skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a new thing happening in Silicon Valley particularly and technology generally: we don’t need people like you anymore.

As with a lot of terms, “brogrammer” is one that initially referred to something progressive but got co-opted by the kind of people whose value add is “shady games”.

There’s a breed of elite hackers now who understand power dynamics, the importance of optics, the value that accrues to which parts of the apparatus, and daydreams while outmaneuvering anyone who ever contemplated an MBA, which is an admission that you can’t hack it when the distributions go non-stationary or the wire-to-wire latency target at 7 nines is below a mike.

I don’t generally like to call attention to this, but my friend and former colleague Antonio Garcia Martinez of Goldman, Cal applied physics, Silicon Valley, and many other kinds of fame was very gracious to me in a NYT best-seller about a great many things but among them how I was a kind of synthesis of the kind of people who (as stereotyping would have it) were either basement-dwelling geeks or glib salesmen with Anglican/Presbyterian-sounding names.

Buy the book if you care. Nick Schrock had found my photograph on the Internet and made it a Facebook cult classic at least a year before I joined in the Palo Alto office. Which is pretty early that I was #336 on the SWE staff.

There is a lot of scope for value-add from the kinds of people who the ignorant and prejudiced stereotype as “nerds”: those people in my experience are generally kind, humane, humble, and brilliant.

I’m just humane and brilliant, and I’m going to personally salt the Earth where people who talk like you do once stood.

And I’ve got no compunctions about leveraging my appearance or height or dress sense or glib vocabulary, or ease in dominating a meeting to do so.

Selective pressures have produced a breed that is simultaneously the prom king and likely to end up with a Turing, and do it all without pillaging the commons or appealing to connections.

And if any of this rubs you the wrong way, we can step outside and handle it there. You don’t want that.
Is the weather that great in Niagara during this time of year?
Along the same lines, didn't the rise of mosquito tones to discourage kids from being in malls start in the early 2000s?
Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections
Gravitational waves may have made human life possible
I wonder how many people drive far enough to regularly need the range extender before they have a chance to plug it in. The fuel economy of this thing is not great if you drive it far enough that it runs out of petrol and you need to fill it up again - but what if you rarely do that? What if you usually drive less than about 50 miles before the next opportunity to recharge it?
There’s no doubt there but India has had a late start and is a democracy, not an authoritarian state. It will get there, it’s going to take a lot longer than China.
Ask HN: How to Learn to Learn Again
I often find myself instinctively seeking immediate solutions whenever I encounter a new challenge or problem. Whether it's using immediately Google, ChatGPT, or reaching out to colleagues for assistance, convenience seems to take precedence over effort in my approach. Interestingly, during my teenage years in the early 2010s, I consciously avoided smartphones and social media, but since embracing them during my bachelor's and master's degrees, I've noticed a decline in my attention span and willpower, a trend that seems to be much sharper than the expected one.
Even though being able to frame questions effectively and identifying appropriate sources for help are valuable skills, I fear that I've become reliant on quick fixes, neglecting the effort required to acquire deeper knowledge and skills that aren't readily available.

Even in activities I enjoy, such as playing the guitar, I tend to lean heavily on tabs or chords rather than trying to improve my ear and understanding of music theory.

Approaching my 30s, I'm determined to break free from this perceived dependency on instant solutions. I know that knowledge and understanding come through challenges and effort. I am stuck to quick dopamine hits.

Has anyone else had a similar experience?
Seems to me like either exFat or FAT32 would be simpler? There's billions of devices using it with millions more sold every year, and it's supported by all operating systems in current use so it also has greater real world practicality.
But then you are saying a specific great new feature, performance, and not just the claim and concept performance, but numbers.
Django’s ORM is also widely popular in the Python world. It’s just not standalone.
My favourite of his pieces is Open Field Vertical Elevations, which incidentally was erected in the fields outside the residence of a collector who also recently passed, near where I live in the middle of nowhere, Tuscany.

