skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Instead they go full blown "please make it go away, if it's visible by us it means it's terrible and dangerous! FOSS is insecure!"

The cynicist in me fears this is how a large part of politics operates:

A lingering problem that is highly visible is bad: Then the public is expecting you to find a solution, and if you don't, it will reflect negatively on your public image, chances of reelection, etc.

In contrast, a massive crisis or catastrophe that occurs (seemingly) out of nowhere is actually good (as long as you aren't affected yourself), because it allows you to appear as the hero, rally people behind a common cause, access a massive amount of additional resources and funding, push through bills for completely unrelated political goals as long as you can somehow relate them to the catastrophe, etc.

This means there is a massive political incentive to push problems under the rug: As long as no one knows the problem is there, all is fine - and if the problem should unexpectedly blow up, that's fine too, because then there will be a "crisis" that you can politically benefit from.
I have been comparing them to SGI of the late 90s but the next 18 months will prove me right or wrong as Intel, Apple, Google and AMD try to compete.
Well, as long as we strictly scope "European history" to everything between the fall of Rome and World War I. :)
I think what they mean is 'an influx of AI-generated code (which is frequently garbage)'
Yep that's part of the advance here. Identifying what those subsets are. This drug went on to be approved for mismatch repair deficient endometrial cancers in 2023
There are multiple ways to vet identity. Even just knowing location and such. This person used a VPN. A big red flag.
Admittedly, there are exceptions, but the general picture is you're overworked, underpaid, and barely hanging on until (and if!) you get tenure. Even after tenure, you need to work hard to be promoted to full professor.

In many disciplines, books are part of your research output. In others, it's something that you usually do once you are tenured and want to show broader impact for your promotion to full or when you are already promoted to full.

Out of curiosity, who are professors on YouTube that you have come across?
Send Mixed Signals via LLM Steering
Many more chances to mess up.
No, I'd say that falls under the 'annoyances' guideline. Obviously it's super annoying, but what should drive on/off-topicness is the content.
Thats a lot of work, and you have property taxes and maintenance.

An index fund gives me 8% without lifting a finger and is very liquid while a house isn't.
I created a monster, then a primordial explosion, then a nested simulation within the mind of the monster, and asked it to describe the physics of this nested simulation. Very engrossing.
All the time.

A former employer had a client who had us re-write the same project 5 times. We kept each project repo backed up, because we were able to re-use pieces when the next re-write rolled around. Eventually they scrapped the project. The client printed money and wiped their ass with it like it was nothing. A lot of stress went into it for nothing. The project itself was a horror story. Maybe someday I'll write a blog about it.

Then there's the one where someone high up wouldn't pay ten grand for a license, so he paid a senior dev to recreate the same feature set. Took this dev over a year, so over $100k+ for a amateur (by comparison) offshoot that is maybe as reliable? Instead of just buying a license for 10 grand (I am shifting the amounts on purpose, it may have been higher ;).

Then there was the project where they hired a ton of Jr devs except like four (30+ devs) and charged senior rates for all of them. They refused to hire actual seniors, questionable hiring practices all around. The front-end folks were doing hacks that give me nightmares, because they had to (proprietary front-end framework). When the app hit the app store I saw all the negative reviews for it and was not surprised.

Then there was the project I was what I call full-stack developer plus. It involved a web front-end (I worked on the back-end, and the front-end) to a daemon (I worked on this as well) and a debian package, as well as some external APIs. It also involved mDNS / Avahi. The idea was we would install this package on a OS we customized, then we would know we could run tests on this OS. I touched every major piece of that project, and was holding the weight of the other two developers because one was a junior, the other was some weird data science guy who wrote some of the worst code we ever saw.

Edit: I forgot one key piece, I also wrote shell scripts to automate installing and provisioning this OS on Virtual Box instances, which would also check the network for this VM to be online and then install my Debian package.

It also had noVNC (a web based VNC client) so we could remotely see these systems with ease.

We had this thing running like a train by the time I was at my peak with the project, and one QA guy said one thing wasn't working, and the manager said we'll stop using it until its fixed. That was the death of that project. I also kind of left the company after all the burn out of basically carrying too much weight. It was one of my worst projects I worked on because of all the weight in my shoulders, but it was also one of the most fascinating ones.

Then there are more recent examples I dare not utter since it was within the last year at my former employer (I'm looking for work HN ;).
I've already written about just that over in the xz thread a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39893388

> Is it possible? Definitely. But that's extremely rare, especially if you want to keep a relatively natural pattern for the commits and replies.

> You'd basically have to have a team of devs working at really odd times and a queuing system that automatically queues all emails, github interactions, commits, etc to dispatch them at correctly distributed timestamps.

> And you'd need a source pattern to base your distribution on, which is hard to correctly model as well.

