skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you are working with the same sales people multiple times, it is an instance of treated prisoners dilemma. Used car salesman is just one time prisoners dilemma.
For things I do frequently there's alias or scripts. For things I do rarely there's ChatGPT/StackOverflow. I can't imagine liking or not liking git. It's just there. I guess it does everything I need it to do and so I like it. I like it better than CVS which is what I used before git.
> It features typical forum elements like usernames, timestamps, and reply links.

God, that's so on-brand for AI.

"The image shows a group of humans. They are engaged in human-like activities like talking, eating, and hiding their insecurities. They feature typical human elements like hands, ears, and nipples."
> The teachers gave your kids the pills this morning without asking you. By the next day your kids are feeling better—but how do you feel? How do you feel about the teachers and the superintendent? What do you think about those Chinese trillionaires, now bragging back home about how they’ve helped the poor foreigners?

Uh, I feel pretty happy about it? I'd also be somewhat annoyed at the superintendent, the one that actually did the scheduling if this reaction wasn't a total fluke. But much happier than annoyed.

I mean, you just told me the pill adds a month of life expectancy. Am I supposed to not think that's true a couple sentences later?

The way this analogy is explained is a mess.
Worked 5 years as a contractor for a system made to be used for all of the healthcare in a country. Payed by tax payer money. Some serious money. I never understood what the system actually was supposed to do during those 5 years. Started as some custom authorization server for new healthcare laws and then ended up as some kind of desktop app that had a launcher to launch apps. No idea what the purpose really was and heard it got cancelled a couple of years after i left.
A couple of the places I have worked at they would hire an outside firm to conduct these type of surveys and they would anonymize the feedback. I saw the reports provided to some of the managers and the feedback in certain areas was clearly unvarnished. Now whether it lead to any meaningful change, that’s hard to quantify. I guess if you did them multiple times per year for several years you could start to establish a trend.
I think we need more people like her to speak out about their experiences. And it doesn’t even matter whether it’s academia or tech or anything else. That’s the only way to try to overcome and recognize „survivorship bias“.

There are billions of people who are not „successful“ in a societally acceptable way. Being „unsuccessful“ is the norm and „success“ is the exception.
Autotools started out much smaller and more reasonable. But they have a strong backwards compatibility system, and never seem to remove checks even when they're for long-obsolete systems. Someone might want to build modern tools for their IBM PC/AT! Better keep a check in every build of every program for all time! So the checks accumulate, without end, and the hacks to get the whole thing to keep running on every target accumulate, and it becomes an indecipherable mess.
Why is the crew still on the ship? Can’t imagine that’s comfortable.
Admittedly it’s a topic I shouldn’t have really touched on and me deleting the comment doesn’t mean I don’t stand by it I just regret expressing the opinion publicly. I’m sure the original comments are already archived somewhere since this made front page, anyone should be able to find them if they really want to.
Target may be able to duck in time and you'd only get one attack per drone.
Maybe a gyrojet explosive tip munition with poison coating for the shrapnel, where the firing drone could time the tip detonation by tracking the projectile in real time after launch. That would be light enough to provide several shots or for multiple targets. With infrared target the jugular. Highly inconvenient to defend against with armor and the projectile will be incoming fast enough such that there's no opportunity to evade, assuming it can get in range quietly.
There's a huge market for this. From nation states to divorcing couples
The biggest questions to answer is how will it succeed when this idea has been tried and failed a couple times.

Two main problems,
1. it is much easier to make a compelling tweet/post than audio clip.
2. And much less time consuming to consume text and pics.

Unless this is live and then you have the problem of people have to be on at the same time.

Unless you can find answers to these problems, spend your valuable time on more feasible idea.
I'm "on the spectrum" as they say, and I don't talk about it much; I'm quite concerned with what's called "passing". I want people around me to focus on the things I can do, rather than the things I can't do. Can totally empathize with that someone with a more acute disability than mine, such as blindness, would want to do the same.
Right. It all hooks up to a naive, popular philosophy of knowledge that I think has been burgeoning since the birth of search engines: people today tend to think that everything is decomposable into atomic facts and that all questions have concrete, singular, atomic answers.

Obviously, this could not be further from the truth, but I think ever since the advent of things like "answer cards" in search, people have been led into this technological bias trap of thinking that whatever answer the engine spits out must be the canonical answer and forget that we still have a broad range of questions and research areas we don't have anything close to definitive answers on. The problem is only exacerbated when people make this mistake in domains that will never have singular answers like politics and ethics.
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> and could arguably be illegal in a publicly traded company ("best efforts to maximize/preserve shareholder value" etc).

