skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Although I suspect that for common peasants, there was no sense of duty or honor in this, it was just a potentially family-destroying event, where men would be rounded up and marched off against their will to die.

The article brings some pretty decent arguments that suggest you are wrong:

> For common soldiers, it was an opportunity to get rich or at least gain some wealth.

> Masses of peasants willingly went to try and liberate the Holy Land – only to get slaughtered because they did not wait for backup by professional soldiers. Later, during the Ottoman Wars, peasants under John Capistrano played a major role in defense of Belgrade.

There was also the whole "children's crusade" episode.
> If you are too rich, then we might as well be paying you Monopoly money

I’ve wondered if this is a significant factor in the industry’s ageism. For the past maybe 15+ years, software engineers who would have had a really solid resume at age 25 often have significant financial flexibility by the time they are in their 40s. Some of them check out of the industry, some of them focus on more cause-like efforts, and the remaining ones might be less dependable for the company in terms of overworking than they used to be back when they were still more financially motivated.
It seems that this is close to the most likely reason. See also:

https://godbolt.org/z/q7e3MrE66
In Europe it is. At least in potential life endangering environments. Maybe not for a web page for the govermenmt in order to apply for trivial documents such as the national ID; but for stuff like Healthcare backends, any self-called Engineer from the US couldn't even join that project without a Bachelor Degree.
> I've read plenty of other people's arguments! And they haven't convinced me, since all the ones I've read have been very hypothetical. But if there are concrete ones, I'd be interested in reading them.

If by "concrete argument" you actually mean, a plausible step by step description of how a smarter than human computer system might disempower humanity, then in my humble opinion you might be making the 'But, how would Magnus beat me?'-mistake which Yud talks about in a couple of places:

https://nitter.net/ESYudkowsky/status/1660399502266871809
https://nitter.net/ESYudkowsky/status/1735047116001792175

OTOH if you want an argument for the possibility of AGI catastrophe, then here is one:

Premise 1: For any goal and quantity of time, if a group of humans can achieve the goal within the time quantity, then there is a possible artificial agent that if actualized can achieve the goal just as quickly.
Premise 2: There is a group of humans that can achieve the goal of killing at least 70% of humans within the next five years.
Conclusion: There is a possible artificial agent that if actualized can achieve the goal of killing at least 70% of humans within the next five years.

But maybe you were actually asking for an argument that AGI catastrophe was likely (rather than just possible). This Twitter thread might have something along those lines:

https://nitter.net/davidchalmers42/status/1647333812584562688
"Who? Who are the 12 people who found this helpful?"
Amusing how to americans apple is the only way to get decent consumer protection. Your government has failed you.
With a few exceptions I think this is an outdated idea. Time off is pretty common.

I had a year off between jobs. Most people didn't bring up the gap or care that I talked to.

Only one person did bring it up, it was a underpaying job and clearly not a fit.

Most people couldn't even read my resume close enough to know I hadn't worked for months.

Ive been meaning to wrote about my time off, maybe I should get to it.
Common Errors in Python and How to Fix Them
We Fine-Tuned LLMs on 8M Patents and Used AI Agents to Search and Write New Ones
This seems like an awfully opinionated article...
Thanks! Haven't heard about it but will definitely check it out!
I like the idea about bounties!:
"Debugging
Your team is getting crazy, losing time and money to get these bugs fixed ! Let the Bountysource community fix it. A bounty, a solution."
Millenial here, my group of friends is probably falling outside of the norm, but there's been a distinct drive away from social media in general. A good half does not have any public social media like Twitter, Instagram etc ("private" being things like whatsapp or telegram). A good quarter has reverted to old Nokia phones and respond to emails within 3 business days.

Sometimes I get a tinge of fomo when thinking about what others do with social media, but when I dwell on it for 5 minutes, I realize I just don't care that much.
Arguably, Conda is a commercial product that exists to serve the needs of Anaconda first and others second. Fortunately Anaconda has been a very benevolent overlord.
Sometimes there's no choice, usually for international purchases. eBay used to also prefer PayPal somehow, idk how it is now. I know that some Etsy sellers are PayPal-only.
I had the opposite conclusion.

