skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We'll see if it survives, since there's a large magma intrusion occurring just about under it. The recent eruption there (east of the plant) fortunately flowed away, and they've built a berm to deflect nearer eruptions, but an eruption directly under the plant, inside the berm, would destroy it.
I didn't say:

> You can always find a reason to rationalize why you're not doing what you say you want to be doing.

I did say:

> People can always find a reason to rationalize why they’re not doing what they say they want to be doing.

That statement is true.
The recruiter who reached out to me, two months ago, said as a disclaimer -- there is a possibility that even if I get an offer the joining might happen only in 8-12 months. Felt bizarre.
Maybe internet archive API?

https://archive.org/developers/md-read.html
Damn I remember the days when we had lanyrd for conferences in tech, and the old meetup for..meetups, feels like so many days ago.

The quality bar dropped sadly.
Hypermedia based web applications are a great fit for developing internal and operational tools. I have been building https://github.com/claceio/clace for making development and deployment easier for such web apps.
> I don't see how it and similar LLM's don't lead to massive replacement of tech workers and creatives.

...ok
This is the UK legal system...They have been torturing Julian Assange in front of everybody for years...
Voting isn't an alternative method, it's a primary signal.
Do they say the “ringggs of power!” line?
I can't really see a relevance between "we should spend more time with trusted people", which is an argument for restricting who can write to our online spaces, and "we should be unindexable and untrainable", which is an argument for restricting who can read our online spaces.

I still hold that moving to proprietary, informational-black-hole platforms like Discord is a bad thing. Sure, use platforms that don't allow guest writing access to keep out spam; but this doesn't mean you should restrict read access. One big example: Lobsters. Or better-curated search engines and indexes.
I am not claiming it was standard, only that it was used. You can hear it in old WWII footage.
Not just regular ball point pens, but with a rather long tip.

You take a modern, generic Bic pen, and the tip is angular. It's a cone shape, ending in the ball point. The Spirograph pens had their ball point at then end of a tube that was about a 1/4" inch long.

I can see if someone pressed really hard, at an angle, how you could bend or break the tip. But it was perfect for Spirograph, because it just went straight in, and was strong enough to drive the gears.

I can see how using modern felt pens may be the modern, common (as in really easy to get off the shelf pens for) solution. But, a felt tip us not a ballpoint and could suffer different issues working with something like a Spirograph (such as splotching).

And stay away from gel pens, what a smeary mess that must be.
I agree, life does not need to have become worse for the narratives reflected in this analysis to have become wise to the complexities of global society.
Actual VB6 code sample from Horizon, taken from a code review document from 1998 that became part of the recent inquiry:

Public Function ReverseSign(d)
If d < 0 Then
d = Abs(d)
Else
d = d - (d * 2)
End If
ReverseSign = d
End Function

Source: https://www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk/evidence/fuj0008...

See page 17 onwards
> Which is why we have air gapped OT networks.

Which is why compromised USB thumb drives are a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
Oh, how does your 3 year old interact with GPT?

BTW. I read once some person made automated generation of bed time stories (with childrens as the main characters) for his children using open AI API and speakers - I was quite amazed (not a thing I would do, but nice usage for gpt).
Because it is Rust, and Rust people have a severe case of the not-invented-here syndrome
* At least 1 capital letter is required

* At least 1 number is required

* At least 1 symbol is required

These days it's probably 'Hunter2024!'
Since you are working in the space maybe you probably know more about this than most of us.

Are there any AI generated books out there that have found an audience and built a fan base?

I don't doubt that it's going to happen but I'm skeptical if we are all that close.

There are some very successful authors out there that many would say are awful, so that's why I asked for books with a fan base rather than good books.
Renewable energy capacity grew at record pace in 2023
Google was powerful because it found those "something interesting" - you'd be searching for details on how to configurate and obligator and the answer would be on an entire forum dedicated to obligators that you didn't even know about - and then you'd spend time there learning and reading. You'd use Google to find interesting places and then you'd colonize them.

Now Google is used for strategic shots - you are interested in one piece of information, you find it, and you quickly retreat to your safe havens.
> We don't have a constitution

We don't have a written constitution. The sum of legal presidents, procedures and conventions is our constitution.
> Ethically, paying for privacy has in my opinion no place in a post-GDPR world (and I do support the GDPR) and it's shameful that several DPAs have tacitly approved of it for local newspapers.

Is that paying for privacy or paying with privacy?
Not too mention it was originally a billion pound project. People need to go to jail!
I've been using Supermomos recently for events, they enforce going to events you sign up for in a gamified way so it works well.
Open Problems in Longevity
> How would you assess them better than current common processes like leetcode interviews?

