skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The old days were great for tech events. Amazing speakers in every major city. All tech cos and startups fighting to sponsor and host events in their offices. I remember getting some great meals and bridge views at Google in SF at the HTML5 group, hah. If you were a poor, bootstrapped hacker in the city those days, you could pretty much get fed for free and begged to quit your startup and take a job most days of the week.

I’ve just been given the reins myself to be the organizer for a large (defunct) tech group. I’m still figuring out exactly what will bring people back and kickstart things. From my discussions with organizers in other groups, they are having a difficult time finding companies willing to host. Concerns about liability even though the pandemic scare is over still persist, time demand on internal employees and lack of rapid hiring are big blockers. The environment has definitely changed.

I really hope the pendulum will swing back again.
A geofence warrant typo cast a location dragnet spanning two miles over SF
I believe there is a difference between generas of music being "dead" and genears of music not having mass popularity.

I play a lot of cafe jazz in the style Django and Grappelli- there is still stuff going on with it, but I could be convinced that it's not "alive and well" because there aren't a whole lot of new compoositions that get wide distribution.

And I really enjoy a lot of the hiphop, EDM, and other stuff I hear- I am not trying to make an argument that those aren't wildly more popular.

Given that there are new artists making a living creating new compositions playing coutnry, as well as large audiences paying money to listen and dance... it's hard to convince me the genera is "dead.

But keep in mind, that's not the argument I was making, that is an argument you're placing on top of what I was saying.

The claim I was responding to is "Country music was never good post the Johnny Cash era. "

I posted some musicians who I (and guessing by their ability to make a living playing new music, other people) believe stands as a counterpoint to that point.

So for all your concern about the legitimacy of my "argument", you're focusing on a claim I am not making- even if it were a "dead" genera, people are still making new music with enough support that they can make a living performing it.
Hilarious how the basics keep getting broken despite the huge amount of collective effort to reinvent the basics
I have a sneaking suspicion that at some point in the distant future advertising will be banned simply because it's so associated with the tragedy of the information commons.
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With the regular interface. The admin interface can delete entire revisions and make them go away.
How big was the layoff?
Yeah, as a full-stack / backend developer using PHP / Symfony (and Twig), I only occasionally need to update the frontend. But then all these problems keep popping up.

Oh, that's the wrong yarn version. Oh, I thought v3 is the newest? But we still use v1? I used v3 in another project. So I need to install different versions? Ah, then I also need different versions of node? Ah, better to use nvm? Because only later versions have corepack, the experimental but recommended tool?

Or do we change back to npm? And why does an install process change a .lock file?
I wonder if the inflation has made a lot of people tighten their spending. Many meetup events were at businesses where the expectation is that attendees are spending money. I suspect meetup groups are having a harder time finding white-collar companies with unused office space to let them host talks/socials in also.

People might also just be working more now
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Remote: Yes

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I don't know.

Here is the only relevant example I found:

p = X_MALLOC(sizeof(*p) * NUM);
if (p == NULL) {
return (MEM_NOTHING);
}
...
X_FREE(p);
return (OK);

It's clearly abnormal.

Something like a:

if (get_size(obj) == 0) {
return empty_case;
}
... do more complicated code here ...
return result;

does not feel "abnormal", which are things you likely want to log, given:

Logs should be output not only when an abnormal condition
is detected, but also at the timing of, such as, data
communication with an external system.
Trillium notes. Works pretty well for my homelab. Keeping inventory of all the things i have, how they are set up and relations between them.
After Big Tesla Bet, Hertz Selling One-Third of EV Fleet
Same experience. 90% of the time I ask it to summarize something, it can't because it's blocked. At least it has the decency to tell me that it's blocked rather than just failing (which is what Kagi does. Love Kagi, but that's a minor improvement they could make).

This is where I suspect Bard is going to be an absolute beast of a product. Ability to quickly and thoroughly consume a bunch of hits and find the best and summarize and such is something uniquely able for Google (and increasingly, Kagi)
This is amazing! Didn't realise parts of the code was available. If anyone was in any doubt, VBA6 does support:

number = -number
glade != fly
Yes me too, mostly.

Through it should be noted that GDPR requires no tracking but not no ads, and companies try to lump that together to pretend there is no reasonable solution.

