skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of educational institutions and public libraries used it here in Britain. I think it was good at squeezing a few years of extra life out of the hopelessly underpowered machines that they bought, but I rather think removing the myriad copies of Java Updater and the McAfee Virus* would have been more effective.

* Officially called the McAfee Antivirus, but I've never understood why
Try having a generic username on there where everybody @s you as a shorthand for the real person's username and you end up getting notified. Or added to random repos and removed minutes later, but still getting the notification. :)
- roomy (depending on the train model, the modern accessible ones are huge)
- quiet
- private
- free
- includes a private bathroom!
Ask HN: How to Hire a PPC Expert
I've got a good amount of experience hiring developers, but my approach there relies on the fact that I and our team have good skills in that realm. We're thinking about hiring someone to run our PPC (and possibly other marketing, but focusing on PPC advertising) in house, instead of continuing to work with an external firm. But how would you recommend fining someone good, when "experts" in that field are everywhere, but true expertise seems rare, and I'm not confident in my own ability to tell the difference?
I find that kind of "feature" frustrating as well, but I'm pretty certain that the reason it's there is that otherwise they get a constant deluge of support requests from people who forgot they turned it off.
Yeah, I don’t think the people trying to build, say, quantum computers are doing so out of some perception of benefit to their immediate well-being.
Money from subscriptions can go to Spotify or artists. If money is going to Spotify for profit or services, that is their cut. That is the amount of money taken from artists to provide the service of Spotify.

Any money in cost of revenue not going to artists for the purposes of running infra/maintenance, etc. is part of Spotify's cut. Therefore 26% is a lower bound and spotify may be taking more than 26% of the total money earned by subscriptions. We can assume that all gross profit did not go to artists, which means gross profit is the lower bound of Spotify's cut.

I think you are asking what percent of profit do artists get, while I am asking what percent of income do artists get.

I think when comparing this to the Apple App store. Apple is taking a 30% cut of income, not a 30% cut of profits, so asking what cut of income spotify is taking is appropriate.
My signing RSUs have all vested and were not renewed, and my salary increase hasn’t matched inflation. I’m pretty sure I can end up effectively better paid by moving this year.
Lowering the recruitment bar was tried during the Vietnam War - it didn't end well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_100%2C000
The opposite hasn't really worked out in Detroit, and I don't think it worked particularly well for Boeing either, but I still think organizing R&D under one human is a huge part of the problem. Too much 'efficiency' in research and effectiveness drops to zero. Lack of urgency or excessive urgency (read: burnout) will lead to team after team running out of fucks to give, and one day someone will look up and see nothing has been accomplished with the last several millions of dollars.

I believe having different people running 'competing' groups that report to the board instead of a tall narrow org chart with clear choke points may not fix the problem entirely, but it would slow down the cycle. Worst case you disband one of the orgs and create a new group to replace it, run by someone from one of the more efficient divisions, or new blood from outside.
Chip design software GUIs are known to be unintuitive and unfriendly. I'm using them daily and it's in the way all the time. So I don't know what changed after these but I'm not seeing it as a user.

Oh, also, when will we get version control support? It's 2023 an no chip design SW has this.
Love it!

What if you just ask chatgpt directly?

Josh started with 50, ended with 20. Jane started with 100, ended with 130.

although i could see it being helpful to keep track of stages like when people start buying in and calculating at the end.

chatgpt might deal with state well in the context but not 100% reliable.

but maybe?
If your religion requires you to kill people, start with yourself.
We know for a fact that genetics has a large influence on intelligence.

We know for a fact that genetics has a large influence on personality.

.

We know for a fact that (at scale*) intelligence is the single largest influence on success.

IIRC, we're pretty sure that (at scale*) personality is the second largest influence on success.

I.e., if you measure all the possible things that might influence success and run a principal component analysis, intelligence is the first component and personality the second.

* Nepotism and such exist, but extreme cases are actually not that common.

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It should not be controversial to acknowledge both part A and part B at the same time.
My background: i have been vaccinated 3 times, but still caught Covid on May24, 2023. I’ve spent the following 8 months recovering.

I’ve been dealing with extreme fatigue, brain fog, headaches, migraines, dizziness, shaking, and more. It feels like I’ve had a concussion for 8 months.

But at no point did I have any issues with my lungs, heart, or anything below my neck.

Medically the condition is called PASC. Post SARS-Covid 19 sequelae. Sequelae is the key term. It is a term for “injury after an infection”. “Long Covid” isn’t a diagnosis, it is just the common name people are using.

