skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is some partial issues here... It is not just about people, it is also about devices.

Most of these people you're talking about today, if given an old device and a simple set of instructions could fix said device.

Now, I like to think I can pull off some McGyver level shit, but when the first step of fixing a modern device is "Heat the device to 250F to break the epoxy bond and then take it to your solder station" then actually fixing this stuff is closer to galaxy level brain.
Important! My history file on my laptop is up to 200,342.
The number of US municipalities (cities/counties) using Palantir is very high. Be aware, this company and this individual enjoys success in part through your local taxes.
org means organizing

anyone feels the naming little bit not clear ? haha
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> The purpose of /which/ LGPL

Either 2.1 or 3.0 I guess, the difference between the versions isn't that relevant to hedora's question.

The GPL exists to protect users against companies which develop proprietary software. If you prioritize the freedom of companies to restrict users over the freedom of those users, it makes sense that you'd dislike the GPL style licenses.
This is a terribly negative take on a very useful skill.
Perhaps a better description would be:
“Recognizing the limits of our own powers of discernment”

We have to acknowledge that we don’t have sufficient understanding and expertise to differentiate truth from bullshit in all fields. It is reasonable therefore to turn to scientific consensus and to disregard the arguments of bullshitters.
If you desalinate 1 gallon of seawater, and then mix the brine with 10 gallons of seawater, the salt content of that seawater has increased ~10 percent.

If that’s still too much, use 20 gallons.

It’s a matter of spending energy on pumps, but it’s totally doable.

Also, the ocean salt content will not be increased by this, since the desalinated water will eventually make it back to the ocean.
Because it's an external dependency that must be installed manually in certain cases? A site must be up to host downloads for this prehistoric thing, and those binaries must be built, tested, and kept up to date by someone who might one day just vanish once they become bored of thanklessly maintaining a holy relic.

Yes it may take more effort to rewrite it natively now into whichever language the latex compiler is written in otherwise, the real braindead decision was not starting out that way. I mean shit, a modern equivalent would be of having to install python to use rustc or something.
> how do I keep track of you as a user/session enough to identify you and pair you to the contents of your cart on my backend without a cookie?

That would fall on necessary cookies. If my cart is empty, you don't need to know what's in my cart.
Previously:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38951847
Both indeed are :P
It is down for me at the moment (HTTP 500)
Not to nitpick, but I wonder if we can better define "acceptable." For a good layoff outcome, I'd expect the employee to find a new gig within a few months, that's +/- X% of their previous comp. Open question: has anyone seen this data?
I've been to dozens of rationalist meetups (I don't know why), people are constantly talking out of their ass while constantly referencing contrived rhetorical devices. A lot of "just asking questions", confidently asserting solutions to e.g. palestine, cartels, etc. and contending with things TV pundits say.

I like some of Scott Alexander's writing, but "rationalists" in general online or IRL have not been very impressive to me.
As you get more and more experience, I think this will become easier. You'll eventually get a feel for what types of questions you should just work through yourself, and which types of questions you should ask someone else about, and the threshold for moving between the two (you'll develop a sense of "let me investigate theory A, B, and C, and if I still can't figure it out, I'll ask for help").

Some of this will probably be via an increased understanding of the types of problems you can and can't solve. And some of this will probably be because you'll eventually know more people who can help (something like "oh yeah, I know Sam worked on a similar problem last month, let me see if they found a solution")
The nuance here lies within the “hours” quantifier.

A junior member being blocked for 3-8 hours semi-regularly is expected. Once every other month you probably should be blocked for several work days as well.

In your example, the challenge would have been realizing you wouldn’t have been the first one trying to send an email in the team. Recognizing that and it is very easy to know that you should just ask the question right away. It’s not a technical skill, but something a bit more meta.
Ask HN: Which tools are worth the time?
There are an overwhelming number of tools and techniques that (allegedly) improve productivity. With my limited free time and brain capacity, it can be difficult to gauge whether the returns will be worth the time investment. Some examples that come to mind:

- Learning more advanced Vim techniques, adding new Vim plugins

- Learning more shortcuts for my daily drivers like my IDE(s), shell, etc.

- Adding new shell plugins

- Learning "modern" tools like ripgrep and fzf (There's a list here: https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix)

- Anything related to Kubernetes like kubectl-aliases or k9s

What do you find essential? What gives you the most bang for your buck, and conversely, what do you think is overhyped and not worth the time? It doesn't have to be strictly related to productivity; if you found something that makes your job more enjoyable I want to hear about that too!

One thing I wish I picked up earlier is a familiarity with Perl regular expressions and basic Perl syntax. Perl seems to be everywhere and being able to whip up a fancy one-liner with lookarounds and embedded code execution can be incredibly useful. I wouldn't say there's a steep learning curve, but, like most things, the skill atrophies if not exercised regularly.
What many, including myself, wanted to hear is: See, tracking cookies does nothing. Instead what we got is an article that explains that companies do in fact not need cookies, they are plenty capable of tracking our reactions to advertising without them.

