skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bonobos might be intelligent, but they haven't yet been on the moon as far as i know. You kind of need a bit more intelligence to pull this one off.
ML/LLMs are nuanced and complex topics as they are the inner workings of automation. People using ML/LLM to get around having to write code already understood well enough isn’t a complex nuanced topic because it is the outer workings of automation and has been studied in other fields quite extensively. No one should be surprised at the trend of lazier development from wide adoption of automation tools.
>Wow, you very accurately explained my life, except i'm on call even more than that.

I'm sorry, it has to be one of my least favorite things about this career. Nothing worse than getting calls off-hours when it's only you. Feeling marooned is never a good thing. I am currently hoping my phone doesn't buzz today! Hope it's quiet for your sake!!! I don't deal in anything lifesaving or absolutely critical, but it sure does feel like it while you're on call.

>And I think somehow you understated the security patching.

Oh yes I do. 8+ critical CVEs on one microservice, you upgrade the libraries/dependencies with the CVEs just to find the new version has 2 other CVEs. Worse yet, you upgrade the dependency and it breaks other functionality (generally from internal dependencies that haven't been upgraded since they were created, LOL). To make matters worse, all of this is inherited and often we had nothing to do with the initial development. I get it, they need to be fixed so there aren't other bigger problems, but it's death by 1000 paper cuts.

>What drives me crazy is I'm always behind, and when my manager asks me to do something, I'm always having to argue for higher priority things that are beyond obvious.

I just wish they would give focus/time to preventing on-call/customer issues so we could all be more rested/fresh/prepared to handle all the changes in priority! Make things so we don't have to spend large amounts of time fixing them. Actually evaluate failure scenarios and address them. Being extremely intentional with our time as a team. I am currently dealing with EOY reviews and displaying my value so I don't have to potentially move for RTO (I despise being in an office and was so incredibly happy to find remote work). 6 years of working remote and suddenly it's a problem from leadership?! I struggle to find the energy to argue lately. Again, it's not even software development related! Weird times.
No it is not "super accurate" it's a dramatic fictionalization designed to get you emotionally hooked into the book and convey the author's message.

It's indistinguishable from propaganda.
Great footage
I feel like any research into this would be purely hypothetical? How would you even test that?
As a non iOS user, I always get thrown by the horizontal slider toggles. I can never tell by looking at one if it is on or off. And sometimes on touch screens I try to slide them sideways and it doesn't work.
If the last decade of web protocol development seems backwards to you after reading one benchmark then why immediately assume it's insane and deserves a warning label instead of asking why your understanding doesn't match your expectations?

The benchmark meant to compare how resource efficient the new backend for curl is by using localhost connectivity. By using localhost connectivity any real world network considerations (such as throughput discovery, loss, latency, jitter, or buffering) are sidestepped to allow a direct measurement of how fast the backend alone is. You can't then assume those numbers have a meaningful direct extrapolation to the actual performance of the web because you don't know how the additional things the newer protocols do impact performance once you add a real network. Ingoring that, you still have to consider the notes like "Also, the HTTP/1.1 numbers are a bit unfair since they do run 50 TCP connections against the server." before making claims about HTTP2 being more than half as slow as HTTP1.1.
Most major heart surgery leads to some personality changes. And that's mainly caused by hundreds (thousands??) of micro-clots that lodge in the brain. Modern heart-lung machines are pretty good but still damage blood cells far too much.

I had a triple bypass. I, myself, can't notice anything different but my wife says that there were definite minor personality changes due to the surgery.
> Do those actually work very well?

No idea, but I'd expect them to work in big cities at least. In any case, here in Northern Europe the state recommends having an AM radio with batteries for emergency preparations (although I seriously doubt how many citizens fulfill the recommendation).
Thanks for these. I should have clarified, I'm more interested in something that will alert me when newly-discovered vulnerabilities surface. The systems I maintain are protected [enough] today but a new hack could drop that doesn't make mainstream media and I may not hear about it. We have annual security audits but it would be nice to patch things immediately. Aside from subscribing to a security forum/discord/slack, I'm wondering what other methods folks are employing to solve this.
Job listing says remote though I’m not sure if they mean other countries as well.
Volcanic eruptions are predictable
I never said anything about “convicting” anyone, I was simply describing the reality on the ground (insofar as I understand it)
You are skeptical that a condition named after the pathogen itself cannot be attributed to long term sequelae?

There are so many studies that help answer all the questions you have on this topic. Peer reviewed and from reputable journals. LitCovid is very helpful here.
One car has 4,500 cells - bigger cells than most of the vapes. So it really is a matter of scale.
This piques my interest because when I first started noticing these symptoms that's actually the first thing I thought of. I'm in my mid 30s and I've heard that's around when T starts to drop off. Probably worth mentioning this to my doctor eh?
For me after daily use for 6 months or so I just had a realization that it’s a net negative. I was always tired, cranky, forgetful, and the highs weren’t that high - more like maintaining some rather low level of life satisfaction. If you use it a lot there is probably some root cause why you think you need to get fucked up all the time.

