skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Derek Sivers is definitely better off than most of us, but what he's describing is something any engaged parent could do. That's not a "silver spoon". Hell, my family was lower-middle-income (into solid middle-income with both parents working, then down again, these things can cycle) and they would quiz us on things like that. Though not with Anki. It's just good parental engagement.
My 80yo father switched 4 months ago to Linux (PopOS) and is happy after I showed him how he can access gmail, Word (Office 365 Word in Chromium) and his photos.

After he learned he didn't have to install a printer driver but could just print (and scan), he asked me why I didn't tell him earlier.
Style2Fab: Fabricating Personalized 3D Models with Generative AI
Still plenty of mileages to cover in this space, it seems. While they discuss lack of adequate data as a limitation, I didn't quite grasp why meshes couldn't be created via generative AI.
I'm certainly impressed by a man that can dig a tunnel with a spoon. But you're definitely right that it's not that useful.

But I disagree that half assed work is not useful. It's just lower usefulness. My laundry app isn't even half assed. The programmers couldn't even sort the room list (literal random order) or cache your most recent room. It's still better than the BS system they had before where I had to load a prepaid card and that machine was locked in a building that isn't open on weekends or after 6pm. I'm still immensely frustrated, but I don't want to go back to the old system.

Though I'll mention that my fear is that because so many people see LLMs as having far more utility than they offer, we'll get more shit like the above instead of higher quality stuff. Most issues are solved for me to be comfortable in my life, so I definitely value quality a lot more. Plus, reduces a lot of mental stress as I'm not thinking "how can the person that made this be so dumb? How do you learn how to program and not know what sort is?"
Nonsense. How are microbes exceeding Earth's escape velocity?
> It is perfectly good enough for the error code enumeration to be statically randomized into hard coded constants.

A comment points out that they aren't randomized:

> The values used were chosen such that it takes a large number of bit flips to change from allowed to denied. Using random values doesn't really protect against this attack.
> what material changes would you want/expect to see in society in relation to that news.

Governments offering free embryo selection plausibly.
I'd dispute bad UI. I find Gnome far nicer to use than Windows, which has a completely inconsistent UI.

Hardware support, maybe for some things, but again, Linux supports old hardware far better in my experience.

I think it's mostly that Windows is the de facto business standard, and for home people just buy what they already know.
What value (if any) is there in having made a GitHub repo with 1k stars?
When I was at my old job I made this random tool for debugging a certain kind of Android bug/crash. Originally it was just to help fix a specific bug in our bug tracker, but I found time to publish the code on GitHub and add instructions etc.

I never maintained it super attentively, but I did some releases and over the years it's gradually racked up stars. I happened to check it today and saw it now showing "1k" - which I thought was kind of cool.

My question is whether this repo holds any value. My starting assumption is not really, but I'm curious.
That is more an indication of how fundamentally naive many Nazis were. British rulers always aimed to break up any significantly large European power, it's been their obvious geopolitical imperative from before Elizabethan times. That necessity trumps any vague sympathy or political affinity du jour. They would never have allowed Hitler to take over the whole continent.
Typically the federal government doesn't need to pass a law to allow a state to do something. The states have the right to do their business as they see fit except for when they specifically don't.
> So what we, in fact find, is that IQ tests only reliably correlate in the 'mental retardation' region of performance.

Even assuming we agree that that’s the only usefulness of an IQ test, in what way does that make them not a measure of intelligence?

A ruler is still a measure of length even if it can’t measure the size of an atom or the distance to the moon.
I searched Google for this recently and could not find it. I tried it again on Google Groups just now and found one reference to it:

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.arch/c/Y4C_Zjkb9VM/m/scDk_0...

> Killer micros of today are a lot like flourescent lights -- cheap to operate, prevalent, and expensive to turn off. To see a machine standing idle, when you were raised as a child to "use cycles efficiently" is a gut-wrenching experience. Just remember Alan Kay's prediction: In the future, computers will come in cereal boxes and we will throw them away.

March 20, 1990. I haven't found a source for Alan Kay's prediction.
The change is now it takes about 5 seconds and a nice-ish computer instead of hours of skilled work.
Figure out how to stop the social media robots from monetizing the destruction of civil society and you might be able to keep something resembling free speech. Otherwise, the future looks like China or Russia (massive kleptostates using the robots to keep control instead). It's not clear there's a way for democracies to survive the disappearance of the peaceful maintenance of reality.
Nice! We maintain one for C# too: https://www.nuget.org/packages/LiveTextSharp
Georgia - 4%

Georgia is fairly low tax. The state will even pay you to bring your business temporarily to our state (eg. film), and you can sell the tax credits to local firms in case you don't have Georgia taxes to offset.

City of Atlanta - 9%, which they promised to spend on light and heavy rail, but embezzled and spent on low-effort busses and studies instead.