And Long Covid SUCKS.
autoGPT thanks you for this lucid writeup
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Depends on how much respect you have for each other, and how honest you can be expectations-wise on both sides.
I used to keep those disposable bus ticket back in 2007 hoping to find a used for it. After a year I didn't find a use for it.
That's right. If you login to to GitHub even days after the spam is removed, you will see the bell icon with a notification about a since cleaned up thread in your feed.
That’s how it gets described sometimes, but it’s about as accurate a description as “US white men prioritize hiring white men over any other demographic unless they are actively discouraged from doing so”.
Ask HN: How to never reinvent the wheel in software ever again?
I keep reading (and feeling it myself) that in software always reinventing the wheel when it comes to software.

Of course, a lot of it is due to opinionated (design) decisions. Or profit. But if we all had to agree on things that are solved & done and not to be touched again and would at most create a few small personal frictions (as there are either way), but which we can live with so that we really only build new software, Frameworks etc. for new things.
Let's imagine the existence of our planet depended on it.

What would the stack be? What composition of languages, processes & tools that would work "for everyone"?
Or if there was a set of rules that everyone had to adhere to, in which it says what is not to be reinvented, what do you think would be included?

It's only theoretical, of course, but I'm interested to see if there are even a few common denominators to identify on HN and what these are to people here.
Can I use the same copy and paste keys as I use on Mac and Windows? Without .... dread ... configuring Linux.
Following up on this I think some primary differences were in management style. He tends to be more top down then I prefer and definitely more top down then when I’ve been an EM. That being said having a pre-existing relationship with him kept me around instead of bouncing after 6 months or so. There was a sense of trust that I wouldn’t have with a stranger.
Exactly what I want from DuckDB. Was playing with using it as a quicker cache for a data app backed in Snowflake, wonder how hard it’d be to write the attach for that vs doing it at the client level
> Would probably be way too expensive

Using OpenAI GPT-4, sure. On the other hand, running a small, fine-tuned LLM shouldn't be that resource intensive.

It may not be any better than the current generation of spam detection, but it will not require rule updates, at least not that frequently.
> are still a proxy for potentially useful skills.

This is tautological. It's a good measure because it's a good (proxy) measure. This is not a truism, stated this way.

> In other words, some of the enemies might have had comparable academic qualifications had they grown up in the US.

Maybe they would have all been geniuses. This is a wild guess about what intelligence/behavior results in superior combat troops, on average.
Is this was caused the epidemic of fragging [1] too?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragging
It’s the chicken or the egg kind of problem. I think it’s easier to become friends with a boss. Less easy for a friend to become your boss.
Just gonna float this out there... Maybe the US is better without so many people in the military. Do we really need to be everywhere? And I'm not saying let's walk away from conflict zones. I'm saying there's not that much of an need to patrol the north Atlantic, or defend Japan or keep troops in other places which were only relevant in 1948.
Are cereals, tubers and legumes upstream of algae? They are "pretty much everything* as far as food security is concerned, they constitute 90% of calories consumed by humanity; the three main species - rice, maize, and wheat - currently form 2/3 and in case of a catastrophe probably could cover nearly 100%.
I'm not certain that the research on forgetting curves has nailed down the timelines well.
I know the Supermemo creator thinks his algorithm is best,
but I suspect there's a lot of wiggle room and individual differences.
Who besides Ebbinghaus has published rigorously on it?
I have a customer, a company, they specialized on porting my Sciter on old and exotic platforms to create new modern looking software for them. Win95, old Unixes still getting new soft developed for them.

Another company, behemoth, I would say, with 30000 stuff, using Sciter to make frontend for their old mainframe based system (COBOL I think). Mainframe sends 80x24 terminal screens where the frontend gets fields by x/y coordinates to show it in modern HTML/CSS UI.

You may notice a lot of crazy things in dusty corners of IT.
I was in the navy as an officer. It’s a toxic cesspool, probably worse after 15 years now. The whole military needs some changes but the navy needs to change more. Senior officers need to give more respect to the enlisted and junior officers. Junior officers have to be trained as midshipmen (not the rank but the job) first so they can learn how to have good relationships with subordinates that know more than them. Junior officers need to realize they’re useless for a year or two and senior officers need to realize the same, so there’s less pressure to perform and more room to learn. Mentorship is dead in the navy, now it’s just yelling and bullying.
It’s also nice for solving small things like ‘euclidian distance’
And a new generation learns the term, "overtraining".

<hits the snooze button>

Someone wake me up in fifteen years when the next batch of students repeat history.
Is this rhetorical? Authorial essentialism.

This would be the belief that the text/words are imbued with a metaphysical attribute while the text is created that depends on the properties of the author.

This is sort of the same umbrella belief that underpins the "words in the Bible are written by God" conclusion that some people have.

I'm guessing that you and I both aren't authorial essentialists, but as for a way people could believe this, it's not a stretch of the imagination.
If you are super-rich, you can just live at your tax-haven and vacation in the UK. You aren't stuck in one place forever.
Sounds like the same problem! I'm working at a large org, was involved in setting up lots of repos, therefore I end up getting pinged on so many of them that I'm no longer directly working on or directly interested in.

