skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comparison here that comes to mind is imagine if Github issued you a keypair to use over ssh to push/pull from a repo, but they change that keypair for you periodically and also keep track of that keypair for you.

I'd much prefer to generate my own ssh key and upload the public key to Github, Gitlab, and Sourcehut, and Codeberg, etc. Forgive me if I forgot a forge.
> You mean... Kind of like living?

Well, no, and that's the point! It's not like living, it's an alteration to the natural course of life. Whether it's without negative consequences or not remains to be seen.
I mean, this is great. But speaking for the UK it wont work. You add more green space, you add more maintenance, and with most of the countries councils being incapable of mowing the lawns even before most of them were bordering on bankrupcy it does beg the question - who's paying for it.

I'm sure everyone would love to see that in their post box. "We decided to add some new bushes in town, that'll be a 10% increase in council tax please."
The institutional preservation instinct can cause perverse incentives but it is useful and allows large organizations to be trusted to do things that can't be addressed by startups.

If you have work that requires something to exist in more or less its present form for years or decades at a time it would be a disaster if one of your key vendors pivoted or went bankrupt halfway through.
Yeah, neither of those things make any difference to anything.

I also feel incredibly heartless for adding my own "be careful" message to this person's eager response to someone's plea for help, but there it is.
Thanks to both replies. There's certainly a time and place for refactoring, as there is a time and place for getting an MVP out the door. I guess striking a solid balance is the art of it all.

I am very transparent with business goals and the threats we face, and I do think that spurs the most engagement. It could be my rose colored glasses, but it does seem like everyone truly feels a sense of ownership and pride in the product. As someone who is very hands-on though, it's very scary not having full awareness of what's going on under the hood. However, I'm sure I can overcome that mental hurdle.

I appreciate the feedback/advice HN.
Out of interest what kinda of skills would say are needed to land a devops role?

I've been doing bits and pieces of as a developer for almost a decade at this point and have wondered if it's something I could move into if I needed to. I think I might have most of the basic skills – AWS, Terraform, k8s, docker, CI (Github Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI), Linux command line, scripting.

I'd guess a good knowledge of networking and security is important too, which I think I'm okay at, but that's possibly just the Dunning–Kruger effect.
Even then, repeating the signal is enough to start the car.
Why friends are always right – no matter their views
How does this relate to entrepreneurship? I’ve considered that wielding this problem to your advantage is a predicate of success. But I’ve never seen it spelled out in that context.
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I am almost 50 and on my ninth job. I haven’t been “passionate” about my job ever.

You sir, were a wise man even when you were young (Not being sarcastic). A very rare trait among people young or old.
Which is the real issue. The US is very much built on the idea that it's fine to lie to people and pretend to care about them while aggressively exploiting them.

It's not a drug problem, it's a sociopathy problem.

The Sacklers were allowed to remain billionaires, CVS and other defendants have had to pay out billions - and all of this is considered cost of business instead of criminal activity, even though it has destroyed millions of lives.
Another good mud server and open source in python is https://www.evennia.com/
OnlyFans? Christ. Tell us how you really feel. Wait, don’t.
The GDPR does not require a pop up or banner… but it does require explicit consent through opt-in (or no tracking). So this is literally worse than nothing.
why would you adjust for inflation, what we are talking about would mean adjusting for M2.
It’s the better way to follow comments. I wish the gui made it easier
I respect your opinion but disagree, my original comment was a lot clumsier.
I wouldn't go that far, but in most cases they have never stood out as extraordinary in my experience. That isn't to say that many aren't extraordinary, but I imagine those who are end up in academia or something.
I designed Chrome, and was responsible for decisions around its UI, including the addition and removal of the RSS button.

Our design philosophy at the time, which was in reaction to the bloated I-need-engagement-for-my-team browser UIs of the time, was to only offer what people needed, and allow extensions to cover everything else.

I loved RSS. We all did. I still use Feedly every day and mourn the loss of Google Reader. But even back then, practically no-one else cared, even amongst our early adopter userbase. If we had lowered our usage bar to allow the RSS button, the bar would've been low enough that a thousand other features-you-don't-want-but-other-people-do would've been in there too (omg the arguments about having a "print" button).

Extensions was our "if you want it, you can add it" answer. It was imperfect, because it didn't allow ideas such as RSS to be advertised to the mainstream, but we had already clearly seen that that hadn't worked, and regardless, your daily tools should not be a place for pushing agendas unless you have total confidence that they will be valued.

