skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most tech workers underestimate how high skilled tradework and many other positions outside their experience are, especially management work.

Absolutely, (in particular) MEP (sheetmetal workers, pipefitters, electricians, plumbers) tradespeople and project managers are highly skilled/knowledgeable and the work requires a lot of coordination. You basically have to understand how an entire building/space is constructed from start to finish to properly plan and schedule a project.

For the record, plenty of other trades are highly skilled, but their trade/craft is more specialized/focused and doesn’t require labor from start to finish.
Good point about Tandem, but it wasn't limited to them.

Checkpoint/restart has also long been a high-end capability found in HPC (High Performance Computing) systems. I recall it even it made it onto some commercial UNIXes, although I don't remember whether it was bundled in or took the form of some additional layered software such as LSF (Load Sharing Facility) (example: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=admini... ).

There are some people who have tried to bring some checkpoint/restart to Linux. For example, see the CRIU project:
https://criu.org/Checkpoint/Restore

I acknowledge that the original poster is talking about all this being done at the application level, not outside-the-app at the OS level...

For more references on the topic, see the wikipedia entry for Application checkpointing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_checkpointing
Not really. A Non profit ceo will always take a pay cut. You can't expect big tech salaries in a non profit, and if they can truly get a better salary elsewhere that's probably what they should do if they want that type of revenue. The thing is, they usually can't. A non profit ceo is not typically very well suited to be a big corp executive, and vice versa.
Kinda looks like an AI generated blog post if you ask me. It's almost as good at keyword stuffing as I am.

I had a pitch deck on this I made six years ago which is way better than that but that's because my business partner and I spent a long time showing people decks and improving them.

I'd also say that I find prediction >> regression for the problems I work on, my good old logit model usually calibrates properly which is more than I can say for regression problems on noisy data. (e.g. I have "Is this headline going to get >10 votes on Hacker News" working great but haven't managed to get a "how many votes is this headline going to get on HN?" model I like at all.)
Thank goodness. AI is already allowing enough manipulation of our elections as it is.
Exactly.

My stand-ups are 10-15 minutes, usually. When they use the full allocated 30 minutes it's because somebody wanted to dig into a specific topic (and anybody not interested in that topic is free to leave).

This is a normal agile development team - 1 manager (me) and ~6 engineers. We do the quick round-robin update, I'll make any announcements or ask for clarification, then if there's something that requires it, a deep dive (as deep as you can get in the remaining time).
This argument has appeared multiple times in this thread, and I'm genuinely curious: if pigs' behavior demonstrates to you that their status is low enough to warrant their treatment, why does adopting that behavior seem like a reasonable reaction? Or would you find a pig killing and eating a human to be a morally neutral incident that, while maybe not preferable, has no ultimate weight to consider?
Not really. It's the same 3-step process in both cases.
I can understand this as a person who once recommended Android to his parents when it gained traction (nexus 7 days, great concept ruined by terrible eMMC storage amd other hardware flaws to compete on price though).

On the other hand, I am a "loyal" G customer and I never felt pushed into this. I pay for YT premium and iCloud+ (the equivalent to Google one, albeit with much less storage).
The attacks from Lebanon are in defense of Gaza

Sorry, but this is simply naive. Hezbollah and Iran are doing what they're doing out of long-standing ulterior geopolitical motives. Not because they could give a flying toss about the Palestinians.
FWIW I have spent a few years leading GTM strategy for startups, am consulting on marketing for startups, and thinking about getting back into a startup, so I'd be open to a conversation about what you're trying to do.

Fundamentally, marketing is about 2 things: awareness and engagement. Awareness is generally about socializing the problem, how current solutions fail, and what the gaps are, in a way that directly maps to your product. Each market is different enough that you have to appreciate the context: who has this problem? Do they know they have this problem? Have they budgeted for a solution (i.e. are they in-market or are you trying to convince them to spend money on it)? The classic b2b trap is everyone telling you it's a problem, but it not being enough of a priority that they actually spend time fixing it. That's often more indicative of a product problem than a marketing problem, but it shows up most in weak GTM. Validating that in your early GTM is key.

Similarly, engagement is context dependent, but I like to think of success as moving them to the next step of the funnel. Do they believe they have a problem? Are they looking for solutions? How are they going to make a decision about which to bring on board? What information can you offer to frame your offering in the best possible light vs. their other options (including no solution)? Build your collateral to that.
How is this enforceable? Did they just outlaw all automated voice messages? How is "AI" defined here?
KaiOS is struggling because business on the low-end segment is very hard. Which means that the technical side is cutting corners and you end up with a lacking product in important areas like security. (disclaimer: I worked there and left recently)
Ask HN: Lawn Mower Finder
I've seen a lot of computer parts finder sites on here in the past. Does anyone know of anything like that for lawn mowers?