There's no way the shareholders win this lawsuit. Violating fiduciary duty involves doing things you know won't provide value. Long term planning would be a defense for this.

The shareholders could absolutely oust those executives, though. And they may very well do so.
I have over 10 cards, debit and credit, and I think only one or two don't support it.
The author of the book series /How Stuff Works/ wrote a short story [0] about these two different paths.

0. https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
Pretty much. As the saying goes, „communists won WW2“.
Since you seem to have some broad international experience, outside of the subcontinent, which countries have consistently good vegetarian cuisine?
Increasing tuition increases applications and matriculations.

Usually higher prices decrease demand. But when they increase demand, and credit is available below market … that’s how you get insanely high prices.
Oh, I'm not debating that. I'm taking issue with the line "If the xz project had not been using autotools, installing the backdoor would not have been possible. It’s as simple as that." It would have been possible but more difficult. Probably much more difficult. Autotools is a flaming mess of bad ideas, I've migrated projects' build systems off of it before and will continue to try to do so every chance I get.
Not OP, but here is some data:

“We estimate that SBA disbursed over $200 billion in potentially fraudulent COVID-19 EIDLs, EIDL Targeted Advances, Supplemental Targeted Advances, and PPP loans. This means at least 17 percent of all COVID-19 EIDL and PPP funds were disbursed to potentially fraudulent actors.”

https://www.sba.gov/document/report-23-09-covid-19-pandemic-...

IRS also covered some:

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-criminal-investigation-rele...
Not really at all, the type checker understands it is a field reference (it's just an alternative syntax after all, it is absolutely 0% difference in behaviour.

However, it's a common typed-javascript idiom to use string-indexing when you're probing a value of unknown type. Even Typescript has settings to accept this.
This is very cool, thank you. You should add this to https://github.com/dhamaniasad/awesome-postgres
A mentor of mine now has very poor eyesight due primarily to age. It's affected his ability to use a computer significantly and even his ability to concentrate on a task for sustained periods of time. Also, a friend of my wife's has macular degeneration, and at time of writing has 30% or less of his eyesight remaining.

I find my own eyesight is starting to deteriorate (though with prescription lenses it's still pretty good), so in light of this and the above I'm definitely interested in how blind programmers work; accordingly, I've started experimenting with Emacspeak so that, if I ever go totally or effectively blind, there's still a pathway that I can use so that I can continue to computer effectively (including programming) without sight.
The biggest hurdle I've run into when trying to manage an audiobook library with Plex is the metadata source. There are a few plugins that try and gather from Audible, I assume by scraping, but it's always minimal and very flaky. I haven't revisited this for a while now though, so hopefully things have improved - I would love to start archiving my Audible collection.
I count fires as a form of weather in CA, would probably apply to the PNW too
If you’re the middle man, sounds like a great deal. Pay less, charge more, waste less paper.
Just join Jane Street and be quiet already!
I remember when NASA Rd 1 in Clear Lake for renamed "John Glenn Parkway" for a few months due to his flight on the shuttle back in the day.

The space program is just one of those amazing moments in US history to read about. A Man on the Moon was a good book for it, and there are some others in the top tier.

It's wild to know the movie Apollo 13 is closer now to the events than to the present. These guys were top notch.
I'm guessing you already heard my suggestions of Buffalo Trace, Wild Turkey 101, Elijah Craig, and Old Forester 100, $22, $22, $23, and $23, and near me respectively.

There's Early Times Bottled in Bond, $27 for 1L: https://www.totalwine.com/spirits/bourbon/early-times-bottle...

Barton 1792 for $27: https://www.totalwine.com/spirits/bourbon/small-batch-bourbo...

and Old Grandad 100 for $22: https://www.totalwine.com/spirits/bourbon/old-grand-dad-100/...

Knob Creek 9 I see around $45 for a handle which is like $20 for 750ml too.

Of course, they're no Old Forester 1920, Rare Breed, JD Single Barrel Proof, or Woodford Double Oaked, but I still think they're "great" and is really all one really needs when most people are busy chugging Jim Beam White Label.
Obsessions vs. Hobbies
Looks like scale introduced new labor hiring site (other than remotasks.com): https://outlier.ai/

Interesting jobs to train generative AI models. Interesting comments here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linkedin/comments/1989kbz/scale_ai_...
Paid by the irish government to learn fortran 77 to upgrade a mainframe era storm drain program so that it could "compete" with the simplest demo that came with a COTS windows solution - because they couldn't sole source something. There were bugs in it older than me.
related github repo :

- https://github.com/aristotle-tek/knowledge-collapse "replication code for "AI and the Problem of Knowledge Collapse"
Interestingly outside of games and consoles there are “emulators” that run classic HP calculators in the store. They emulate the HP Nut processor which runs small ROM dumps.
i don't either. it's done been to shit for some time now. scraping its results can be highly effective though.
Nah w2aew is better
Claude's system prompt is given here -- they're not trying to hide it: https://twitter.com/AmandaAskell/status/1765207842993434880/...

