skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the ongoing 50 year old, fiat money system experiment is a bad idea

We're still talking about the largest era of wealth generated across any territory or time in human history, the American post-War ascendancy, right?
Yes, that is true for most engineers. Good engineers are constantly practicing their thinking skills no matter what, which can often cause them to outgrow their current tools and ways of reasoning.

The next step for many is to contribute and make the path easier for others. Enabling lazy people to outgrow themselves can push boundaries and drive progress

Circle of life I guess.
The Skia C++ API changes quite a lot. If I didn't sync up regularly, the tech debt could become a problem down the line, for example if I want to add a platform that does need a new build of the library.
Thanks for that perspective. I haven't done any MacOS development.
I started a large solo project in late 2019 using Swift. I have no trouble compiling and linking the project today. I have been adding Swift code to an old Objective-C project without issues. There was an open source objc project I tried to modify recently, and was told that a feature was so deprecated that using it was no longer an option, forcing me to consider rewriting a large swatch of objc code; it just got so convoluted that I bailed.

Early Swift adapters got the arrows in the back. I was not an early adapter.
> Yeah the whole thing is a typical example of HackerNews readers not actually knowing anything outside of programming.

I feel like this should be said a second time.
If you're open to something slightly different there are many US government jobs in Europe for US citizens, and that can include engineering jobs, and technical jobs interfacing with customers - normally located around embassies & US/NATO bases.

https://www.usajobs.gov/
It's weird to consider paying taxes as a tradeoff. "Digital nomad" isn't a code for tax avoidance, is it?
Usually to make a program do something the author didn't think of, by passing it a filename to one of its descriptors where the author only gave you a configuration of a path. For example, starting a service under a monitoring system which gives it a pipe to a logger on fd3, then telling it to write a log file of /dev/fd/3
> Even without yours, they have enough of your relatives' to identify you

This is what makes me mildly irritated about “consent to collect DNA samples.” DNA is not just you, unlike other biometrics, like fingerprints—it’s your relatives too. This makes it hypothetically possible, for example, for some insurer to genetically determine you have a preexisting condition without ever consenting to give your DNA.

Of course this will never get unwound because of the enormous boon to law enforcement these mega gene databases have been.
Your question presumes a black and white worldview which I do not share. Things can be good for some reasons and bad for others.
"How Manuals made me lazy"
Not just the CIA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
> but I believe that at some point these bots may become sentient,

Even if that is possible, it wouldn't change anything. The rest of you seem to have fixated on the idea that anything intelligent/sapient/sentient is what gives it moral standing.

I correctly adopted the position that "human" is what gives a thing its moral standing. I could meet intelligent aliens tomorrow, and they would be no more than bugs to me. I wouldn't try to stomp on them or anything (unwise), but until humanity as a whole negotiated or decided they had the same moral weight as humans, they're nothing to me.

Your confusion on this issue is noted, and I hope that, in time, those confused like yourself will grow up. The chatbot's not Commander Data. You liked him because he was still played by a human actor.
Live Streaming the Super Bowl: The Art of Scaling Across Multiple Cloud Regions
> Method swizzling is also an important tool for any aspiring macOS developer, unavailable/onerously painful in Swift.

I use swizzling in Swift. Can't see why it's more painful than in Objective-C.
It's also not something you do all the time. It's basically write once code for me.

Funny enough I mostly use it so swizzle UIViewController lifecycle methods and then just pass closures in instead of subclassing UIViewController. Yes, I don't subclass UIViewController and haven't for years and years. (I mostly don't subclass that much nowadays - take that Objective-C!)
They stopped because they had a high percentage of abuse with Morons mining crypto
Vision Pro is going to be an interesting watch. I doubt it is bad gear, but it is hard to really understand the market Apple is chasing. In particular, the consumer VR market is dominated by gamers to an absurd degree. Trying to pull casuals into it feels way too strained. Similarly, professional use doesn't seem to be a strong value add, either. Will be interesting to see where things land.
Here's the blog: https://predibase.com/blog/lora-land-fine-tuned-open-source-...
What’s a good small cloud competitor to AWS? For teams that just need two AZs to get HA and your standard stuff like VMs, k8s, etc.
> The argument that Apple’s security model is the only one that can provide security is not sufficient. Those making this argument need to also prove that the browser engine can only be secure when made by Apple.