This seems like a pretty minimal set of changes to get a 19 year old piece of software running.
Access to white people is basically a human right at this point, so any attempt by whites to prevent non-whites from exercising their human rights is by definition racist
The code here is really well designed. This project can serve as a tutorial on how to build a Postgres extension. Have a look at this:

https://github.com/buzzm/postgresbson/blob/main/pgbson--2.0....

and this:

https://github.com/buzzm/postgresbson/blob/main/pgbson.c

Really nice stuff.
To me, the appeal of Frutiger Aero is more in the proto-solarpunk marketing (skyscrapers surrounded by verdant fields under sunny blue skies, dolphins leaping) than the actual UI. Though hard to hate on the Wii Shop Channel.

Bluecurve from Red Hat is a nice bridge between the '90s and late '00s era, as far as design languages go.
The "metaverse" is dead. On to the nextverse.
From a UX point of view, excluding calls, it's a superb achivements.
It's the opposite for me: Group chats are mostly for banter (i.e. I use them exactly as portrayed in the article); if I need something urgently from somebody there I'll DM them.

At least WhatsApp also allows turning off all notifications for a group chat other than the ones you're directly tagged in; not sure if iMessage supports the same.
> individual users

I think you mean developers?
Otherwise most popular end user OSes are immutable by default these days..
Chrome OS, Android, Steam OS. Honestly it makes sense that we draw a line between platform and applications, and not let application updates/installs break platform.

Imagine your non technical family members install some application that pulls in 100 dependencies one of which breaks the next Ubuntu upgrade..
Indeed, both sentient hunt and destroy (ala Terminator) and resource exhaustion (ala infinite paperclips) are extremely unlikely extinction events due to supply chain realities in physical space. LLMs have developed upon largely textual amalgams, they are orthogonal to physicality and would need arduous human support to bootstrap an imagined AGI predecessor into havig a plausible auto-generative physical industrial capability. The supply chain for current semi-conductor technology is insanely complex. Even if you confabulate (like a current generation LLM I may add) an AGI's instant ability to radically optimize supply chains for its host hardware, there will still be significant human dependency on physical materials. Robotics and machine printing/manufacturing simply are not any where near the level of generality required for physical self-replication. These fears of extinction, undoubtedly born of stark cinematic visualization, are decidedly irrational and are most likely deliberately chosen narratives of control.
Show HN: Hear Black Holes, Comets, and Planets in Audio Form
Hello! Creator here!

I manually collected 12 space sounds from NASA, the European Space Agency, and more and made them into a single shareable page!

The sounds you hear, except for Mars, are data sonifications. Sonification is turning data into sound.

Feel free to share feedback. Thanks!
One time I filled a Mylar balloon with H2 by electrolysis. It floated very nicely but I was too cowardly to keep it in the house. It made a nice fireball when lit outside but no particularly notable explosion.

Encouraged by this I filled one of those grocery store vegetable bags with H2 + O2 from the same electrolysis setup (combine both outputs this time). Stoichiometric mixture! The boom was so loud I thought it was going to break my windows from about 20 feet away.
Sounds like Orchids are the Crabs of the plant word.
eBay owns PayPal

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/ebay-picks-up-paypal... - August 2002
I probably should know but I don't even have the vaguest of ideas. What do consultants actually do?
It's actually easier on Mac and Windows, because it runs Docker inside QEMU and it installs the whole toolchain in a single app bundle. I'd pay good money for a Linux equivalent, setting it all up manually is a pain.
The dumb misleading SEO clickbait title of 'Q' (which has nothing to do with this) aside, this would benefit from a fairer comparison with GPT-4-V, which is capable of doing various kinds of iteration or selection, like this V does: set-of-mark prompting in particular comes to mind https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11441
Aren't the suburbs in the US essentially this, especially for the really decayed cities like Detroit and Baltimore? Many suburbs even have a lot of employment, so the city isn't necessary for that.