OP said "just about every other skill that is needed to be a good software engineer", for which leetcode is useless.

Communication skills, organizational skills, hell, even general knowledge isn't covered by leetcode-like interviews.

Personally, speaking as someone who doesn't like but has to interview potential hires, I have found that there is zero overlap between people doing well in leetcode interviews, and hires doing well in their first year.

> If one could do better hiring at the same cost or less, the whole industry would be interested

I think this is a naive perspective. If there is any takeaway from the recent wave of layoffs, it would be that company wide decisions may be driven by factors that have no relation with actual financial performance. Google could have kept all these engineers and still make an absurd profit.

The notion here is that some company, at some point in time, started putting their applicants through these kind of puzzles, and it became trendy.
How to find method definition in Ruby with IRB
The typical use case, as in TFA, is for customizing username and email, so at least commit is already out.
Sadly, I keep Prime for the free shipping, the video was a nice ad-on, so I can only be so upset, but it does reduce value of the membership. I still find it offensive to pay to watch ads, I don't care if that was the cable model for years, we finally got away from it and I don't want to go back, no more than I want to go back to listening to the radio or buying whole albums to consume music.

I'm getting closer to investing in a nicer media center setup and buying/ripping content I own. Especially since, I've gone Gen Z and find most of my evening viewing to be on various YT channels. If I'm going to spend 22 minutes to watch mindless, low production value, mildly amusing drivel, I'd rather it be by an individual content creator than another semi-reality competition show which seems to be most of what's on streaming platforms these days. I'll watch the odd series/show but I find myself getting bored and not finishing them.
Oof... I guess NFLX knows their business better than anybody, but I'm one of those that killed my sub a year back due to this.

It seems there are quite a few of us, but we may be less in number than those who are just looking for any random thing that 'fits' them according to an algorithm, quality be damned.

All this said... what did they pay Will Smith again for that horrible sci-fi schlock? I see it's $20M, and supposedly it was going to be $35M for the aborted sequel.
What do you use alpine for? htmx is not enough?
Do you think compilers made demand for software engineers fall?
I personally don't think it's related to hybrid (or remote or whatever) work.
It's more that the pandemic made it obvious that there are so many jobs and functions in corporations that are simply not needed and don't add any value.

Those people already did not really contribute before, it just wasn't so visible maybe.

And I think this is highly demotivating for the people who do actually contribute.
Lets be honest, the internet has always been full of Dogshit.

Teachers have long warned us about using Wikipedia as a source. Fake news has always existed. Real news has been diluting itself with questionably true clickbait for years. The mass scramble by companies to hastily use AI is just further diluting and tainting the standard information outlets we've used.
We've been daily driving tesla exclusively since 2015.

Too much uncertainty in a new area to rent one when on business travel with strict deadlines.
One was just built between Norway and the UK.
Why does meetup have so bad search when you have an account? It literally does not show events in a town with 30 events per week when you are logged in.

Seriously it feels like some product manager sabotaged the search, since you get better results when not logged in
Hello, I have nearly 10 years of experience dealing with this. Do you need help?

I am sure I could fix it in a few hours - either I fix it within 5 hours or you don't pay anything. My hourly rate is 150 EUR and my email is in my profile.
Earlier: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2024/jan/10/secret...
you'd be amazed at how many startups waste 100s of thousands(and millions) of dollars on buying seats for tools that barely anybody uses. Interest rate increases have made VC startups get a little smarter, but a few years ago it was really bad. Similar to how tons of startups burn huge amounts of money on AWS due to laziness
Indeed. I can't imagine what it's going to be like 10 years from now when the mountain of SaaS offerings start disappearing and there'se zero options to "run it a little longer"
There's a 'Work on Climate' Slack group
> The Silicon Valley company laid off employees in its core engineering division, as well as those working on the Google Assistant, a voice-operated virtual assistant, and in the hardware division that makes the Pixel phone, Fitbit watches and Nest thermostat, three people with knowledge of the cuts said.

Why would this hit core engineering if the company needs to focus on AI ? I'd imagine these people would be ever more valuable
Haneda does have such equipment, but it was not working at the time. This fact was promulgated in a NOTAM in effect at the time.

https://www.businessinsider.com/japan-jet-crash-runway-warni...
That's why accessibility needs to be constantly advocated.

We should never design services only for the needs of the majority. There are lots of people with all kinds of disabilities -mental and physical- that we need to cater for.

That's what makes our society a better, more loving society.
ummm how do i get this? i've got a 5, 3, and 1 year old and would love this
(whistles softly as he changes password from a string of twelve asterisks to ******)
Funny, we used to do the same with random pcs in our lab that people would setup and forget about. We used the Duke Nuken 3D theme song from when the game first loaded.
> The only metric that matters and one streamers keep tight lipped about, is how many people viewed the show.