Then there are paragraphs like this one:

> We decided to rely on ad engagement retargeting (rather than traditional retargeting) on most of our ad channels which isn’t the same, but still gives us a semblance of a funnel. We tailored our ads that are focused on middle of funnel (MOF) and bottom of funnel (BOF) to this engaged audience.

Which for people like me is a big "WAT?" What does that even mean, what are consequences, why didn't they do this earlier? I am aware of "retargeting", which is really what I want companies to stop doing, I don't care if they do it without cookies.

But yes, this isn't for the technical or privacy focused crowd. This is for marketing people, about how they can adjust their workflows when Chrome starts blocking 3rd party cookies.
It might also just be done by whatever underlying web framework they use without them realizing. Like maybe a call to a method that checks if you are authenticated creates those cookies deep in some library they have less control / ownership of. Just taking a guess.
Isn't this use case covered in the article that you mentioned? Specifically under the very last heading.

https://www.procustodibus.com/blog/2021/03/wireguard-allowed...

That is you could specify a single Wireguard peer that you send all the traffic to by setting AllowedIPs to 0.0.0.0/0 and also set more specific routes than 0.0.0.0/0 in the main routing table of your device in order to send traffic to certain networks via a different gateway.
> Dump the brine water in engineered desert fields where it will evaporate and deposit salt reserves.

Honestly, the Salton Sea would be a great place to dump the brine. It would keep the water levels up and reduce the respiratory issues caused by drying, and any ecosystem to be destroyed has been thoroughly destroyed for decades.

Nix the "turn the manmade salt lake to a manmade fresh lake" plan, and use the created freshwater for agriculture directly, or send it off to LA, or do anything with it that isn't "refill the accidental lake that already has evaporation and pollution issues". It's a salt lake, use it as one.
Because when I use Brave at work, where I don't have Pi-hole running, I don't have to look at the 100s of popups, moving ads, fly-out videos, etc.

I couldn't care less who the money goes to. What I care about is actually being able to read a webpage.
Anyone know more about these 'offline passbacks'?

> for certain tracking technology like hashed offline passbacks
That's about it. Antennas aren't anything but wire or a small sheet of metal, all you need is something to increase the amount of metal exposed to the signal.

This is a quick & dirty diy "solder on some more metal & an antenna" tutorial:

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/how-to-add-an-external...

Solder mask might have been a better cover than the one shown, but the hot glue would do in a pinch.

Also, as far as resistor goes, there is no spec for the resistor. It's a jumper, that's all.
The most interesting part of this article personally was "Google's getting rid of cookies". Wait, what? How is this the first time I've heard of this?

Apparently the move is already delayed until Q2 2024 (lots of pushback at the office) [1] However, it's still difficult to believe. Must be an utter nightmare for people who built their entire business stack on cookies.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/27/google-delays-move-away-fr...
The other day there was a topic on HN about how the internet is full of AI-generated crap. Asterisk mag, thankfully, is still one of the exceptions.
Cool, but Ohio just made it illegal for me to live there; so that doesn't do me a lot of good.
I'm fond of the aside about "self-relferential [sic] meta-commentary" within a blog post that is itself self-referential meta-commentary.
Also why it's called DDoS and not DoS.
Are We the Baddies? [video]
While I’m glad there progressing I suspect I’ll continue to buy 2.4ghz wifi 5 ones. I park all my IOT stuff on that to keep 5 and 6 ghz clean for key device.
A lot of these cookies are used to prevent CSRF or tracking flow state (eg: redirect target for login) through SSO. I'm not sure about the behavior of the stripe one. Generally once you go to a login page I'm pretty sure you will log in :)
Possibly! But then they need to choose: take full control of their stack to where they can ensure it doesn't set unnecessary cookies, or use cookie banners.
Framework says hackers accessed customer data after phishing attack
Connecting the dots from another article on HN front page today, about ESP32.

ESP-BLE-MESH Architecture

> Bluetooth® mesh networking enables many-to-many (m:m) device communications and is optimized for creating large-scale device networks.

> Devices may relay data to other devices not in direct radio range of the originating device. In this way, mesh networks can span very large physical areas and contain large numbers of devices. It is ideally suited for building automation, sensor networks, and other IoT solutions where tens, hundreds, or thousands of devices need to reliably and securely communicate with one another.

> Built on top of Zephyr Bluetooth Mesh stack, the ESP-BLE-MESH implementation supports device provisioning and node control.

https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/latest/esp32/...
>It’s simple to create a Dockerfile that containerizes your app. It’s even easier to create one that has terrible build performance, chalked full of CVEs, is north of 20GB in size, and whatever foot gun you trip over when using Docker

It's been years that writing Dockerfiles has been fairly common. Years. And yet it's still so common that people write such poorly optimized Dockerfiles.