I still think "following stuff" is an unsolved, undervalued problem and big opportunity space
But where's the spaceship with a bunch of shiny blobs and spires sticking out of it?
I hope Argentinians prefer being extremely poor pro western instead of being moderately poor BRICs cuz that's what happen when you bet on dying horse
Crazy how their dystopia can't make these things that our dystopia can
HN users are superb at "Moving the goalposts approaching infinity". Doubly so if it's a political humanitarian issue (homelessness).
Is this contributing to the discussion or is it simply an ad-hominem?
I'm not a programmer, just a humanities nerd on Hacker News. AI would be indeed bad for that at the moment. It could be an endless source of fluff, amusement, and roleplay hooks. In many MUDs, you are required to stay in character. But AI is no good for anything of mechanical consequence.

But it doesn't matter, the MUD community seems already annoyed by bad AI proposals. It would take a good and consistent communication effort to overcome that.
Not so much! We might just be on the same page. It's a tricky topic, gotta give it a lot of extra breathing room for misunderstandings. (Which, for all I know, I caused here!)
It's telling that most commenters for whom this resonated, refer to their experiences in the corporate world.

My current job is the first thing I thought of when reading this.
I write softwares in janet and haskell.

xmobar is written in haskell. I used xmobar with xmonad before. xmobar doesn't come with built-in status icons.

Haskell is cumbersome in small scale, but it is precise for anything non-trivial. I write compiled programs that need to be precise in haskell. I write scripts in janet.

Haskell isn't great for scripting due to its rigid but precise type system. For scripting, lisp languages feel better.

At this point, I'd want to see a window manager that can be scripted in janet or scheme, but sway is okay.
Both the cobra effect and the Hanoi rat massacre were government initiatives. They are mentioned in the article.

This problem is utterly pervasive in governance, in fact, has been for many generations.
>robots replacing plumbers

That would be utopia.
Your error is assuming that everyone is a rational actor and is doing the research to make an informed decision.

This is simply not the case and it's naive to think otherwise.
"more food -> more people"

That association has broken in the modern era:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/268083/countries-with-th...

These are countries that are not limited by starvation, with plummeting populations.
Legacy auto in the developed world should be very concerned. China will not just spin up enough EV manufacturing for domestic demand; they will accelerate past that and sell globally.
Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank, territory annexed during the 1967 war? And, by "Jewish people", do you mean citizens of Israel? Seems like the answer there is an easy "no", right? The 2-state strategy implies Palestinian control and self-determination within the West Bank and Gaza.
Perhaps it’s easier to study isolated corporations and draw generalizations than it is to study a large interconnected bureaucratic blob? I don’t generally see why problems of human nature wouldn’t present similarly across the public and private sector. If anything, finding a problem in supposedly efficient environments would imply the problem exists in less efficient environments.
Thank you, I came here to post exactly this!

None of the examples in the article actually support the hypothesis described, that "institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution".

The very first one is about how tax-filing companies don't want the government to make filing taxes easier, but that's because tax-filing companies aren't non-profits dedicated to making taxes easier to file -- they're corporations dedicated to making a profit.

The same with the bus company wanting to eliminate competition. The story about the cobras is a tangent about unintended consequences that has nothing to do with the supposed Shirky principle (it's actually an example of perverse incentives [1]), and so forth.

If you peel the layers back, you realize that this is essentially just the age-old conservative ideology that government intervention is bad because it never solves the problem but just makes government bigger.

And then you realize that counterexamples abound. Did the history of vaccines in the 20th century just wind up sustaining the ravages of smallpox and polio? Of course not. Does investment in a military lead people to attack you? Of course not. Do incentives for solar power actually play a role in preserving fossil fuel usage that otherwise could have been eliminated? Don't be ridiculous.

And guess what? The IRS is currently piloting programs to make filing taxes simpler. Despite the lobbying efforts of tax-filing companies.

The "Shirky principle" is something that sounds really clever, and it's so cynical you almost think it must be true... but that doesn't mean it is true. The evidence that seems to support it doesn't, and the massive evidence against it seems to be ignored.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
Telnet's a shit option these days. No encryption.

Webclients can be protected by HTTPS, and Evennia (for one) offers SSH.
The regulations.gov website’s search is terrible. Can someone link to the actual docket where we can add comments?
So is encryption...
It's a tribute to Jonathan Swift
Free Law Project
I wouldn't be surprised if a problem is that Seattle and Portland lack treatment capacity, because that's the big problem just north of the border in Vancouver, which also has a big problem with toxic drugs use.

Having safe drug use sites and replacing the illicit supply of toxic drugs with a safer known, prescribed source does a good job of preventing overdoses and preventing mass deaths, but beyond this there needs to be path ways to treatment.

Where some places have failed and come under criticism is that while they've done the necessary step of implementing some harm prevention policy to keep people alive until they can access treatment, there hasn't been the follow through in creating treatment options.

