skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's giving advice to school kids on what to do during their remaining school years or early college years.
> Their PM literally said that Japan is on the verge of not being a functioning society.

This is hyperbole. People haven't even started littering, let alone any kind of wider social breakdown.

I found https://www.mof.go.jp/english/policy/budget/budget/fy2023/02... , which is fascinating; page 22 has a graph which shows that the interest payment has been roughly flat for years, due to declining rate. The social security issue is indeed a problem and there's probably going to be controversial pension reform, but it's a long way from blowing up. Also the major creditor is .. Bank of Japan.
Why Fastmail over ProtonMail
Oh this is a cool idea.

We've considered working on a chrome extension to help sales people pipe data into our product, but we haven't thought surfacing CRM data to salespeople in other apps.
If the user wants to ignore cert error they're going to ignore cert errors
Looks great!

I work in enterprise planning and wonder what is keeping you from targeting larger firms. Is the startup-target temporary or do you expect to let your clients "scale out" of the product?
Lets see how the next generation of Google,Meta is (going to) hire candidates.

Maybe AI can be the mentor/judge for such an "internship-style" recruiting practice, thus make it scalable.
Firstly, simply mentioning Jews is against the rules?

Secondly, banning a software engineer is like trying to stick your finger in a dam with a leak.

You don't have an impartial moderation style and that self-conceit is the absolute most revolting thing about your whole shtick.
I fear that Claude will become neutered, it's already refusing a prompt that I was using a few days ago without issue, infact I can still go back to the old chat and continue it, but restarting it Claude refuses.
You say all this like it's a bad thing, but maybe it's ultimately better for a society if there isn't a financial lottery that enables a small number of people to become insanely wealthy and powerful.

I'd rather a government that enables a thousand mid-sized companies with moderately well-paid executives and employees than one that enables a single monopolistic mega-corporation with billionaires whose power rivals states and whose incentives are not aligned with most of the world.
An adversary might MITM the CT as well.
> its a self-consistent theory

Nobody knows this since there is no exact mathematical formulation of "the theory" to begin with.

> that fits existing data

Nobody knows this either since nobody has derived either General Relativity or the Standard Model of particle physics as an approximation to any string theory model.
C++ could benefit from a grassroots project to provide a from-the-ground up alternative library, which shares not a single thing with the ISO C++ one. It would provide everything: I/O streams, strings, containers, smart pointers, ...

This project's number one priority would be safety, followed by ergonomics. Performance would be somewhere down the list, below portability.
I think there are many layers between the people who read Brian Greene's books and watched the reproducibility crisis unfold, and the public that has "lost faith in science". When I hear the latter, I think of vaccine skepticism and flat earth theories, not students who decided to switch to engineering. I think clickbait headlines and internet bubbles are, relatively speaking, a much bigger problem than string theory and bad statistics.
I've done this at a few companies as a hiring manager--offer the candidates a 10 hour/week (or whatever they can commit to) contract to do X thing until Y date. They set their own hours, but they can't expect folks to be available afterhours. Evaluate how far they got based on the hours they committed. Typically shows how their work style will be, but can't really evaluate their interpersonal skills/"meeting persona".
Redefining Fleet Management at Cloudflare
If the suggestion is a return to a guilded age where masters have more interns and apprentices perhaps we should not turn to Spolsky for things other than how to stop sucking at excel.
It would seem that Microsoft doesn’t care about the history of abuse allegations at DeepMind.
Joel Spolski told us all to hire, and aspire to be hired, as he did for his bugtracker written in a secret language that transpiled to VBScript.
That's what? Fourteen F-35s? Shared by all of Europe. Or in other words 30 cents per European for each of 6 years. Science is much cheaper than you think. And much cheaper than not doing it.
This week is make it or break it to fix Section 174
I live in Seattle. There are plenty of early Microsoft hires around here who are "fuck you money" rich.
My guess is that Mustafa wanted to sell to MSFT at 10X but MSFT didn’t wanted pay that kind of money. Mustafa was ok with fire sale but VCs were greedy. Mustafa then quite in rage.
GOG gets into cloud gaming with Amazon Luna partnership
Yes. I think this is genuinely under emphasised. However, when one's risk tolerance is high, there's a lot to be gained from even a failed startup. There's not much to be gained from repeatedly buying and losing at the lottery.
Do you not know poker at all?
That is correct. This kind of large legacy company has zero engineering culture. Engineering is not rewarded nor empowered to do its job well and is sometimes seen as a threat (engineering working too wall = entire departments could become redundant), which means nobody competent joins/stays there and only mediocrity remains.
Adding another simple point: we're simply earlier than Attio by several years.

Our long-term differentiation will be more obvious as we mature the product and distribution model.
Classic article.