What helped me quit was really seeing it for what it is - it was making a few hedonistic experiences “richer” but kind of draining the color out of all the experiences outside of that. I never had any negative effects while high - like anxiety so it seemed harmless. For practical tips think of something to do for the first few days at least when you’d normally toke up if youre just bored at home. Out with friends, walking, playing a new game, hobbies, etc
Source? Looks like it's in Erlangen, a German city.
IDK. A lot of these systems are stuck not just because of complex business logic. That would be tedious to rewrite, definitely take longer than a weekend, but AI systems are actually a great use-case for helping in refactors. I think a bigger issue can be custom drivers / embedded technologies that require specific protocols / assumptions about servers. And those embedded areas may sit in hundreds of trains + train stations -- not impossible to update, but definitely more challenging to verify upgrades 100x times instead of one time. And the consequences of something bad can be train collisions = death. So it's easy to see how an organization leadership committee may decide "if it ain't broke don't fix it" because of risk with no real upside aside from a marginally lower salary cost of one maintainer -- if that.
Yeah, it's unfortunate as it took years for governments/municipalities/orgs etc. to start posting stuff to Twitter and embracing that modern "information pipeline" (as opposed to, at best, a rarely-updated website). Now it's taking years for them to adopt or figure out a self-hosted/self-owned alternative.
Astronomically low. (I'll see myself out.)
I'm not sure why you feel the need to double-quote that. At any rate, the book seems to cover UK law, and in fact is published at Oxford?
At what point in history did the FBI first begin to require aptitude tests to become an agent?
So is "simple".
Does anyone know of any similar works that instead focus on a common law background (US/UK/others) vs civil law (EU/most of the world), that I am understanding this book focuses on?

This is a topic I am very interested in, but since I am from the US I would prefer to start with law as practiced here.

Edit: only skimmed and it seems this book may be both EU and UK focused. Seems to be funded by the EU European Research Council but published by Oxford?
> Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

Comprehend your own business processes and rewrite legacy code?
You are correct that star positions are proxies. The problem in the case of psychometrics is that the claim is that the stars (here: genes) arent proxies, but bonafide causes.

So in the case of astrological analysis we would, if we wished to change population personalities change, say where people were born -- in the case of psychometrics we're told that we have no control over the causes whatsoever (genes).

In the vast vast majority of observational genetic studies genes are just proxies, in the the same way the star signs are. In other cases, they're mere correlations.

In the case of IQ (and basically all social genetic studies) it is highly likely that any correlated genes are merely proxies for geographic-historical distributions of peoples over time and it was the long-time-scale geographic and historical effects (culture, education, wealth, famine, poverty, war...) that we see in attainment.

(Setting aside that IQ tests aren't valid above average IQ and have extremely bad properties both at the individual and population level for most of the measured range. )
I'm looking to sell my side project (macOS App)
I'm looking to sell my side project, a macOS App:
https://apps.apple.com/app/bittherapy/id1575542220

Assets, rights, source, all of it.
Is there any platform for that?
Then perhaps his books belong in the fiction section?
>It’s a remote job offering so it must be networked somehow.

Why do you assume that? The Siemens SIBAS 32 system can be used at home, and an old PC system with Windows 3.11 should be the smallest problem to use at home. The question is, if that's enough to simulate an environment similar to the train.
Does anyone know of a good chrome extension for AI page summarization? I tried a bunch of the top Google search hits, they work fine but are really bloated with superfluous features.
TL;DR: Costa Rica has no threatening armies around it, so they don't need one.

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/2ycu1f/c...

There's also a bit about Panama being chill (possibly because of all the business generated by the canal), and Nicaragua basically held in place by international law.
We know WINE is janky enough to be unlikely, "certification" is hand-waving in the general direction of "thankfully, there's opportunities for people outside an impulsive individual contributor to step in front of that"
> Life is constantly being shed from the upper atmosphere into space right now. As we travel through space we leave a plume of life behind us.

Can you point to any source for that? I've never heard of such a thing and can't find anything from a quick online search supporting that idea. Everything I read is that gravity will pull back any bacteria that get to the outer edges of the atmosphere, which makes sense because they'd need to have some force stronger than gravity to escape.

What information can you point to that supports the idea that we leave a "plume of life behind us"?

I think the idea behind an asteroid is that only something with that level of force could eject bacteria that could overcome the Earth's gravity to escape.

