skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But the question is, how can you ...

I can't. That was the hidden meaning behind the "interesting follow up questions" and "There isn't conclusive evidence in the article though." parts of my original comment.

And yes, that Homer clip is exactly the sort of flow I'm thinking about. The idea obviously isn't a new one. Compare it to a similar style of scene but with Mr Burns - he'd see the money and start comically salivating or something. Homer has a 10 second delay before even realising it is a good thing, just because he doesn't see money in itself as a goal.
When I look into the future, and I know that I really can't, one thing I really believe in is that there will be a shift in how quality will be perceived.

IKEA furniture is a great example of this. I build my own furniture and being around it is a much much nicer thing than some piece of cardboard from IKEA.but it seems like cost, soeed an convenience are the most important thing in peoples minds.
What If Psyduck Could Cap You in the Knee?
Hahaha that’s awesome. That’s like the original Google user testing sort-of-bug report where people they showed it to would sit in front of the screen with the search box, doing nothing. and when they asked them what are you doing? It’s: I’m waiting for it to load.

because at the time it was so strange to just have a search box in the middle of the page and nothing else.
Discussed a bit at the time:

Book Review: Going Infinite - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38014638 - Oct 2023 (24 comments)
It's not necessarily Apple/Microsoft forums specifically either.

I note that Windows users and nerds are generally much more open to just helping people overcome whatever problem they're having in the simplest and easiest way possible.

Linux users, and neckbeards in particular, on the other hand are generally more concerned about ordering people having problems to do things the One True Way(tm). This condescending attitude is by far the thing that holds back wider Linux adoption the most; most people don't have time to be talked down by some neckbeard when Windows users will sympathize and happily lend a hand.

I can't and won't speak to MacOS users because MacOS, within the confines of the One Apple Way(tm), has always Just Worked(tm) which is by far its strongest selling point.
Why even use an LLM? A classifier is perfectly suited for this kind of thing, and they aren't new. As far as I can tell, this is what is often used in the real world, and is incredibly cheap compared to an LLM, so GitHub/$OTHER_PLATFORM could totally run it on everything posted. They could even use a classifier as a first filtering step, then run a smarter model on flagged comments. (Then let a human double-check, right? Right?)
It has player-owned places that are done with a fairly clunky interface, but the focus is far more on the writing that you put into your place. It's a callback to the MUDs of old, to my understanding.

I think the record for a group-written player-made place was something on the order of tens of thousands of words.
Yeah MVPs and mockups is exactly what ORMs are for, since they get you the first 80% for very little effort. Maybe it depends on the language, but this is definitely the way Rails and Laravel style framework ORMs are designed.
> I think it's pretty objective at this point that an icon based toggle should show the current state, not the state that tapping on the icon will produce.

What about a play button? On YouTube, or any music app, the button will show the Play symbol when the media is paused, and the Pause symbol when the media is playing.
Thanks.. Maybe it's time for me to upgrade. Though it still works great otherwise...
> (2) DEPICTED INDIVIDUAL.—The term ‘depicted individual’ means an individual who, as a result of digitization or by means of digital manipulation, appears in whole or in part in an intimate digital depiction and who is identifiable by virtue of the person’s face, likeness, or other distinguishing characteristic, such as a unique birthmark or other recognizable feature, or from information displayed in connection with the digital depiction

"And who is identifiable" is doing some heavy lifting here and could be legally ambiguous. If I see someone rob a convenience store and believed the person to look like Al Pacino, does that make the person identifiable? What if I actually thought it was him, not just that it looked like him?

In the case of fake porn, the creator can't know if one viewing it will think the person was modeled after Taylor Swift or if their intent was to actually create porn that would be identified by viewers as Swift.

Is this morally and ethically a problem? Absolutely, in my opinion. But can this be codified into law that is clear enough to make sure you don't break the law? Absolutely not, as long as the law depends on whether a viewer believes the fake porn looks like Swift or is Swift.