I think we should definitely start thinking about admitting that it's too much over head for people to learn how to write a Dockerfile.

That being said, I've known Kyle for a while now. The team at Depot have consistently shown the deepest possible understanding of the container ecosystem. I'm very excited to see what else they do.
or maybe she has, quite rationally, developed “epistemic learned helplessness”?

edit: forgot to add the link ( which was reposted to HN earlier today)
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/03/repost-epistemic-learn...
Big projects overrun on time and budget. I've never seen anyone take the Berlin airport as evidence against airports.
People leave jobs all the time.

In your analogy companies hire people, train them, pay them and their recruiter, have them not contribute meaningfully and then fire them. And this is profitable why?
The details might be a bit goofy, but this sort of large scale geoengineering project is going to be the only way that the SW is going to remain inhabitable.

The American southwest has a couple big things going for it -- unlimited sunshine and an extraordinary amount of empty land. You can combine these things to create huge amounts of electricity which can be used to irrigate new farm land, power mines and build new cities.

The status quo of drawing down on the increasingly precarious water supply is not feasible though. Before the unprecedented snowpack of 2022/2023, many regions were facing extreme water rationing.
The good: building an app to scratch your itch.

The bad: using Twitter and Chrome in 2024.

I'll see myself out.
@ColonelPhantom: Thanks very much for your questions. The following are answers I'm relaying from Engin Kayraklioglu, who heads up the Chapel GPU effort:

Re Intel support: That's definitely in our plans. However, there are also many other areas where we are actively working on to add more features, fix bugs, and improve performance. When prioritizing, we typically make decisions based on what our current and potential users might need in the language. Frankly, we are not seeing a big push for Intel GPU support so far. So, currently it is not near the top of our priorities. If you (or other readers) have any input on that matter where lack of Intel support might be a blocker for testing Chapel and/or its GPU support out, definitely let us know.

Re implicit serialization: To clarify; the serialization based on order-dependence is not implicit. The users should use a `for` loop if their loop is order-dependent and `foreach` (and `forall`) if their loop is order-independent. In other words, the Chapel compiler doesn't make decisions about order-dependence. In particular, for GPU execution a `for` loop will never turn into a GPU kernel.

There are, however, some cases where a `foreach` does not turn into a kernel. You may be referring to those cases, but that's not related to order-dependence. Some Chapel features cannot execute on a GPU. If your `foreach` loop's body uses any of those features then it will not be launched as a kernel even though `foreach` signals order-independence. Now, a subset of such features that makes an order-independent loop GPU-ineligible are there because we haven't gotten a chance to properly address them, yet. Another subset of such features will remain thwarters for a longer time and maybe forever. For example, your `foreach` loop could be calling an external host function.
Good HowSpotify.com website is the best. Many people use chatbots for content writing. Is it not worth it?
> I'm sure there was something else earlier that diverted intelligent, talented people into socially unproductive pursuits because it paid better.

The problem is in my experience (for quite some smart people) not "which job pays so much better (and thus facing a potential dilemma about selling out)", but rather about actually finding a job.

The job market does not like very smart people, but rather self-promoters and sycophant: I know quite some really smart people (with a focus on people having degrees in mathematics and physics (often comparable to PhD or post doctoral experience)) who had quite some difficulties actually finding a job in industry, and thus rather had to take the job positions that they could get.
Thanks. Going to look into that one.
"You Come At the King,You Best Not Miss" ;-)
If it's hitting an index properly it should perform binary search on it, and just be able to locate the row, correct?

They also say "We had a very large table (28 million) rows that we were getting timeouts querying on anything other than the primary key."

Which implies that indexing did work if that was primary key. How could other indexes fail? They should work with similar performance. Doesn't that imply they must've done something wrong or there was some sort of bug somewhere? Or were the column in some fashion I can't think of?
Why is the Iliad's catalogue of ships a pleb filter? IIRC it was just a fairly boring instance of a primarily illiterate culture's historical record keeping, not unlike the "X begat Y" in the Hebrew Bible. Is TFA claiming it is excellent literature masquerading as repetitious trivia? If so, a better example imo would have been the chapter from Moby Dick which is solely devoted to the whiteness of the whale.
It's estimated that cats kill 1.3–4 billion birds each year in the U.S. alone, with 69% of these kills attributable to feral or unowned cats: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/faq-outdoor-cats-and-thei...
No in my world we don't delay the process of stopping to destroy our planet over some minor concerns that are typically raised by people who argue against this because they want to continue burning stuff and slow down the demise of the fossil fuel industry. These people don't actually care about our planet, the environment, or any of this. And I suspect your concern is disingenuous.
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I made a (rather incomplete) comparision of various OpenID Connect server implementations[0]. Keycloak has over 1M lines of code. LOC isn't everything, but I don't know how you're supposed to avoid a decent number of serious vulnerabilities with that much surface area.