Edit: atmospheric escape [1] is a well-known phenomenon, but that's exclusively about gases, at the molecular level. It doesn't mention anything about bacteria, which are of course massive in comparison -- the factors that can cause a single atom or molecule to gain enough energy to escape gravity don't apply to things the size of bacteria.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_escape
Because there are phones for sale with more open and/or 3rd party stores are available. And most consumers don't buy those phones. So, said another way, phones with that feature have a competitive advantage, right?

But the consumer doesn't care. Consumers instead are choosing phones based on other features.

Now, what happens on iOS once the 3rd party stores get forced in? Who knows. It'll be fun to watch. Generally, consumers probably won't give a shit. After all, if they valued this feature, they'd purchase a phone with it.

The people who do care generally aren't consumers. It remains to be seen they can can shift consumer behavior.

That said, I think new genre's of apps might be able to provoke a change. Stuff like porn, hacker apps, apps that appeal to niche communities, all that Apple would never allow...If one of those apps becomes super popular, then the 3rd party stores will become interesting.
I discovered that, almost without noticing it, I had been using LinuxMint MATE for about a dozen years. Even when I install a Debian system, I use the MATE desktop with that also.

Before Linux, I was using Solaris as my daily driver. That was good too.

There are many reasons Windows beat Unix.

Windows didn't beat UNIX. Linux beat UNIX. The rise of the Linux-based internet was what killed both UNIX and Windows servers.
In terms of timing, the author/ speaker had no way to know this, but at the time they're saying hey, actually this is practical because you don't need a machine (1941), both sides are in fact using machines.

The Japanese begin using "Purple" about this time (prior systems "Red" and "Blue" were not mechanical), the Nazis had Engima even before the war and have also been using Lorenz / "Tunny" for a few months although only in prototype and their Allied counterparts are using a roughly similar technology to Enigma (Typex) and another weird (but pragmatic) rotor machine the ECM Mark II.
I don't think that is the problem, just something that kicks in after the problem has happened and wifi has disappeared. Eg, on my macbook, I was loosing wifi every hour before I tweaked the settings on the router.
I've never seen lightswitches like those, but that's a terrible design as well, for the same reasons.
It's the first word in the title.

>Remote: Windows 3.11 Administrator (m/f/d).
We had full on stalls with brick/cement walls up to the ceiling (stall sized still, but private), so even the farts were muffled. Communist construction was no joke. Later in college, with some "modernized", capitalist toilets, we got an "open room", thin wooden "walls" that left the botton 20 centimeters open and left a gap on top.

In the old part of the buildings, we still had proper stalls, some even with a small sink inside the stall.
"Peoplw should change jobs and should optimize for better working conditions and fair treatment"

I get that we need this, but now is not the time to do it. It's an employers market and when you leave your current job, there will be 100+ applicants waiting to replace you and you will have just as much competition finding your next job.
We didn't flag the post; users did. When it comes to submissions, that's nearly always the case - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

Now that I've seen it I suppose I need to figure out what we should do in this case. The general principle is that we moderate less, not more, when YC is part of a story (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).

In this case, I suppose we can satisfy that rule by taking [flagged] off the post and leaving the sensational title instead of editing it the way we normally would.
How exercise increases brain volume – and may slow memory decline
There was already a backlash against DRY code occurring before "AI" assistants hit the market, sadly. It was a growing movement when I was using Twitter in 2019-2022.

Some younger developers have a very different attitude to code than what I was brought up with. They have immense disdain for the Gang of Four and their design patterns (probably without realising that their favourite frameworks are packed to the gills with these very patterns). They speak snidely about principles like DRY and especially SOLID. And on places like Twitter the more snide and contrarian you can be, the more engagement you'll get. Very disturbing stuff.
I've been in moving vehicles where opening the door would have been unsafe more than I've been in car fires. I often lock my car when leaving as well which usually unlocked is a bad state to leave it in, that normally happens more often than being in a burning car.

Are you in burning cars often?
Submission title is misleading (and not the article title). Fungi did not survive in space outside the ISS, but in a pressurized environment designed to be similar to the surface of Mars.
First patient dosed with AI-designed IBD treatment
Does SBF have amazing skills in CS (or anything) to share?

EDIT: Looks like he graduated MIT with a physics degree, so I'd hope so. Then again, maybe we don't want con men teaching kids.
I suspect that's because it needs to store the cards and media. Are you unable to grant it storage permissions for some reason?
Unfortunately MKDEV announced their retirement last year. FIFA 23 was their last release.
There is room for sarcastic interpretation considering the hit movie in 98 was still fresh in his mind. However, If he is an enemy of anything it is mental health. He single handedly ushered in generations of classically conditioned mouth breathers that fail to understand Pavlov.
> I wouldn't consider asking the AI to do something I don't know how to do

My experience has been the opposite so far. I benefit much more from such tools when I can easily check if something works correctly and would have to learn/look up a lot of easy and elementary stuff to do it from scratch.

