skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I haven’t used the WWOOF network itself, I have used other workstay platforms and highly recommend it as an experience, even mid career for a sabbatical or to explore potential career transitions. You will learn new skills, you will meet a lot of people and develop strong relationships with them, and it facilitates traveling both logistically and in the sense that you get to know places more like a resident than a tourist.
This is actually a decent analogy because a person sneaking around the neighborhood trying to open doors should be considered a threat. Nothing good happens when someone like that gets inside.
> what the goals are these days

Maximize shareholder value
What you're describing is just how law works. It's all written in natural language terms that are inherently ambiguous. It's not computer code. Courts decide the boundary cases. Laws around "likeness," in particular are nothing new: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights
I think it’s different for developers. They know that for other people (even for their hierarchy), they are just doing mystical, abstract "work". In my experience, a lot of developers learn to use this to convince themselves and everyone else above them that they HAVE TO do this full refactoring.

imo, this all comes down to the fact that management is still not able to assess the quality (or even the real nature) of developers work. Of course there are managers who are developers but they themselves speak a very different language with the people above them so it’s really easy for them to convince upper management that they (and their team) are doing the good thing.

I’m not blaming anyone here, we are just workers that are a little less abused than the others. But as a developer who is not really fond of tinkering things (at work), I’ve seen things. This industry never stopped to promote developers based on their LoC count regardless of the business efficiency.

In fact I’ve seen people become millionaires because they wrote extremely generic frameworks (akin to netcore, angular or bootstrap but "invented here") which then became the company’s SPOF once they left. Good for them, but I’m still amazed that upper management never realizes when they are paying someone during 4 or 5 full time years because he didn’t like Bootstrap (won’t blame him) and convinced his hierarchy that we needed to develop our own competitor.

Oh and don’t read any jealousy in my comment, the only bitterness I have is against myself, because at the end of the day, if management doesn’t care about the real output, they deserve to be served a $500k brand new css framework.
You can if you do it with an A/B test where you can argue about the percentage of treatment, the duration of the test (is the difference persistent?), and do precise time tracking to log how long the user takes to take an action. That'll bury the actual change in a mountain of configuration, documentation, rollout plans, etc.
The product manager was not involved in the decision to mark it "won't fix". Or more likely, even if the PM did see your bug report, the PM doesn't understand the issue.
Anyone else's GPT spidey senses going off at how the documentation is written?
I think this can be seen as a change to acknowledge the need for context in order to make a robust (and hopefully correct) argument for possible evidence of life (fossil, trace, or otherwise). In all likelihood you're not going to find this uncontestable smoking gun and so you're going to need your robot geologist to collect much more than one sample in one place in order to rule out alternative interpretations. The Viking approach doesn't get you that.
I sold a car to Vroom previously. It was a great experience, with a very easy process. And, I got a very strong price, thousands more than other online dealers. It's a shame to see them out of business.
> No returns allowed because the item was considered "dangerous".

If you have prime, talk to customer support until you get the answer you want to hear. In general, they have been extremely supportive of all the various issues I've run across, but then again, I buy a lot of stuff from there.
The Twins Obsession
Stretch: it is the kind of thing that exposes a bug the PM/dev-team didn't catch themselves. So maybe they are trying to sweep it under the rug haha.
> It reminds me a lot of politics and I'm not sure why we're so resistant to nuance when our whole job is typically composed of nuance.

My theory is the increase in available information is overwhelming everyone's cognitive abilities, and so jumping to reductive conclusions is just a natural defense mechanism, leading to increased polarization and reduced listening/tolerance skills. Certainly software engineers have an above-average tolerance for nuance, but even we have to pick our battles or risk drowning in the flood.
I was in the same position several years ago. It turned out that I needed a change, both the company and the role. I was hesitant to change jobs (I'm not a frequent job hopper), but I decided to do it. It turned out to be the best decision I made. I joined a company that is engineering focused with a great culture. I also left the "architect role" to become a data engineer, and I've been enjoying my role ever since. I don't chase titles anymore; as long as I get compensated well and get to work with a great team, that's all what matters to me. This is not to say that there hasn't been periods of burnout, but I learned to detect them early and take breaks, sometimes to the point of retreating from high profile projects and focusing on maintenance work for a while to rebound.
Eh, yeah, but at the same time, can you jiggle doorknobs from halfway around the world, and is it so overwhelmingly common that within minutes of every door being built, dozens of people come by just to jiggle the knob?

It's just so unbelievably common and so frequently harmless that it's hard to take all that seriously. But you're right, it is a threat, I won't deny that.
Pretty sure that's a C sus4
If there is any life - even just "little" single-cell microbial type life - that is a huge huge huge change for human society.