There's also not a bulk method anywhere (that I can find) in Github that can deal with unsubscribing or changing settings on many repos at the same time.
So on RAM that needed 18,000 distance-1 accesses, they were able to mount an effective attack with 300,000 distance-2 accesses and 5000 distance-1 accesses.

That's not a particularly big assist, and doesn't sound hard to mitigate.

If TRR pushed the rows it refreshes 10% closer to triggering their own TRR, then those 300,000 accesses would have triggered multiple refreshes in the target row.
Sell a man a fish, and you'll eat for a day.
Lease a man a fish and you'll eat for the rest of your life.

Or something like that.
It could also be programmed during production. Clearly the LED manufacturer has the equipment to do wire bonding, so why not use the occasion to program it too?

It'd be a bit comparable to the test and assembly process of the WS2812B, see [0] @ 2:30 or 6:10.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMjhJ9kcaU4
Three US troops killed in drone attack in Jordan, more than 30 injured
American culture is, indeed, a mix of culture. It exists only thanks to external influences.
Black culture is at the heart of American culture (jazz, soul, and more music), great athletes in the best team...
True. But if you pay attention to how well the AI does, you have a decent chance of finding out!
Kind... of. Both won by having enormously higher stakes and will to fight. Plus a ton of foreign aid. And neighboring friendly or at least too-disorganized-to-resist countries the US was reluctant (but not always wholly unwilling) to engage.

Both got badly stomped on a sheer damage-and-casualties-inflicted front, but didn't give up and had relatively safe space to retreat into and carry on logistics through (and foreign aid) that kept them from being counted out no matter how many times we punched them. But they were getting punched a lot, and hard, and weren't landing a ton of blows in return.

If one expects to be on the historical US side of an encounter like that, it's not clear to me that shifting to less-educated troops is going to help. The current approach kicks absolute ass—from a sheer military perspective. Especially against non-modern militaries (and there are very few fully modern ones—the training and equipment requirements to field a modern army are immense, expensive, and require a level of delegation of power that many kinds of states can't securely achieve). Uneducated farmers may have won those fights (while doing a hell of a lot of dying, and delivering rather poor damage in return) but I don't think it follows that the US military would be well-served by poorly-educated soldiers.
When I think of reducing the population I think simply of making birth control universally free and public information campaigns about the environmental cost of more humans. Nothing more than that, and that'd honestly be a huge step in a country where large swaths support abstinence-only sex education.
So far I haven't encountered any ipv6-only services. It may happen some day, then again there might be some bridge to v4 anyway.
> Without the lock button you could hit the "close door" button and leave the toilet while it is closing, and then no-one would be able to enter to unlock it.

According to the article, you can do that anyway.

“you can close the door, then hold the lever just beyond the point at which the locking pin could engage with it, but not to the point where it reads as “locked”. Then you can open the door, but the locking pin projects into thin air; thus the lever is free and can be moved to the locked position. The door close button remains active and you can then close the door. I confirmed that the door will then immediately lock as soon as the door is closed. Since I could do this and then jump out before the door closes, this is effectively a toilet DoS vulnerability on a train.”
You can add test as requirement and pick top contestants, and you will have recruits who know American history, values, constitution etc better than Americans.
Right now, for me, it’s fancy Auto Complete at best.

I get a Free subscription to it by using my kids EDU email accounts. Which is handy :)

But I absolutely would not pay for it.

I recall the last time I tried using the chat feature to do something, the code it produced wasn’t very useful and it referenced chapters from a book for further information.

It was clearly just regurgitating code from a book on the subject, and that just feels wrong to me.

At least give credit to the Authors and reference the book so I can go read the suggested chapters LOL
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No, I was a nuke coming into the navy, the hardest to recruit supposedly, and I was treated perhaps worse for it, but definitely no better. Boot camp is the same for all.
From the article:

> The decision follows a move in December 2022 to bring in a larger number of recruits who score very low on the Armed Services Qualification Test.

It sounds like they really are just scraping the bottom of the barrel. The Navy is not a competitive employer right now given the ops tempo, living in close quarters on a ship, and poor compensation. Even for those who are inclined to join the military, why pick the Navy over the Air Force?
I joined a friend's business as an employee and worked for him for years. I think for the most part that went ok but the fact that we're not friends any more probably tells you something. At some point I felt like I was being taken advantage of, left, and that sort of ruined the friendship. We weren't particularly close friends to start with and we were still on talking terms when our work relationship ended.

I also repeated my mistake (sort of) by investing in a friend's small business. When the business wasn't successful and we didn't see eye to eye on the path forward that totally killed our friendship.
If there are patterns that are good, idiomatic, and mostly repeatable, we should be putting those into the standard library, not an AI tool.

