skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> With experience comes pattern recognition.

How do you put a dollar value on that though? If I can hire either 2 junior programmers for $100k, or 1 senior programmer for $200k.....how the heck am I supposed to know that this guy can pattern-recognize an extra $100k of value??
I disagree.

Managers on average are worse than the average coder. And FAANG managers are no exception. At some level it becomes more about winning intra-company fights, than moving the company forward.

You gotta look at the applicant as a whole person: personality, skills, ability to push the needle forward, etc.
Nearly all work to support passkeys is via the WebAuthn specification, which is developed entirely in public via a GitHub repo (https://github.com/w3c/webauthn).

Passkeys aren't a standard or protocol. A passkey is the name of a type of credential that can be used via the WebAuthn API, an open industry standard for phishing-resistant authentication on the web platform.

>> "This and the attestation talk that I've seen around providers risks damaging Passkey adoption for years to come"

Passkey adoption is currently growing exponentially. Faster than we could have ever imagined when we started this work 3 years ago. New ideas will help adoption with organizations that have certain regulatory requirements for strong authentication (e.g. banks and lenders).

>> "This Github issue drops the nugget that enterprise members of FIDO are now pushing for provider attestation, which would have massive implications for Passkey as an Open standard"

Many of the highly regulated relying parties that need attestation aren't even members of the FIDO Alliance. Attestation is already supported (and has been since day 1) for any WebAuthn credential and is widely deployed by many authenticators. WebAuthn is an open standard. The challenge is that the current attestation model needs some updating to work with synced passkey authenticators. Previous iterations of this technology used credentials which were device-bound (now called device-bound passkeys).

>> "Genuinely, I am so hungry for even just a crumb of information about portability,"

I think you will be very happy with the content of the session from today then.

>> "The Github issue ends with "I will send you a dm/email""

My goal with that is to bring that feedback into the WebAuthn spec work, which happens in public.
If you’re using renewable energy that would otherwise go to waste for lack of storage, then that’s definitely saving (useful) energy.
No it isn't about safety this guy would've been left empty handed if he found that sword in his own backyard. They have arbitrary rules to smother any type of fortune, to make seeking fortune futile, to suppress those who want more. They see success as a threat to their artificially fair society. Better the fortunate receive nothing to keep the peace. If the people get a taste for more they will leave the country right fast.

Keep them uneducated and unskilled and tax them out of options into poverty and dependence. Don't let them leave - the people are the governments assets.
Ask HN: How to sell your startup to FAANG and big companies?
Always been seeing startup founders say that their companies got aquired by Google and whatnot, and then some of them worked there for a few years, but only holding the position as (Senior) Software Engineer, what does it really mean and how to initialize this process? Is that an acquihire? If yes, who do they usually talk to? The manager of their competing products?

I'm also in the position that got a few customers for my SaaS product, but did not plan to stay too long in the industry. Some of the old PE-holding companies have really antiquated products but they are just big with many cash on hand. I'm thinking of seling my product to them. What's the best way to get started with the process and how likely they are intersted in acquiring a small but new player in their industry? Ideally $100k

