skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting product and nice landing page!

One thing I find a bit misleading is the pricing page where there's a "FREE Lifetime Deal" and then in small letters says that you need to have a 50$ license lol
> Consensus is not really required in hard science judgements where you can just measure things or do an experiment and be done with it.

This is not true. Hard science judgements still require consensus and one experiment does not prove all that much.
It's also good leadership of an industry by SpaceX. Other companies are following in their trail.
jugaad: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad
The Science of Ultra-Processed Food
> Communist industry and economy worked reasonably well for the stuff were the state is the natural customer in any society: defence. Everything else, not so much.

One thing I've been wondering: would housing, transport infrastructure, energy grid(s)[0], banking and similar basic financial services, water, basic food[1], education, emergency services, healthcare, waste disposal in general and public toilets in particular, be in the same category here as defence?

Possibly even all of the primary economy, so include all mining as well as agriculture?

[0] both electricity and physical fuels

[1] at the level of where most of the calories and proteins come from, possibly even "basics" ranges in supermarkets, but not at the level of restaurants or fancy food ranges in supermarkets
BeOS was wonderful and I loved it, as I said in print 24 years ago:

https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputerWorldMagazine/PC...

But it was just the same sort of OS as the mainstream, without all the legacy baggage -- much of which, sadly, the Haiku folks are putting back in.

The world we wanted? I don't know about that.

I played with a Remarkable slate thing a couple of years ago and it nearly made me weep. It is so much less than the Apple Newton was 30 years earlier.

I want the original planned Newton in the Remarkable form factor. I want a thin, light, pocket Dylan workstation that runs for a week on a charge and can wirelessly connect to anything.

I don't just want a BeBox. I wanted that in 1999, sure, but a quarter century later, I want something MUCH more ambitious than that.
I didn't say they only cared about money, but that they stayed for their own reasons and not for the sake of the company. If they find the work at one place less demanding they might take that instead, but that is an individualistic reason as well.
It was a total pig to install and it mostly still is.

But I ran OS/2 2.0 for years and it was a thing of beauty for 1992. It made Windows 3 look very sad indeed.
PagerDuty (and OpsGenie) Alternatives – The Pragmatic Engineer
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> Rust software that's distributed in distro PMs uses distro dependencies like any other package.

I haven't found a single Rust package that depends on a shared Rust library coming from the system package manager. Do you have an example of that? Genuinely interested in seeing how it looks. Many people tell me that Rust "doesn't support shared libraries", which seems odd to me. But I have never seen one, so...

> except you're then erroneously drawing some imagined line in the sand where Rust bad and C/C++ good

I don't think that, maybe I did not express myself correctly. I was answering to a comment that, to me, sounded like "C/C++ bad and Rust good", by saying that I also see issues in Rust (namely with the dependency management).

I like Rust-the-language. What I don't like, to be honest, is how Rust people seem to believe that static linking is the solution to all their problems.
I saw more than one post about people maxing out credit cards to go long on Bitcoin or other crypto, ALREADY anticipating they will not pay back those cards and just go to collections to pay back 30-40 cents on the dollar. It's like it's become the norm to default.
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AT and PS/2 never caught on names with the public. It was still just "PC" or "IBM PC compatible" even when talking more formally.

Regular people would only refer specificially to AT or PS/2 when buying motherboards or peripherals.
> One thought experiment is to imagine someone developing software with a promise to open source the benign parts, then withholding most of it for business reasons while citing aliens as a concern.

I mean, I'm totally with them on the fear of AI safety. I'm definitely in the "we need to be very scared of AI" camp. Actually the alien thought experiment is nice - because if we credibly believed aliens would come to earth in the next 50 years, I think there's a lot of things we would/should do differently, and I think it's hard to argue that there's no credible fear of reaching AGI within 50 years.

That said, I think OpenAI is still problematic, since they're effectively hastening the arrival of the thing they supposedly fear. :shrug:
This is how I end up watching videos of IDF soldiers running people over in tanks.
High Fructose Corn Syrup is already taken :D
They attacked pretty often happened because someone wanted an office or become more powerful locally. Nothing to do with any larger goals.

"Empire building" however itself amounts to "stealing from others".
I thought that WWI is when "shell shock", as it was then caused, started to become a big topic? You're probably right that _most_ soldiers from WWI (at least the ones who came back alive, and survived the Spanish flu) didn't develop PTSD, but in ancient times it seems like it was unheard of as opposed to unusual.