I recently got a 30W Anker USB-C charger that is as small as the really old iPhone chargers, less than an inch cube, and it charges my M1 MacBook at full speed. It's far less than a third of the size of this 90W charger.

I'd love to see a teardown of that, too.
You should check out Twenty! https://twenty.com/ (YC S23) -- they're an OSS CRM.

I totally agree the object management UI is too clunky right now. I want to redo that set of pages, they were the first ones we shipped. Not gonna lie, idk if anyone except me and Ned are really pining to learn hotkeys for managing object schemas, since in practice we're the only ones doing that on a regular basis -- we do initial setup on behalf of our customers.

Yeah, I consider latency part of UX. We're doing some somewhat fancy stuff to reliably replicate every record into a couple of stores, each of which is optimized for different access patterns (search, get latest by ID, etc.). The big central Postgres(TM) is mostly there to be authoritative and to transactionally maintain invariants in the system.
Just once, I wish a journalist would ask for a clarification wrt absense of evidence. "Are you saying you don't know or have no way of knowing whether there was a data breach?"
Thats a WILD derivative you came up with lol I salute your perseverance sir
I don't know if Woit explained it, but there are multiple attempts at explanation by other people who have been pointing out the self-serving nature of string theory publicity. Lee Smolin's "The Trouble With Physics" mentions access to funding and the absence of experimental pressure to divulge of unproductive theories: by dint of the hype in the 80s and 90s, many theoretical physics departments were staffed mainly with string theorists. This means that if you want to earn money doing theoretical physics, there are many people who won't complain too loudly if you choose string theory, and many people advising grants be written for string theory research. Other fundamental theories don't have this lobby, not because they are in any measurable way more wrong than string theory, but by historical happenstance and perhaps pure mathematical sexiness (as opposed to actual physical reasons). Usually, in a natural science, we can fall back on empirical data to correct such "intellectually nepotistic" networks that all humans are wont to fall into, but since the standard model is so frigging successful, this is missing.

But no matter the actual reason, I think anyone with a post-graduate science education can agree that it's a pretty big howler to call string theory an A+++ physical theory, when it so far hasn't predicted a single thing. That's a clear sign that the people talking are engaged in empty PR, not in informing the public in any meaningful way.
vega charts are also decent and very configurable. LLMs know about them and can generate their schema too, which helps.
Related xkcd: https://xkcd.com/632/
HTTP (POST) AJAX calls + SSE is one of the simplest ways to implement bi-directional real time functionality. IMHO this is a much more robust and nicer way than web sockets for a huge amount of applications which use web sockets today.
> This is pretty commonly used by apps to make them harder to reverse engineer. It prevents you from installing your own cert in the system's trust store and then using that to man-in-the-middle the app's communication with its backend.

As an aside - this isn't generally very effective or worthwhile nowadays.

Anybody doing reverse engineering at a level where they're installing their own system certificates & intercepting traffic can easily run many off the shelf scripts (Frida scripts, Objection, apk-mitm, etc) which will disable certificate pinning like this automatically. This takes _seconds_ to disable and is standard practice.

Even doing so manually is not especially difficult - the pin is fairly predictable value, and a reverse engineer can access all content of the mobile app, so can easily search for and just replace it before installation.

From a reverse engineering perspective, there's little-to-no value in purely client-side protections like this. You're not increasing the reverse engineering difficulty significantly and you do create many practical problems with e.g. certificate rotation in future.

OTOH there is an interesting case to be made for certificate pinning as a protection for users being unknowingly MitM'd. That's a different scenario that may well be worth defending against, but due to the many downsides of cert pinning, using certificate transparency to mitigate this is strongly preferable nowadays.
That's not far from having a proper probation period.
Asbestos is a wonder material, and insanely cheap. They put it in everything from roads to siding for homes to insulation for ventilation ducts, and everything inbetween. And it's "totally safe" for these purposes - so long as it is never touched again. Once a housing siding tile is cracked or broken by say, a baseball, it degrades and starts being released into the local environment.

So you have a highly toxic material, but it's encapsulated and totally safe for 30 years, well past the average age of home ownership. "It's somebody elses problem"! So the result is, every house built in 1940-1970 has asbestos in it, and while their children weren't directly exposed to asbestos, now it is breaking down and our generation (and future generations, asbestos sticks around for a very, very long time - that's part of it's "wonder material" story) now have to deal with the problem.

So yes, just label it "hey this stuff is crazy toxic, but not for your family, and not the family after, so there's no risk to you, and no economic downside since it won't impact your property value" so it ends up being purchased as both the best and cheapest building material, but now you're building 250,000 houses that double as toxic waste dumps for future generations

Just labeling asbestos as toxic and letting the market decide, in this specific situation, is peak boomerism.
I don't think so?