I believe the new WGA contract is forcing them to release numbers now. NFLX just did a big dump a few weeks ago.
As it's still not fixed, I tried the form there. It let me fill it out and send it in and then told me I needed to create an account, which made it appear that my submission wasn't sent.

I've done enough here but ffs, if that form requires an account to be created beforehand then don't let the submitter go to the trouble of filling it out and then discard it.
> Because we need to track critical bolt rundowns (generically called fasteners) and tool condition.

Unpopular opinion: I'm not convinced we need internet connected wrenches for this. We may want or be excited about, e.g., monitoring torque with internet connected wrenches, but I'm not convinced we need them. This may be a scaling issue, related to being able to make things faster with less experience and oversight. I'm generally skeptical of the unintended consequences of scaling production like that, and it may be giving me a bias. But I stand by the statement that there is no fundamental requirement to make wrenches connect to the internet in order to manufacture sensitive equipment.
M3 Max 128GB RAM inference on LLaMA2 70B is much faster than on Zephyrus G14 64GB with 4090/16GB because one can fit the whole model into the RAM and share it with GPU. For smaller models that can fit into 16GB G14 smokes M3 Max.
> Distribution matters, unless you truly believe in strict trickle down economics.

Nice straw man!

> Most new houses are significantly above the median in cost and size [...]

New houses have almost always been better than existing houses, and have predominately bought by rich people. That's how come the housing stock of 2024 is better and more luxurious than the hovels people used to live in around eg 1800.

When someone build some new luxury homes, a rich person doesn't just magically pop into existence to move in. That rich person used to live somewhere else before, and that other house is now available for someone slightly less rich to move into. There's a whole chain of moves happening.

It's the overall quantity of new housing being build that's important. Even poor people benefit from more housing for rich people. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filtering_(housing)

And I do agree that the US is not building enough for various reasons.

> I'm talking about the US domestically, as were most of your comments. There's still massive per capita consumption differences between the US and most other countries (fuel, food, etc).

Yes, the US is still one of the richer countries. But the gap has started to narrow. And not in the bad way, ie the US falling behind, but in a good way, other people catching up.
It’s only a boost to honest people. Meanwhile grifters and lazies will be able to take advantage. This is why we can’t have nice things. It will lead to things like reduction in remote offerings like remote schooling or work
How about... fast charging a dozen business laptops? A charging station at a conference or a convention or a media event. Other things charge over USB such as cameras and various other sensors. I could see it being used in remote outputs that researchers charge up at, and then head out to the field for the day. That amount of charging isn't really alarming if you spread it out over many wallworts. In this case, hopefully it's more efficient being in one single unit.
Worthy considerations
any sovereign state or multinational needs to deal in dollars. and the USG controls that rail. well.

call me when you can trade and refine oil purely in bitcoin. no one accepting bitcoin to buy things is holding that bitcoin.

I beg every blockchain as money people to please, please obsess over monetary theory first!!
Sounds like https://tranco-list.eu/ might be helpful.
> being ASCII only

Somehow, in the age of TikTok and Discord, ASCII art has survived

<insert amogus ASCII art here>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy
I’ve been trying kinda hard to relax on my spelling, grammar and punctuation. For me it’s not just a habit I learned in childhood, but one that was rather strongly reinforced online as a teenager in the era of grammar nazis.

I see it now as the person respecting their own time.
That was the first thing that came to mind for me as well
Yes but until you run another program the type is just data that gets thrown away. It is effectively just a more syntactically strict comment.
Even many social services provided by governments in the west are not available to you unless you have access to the web.

Sounds like we're headed in the right direction... if you're in the business of selling shovels.
Yes that is specifically how a free-market democracy with freedom of speech and of the press works. Organizations are allowed to have political agendas and take any lawful action to advance them. In what human society that has ever existed does pissing off the wrong powerful people not have consequences? And usually ones much worse than losing ad revenue.
So basically, the recommended solution is “instead of us maintaining DSA support, everybody should maintain their own fork of an old OpenSSH version”?
Next: Make $5,000-$10,000 a week selling AI spam detectors!
Use an older version of OpenSSH then.
Nice!

The opening graphics gives me a bit of bluewave vibes.

Now if HN could implement qwk/rep support :)
3. Bain & Company
4. McKinsey & Company
7. Boston Consulting Group

Are these really best places to work at? I have met many people from these places and I have been told that there is no on-call at these places. Because you are always expected to be working without exception. Always! And often you are actually always working - always as in morning, day, evening, night kinda.

