skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anyone is interested in a past perspective on this, I'd read Hamlet on the Holodeck. Seminal work that really lays out what digital narrative is and wants to be.

That is what we all want, after all: a Holodeck. Real life without the danger or expense. It would be amazing, and I truly hope we get there, but pale imitations just don't work.
Same here with Monkey Island 2 + Monkey Island 3 = Monkey Island 4.

I'm now at Monkey Island 12357990.
Yes, GNOME was doing CORBA objects in C.
What's the workflow for job registration look like? Does an engineer upload a single script/binary to some storage service(e.g., EFS/S3/whatever) or builds and uploads a container with script/binary, registers the rate in the conductor UI and then the job queue just pulls the script or container and runs it? Is registration through an IaC of sorts, or just through some UI/CLI?
"you’re fine... probably"
I think a lot of those people think that you also get away with a lot without supervision because the average worker will tend to comfortable effort if they think they are not being audited somehow. For me, I could keep productive, but work crept all across the day and sort of put a buzz kill on WFH even when I lived in exotic locations in SE Asia (before the digital nomad thing). I have a lot of manual labor and knowledge skills, so I pretty much work where and when I want. Sometimes I do manual labor overseas in a job that lets me do both. I would never be able to make six figures and do 40 to 50% of my job manually here in the US. The respect for manual labor, the closing of trade schools, and the false ruler of the college degree have led to the decline of such hybrid position possibilities. Construction is still a field where you can wield a computer and have boots-on-the-ground experience. It's also easy to see productivity, something real, tangible as the product, which for me, as an effort of my mind and body (Mens et menus, MIT's slogan) feels more fulfilling than when I was purely doing computer work. I am at the stage of thinking on really working for myself - not for others - by subsistence living with my family. Growing up in Brooklyn, I used to dream about a large piece of land in Wyoming or Montana. By the 80s, the Japanese were buying lots of property in Montana.
Serious question: Why not plant trees & shrubs & grasses in parking lots? (as in, in containers or medians). Shade the parking lot and make it less hot. Make it prettier to park in and attract birds & other wildlife. You could even charge people for the privilege of parking somewhere nice for a change.
India's ancient carpet weaving industry meets AI
I'm going to be pedantic and challenge your use of the word 'learn' here. I tend to agree with the notion that being able to say 'I don't know, let me find out' and then find out quickly with a correct answer is in general a Good Thing™, but I wouldn't equate that with learning the thing they just looked up.
Thank you for disagreeing. The relative complexity of macros vs fexpr is interesting and your reply uncovered unspoken assumptions in my thinking.

Common lisp's read macros are indeed a different beast. Mutating the bytes pulled from file before parsing them is more powerful than operating on the lists of symbols.

Macros imply a phase separation which fexpr do not. The compile time diagnostics and similar are an artifact of that phase separation, not of evaluation sequencing.

If one wants to build in that phase separation, I think it follows that unhygienic macros are the simple option. Hygienic macros still carry much implementation complexity.

If one wants hygienic behaviour, fexpr do that exactly as easily as lexically scoped lambdas, because they literally are lambda which pass the argument forms unevaluated. I implemented that as a bool tag on the function affecting calling convention - do you map eval across the arguments or not during the function call - and that's sufficient.

If the desired behaviour is variable capture from the calling environment, it takes more effort from a fexpr than from a macro. You write (eval env 'foo) instead of ,foo or similar.

I don't see a particular need for a code walker - in the simple case the argument gets passed around a little then evaluated, in the complicated case you need to walk the arguments the same way a macro would want to.

The phase separation thing I had forgotten about. As in warning messages during compilation so that you have invariants at runtime. Macros fit that model better. Fexpr and compilation are an uneasy combination.
Elon Musk's Neuralink has put in its first human brain implant
Your "steelman" is embarrassingly bad. Why play devil's advocate if you're going to do such a bad job of it? Here's an alternative:

- As a form of fair use, models learn styles of art or writing the same way humans do - by seeing lots of examples. It is possible to create outputs that are very similar to existing works, just as a human painter could copy a famous painting. The issue there lies in the output, not the human/model.

- Provide comfortable office jobs for people in economically underdeveloped countries, categorizing data to minimize harm for content moderators worldwide. One piece of training data for a model to filter harmful content can prevent hundreds/thousands of people from being exposed to similar harmful content in the future.

- Reduces or eliminates unpleasant low-skill jobs in call centers, data entry, etc.

- Creates new creative opportunities in music, video games, writing, and multimedia art by lowering the barriers to entry for creative works. For example, an indie video game developer on a shoestring budget could create their own assets, voice actors, etc.