I don't think they're making the argument that this is the only one that would work, but that's a silly statement to even debate. Just coming up with a hypothetically security model that might work, is a huge difference from forcing a company to implement it. They're arguing against the second one, the idea that they should be forced to do this, by way of stating the current system works. That doesn't require address hypothetical other systems. I also don't think such verification of hypothetical systems is even possible. We have trouble enough understanding the security of existing systems.
> bred for qualities that enhance their interaction and dependency on humans

That's basically the whole idea behind dogs.
We've used Notion as well pretty extensively and actually have an integration in Dart with them. From my current experiences Notion AI is mostly helpful for brainstorming, document editing, and search (for example to help with finding relevant info across your company docs). Their PM tool is more of an open-sandbox approach that doesn't always have the most robust features in any particular direction but is very flexible and easy to try out different templates for.

We have a bit of a stronger emphasis on personal and team task management with less of a sandbox-feel and more of an opinionated-PM feel, and our AI features are in line with that with stuff like task property filling and roadmap suggestions. We also have similar capabilities in AI doc editing (although Notion and other tools are definitely more fleshed out there if your use case is primarily writing).

That being said it's a very quickly evolving landscape and I wouldn't be surprised if things change in the near future. Would love to hear anyone else's perspective as well who've either tried both or used our integration.
Always has been.

Now picture what would have happened if we had been willing to do challenge trials early on for COVID.

I encourage you to check out 1DaySooner, which the author mentions at the beginning of the article: https://www.1daysooner.org/
Scrap metal prices are nowhere near the peaks they hit in 2007.
> I believe a green flag for a company is that they will hire you regardless of where you are located

The counterargument here is that unless you are personally familiar with the legal/compliance/tax issues, you can't really tell if they're doing things on the up and up.

Honestly, companies doing it 100% by the book and hiring people from anywhere is a red flag for me because it's such a pain in the butt both in terms of time and cost to do this right. Is this really the best use of the company's resources?

It makes much more sense to expand slowly than expand quickly (assuming you do it 100% legally) unless you have a massive surplus of time and/or money to figure it out.
If you liked the premise, I can warmly recommend Counterpart. It’s a series with JK Simmons.

It’s much better imo.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterpart_(TV_series)
You don't. But it means that the title of the story is correct as worded: if you do use those tools, you are getting spied on. The fact that you're warned about that somewhere in the TOS doesn't change the fact, and the story is basically correct.
When you send data to someone else they have that data, act accordingly.

Anything else is just stupid. Didn't we all learn on the playground that a secret isn't secret any more once you tell a friend?
Just hit the reader view button.
I think the obvious answer is there's not much demand, and keeping it "low" allows trickery and funny business with the virtualization layer (think: SAN, etc) that you can't do with "raw hardware speed".
It's much easier to make smaller scope changes at higher frequency than it is to make large changes at lower frequency. This is the entire reason the software industry adopted CI/CD
Umm, the argument in the article seems self-defeating. UI=f(org) except we end up with the same UI with radically different orgs because we can just f() over the differences with dark design patterns and users can't tell the difference.

I can show you anything in a UI - only good orgs can develop valuable products from those UIs.
One of my criticisms of Rust is that it’s a very RSI causing language. Very heavy on reaching awkward keys.

I mean, a read through the guide makes this very readable, but it doesn’t change that it looks like symbol soup and have lots of awkward repetitive strain to type it out.
> What's wrong with size_t and uint32_t and uint64_t?

An extra #include and more typing?

Plus, all the C89 users are out of luck...
"Losses" are unpaid wages too.
Profit only exists if you do not fully distribute revenue, it seems to me.

"Silly" - avoid swipes please.
Yes, I agree with you, nuance is key. I just have bad experiences of people throwing me sentences stolen from these types of articles as an argument of "why I should not do X" and then these people just never do anything throughout the development cycle just keep arguing as dead weight and failing to deliver cycle after cycle. Sorry, lots of trauma here.
Thanks for sharing! Looks super interesting. I’ll check it out.
It's good to take a step back and realize how many tools there are now. For example, there are so many component libraries that sit on different abstraction layers. From very opinionated, to super configurable (like Radix). The React ecosystem is great right now.

So a good component library, a good framework like Remix, and it's such a joy to code on the front end.
The answer is yes, you can find roles like that. It would help if you link to your resume somewhere -- I'm not really interested in emailing you for it.
It is possible, but it involves hiring, not firing people.
I think it is less secure - for the single case of the password manager being compromised). But I think it is still 2-factor - the thing you know (the password) and the thing you have (proof that you had control of the device (or eco-system) the TOTP seed was created on).

So if you've memorized an uncrackable password for a password manager whose architecture you trust is secure, and use a third party TOTP provider (or a hardware key) for the password manager login I think its as good as using a 3rd party TOTP provider for everything. And a lot more convenient.
3) Go out for a ride and never go back. I kid, but if anyone is wondering why fewer people want to have children these days, maybe they should consider that precocity might drive people to work harder, but it does not yield a comfortable environment for raising kids.
The GP commented once, politely disagreeing and describing their own experience. Looking over their past comments, I also don't see hostility to the ideals of memory safety or using Rust.