For example, adding to some existing code in a language I don't know and don't have time or need to learn (I guess not many people are often in that situation). I get a lot of hints for what methods and libraries are available, I don't have to know the language syntax, for easy few-line snippets (that do standard things and which I can test separately) the first solution usually just works. This is deliberately passing on an opportunity for deeper and faster learning, which is a bad idea in general, but sometimes the speed trade-off is worth it.

On the other hand, for problems where I know how to solve them, getting some model to generate the solution I want (or at least one I'm happy with) tends to be more work than just doing it myself.

I probably could improve a lot in how I use the available tools. Haven't had that much opportunity yet to play with them...
It does if the vape makers have an underpriced lithium source and don’t care about the pending lithium shortage.
Chinese consumers would buy ID3, but it doesn’t have karaoke
Mens sana in corpore sano -> Healthy mind in a healthy body.
It almost certainly doesn't take the new evidence into account Hossenfelder is talking about.
Yeah but they're still plastic sport thingies. Me no like. Me no need a smartwatch so me can afford to be picky about looks.

I might try a Withings once I get over the Fossil.
Great writeup, but the diagrams are downright awful. I'd separate the different facets visually to make it easier to see the difference vs those different colors.
If you are curious about this sort of thing, look up master pendulum clocks. They were precision clocks that provided electric timing pulses to network of slave clocks or other uses. Afaik they were common in mid-20th century
That is important. SRS doesn't work for many people because, in short, they don't really enjoy it.
Minkowski Distance
Tabs in Gedit are the same. Whenever I have two text files open, I always understand the tab bar wrong: the item I read as active is inactive and vice-versa. All becuase they doing follow the traditional tab design and use some sort of pills instead.
Yes, it is an extremely low bar.

But from the perspective of someone living in the West Bank, Hamas is the least horrible of the options. It is the only organization that looks like it might eventually push back Israeli settlements and give West Bank Palestinians back their homes.

If we want don't want people on the West Bank to support Hamas, give them a better alternative. The PA is utterly failing to resist the encroaching settlements. Of course they're going to turn to Hamas!

If there was a third option that wasn't a corrupt terrorist organization, but had the teeth to remove Israeli settlements from the West Bank, you would see support for Hamas fall.
It is ok; you just have to offer a different UX for each medium. And not every application is done on every medium. I don't code or write long-form on my phone.
> we can agree that the "sustainable" population depends on how resources are managed, used and maintained

Good. Now read what I wrote again.

Side note on tone: The posturing ("delusion", "intelligent", "rational") makes you look bad. And it's like a thousand times worse when you're trying to pick a fight with someone by argumentatively agreeing with what they said to attack a straw man. If nobody ever told you that before, I'm sorry that you never got the benefit of that advice, and I hope it helps now that you know.
Lightspeed taps private equity playbook as it eyes $1B asset sale
At some point Netflix started to compress really dark scenes to be bands instead of gradients - which wouldn't have been that much of an issue, but it also happened when the movies started to do a lot more with dark scenes.
Unless an attack on the sshd is employed. Which is also possible
Yeah, even for a test that I need to cram, I’d use Feynman’s method, focus on core concepts, plus solve representative problem sets
The go to place seems to be Acquire.com. I've had some success on both side of the equation.
what did you do about it
I suspect the conclusion here depends entirely on upper atmosphere winds which I don't think are well studied.
I sell a middleware I built to access data in Airtable / Google Spreadsheets using GraphQL: https://www.baseql.com
This solution is far from compact though, right? If you show it at all times, it takes space and adds clutter. If you hide it behind a menu, it adds extra clicks.

If this was meant (semi)ironically and mainly as a reference to the OP link, then sorry for the earnest response!
Given the gauntlet that is modern tech interviews, 3 months. 1 month severance isn't an issue in a market where you can grab a new gig in 2-3 weeks. But all these places want 5 rounds of interviews.
It’s a style-transfer of OPs post onto Luddites. This same tired argument in 3 parts gets made every time a potentially job-destroying technology gets introduced or discussed.

Since nobody has made the concluding argument yet, I’ll supply it; the Luddites were correct that it (mechanization) would destroy their lucrative profession, they missed the degree to which it would enable many other lucrative professions, and they were right that many Luddites would not make the transition.

Society was net better off but there were definitely losers in the transition.
We do know that genes are a cause of IQ (we can see this comparing our nearest non-Homo relatives. But yes, we are far away from saying which genes do cause it, much less how they cause it, and how they interact with the environment and other genes to cause it.
I think we're saying the same thing, you're just angrier about it - and seem to be pointing at me. Which seems impolite.