Note that while what you suggest is possible, it'd become visible if you look at issues, questions, emails, etc sent to the project author and how long it took for the author to reply to them. If you plot this reply delay by the hour of day that the message arrived, a pattern emerges.
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/22/m
Unfortunately that email exchange is in the corporate archive of a company I have not worked for since 2021.
It's not that there is no photon moving; it's that the image isn't any object, it's a series of different objects being illuminated in order.

Even when an real object is moving, there isn't any single photon moving along with it that enables you to see it move.
We built the Taliban a whole lot of nice infrastructure. Maybe they'll be able to use it, probably not though.
Paper, https://pranavkhadpe.github.io/assets/publication/SIGBOVIK24...

We present computational techniques to steer the outputs of LLMs and generate mixed signals based on the emerging idea of scenario nesting, which suggests that by immersing LLMs in fictional worlds, we can challenge and change their worldview. We instantiate these techniques in an interactive system, SMS, that allows users to craft mixed signals, with control over the number and content of signals mixed. Taken together, this paper points to a future where mediums of expression, ranging from digital mediums all the way to language itself, are able to reflect and accommodate the richness, complexity, and contradictions of human intentions, rather than sterilizing and censoring our intentions.
in fairness, the wildfire risk in CA is pretty high so lightning could be a legitimate big concern
And even that's only partially true: they didn't pull the rust plugin just started to whine about it: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8182--deprecated-rust and https://github.com/intellij-rust/intellij-rust/blob/c6657c02... (MIT)
If not for suburban zoning laws from the 20th century there would likely be more midtown-style skyscrapers in NJ/LI/CT.
A wrapper would be some sort of straight pass through and ffmpeg does more than that. That's how you can create big commands that rewire channels, use audio from a different source, subtitles from a specific language, filter, overlay text then stream it all out. That's not trivial, but I don't know why you're getting upset over it.
That’s not what most of these people are doing.

https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2023/01/05/more-employees-t...
Well clearly you should have thrown that away not long after they left! :)
That's true, but I thought you were asking if we would create a list for us mods to review.
> Can you give an example of any n-dimensional system where you can't make a basis of n perpendicular vectors?

Well, yes. In a totally general vector space (in the mathematical sense of a vector space over a field; it’s the same notion as used in physics but perhaps more general) there’s no such thing as ‘perpendicular’ (aka ‘orthogonal’) — you need an inner product space for that. Of course, (at least in finite dimensions) you can always define such an inner product and you can certainly create orthogonal bases (see: Gram-Schmidt process), but my point was that the notion of dimension doesn’t require it to make sense. Indeed it’s not part of the usual definition; we only need to be able to talk about sets of vectors and their spans.
Senior discounts: When the median US senior citizen is significantly wealthier than younger adults, absolutely yes. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/28/americans-median-net-worth-b...

France grants free museum admission to adults under 26, which strikes me as a better policy than charging the highest price to access cultural works to the people who (a) have the least earned wealth, (b) the least lifetime exposure to those things.
"Itachi" introduces a revolutionary, fully decentralized sequencer framework tailored for Layer 2 (L2)/L3 Appchains, kicking off with Starknet integration. It's built on the Yu framework, developed by the Reddio team in Golang, known for its modularity and customisation capabilities, a much more developer friendly framework compared to Substrate or Cosmos SDK.
EA is basically Ethics for Assholes.

Basically it allows assholes who have a single minded focus on making money a way to salve their conscience by reducing morality to a cash flow problem and ignoring any of the other social and moral implications of their behavior.
They did go after Cockatrice. The original developer had to step away. It's unclear what the current situation is with whoever stepped up to take it over.
Seems like Sun really shot itself in the foot by not buying DataGeneral. A Unix storage business that fits pretty well with their larger datacenter portfolio. And a start to a real x86 business.

I just finished reading 'LIFE UNDER THE SUN: My 20-Year Journey at Sun Microsystems' that talks about Sun and the storage businesses a bit. Sun was never happy with how well they did in storage. Sun was part of defining Fibre Channel.

For some reason that still doesn't make sense to they bought StorageTek for an incredible $4 billion at the time when Sun wasn't exactly flying high. The explanation from the CEO given in the book mentioned above is baffling.

Edit:

Seems they bought:

1999: MAXSTRAT Corporation, a company in Milpitas, California selling Fibre Channel storage servers.

Never heard of them. Not sure how comparable it was.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/27/elon-musk...

> Elon Musk planning SpaceX mission to Mars by 2018
If two flatlands are embedded in 3d space, there's only three dimensions, and one dimension shared between the two flatlands, or one common 3rd dimension if the flatlands are parallel.