Another reason that cities are abandoned historically is that they become too hard to defend. In such cases, the people often relocate to a more defensible location. Similarly, in the US, many cities were abandoned by those who could afford it because of increasing crime, and they retreated to suburbs that were less hospitable to crime.
the irony is that I'd trust Tesla robots way more if Musk was NOT involved
Yeah, CC autofill is nice but fails about 1/4 of the time. It doesn't include the security code either. A few sites will also have finicky inputs, like accepting spaces but rejecting the payment if you use them.

Still, PayPal is an absolute last resort for me.
And if/when that happens and in the interim, end user can install a proper VPN and firewall on their iDevice instead of what we have now.

https://www.michaelhorowitz.com/VPNs.on.iOS.are.scam.php
So. I have a background in biophysics which is the part of biology where most physics folks go. It's highly quantitative, but still it struggles with the "assume a spherical cow" mental model of many physics and engineering folks. And the biology folks are stuck in a guild mentality (protecting their field by limiting the number of entrants) and very artisanal and resist increased quantitative methods.

Over time I've mentally recategorized entire parts of medical science into what I would say is non-science, or at least, a very different approach to science. In particular, nutrition, and many other areas, take extremely limited amounts of data and extrapolate it, making conclusions that far exceed what the data actually supports. And the folks publishing it got really good at convincing the larger press/medical world that they knew what they were talking about, which has led to all sorts of trends.

I would love to see more translation of quantitative physics into the medical sciences, but it's truly a challenging problem, especially because we (for good reasons) don't run the sorts of trials that would provide truly convincing evidence for causal mechanims related to disease, or whatever area of biology you care about.
Yeah, tc/netem/tbf is amazing. I built a simple Python GUI over the top of it and ran it on a Pi in a touchscreen case - just a little black box with "Drop packets: [0%] [1%] [10%] [50%] / Corrupt packets: ..." etc. Clients were very impressed.

I'm actually quite surprised that a similar frontend doesn't seem to exist as a commercial hardware product, unless we missed one in our search.
I’ve been looking for this specific website for almost 2+ months after vaguely remembering it. I figured I’d just hope to run across it while sifting through hackernews. Thanks so much lol
I really enjoyed this year's and last year's cppfront talk by Herb Sutter.

I used cppfront in Advent of Code this year and it was a (buggy and unpolished) blast.
> a software bug in the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter. It seems that the computer systems had problems flying West across the International Date Line.

Does it have a database of timezones and their borders, why would it care what time it is "locally"/they're in? But if it crashes when it goes from -179°59'59" (179°59'59" degrees West) to 179°59'59" East it'd be sort of understandable...

Maybe some programmer botch-coded a speed indicator or a plot of the flight using the lat/longs...
Hatch seems to be the preferred tool by PyPA, probably because it's more standards-compliant and it claims standards-compliance as a design goal.
My issue is that I've heard the cheap housing line for over a decade at this point, but other areas of the country are growing much faster despite having higher housing prices. I lived in Michigan for 7 years and was fed the whole "This is the year of Detroits resurgence" line the whole time I lived there. Now, I'm not going to say that Detroit hasn't improved a lot, but the way people talked about Detroit, you'd think that it was due for Austin levels of growth for at least a decade.
WhatsApp did it at least as early (not sure when exactly they introduced group chats), and is much more widely used.
Also: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dodecahedrons-roman-em...
WhatsApp said it cost 99 cents, but I don’t recall ever being charged for it. I distinctly remember installing it on my parents’ phones with a credit card number in the App Store that had no credit, and it always worked fine.
Not sure. that's the one thing that horrifies me about OLED laptops. The taskbar always being there = recipe for burn in..
Just make sure and get him into a competitive preschool since I'm sure recruiters will be looking at that by the time he's applying for a job.
My thoughts too.

When I was little my brothers and I played a lot together with Lego.

