etc. These are all distracting from present towards past or future.
OMG the 2017 tax bill continues to hurt the coastal masses.
> If you absolutely must know that it's precisely 14:22:04 it's not the device for you.

I think that's false. Railroads used precise watches and published timetables to coordinate train movements well before signals were invented; your watch is wrong, you hit another train head on. So if you want to know that it's 14:22:04, the watch has been your device for 200 years.
Weird, everyone I can find online says that the One X has a disc drive.
I wouldn't be an annoyed as he is if I had personally designed the IKEA air purifier.
Building one of the largest CDNs on the planet is trivial? https://openconnect.netflix.com/Open-Connect-Overview.pdf

Changing the way Hollywood and content licensing works is trivial? https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/how-netflix...

Yeah, it's not rocket science to build a streaming service using AWS or GCloud lego blocks in 2024, but remember that Netflix started streaming in 2007.
The value of the business tanked due to Musks poor decisions. The value of twitter didnt drop because a worker didnt add more unit tests. Actually not doing it may be the reason it’s not bankrupt yet. If bro wouldnt have run his mouth like the baby he is it would have skyrocketed.
So are the content writers stochastic parrots?
Rural customers are the ones serviced by lines close to trees, which are the ones that are sparking forest fires during hot dry summers.

Power lines cause plenty of forest fires in rural states as well. But the money involved is probably very different, and Californians are bilked for higher rates simply because they are richer than someone in Idaho or Wyoming.
I remember years ago when moving to the cloud and SaaS was going to save so much money by letting companies do away with in house IT.

Now that the in house IT expertise is gone and the data is in closed SaaS you are locked in and it’s time to turn the screws.
> Marathon runners apparently lose about 1lb, 50% of which is water.

Yeah, you use about 100kcal running a mile, so 26mi gets you around 2/3 of a pound of fat.

This is why I said to lose 10lbs you'd have to run from SF to LA, which is about 400mi. Without eating more than baseline.

The problem isn't the micro. Yes, if you exercise a ton without compensatory eating and in excess of the expected drop in BMR that produces, you will lose weight in the near-term. The problem is your homeostatic mechanisms kick in and work against you making it extremely hard to maintain. Your body has a weight set point like it has a temperature set point. The follow-up study on the Biggest Loser showed basically every single one of them put on all the weight they lost. In some cases more. Here's the PubMed link. [1]

The evidence seems to point to the opposite of your conclusion - a lot of exercise reduces your BMR, it doesn't increase it. Makes sense doesn't it? A lower BMR means you're more efficient. While your TEE might be higher, your BMR is probably lower.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27136388/
Not the OP but I know I can rent both from Google and from my ISP, I imagine there are more services available.
The article does not make that claim, read it. It states that those surveyed in the industry are concerned about AI's impact in the near future:

" More than 60 percent of those surveyed said they believed their company would hire fewer people because of AI moving forward."
I'm working at a company where hybrid is working fine. Everyone treats the situation as full remote, but some people are just at the office. There will be a con call invite for every single meeting.
"Kernel C" is the name given to the subset of C (read, Linux's flavor of C) that was formed by deciding which language features/compiler extensions they would/wouldn't use. Hardly a new or unsolvable problem.

Benefits of C++ over Rust:
- Far easier and nicer to integrate with an enormous existing C codebase
- C semantics are much more similar to C++ than to Rust, so no need to do huge pattern redesigns
- No need to suddenly fight a borrow checker and prove lifetimes for a code base that isn't aware of them at all
- Interfacing with existing C code will require unsafe interop, which greatly reduces the benefit of Rust's primary selling point
- Transitions to C++ code will counterintuitively almost certainly introduce less bugs than rewriting in Rust, because you can do it in a much more piecemeal manner, and only do so in very disciplined way

Why should they rewrite it in Rust?
Bring it with you "home network setup" with devices pre shared keys and only authentication to a portal one time or an Ethernet port. Also let's you share one paid-for connection—on an airplane for example.
> Law Enforcement Agencies would expect you to be able to pull data from them as well.

A previous lifetime of mine was ensuring that when we legally were able to delete things we _really deleted them_ from _all the places they ended up including backups_ to ensure our response to subpoenas, LEOs, regulatory bodies and other busybodies was 'Unfortunately information about that customer was deleted on <date> under <legal authority>. We have no data to provide you'.