It doesn't actually include that text, but it may have been trained in. (Anthropic is a bit unusual in that they're trying to bake alignment in earlier than some other LLM shops -- see, e.g., https://www.anthropic.com/news/claudes-constitution
I imagine something like a weaponized version of this, loitering semi autonomous drone swarms fully charged / ready to deploy hanging off wires... a bit like the US spider munition or just smart landmines.
Versus cash, I imagine healthcare is nice because it's not like warlord/agent can seize/embezzle all the cataract surgeries or whatever.
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There are controllers that integrate your phone and using your phone makes financial sense and reduces the hassle of having to carry a separate device.
Did Mongo get slagged in their early days because of the unflattering Blazing Saddles movie reference?

Call it whatever you want. Engineers should be able to select their tools on merit, not marketing.
Are we losing hope, or hoping for a miracle?
A few years back, I was assigned to a new team and had to run some analysis on a selection of hardware that kept failing quality checks. Was told this was of the utmost importance to the product and that a future production push hinged on solving this problem. I was given a week. The scope of work would entail at least one really late night into the project.

On Day 5 of 7 (sleepless night happened on Day 2 and 3), a passing engineer from a different team stopped by my desk to chat. Saw my screen and said "neat Python code, what's it all for?"

I replied, "oh it's to do some number crunching on that quality problem."

To which he blandly goes: "Oh. Didn't you hear? We scrapped that entire product line 3 weeks ago."

Reader, I almost actually threw my keyboard off the desk.

(If there was ever an argument for in-office work, it's coworkers telling you to STOP working on something and rescuing you from situations like this...)
See this is the thing: people complain about the little bit of power being eaten up by drones. But if power companies really cared, they’d bury their powerlines.

They really don’t care. It’s a rounding error.
I wouldn't say it's "fucked" but it's unreasonably lenient on white-collar crimes. Most people say it's because judges and prosecutors see those white-collar criminals as "one of them" (i.e., the ruling class).
> The article just keeps complaining about collecting data and statistics and trying to estimate good by saying "but sometimes the estimates are wrong!", but it presents zero alternatives.

The article is pretty clear in its call for givewell (and things like it) to estimate both the good and the bad, and to publicly share the estimates for both.

They're not bringing order to chaos with their current methods.
I am assuming spending as much as they are on advertising would weaken them to the point that a non advertising competitor would destroy them eventually. I don't see much of that so i assume it works. I also have my own noticed response to advertising to go on.
I think the Phaedrus is all about the importance of practice. I've been reading a lot of math books lately, but I don't actually grok anything well until I sit down and try to reason through the material myself, write my own little proofs, try to deconstruct what's being said actively with pen and paper. Similarly, I understand a work of literature far more deeply if I take active notes, and/or write a small essay about my interpretation. I become a better writer by reading good writers and emulating them in my own writing practice. Writing was a threat to poets when the goal was still to recite a compelling live performance, which, to do this well, would require memorization and practice—today, still, we ask that actors do not have paper scripts in front of them when performing in a film.

This is kind of the threat that tools like LLM's pose. Their power to generate decent results means that far more people will eschew practice for "good enough" LLM produced results. Creation will become even more transactional, and (many) people will quickly fail to "see the point" in practicing until we have a culture that's degraded even further than it already has today.
Youtube "forgets" a lot. My history has more deleted videos than not.
When would you want to autosquash things coming from another repo? Autosquash is for doing interactive rebases; you'd never want to publish commits that say "squash! ..." or "fixup! ...".
Its nice. It's certainly not high faluting as a lot of HN jobs but I make good money for where I live, our clients are mostly regional but a lot of the 50 states have customers over the years. Mostly we work on implementing and servicing ERP systems. Our differentiator is our skillet in integrations and holistic problem solving. Since the ERP sits in the middle of almost every IT venn diagram, we run into new tech on a weekly basis.

Besides the ERP consulting bit we sell niche solutions in our product space. Mostly comms(EDI, ecommerce,etc) or payroll/bookkeeping addons.
Show HN: Physics problems iPhone app for AP in May
In 2021 I asked on Hacker News how to start as a developer.

APP: One suggestions was React. So, I bought an Apple Developer Account and programmed an iPhone/iPad crash-course for AP PHYSICS (I'm a STEM teacher) in React Native.