We'd have actual proof that we are not the only life in the universe (even if just on Mars it may be microbial-like). Actual proof that we are not special or unique.

I view it as like when a small baby/toddler realises that other people exist and that they are not the sole focus of the world's attention - a major development milestone.
I loved the record with "Iphigenia in Brooklyn" (including and especially the Schickele 'Quodlibet' --- need to listen again, I expect to discover new jokes there).

A couple of years ago, I found at a thrift shop a bunch of PDQ Bach recordings that I hadn't heard, and grabbed them.

When I played them, the jokes didn't seem to work the way they did when I was twenty.

I was sad then about that, and sad now. I need to figure out how to recover the delight.
> The way this information is displayed feels very dishonest to me.

There's definitely some weirdness here. For example, the "1M Spotify Streams" pie obfuscates that Spotify's share is 50% by making it look closer to 37%.

> Apple's cut is fine, being able to take that cut directly from your competition offering you a clear and unfair competitive advantage is not.

Spotify has never paid Apple a penny. In 2016, Spotify turned off that feature. Before that, they passed along that cost to customers who subscribed via App Store.

There's zero evidence that Spotify handed Apple a competitive advantage by preventing their customers from subscribing via App Store. As Variety noted in 2019, less than 1% of Spotify subscribers signed up via App Store. https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/apple-spotify-fees-sub...

> Spotify's pie is 28% smaller than Apple's which is suspiciously close to the app store fee.

As the same Variety article notes, Apple's cut of Spotify subscription fees attributable to App Store was only 15%. And again, Spotify just passed this cost directly to their customers who subscribed via App Store, just as X does today.
Indeed. Trying to write code that can essentially work correctly with arbitrary memory corruption is not something that should even be attempted.
If this is your field, it's really not any different from:

Front: Computer noise: top differential diagnosis? How dos this make sense?

Back: Check the fans for dust. Plastic...static electricity...etc

The point is that it's not necessary to review individual facts anymore because the concepts require their utilization, so it's just "common sense" knowledge to physicians.
Of course, the knowledge from one physician to the next can vary greatly.
Can you elaborate? I know there’s hypervisor-detection, but surely any kernel-debugger (kdb + USB debug cable) is enough to work-around anything in Ring 0? Maybe even Rowhammer too?

…which makes me wonder if anything’s running in SME mode instead thesedays.
so its good my card that was auto-paying for the Copilot subscription expired
I know plenty of people who are self-soveriegn.

As an example, I remember a friend of mine started working on cars with his buddy. They finally got to an old vehicle they took all the way apart and put it together. He had gotten to the point where he could pull the engine and put it on a stand, weld things, paint, redo the wiring harness, and more.

I recall one day I went and looked at it and he sort of casually said, "I can do anything".

He wasn't bragging, or deluded. He had just sort of reached somewhere or something and was sort of balanced.
The link is about former CEO and past events.
Show HN: GuessMyName – guess my name text game
Little project I worked over weekend. Each day you have 5 hints to guess famous historical figure.
> AAaaand, Bob is never to disclose anything about this, publicly, ever.

That kind of provision is usually unenforcable if not illegal. (Bob speaking of it would probably risk attracting meritless lawsuit, but frankly meritless lawsuits are a fact of life and us comfortable tech folks ought to be willing to brave them for the sake of society)
Where other languages have footguns, I've often described Ruby as offering footchainsaws, while tempting you to juggle them for fun. Far more damaging if you aim it at the wrong thing, but also far better at cutting down things that stand in your way.

I think it's the most enjoyable language I've used. With care and feeding it's amazing. I would absolutely not want to use it in a large company, that would be a walking nightmare.
The mitigations are usually about limiting the number of times you can access without refreshing. ECC helps in detecting and correcting (obviously) but it doesn't solve the underlying issue that accessing a cell over and over can cause bit flips in neighbors. ECC can be defeated if uncorrectable errors are not fatal or if the attacker can just crash the system over and over. Being able to introduce memory errors is a fundamental and unmitigatable issue that must be resolved by making these errors impossible. This isn't a problem software can solve.
Netflix does. I don't know any other company that is more honest than:

> A dream team is one in which all of your colleagues are extraordinary at what they do and highly effective working together. [...] Dream teams are about performance, [...] Sustained “B” performance, despite an “A” for effort, gets a severance package with respect.

https://jobs.netflix.com/culture
Block the word "nft".
Mexican candles probably aren't any different except they were involved in two fires the previous commenter was familiar with. Some cultures/religions use candles as part of their holiday observances.

https://www.nfpa.org/education-and-research/home-fire-safety...
I'm heavily biased, having been an avid player of the game for ages. It's got a very distinct style, and I can definitely see how it's changed over the years, but I quite like it. The world that's been built in it is a delightfully quirky and fun one, but the writing also delves into some interesting territory both in darkness and in philosophy.