Inflection announced new ceo and changes today as well.

The article seems to mention several employees jumped ship with Mustafa.
They should just ask you for money to prove you're human. If robots could be duped into buying useless crap off the internet they wouldn't care about humans in the first place.
here's 3.31:

$
cal(C)(M) = cal(E)_T^t (theta, cal(S)_t)^2 + C_t M_t^(-2/d)
+ cal(E)_T^"PDE" (theta_t, cal(S)_"int")^2 + C_"PDE" M_"int"^(-2/(d+1)) \
+ C_1T^(1/2) [cal(E)_T^"div" (theta, cal(S)_"int") + C_"div" M_"int"^(-1/(d+1))
+ (1+nu)(cal(E)_T^s (theta, cal(S)_s) + C_s M_s^(-1/d))]
$

Would you have the equivalent LaTeX code for comparison?
> Ultimately, it's a trust issue. Most people, me included, are used to getting Rust through rustup or their package manager.

$corporate usually has a lot less trust issues once there's a contractual relationship with the proprietary provider. But that hurdle also means it's more difficult to get a foot in the door, especially when an open alternative exists.
No it is not.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2020/05/letters...

https://ca.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/corpo...

It is a bloody corporate buzzword.
Yes! Equifax has very lax security. Last year they leaked my social insurance number to a fraudster. When they were describing this on the phone they didn't seem to think they did anything wrong. What makes it worse is I never even gave it to them - they just get it straight from the government I guess?
The Mac-only support wasn't an issue. I love Sketch, and I used to like it more than Figma. What happened is that Figma resolved many things that were a headache with Sketch:

- No more file-sharing issues. Designers are not good at using tools like git. I used git+lfs to store my designs, but most of the design team used Google Drive or Dropbox. In both cases, you end up in a situation where the file you are looking at is not up-to-date. Figma removed that issue.

- Design reviews: Collaborating on the same design as in many Figma demos is rare. However, playing with the design in a remote session is common during a design review.

- The pace of updates: Figma moved faster to improve the editor's UX. The auto-layout, styles, components, and variables are good additions to everyday work. It took Sketch a while to update the editor's UX.

There is no return once the team purchases the Figma subscription instead of renewing Sketch. When I started using Figma (around 2019), I hated its slowness and missed some Sketch features. Our UX team adopted Figma, and only a few designers continued using their Sketch license (I was one of them). But, it didn't make sense to not align with the rest of the team (for the reasons mentioned before). I haven't used Sketch since then. Sketch added many sharing features, but there isn't a solid reason to go back and convince the team to migrate their designs.
How rich do you insist on being? The bar to "can choose never to work again" is surprisingly low, it just requires a high savings rate which is quite achievable in this line of work.
Fully agreed.

I was the first graduating class from one of the first public high schools in the country with an IT magnet program.

I remember the program coordinator telling us and our parents in a big presentation that we could be making $70-80k out of high school. He was really selling it.

I was not making anywhere near that out of high school. =P

But I wasn't doing bad either. In fact, I'd had two jobs with tech companies before I even graduated. I had a job lined up in the engineering department of an OEM prior to receiving my high school diploma. That same administrator was always encouraging us, cheering us on with our various projects, helping where he could.

I never thought for a moment I'd been mislead that my salary wasn't that high or that I didn't make it "rich". Any kid who'd sat through a school fundraiser presentation in middle school knows that those awesome prizes of a computer or game console or whatnot is just meant to hype you up. But you might be able to land a CD player. (My age is showing here. =P )

I expect any 14-15yo he's talking to will get the gist. The kids are not stupid. They get the pitch. And I think they intrinsically know the odds too. Those 9,500 football players are not all going to see it as a loss, even if they didn't achieve their ultimate goal. People turn losses into wins and salvage the good from a failed attempt all of the time.

My son is 3, and already has fun mashing computer parts together and wanting to see how things work. I'm excited to see if he wants to do this as well. Will I tell him "Dude, that guy said I'd be making $90k and that was B.S." Nah. I'll give him simple version of Paul's advice. Even if he doesn't go into entrepreneurship, it'll set him up well if he follows it.
It's hard to agree with most of what you said without starting from the big assumption that "capitalism is bad" and "being anti-capitalism is a virtue"

Becoming more effective in and of itself simply means becoming more productive, which means creating goods and services with less, which means more "welfare" to people

If people are being convinced to buy shit they don't need, that's a separate issue. But don't throw the baby out with the bathwater

In my well balanced life, I love interacting with LLMs. I also appreciate the things I have all of the time, without needing to slowing down technological progress to do so
What I meant by "trust" is evidenced by this entire comment section, which is full of laypeople who appear convinced by Woit's arguments but seemingly do not wonder why the physicists in question were never swayed.