A person can't be reasonably expected to stay on the right side of a law that is defined by how someone will judge the creation later. Obviously its entirely different if the creator attempts to pass it off as the original person, in this case if someone created or distributed fake porn and claimed it actually was Swift.
Europe would need its own nuclear umbrella.
Choosing which tasks you delegate to others is very dependent on how much trust you have in those around you, and also how much room for error there is in the task.

If it is something critical, or something that relates strongly to your vision of the business, then more often than not you can prioritize that higher. If it is not mission critical, somebody can learn from the task, and somebody is somewhat qualified to get to the end of the task, you can probably delegate it.

All of these things change as a company moves through different stages.

On the topic of personal delegation...you really have to know yourself. If you need electrical work done, and you don't know anything about electrical work...you probably want to pass on the DIY route and just get someone who knows what they are doing and are taking the risk. If you need to do some drywall...yeah you can probably knock that out, and even make some mistakes along the way. There is always this feeling of "I can do this cheaper and better" but often there is no follow through, and you're not giving the pros enough credit.
Microsoft is manager centric. Even when they tried to move away from bell curve, it led to more power in the hands of manager by giving them the budget.
Senator says NSA is buying up Americans' browser habits
> On x86 it inserts an int3 instruction, which fires an interrupt, trapping in the attached debugger, or otherwise abnormally terminating the program. Because it’s an interrupt, it’s expected that the program might continue.

In x86 lingo, it’s a trap, and calling it an interrupt misses the point. int3 is a “software interrupt,” but the vector 3 is universally configured by kernels as a “trap” (by setting the appropriate mode in the IDT). So the instruction completes, IP is incremented, and the kernel is notified.

FRED tidies this all up. The kernel is notified that the event occurred and is given the length of the offending instruction.

> However, regardless of how you get an int3 in your program, GDB does not currently understand it.

GDB can’t really do better. If you have:

jnz 1f
int3
1: [non-error case here]

Then all gdb knows is that IP points to 1. The issue may not be as bad with the int3 out of line:

jnz 2f
1: [non-error case here]

2: int3
jmp 1b <— GDB sees this

Then at least GDB knows what’s up. But that jmp may be omitted if gcc thinks that the instruction after int3 is unreachable.

Maybe a future FRED-requiring debug API could report the address of the offending int3 and GDB could use it. But ptrace is awful, gdb is awful, and I’m not convinced this will happen.
> blah blah .. Vestibular system .. blah blah

Sorry, but the reason they don't work is much easier to describe using momentum. You can't stop on a dime, turn left quickly, or any "regular" human movement that alters your momentum, because you (~50-80kg) aren't moving*.

Even if we HAD no Vestibular System, this would still not work as expected; we fall over the moment we try to "stop" while running at full pace.
Visual C++ 1.52c (with MFC 2.50) is the last version to support 16-bit Windows and includes full electronic documentation (in Windows HLP and WRI format, admittedly, but it's there).
>Microsoft bailed out Apple with an investment entirely because of anti monopoly regulations.

Not "entirely", it was a lawsuit settlement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Canyon_Company
>mathematically prove

I'll give it a rough swing. I probably overcomplicated the endgame I describe below, and maybe make some assumptions that aren't actually how the mechanics work, but hopefully it's understandable.

The balls are about the same size as the blocks. Lets say they are infinitesimally smaller, so they can still fit down a 1 block wide tunnel.

Imagine the gameplay somehow gets into the condition that both balls are in tunnels, but white in the worst way (perfectly aligned, so it just bounces off the far ends) and black in the best way (barely zigzagging in a nearly straight line, killing all wall blocks, leaving a 3 block wide tunnel in it's wake).

This would result in whites tunnel rapidly shrinking. Even if white exists in a 2x1 tunnel and is getting kills, black is still killing at almost 2x the rate.