A major cause of the inability to create treatment options is that it's expensive and there's a severe shortage of doctors and nurses in general. Can't create treatment options if there's no one to work them.
Number go up!
My original comment was simply flagging that there are red flags present. I didn't enumerate or elaborate any further than that until I was specifically asked to. Apologies if you feel that is dehumanising.
I mean it's not outrageous, much less proof of guilt, for forensics researchers to be affiliated with "police colleges". The use of genetic forensics in police work is a global practice and was key in solving major cases like the Golden State Killer and the Boston Strangler.

(You also have to take into account the fact that in China universities named after some line of work are very much the norm (you have well-known generalist universities whose names reference "postal service" or "transportation" or "finance" or "broadcasting" which to Western ears sound very odd).)

> Maybe they shouldn't take money from local enforcement groups that exist to oppress the group being studied. The bar ain't high

As the Guardian quote in my comment makes clear, Moreau thinks informed consent is literally impossible in Xinjiang, so the bar is in fact impossibly high.
> ...clearly ridiculous if you look at how LLMs work

This is well off topic now, but this doesn't follow at all. LLMs aren't brains and don't even resemble them that closely. LLMs demonstrate that it's possible to learn grammar from scratch, not that humans actually do. I for one think it's pretty plausible that humans have a little bit of neural wetware-acceleration for syntax. In much the same way, it's possible to implement AES with just an ALU and memory operations, but your CPU probably has special hardware anyway.
This is not work sample - Oxide do work sample where they can take work you already completed. This is take-home test as described at least
Do you use i3bar or swaybar? Then, j3blocks is for you.
I have seen similar forces at play in different organizations.

I used to view them with disdain but at some point I had the idea that social and organizational engineering is also engineering and that wielding the system for one’s benefit is actually a skill.

I am not good at it but I need to call mastery where I see it.
They could, but they don't, at least that is what I'm getting from the article.

Even if they do, someone with the capability and understanding required (ie. not me) needs to bring that source up and verify that the claims align with the citation; the authors decided to use GPT-4 for this: "We adapted GPT-4 to verify whether sources substantiate statements and found the approach to be surprisingly reliable." I'm not happy with that either.
I knew putting LLM in that list of pre-reqs would result in a comment like this. Oh well.
Ah yes. The problems of SF, and NYC... are Republican's fault. That makes sense, and is absolutely not a cope, at all.
> it will just bother too many others who are not benefiting from it

The bit this comment misses is that the people who are not getting anything from it would be the people who pay for it. You can’t create such a strong incentive for failure and not expect failure to increase.
So they didn't find potential hires that would work for free on improving qdrant without any certainty of employment, and now they are starting a competition for it (for free again)?
not exactly what you describe but it may be worth looking at (gradually) typed racket in this context: https://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-guide/. the contract system might also be of interest: https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/contracts.html
You can reduce the chance of arsenic contaminated rice (and citrus), by avoiding crops grown in former cotton growing regions. An arsenic based pesticide was widely used on cotton crops, contaminating the soil. Texas rice and citrus are much more likely to contain high levels of arsenic than California grown crops.
So you live in a region that has significantly less snowfall than what can be expected based on the normal variation that occurred 25, 50, or 100 years ago?
I'm skeptical about third-party labelers. How do you prevent that from being abused?
possibly, but again, contacting ATC would have made this a non-issue. ignorance of the rules/regulation is not an excuse.
So perhaps this was (thankfully) a misunderstanding on my part. The right of self-determination which the UN general assembly is talking about is that of the Palestinan nation, which belong to an international nation state with defined borders. When you asked about the right of self determination of the Jewish people, I answered based on the same level as that which the UN General Assembly was talking about. I was trying to be very clear on that.

When you then talk about Judea and Samaria, which are indeed historic territories, and indeed vague compared to the specific territories the UN General Assembly is talking about. Judea and Samaria existed as an actual territory of nations which were at some point independent, colonies, then occupied, then ethnically cleansed, regions of empires, etc. The boarders over the thousands of years have shifted significantly. The people living in these territories have shifted religion, language, national affiliations, etc. many times over. And the people living inside these territories haven’t called it by those names for like 1500 years at least.

But more importantly, neither Judea nor Samaria are UN recognized territories, with any special status what so ever. Now there is a subdivision within Israel which is named Judea and Samaria Area. This is not internationally recognized subdivision (not even by nations which recognize Israel as a state). Within the UN this area is called The West Bank and is internationally recognized to be a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel.