Are there cities that use high sales taxes in a way that isn't malinvestment?
Does anyone have an abstract or equivalent of this?
It is tradeoffs.

For CS people, it's not that hard to switch and understand the tradeoffs, especially because they will have the skills to know & handle the obstacles. The vast majority of lusers will not... they will spend money to save time (yes folks... save their time) to do what they want and need to do.

This reminded me of what Ernie Ball said at some linux trade show many moons ago...

"I said, 'I don't care if we have to buy 10,000 abacuses,' We won't do
business with someone who treats us poorly.

"It's just software. You have to figure out what you need to do within your organization and then get the right stuff for that. And we're not a backwards organization. We're progressive; we've won communications and design awards...The fact that I'm not sending my e-mail through Outlook doesn't hinder us. It's just kind of funny. I'm speaking to a standing-room-only audience at a major technology show because I use a different piece of software--that's hysterical."
What do you mean? On Tor I get a Cloudflare block just from clicking 2 links on the front page of HN:

http://forums.accessroot.com/index.php?showtopic=4361&st=0

>Please wait while your request is being verified...

I can't remember any day I didn't get a Cloudflare block. Even on bare IP sometimes. WAFs are security theater.
I think ultimately the issue here is we won't ever come to an agreement of what is "basic effort." and this is why juniors can get mixed signals between "struggle for days on something that can be resolved with one quick question to slack". And "ask any question that comes to mind with zero thought".

I personally hit the former extreme a lot due to early careers outright refusing to give me help as some sort of "proving grounds" to show I can setup my own admin portal (I wasn't even in IT, I asked one and they were told by management not to help me), and that caused some extreme correction in later roles who encouraged me to simply ask. I see it a lot more often than a junior asking what what some language keyword is. So my advice will be biased toward encouraging juniors to "asked stupid questions". It just feels like bad faith (again based on my experiences) to assume juniors are stupid, lazy, and don't respect others' time.

>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.

Been in for a while, I'm just numb to it.

But just because I suffered doesn't mean I want everyone else coming in to go through the same things. The top comment here is talking about society becoming more and more isolated and this attitude of chastising newcomers for their lack of experience will just discourage them further from using their co-workers as a relationship to give and take from, instead of some cold evaluator to gain approval of.

At the end of the day a lot of work relationships isn't different from social relationships; co-workers remember how you made them feel, and not as much how many PRs you merge in. So even if you have some machine like efficiency you will simply be seen as an avatar on a chat screen if you don't make attempts to reach out. And being afraid of "stupid questions" will make you afraid of asking about anything else.
My litmus test is to fresh install a distribution set it up. The moment I have to use terminal to set up my machine I stop, it means the UI is still incomplete.

Imagine if a cellphone required you to open a terminal to configure your touchscreen or the sleep states.

It’s that bad for a newbie.

Neither windows or android have ever required me to use terminal to set them up.
The majority of computers in the world run Linux. This article is pitched at people who hang around in the mezzanine between big and small computers and are still living in 2006 when desktop experiences were dominant.
It makes sense to put it in the DRAM controller for many reasons. One is that the DRAM silicon process is optimized for memory but terrible for logic. Also, a DRAM bank is several chips in parallel to get the data bus width, and they would all have to duplicate the logic.

The disadvantage is that the controller and memory are made by different companies, so standards are required to agree on what access patterns are acceptable.
I’ve been using textra for a wrapper on the Apple vision sdk

https://github.com/freedmand/textra

But this project calls torch and a bunch of other ML libs. So it’s not using Apple vision?
And how do you deal when someone felt sick inside a toilet? Or when a little child locked himself and can't unlock?

You add a mechanical override cylinder. Conversely, I could ask "how do you deal with electronic failures that leave the door locked?"

Or when someone without a ticket went in?

If you got on the train, you already have a ticket. Or do you need a separate ticket just to enter the toilet(!?)
> And presumably learn from it.

While it might be easier than for regular people, it's still extremely hard for a politician/academic or political faction/academic faction to admit error. It's almost always possible to come up with a reason for why something didn't work that doesn't require giving up on a centrally important idea.
It's more like a binary classifier: retarded, not-retarded.
This is the crux of most of modern AI. Nobody debates it's cool. Since 2014 or so there has been no shortage of amazing demos of computers doing stuff many thought wasn't possible or required human level intelligence. But there's not automatically a bridge from those demos to commercial relevance, no matter how amazing.
I disagree with every paragraph. Too long to address every line.

If you had better points than, it doesn’t matter, idea is “old”, and/or people can’t learn, well you made them poorly.
Desktop Linux has inconsistencies everywhere that trash user experience relative to companies like Apple who have incredibly consistent user experience.