It seems most stores carry only a subset of possible brands, so I've been searching multiple. I haven't been able to find what I really want - push mower, non-rusting deck (aluminum, nxite whatever that is, etc), high torque (8+ ftlb), and under $400.

Maybe the things I want just don't exist, or my expectations are unreasonable. I'm fine just replacing my junk mower with Facebook marketplace buys. But it would be nice to have something nice and low maintenance that will last longer.
coal mines are only hellish while you're down. yeah there is the black lung, but you can wear filters.

the goog tracks you (and everyone) 24-7, and depending on teams and egos, could be ugly. you spend your whole life tryin to get to FAANG tier, and now it's miserable.
How does this affect other countries dialing into the US?
Every disaffected teenager should read the Chrysalids. It captures perfectly the feeling that one is a mutant in a deranged adult society, by making it literal.
That wouldn't be legal I think.
Probably age discrimination. Fire broadly and you'll catch a lot of older workers, then rehire younger later.
Thieves steal 200ft structure from Alabama radio station
Personally, I would have preferred the FCC simply ban all unsolicited robocalls, regardless of their origin.
You shouldn't ever use your real name on any public forum ever. This has been true since the BBS days.
I’d recommend checking out MIT’s Distributed Systems course. All its videos and assignments are available online and teach you everything you would need to get into these systems and go in depth in them.
Adding to my other post:

Not only is this not consent, even when people explicitly tell advertisers that they do not consent, such as by sending a "do not track" header or using an adblocker, advertisers are specifically violating their explicit non-consent. You really have no moral ground to stand on here--this is literally someone saying "no" and you trying to shove your garbage in front of them anyway. Shame on you for defending this behavior.

If you want me to view ads as a condition of you serving up content, don't serve up content until I view the ad. There are plenty of sites that do this and I have no problem with that.
I mean... I assume that the person you're replying to doesn't buy Apple products. I certainly don't, precisely because I hate their arrogant "we know better than you" approach to technology. But I still think it's valid to discuss it as a drawback of the company's philosophy, even if you are choosing to not be a customer.
How do you study then?
This is a sad day for telephone scammer scammers.
I literally started reading his short stories yesterday. Can you recommend some favorites? So far, I’ve read Terminal Beach and The Drowned Giant.
It basically got pushed out by android as even very low end devices can now mostly run android sort of ok, right?
Robocalls themselves should be illegal.
I use Win10 and I don't get ads in my Start menu.

Is it maybe because I'm using Win10 Pro, not Home?
I think creating a culture where it’s ok to not have to justify yourself is so hard but important. Being able to say “nothing of note to update the team on” or “still focused on X,y,z at the moment” is great. If team members or leaders want to dig in / ask questions great. So many organizations create dynamic where people
feel they need to demonstrate all the work they’re doing (and some people just have an innate need to do this as well (often the least productive people)). Obviously leaders and managers to need to be connected to that - but standups don’t seem to be the right place for that
https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2018/08/07/in-memoriam-gerva...
Yes, it's that simple, but not really that simple.

For example, Bard is embedded as a chatbot inside Google Messages (at least for some subset of beta users). Imho, this is a killer app sort of feature, but it hasn't been mentioned at all in the Gemini PR.

Also, there's now the new Google One AI Premium sub for $20/mo, which adds Gemini to the older Google One Premium sub ($10/mo). However, that legacy sub was somewhat explicitly positioned as a solution for family sharing, especially of shared data (2TB across metered Google properties). It's unclear whether the new AI Premium sub grants Gemini access to all family members.
> what privacy means and entails in context to web browsing

The most private browsing you can have is when no other party besides you (A) and the site you are bringing up (B) are part of the communication.

- TLS, formerly SSL, provides transport security - meaning eavesdroppers that might be listening in to A and B above will only see encrypted data.

- DoH provides transport security for the system that resolves DNS names to IP addresses (needed for your browser to connect to a site). DNS is distributed and not authenticated by design, meaning the DNS server your browser talks to could be redirected or intercepted. DoH prevents at least your ISP or public Wi-Fi network provider from doing that.

So those are things that increase privacy. The following decrease privacy.

- Web sites themselves run code (Javascript) which can communicate back with the server in the background.

- Javascript and HTML cookies allow websites to store arbitrary data on your computer - not typically too much data, but enough to store a unique identifier that can be used to recognize you. Other data your browser provides to Javascript, such as screen resolution, installed fonts, and mouse events, can also be used.

- Websites often import code from other servers - such as gathering metrics, delivering ads, etc. The code these servers run often reports data back to them and stores their own persistent data such as cookies, etc. Adblocking is a popular way to reduce this impact.