- Reduces carbon emissions by replacing hours of human labor with seconds of load on a GPU.
The article explains how ars was used for a second stage payload.

The device would have to be initially compromised by other means (by usb drive in their slides).

Browsing ars did not expose any users.

Did you read, or just writing comments anyway?
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The hard part of biological weapons is to bypass the immunity system. Everything looks super well-defined, but in the something will eat your vector up.
Yeah, but I don't think anyone is going to be using these in public (and if they are, it will be super easy to punk them).

Now, I'm not stupid. The moment people saw AI generated art as art, something fundenmentally changed: no longer were these impregnable objects that infinitely aroused our aesthetic sensibilities containing something within them we might call "human." It was just machines, machines that could appear confusing and scary to us, in a way that has started to feel overwhelming.

The world is turning, but what will end first, the concept of humanity, or humanity itself?
The "wings stay on/wings fall off" switch is the one I keep having to dig up at work (alternating with "Why do we even have that lever?" from emperor's new groove.) And then there's "Cow Tools"...
Sorry, I was unclear. I meant "media" in the general sense, not "The Media" in the sense of media companies. "Media" includes the internet.
The costs were already paid. AWS bought that IP space over the past decade. On their financials for 2024, the cost of the IP space they already held is zero.
Coming from the "data world", how does a tool like Airflow/Dagster/Prefect differ from these?
Corporate firewalls throw so many alerts that it's unlikely that a human even sees it let alone looks into it.
You’ll probably enjoy Scribblenauts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribblenauts
I guess what I meant to ask what the implications or consequences of it being inexcusable are. When someone says that, what do they want to happen?

Do they just want people to acknowledge it was bad, and then everyone goes on with their life? Do the police make them wear a scarlet letter or send them out into the wilderness. Does it mean they are no longer invited to dinner parties?
This means Signal server must run on Intel CPUs with SGX enabled?
I'm using it every day. I wish you could turn off title truncating, as my style of using the app is to skim through the feeds and only click the interesting articles. Also it would be nice to be able to filter out future items from the feeds, as some feeds use future dates as a way to schedule or announce something, and I would like to see just the immediate news. If it weren't for these two points, I'd say a 10/10 app.
> Realistically that is probably decades away

That’s a century away absent a mass market vr/ar product to act as driver for competition and innovation
That works in a world where everyone is technically competent, but oddly many people applying to software positions are, optimistically, planning to learn on the job. Work with enough folks like that at once and the motivation for the coding interview becomes clear.
May I recommend 'How to win friends and influence people' instead of such naked user hostility.
I had that thought, although according to another comment the definitions have crossover. Probably because people so frequently confuse the two, but here we are.
If the battery suddenly drops out, your vision is now completely blanked out. If you're walking or moving and become suddenly blind, you can see how that would be unsafe.
I went down a Kaiju rabbithole. Here are the monsters I created

- Dragon + Lazer = Dragonzord

- Dragonzord + Sandpunk = Sandzord

- Dragon-Rex + Hippopotamus = Hippodragon

- Mega Dragonzord (didn't see recipe)

- Hippodragon + Mega Dragonzord = Mega Hippodragonzord

- Mega Hippodragonzord + Flying Circus = Mega Flying Circus Hippodragonzord

- Zombie + Mega Dragonzord = Zombie Dragonzord

- Swan + Megazord = Swan Megazord

- Sandzord

- Steam Dragonzord

- Swan Dragonzombie Megazord

- Mega Swan Dragonzord Megazord

The more ridiculous this gets the more fun I'm having! Everything after dragonzord was a first discovery.
I would be curious to learn more about Google News abuses too. It doesn’t sound completely far fetched. Google search is known to have served up malicious websites masquerading as legitimate ones. For example, here’s one that was disguised as gimp.org:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33384236

Unlikely that such an attack would make it far on HN though.
I've started to think about the current use of AI as trend in the 1990s that started moving unimportant goods to be "manufactured in China".

Quality doesn't matter -- money matters. And with AI you can save a lot of money without sacrificing a lot of quality.
It's the same shit bitcoin peddlers have pushed for years. "Have fun staying poor". Insult you, imply it's a personal failing that you're not getting on board with this thing which coincidentally they have invested heavily in.
> lot of groups running towards this goal

For such vanity?
> Not unheard of, but unusual.

At my company we tell people that they should feel free to google or consult references at practical coding challenges.

> It seems hard to test someone's knowledge that way.

I don’t really want to test knowledge but skill. Can you do the thing? At work you will have access to these references so why not during the interview?

