skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was my thought too, ofc. it's not a popular idea these days that genetics and heredity might have some bearing on success, but it does seem worthwhile looking into..

Anecdote time, I identified the reward-seeking behaviour in my peers in early childhood and didn't understand it, I felt they were acting like dogs, being overtly manipulated to do what the grownups wanted, and I felt disgusted with the idea. (I was not an easy child, but then again, I grew up to be a rather disagreeable adult)

I come from a fairly normal lower middle-class family, but was consistently rewarded, except my response to praise and reward was mostly negative, and to some degree still is. I'm pretty sure my father was the same way, he'd do stuff for their own sake and his own sake, not because someone rewarded him for it.
Unsurprisingly, taking into account how much potential I've been told I have, I'm a relatively low achiever, I'm simply not attracted to reward or winning very much, except maybe winning for its own sake, which just seems dumb.
I strongly prefer Safari and their plugin offerings (especially uBlock Origin).
> The real work is of course to understand what it is that you are really trying to solve with applying assumptions about correctness.

In how far do you think LLMs stand in the way of that?

My experience has been very much the opposite: Instead of holding the hard part of the process up by digging through messy apis or libraries, LLMs (at least, in their current form but I suspect that this will theoretically simply remain true) make it painfully obvious when my thinking about a task of any significance is not sound.

To get anywhere with a LLM, you need to write. To write, you have to think.

Very often I find the most beneficial part of the LLM-coding-process is a blended chat backlog that I can refer back to, consisting of me carefully phrasing what it is that I want to do, being poked by a LLM, and me through this process finding gaps and clarifying my thoughts at the same time.

I find this tremendously useful, specially when shaping the app early, to keep track of what I thought needed to be done and then later being able to reconsider if that is actually still the case.
The Atari 400 would be connected to a separate CRT monitor.
That doesn't sound like Foundation to me. Are you sure it was from that series?
100% relevant here, and I appreciate you sharing it again. I'm inspired to try this with my 9 year old.
6 months for an artist with Riot on their resume? I can't imagine that not at least opening doors for them.
Our current understanding it that you can only travel forward in time. Could you explain how to do it backward?
Is that an Expanse reference or does the word mean something else in biology?
I am 46 and I don't hear it, not even when I am sitting right next to it. But others who I've show the computer to have noticed the noise as well, so I know it's there. I'm actually kinda happy about not hearing it myself :D
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortt%E2%80%93Synchronome_clo...

> The Shortt was the first clock to be a more accurate timekeeper than the Earth itself; it was used in 1926 to detect tiny seasonal changes in the Earth's rotation rate. Shortt clocks achieved accuracy of around a second per year

If my math is right, thats about 30ppb
That makes more sense. As for why, just look at the responses to my other comment saying that opioids aren’t generally warranted for weeks after a dental extraction.
Yes and third party app stores are happening.

What's more likely to happen, is that those big apps will simply start to split into two apps. The basic one will remain at feature parity on both stores. Then app mfg will then make a new "Super" or "2.0" app that they'll launch only on the third party store. That'll probably satisfy Apple.

Stores choose what and what not to sell all the time. It's no more anticompetitive than LHVM stores choosing not to sell canned soup or Mercedes choosing to not sell Ford.
Interesting timing with the recent news of Putin and the sale of Alaska.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/4423913-state-dept-...
Navy again lowers requirements as it struggles to meet recruitment goals
I was genuinely curious to find some games I may not have tried. Thanks for the suggestions!
Congrats, now you know the whole "it's an anti democratic scam" is a thought terminating cliche that doesn't reflect reality.
One of the main ideas explained in this video is that the very early universe (i.e. the universe “right after the Big Bang” in cosmic timescales) might have been habitable for a short period of time. During this time window, the right temperature to support life wouldn’t have been restricted to the proximity of stars, but would have instead taken place absolutely everywhere in space due to the intrinsic temperature of the universe itself.

https://sites.google.com/view/sources-big-bang-life/

https://youtu.be/JOiGEI9pQBs?si=kOHM_l0saPkEhWcX
An administrator is updating drivers?

So maybe not a developer job at all, updating means installing not coding? And the Windows 3.11 on the train has not decent networking or remote maintenance system it needs to be done manually somehow?

But then it's a remote position.

Doesn't seem to make sense to me. But running something as unreliable as Windows 3.11 in a production environment does not seem to make sense anyway.

Some say recertification of a new system would be too expensive. But if this system is certified, I'd say it's a certification theater not worth the paper it is printed on.
I asked if you had watched the video because you didn't raise any specific objections to the evidence provided. I'm not going to restate everything said in the video, but if there's something specific you disagreed with, we could talk about it in more detail.