I give desktop Linux a try every few years to see where it is at. Copy and paste alone makes me so mad with Linux that even that single factor would make me drop it - bearing in mind that copy and paste is something I do every few minutes it's not OK for it to totally suck. If Linux really cared about user experience then I should at the barest minimum be able to use Windows and Mac copy/paste keys without even thinking about it.

It should be said that Windows has pretty bad user consistency as well. Microsoft update the Windows UI but elements from many generations ago seem to pop up everywhere.
Also who would cover the legal liability in case of damages?
A computer at every lab bench, usually tied to specific experiments. Sometimes I sit down at an adjacent server and read something, sometimes pull out my phone.

Anything can be accommodated. One thought is to provide the source code, then people can adapt it to their display preferences. Like how HTML was originally envisioned.
Wait till you have to wait for your candle to boot an off the shelf Linux and download security updates before it starts flickering.
Fungi have metabolisms similar to those of animals. They eat dead biomass, breathe oxygen, and drink water. Mars is a dead planet with a CO2-rich atmosphere and no liquid water. Even if a spore got transported there, it would not be able to germinate.
I have to assume this is one of the least frequently paid taxes. I wonder how often people living in Clark County are fined for not paying this tax?
Don't try it, he has the high ground.
If I call it Dunning-Kruger to point out that they think their expertise in tech translates to expertise everywhere else, they'll come back with some weaksauce akshually about what DK actually is.

I don't think it's "funny" that they waste time, energy, and resources on building bigger machines to make them more money and shit out hopium when it won't mean anything on a planet unfit for human habitation come century's end. I think it's a crime against humanity that deserves to be treated as such.
Ask HN: Any experience living in a hacker house?
I'm intrigued by the idea of hacker houses and looking for firsthand experiences. I have a degree in computer science from a top school and a well paid software engineer job, but I'm seeking a change and think a hacker house might be a good fit.

If you've lived in one, could you share: your experience, the community, and any projects or startups you worked on there?

Here are some links I found through google:

https://www.launchhouse.com/

https://sfgenesis.house/

https://www.hf0.com/

https://www.hackerho.me/

https://www.startupembassy.com/

https://sudoroom.org/

https://www.blackbox.org/approach

https://www.langtonlabs.com/

https://rainbowmansion.com/

https://20mish.com/

https://www.rhouse.nyc/

https://2200temple.com/

https://www.techstars.com/accelerators/alabama-power

https://www.roommates.vc
Yeah I think I saw that too, bigclive maybe?
Oregon too.
I remember someone making a rust library for hardened bools, though with the idea of protecting against protecting against random bitflips, not targeted rowhammer attacks (though it should work about the same).

The feedback from the rust subreddit was basically protecting the bool but not the if statement is of limited use. Potentially it can even make it worse, since there is now more code being executed that might become bitflipped.

That inspired me to make a crate that periodically checksums your program code while it's running, to make sure it hasn't changed. Got it working on Windows and Linux, but then it ended up like most side projects. Maybe I should polish it up and publish it.
> Neither windows or android have ever required me to use terminal to set them up.

Well I do, the first thing I'm running on a fresh Windows is a Windows debloater script so ironically I'm using the terminal faster after setup on Windows compared to something like PopOs.

It's funny since it's the kind of manual setup you had to do 10 years ago for Linux distributions and now it's the opposite.
In my experience, if you have a decent tenure in an organisation where institutional knowledge trumps documentation (a dysfunction, but a common one) then you're not likely to be forced out and replaced with someone cheaper. That institutional knowledge has value.

> All the more reasons to make a move if you can.

So that you too can be one of the job seekers "desperate to accept lower pay, right now"?
Maybe it's time to harness the power of humidity.
I think you're right: the atmosphere inside the container was artificial and intended to be equivalent to the atmosphere on Mars, with natural light from the Sun allowed to pass into the container through filters which also emulated the conditions on Mars.
If people are asking you to do something that doesn't make sense, there's still nothing to discover. There are only a finite number of holistic social needs, simply do all of them.
URL returns and error. I assume this is the right one? https://matrix.org/blog/2023/11/06/future-of-synapse-dendrit...
> Why is there such a strong preference for “one step app deployment”, no infrastructure knowledge required?

> The obvious answer is because it is easier.

No. The answer is that it’s more robust in the face of operator error, it’s repeatable and it’s auditable.
It takes around 850g of lithium carbonate to produce one kWh of lithium batteries. The current market price for lithium carbonate is about $14/kg. The base spec Tesla Model 3 has a 57.5kWh battery pack, so the lithium in the pack represents a cost of ~$685, or just under 2% of the list price of the vehicle.