LEARNED: I work a day-job and love the beach, so I focused on basics: React, Expo, and getting an app to work. But once it was ready...

COOL KIDS: On Hacker News they like to build stuff. Me too. But selling stuff... I need to practice that, so, I've tried to write a call to action below.

If you know someone prepping for the AP Physics exam in May, recommend to them the 99to5 Physics app for iPhone/iPad. https://99to5.com

ITERATE: My colleague and I are taking my original app and refactoring to something briefer, tighter, with better audio/video and more language support. Suggestions are welcome!

CONCLUSION: Anyways, thanks to HN for being a great community. If you know somebody taking the AP Exams in May, wish them luck! My grades were horrible in high-school. But I took the AP Exams and did surprisingly well, and I think they got me into university.
I usually ask, is it a differentiator for our business to run X?
Huh, that's stated in completely different terms than how I approached the problem. When you throw around terms like "ring theory" my eyes just glaze over.

I ignored polynomials, implemented a "jump" function via bit-matrix exponentiation (unsupported by most BLAS-like libraries!), then did prime factorization via the Cunningham tables, and checked for partial periods of their inverses.

Some minor points I remember:

* there are several boolean choices in how you implement the LFSR. Left-vs-right, forward-vs-backward, xor-vs-xnor ... in particular you have a choice of "no all-zero state" or "no all-one state".

* when comparing that advancing by a given number is a period, it's much more efficient to advance both sides to minimize the number of 1 bits.

* an informative period failure is 15 = 6 + 6 + 3. Doesn't this conflict with something in the article?

* the info you need for 4096 bits is not in the Cunningham tables but is available elsewhere on the internet. But due to some of the simplification rules, some much-larger periods are easily derived from the Cunningham tables (assuming you can properly parse them, of course).

* tradition makes people produce LFSRs with very few taps but if you're doing it in software there's no real reason you have to do anything other than keep them even and use the end bits. I never collected statistics on how long it takes to guess a good one though.
This is great. I wish there was a way to block certain domains from ever appearing on search results.

EDIT: Looks like there's already an open issue:

https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2351
I don’t think the magnetic particles interact with the glucose, they’re just a magnetic transducer basically. The main measurement device is a hydrogel that reacts with the glucose and swells, and they measure how far the magnetic particles move using a magnetometer to sense the change in field strength and back out the concentration (and pH)

The linked Nature Comm paper seems pretty thorough, and they are reporting really high sensitivity (1000x what you’d need for typical blood glucose levels)

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47073-2
Okay sure, I shortened it a bit. My point is the discovery wasn’t directly related to the claims. Your description is more apt than the hyperbole in use cases. To accomplish what they describe would need a lot more research
What do you mean exactly? Like the inability of putting a breakpoint on the loop condition of a range-based for loop?
The original classic in this genre is Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder,
about Tom West and his team at Data General designing and building a new model minicomputer in the 1970s. It won the Pulitzer prize for nonfiction in 1982.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine

Another early classic is Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy. There is a long initial section on the early years of the AI Lab at MIT in the 1950s and 60s, then the scene shifts to California for the start of the personal computer and computer games industries in the 1970s, then back to MIT
in the early 1980s for the start of the Free Software movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Compute...
Is clouds of plasma in a dark state considered in these calculations?
To be fair, they do call it a “proof of concept study” in the press release
The information age is nothing new (for us), neither is media culture generally, or even silicon valley. AI will now be some new part of the complex.

It seems obvious to me that a significant step to combat this effect would be not calling the thing "artificial intelligence". I like the term gpt because it is descriptive and accurate. Gpt doesn't suggest in any sense that we can rely on the thing or are comparable, in the same way "cell phone" doesn't. Imagine if we really bought into the idea that phones are truth receivers, or called them the closest friend. But that seems to be the idea with AI.

Keep speaking up too. Just calling bullshit on the thing implicitly gives people permission to turn it off. The tech will not cause knowledge collapse among a population that doesn't need it. I do use it by the way, eg GitHub Copilot which is nice.
Disagree with a bit in the article but particularly unpalatable to me is the idea that Git should be more than it is (e.g. PR support, web UI). Seemingly obscured in this idea is lock-in; if I don't like Git with email patch workflow, I can use Git with GitHub. If I don't like that, I can use Git with Forgejo. Good luck moving to more suitable tooling (because what is suitable often shifts over time) when you are stuck with the inertia of your entire VCS stack being one thing. Semi related: I was at an org recently who wouldn't migrate to Git because they didn't like the Git code review equivalent in Visual Studio, compared to how TFS code review looked in VS. That was seemingly the only possible way to review code - in VS.