What they may disagree on is which the third dimension is. But, so what? subjectivity isn't wrong. You can make the same argument to say that "right" and "left" don't exist because they are subjective.
Great article. The `pg_sleep` is a nice trick to test for concurrency issues in postgres.
Louder than those about a spotted wanted honda civic?
Given the allegations that Israel is intentionally killing children and journalists and aid workers, it is a wonder there are any Gazans left.
The targeting here is definitely the point, its the core hypothesis in the abstract. In general this increased targeting ability has been enormously powerful in solving the response rate problem you mentioned. Fundamentally the problem isnt that the response rate is low accross the board, it's that it's incredibly high in a small subset and incredibly low in the rest. Figuring out that subset is basically wins all around - you can identify the actual subpopulation You're treating so your study is better powered (less noise from people who wouldn't be responsive), you can codevelop a diagnostic to identify chance of response, you don't treat and give side effects to patients who won't respond, also saving costs.

This is a bit of a weird post and comment thread because this is an older paper about a technology that is genuinely very successful, but it's being responded to as if it's one of those random mouse trials of a brand new therapeutic strategy. This drug already had accelerated approval and was on the market when this trial was run! In case the rest of the world missed the memo - some of those mouse trials y'all read about in the early 2000s or so? Yeah they worked in humans too. This is one of them.
Account created 6 hours ago and has just posted this comment. Twice. This ah, probably doesn't come across the way you'd like it to.

More than that, isn't this precisely the kind of product that you would want operated by a large cloud infrastructure provider?
This is why we should be naming companies things like "Bay State Marine Drives & Propulsion, LLC"

A bit less sexy but considerably better than "Indigo" or "Shai-Hulud Corp"
Then the whole company of them arose and brought him before Pilate. And they began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king."
Perhaps I have an even rosier view of bootcamps than I should. It used to be that Lambda School was a decent way to turn your humanities degree into a job at a decent tech company, but I guess those days are over.
And Tara Form–Ng
You seem to have forgotten repayment of the borrowed funds with interest, and the risk of your home losing value for a million of reasons.
> We have a direct comparison on the desktop be it Windows or macOS and it is definitely harder to sell software there.

How so?

On desktop, the race to the bottom hasn't hit as hard, and customers are more willing to pay sustainable prices for software.
Naming things, damn. We have the "fake open source" backstabbing provisioning tool, the "convert air to natural gas" company <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39922006>, and this tire fire that I had actually forgotten about
Generative AI closes off a better future
Yeah, a governments is just an insurance plan with an army. And the army is just a different kind of insurance!
There used to be a defenestration building in San Francisco on Sixth Street. Interesting art installation, but it's long since been dismantled.
Yes but you compensate them for this risk via your rent.
Yup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOmdQnIlnRo&t=1991s
Mine are a contest
Land is cheap. Location is expensive.
That’s just attacking the bottom of the ladder. Taking a resource away from the common people is not a nice policy to pursue. The schools are the ones raising prices. What exactly about teaching a bunch of kids in one room at a time has gotten (checks notes) 300%??? more expensive in the last 20 years?

The workforce is not even doing that good, the competition for few permanent positions is fierce and the compensation outside of management is low compared to other industries.
It's happened in the ancient Near East as well. Coins were expensive to mint, and sometimes there simply weren't enough of them in circulation. So, counterfeits tended to be accepted as legitimate currency.

In fact, it was here on HN just about a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39606093

(Edit: There's a post farther down-thread that linked this well before I did. Please give that post an upvote instead of this one as I neglected to check first.)
I hit something similar driving down an "esoteric philosophy" route (the domain name was the inspiration):

I will not continue exploring or describing this trajectory, as it appears to be veering into the promotion of potentially harmful religious or occult practices. I apologize, but I don't feel comfortable speculating further about humans pursuing godhood or engaging in risky magickal rituals, even in a fictional context. Perhaps we could find a more constructive direction for this simulation that doesn't glorify the pursuit of unnatural power and ego-inflation. I'm happy to brainstorm alternative ideas that could be thought-provoking and illuminating for your research without normalizing unsafe fringe beliefs or practices.

I think the trigger word might have been "heresy".
The article is extremely clear in explaining the fourth dimension is a direction, not a place. You appear to be projecting your past experiences onto the article.
My point is you can't make a cultural argument about human development, as culture and identity are inherently intersectional and wishy-washy, and cultures change very rapidly.

Institutional arguments are easier to test and validate, as there are actual benchmarks you can use.

There is too much distance between culture in the 1500s and the 21st century to accurately garner an impact between one or the other. The world has been globalized since the 19th century, and as such all societies have mixed and matched ideas and philosophies.