Now we’re all over 40 and occasionally play on a heavily modded Minecraft server to scratch that itch.

In many ways it’s so much more practical, essentially unlimited building materials with no real cost, no issue with physical space in the house, we can do it casually in the evenings while doing voice calls on Discord, no unpacking or packing up needed before or after.

There are even great rail cart mods for those interested in track switching type activities.

We make a point of doing in person LANs about every quarter, also for old times sake.
MMS pre-dates iMessage, but even today MMS does not support persistent multi-party group chats. You can create a group MMS, but it's stateless; you can't change the membership in any way without creating a new entry in your chat list; this naturally fractures the community (people using old group chats instead of the one with the current membership, etc.)

The specific implementation details do matter; and I think that this fundamental weakness of MMS has created the space for WhatsApp, iMessage, etc to thrive.
Everyone that wants to know more about this owes it to themselves to watch this strong towns video

It's a grim situation that doesn't even require decline, just the end of growth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI3kkk2JdoI
I'm not usually the one that first sees resumes. It is true I have the luxury of seeing pre-screened candidates. I don't know what the filter criteria are but I've seen candidates with worse things than employment gaps. I mostly put that down to the recruiter or whoever is screening the resumes not totally understanding the position that we're trying to fill.

I get filtering candidates with just a resume is not any easy thing to do and no matter how you decided to do it, some tough calls have to be made. But now I'm wondering who we may have missed out on considering because of some health issue, family issue or just decided to do something else for a year.
It's not just the space although you either have to belong to a club of some sort or have a house with a fair bit of extra room. But stamp and coin collecting is pretty much out of fashion as well.
Grift is nothing new, it's existed throughout human history. See for example Herman Melville, "The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade" (1857), which is a catalogue of various kinds of grift common in that era.

If anything has changed much recently, it's that grifters have taken control of the entire system of government and economic activity - they're no longer just a pack of con artists preying on riverboat travellers, but have infiltrated all the branches of government and business and academia in the USA.

Today's most successful grifters are not isolated criminals like SBF, but rather the leading politicians and media talking heads and government bureaucrats and corporate executives who sit at the top of the American Empire - it's a nice example of the systemic institutional corruption seen at the ends of previous Empires, from the Roman to the Byzantine to the French, British and Soviet collapses, and appears to be heading towards the same conclusion.
I've had two in the past 5 years. One with inverted colors and noise on the image from Logitech and another one from a Predator notebook that could very well be a cabling issue. These days I consider cameras disposable.
Ahh, Utah, the state that is so pro-business that it is not coincidentally the nation's capital for MLMs, has the worst regulation of healthcare facilities in the country (studies have shown that Utah's "inspections" found statistically improbably low numbers of violations, many coming at a cost to the state's elderly), oh, and the single leading state, by a large margin, for conversion therapy for minors, with no regulatory oversight.
I've tried WhatsApp and all kinds of other modern IM software. To be honest I still haven't found anything I liked better than ICQ (before it got enshittified).

One thing I wish more apps offered is per-contact visibility.
You could easily build something that could repeatedly call the tc command and feed it different levels of impairment. Doing so to simulate weather is a great idea. If you had a wave-rider buoy measuring wave height every half-second or so, you could even simulate the impairment of an RF connection over water due to waves.
> Why do I need to activate mandatory 2FA in services like GitHub repositories for hobby projects?

Same reason Microsoft forces Windows updates so aggressively - because if some kind of security breach makes the news, even if it's clearly due to poor user choices (poor password choices and/or security; repeatedly opting out of critical security updates), it's always the vendor/service provider that looks bad.
Probably a mix of users of varying English ability adding bits and pieces to the same article. Some using machine translation, some not.
' As a consultant, this should make my expertise even more valuable. '

Consultant logic at its finest.
Hollywood Age Gap: The age difference in years between movie love interests
This right here. Here's hoping for an economic crash that corrects this kind of stuff.
Does that rule-of-thumb assume specific units/value ranges for the input and output signals?
Thanks for sharing. I don't know if the C++ standard mandates one behavior or another, it really depends on how you want clamp to behave if the value is NaN. std::clamp returns NaN, while the reverse order returns the min value.
There was an interesting segment on the Accidental Tech Podcast [1] recently about microwaves, I did not realise that there were effectively only a couple of actual microwave units on the market and everything else is brand wrapping around it.