Now that doesn’t mean that we are not taking note when you go searching and what you go searching for.

If you told us that you spent the last 8 years of your life working with python and you totally blank on the syntax of how to write a class that is suspicious. If you don’t remember the argument order of some obscure method? Who cares. If you worked in so many languages that you don’t remember if the Lock class in this particular one is reentrant or not and have to look it up? You might even get “bonus points” for saying something like that because it demonstrates a broad interest and attention to detail. (Assuming that using a Lock is reasonable in the situation and so on of course :))
That's a fair comment, but the article criticises more than just that element of AI. I took your comment to mean that the ends justified the means if one couldn't tell the difference between AI and human content, which it doesn't sound like you were suggesting.
There's some work on this on the web space - our company is doing something not too dissimilar using the still experimental API called WebCodecs.

And that pretty much says everything unfortunately - it's still an experimental API with limited availability.

You can do some parts of this using Canvas[0] but there's lots of caveats.

[0] https://github.com/bwasti/mebm/tree/main
They are the HOA of the Internet world.

I’ve had the exact same equipment scam happen. I ended up paying the first time. The second time I had a full video of me walking into the office (because at the time you had to return the equipment to the actual office, couldn’t ship it) and it took only a few months to get resolved.

I don’t think there are many places that aren’t Comcast only. I briefly lived in an area with fiber-to-the-home. It was the same general cost as Comcast, but so much better and the service was rock solid reliable.

They are a national disgrace, especially after all the money put into rural broadband initiatives and fiber optics rollouts somehow managed to produce basically… nothing. But I’m sure they weren’t involved.

And what’s happening is plain as day. Check this quote out:

> Comcast’s lack of broadband growth started last year, when the largest U.S. internet provider reported no additions in the second quarter of 2022 for the first time in the company’s history. Since then, Comcast has reported net broadband losses in three of the last five quarters.

> Comcast executives have pushed investors to focus on broadband’s rising average revenue per user (ARPU) growth, driven by price increases and upselling packages, rather than net additions. Comcast’s residential broadband ARPU rose 3.9% in the quarter.

> “As we continue to manage this balance, we expect ARPU growth to remain strong and our primary driver of broadband revenue growth with somewhat higher subscribers losses expected the fourth quarter compared to the 18,000 loss we just reported in the third quarter,” Comcast Chief Financial Officer Jason Armstrong said during the company’s earnings conference call Thursday.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/26/comcast-broadband-worries.ht...

They’re not even interested in expanding broadband footprints anymore, just getting more revenue out of existing customers. And they are completely upfront about it.

Sorry, but I haven’t had one good interaction with this company, and I don’t think I’m alone.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/comcast-is-americas-most-hated-co...
AI has been a great help in my little day to day stuff and I'm happy to report I wouldn't go without it.
Reminds me of the hiring committee at Google that rejected their own packets (with the names changed).
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It's, in practice, applied gradient-based optimization on a geometrically-defined objective, which means if you squint hard enough it's machine learning.

(I am a crystallographer turned machine learning engineer.)
> A machine can be told that something is interesting, where humans need to innately find something interesting or spend a long time sort of learning to find something interesting.

Humans seem to be the same way. Lots of people learn something because it pays well.
You ask many kind of questions.

A candidate can do very well on personal and web project experience questions, and suddenly blank when you ask them how an http request is structured. Or what's CORS.

Then you dig further and discover a lot more thing about them that wouldn't have surfaced otherwise because hou assumed they knew all of that.

My best advice would be to never skip "dumb" and easy technical questions. You can do it very quick, and warn ahead that it's dumb questions but you ask them to everyone.
I’m fascinated by this but on mobile at least I can’t quite figure out what the colours mean. Is there a legend I can peek at?
WTF? That's the CEO of Hacker News?
Here’s all the combinations I’ve came up with so far:
Swamp + Mud = Quagmire
Divorce + God = Odd
Sun + Hourglass = Time
Glass + Hourglass = Time
Ice + Oasis = Penguin
Sand + Stone = Pyramid
Mirage + Time = Illusion
Dinosaur + Lightning = Godzilla
Oasis + Water = Mirage
Egg + Time = chicken
Golem + tide = Titan
Titan + time = Chronos
Poseidon + lighting = Zeus
Titan + Chronos = Cronus
Time + Fire = Sun
Sun * Titan = Apollo
Ash + Mud = Clay
Godzilla + Love = God
? + ? = Spongebob
Unicorn+Gold=Alchemy
Unicorn+Alchemy = Philosopher’s Stone
Gold+Alchemy=Midas
swamp+chicken=duck
duck+roast=goose
goose+goose=flock
flock+wind=flight
Narwhal+time=unicorn
Lightning + Treasure = lots of stuff (Rich, idk
Narwhal+unicorn=narwhalicorn
Jonah+time=narwhal
Whale+oasis=jonah
Plant+seed=tree
noah+ark=flood
curse+jesus=cross
bank+intrest=money
dandelion+cactus=desert
Back to the future+riddle=time travel
back to the future+time=delorian
Desert+indiana jones=tresure
> The ease with which one can become addicted to digital consumption is the problem, not the digital media itself.