I was always told in my family that my great-grandfather was "never the same again" after he came back from WWI, and I think PTSD in some form is the most likely explanation.
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Quite possible the trackpoint was genuinely worse in 2007 than in 2001. Like Windows 95 itself, huge amounts of human factors research went into making it worthwhile when it was new and unproven, with usability studies deriving the optimal curves and constants. People described it as feeling like telepathy. And like Windows itself, some time between then and now, everyone seems to have forgotten that it's a hard problem and just started YOLOing whatever random stuff "feels right".

Rant: On my T480 - an extremely popular, flagship Thinkpad - the trackpoint is unusable out of the box on Linux - it crawls at a snails pace unless I manually max out the sensitivity in sysfs, and also fiddle with xinput (no configuration is possible on Wayland). What is worse, infuriatingly, the curve seems to frequently change whenever libinput is updated, requiring me to go and find another set of fiddles to bring it roughly into line. This is clearly not the output of a structured, empirical, research-based approach to the issue, but of someone just fucking around with the constants for one reason or another. It does not feel like telepathy, and it makes my wrist hurt in short order if I overuse it (luckily the laptop also has a generous touchpad).

I dunno, maybe it's better on Windows. But I'd be amazed if anyone cared enough to make sure that 90s usability research was still valid, on modern variants of trackpoint sensors and modern high resolution screens.
>Hard science judgements still require consensus

Only a trivial one. Which is not really challenged.

Nobody really questions the value of the acceleration due to gravity down on Earth, or whether a body with mass X and another with Y will both fall at a rate R in a vacuum for example. And if they do, a simple experiment will show them otherwise.
The Pitfalls of AI Health Coaches
This is GCP and AWS feeling pressure from EU legislation.
The more important number for a codebase that size is almost always "what's the incremental build time for whatever I work on". It's nice to have a "build from scratch" be fast, but almost always you can leave it for two hours to do the first build while you're in a meeting or something. More important is that when you make a change, the incremental build is fast.

This is why build systems like buck/pants/bazel are good in larger codebases. You can trust your incremental builds in a way that you can't in any build system that isn't hermetic.
I am not reading anything saying that there exists C/C++ code. I read code and make my own opinion.

Most code is bad, but that's true for Rust as well. The memory safety does not magically make code good. BTW Rust is not the only language that has memory safety, by far.
These were simply statistics. When women know how to prevent having many kids, when they are in position to make independent decisions, they want to have limited amount of kids.

Women with part time jobs and time for childcare still have easier time with 3 children rather then 5.
No, the mindset there is that workers wants money, just like everywhere else. Not sure why you think otherwise.

If you mean that humans sometimes do more than the bare minimum, sure they do that. But that is an inherent part of humans, that has nothing to do with individualism or collectivist systems, humans do that in all systems, that is a part of the value of a human worker and why you pay them to work for you.
This was expected. The field of psychology cannot hold a decade without patient abuse and in many cases it is kids. It depends on the country but the field seriously lacks accountability and quality checks, and yes, it is valid to generalize here to a large degree.
And even then - the senior champion might as well burn out on it, even when they do manage to pass the initiative. Been there too.
IQ tests are incredibly crude. The amalgamate a series of distinct measures of visual, verbal and mathematical reasoning - primarily utilitised based on ease of measurement, rather than completeness of assessment.

My undergrad thesis involved developing a neurocognitive battery of tests (to explore cognitive deficits related to diabetes). The array of cognitive modules you can test (and that can be defective) is dizzying. You can score a couple of standard deviations over the median on stanford-binet, but be severely functionally impaired due to anterograde amnesia, unable to speak due to Broca's aphasia, or unable to find your way out of a room due to visual agnosia -- to give some concrete examples.

There's also no capacity (due to the pen and paper nature of IQ tests, and the culture bound cognitive aspects they measure) to assess proprioceptive intelligence, musical ability, affective comprehension, explicit or implicit long term memory and numerous other aspects of fluid intelligence that concretely impact an individuals capacity to complete real world 'intelligence' dependent tasks.

Performance on IQ tests can be highly dependent on cultural approaches to test taking, and priming effects in IQ testing have withstood the replication crisis. The mathematical aspects of IQ tests are dependent on familiarity with the kinds of operations tested (and unsurprisingly scores increase with practice), and similarly literacy is required for and influences verbal scores. While learning math and acquiring the ability to read and write certainly do have an impact on cognitive function, it would be ludicrous to suggest that the don't depend on latent abilities IQ tests literally can't measure.