In person, viewed while immersed in its necessary context of landscape, it is visually powerful and moving. It is also a link to the greater world outside our narrow vales and to a cultural history of patronage of the arts.

I understand that the attitudes here are mostly skeptical of contemporary art, but it really goes too far in most cases. Serra wasn't Hirst.
I have ADHD and am recently back on Adderall after a 14-15 year break.

Honestly, it's pretty necessary for me at this point in my life, but there was a reason I went off it also, and a lot of the perhaps unexpected qualities mentioned in the stories here sound familiar to me.

I never "liked" it though, I can't imagine taking it if I didn't also need to get shit done.
I’d bet you at even odds that nothing else malicious by this person is found in 1 month, and at 1:2.5 odds that nothing is found in a year.
Can you give me some examples of old-fashioned forums, I just one to see some of it for the sake of it ;)
Maybe I've just grown to be a cynical ass, but I don't think it's just kids, even me and my adult friends lament how it feels like there's really not that much interesting to do outside of the home, and I am far from attached to a smartphone; often times I don't even bring a phone with me when I leave the house. The vast majority of the businesses in these parts are places where you either eat, or buy groceries. There used to be video rental stores everywhere, now they're rare. The malls are dead, the arcades are gone, the electronics stores are wiped out. When I was in California, I watched Fry's completely die over the course of a few years; I wonder how many nerds met lifelong friends just kind of hanging around places like Fry's.

Political polarization has harmed social interaction in the meatspace, too. I really generally don't mind or think about political affiliation if it's not relevant, but if I walk into a building and it either feels like I've entered a Trump rally or it's plastered in performative wokeness crap, I'm just going to want to leave, because politics aside, at best it just feels cliché and begging for negative attention, and I'm probably going to find the kind of people who like this environment to be insufferable.

Nowadays, I surprisingly often just see groups of kids aimlessly wandering grocery stores at night, seemingly not interested in actually buying anything, just kind of walking and talking. If it's because they don't know what else to do, I sincerely can't blame them, I don't even know what to do.
> To me, both cars despite being electric tells me the owner has no taste whatsoever.

wow, snobbish. Car visuals are subjective. They're all the same basic shape with minor variations. Ending up with another cars look seems inevitable. So each model should be taken with it's pros and cons without brand elitism. Looks nice enough and does the job at 1/3 of the price.

> Also, I wonder what buyers have on their minds, they buy a car that has a high likelihood of being deprecated, so likely they won't get any software updates or even worse, it could get bricked or have any issues and not having anybody that could fix it.

Some countries have regulation around how long parts are available, so hopefully that is a forcing factor for all buyers. Doesn't help if companies go under. I'd be very wary about buying any of these vehicles from niche players.
>Sad to see the other comments are so contemptuous.

There are literally no comments in this thread which are negative.

I have no idea why those who control the art world feel the need to present themselves as marginalized.
The notes section has a brief description of the protocol and the different kinds of sockets involved.
You're right that there are some very effective prescription treatments that aren't shown, but it doesn't seem like prescription acne treatments are the usually the appropropriate / doctor prescribed choice for most people facing mild to moderate acne.

Personally, my pediatrician told me that acne is just something that happens to teens and recommended that I go try some acne washes from the drugstore instead of prescribing something like Tretinoin which could have some pretty intense side effects.

Reading r/SkincareAddiction has been really helpful for me, especially seeing the range of experiences that people have had, and that's why we made Lumona summarize these results.
I really don't see the point of this...it takes at least as much energy to "unburn" the CO2 in the air back into organic molecules, as burning the coal/oil released in the first place.