Thank you Hackers
I got into Schoenberg after listening to an amazing electronic album from 2000, Betrieb by Ekkehard Ehlers, in which he repurposes Schoenberg's music (and Ives too). Still sounds incredible after 24 years.
https://ekkehardehlers.bandcamp.com/album/betrieb
Any recommended AI tools to help with organizing and renaming files?
I've been so swamped with sorting materials lately, I almost hit a wall. To tackle this, I've been actively searching for efficient tools and would greatly appreciate any recommendations you might have.
In the meantime, I've developed a little tool that uses AI to automatically rename files based on their content. For example, a file named "aaa111.pdf" can be effortlessly transformed into "2023 User Interview Summary.pdf" after the tool analyzes its contents. Below, you'll find some images showcasing this functionality.
I'm excited to share this creation with you all! :)
For now, my focus has been primarily on PDFs, but I envision extending this tool's capabilities to various file types by incorporating OCR and image recognition technologies. The tool, albeit in its nascent stage and in need of further refinement, is available for anyone interested in contributing or providing feedback.
I wrote this small script myself, and I'm sharing it here. If anyone has recommendations for more polished tools, please let me know in the comments. If there aren't more sophisticated tools available, then I will consider enhancing my product further. I'm eager to hear your thoughts and suggestions!
I run into "XY Problem" the most when I'm googling X, usually the argument is in the arch linux forum or maybe reddit. It can be infuriating when yes I actually literally have my reasons for doing X, and seeing them dismissed. And then it's extra funny when someone does present the solution (Yes, thank you person!) and then the next response from an admin is something like "Learn not to necrobump. Thread locked". Uhg. Honestly, anytime I see the word necrobump, the info that was shared actually helped me out a lot. Such a dumb rule. I don't care about getting email notifications from 5 year old threads. A better solution for the hard-line no necrobumpers should be a auto-unsubscribe after N days feature. Or since they are such expert authorities I'm sure they could rig up a script or email filter to moderate their own feeds.
I agree with this. The vast majority of the world is not "choosing" to live in small apartments, outside of a small minority of young urban professionals under the age of 35. There is simply not enough wealth, land, or resources to support detached housing in most of the world. No one wants to live in a tenement with their 12 closest relatives. It's not romantic, or some kind of culturally enlightened way of living. It sucks, and 99% of the world doesn't get the option to live in a house.
If you simplify things enough, then those things will tend to look similar.
I use the conversation mode (head phones icon) and it regularly says uh. It’s cute but spurious and unnecessary.
Copilot Pro has "priority access to GPT-5 Turbo in peak times"
as Chinese, it is no political, no drug, less gang style music, less sexual video, but not all as you say
Check if your performance intuition still works with CUDA (2021)
If TikTok is propaganda, they have to register as foreign agent, which they haven’t, so that will make them illegal.

However, I don’t see them being propaganda yet, but technically they can be overnight by download a new model from headquarter (and even without US user data leave US soil). The bill is trying to stop that possibility.

I don’t feel it morally sound to punish someone for sth they haven’t done yet. But what do I know? Reading many here and on Ars, most are actually thinking the two country are at war, so they can do anything to each other

I don’t think we are at war, but if enough people believe that way, does it matter?
Multiple causes have led to this.

- A glut of people entering the field with no experience.

- A more recent glut of people laid off who now expect or need inflated salaries to maintain their lifestyle and status.

- Excessive focus by employers on very specific "skills" that don't necessarily translate to productivity or contributing to a team and project.

- Employers not willing to train or mentor new hires, and expecting to hire only the "best" or the top X% of candidates.

- Investors and shareholders demanding revenue or at least market share growth rather than quality, consistency, cultivating employees, or even producing anything of real value.

- Meaningless titles, people with very little actual experience or talent called (or calling themselves) "senior."

- Employers conflating university degrees with talent and ability, and then requiring experience the candidates can't acquire in school.

- Programming education degraded to "boot camps" and other superficial and shallow "skills" training. Comp Sci has little to do with the vast majority of programming work.

- Mistaking unnecessary complexity for technical excellence, at both the management and programmer level.

- New programmers ignorant or dismissive of actual opportunities because they focus on the latest fads and fashion they read about, and only look at the FAANG companies and hip startups.

- Managers who can't manage software development projects or programmers, don't know how to evaluate candidates, don't use metrics, and jump from one nonsense pop psychology or social media inspired craze to another.

- No useful way to measure ability to perform in the job, and relying on poor proxies such as resume keywords and leetcode and whiteboard performance.

- A paralyzing fear of making a mistake, or choosing the wrong job or candidate, that afflicts programmers, hiring managers, HR departments.