White will be in their 2x1 tunnel, make it into a 3x1 tunnel, but it will become a 2x1 tunnel again by the time it's bounced a little over a block. Now suppose black then reaches the (white) end of their tunnel, scoring 3 kills in almost the same instant. There's nowhere to spawn those three that doesn't clash. The app will either crash with a null value error, or some other result that qualifies as an end condition since it would break the fundamental rules of the game.
Yep. People want to accomplish tasks. They want to do that with workflows they already know, or that are easy to learn. If they can't accomplish the same tasks with Linux, then Linux isn't usable.

The one Linux feature I miss on other OSes isn't even a Linux feature, it's NixOS's declarative configuration. Nothing to do with the Linux kernel or the GNU userspace CLI tools or glibc, just the ability to manage a system and user(s) with a version-controlled configuration.
Ask HN: Are there tools to synchronise config files across repositories?
Hello,

I'm looking for tools that allow synchronising files across repositories. If I update my `.pre-commit-config.yaml` file in a repository, I would like to be able to replicate the changes in another. Note that the files might be slightly different but they are 95% the same all the time.

https://github.com/voxpupuli/modulesync seems to support some of that process but I'm looking for other options not requiring Ruby.

Cheers,
It is very interesting to watch. I’m no prepper but sure has me thinking a stockpile of DJIs would be more useful than a stocked gun safe.
SPLASH – A visualisation tool for smoothed particle hydrodynamics
That subreddit has been a forum for nation-state trolls for a long time.
I don't know either. We could limit exposure to a tiny patch on the planet's surface and still have ample opportunity to look for signs of life on the rest of it.
I'm having troubles following the math on that paper. If the beginning of the Habitable Epoch was 10-17MY after the big bang, when was the end?
You can buy a Model 3 door handle on RockAuto for $95.79 :)

But yes, repairs (and insurance) are expensive for these vehicles.
There’s a word for that self-fulfilling prophetic philosophical/hypothetical principle: nominative determinism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
Yes, it is not perfect analogy but it describes what team dynamics mean.

Which is to say that team members work "together" to achieve goals. They are not competing against each other - as evaluated by performance review processes.
Reminds me of "The Duke", a great board game that exposed the piece movements by necessity.

https://www.nonsensicalgamers.com/the-duke-review/
The original archetype was a completely overblown caricature (based on some outliers) and wasn't true mostly. It was just an image pushed by the industry so that "Engineers" can be kept out of "Business Decision-Making" and thus Controlled/Managed easily.

But now as you say, self promotion is everything and has been taken so far that one cannot call oneself "A Programmer" but a "Rockstar/Ninja/10x/whatever Programmer" with superlative knowledge and insight into every problem domain and Technology. We all know our limitations but 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 sometimes used a placeholder function call to make it easier to place a breakpoint. Of course it shouldn't be ever inlined.
A lot of opinions on Nix here, but I manage a declarative configuration on my Mac that I now couldn’t live without. I have step by step instructions if you want to try it yourself. Many other folks have told me they find it useful too (almost 700 stars):

https://github.com/dustinlyons/nixos-config
The ideas of racial hygiene and eugenics certainly drew upon American science of the time, as well as German archaeology and anthropology. Their racial policies carried forward the ideas of American eugenics to its extreme but logical conclusion. To the extent that British were frowned upon, it was because of the presence of genetic contributions from the pre Yamnaya/Caucasian indigenous population. I remember there was a PBS American Experience: Eugenics episode that covered the Nazi party inspiration from American racial science.
Whether or not they are copies is irrelevant(*). Are software engineers normally allowed to keep copies of the proprietary source code of their employer after they leave the company? Do accountants normally keep copies of the financial records of their employer? Is it standard practice for doctors to store medical records of hospital patients in their basement?