Seems like you made a passive-aggressive presumption.
Can you please explain how you were able to fine-tune these models for less than $8?
I think this quote from Julia Adams, one of the signers, is relevant:

> "The concerns articulated in the FfY formation statement pertain to universities — and not their members! — as activists."

There's no problem with individuals within academics being activists, but the institution itself should remain neutral. Its goal should be to foster an environment where ideas can be shared freely and considered by anyone.
Yeah. I managed to abstract a bit the structure but in the end websites change.
Yeah I'm not surprised. My previous company had scrapers for ~50 of our suppliers (so they didn't need to integrated with us), and I worked on/off on them for 7 years. It was a very different type of work to the product/infra work I spent most of my time doing.

One scraper is often not hugely valuable, most companies I've seen with scrapers have many scrapers. This means that the time investment available for each one is low. Some companies outsource this, and that can work ok. Then scrapers also break. Frequently. Website redesigns, platform moves, bot protection (yes, even if you have a contract allowing you to scrape, IT and BizDev don't talk to each other), the site moving to needing JavaScript to render anything on the page... they can all cause you to go back to the drawing board.

The concept of "tech debt" kinda goes out of the window when you rewrite the code every 6 months. Instead the value comes from how quickly you can write a scraper and get it back in production. The code can in fact be terrible because you don't really need to read it again, automated testing is often pointless because you're not going to edit the scraper without re-testing manually anyway. Instead having a library of tested utility functions, a good manual feedback loop, and quick deployments, were much more useful for us.
Feds Seize LockBit Ransomware Websites, Offer Decryption Tools, Troll Affiliates
It's still an exceptionally poor privacy policy compared to pre-LLM online services.

Compare with the Google Docs privacy policy, for example:

https://support.google.com/docs/answer/10381817?hl=en

> Google respects your privacy. We access your private content only when we have your permission or are required to by law.

I think it is reasonable to expect the same from LLM API providers. The fact that they all currently do mass surveillance on users is bad.
You'd almost certainly just use a library dedicated to mitigating this problem though, of which there are many.
Looks interesting. Does it do progress forecasting based on historical task velocity, without the need for manual estimation?

(See eg: https://screenful.com )

Ed: Does it support importing historical data, and/or external data sources like GitHub, Jira, Trello etc - for current projects and to set a baseline grounded in data? Like historical velocity?

Ed2: I guess so? From the welcome email:

> Once you're logged in, you can import your tasks from most other apps and let us know if you need support with that
And that helps in financial analysis how?
Bill Gates can afford to be stolen from. But the legal system operates on principles, not vibes.
DigitalOcean has been great, have managed k8s and generally good bang for your buck
> Seems like the mistake is building 300+ systems instead of a handful of systems.

But that’s not what happens on enterprise organisations. 90% of those are bought “finished” products, which then aren’t actually finished and you can be most certain that almost none of them are capable of sharing any sort of data without help.

Hell, sometimes you’ll even have 3 of the same system. You may think it’s silly, but it is what it is in non-tech enterprise where the IT department is viewed as a cost-center similar to HR but without the charisma and the fact that most managers think we do magic.

Over a couple of decades I’ve never seen an organisation that wasn’t like this unless it was exclusively focused on doing software development, and even in a couple of those it’s the same old story because they only build what they sell and not their internal systems.

One of the things I’m paid well to do is help transitions startups from their messy monoliths into something they can actually maintain. Often with extensive use of the cheaper external developers since the IT department is pure cost (yes it’s silly) and you just can’t do that unless you isolate software to specific teams and then set up a solid architecture for how data flows between systems. Not because you theoretically can’t, but because the teams you work with often barely know their own business processes. I currently know more about specific parts of EU energy tariffs than the dedicated financial team of ten people who work with nothing else, because I re-designed some of the tools they use and because they have absolutely no process documentation and a high (I’m not sure what it’s called in English, but they change employees all the time). Which is in all regards stupid, but it’s also the reality of sooo many places. Like, the company recently fired the only person who knows how HubSpot works for the organisation during down sizing… that’s the world you have to design systems for, and if you want it to have even a fraction of a chance to actually work for them, you need to build things as small and isolated as possible going all in on team topologies even if the business doesn’t necessarily understand what that is. Because if you don’t, you end up with just one person who knows how the HubSpot integrations and processes work.

It’s typically the same with monoliths, they don’t have to be complicated messes that nobody knows how work… in theory… but then they are build and maintained by a range of variously skilled people over 5 years and suddenly you have teams who hook directly into the massive mess of a DB with their Excel sheets. And what not.
He couldn't find an intuitive GUI for GLIGEN so he made one himself
Yet corporations still embrace this illusion when it comes to, say, operating in those nations. It's a borderless world for them, just not for us.
This was an interesting piece.