Is that true?
You may not have read enough. It went way beyond law enforcement which would have been fine and legal. People were censored for talking about dangers of vaccines, war with Russia, and whatever the administration, FBI, or other government agencies determined to be malinformation. The impact of this censorship is still being felt to this day. People were misinformed about the vaccine and the war causing the deaths of millions of people. If people understood that Ukraine had no chance of defeating Russia or that the largely untested vaccine was not safe, many people could still be alive today.
Who cares about CNN? Not interested in mental gymnastic of the Trump fans, even 1 day is a day. It's not like he didn't have other instances: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-truth-social-dictato...

Why do Trump fans pretend to care about democracy after Jan 6, just take the mask off. Everyone knows Trump and the cult do not care about democracy ;)
We already have AI generated audio and video. This is a stopgap at best.

Maybe the mods will have to trick the AI by asking it to threaten them or any other kind of “ethical” trap but that will just mean the AI owners abandon ethical controls
> in a storm the power generation will drop by atleast 90% probably

This is incorrect for several reasons first we care about Wind + Solar + Hydro not Solar alone.

8X % reduction in solar over 15 minutes sure, but track full days output and it’s not 90% across the full day. Similarly you rarely see 100% of theoretical output over a full day, so it’s really the delta between expected output and minimum output that matters.

Also, you don’t build exactly as much generation as you would need assuming 100% output every single day. That’s just as true for Nuclear/coal etc as it is Solar / wind. Redundancy has a cost, but it can effectively guarantee a surplus.
And who guarantees such setup would be anymore secure or any better implemented? It would probably use some custom protocol that is much harder to test with as poorly written implementation...
The "it hasn't been done, therefore it can't be done" argument was wrong AGAIN? I'm shocked, shocked.
I don't think your denigrating people is going to help anything.
"Now, potions are traditionally a good way of getting healing in RPGs. Potions were first introduced in..."
The amounts people were prosecuted over supposedly stealing were in the tens of thousands of pounds (some made up the alleged discrepancy by paying back some of their own salary). Not something likely to radically alter the lifestyle of a small business owner (if they had been stealing they'd probably have spent it on cash payments to staff and family, gambling habits and boring stuff like mortgage repayments and savings)

It's crazy auditors didn't spot discrepancies especially with the high base rate of reported frauds and errors, but if finding the receipts for stolen money was the threshold for prosecution any remotely competent thief would be in the clear
If you place arbitrary restrictions upon it then of course it won't fit your model. Dynamo can handle pagination easily by passing in the last seen ID in the request. We used IDs that were lexigraphically sortable by time which has some nice properties such as never losing your position due to extra items being inserted in the middle of your query. Offset/limit aren't fun to work with.

You can go further by using the streams feature to dump your data into an analytical database for your querying needs.
A lot of linux environments include Lynx.

It's a text-based web browser.

It's possible you already have Lynx installed, and it'd give similar results (but is general purpose for any website)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
> Or go back to Ruby on Rails

When you do that, you'll see the point of htmx.
Newsletters don't quality for Show HN https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html The 'past issues' link on the top-right points to the wrong newsletter name I think.
That's ok. It's eating your own dogfood, and also "being there" for people that really need it. Much better than a robotmenu on a phone. :)
Note that they had audit trails of various kinds, but some of the bugs yielded incorrect logs.
But when you initially setup a React project, do you write the code that bootstraps the application? Or do you just run (`pnpm create vite` +) `pnpm run dev` and the application figures out what to load, and starts the application for you?

We can do this all day...
likewise, learning to sail as a kid and having to go around these large partially submerged objects just kicked off some irrational fear in me (and stil does today, though to a lesser degree).
I understand this, but my point is all the major frameworks have their equivalents to Hotwire, which don’t require you to even use JavaScript at all.
It sounds like your devs are not following best practices with regards to lockfiles and version pinning.
Is it a desktop environment in the Gnome or KDE sense? I didn’t see any third party programs in your trailer video so I guess you can only run your built-in “programs,” right? So I would say it is not really a desktop environment… I’m not sure what the technical definition is, but I must have something to do with acting as an environment to draw other programs.

Calling it a fake OS was, IMO, s great choice for avoiding confusion. Maybe something like Concept-OS or Desktop Environment Mockup could be good names if you want to be fancy.

How hard would it be to include a terminal emulator? You’d get a lot of functionality for free, there!
How We Designed and Built Our Free Shared Tier
The answer is AI-based reviewers and moderators.
lend-lease isn’t even lifting a finger to find the hammer. there is more “hammer” droning eastern Africa surreptitiously than direct US force in Ukraine.