It's not just "ease" though, it's that some of the smartest, highest paid people in the world get paid to specifically push the set of content that is the most addicting.
True, most interviewing processes are very imperfect by necessity and some qualified people will be mistakenly filtered out.

But also, there are usually several-to-many applicants for a position that are all qualified, and by necessity most of them won't get the position.

Additionally, technical qualifications is only a part of what an employer is looking for. There are other things that are at least equally important -- how well the applicant would fit into the team, how trustworthy they are, etc. It's about a lot more than just technical skillset.
This is where I miss | still pull out the original ERMapper geospatial viewer with the .ERS ASCII file "header" for viewing.

https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/ers.html

does not in any way do it justice.

What it allows you to do is create a text header description for a binary file .. pretty much any binary image (and not intended to be image) "raw" (ish) format that existed then and now.

Band interleaved, band seperated, row interleaved, column orientated, etc. 8 bit, 12, 24, 32 bit, big or little endian, with or without header "junk" to skip at start of file and|or at the start of each "virtual row"

The handy hack was the ability to view as image and file that had time series aquisition by sketching out how to block it, how to understand the binary, insert optional colour maps .. and then being able to rapidly visually scan 2GB or 16GB of binary blob with real time fly about zoom in zoom out capability.

Intended for multichannel satellite | aircraft | other instrument data with a variety of metadata (timing, position, instrument orientation, etc) - useful far beyond its core target.

Addendum: for the curious, somewhat better description of the .ERS layout from PDF page 33 onwards of https://www.aseg.org.au/sites/default/files/ER%20Mapper%20Cu...
As far as I know, the HHKB was inspired by the Apple Lisa / Macintosh keyboard: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_keyboards which predates the Sega AI, so maybe the Sega design was also inspired by the Apple design.
Totally wrong. Transit != rail. There are amazing trailheads that are easily accessible from downtown Seoul by a reasonably short busride (e.g. Bukhansan national park). The fact that buses run to these trailheads does absolutely nothing to diminish them. In fact, they enhance them, because they make it possible to through-hike! Eat your heart out, personal automobile.
As did we all.
Looks like it has not been updated in 3yrs
Is that not what HN at large keeps on talking about doing more - stretch the thing you use to its absolute limits before you upgrade
TBH, unless they used this branding for their mobile network or advertised it without actually being able to provide 10 Gbps fiber, I don't see why they were slapped.
Star Trek's version of Earth's history had dystopian "Sanctuary Districts" being created in US cities in the 2020s that were IIRC based on similar principles. Life imitates art.
This happened to a client of mine, almost precisely a year ago. I had warned them - get your domain off Godaddy ASAP. They didn't listen, and left it for three months after winning it in one of Godaddy's "Auctions", which promised a year's renewal as part of the auction. Godaddy not only didn't send renewal notices, they admitted they didn't send renewal notices, and he had to buy it back from them again at "Auction" 3 months later. This time, he was sure to transfer it as soon as possible.
Looks like it is related to futz, how I have heard it "don't futz around with that" with kind of means don't like at it because you'll break it.
One thing you've really got to watch out for (and that Meta and assorted devs are just ignoring as a problem) is that it's easy to actually make VR nausea much worse and last longer by attempting to power through it; the only reliable way to get over it is lots of light exposure with very regular breaks (in other words, the good ol' Virtual Boy safety setting).

I think that's a big part of why Apple is doing their best to pretend that any VR experiences that also involve moving your viewpoint around don't exist. Static or 'grab and drag the world around' styles work much better for avoiding nausea in general.
I certainly agree -- but then they should not expect anything to be done about whatever they're complaining about.

I interpreted kazinator's original comment as essentially saying "This looks like something I might use myself, but for this dealbreaker issue."
This post doesn't say how it works which is a shame. Anyone found a link to what gives the claimed 10x over immer?
Does Screamer also do something similar? http://nikodemus.github.io/screamer/
> admins don’t intervene often enough for their misjudgements to cause a problem for the whole website

Sure, but admins can influence the narrative of specific topics/pages that they care about.