So while IQ tests certainly have their uses, but to consider them a worthwhile measure of human cognitive capacity, let alone machine intelligence, is extremely dubious.
That highlights the greatest repeated tragedy to befall software: poor leadership. For some bizarre reason developers almost always think they can fix people problems with better tools. For example if all your developers suck give them a popular framework. It’s just an excuse to avoid dealing with people that provides license for the children to run the daycare.

If you want excellence set high standards defined by rules that to hold people accountable and impose ownership (liability/reward). It’s not complicated but it requires not being terrified of assertiveness and confrontation from the top down.
Interestingly enough this thought was what made western europe (but various other parts of the world had something similar) transition from the guild system to the centralised factory system, essentially laying the foundation for industrialisation.

Basically merchants realized there was a huge workforce outside the cities, families where wives and children had time left. So they purchased and place the worktools and resources with the individual families to later buy back the products they made and resell it in the markets. This was called the putting-out system if you want to look into it more.
> The list is long, but for starters Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier are obvious cases, imprisoned since 1981 and 1977 respectively.

To be frank, these two individuals don’t exactly strike me as innocent of their crimes, definitely not obviously so.
Is it also the case if installed from brew and winget?
This is really good info, thank you. Can you explain more about what you learned about the streaming, transmission, sessions, etc.? I'm the author of the USV spec and very much interested.
Yes, I'd say so. With the exception of drug availability issues, which started if I am not mistaken in the mid to late 70s (basically when the USSR started to really fall behind the West technologically), those aspects worked reasonably well in the USSR.

And before someone says Venezuela or North Korea, the former is a deeply corrupt cleptocracy while the latter used to be the last stone-age version of Stalinism before the whole nation was turned into an open air concentration camp by its dictator.
> IQ tests for models seem...somewhat flawed.

They are for all the reasons you explain.

Here's a wonderful paper (which I probably found here on HN) on the subject: On the Measure of Intelligence, by
Francois Chollet (working for Google), from 2019:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547

He comes up with many tests which are relatively simple for humans that AI models cannot solve.

If you don't want to read all the paper, jump to the figures (starting from page 48).

The goal, of course, is not to train an AI on the correct results of the exact problems in that paper: that'd just be more memory testing.

Once Claude solves that, things are going to get really wild!
I self host the open source FreshRSS[0] and on iPhone connect to it using Reeder[1]. Reeder does support subscribing directly to RSS feeds from the phone, you don't have to run something like FreshRSS to use it.

0: https://www.freshrss.org/

1: https://www.reederapp.com/
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It’s a ridiculous statement. Any corporation can say their goal is to make their product available to as many people as possible.

I love how transparent it makes it though that these guys live in a bubble and you shouldn’t take their beliefs too seriously
Depends what you're comparing it against though :)
Today (including smart phones) you're talking about multiple computers per household, probably more computers in the house than there are people. So one per "40ish people" was (compared to now) "rare".

So, in my original post when I said "rare" - I meant "a few per class". In my 80's childhood there were maybe 2 or 3 people in the class who had a computer (of any kind) at home. The school had 2 computers (BBC Micro) for student access (for over 600 students.) Most were completely uninterested.

Bear in mind that the numbers in the UK and surrounds were likely higher than that because the UK was an epicentre of home-computer development. Sinclair, Acorn etc were all at their height so penetration in that market was likely a bit higher.
It's no surprise that LinkedIn's codebase is a mess if you try to use the website, it's a complete nightmare. Say I see an interesting post, I click on the person who wrote it to learn more about them, then I press back to go back to the post and continue reading it - now the feed refreshed and I've lost the post.

Say I want to scroll back through messages I've received, I do that, the entire webpage starts lagging and takes 10-15 seconds to register inputs.

Why do I get 30 fake notifications? They are literally not real, made up rubbish to force interactions from people - it's disingenuous. The recommendation algorithm is also completely terrible.
I think it's not right to talk about a corporate takeover of the FDA. It was a corporate project to begin with, so there was nothing to take. Big Food lobbied hard for its creation, wrote the legislation, bought the politicians who rubber stamped it, staffed it with friends and stooges from the start, and immediately leveraged it in their own interest. The FDA wasn't so much corrupted as born that way.

I don't know much about the formation of those other agencies so they're probably fine :/.
The serfs benefitted from the use of the landlord's tools.

This would mean it is fundamentally just a business with extra steps.
At the very least, the "foundation" should be paying tax then.
> I have friends that use Windows that are shocked that I willingly chose to get an external trackpad when I use my Mac as desktop

I use an external Apple Magic trackpad on a Windows desktop. It's a good and smooth experience.
I'd hide too, considering the recent treatment of old trees in England.
We're a step closer to having a universal antivenom for snake bites
Windows Explorer is also "good enough" in many cases if all you want to do is quickly download or upload a few files.
I mean that was my main thought as well. Diet coke and sugar-free red bull are the most common diet sodas I see people drink. They also contain copious amounts of caffeine, which can cause heart issues at increased dosage.