E.g. a lot of newspapers use approaches similar to Meta (and similar not lawful) i.e. either you get tracked and ads or you pay and get neither ads or tracking. But this is illegal as opting out is noticeable more complex then opting in (account creation requirement is already illegal, money requirement more so). What would be legal would be a choice between "ad(personalized with tracking)" or "ad(no tracking)" and "no ad but account + cost money". You also still can choose ads based on the article/site content etc. (Also another problem with account requirement for no adds is that it often deceptively sneaks in the permission to track when creating the account making it de-facto no option to not be spied on!)

Another problem is that it can be easily too expensive for many people (not just very poor ones). Especially if like currently there are no "supper cheap but also very limited accounts".

I mean consider YT Premium Lite is 5.99€, no ads but you still get tracked. Twitch has no Lite version (and some non YT-lite premium features are actually for free) cost 11.99 (YT non lite is 12.99). Most news papers and similar are between 3€ and 8€ or so, commonly 5€. Of most of them I only read ~1 article per moth or so, often less and often not even the whole article sometimes I just look for a link to the original source and often I realize I just got click baited and bail out. Like you could easily end up 80+€ a month that's just ... to much for many.

And in pretty much all case paying means no ads but not no tracking/selling your information, at best a bit less tracking.
I think this might be more interesting than the directory structure way. For years I've had the same setup of OP, but now that I think about it, this might make more sense for me.
Will give a look.
> What are the two different adjustments being uses? You're making some bold hand-wavey claims without showing your work.

See https://www.epi.org/blog/nothing-misleading-about-this-typic... for an admission by EPI themselves that they are mixing up deflators.
Any POCs your devs wrote would have been targeted at a specific version of their framework dependencies via their NPM package.json / package-lock.json. So why would any later changes made by framework authors, even backwards incompatible ones, made you unable to run or build them?
From my experience, people who don’t know what they are talking about love to talk about pilot error and assign blame to the humans in the cockpit. You don’t see that often when reading experienced commenters who know that there should be 10 safety systems and features to prevent mistakes from getting catastrophic. Admiral Cloudberg’s analyses for example discuss at length the failures of all the mechanisms that allowed the crash to happen. It’s never “pilot need to git gud”. (Well, almost never, it was very nearly that for the recent Yeti Airlines crash).
The "reasonable interpretation of GDPR" would kill nearly every tech company that offers services to the general public for free.

You can say good bye to Maps, YouTube, WhatsApp, etc.

The EU fundamentally does not understand what it takes to run the services it relies on.
Indeed. If half won't even build anymore, that's insane. It seems like they want to be on the latest version all the time which obviously will have breaking changes.
New hydrogel technology combats deadly heart arrhythmias painlessly
Shouldn’t deaths from negligence result in jail time?
I wonder if there are any additional common situations in life where miscommunication produces such immediate, high-amplitude feedback.
Totally agreed, SEO spammers wrecked the public web years ago and Google did everything they could to enable it for more ad revenue.
i admit it's been a while, but i did try to mitigate it by not connecting to wifi (I count News as an Ad when the News is "Buy More DLC!!")

i think the issue was the game had an update which wouldnt install unless the Switch was updated too; i didn't even include the time it took to put in my wifi info (and wait for connection to fail so i could try again)

just for blithe comparison, I can plug in my 30 year old NES which hasn't been powered on in eons and play Mario in less than a second :)
My only computer for a long time was old thinkpad, so I actually ended up skipping over windows XP entirely.

I finally moved on after the first service pack for vista came out (in 2008), which was surprisingly alright in my experience. It ended up being more stable than win2000.

The biggest problem with the older windows is that poorly written drivers (which is most of them) had a tendency to bluescreen the entire system when they fucked up. Newer windows is so much more resistant to that now.
Wikiquotes?
Who will create the information then? They won't have traffic, an audience or even any recognition. Who would want to do that?
I feel like we're at some weird technological historical point where we have IoT everywhere but we aren't passwordless yet. So we're polluting our world with IoT devices like this but they ship with "admin/password" as the default and expect someone with some technical knowledge to secure it, with the blessings of management who takes security seriously. In many organizations they have either one of these, or none of these. In people's homes, they have none of these.

No one would care about IoT wrenches if they forced some app-based auth with mfa. We only care because we can trivially exploit them.

Companies like Bosch shipping these things insecure by default is the real problem. Near everything embedded does snmp 'public' with write options and very few devices force strong passwords or passwordless or force mfa. The embedded space is a mess and where computers were pre-2000.

This it the classic "we invented cars before seatbelts and don't want to spend money on safety anyways," scenario.