I assume that by "slow burn," you mean to say that climate change takes place on a time scale that goes beyond just one or two decades. If that's true, then how can we possibly judge the accuracy of the newer "hot" models except by looking at how well they predict past climate data? And by that metric, some of them do just as well as the older, less "hot" models that we've been basing climate policy on for decades. Is there some other metric you're using to dismiss the new models? I hope it's clear why I think you're contradicting yourself, but maybe you have some other way of telling whether a climate model is accurate.

I think there is some validity to what you say about risk assessment, and I have the general feeling that there is some real hysteria among younger generations w.r.t. climate change. There may be more pressing issues, but again, if it is the case that we can expect to see much hotter temperatures than previously predicted, then everyone, regardless of wealth or location, should be concerned for their own wellbeing in the near future.
Although Babel was removed during the final vote count, here is what the interim vote count looked like. It looks like it would not even be on the short list.

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25245686/h...
that probably cost around a cent per die

I believe it's more like a tenth or hundredth of that, if you're talking about USD.
A text editor is not an IDE.
Keeping with the video game theme - the Wii version of Okami used a watermarked version of their own box art.

https://www.destructoid.com/oopsies-ign-watermark-on-the-cov...
Maybe but Netflix has an incredibly low churn rate. I think it was under 3%. While the other services are like 6-8%. I’d think people will keep Netflix as the default and rotating through others as a secondary content source.
It's relative, but having to dig into your 401k isn't an attractive alternative, one I'd only consider in truly dire straits. You are capped in how much you can put in a year so it's not like a savings account you can aggressively make up for after getting hired.

I'd much rather resort to temp work than dig deeply into my future if I had a choice.

If I could help it I'd rather invest in
Is this functionally like a desktop/graphic OpenWRT?

Wouldn't it be better to pile on OpenWRT?
Good Point.

Even animals "self-trancend" for their family/herd. it is instinctual.

Most Humans "self-trancend" for their tribe/nation. it is emotional (+ instinctual).

But it is not really "self-transcendence" as posited here: universal and mindful (to not say "intellectual").
https://archive.is/Gc8ba
AI's Achilles Heel: New Research Pinpoints Fundamental Weaknesses
Laptops have touchscreens too.
TLDR: Take an automated vehicle reading a road sign as an example. If someone has placed a sticker on the sign, this will not distract a human driver. But a machine may easily be put off because the sign is now different from the ones it was trained on.

“We would like algorithms to be stable in the sense, that if the input is changed slightly the output will remain almost the same. Real life involves all kinds of noise which humans are used to ignore, while machines can get confused,” says Professor Amir Yehudayoff, heading the group.

As the first in the world, the group together with researchers from other countries has proven mathematically that apart from simple problems it is not possible to create algorithms for Machine Learning that will always be stable. The scientific article describing the result was approved for publication at one of the leading international conferences on theoretical computer science, Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS).

“If the algorithm only errs under a few very rare circumstances this may well be acceptable. But if it does so under a large collection of circumstances, it is bad news.”

Linked paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03757
That's not at all what section five says in the letter it the spirit of the letters. And disingenuous of you to suggest it.
Using Anki is not a goal in itself. It's just a tool to help you cram facts into your brain. Once you have done that, you can and should build associations and knowledge on top of them. Reviews ensure that less-often used facts are not forgotten. Anki is fine for that.

But creating Anki cards is effectively a form of review as well. If you automate that, then you miss out on going through your own notes, engaging with the subject, and subdividing it into self-contained pieces, which is required to come up with good cards.
Well good news, because Google stripped out the super lightweight default Dialer and original Messages app in the AOSP codebase, probably as a way to steer vendors into Google Messages!

And then from there, they dangled the RCS stick, then Jibe, and now look at the enshittifcation we have today :)
I use a Fairphone 4 with e/OS on it. I am quite happy with it.
A useful way to think of this kind of thing is to hoist the assertions into the caller, where they can be optimized out.

There's a lot of poorly-explored room in compiler design to take generalized invariants/preconditions/postconditions into consideration (explicit ones are useful for opaque functions defined in a different TU), not just things considered "types" (the problem with types is that they have different lifetime/allocation concerns than assertions).
Yeah, like this dude: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/753745532619665408
https://archive.is/YKW2G
Great. Can we all just Mencia this Chad Kultgen dude and be done with it?
American websites don't typically have customers dialing in from North Korea. Just saying that IP blocking is something more businesses should consider. Traffic can also be routed to different subdomains for businesses that need to provide a subset of services to a region.
That's marketing for you - now with Genuine People Personalities™.
I've enjoyed Lewis's books, but I also noticed this about his unfaltering defense of Aleynikov. In one passage that stuck out to me, Lewis argued that Aleynikov was not guilty of taking anything important as Aleynikov claimed not to have taken any code related to specific strategies, only that code related to infrastructure, which arguably is the most important code that he could have taken. In other passages, Lewis used Aleynikov's defense, that he not only wanted to contribute to open source efforts, but that some of the Goldman Sachs code used open source code, so it should have been okay to take, as if high frequency trading infrastructure code was just floating around in the open source world in the early 2010s.