- Fake it until you make it ethos, and the flip side we call imposter syndrome.

- The idea that a job must provide self-fulfillment, "follow your passion," etc. And the parallel inflated requirements employers dream up pretending they will have problems of scale or will work on novel and difficult technical problems.

- Actual talent and aptitude for programming in the sense of solving real business problems remains rare.

I have worked over 40 years as a professional programmer so I've seen all of these things happen over time. Employers and candidates both have unrealistic expectations and terrible processes for matching with each other. And I can't think of a nice way to put this, but the programming field (or "software engineering" as some like to fancy themselves) looks like a long-term clinical study of the Dunning-Kruger effect. Programmers delude themselves about their abilities and value in the job market, and employers delude themselves about their needs and requirements.
Bourbaki's textbooks are notoriously formal, rigorous, and plain difficult.

This gave rise to a cute inside joke in the Sokal hoax [0], where physicist Alan Sokal aimed to demonstrate the lack of intellectual rigour in contemporary post-modern cultural studies and produced a nonsensical "paper" (Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity) [1] that was promptly published in Social Text, an academic journal of cultural studies.

At any rate, in that article, there's a footnote (to the hilarious statement that "More recently, Lacan's topologie du sujet has been applied fruitfully to cinema criticism.") that reads:

> For a gentle introduction to set theory, see Bourbaki (1970).

Any competent peer reviewer reading the paper carefully would have fallen of the chair laughing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

[1] https://physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgre...
Survivor bias?

Maybe they made plenty of trash explainer videos, and those didn't survive.

Though for economic reasons, that's clearly less true than today.
People debating about what kind of housing to build are getting ahead of themselves. The housing crisis is intentional. Homeowners demand the value of their home keep going up and they vote. They way to do that is to keep supply lower than demand. The first step to fixing the housing crisis isnt to figure out what kind of housing to build, it's to convince enough of the voting population there is a housing crisis that needs fixing.
> Air conditioners are simple and cheap to install

Today. In my chats with the sort of home improvement types that seem to be in this thread, we're less concerned with today and more concerned with the cost of things in the future, as societies include "climate taxes" (in the form of actual taxes, subsidies, or whatever else) in the cost of things.
No

On its scan sensitivity

that's mouse DPI all about
We need to remove that. We did have a channel on freenode a while back but got rid of it.

Outside of gh discussions there is also https://forums.nanovms.com/. We made a decision a while ago to follow Zig's lead here and have no 'official' community space (https://github.com/ziglang/zig?tab=readme-ov-file#community) instead letting people form their own spaces.
All I can say is: 'holy shit'.
I'm glad I'm not a kid these days!
>compete with open source

Open source doesn't necessarily imply it is secure. Security isn't free and open source projects can struggle funding such development.

>byte-reproducible builds

This is mostly a party trick. Meanwhile the system is one curl | sh away from having all its cookies stolen, files cryptolocked, mic spied on, keylogger installed, clipboard sniffed, etc. Reproducible builds can't save you from insecure design which my comment was referring to investing in fixing and is what this patch being highlighted in the article is doing.

>it's also the premier malware target

Having a large market share is why. If Linux overnight gained a ton of marketshare the malware situation would be worse than windows.
`flox` needs Nix to function. So the rpm/dev/OSX installers first install Nix, and then installs flox itself.

If you have Nix already, you can try it out as described here: https://flox.dev/docs/install-flox/#install-with-existing-ni....

side-note: with further improvements to Nix as a library, it may be possible to make installing Nix not necessary for flox to function, but this is on a longer time horizon... don't hold your breath
True. Celera had a large TruCluster, machines with 8 (16?) processors, 64GB and inter-node cluster networking for a truly shared filesystem. Shotgun at the time required very large memory many-CPU high throughput IO machines (although 64GB isn't really a large memory machine now) while Kent's approach worked fine on clusters but IIRC was tuned for the specific type of scaffold sequencing done by the public project.