What we have right now is a system to collect information about the sorts of problems developers want existing code to solve for them. We should embrace it.
Wow I remember my grandmother telling me about 8” floppies. Literally, my actual grandmother. Amazing that they were still in use up to 2019.
You could have a cs degree working in cyber security and they still make you do the same bootcamp. If you get in through college programs you do the same playing soldier in the woods at your local base once a month thing too. If you join the marines the hazing/bs you put up with is certainly worse both in bootcamp and in terms of the routine monthly drill.
What is the purpose of free speech? It allows for the undisturbed transmission of ideas, criticism of the government, and engagement with politics and political leaders. Widely distributing fake porn using somebody's likeness without their permission is absolutely not providing any sort of social good and is damn far from the key forms of speech that are important for a healthy social system.

This isn't a backdoor to attack your constitutional rights. Not even close.
how were you informed that it was your fault?
Just realized you're commenting about the teacher. From the WP article:

: “The parents at the school didn’t understand how that could be possible,” Zaleski said. “They insisted they didn’t want their kids taught by her anymore.”

There's not much you can do if your clients insist on no longer working with you.

It's also only a matter of time, if it hasn't been done yet, that a teacher and student will be targeted with deepfake porn that looks real. Even if it is eventually discovered to be fake, you're still dealing with a massively disruptive experience with mandatory leave during the investigation.
I’m starting to lean in the direction that trading some boiletplate for flexibility is a good deal.
That depends entirely on the cost of maintaining the old solution
Gosh! And i thought 'The Far Side' ended all the mystery?
One of the things to come out of discovery in the Damore lawsuit was Google's head of HR declaring a moratorium on hiring white males. Technically a Civil Rights Act violation, but more commonly practiced and tolerated on the downlow than one might suppose absent insider information like what came out of discovery in the Damore lawsuit.
> fMRI

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/ignobe...

> “If you’re in a highly resourced environment, with many rewards available, your brain gets tuned in a certain way. If you’re in an environment in which rewards are more scarce, then your brain accommodates the environment in which you live. Instead of being overresponsive to rewards, it seems like these brains, on average, are less responsive, because probably their environment has been less consistent in the availability of rewards,” says John Gabrieli, the Grover Hermann Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences, and a member of MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research.

So, "Kids aren't as excited about getting things they're not familiar with."?

>"Here you got a thing"

A>>"um cool I guess"

B>>"oh nice I know something I can do with that!"

that ^^ sort of scenario?
While I agree with you in spirit, the United State’s hegemony relies on its ability to project power across the globe.

It’s just been getting really expensive to do it the way we’ve been doing it.
The way we produce anything natural is not natural. You're right. That doesn't make it not natural.
achileas mentioned the oral appliance. It's apparently somewhat common, but I didn't know about it for the longest time either.

For surgery, it really depends on your body and what the cause of the apneas are. In my case, it is _probably_ due to tonsils + a long(?) palette. An ENT told me I could have surgery to remove the tonsils and also shave down the palette, but I didn't go through with it because it sounded like a terrible recovery time and didn't have any guarantee it would actually fix the issue.

If you haven't already, it might be worth talking to an ENT (Ear Nose Throat) specialist that also deals with sleep apnea. The oral appliance definitely sounds like the less painful option though.
Which era's programmers favored code simplicity over the UX? I find this hard to believe.
Very much agree. One of my best sailors was an E-3 Seaman who was dropped from electronic tech training for a DUI and became an undesignated seaman, the worst job you can get in the navy. He was better at certain things than the chief who’s been doing them for years but wasn’t the sharpest tool (he was awesome, I feel bad saying it). I ended up recommending he be reintroduced to the electronic tech program but he loved being in the deck division and ended up becoming a boatswains mate. I bet he was the best damn BM ever too.
What you said gave me an idea of how to really make AI useful at work! :-)

Every quarter HR requires that we write our "perspective" for the next quarter; what we are going to do and how we are going to improve ourselves. It's purely bureaucratic exercise, has no meaning and no impact on anything anybody does, but on an off-chance somebody reads it I cannot just fill it with nonsense. Writing something resembling sensible, in a stilted language required, always makes me struggle much more than writing code or something with meaning.

Strange that I haven't though about using an LLM or this before; seems like a perfect job for it.
Because there are no enemies with access to the north Atlantic or the Sea of Japan.
The flight deck of the Airbus A380 widebody airliner must be the most comfortable and ergonomic in existence, with a full laptop-style QWERTY keyboard for each pilot and two additional mini QWERTY keyboards on the center pedestal. There have also been no fatal accidents on the type; maybe the well-designed cockpit has something to do with that.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Airbus_A...