[0]: https://github.com/lastlogin-io/obligator#comparison-is-the-...
As many other things in life it cab be seen as work.

My journey to effective body weight control was 10 years long. Misinformation is everywhere these days...

But... it doesn't have to be hard. For me gamification of the calorie couting game and step counting worked surprisingly well.
Summary: Scott Alexander recounts his gullibility to various well-reasoned crackpot arguments on a topic, and describes how he to decided to trust experts instead of investing time into learning enough to assess the topic for himself. Then he reflects on the nature of argument-accepting and its relation to rationality.

I don’t think the term “learned helplessness” fits well here. It suggests a lack of agency, whereas he exercised much of it, employing his skill of critical thinking to arrive at the right epistemic stance.

A better term might be “bounded agency”, to pair with the concept of “bounded rationality”. We recognize that we cannot know everything, and we choose how to invest the capability and resources that we do have. This is far from any type of “helplessness”.
Yes, but...

There are unknown issues down that road. Given 1000 years AI could probably replace all work, but I think we’re all on the same page of “could AI replace 95% of work within a timespan that’s meaningful to people alive today?”, and in that term the realization of an AI-powered machine doing all manual labour (even an AGI one) still has a too many unknowns for a meaningful answer.

We were “going to have flying cars in X” for a long time, but it turned out that building a flying car was not actually the problem that needed to be solved in order to make them viable.
I am certain if I am in any way right they could overprice the behavior, but im making a wild guess. Or maybe they missed a page.
I think having 6 children is weird, but to each their own.
I understand that C is far more used than Fortran. Of course I also dont think C is dead. I was trying to make a statement about saying Fortran is just alive in scientific computing. While this is mainly true, scientific computing is so huge that it is quite a big thing to be alive in it.

And no, I don't think only physicists use Fortran. If you really think this then you probably dont quite understand the ecosystem of numerical computing. Besides if only Physicists use Fortran and is otherwise dead, I hardly think, for example, that AMD, Intel, and Nvidia would bother releasing optimizing compilers just for Fortran.
There is also generating the whole thing from a function signature (e.g. https://github.com/c-blake/cligen ) since then CLauthors need not learn a new spec language, but then CLauthors must add back in helpful usage metadata/semantics and still need to learn a library API (but I like how those latter two things can be "gradual"). It's a hard space in which to find perfection, but I wish you luck in your attempt!
Which feels like a cover of Tainted Love by Marilyn Manson.
3d navigation, lidar-like maps of a space just based on pics, to allow a drone to beable to have a lidar-like spatial awareness from 2d imagery? (aside from the cool photograpgy bits it offers)
I would certainly hope that it's the MISRA variant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MISRA_C
Those cooling towers are just large hollow hyperboloids. There's nothing in there that would "shred" a bird. And since they don't move, it's not likely that a bird would collide with one (though maybe that happens from time to time)
> If you interpret a vector or a matrix as a function of its indices

What exactly does this mean?
That is incorrect. We are not doing that.
If Boeing’s civilian jets are falling from the skies, I wonder what will happen to its military ones in the coming conflict with China.
And if anything nuclear is manufactured to the same quality standards as the 737 Max, then… woe is us…
Apple Notes is actually pretty great.
good luck with that, we've got enterprise and have been waiting since November for any sort of technical help with a problem around R2
It's not bigotry. I live in an area with these idiots. It's a simple fact.

I cannot enumerate the number of times that I was unable to take an adjacent space in a parking lot, because someone couldn't park his penis replacement without taking up multiple spots.
Yet any arbitrary sequence (e.g. of bits) has an equal probability of occurring in a random bitstring. 111111 is equally likely as 100110 or 010101. Asked "which one is random?" most people would say the middle one (even people who know better, like me).

Personally I discount the likes of 111111 and 010101 because I know there are artificial processes which produce those sequences and so I discount them on that basis. Yet if you were training a machine to recognize "random" data you'd need to include one sample of each of the possible 2^6 sequences to train it on representative data.

There is another category of random / not random to be considered: self-similar data, where there is similar data in the same area or at different scales. Taken in total, all sequences in this "universe" may be nonetheless randomly distributed.

A taxonomy / review of sequences which we generate inordinately and what phenomena are affected is missing. Self-similar data always deserves a second look, although the cause can be a natural self-organizing principle (e.g. literal snowflakes).
It’s limited to iPhone 15
Yes. The Garter and the Thistle (and the Order of Merit) are exclusively small and also in the personal gift of the sovereign. The Order of the British Empire is much larger and appointments are made on advice from the government.