(*) If he kept the only copy, that's even worse since a new prosecutor wouldn't have access to the old records if they wanted to pursue a new prosecution or if there was an appeal to an old case.
And excessive salaries for am unsuccessful money-losing business:

Chief Legal Officer and Secretary $1,221,313

Chief Financial Officer $1,980,750

Chief Executive Officer and Director $7,898,272

https://www1.salary.com/VROOM-INC-Executive-Salaries.html
Small companies with better aligned incentives (equity incentives vs. bonus and promotion as the primary upside), indie work (and unrelatedly thereby also not giving away 80-90% of the value you create to the founders and VCs), or being a founder, is the answer, at least it was for me.
- too much frantic hyperactivity for too long

- too short deadlines so you have to dip into 'personal' energy to meet them in time

- too much concurrent spillover of past work and getting new/constantly shifting objectives so past work always remains pending completion

- greater responsibility but less flexibility in approach

- difficulty in estimation of date of task completion, so as more time passes, more dread of looming intense future work to make up for pace

see how much any of these contribute to how you feel
I know of a similar case, the employee in question had to go through a similar process of questioning and audits just because they switched from FAANG A to B and somehow their manager came to know about it.

After that incident, many members left the team for other companies; they’ve been careful to not update their LinkedIn page with the actual company that they’re working for. When asked, they often said that they were working for a small time firm, and declined to name which one it was. As for their manager, they often claimed that they were taking a career break or would be pursuing higher education.
I always find it fun to respond in strange ways to "malicious" requests on all my webservers derived from a defcon talk[0] that I watched a while ago, there's a lot of great fun to be had in honeypots and other things of the nature.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OztMJ4EL1s
"City of New Orleans": Arlo Guthrie, Right?
You can use honeypot that bait hackers . I am running a non-intrusive one where you put baits in your servers or laptop, when hackers see it, they'll try to use them.
Would mini-SAFEs be the answer? How would you compensate such advisors for their time and input?

At the risk of sound glib... anything that all parties involved find acceptable (and within the limits of the law, of course) is good. There's not really a "stock" answer to this. Probably the best thing to do is talk to these people, explain the situation, and just ask "is there something I can offer you besides cash up front, for you help?"

Some possibilities:

a. equity. Even if you're not a C-corp, you can sign a contract stipulating that they get equity worth X dollar, conditional on some event (raising a round of funding, conversion to a C corp, Y dollars in sales, etc.

b. deferred payment. Eg, promise you'll pay them, in cash, at some point in the future. Basically they'd be loaning you the amount that they would charge for the service in question.

c. access to your product. If these people are themselves potential customers for the thing you're building, offer them usage of your product for free (or super cheap) in exchange for their help.

d. washing their car. Offer to come wash their cars once a week for the next year. Or whatever. The point here is just to emphasize that it can be anything really.
AND Microsoft took it from Jack Welch at GE. https://www.businessinsider.com/stack-ranking-employees-is-a...
I recently inquired about joining the Coast Guard (Reserves). I like their mission, I like that they help domestically especially with things like disaster relief and environmental issues, and sea-worthy things are in my wheelhouse. I reached out in THREE ways online and never got a callback.

I called my local office. The recruiter I talked to seemed to generally not care at all, I drove 90% of the conversation. Couldn't tell me what "rates" (jobs) the CG has and what would be applicable to my background. I'm stunned, I'm thinking this is literally your job to know this kind of a thing. The recruiter told me that I should go look at the jobs/rates on their website. Yep - go look at their website - which was offline for about at least week (or maybe still offline - I stopped checking).

This recruiter didn't offer to follow up, which would have been difficult because they also didn't bother to get any of my contact information, or even ask my name. My military friends absolutely could not believe this.

Of course, it could have been this particular military recruiter. Although I was also ignored in other channels, too. I'm thinking -

1 - Your branch is in DIRE need of people, both active and reserve. TEN cutters are being pulled from service, and nearly 30 boat stations are being closed.
2 - If you're this incompetent during the recruiting processes, what would service in your branch actually look like?