Apart from this the article is not clear on what factors they controlled for, so it seems like garbage reporting.

And being a correlational study, it doesn't sound very convincing, since I would say high soda consumption is just one of many indicators of poor diet. And poor diet definitely affects your heart.
I like this article, and I think the relationship between politically-charged discourse and trauma is important not only because it gives us insight into people's behavior, but because this is being deployed strategically

There are many contexts, including education and workplaces, where discussion of politics is discouraged to varying degress, ranging from cultural norms to strict policy. This both results from and in turn exacerbates a tendency to politicize certain topics for tactical reasons

A really stark example I saw in 2021 was a shift in tone about vaccination for COVID-19, where we went from the Trump administration trying to reassure the public that the crisis would be solved by accelerating vaccine development, and then as the rollout of vaccination programs were taken over by the Biden administration, a sudden shift on the right to intense skepticism of vaccination (as well as every disease control measure of any kind), which has resulted in a lot of demands that people be allowed to put e.g. colleagues at work or school at risk because things like vaccination requirements amount to "political acid testing". This whiplash-inducing form of position-switching for political advantage is characteristic of the Republican party (see also their recent strange reversal on funding additional aid at the US southern border, seemingly because their presidential hopeful wants to campaign on this being an ongoing crisis that the current administration is doing nothing about), but they're not the only ones guilty of demanding silence or deference to people's contrarian positions on a vast array of topics in many contexts on the basis that they're "political", often after creating the situation where they are political hot topics themselves
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It's typically against terms of service to decompile or reverse engineer applications you download in this way, but it's also typically against terms of service to use their services from unofficial clients, so I think they're already way past T&Cs.
The incorporation of the acquis is part of the negotation process, and had already been completed by the time of the referendum. It had started in 1991, which was unusually fast.
I did something similar for Instagram on android few years ago. The usual methods for bypassing certificate didn't work on Instagram, they were statically linking openssl into a shared library called libcoldstart.so. I Spent some time reading openssl documentation and ended up installing a hook to the function that configured the certificate verification.

In case you are curious. I used Frida for installing hooks to native functions.
Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM...
If the user experience is good, then the product is good. Users don't care about build time or internal dependency management.
How to master the art of small talk
Out of interest, why not? I've needed to reverse engineer APIs in the past and using Android apps was always much easier so we always did that when the APIs were available.
>tree-based approach to organize and summarize text data, capturing both high-level and low-level details.

https://twitter.com/parthsarthi03/status/1753199233241674040

processes documents, organizing content and improving readability by handling sections, paragraphs, links, tables, lists, page continuations, and removing redundancies, watermarks, and applying OCR, with additional support for HTML and other formats through Apache Tika:

https://github.com/nlmatics/nlm-ingestor
funny, that's exactly perception of spaceX i have from interviews and leaks.

Where spaceX has a team set up to deal with musk's bs idea to cordon others from his 'aura' when he shows up.
> Your code because you own it.

I code because I'm good at it, enjoy it, and it pays well.

I recommend against 3rd party libraries because they give me responsibility without authority — I'd own the problem without the means to fix it.

Despite this, they're a near-universal in our industry.

> If LLM hackers are rampant as you fear then people will respond by telling their code writing LLMs to get their shit together and check the code for vulnerabilities.

Eventually.

But that doesn't help with the existing deployed code — and even if it did, this is a situation where, when the capability is invented, attack capability is likely to spread much faster than the ability of businesses to catch up with defence.

Even just one zero-day can be bad, this… would probably be "many" almost simultaneously. (I'd be surprised if it was "all", regardless of how good the AI was).
Statistical Process Control: A Practitioner's Guide (2022)
The steering column was big, and went all the way to the floor. So basically one foot was on the left, one on the right. Think two footwells instead of 1. You couldn't cross the right-foot over to the left pedal.

Being a driver was tricky, being a passenger was worse - while learning the braking tended to be "very unsubtle".
> It’s not complicated but it requires not being terrified of assertiveness and confrontation from the top down.

It requires the professional communication skills that are not taught in a STEM education. That's why this is all so difficult: we are not taught how to communicate effectively with one another, and the entire tech landscape has poor communicators misinforming and misleading one another.
The moment LLMs are good hackers every system will be continuously pen tested by automated LLMs and there will be very few remaining vulnerabilities for the black hat LLMs to exploit.