It wasn't the only issue with the book. Lewis also didn't seem to understand the dynamics of national best bid and offer, and that if a large market order was submitted, it will not be executed at the original nbbo necessarily because of nefarious activity, but because there are not enough bids or offers at the original nbbo to execute the buy or sell for every order at the original nbbo. So much of the book hinges on a misunderstanding of this idea. There is also no discussion of the fact that spreads and liquidity used to be worse prior to electronic market makers. Instead there's this idea that market makers are competing with institutional investors submitting large orders, when really, they are competing with other market markers/liquidity providers, such as how Goldman Sachs e-trading(where Aleynikov left) would have been competing with Teza Technologies (where Aleynikov was invited to). I think that either Brad Katsuyama, who seems to have fed much of the electronic trading related information to Lewis, was misled himself or was possibly intentionally misleading Lewis.
If you're referring to EMPRESS, I still don't know if they are just being edgy or truly insane.
Agreed

We should be suggesting self hosted and decentralized solutions to website hosting and file hosting.

On that note, does anyone have any secure methods of providing serving a file from your computer to anyone with a phone/computer that doesn't require them downloading/installing something new? Just a password or something? Magic-wormhole almost seems great, but it requires the client to install wormhole (on a computer, not phone), and then type specific commands along with the password.

Is there a simple `iroh serve myfile.file` from server and then client goes to https://some.domain.iroh/a086c07f862bbe839c928fce8749 and types in a password/ticket you give them?

That would be wonderful.
Curious about one of the technical details, I'm only asking to learn more about the limits of the RPi:

couldn't this all be done only with the Raspberry Pi, using all those GPIO pins that it has? Feels like it is being underutilized and the project ought to be simplified to a single board (a single mains connection needed would be a very nice consequence too)
You find your next job and after that you move. Yes, it's tough, but the whole RTO debacle allowed corpos to show their true colors.
> They should institute a voluntary conscripted amnesty/asylum for those who entered into the country and are on immigration parole.

There are ways to do this. The French Foreign Legion is perhaps the most time tested, but the requirements it has also mean that the model is incompatible with US Democrat party ideology:

* Only male recruits.

* Criminal history check, including with Interpol

* Identity must be verificiable with official documents from country of origin

* Health screening including dental, psychological, and fitness. No waivers for anything.

The initial contract is for 5 years. If you make it and re-enlist for an additional contract (usually a couple of years), you can now apply for French citizenship.

See: https://foreignlegion.info/joining/#Requirements
DRY is mostly bad. You couple a lot of things together by making them all share the same code and then a small change to that code breaks various unrelated components.
Again, "redundant" assumes that they are of no use to us with what we know now, but makes no promises for the future.

Parenting, for example, is a topic that constantly waxes and wanes with paradigms every few years as the prevailing western model is constantly brought under question. One article mentions Inuit parenting[1], a dying language and culture of no use to 99% of people in their daily lives right now, but whose ways of parenting are insightful enough that they could impact future parenting techniques in the western world.

1: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/03/13/6855333...
What makes you think that employers are not looking to replace everyone right now? It would make sense to me if there are 100x replacement queue, presumably desperate to accept lower pay, right now. All the more reasons to make a move if you can.
Backflip – Using machine learning to make a 3D avatar do a backflip [video]
Seems like a small step up from the ubiquitous WS2812, an LED with an onboard controller handling PWM and one-wire communication.

Years ago, before animated LED christmas lights were readily available, I hand-made such a string out of ATtiny85 controllers, soldered onto bicolor red/green LEDs, one controller per light. A little bit of C and an evolving animation algorithm recycled from a previous project yielded a pleasing quasi-rhythmic effect. It was absurdly non-economical, but felt like a glimpse of the future.
It’s my understanding that fungi eat dead organic matter. So what did these fungi eat and was it included in the “Mars-like” environment?
> This is sometimes called security by obscurity and people correctly say you should not rely on it, but as an additional layer it's very useful.

Anyone who thinks “security by obscurity” is useless should try reverse engineering some properly obfuscated executables (or even code). Obscurity is absolutely useful; definitely not a complete solution by itself, but a very useful component to a security solution.
> The second one is an observation about the rate at which the different genomes on Earth have changed over evolutionary history. When extrapolated back into the past, this evolution rate of genomes suggests that the current lineage of life on Earth might be at least 10 billion years old,

I wonder to what extent the scientists who study these evolutionary clocks are able to factor in increasingly (or decreasingly) capable DNA replication and repair mechanisms. More faithful DNA replication and repair would artificially show a slower rate of genome evolution.
>But running something as unreliable as Windows 3.11 in a production environment does not seem to make sense anyway.