From the original celera paper, an endnote describing what was pretty impressive hardware for the time:

Celera’s computing environment is based on Compaq Computer Corporation’s Alpha system technology running the Tru64 Unix operating system. Celera uses these Alphas as Data Servers and as nodes in a Virtual Compute Farm, all of which are
connected to a fully switched network operating at Fast Ethernet speed (for the VCF) and gigabit Ethernet speed (for data servers). Load balancing and
scheduling software manages the submission and execution of jobs, based on central processing unit (CPU) speed, memory requirements, and priority.
The Virtual Compute Farm is composed of 440 Alpha CPUs, which includes model EV6 running at a clock speed of 400 MHz and EV67 running at 667 MHz. Available memory on these systems ranges from 2 GB to 8 GB. The VCF is used to manage trace file processing, and annotation. Genome assembly was performed on a GS 160 running 16 EV67s (667MHz) and 64 GB of memory, and 10 ES40s running 4 EV6s (500 MHz) and 32 GB of memory. A total of 100 terabytes of physical disk storage was included in a Storage Area Network that was available to systems across the environment. To ensure high availability, file and database servers were configured as 4-node Alpha TruClusters, so that services would fail over in the event of hardware or software failure. Data availability was further enhanced by
using hardware- and software-based disk mirroring (RAID-0), disk striping (RAID-1), and disk striping with parity (RAID-5).
This is going to be costly to implement and maintain and the benefits are unclear to ...everyone, apparently? Bit of a head scratcher to me. I may just need to learn how to read.

Issuing demerit points (or fines) for these vehicles when their trays or hoods block footpaths without might change behaviour and increase accessibility? Just spitballing my totally unprofessional opinion. Disabled parking is a moot point when people with mobility issues and/or those who use mobility aids have to use the road because the footpath is blocked. Having parks that are actually long enough for these vehicles doesn't seem to stop drivers from obstructing footpaths, at least in my town (which is in the same state as Naarm/Melbourne).

Regulating the hood-taller-than-most-adults, useless-3-foot-bed monstrosities as to require additional licensing or as commercial only vehicles (or something to that effect) might make a difference. Never gonna happen, though.

On the topic of regulating vehicles, it'd be nice if the stock headlight brightness and colour were regulated to not blind people, especially those of us who don't drive yank tanks or other tall vehicles. Slip in some totally unrelated stuff requiring basic safety features (headlights, indicators, windscreen wipers, maybe even basic media and environment controls) to be physical controls and not touchscreen rubbish would be nice. I can dream.
This is important to highlight. The worst issues show up in deep blue cities. SF is the worst offender.

It's more so a generation issue than a red-blue issue. Urbanism is bipartisan.
By that comparison, I wouldn't count gold out.

Its physical durability is established. You'll have no problems dealing with a 150-year-old coin, but I could see even things like "paper key/secret" storage falling apart if the appropriate ecosystem isn't there to restore access.

Its volatility is far less than BTC. The dollar still does better by that metric in non-dramatic times, but there's the implicit "if you're looking for alternative value stores, you've probably already turned up your nose to the dollar."

Offline cash in and out is still easier. Most communities have a coin dealer who will happily exchange dollars for sovereigns, or back. Yes, the spread is probably large, but I'd trust a cash-in-hand transaction with a local dealer a lot more than an exchange who will suddenly go into "we no longer offer fiat withdrawls, have some HappyFunCoin instead mode.
TikTok and the Fediverse
way lower than I thought, that’s encouraging

edit: oh wait, I read the addendum about California and I’m back to square one
Usually the cheaper the pay, the worse the death marches are. The company is either struggling to make a profit, or the managers are too greedy and saving up to buy a beach front mansion at your expense.

A higher pay rate means the company is profitable enough to spread the profits around. It may not last forever, but it's good while it's there.
IT industry: This is what we've built; it's our techno-utopia.