(If it took less, we could make a perpetual motion machine by burning and unburning coal)

Are we really supposed to expend as much energy as we expended in the entire industrial age just to remove the excess CO2 in the atmosphere?
Not sure what you mean by wrong. I have never encountered a case yet when training an LLM (no matter what architecture) would require limited memory and was pointing out that the typical memory requirements for training are much higher yet than the typical requirements for inference.
Perhaps most disturbing of all, in just the past year, an industry trend appears to have kicked off in which a subset of SEO companies has begun to acquire the domain names and historical digital content archives of defunct small-town American newspapers for the express purpose of turning them into highly profitable backlink farms.

Does anyone think that these backlink farms will have much value 2 or 3 years from now?

This is not just about the role of AI providing better search results or answers to typical queries. It's also the longstanding decline in relevance of Google search queries gummed up with ads and SEO-optimized junk.
As I understand it, the ext2 format isn't deprecated. The original driver that ONLY supports ext2 is deprecated.

However, the ext4 driver also supports the ext2 format, and there are no plans to deprecate the ext4 driver.
We already have some evidence of how bad it could get if what they describe just becomes normal: the Replika AI companion.
What that means is topics that hackers in particular would find interesting compared to non-hackers. If 90% of the hackers find something interesting, but 90% non-hackers also find it interesting, then it's not a hackerly topic. I.e. "... that good hackers (in particular, in contrast to the general population) would find interesting". That's the non-strawman interpretation.

I'm positive I didn't just invent the idea that public forums are not for private messaging, let alone invent it today. In any case, that usually runs afoul of basic topicality.

If you have to grasp at strawman, literal interpretations of the written guidelines to justify your behavior, some people who don't take those interpretations will probably find that behavior against the guidelines.

I'm only articulating some possible reasons why your submission might be being flagged. (What it means for me to be wrong here is that, no those are not the reasons; it's something else.)

In my opinion, possibly wrong, to avoid being flagged under a crowdsourced moderation model, your interpretation of the guidelines has to be similar to that of the crowd. The crowd is not going to take a literal, strawman interpretation of the rules. Maybe some of the crowd will but not all of it, and only a small fraction of the crowd is needed to flag you. If you're straining at the boundaries of the guidelines, the odds are heavily stacked against you.
Smartphones aren't personalized with algorithms to hook you. Social media and gacha games, which can be installed on smartphones, are. A smartphone is just a pocket computer. It's an extremely powerful tool and forbidding the next generation from learning to use it effectively would be terribly misguided. Purposeful psychological attacks could do with some regulation however.
> Maybe people should detox and learn to live life without constantly needing something interesting.

Yeah I think this is it and not the kids should be outdoors argument. If I were a kid today I’d be on my device all of the time. When I was young I sat around watching Night Court, Three’s Company, and Saved By the Bell reruns in syndication. I would have loved access to Roblox, Minecraft, and YouTube. I could have been outside (and sometimes I was) but I usually preferred to just veg out. Now my kids enjoy hanging around on their iPads and have a lot more options of things to do on those devices but they can’t just sit and stare at a wall like I did when I was young.
I use ext4 (for /boot) but I always enable "sync". I always imagine that makes it less likely to suffer corruption but I have no actual evidence for that. I might be making it up.
I pay for kagi

Is there someone out there who would pay 20 bucks a month for a photo sharing app that doesn't bleed their info everywhere and turnt them into a product.

You bet there are.

If there's a 100k users at 20 bucks a month, that's decent money for a 15 person shop.
Marketplace Host Kai Ryssdal Interviews Jay Powell, Head of the Federal Reserve
funding model of OSS work is obviously a problem, but these problems are deeper than that. even a very well compensated OSS developer can get a knock on the door from a government agency (or anyone with a "$5 wrench")[1] and they might feel "compelled" to give up their maintainer creds.

[1]: https://xkcd.com/538/
It's not the same kind of dangerous.
Huh. I never really thought of it as a percentage.

I've been evil, been wonderful, and indifferent at different stages in life.

I have known those who have done similar for money, fame, and boredom.

I think, given a backstory, incentive, opportunity, and resources it would be possible to most people to flip from wouldn't to enlisted.