One thing I think was missing is a note about evolution's role.

I think many of these traits are evolutionary; they trigger dopamine responses because at some point they were helpful. Sugary foods have calories so you don't starve. Boredom is painful so people invent.

Modern society is frankly too good at satisfying these evolutionary cravings. They've become maladaptive by nature of being artificially satiated. Boredom no longer leads to invention, it leads to addiction. Sugary foods no longer help you survive the winter, they give you diabetes.

Our social evolution has dramatically outpaced our geneologic evolution. Our social evolution is so far along that we can not only manipulate ourselves using our prior geneologic evolution, but also treat maladaptive traits well enough to prevent evolving out of those signals.

Eating too much sugary food gives people diabetes, but modern medicine allows people to survive that and procreate. Social media makes people depressed and anxious, but we have meds to help and online dating to find a partner.

That feedback loop where maladaptive traits are gradually phased out is gone. Society is now the cause of and solution to most of life's problems (insert Homer Simpson "beer is the cause of and solution to life's problems" meme here).

The solutions here kind of suck. One is to let evolution run its course, but that's frankly a thin veil over eugenics and society will just pivot and make some other trait maladaptive. The other is regulation, which is likely to be politically unpopular. The last is the global warming approach where we largely ignore it until nature takes control away from us. That appears to be what we're doing; we hope the issues don't become society-threatening and wait.
vast.ai, runpod.io, tensordock.com, ... I have just ordered a GEX44 from Hetzner. :-)
Buy a server
Digital Ocean. But they don’t have concept of multi az as far as I know. But they have multiple data centers in same region. But I am not aware if there is any private networking between DCs in the same region.
Kadoa looks great. For tool discovery/usage, are you using LangChain or something else?

Also, do you support scraping private sites, ie. sites that require a login/password to access the data to scrape?

Thank you!
Steam Audio is only concerned with spatial audio rendering, which is a subset of what Fmod and Wwise do.

Any time you hear dynamically mixed music in a game, for example, that was probably arranged using Fmod or Wwise.
Language Modeling Is Compression: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.10668
I mean, probably. But there's no smoking gun here, just wild speculation. Someone should dig deeper and ask Microsoft / OpenAI to disclose exactly how they obtained the "threat intelligence".

Here's the full report for reference, but they don't answer how the data was collected or correlated to the specific "threat actors": https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/02/14/sta...
He he, it'll be tough for that to happen to Apple, as Apple has become a protected class in their customers' minds, imo.
Yeah, lots of startups will do this.
You're not wrong, but when you're inheriting a convoluted 50 file React shitfest that could have been a single HTML page and 20 lines of javascript... what are you going to do? Invest time in understanding that, or radically simplify in 20% of the time it takes to grok what you get thrown at you?
This is how cargo ships fight pirates without guns [video]
"lie" is a strong word but my resume is always optimized for the role i'm applying for. If I have experience in a technology that's not relevant then i leave it off and use the space/attention for something better matching the role.
I think SO is still necessary for nuanced discussion. Gpt4 still lacks domain experience. It's just another tool in the toolbelt.
I use it more than the other tools but each tool is still invaluable.
On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies has nothing, whatsoever, to do with nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are about nuclear fission, which was not even discovered until 1938. Nuclei weren't even discovered until 1932 for that matter! But getting back to the point here, do you not think every other generation thought exactly what you are saying? There's a really fun quote from Michelson (of the Michelson-Morley experiment) in 1894:

"...It seems probable that most of the grand underlying principles [of physics] have been firmly established and that further advances are to be sought chiefly in the rigorous application of these principles to all the phenomena which come under our notice. It is here that the science of measurement shows its importance — where quantitative work is more to be desired than qualitative work. An eminent physicist remarked that the future truths of physical science are to be looked for in the sixth place of decimals."

Notably Michelson was the first person to experimentally observe a shocking key fundamental of relativity, outside the scope of this post. But he was so convinced that there was "no magic left, etc, etc" that he (and everybody else) actually thought his experimental result was due to a miscalibration or lack of precision in his results. So convinced was he of this, that he casually rejected his own results which would only be explained decades later - coincidentally, partly in the paper you seemingly randomly referenced here!
Subscription services are all about engagement and capture, both of which require clickbait to survive. This headline is absolutely designed to attract a click by harkening to financial collapse rather than crazy high capital requirements on mortgage books post financial crisis requiring mechanical recapitalization as interest rates and market stress take a toll.
Yes. I suggest LinkedIn, where I frequently see resumes posted.