The article says there is no liability for platforms, even for hosting groups abusing children and murdering people live. That is absurd; I'm all for freedom, but obviously there are some limits. You can't yell 'fire' in a crowded theater, and you can't broadcast child abuse and homicide.

Obviously, if they wanted to, the platforms could shut it down. They don't need to be wide open and uncontrolled; those are their technical and business choices.
The Imminent Singularity in the World Economy
One of the remarkable things about LLM IMO is its ability to perform something akin to abductive semantic reasoning, which this is an example of. It inferred probabilistically from the semantic context that’s the appropriate action. This is an absolutely remarkable ability of LLMs that IMO is the most important capability they bring to the table over all prior AI techniques.

(All usual caveats of stochastic parrots and non reasoning apply)
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a thumb.
I agree it's possible to distract yourself with your inner monologue, but I wouldn't say it's due to the volume of your inner voice.

I liken it to people who claim they can visualise a photorealistic image right in front of them, superimposed over the real world (yes, I've met such people). If you ask them to visualize a black box that grows to take up the entirety of their vision, blocking everything else out, they have to admit that they can't do that. Because while they've identified what they're experiencing as "vision", it's not that. It's something else that kind of feels like vision, but they lack the language to articulate it.
I've been obsessed, mildly, with Feolite. It could be brought back for these sorts of applications to great effect. It's got the volumetric heat capacity of water and the ability to withstand much greater temperatures without any annoying phase transitions. It was very popular in the UK, where they went in early on charging for electricity on a rate varying by hour. The basic formula is easy, but there's a lot of secret ingredients to get the heat capacity way, way up.

Speaking of home uses and phase transitions, they have made inroads into making materials with a phase transitioned tuned to household temperatures. Say you have aimed for seventy-two Fahrenheit. The temperature gets higher than that? The material melts, absorbing ambient heat. Then, as the temperature dips below seventy-two Fahrenheit, it freezes, releasing heat. It would make a fantastic sort of "heat capacitor," designed to deal with rapid, small-scale temperature fluctuations, while larger heat batteries could deal with fluctuations over days, weeks, and so on.

Only problem is that these phase transition materials tend to be terrifyingly flammable, so far. Like soaking all of your drywall panels in candle wax before putting them up.
Why do you think OS research is something many might not be doing? Genuine question.
How can three states be tied at such a specific amount? Did they digitize a histogram or something?
Astro DB: A Deep Dive
> we have many heuristics to show much nicer diffs in many cases

Anything related to the “patience” or “histogram” variations as used e.g. in Git?
Boeings recent aircraft failures have been their newest planes off the line encountering issues, not their flight proven ones, but actually I was referring to Boeing/ULA starliner trials moreso.

Because of flight proven boosters, dragon was flown on 26 missions before humans were introduced.. meanwhile starliner is about to launch 2 humans on a fully unflown stack after 1 successful unmanned flight out of 4 attempts.
There are always a million problems people are trying to solve.

I'm trying to draw a square because I need to draw a button.
I'm trying to draw a button because I need the user to be able to click it.
I'm trying to make something the user can click so they can use this feature.
I'm trying to make this feature so the user can do ...
I'm trying to enable the user to do ... so my product can be successful.
I'm trying to make the product successful so my company can survive.
I'm trying to help my company survive so I can keep getting paid.
I'm trying to get paid so I can feed my family.
...
It goes on.

The XY problem, at least as I usually see it phrased, implies that there's exactly one problem up the stack that the asker should have asked about. There's not. It's impossible to know how much context would be useful and it depends on how much help the asker wants. Sometimes, I just want to draw a square and don't want help redesigning the feature. Maybe sometimes I _could_ use that kind of feedback. I think what's important is to meet people at the level they've asked the question, and _maybe_ suggest that it might be the wrong level. But so often respondents just obnoxiously insist on redesigning the feature when I just need to draw a square.