Leverage has shown to be the biggest lever when it comes to compliance.
My childhood was in a rural area the US known for lagging behind other parts by a decade or more, so I can relate even though that was in the 90s. Lots of quiet evenings doodling away in a notebook, getting lost in my imagination, pondering something, or goofing around in the yard, because there wasn’t that much else to do. Two OTA TV channels which frequently weren’t airing anything interesting, VHS tapes that’d been watched many tens of times over, no consoles, and a family computer that my parents were usually using.

Boredom didn’t bother me too much back then, but I doubt I’d be able to say the same if I were a child today… personal entertainment is simply too easy and ubiquitous to deny. Probably would’ve also had a very different experience had I grown up in a city instead.
This is a ~400 meters segment; the method is quite lossy due to wireless power transmission and also encumbered with a pending patent. I also suspect that road maintenance will be much more expensive, once there are smarts inside.

A time-proven alternative is to install trolleys on such trucks and put overhead wires, similar to trolleybuses ([1]) or electric trains. It's known to scale to thousand kilometers, easy to service and cheap to install. And the road would remain just dumb asphalt / concrete.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybus
If OP is managing something that is critical to life - think fire suppression controllers, or computers that are connected to medical equipment, I think it becomes very difficult to compare that against financial assets.
Disgusting. I'm not sure to what extend this kind of behavior is illegal, but it's certainly should be.
Ugh. Same.

I hate the “speed” narrative…It’s so addictive I need a cap on my medicine with a timer to know if I took it or not…
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I chortled at the claim that deadspin is "beloved"
As a close personal friend of Ross and a fellow Computer person, I know he would like everything you have said about himself and his huge contribution to Computer Science.

Both the positive and negative comments would make him smile, He knew and we often discussed late in to the night over a glass of red wine or two, his and others work, always interesting and always on point.

He was especially pleased if something he had written or commented on made someone else react. His view was 'well there talking about it now!'

My favourite moments were when he'd ask me over to stay and we'd sit late into the night discussing anything and everything.

I miss you already old friend.

My love and thoughts tonight are with his wife Shireen, his daughter Bavarni and his grandchildren.

Mark Foster
Is Adderall significantly different the Ritalin?
Prescribed the latter and I would not call it addictive. If I don't take it I don't crave it...

..unlike Nicotine which seems impossible to stop.
Okay, I think I follow and agree legalistically with your argument. But I also think it basically only exists philosophically. In practice, we make these determinations all the time. I don't see any reason why a sufficiently sophisticated representation, learned through statistical optimization, is, in practice, different from a semantic model.

If there were such a thing, it'd be interesting to propose how our own minds, at least to the degree that they can be seen as statistical learners in their own right, achieve semantics. And how that thing, whatever it might be, is not itself a learned representation driven by statistical impression.
Yours maybe.
Gardening, working out, going for walks. Cutting hair, washing a car. I can think of a few.
Depends on the person, but pharmacologically they are pretty similar.
These sculptures are awesome. Literally.
Walking next to one is a literally awe inspiring experience. They just seem so big and imposing standing next to one.
Killer whales use specialized hunting techniques to catch marine mammals
It sounds like what he leaked was a wide range of things for all sorts of reasons including his own joy at “Can’t wait for chaos to break out before Apple corporate people even wake up.”
Well yes, but I run container orchestration on owned servers (Swarm, not Kubernetes) so it's really easy to add a new service at a whim and only quite rarely do we need to add capacity, to which we can also add in a cloud provider. But I'm using off-lease servers which are sort of bonkers as to how much capacity you get for the price. I think they cost less than a months spend on an equivalent cloud instance.
Between this and the story about zoom adding mail features I have no words.

I do want to know what these product teams are on, cause clearly they get better drugs than the rest of us.
Let's see.

Musk has popularied EVs, launched rockets into outer space, founded a company that drills massive holes, and bought a social media company.