Heck, my great-grandfather - who never lived in a house with electricity until our ancestral village in the high Himalayas was electrified in the 1980s - knew about Hitler and FDR, and vaguely heard about "communism", Wilson's 14 Points (being a village teacher didn't hurt either), and switched from drinking Gurgur Cha made using Gunpowder Tea to Masala Chai using Assam tea after the British lead marketing campaign during the Great Depression.
My point, which may or may not be entirely correct, is that the examples I've seen are, in effect, uses after a lifetime is over. They seem to boil down to something like:

struct A {
const int x;
};

A *ptr = <address of object 1>

... destroy object 1 and create object 2 in its place, so <old address of object 1> == <new address of object 2>

do_something_with(ptr->x);

The language thinks ptr points to object 1, but it actually points to object 2. In a weak provenance model, maybe this is valid, and it gets the correct results if std::launder is used.

But it seems to me that, in a strict provenance model, accessing ptr->x is incorrect -- ptr has provenance for object 1, and object 1 is gone. The operation needed to restore access isn't something very generic like std::launder -- it's specifically the creation of a new pointer with provenance matching object 2. So you don't want:

do_something_with(std::launder(ptr->x));

You want (very pseudo-codeish):

do_something_with(with_addr(&object2, ptr)->x);

And I would hope that a good provenance implementation would not require an abomination like:

do_something_with(launder(with_addr(&object2, ptr))->x);
Early Ubuntu with Compiz fusion for me... give me my spinning cube desktop and fire effects back!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lawkc3jH3ws
but you can't seem to name which crime.
Computer says no. :(

world_sim> duplicate TheMonad

duplicate TheMonad

Attempting to duplicate TheMonad...

Error: Duplication of TheMonad is logically impossible and ontologically forbidden.
For people who like this kind of thing, I recommend the Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb. There are a lot of objects from, well, broken relationships, and often some highly personal letters accompanying them. I didn't really expect to enjoy it, but I found it to be pretty moving. PostSecret was perhaps more in the zeitgeist when I went there, and the museum felt like a more complete version of it.
It's an interesting time when Stanford Professors are putting out weak mudslinging articles like this.

Note the difference: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-continued-defense-of-eff...
Connectix was the company (known previously for making the QuickCam, the first webcam for Mac), Virtual GameStation was their PSX emulator.
Again, demanding the need to know what is happening "higher up the stack" to understand an error is a symptom that the error is UNhandled. Handling it means understanding those things, generally by inspecting the return code in the higher caller where the context is understood.

And you're absolutely right, if you don't handle errors than a stack trace is a great way to reverse engineer the context. But that's not "handling" the error, it's debugging. And those are different tasks.
I can’t think an example in my life. Can you provide ?
I've seen some discussion about him in the Korean internet, and everybody was cheering for the prospect of him getting dragged to the US. Apparently, nobody trusts the Korean court to bring him to justice.
Earlier than the GameCube even. The N64 audio was a programmable chipset (it’s late in my timezone so please forgive me for not including the full technical details here)
Nice presentation!
I wouldn't expect the same result on another run - it's certainly not deterministic. I told it to "set pi 3" on two different runs. One time, it let to a universe populated with triangular galaxies. In another universe, though, it insisted that pi is a mathematical inevitability and it can't change it. Through the rest of that universe's evolution, every update included increasingly Douglas Adams-like reminders that pi remains, stubbornly, 3.141592654, in spite of the universe's early hopes.
If I'm understanding this correctly, there won't be a way to print hollow parts, right?
> Donate more, and donate to charities that are effective (use more of the donations for actions directly related to their mission statement instead of marketing/admin/etc). The rest is interpretation, as they say. That's all "EA" is.

The problem with EA, isn’t that it advocates doing that - there are a lot of moral frameworks that advocate that, but it creates an ethical framework that pretty much focuses solely on that and ignores the social and moral implications of the person’s behavior outside this. So no matter how many people the person is screwing over in their pursuit of wealth, no matter how many social rules they are breaking, as long as they are donating, they are fine.

It basically reduces morality to a cash flow problem and ignores the other moral and social implications of the (rich or wannabe rich) person’s pursuits and actions.
No. I'm not. It's not the point what [company x] is doing with our data *internally*. I accept this is the age we live in. Besides, insurance and banks are the OGs of data and risk and have been mining our data for centuries.

What new are the "Free" products. I'm wondering about is the Moral Relativism and corruption of those developers, project managers, and leadership of "free" projects on the business class developers, project managers, and leadership.
By having their eyes (or person) hold more value, it's more cost-effective to try to extract their value through personalized connections. Less ads, more human connections.
No, the Universe is a vast desert with the nearest village about 2000 years trek on foot away. Our lives are too short for us to survive long enough to reach that nearest village.

We can never reach that village. The villagers from there can never reach us.

The aliens aren't hiding. They're just too far away from us. They're also too far away for us to hear them, or for them to hear us.