These are ways "tracking across your IP" can be done. This persistent data can also be used to correlate your visits, so that, even if you are not logged in to a site (e.g. anonymous), the website can still know who you are.

None of the above really addresses what a website does with basic statistics and information it collects after it is transmitted and has made it completely out of the browser. In most cases you've given this data voluntarily and it's needed to conduct a service, such as purchase history from an e-commerce site. That's really a separate privacy thing and not possible to directly address using browser technologies.
Because it's the internet. Anyone in the world can see a post, decide to do something, and then try and seek me (or my family, job, etc) out. I grew up watching YouTubers struggle under the weight of popularity without the professional teams that celebrities employ. I've also seen a mob of thousands harass an individual for a few days because of something that was false. I'd like to be able to walk away from the computer for some peace if I get upset over something online.

I also like the ability to be wrong. I am serious about behaving appropriately so that I don't have to fear being revealed online, but there are some previous posts of mine (even here) that I feel embarassed about because they didn't come across right or I was wrong about something. If one person confronts me about that, I'll live with it. If the internet does, then what if I always have to defend myself because there's ten thousand plus people who ask?

Online, it's hard to have a one-on-one conversation. I may speak to one person, but anyone may reply. I'm sure one day the me online will be 1:1, but until then I like the peace and calm.

Here's the best metaphor I can think of on short notice:
John moved to a new city recently and he was looking at the houses along his block. He noticed they all had something on their doors. Curious, he asks a neighbor, Alice, what it was for.

Alice replies, "When it rains."

John is confused. "We had a lovely sprinkle just yesterday." He says with an eyebrow raised. "I think you're too worried."

"No," Alice shakes her head. "When it pours. The water can reach up to your waist."
It is supply and demand, but actually has a fascinating supply chain behind it that needs to be timed perfectly. There is a great Planet Money episode on it: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/13/386005044/epis...
I hate wireless headphones because they are a strictly worse product. They cost a lot more, can be lost, and need to be charged. But the only advantage they offer (being wireless) isn't actually useful. So I use wired headphones, because they are flat out better in every way that matters.
We designed our systems to be resistant to certain types of fraud, but never got successful enough to be a target. :-/

But also, yes, micropayments are far less "fraud worthy" from an attackers perspective.
> A tip comes in about someone who frequents church X organizing a terrorist attack. Do you do a background check on church goers, look for suspicious activity, or sit back and twiddle your thumbs because this is “unfair targeting”?

Obviously no one will agree that the situation you described merits inaction. Preemptive surveillance “in case there is a terrorist” is a human rights violation because no one should be deprived of their privacy. Privacy is fundamental to psychological well being, creativity and self-determination.

Moreover, what’s to stop ideological enemies of one faction from sending false tips? Or to prevent progressive political action. For example, the FBI certainly considered civil rights activists as terrorists at one point (some still do, in different contexts). What if someone creates false flag terrorists to target a whole race? What if someone radicalizes someone by targeted harassment and stalking, and then blames their religion or culture if the target does something violent?

Yes, violence is scary and psychopaths doubly so. The response to violence and psychopaths is not to sacrifice human rights. We need to understand people and create more social cohesion. I think this also means understanding and identifying psychopathic and anti-social behaviors.

I don’t think killing people or locking them away from society is ever the answer because we will never run short of people to kill or lock away. We need less barbaric ways to deal with people, while also understanding the need for justice and revenge that being subject to such violence can create. The solution is not brute force surveillance. All this does is create resentment and political strife, and might lead to genocide.
Shadow the CEO of a well-run large company around for a couple of weeks.

I wouldn't want that job, and I'm not sure I could do it.

Always being on-call, and having to constantly context switch and synthesize questionably-accurate material from reports, to make important decisions.

(And that's not even broaching the political tasks... which are required, because it's the only way to become and remain CEO)
> It was back in the time of the SLA terrorism and Patty Hearst kidnapping. One of the brothers in East Oakland casually mentioned to a cop "What are all these hippies doing in our neighborhood?" (It turns out they were having a strategy meeting.)

The SLA only had one black member, who at the time was an escaped convict. Why would a half-dozen white hippies, and one black fugitive, leave their safehouse to hold a strategy meeting in East Oakland?
I’ve always dreamed of a social app that frog boils my brain to something useful. Like imagine mastodon, but posts start gradually transition to duolingo questions or paragraphs of a book I’m reading on kobo.

My worry is that I would stop using the app in the same way I don’t open an ebook by default when I’m bored.
Drivers using Apple Vision Pro headsets prompt road safety concerns
Indigenous languages are founts of environmental knowledge
John Donne's numbers (2010)
"better"

What does better mean? What is better in the last 10 years? And I'm not trolling, I'm interested in what 10 things FF got better for you in the last 10 years.