When you talk about the self determination of the Jewish people in that area, within the context of decolonization efforts by the UN, and when you use the name of its colonizers of this area, it does sound like you are talking about excluding this right of the actual nation state which already lives there and is internationally recognized owner of. This is an oft cited prospect of ethno-facists within the Israeli government, to ethnically cleanse the territory of its internationally recognized inhabitants (the Palestinians) and reserve it for Jews alone. This might not be your intention, but this is what I heard.
the modern equivalent of a MUD as a user-designed social experience is definitely VRChat
Stand on a remote ledge, a few square feet of flat space half way up a thousand-foot cliff. Yes, putting a ladder up to that ledge would reduce its magic, just as offering helicopter rides up K2 would cheapen every summit photo taken there.
Why would small inflation be good for anyone bar the centtal bank? Small inflation is ignored by everyone.
If there was no artificial inflation (central bank racket) you could ignore it as well.
MUDs were a lot of fun back in the day when I had fewer demands on my time, and had friends that played and competed with me. Unfortunately they can be very time consuming, similar to an mmorpg, and hardly anyone plays them anymore.
32/64 colours, assuming no rewriting, but given the very existence of the copper was motivated by being able to change values like that, plenty of Amiga games exceeded that. Some very substantially.

The copper was also used to multiplex sprites, so again the limitation is per scanline.

And assuming things wouldn't be changed per scanline is assuming a shoddy job - very few games on the Amiga would not make at least some use of the copper to extend the number of sprites or number of colours on screen.
Oomph! is generally the first thing people recommend. It's been a very long time since I listed to this type of music and I don't know what they've been up to recently ("recently" meaning "last 20 years"), but the Sperm and Defekt albums from the 90s are pretty good.

I also really liked Pitchshifter at the time, especially the first few albums (later they switched styles a bit, starting with the pitchshifter.com, which is also pretty good). It's a bit different from Rammstein from what I recall, but can't hurt to try.
Since we're nitpicking here, I didn't say "for the current state of only US politics" ;)
Thanks! For another tip, it goes equally ironically well at rallies for folks trying to impose governmental control over individuals' medical decisions.

Turns out there's more than professionalism at stake.

I'd link the Gadsden flag Wikipedia page but that might also not be professional. Also, why is it unprofessional to point out an ignorant irony that I can find countless examples of? Is it uncomfortable when I point out the obvious cognitive dissonance?
Lawyers & economists contribute more to GDP than farmers...yet most lawyers & economists are a net negative in real terms while farmers provide food, essential for life.

If GDP was the end all be all of measurements, why is Russia winning the war despite having a fraction of GDP compared to its western opponents?

Sure seems like the wrong things are being measured...and rewarded.
Agreed that this is a challenging problem, but mostly because of the data used to train and the tokenization for language models. We’re working on this building what we call a large medical model (lmm) which is trained on medical event histories from 10s of millions of patients, not papers or internet text. Our tokens are medical codes facilities demographics etc. If anyone is interested we have an api + we’re hiring. https://genhealth.ai
See namecoin, the very first Bitcoin fork.

https://www.namecoin.org/
yeah, no. not for me. just reading what you've written gives me flashbacks to all of those uncomfortable moments of having to perform some oath and pledge my allegiance to something i did not choose. nobody chooses where they are born. why would someone else expect they'd pledge their fealty to something they didn't choose to be apart of just because of their place of birth?

to me, it's just weird that anyone would pledge their blind loyalty to something that doesn't give a damn about them
What kind of abuse are you talking about? I'd be happy to give you my take, but it's a bit too broad for me to know how to answer.
Good luck finding large enough amounts of clean water for rewashing rice in Haiti.

https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/healthprotection/resources/...
They’ve figured it out in parts of the UK at least. Basically anything that isn’t a thin road lane or a sidewalk is green in this view:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/CawwocFUvWy2i3h17?g_st=ic
Severe Frostbite Gets a Treatment That May Prevent Amputation
My answer doesn't change. I'm not on LinkedIn during work hours.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/24/health/frostbite-treatmen...
This is the gem comment in this thread. If all these interviewers are such well-rounded and knowledgeable engineers, how much testing and effort do they put into their questions? Or is this just "cowboy interviewing" based on pet questions that scratch their own itch?
Teach for America?
"As a library, NLM provides access to scientific literature. Inclusion in an NLM database does not imply endorsement of, or agreement with, the contents by NLM or the National Institutes of Health."

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/02/scicheck-review-article-by...
Except this is science, not daily life. There is a process and procedure expected to ensure integrity of results and consistency in the process. Yes the ethical guidelines are there to attempt to achieve some morality, but from a scientific process perspective it doesn’t matter if you agree or disagree or have a different morality. It’s a process integrity question above all else. You aren’t prevented from doing science however you feel is moral, but if you don’t conform to the process requirements front to back, don’t expect journals to publish your work. It’s like I tell engineers - you can prefer tabs or spaces or place braces wherever you want on your own time, but when working in a shared code base, show your creativity in your ideas not your coding style. Likewise show your moral beliefs in your life, but when doing biomedical research, follow the ethics rules because they’re part of the shared process.
Multi-threaded computing across multiple processors demoed – promises big gains