They used and still use MS-DOS, Windows 3.11, Windows 95, and Windows NT for different systems over the years in the older trains starting from 1989 to estimated 2030.
Last time I read up on this topic, there were numerous issues that made mass production of vat meat just plain unable to compete with animal meat. Has that really changed?
Not sure about the effect on big corps. There are many variables to consider. In any case, the suit is very young and non-precedential at this point. How it will ultimately turn out is extremely speculative.

GPL is more challenging in general in embedded and thus much of IoT.
I wonder then how possible it is that some of the spores got settled in Mars and we have already contaminated Mars with Earth fungi.
red and green should not be used like that. A significant fraction of the population, especially males, has difficulty telling them apart.

That's why mains wiring no longer uses red to mean live and green to mean ground.
Video description:

> In 2019, I gave backflipping a shot, but it didn't go well. Fear and a broken toe killed my confidence, and I gave up. To get past this, I made an avatar. The training of the avatar was based on the methods from the research paper "Deep Mimic," enabling it to learn to do backflips using machine learning, mimicking human moves, and learning from mistakes without the risk of getting hurt. This journey, full of wonder and discomfort due to A.I.’s potential, took three years to capture, resulting in the above documentary. The film delves into themes like ambition, facing fear, balancing control and uncertainty, aiming for excellence, grappling with the inevitability of technological advancements, accepting failure, and learning to let go.
I'm not a younger developer but I also speak snidely about SOLID and DRY. I also care a lot about code quality.
> We further find that the percentage of 'added code' and 'copy/pasted code' is increasing in proportion to 'updated,' 'deleted,' and 'moved 'code. In this regard, AI-generated code resembles an itinerant contributor, prone to violate the DRY-ness [don't repeat yourself] of the repos visited.

Couldn’t this equally be explained by the cost of refactoring becoming incredibly cheap? If most of your code is generated, and you don’t have to make the investment of hand crafting everything, aren’t you naturally going to be regularly replacing vast tracts? Obviously the trend may have implications, but in large part aren’t we just seeing the impact of code cheapening? Serious question.
Yes it is. Most likely also in the other part, although link I included doesn't mention any of that. The key appears to be: A large repo with lots of uploaders, some of which guard their passwords poorly.

As long as a FLOSS repo is small and has few uploaders, it'll be safe. Hardly a model for a big and busy repo like the app store, of couse.
Good answer, sorry for pushing the rules, thanks for elucidating me for the second and hopefully last time.

This might be a funny time to ask, but do you guys need mod help? The best way to learn something is to teach it, they say...
> chatgpt came up with a generic response, everyone said "perfect", copy-paste that into Jira and call it a day

I don't think I can believe this story as told...
There's a great set of research coming from Alexis Cartwright Taylor's lab showing that it's quite possible that large fractions of fracture mechanics information is not transmitted acoustically. For example grain boundary rotations and change the stress field without releasing acoustic energy as they are typically elastic. This would indicate that even the very idea of what seismology has been the last 60 years, acoustic detection of earthquakes, does not produce enough information for understanding the earthquake process and thus prediction would not be possible using only data from seismometers. Of course, Gutenberg Richter b value people will tell you that's not true. But they seem to be a dying breed.
>>If you can't expend the basic effort, don't expect someone else to bail you out...

Wow - you really went out of your way to ignore that basic statement I made (and I stand by). No one expects juniors to come in with perfect knowledge (wouldn't that make them a senior/god? :-P) but they do expect them to do the basics. Why does that seem to sound so unreasonable to you?

>>legacy code with random landmines that would take weeks to understand from scratch

I also specifically mentioned something like this would be something I don't expect juniors to know and would have no problems helping a junior dev. with (it takes more then 10 minutes to explain...) Also, if a junior dev is getting a project like that either the Team Lead or the 'resident expert' will probably go out of their way up front to point out the 'landmines'.

Seniors know the organizations don't have perfect training. We got bit by it when we were juniors, we saw what all the juniors before had problems with ... we understand that (and often try to help with some stuff when you walk in the door eg "oh - the company directory is out of date, here's a list of updated names and phone numbers for people" or "Neteng doesn't use jira anymore, they use XXX - ask Mr. Foo to give you access")

By the same token, seniors can tell when you haven't "expended the basic effort" on something and thats when it gets annoying. If the answer to something is "search your email for 'onboarding' - all your logins are in that", we're gonna wonder why you didn't read it to begin with.

P.S. if the situations you describe above are what you consider 'bleak', you're probably not gonna have much fun in tech as it sounds pretty average to me. Especially Directors/Mgmt changing project scopes/priorities/etc on a whim - that probably happens daily :-P (Also, it probably accounts for 50%+ of the issues with on-boarding docs and 'landmines')

Enjoy the Weekend