Say, I have been buying on Amazon 10 years ago using FF.

In which ways has FF made that better or easier for me as a user? Can't think of anything with Amazon.

The only things I can think of: More secure when misclicking somewhere and better video on Youtube.
with a book? Or notes from class? Asking someone educated on the topic?
Additional recent citation with regards to skill, talent, and experience meaning little at layoff time:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240208182735/https://old.reddi...

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/jpl-workforce-update

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39303463

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39282161
Having gone the other way, can comment slightly. Tried FB, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Youtube, Vimeo, Imgur, LinkedIn, and Slideshare. (Plus several forums/newsforums like Reddit, Slashdot) Mostly found out I was not humanity's demographic. I don't really like posting exercise photos. I don't really want to take pictures of my pets. I don't watch sports all that much. I don't follow celebrities much. There go most of the 10k+ categories. (re: Instagram's unlinkable explore page https://www.instagram.com/explore/ )

From my own experience, you don't actually feel very "in touch" unless you're successful. Instead, you end up making a lot of posts into the void that maybe get 10-20 views? 100 on a ++ post. Spend a month on a demo and get 1 comment. Watch nobody ever read what you wrote, while others post "does sugar go in spaghetti?" and get 60 million views and 4 million comments. [1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58270497
Here's a screen shot:

https://imgur.com/ILVMYtI

The prompt was "Create a picture of a hybrid dog-cat."

It's still trying to generate a public link for the chat, but just spinning after several minutes. So all you get right now is a screenshot ;-).

Interestingly, I tried again with a slightly different phrase, "Create an image of a hybrid cat-dog." and got two actual pictures in response. (Though it was just one picture of a funny looking cat, and a normal looking dog, not a hybrid of anything.)
What is this language's approach to memory safety?
It seems like this is mostly written to offend vegans, of which I am not, so I don't find most of it interesting honestly.

Only thing I have to say is

> People aren't rational. ~~There~~ Their beliefs are based off of instinctual desires and they construct scaffolds of rational logic around their preconceived beliefs.

A huge pet peeve of mine is when people tell me what I believe. Believe what you want, but I absolutely anchor my beliefs in my rational understanding. Sometimes I don't have a rational understanding, and no belief on the matter (not having an opinion is actually possible). That's why I asked.
Text books are still used in many parts of the world and all the course material are covered by those prescribed text books.
Funny enough, a KVM might be needed for KVM if you give the VM control of a USB hub and a discrete GPU using IOMMU and you only have one monitor and set of peripherals, but two hubs and an integrated GPU.
I am running ollama on my MSI GP76 windows laptop with RTX 3080 card and 64 gb ram. It's running on the baked in linux installation. It recognized the graphics card right away and works pretty well. On my macbook pro m3 max with 36 GB ram, I can't run the 70B parameter model.
When I was a child, during my very first visit to the computer lab, my teacher told me to never share personal details with strangers online. An indeterminate number of years later, I still follow her advice.
The Marvels and Singularity of Vision
If Apple has to force WebKit on every iOS browser for it to stay afloat, then something is wrong with WebKit.

I do agree that Chromium overtaking the web is bad for the open web in general. I don’t agree that forcing Apple to allow third party browser engines is going to make that problem worse.
it is expensive, as far as I understand it (I'm still just learning about it all), it is for those need total auditability, they mention EU a lot but also this seems catered to actual individuals who really want a truly open system that doesn't scarifice performance (RISC-V seems great for embedded but is still not there for high end workflows). To me, this sounds like a reasonable price for what they're providing but I understand it's definitely outside the price point of many but I must wonder if there's anything more besides price, is it really just that they're too expensive and this is why there's so little talk about it?
Well for LLM services that do what they currently do google may have an advantage, but all this stuff is still only experimentation with the goal being hopefully much more advanced things, like almost-agi agents. If this happens then no one will care about the way we currently use LLMs anymore.
This was useful, thank you.
Yep, it's really happening. Sudo is coming to Windows. It's obviously not just a fork of the linux sudo - there's enough that's different about the permissions structure between OS's that just a straight port wouldn't make sense. But the dream of being able to run commands as admin, in the same terminal window - that's the experience we're finally bringing to users.

I've been working on this for the last few months now and I'm pretty excited to talk about it or answer any questions!
Downtown Portland is a shadow of what it was ~8 years ago. You can't even walk down a street without feeling threatened anymore. Nothing will change unless they increase police presence and allow the police to clean the place up.

They need to get rid of the homeless camps and eradicate public drug use. Nothing will change otherwise. Portland today is like NYC in the 1980s.