I don't think the idea of betting against him is a good one.
Yeah I was wrong about that, I confused it with socket-activation passing. The systemd-side socket is available from the process.
Gasoline and diesel are much more energy dense than lithium batteries. Tesla has shown that this doesn't matter too much for cars, but lithium battery powered trains and planes are a long way off, if ever. This could be the first step of creating renewable gasoline/diesel for them.
All you need is energy. Now, where do we get energy for the chemical industry?
I'm not very familiar with Linux filesystem drivers, but it seems odd that there's separate ext2, presumably ext3, and ext4 drivers when the latter are (100%?) backwards-compatible with the former filesystems.
> I wish employers would better encourage and reward those who put enormous effort into their job.

I wonder if the reason they don't, is because the folks higher up are also dragging their heels & putting in 40% for the paycheck.
Completely agreed. It was a miracle for me. I felt like I was significantly less irritating and could concentrate on normal tasks.

It's important to talk about Adderall abuse, but at the same time, acknowledge its benefit for those who need it. It's such an embarrassing drug to admit to taking because it has so much stigma connected to it. I usually avoid talking about it because people's reactions can get very judgemental and uncomfortable.
You guys are getting downvoted by HN's leftist members. This is why I left years ago and barely post here anymore. It's not you. It's them. So many of us tried to explain to them but they have their own "social justice" mindset where everyone is equal, everyone is the same, therefore everyone's problems are solved the same way. Sorry, the "open minded" ones seem to have the least malleable minds.
>It also won't surprise me if this private key ends up being stolen by someone else, and used against its original owner.

And that is exactly why backdoored encryption is bad.
That doesn't get VC money and crazy people screaming about it. Boston/Cambridge is full of those and it's a pleasure to be on them but there's no crazy CEO trying to sell it so no one bothers to pay attention to them.
FAT is definitely far more portable; exFAT, not so much.
If the "unburning" could be done using zero-emission renewable energy it seems like that would the best or only way to effectively remove excess CO2. I'm skeptical that there will ever be a true magic bullet carbon capture technology like that though.
Wait you paid 25k for a used/salvage RX-8 in 2009? That sounds crazy. I think I bought one new for around 26k in 2008.
Is this client generation available anywhere, or internal tooling?
Well, I guess one big part was gaming arcades, back then. They no longer exist, or are rare and derelict.
I like to think this vindicates Heinlein’s conveyor belt solar panel roads, just in the opposite direction of energy transfer.
OK. It's difficult to you.
It's whitewash.
Overhead wires on freeways have hight issues when trying to power both cars and allow room for oversized loads. It works for trolleys because you have a full sized buss’s height plus the hight of the pickup bar which allows a lot of room below.

Wireless also has quite a lot going for it from a safety, noise, and maintenance perspectives. If they’re deep enough you could theoretically have a 50+ year lifespan while the road surface above gets replaced multiple times. There’s no metal on metal contact so their quiet, and it’s not like the wires can fall up through the road surface.
It is not a deterrent for crimes of passion or ones of desperation. If you are angry and upset you are not going to be stopped by rational thinking of risk/reward outcomes, similarly if you are hungry and homeless this will not be on your mind and no amount of deterrent will stop when there is little to loose.

You cannot stop murder, rapes, petty theft etc with punishments you can deter white-collar crimes which are executed with a lot of forethought as this is a critical decision making factor.

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To be clear I meant loosing financial license is not same as loosing medical or legal license, no one is spending 10 years of education and hundreds of thousands of to get one, so it is not much of deterrent to threaten loosing it.
Is this pivot to video 2 or 3? I've lost track, don't we hear this story every few years?
Paint.net
Unrelated: as a dog/pointer lover i really like the term "to bird-dog the problem". Never heard of it (iam from germany though)
I wish the author was here to answer the question, "Why did you omit HATEOS?"