I'm also somewhat biased because one of the most well-fleshed out stories hits a nerve for me in how it confronts the horror of the loss of one's identity, enough that I can't comfortably read it. I say that in an absolutely positive way, much like a horror movie might be so unnerving that I can't bear to watch the whole thing.

It's generally light-hearted, with some dark humor, odd humor and silly humor, and I highly recommend giving it a go. Meet the community! Discover the setting,! Fight your own tongue, an ambulatory pair of pants, your past self, and a Panthzer (50% jungle panther, 50% Panzer tank, don't ask questions)!
I think the first mistake is when companies try to diversify when they haven’t quite nailed their first product or service. Perhaps they are forced by investors because of the valuation or perhaps the founders always had a greater vision.
> "And who is identifiable" is doing some heavy lifting here and could be legally ambiguous.

Sure, that's what a jury and/or judge is for. The defendant has a lot of potential defenses against a civil claim. The criminal portion of the law is tighter:

: “(a) Offense.—Whoever, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, discloses or threatens to disclose an intimate digital depiction—

:: “(1) with the intent to harass, annoy, threaten, alarm, or cause substantial harm to the finances or reputation of the depicted individual; or

:: “(2) with actual knowledge that, or reckless disregard for whether, such disclosure or threatened disclosure will cause physical, emotional, reputational, or economic harm to the depicted individual,

The legal definition of "reckless": https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/reckless_disregard

: reckless action is distinguished from negligent action in that the actor consciously disregards a substantial and unjustified risk, as opposed to merely being unreasonable. For example, in State v. Olson, a 1990 South Dakota Supreme Court decision, the court did not find a tractor driver who turned left at 5-15 mph and hit another car reckless because the prosecution could not prove that he was aware that there was an oncoming car.
> And please don’t reply.

Respectfully, if you don't want discussion, why comment in the first place?

Commenting telling someone not to comment and then ending in telling them not to bother replying is confusing behavior to me for a discussion forum.
Well I suppose it depends on your definition of a country stagnating.

I guess by your definition Indonesia and The Philippines where doing great as Dutch and Spanish colonies as well?

Sure, Singapore was doing great during that time (for the British), but if you look at measures such as % of the population living in extreme poverty, education, housing, healthcare, GDP, slavery, serfdom, etc it must be quite hard to deny that Singapore hasn't stagnated for centuries only to explode (positively) within decades.
Show HN: Predirect- Extension to replace popular sites with privacy front ends
I made this extension to redirect links and embeds to sites like YouTube , Twitter(RIP), Reddit to their privacy frontends. It is inspired by Libredirect but it wasn't published in stores for easy use and required unnecessary permissions. List of supported sites and store links are in GitHub. Thanks for any feedback
The Germans were also disastrously behind with radar, but were way ahead with rocket engines and turbojets. Their faith in Enigma also arguably cost them the war.
> are not allowed to admit/work on them publicly since that might "out" oneself as "not good enough"; we have to become "posers/fakers" if we want to "play the game" and get ahead.

I don't think that is true in the places I've worked at. Whether in interviews or in daily work, people only pretending to know things are not rewarded (unless nobody notices, but that means that nobody in the room is knowledgeable, which is a problem in itself).

People not being transparent about the limits of their knowledge is a big red flag for me in interviews.
It's possible it's supposed to be normative though, obviously people don't run decision theory directly on the output of Solomonoff induction using a pre-programmed or learned utility function, but it's what they should do (but they can't, because it's not even computable). It's the theoretical perfection that all practical systems should attempt to approximate.
I am on the opposite end of most of the other responses.

I *NEVER* start from a clean install of my macOS systems. I fact, I consider this one of macOS's super powers. I love having a heavily customized environment and I just want my system to move with me as I get new hardware.

But let me explain what I mean:

* I use a one of add-ons, custom utilities, many applications.
* I have, VS Code, BBEdit, Brew
* 10 third-party apps controlled by Bartender in my menu bar, .
* have full, nodejs and python development environments.
* have Postrges
* I have much of Office 365 installed
* I could go on ...

When I started using Mac's in the mid-1990's I came from MS-DOS, Windows and OS/2. I was amazed that I could simply do a drag-and-drop file copy of a Mac OS 7 Startup Disk to another disk and boot the system. This also worked by attaching a new computer to your old via SCSI Target Disk Mode. So I could copy my old system to my new system and be up and running in an identical environment in almost no time.

Since then, things have gotten more complicated. You would have to use a tool like SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to copy your system. But it still worked.