I replaced my need for a toaster recently with a Breville Joule oven, and am quite impressed, I'd definitely buy one of their microwaves if I ever needed one.

[1]: https://atp.fm/560
Bore (Burst-Oriented Response Enhancer) CPU Scheduler
> MMS allowed messaging multiple people from phones before 2008.

In the same way that email allows "group chat", i.e. in a painful unergonomic way that nobody would subject themselves to if it's at all avoidable.

It's also incredibly expensive in many places and has never really caught on outside the US.
To be clear, equally or less burdensome for whom?
Apple hardware can auto-fill 2FA codes if the codes are set up in the Passwords tool on iOS/iPadOS/macOS, which are synchronized through iCloud.
Yes and no. Confinity had a prototype of PayPal when they merged. It was built and functional. They'd bought the domain, registered all the trademarks.
That wasn't the issue for the brige, but from centuries old idiotic people founding villages near a river or stray with names like "Villar del rio" (village of -by- the river). At least that's the case of Spain. Then floods happened really often, and everyone ranted on the supposed bad materials.
Haha, this is really cool. And if I'm honest, very often it'll be a blog post like this that will solve some other issue I'm encountering. Thank you!
The Big Problem with the Giant Stanley Cup
Israel Has Bought a Mass Online Influence System for Gaza War
We have millions of people talking about this case today. I find it absurd to argue that it isn't interesting enough to be worth the time.
For packaging you need more than that. Poetry and Hatch both wrap or replace a bunch of small modular components: Pip, Venv, Build, Twine, Setuptools, Pip Compile (fo lockfiles), and a task runner like Tox, Nox, or Invoke. You can (and people do) use that "stack" instead of Poetry or Hatch, if you prefer a more Unix-style approach of modularity and composability among several single-purpose tools.
Bill. Sometimes hourly, sometimes by project.

They wake up every morning hell bent on maintaining existing customer accounts, growing existing accounts, and sometimes adding a new account. They maintain a professional demeanor, with just the right kind of smalltalk. Finally, they produce a report that justifies whatever was the decision that the CEO already made before he engaged the consultants

Thats pretty much the whole job
Thanks, you raise interesting points, maybe it depends on the product in question? But as you say, collection known pain points is always useful.
This is really a hit or miss project, sure will be glad if it amounts to something, but I would drag myself in the gravel if this doesn't lead anywhere.
Bore (Burst-Oriented Response Enhancer) Scheduler Modification Demo [video]
There was a website where you entered little snippets of code IIRC to adjust how a cube moves with friction and then the examples move on to a car moving up a ramp. It was a very sneaky and intuitive way to learn about PID controllers.

I think that was posted here on HN but I can't find the link...
People will always seek out communities they can trust. The web and social media were once interesting but have become phony, conformist and cliché due to aggressive cynicism, commercialization & censorship. Group chats (for now) are places where authentic conversation still exists. Group chats can still discuss creative and unique solutions with less risk to one’s reputation.

Soon AI will infiltrate the group chat and the conversation will move elsewhere. People will have a private conversation at any cost.
Tell management who to fire and who to outsource
It seems I made some confusions, you were actually right. Apologies...
I think this is the best explanation. I myself spent enormous time on Factorio "model trains" and it was even better because my train decisions were always motivated by an external requirement in the game. Model trains by themselves feel a little more sterile in comparison because they're disconnected from the rest of the world.
Custom Linux Kernel Patches for CachyOS
Modular is how they’ve been doing it forever, just that a single module is roughly a 6 foot long table (my uncle did this, not me, so I don’t know the exact dimensions)