Regulation here is badly needed. The market won't fix this itself. Bosch isn't really hurt by this stuff. They can just blame operators, the same way Boeing blames pilots or airlines when their Max's crash or fall apart in the sky. This is a classic perverse incentive of capitalism at play here and now that politics has moved towards idealizing a low-regulatory environment, we're only going to see more awful scenarios like this.
The metrics they really care about are growth and retention. Viewership is only an imperfect proxy for those. Conceivably millions of people turn on a highly hyped program but end up hating it, don't recommend it, and cancel their subs. So it really does matter if people aren't happy with the content they consume.
It's true that low density handicaps us in some ways, but

1. That's an entirely intentional choice. A big country means you'll inevitably have lots of space between cities, not within them. Our metro areas are low density due to zoning regulations that we intentionally chose. Most residential areas in the US, building densely is literally illegal.

2. You could still have decent biking in many suburban and urban areas even with current density levels. Just takes protected bike lanes and intersections (and the occasional off street trail) but we don't do that. Instead you get painted bike lanes in the door zone as drivers buzz you two feet away. Of course hardly anybody bikes in those circumstances, they don't have a death wish.

In my native bay area, I'd see painted, unprotected bike lanes on goddamn expressways where cars are going 50+ mph, it's completely insane! Who the hell thought this was a good idea?? That's how dumb and bad bike infrastructure commonly is in the US, it's one step away from Futurama-style suicide booths.
The only millenials who can afford to successfully pursue influential roles in content production are those with inherited wealth, which is a very small few. Talent is simply not very helpful these days, compared with class signifiers like which art school one attended. As a result, people capble of recognizing talent are punished for doing so. Such an equation will always produce bad, decadent art.
Too bad Kagi is also investing in LLMs.
Last year I went through a loop and a couple of the questions I got and mentioned to friends who are SWE's at Google thought they were too hard for an interview, especially after checking their proposed solutions in the internal problem bank.

So it's definitely still happening.

No I didn't get the job because they were too hard for me to even get a brute force solution.
Just because you don't like it does not make it "social infrastructure."

The world runs on WhatsApp and billions use Facebook to keep in touch with their family and friends. Instagram is also a huge part of the social component of the internet.

The bigger problem here is that the EU offers no pathway to companies offering free-to-use, expensive-to-run services online.

If GDPR was interpreted as the EU would like it, everything from WhatsApp to Maps to YouTube would switch to paid-only.

A horde of startups would take up the banner, and as soon as they ran out of VC money, they too would need to switch to paid-only business models in order to adhere to GDPR.

The EU does not understand how to run a successful tech industry.

Edit: Non-targeted ads do not lead to break even. This law will simply lock most poor people out of the internet.
> If it's so infamous, do you care to point to something explaining what is wrong with it?

See my own comment that I linked there. Duh. See also their own implicit admission that the graph has problems: https://www.epi.org/blog/nothing-misleading-about-this-typic...
Do only the initial votes count? Because after I made an initial choice I was then put in a session where I saw the name of both of the AI. I made subsequent votes in that session where I could see their names.
Out of curiosity, why will people buy "your" book when they can generate their own?
Not by any stretch of the imagination. A highly volatile asset isn't suitable for storing value reliably. This is because the chances of you having to liquidate your position at a loss are very high.
It's more than just a library, there are "starters" that they've developed that will pull in everything you need for certain stuff (such as web, or database, etc), and it will auto-find and configure everything for you.

Furthermore, you can hand configure Spring. If anything, the framework here is the Java servlet container, not Spring. Spring just usually lives within that context.

And at this point I'm not sure if that's completely true either. It's common to embed the servlet container - this is how Spring Boot works. I assume you can do that with raw Spring considering that's what Boot does, but I never bothered trying because I would just use Spring Boot at that point.
> HN does not actually know your password or hide it in comments.

Does it not know? What if I post it in this comment? My password is *****.
> Hey, how did you get my Hacker News password?

Relax, they didn't. Your password is 3 characters longer.
I responded to someone who claimed that it broke by itself after 6 months. Lock files prevent this.
> “Betriebsrat" sounds German to me, so possibly Germany?

I am in Germany and I never heard of any union for Devs, not even large firms having any specific ones for Devs. My colleagues frequently discuss about unionizing but there are huge pay disparity hence most often it is hard to get everyone on board sadly.

Most unions are intended for craftsmen, minijobs, public transports and such. There are some small employers covered by famous IG Metall tariff but that is not the norm. I know that likes of Airbus has some kind of union that covers most of the departments and hence pays insane salary but that is something I heard from friends of people who work there, so I can’t assure accuracy.