A typical disposable vape contains about five cents worth of lithium.

https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Technical-P...
think in reality it’s just for things that have to be registered: motor vehicles, boats, RVs.

can’t imagine anyone paying taxes on home goods willingly.
I do that as well, but nothing gets through anyways because I'm not running Wordpress or a version of Apache from 2012. I also have nginx set up to reject connections without the expected 'Host' header, and that quickly bounces a few attackers. But many still end up getting all the way to a 404 or 400 for their attack URL.
I think you mean that the Chicago Outfit ceased to be relevant. Organized crime in Chicago existed on a massive scale (and spread throughout the Midwest and the South) until the Vice Lords were basically defeated by the Gangster Disciples, and in turn the Gangster Disciples were shattered by arrests of all of their leadership (leading to the "Insanes", etc.) There's still lots of black organized crime based in Chicago, but not at that scale anymore. On the closer-to-respectable side of organized crime in Chicago, even the "Democratic Machine" is largely dead.

That being said, the Mexican cartels operate in a big way in Chicago. Every cartel case anywhere has Chicago connections.

Europeans associate Chicago with Al Capone. It's because the Chicago Outfit became a popular worldwide genre, like Westerns or science fiction. Germans were almost more into Westerns than Americans were.
I think this take is correct and lacking a “jacking in” to your neural cortex a la Neuromancer or The Matrix, true VR will remain a pipe dream.
JSON Web Token Verifier
Use packages from a distribution like Debian and run unattended-upgrades or equivalent for the security-updates repository. They usually fix newly reported vulnerabilities in less than a day.
That definitely stands out to me as well. How many lives were destroyed by consuming cannabis vs government retribution for attempting to get high?
My Grandfather Knew Napoleon – Bertrand Russell
The more there is to embezzle the more their will be embezzled.
You'd usually put a reverse proxy exposing the services and terminating TLS with the wildcard cert.

The individual services can still have individual non-wildcard internal-only certs signed by an internal CA. These don't need to touch an external CA or appear in CT logs - only the reverse proxy/proxies should ever hit these, and can be configured to trust the internal CA (only) explicitly.
> I don't expect a junior to notice bad code

That is true. I actually seen instances of juniors struggling with code that doesn't work and frankly doesn't make sense, but they claim they wrote it :)
they’ve had 30 years to replace this. easy peasy.
It's not the default for anyone. Normal people are not interested in OSes, they just want to look at their emails or watch youtube. If most laptops were sold with e.g. Ubuntu, I'm fairly sure few people would bother switching them to Windows.

Unlike the prevalent opinion here, I disagree that modern GNU/Linux distros have bad UI/UX. Once set up, the average person is very well served by modern GNU/Linux. I installed Kubuntu for my parents (they're in their 60s, very non-technical people) and they've been using it no problem for 4 years now. My father even reinstalled it from scratch himself after their SSD died by just following the installer. I almost never get any technical support requests from them either.
The last time I looked at the statistics the majority of the internet was still running on PHP, mostly wordpress installs. I'm willing to bet those are mostly on shared hosting with accounts separated by nothing but their linux user.
You could see 1,000 miles away that someone was going to jump in and object that Chicago has a lot of crime, and a lot of is organized. I'd hoped "mafia-type organized crime" would make it clear, but the objection still got raised on two separate threads. :)
What I find is missing from this discussion: the major advantage of config-based deployment is that it's relatively stateless and easily reproducible. Their pain point tends to be when state leaks in.

A lot of traditional approaches are gratuitously stateful, and there's a lot of room for tooling improvement there even if you want to avoid YAML.
I've seen a surprisingly low rate of research conducted 'R&D' roles through my admittedly short career. The research segment of any work had been limited to testing of ideas that are highly likely to work, the bulk of the work is product or prototype development. The R&D technologists employed tend to act as rapid response personnel for tasks not predicted by project managers or systems engineers.
I would be in favor of replacing the US flag with this, since flags are everywhere in the states and you'd have to see this every day, likely multiple times.
But does it cost "a few weeks or months", or "30 years" of developer time? Which is it?
Get different socials, is about your only option at this ppoint.
Curious enumerations on the most common items. There's definitely a topical bias. By far the most common attack attempt I see on all the various webhosts I administer is WordPress-oriented (despite not present on any of the hosts), which doesn't even get an honorable mention by the author. Perhaps he hosts WordPress content and didn't discern attacks from legitimate traffic.
Diversity, equity and inclusion. In extreme cases, this is affirmative action. Hopefully in most cases it means hiring managers keeping an open mind and checking their biases when comparing candidates of differing genders and cultural backgrounds.
Also, a lot of old-time syndicates have long moved to more lucrative businesses. Low-level stuff is labour-intensive, low margin, and very exposed; if you have enough capital, there are much better investments to be made.

Even in Italy, where people were still dying in the streets in certain areas in the early 2000s, most cartels have moved on from drugs and prostitution to public works, property development, hospitality etc. The street stuff is now left largely to foreign gangs who have nothing to lose.
On smaller things yes I don't think anyone pays these taxes. But on bigger things (like cars) the tax is applied.