More recently, the Apples M-series processor computer mean that you pretty much have to use Migration Assistant. But still you get your whole system migrated. When I moved to an M1 MacBook, I did a deep dive to clean up my system. I found configuration files with creation dates back to 1998

Let that sink in. 1998

I have in some sense been now been using the SAME system for over 25 years. I actually think it would be a few more years, but I think I did a copy operation that reset the creation dates on my files in 1998.

I am not going to say this has always been easy. Sometimes, I have had to use my deep knowledge of the system to keep going. But it has been at least 15 years since I had any significant issues during migration.

I will also say, while my preferred system is macOS, I am a heavy user of Windows, Linux servers and Linux KDE Desktops. I can not imaging keeping a Windows or Linux system running so long.
Woodie Guthrie’s guitar was a machine that kills fascists.
No. I'm just saying don't air private grievances on the world stage. Keep it to a local forum if possible. If not possible, then generalize it for the public forum.
Planting seeds to grow crops is an example of creating value, not speculating. If the crop price remains unchanged, the farmer is fine (generally). Often the risk of price movements over the season are hedged with futures as well.

Speculating would be needing the price to go up to turn a profit or not selling your crop in the hopes that the prices increases in the future.
Passenger flight flying over Pacific reaches 822 MPH in jet stream
This works only because a fairly no-license environment we have in software development and stock market investments.

It won't work in places like Medicine or Army, where human lives are at stake.

There is a progression your have to work through to get to serious places, else bad things can happen to both you and many people around you.
AI-powered proof generator helps debug software
It's a great post in principle but too soon after https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39168986 for reasons described here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

If you want to wait a few months and email hn@ycombinator.com we'll send you a repost invite. Those have the same effect as the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308).
Yes, x86 kernel-mode debuggers support hardware breakpoints that cause the attached debugger (running on a separate machine, of course) to break not just when a specific address/instruction is executed, but also whenever some address is written to (and also possibly read-from too, I think?)
> The promise of a more egalitarian performance management process is a part of the mythos of Big Tech; but it’s also a fascinating study of painting oneself into a corner, unable to walk back.

What other Big Tech cultural policies haven't worked out, but they're stuck with?

And are those mimicked by countless other companies?
This was on the outside

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2017/03/27/aggressive-fungu...
> If it was mostly untrue, they'd be crushed by a competitor who did a better job.

This is incredibly naive. The same logic would say that if project estimates were mostly wrong in a given company then they'd be crushed by a competitor who did a better job. And yet project estimation is notoriously terrible across the whole industry.
Mexican kids knock over the religious candles all the time. One tragic event happened when a friend's house was engulfed in flames after a candle was knocked into the curtains and she suffocated protecting her children from the smoke, I think one child had really bad breathing problems too.
Kinda reminds me of https://kevingoslar.medium.com/build-micro-organizations-not...
We rented the Byte Shop building as an office from 2013-2016.

After the Byte Shop left the space, it became what Steve Jobs affectionately referred to as an "adult bookstore" for the next thirty or so years until we leased it for a massive discount; the landlords had forgotten the history and could not fathom why anyone would want the space given its most recent sordid occupant.

We kept an Apple // in the window and even hosted an open house. Sadly I suspect its days are numbered as nearly all the buildings around it have been redeveloped (including the infamous Frankie, Johnnie and Luigi Too restaurant where Jobs bribed engineers with pineapple pizza).
By that reasoning: why not just outsource the entire UK government to some low income countries while you're at it?

I mean I'm sure Xi or any other president would be happy to govern the UK in exchange for a small fee? Much more cost effective!

I'm sure the Chinese would also be more than happy to build the UK's roads and (government) buildings at a great discount.

You still don't see my point? We're talking essential infrastructure and Geo-politically highly sensitive data.
Users don't need to directly interact with the language model. I think the article's saying that good UX shouldn't rely on the user having a great grasp on language. Engineers can abstract the function of the language model behind better things than a chat interface.
This is the article openly available [1].

[1] https://larrybridwell.com/Maslo.pdf
Reading his sheet music can be almost as much fun as watching him perform. I can remember seeing one piece with a tempo note that read, "Mit Schlag" [1]. I laughed so hard I couldn't see.

[1] For those who don't speak German, this phrase literally means, "with impact" but idiomatically it means "with whipped cream." It's generally used when ordering desert.
Or close the ports, and install an agent that phones out such as Tailscale or twingate.
Small discussion in 2018 as a ShowHN [0] (61 points, 13 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18129474
Neither have you met someone who can move 50% of the probability mass in their world model probability distribution with every bit of information they receive, but that's theoretical perfection. There are things that provably can't be achieved, but are still worth approximating in the best way that you can.