Witten has given quite a lot of interviews over the years, but his more mainstream views are unlikely to make it to the front page.
keep in mind that HIBP doesn't offer any bare name, physical address, phone number, social security number, or birthdate lookup (at least as far as i can tell). i would take its utility regarding this breach with a grain of salt, and query the actual raw dataset if i wanted to be absolutely sure.
The only inflection I see here is Microsoft single-handedly dominating global tech industry and its future after its years in sleep. US DoD must have been really worried about the US Empire’s continued dominance.
Do you have any sources for this? If he knew it was going to be this huge, why were they looking for an acquisition for north of a million dollars? On AGI: are you referencing this clip? [1] To me, it seems like an ordinary vision when you stretch your imagination. He didn't have any realistic idea how Google might achieve AGI, just something that could happen in the future. And this was in 2000. Google, I imagine, was pretty successful by then.

Larry Page's original ambition was to digitize books and knowledge in the world [2].

> Page had always wanted to digitize books. Way back in 1996, the student project that eventually became Google—a “crawler” that would ingest documents and rank them for relevance against a user’s query—was actually conceived as part of an effort “to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library.”

[1]: https://twitter.com/jam3scampbell/status/1608270969763729415

[2]: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-t...
So it's like a soft-power move to get people to RTO without directly mandating it?

It sounds like mgmt really wants people to RTO and has realized that de jure RTO backfires so it's trying to figure out the right "incentives" to get the desired results. There's this element of, "we really think you're that dumb," that they seem to keep deluding themselves with.
Has Apple adopted GAN technology in its chargers yet? I’ve moved over to a GAN that is much smaller/lighter than Apples huge blocks.
> Senior knows better.

Sometimes, the cost of keeping really talented senior engineers who have solved a very difficult part of your tech stack is to give them the freedom to over engineer solutions that are probably a bit overcomplicated (maybe like OP). The alternative is they get bored and leave and take a wealth of technical knowledge with them
Look, the muslim brotherhood was implicated (yes "unproven") in both the Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan massacres in France. Given that, say whatever you want. If this organisation is wiped off the face of the earth tomorrow, VERY few people, and I'm really hoping that includes 99% French muslims, will shed any tears.
You train people, delegate to them, and then trust them to do the right thing.

This is discussed in the article as well, but I think expectations are much better than interruptions. And even then, it is better to set those expectations during training rather than during the response. People should be trained to prioritize communication during a response, but not above their work doing the response. And the people doing the work are individually best suited to make the call of whether what they're doing is more or less important than communicating.

In my view, it's really hard to overstate how hard it is to be reading big volumes of logs, reconstructing the runtime state of some big complex distributed system from the breadcrumbs available, and thinking about what to do next to most quickly mitigate or get more information on the issue, while being bombarded with messages.
The opportunity cost of wasting exceptionally intelligent people on unproductive and useless intellectual labor is substantial.

The opportunity cost of those individuals educating exceptionally intelligent students to specialize in this particular blind alley is even greater.
This. It's the US system that is broken, not the European ones.
How long until we see speculators opening life insurance policies for people based on breached PII and PHI?

"This guy looks like he could drop dead any minute, let's put a million dollars on him"
To someone who is doing one or the there is a clear difference. I don't trust the EU or YouTube to be able to tell the difference from the other end, by the end product alone.

If AI writes MIDI input for a synthesizer, rather than producing the actual waveform, where does that land?
Could we get terrestrial railroads into a usable state in the US first though? Should be trivial in comparison.
Look at way back machine
my source is larry himself- I used to work there and volunteered at SciFoo, which he attended and I chatted with him about it. The digital library is basically building a corpus for training AGI.

His dad was a computer scientist and larry read a lot of AGI sci fi as a kid, so it's not really that hard to extrapolate 1980s technology to 2040s outcomes.
The trick is GAN technology:

https://www.promate.net/blogs/blog/what-is-gan-technology

Half of my company has done the same and mostly Anker too. I got the charger/battery combo, as it is amazing for travel.
Green card/implication of foreign labor does add an extra bit of information beyond just inexperience - it's that they are likely to be less acquainted with the laws/regulations which means they can be convinced to do illegal things and are less likely to know their rights and stand up to bad/illegal treatment by their employer.
I can't tell from the article the dimensions of that charger they are tearing down, but the article is from 2015.
What do you think of the Rack interface?

Or ActiveRecord's query chaining?

ex. User.where(admin: true).joins(:account).order(id: :asc)

It's all versions of the same approach.

And yes all of the above _can_ complicate debugging, for sure. But so can most abstractions. Only use them if the specific problem they solve is bigger than the drawbacks.