There might be unions but that is not the norm except some dinosaurs.
Well I feel like that would be ok if
1) they told you this
2) it actually gave you those relevant results

It does make troubleshooting officially impossible, can't tell people its the 3rd link on this specific query in google.
Love this! I once had a go* and failed.. this is really a step forward.

I think there's an important general principle about the role/capabilities of the external driver/operator that's party addressed here in the blog and video. You can see in the video a somewhat complicated manipulation to step the computer through one cycle and the author says:

"Because there is this feedback loop between memory and control logic, you need a fairly careful timing mechanism so that the output of the control holds steady long enough to set the appropriate state of the memory. That said, this control mechanism is basically missing from my computer. Instead, it relies on the operator (me) performing several different motions in the correct order to advance to the next state (as you can see in the video with me flipping several controls)."

This is importance bc it has to do with the thermodynamics of work. The more intelligent the operator, the less work efficient (less intelligent, so to speak) the computer need be. I'm impressed with the level of efficiency here.. his hand motions are rote and not particularly delicate.

The mechanism I had tried was to push a lego "program" (a flat block with protrusions) thru an "interpreter" (a chute with friction gears to drive a system of switches actuated by the program block's protrusions). This meant the driver was just a "push" of the program, which drove the system. Much nicer in theory, but also way harder and so didn't work. I also didn't have an interpreter of any sort. I had a few-bit display driven by the levers, so it was really just an analog machine.

Anyways, if anyone's playing with this, that's a suggestion for one area to focus.. to simplify the role of the operator to the point where there's no intelligence being used.. ideally just linear or rotational force.

* I was once into Quines and thought I was hot stuff after writing a self-printing program that also played the Game of Life[sg]. At work we had a table of legos, and I foolishly bet some colleagues I could build a self-printing program running on a lego machine. But the the computer is no simple feat itself. I'm now freshly inspired. I'd been exposed to the idea of a latch in school, but wasn't clear until now how important it is for state and control of the interpreter. [sg] https://github.com/pablo-mayrgundter/freality/tree/master/fu...
I mean, who thought it was a good idea that "fifty" and "fifteen" should sound so similar?
Well "huge liabilities"... until recently I haven't seen anything resembling something a company wouldn't just say "pay the fine and do it anyway, it'll be better for our bottom line".
> Point I am making is those using Visual Studio (before Visual Studio Code) would criticise me for using Emacs.. a text editor. They mocked me because "IDEs are better"

Maybe you failed to explain it, probably, or configure the IDE-features of Emacs? I mean, that's the point of VS Code and Emacs and others like them. They can have IDE-features, without being an IDE. And those features can have value it used well, elevating these apps above your normal plain text editor.

> I was talking about vi/vim.. not neovim.

There is no significant difference between them, and no reason to distinguish between them when talking about users and their preferences. One can move mostly freely between them with little to no hindrance.
They would know that it was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. Discuss.
I don’t agree with you here. OpenAI should be free to train on your data assuming you agreed to that in the terms of service (and yes, you did). If they ask for a little more money in exchange for not having that valuable information in trade, that seems fair.

If you want an entirely free and open LLM experience, you can also run one of the ever-improving open source models on your own hardware. But for many if not most companies, paying $25/mo per user for something as amazing as ChatGPT-4 is a bargain.
This is probably not good material for HN.

But I'll use the opportunity to note that I was surprised to learn that banning dictionaries was not an act of malicious compliance by librarians trying to make a point of the absurdity.

This is an act of intentional and spiritual compliance with a law which they agree with.

Things are even worse than I thought.
Here’s an idea - ChatGPT app for Apple Carplay. Right now while driving i often do “hey siri” - but instead of carrying on a conversation where I can ask clarifying questions, I am most greeted with “i cannot show you this information while driving”, because rather than summarizing the answer, Siri tries to show me some website link.
This is the principle behind GAN aka Generative Adversarial Networks. By pitting a generating model against a detection model, you can iterate your content until it is indistinguishable from human generated content.

It’s my prediction that a ChatGPG supercharged with a GAN is going to be the most valuable iteration of text generation technology. Granted, it will still likely be off a little but it’s going to get harder and harder to tell the difference.
Ah. Yeah it's those BBS's I've heard of that sound kind of cool. I'm sure they mostly sucked, but the idea sounds cool.