Not a great experience/impression. I may try again later (find a different recruiting office), but if this is how recruiting is being done, it's no wonder why they can't find warm bodies.
a big nothing burger...tells dude the code is garbage, all parties agree the end
It doesn't support writing data. One has to hookup worker to write data efficiently to parquet on regular basis or some fashion using PG. Its like bits and pieces everywhere but didnt create end to end usecase
As someone on HN said: when a headline ends in a question mark, the answer is always "no."
I’m in a bit of a privileged position, but I took a fair bit of time off to pursue personal goals. I got extremely burnt out after 6 years of full-time work at big corp (simultaneously being in part-time grad school for the final 3 years).

I found it took me 3-4 months of absolutely nothing to not feel burnt out. It took much longer than that to get to a point where I was able to pick up my computer and have fun programming again. I’m now working on a webapp that I intend to turn into a business. I have been pouring myself into it in a way that I haven’t done since I was a new hire.

Hang in there. Maybe ask your boss if you can take an unpaid sabbatical. You will ultimately be much more productive if you get a break, and the time off will give you a chance to clarify to yourself what it is that you want.
So. So. Poorly. The most stressful, traumatic, job I’ve ever had, the end of what might have otherwise been a lasting friendship.
I think I still prefer Ray Bradbury's, The Martian Chronicles...
Success is mostly a function of which project you get dumped in. Spend six months singlehandedly cleaning up a compliance disaster waiting to happen and get told that while it was appreciated it didn't have any impact. Spend six months on a successful project with several launches and get promoted. There's no appreciation for the dirty work, no wonder why so little of it gets done.
time to short nintendo
I downloaded premade cards for the Security+ exam acronyms[1]. Not only did it save me the time of making over 350 cards, but their selection of cards and explanations gave me more learning that wasn't in my notes. Like you say, it's good for a specific pool of questions.

1. https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1553224110
I’m confused why everyone’s doing it when it doesn’t signal quality. When it does look phony.

It’s not a great feeling to do from kick ass landing page to a SaaS that is clearly a bit broken and doesn’t even work on mobile. It makes you feel like people don’t even have their priorities straight, they just want to get you through the door but not deliver, like they don’t care about anything except money.

Like the cheap tricks of a fancy facade or design in a Main Street shop, but inside the product quality is low and the staff are generic, dressed nice, but not experts or truly caring about what they’re doing. it’s a betrayal, or feels like it, and not a great first touch point.

Nice username ! :) hahaha
> To notice that people can't use a natural language interface because they're bad at organizing and expressing their thoughts, then claim this is a failing of the interface is for the poor craftsmen to blame their tools.

No this is the equivalent of a hammer that only drives one very specific brand and size of nail. Language is a notoriously terrible tool.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39172086
This is called the inverted pyramid and should be referred to in the present tense. It is still taught and it is still used.

https://journalism.uoregon.edu/tough-decisions-inverted-pyra...

Much of what is on the web posing as "news" is not journalism, IMO. It's garbage.
Imagine home buying if the seller silently added 5% in extra fees/features after the price was fixed…

You do realize the “diamond paint protection” and the other 1000-$2000 of crap on a modest car is all fake — not even from the manufacturer. It’s just gravy after their commission is already baked in.
> They're only doing this with iPhone/iPad because they can, because by the time they realized it could be a profitable business for Mac the expectations with their customers had already been established, and they had too much competition.

That's not historically accurate, and I worked in a core engineering group at Apple. An early concern on battery-dependent devices was that the software running on them would not deplete battery wastefully, and the famous/infamous offender giving rise to what you (understandably) question was the Flash runtime. The upshot of poorly written software (which gave rise to attempts to test and charge for access, which you dislike) was customers in a competitive landscape (Symbian and Android) thinking Apple hardware sucked, while that was not the hardware reality.

So, I get your perspective but it's overlooking the early and very real problems which caused this gateway/gauntlet to attempt improving user experience as a higher priority over developer inconvenience.