skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trust comes from the meat of the talk minus the charisma of the speaker. If what is being said is important enough to perhaps impact your work, you need to verify what is being said anyway.

Association alone isn't very convincing. If people really feel they need to establish credentials they should talk about what they do. It is almost like at a job interview. I don't need to know that you worked for X - I want to know what you did at X.

Introductions should be no more than what you can fit into one breath. After that it is just some person going on about themselves, and that isn't very attractive. Get to the meat first, and then we can talk.
Maybe the research is worthless because of data quality issues. Pushing all the junkies on an area where people don't trust the police isn't a good way to have accurate statistics on the increase (or lack of) in crime. But also there could be a feeling of insecurity that is disconnected from reality, but with the state of social sciences, hard to know...
As someone that learned UNIX when Microsoft still sold Xenix, and used multiple flavours of it, was a Linux Journal subscriber since its early days, I occasionanly go down into one of those Desktop Linux rabbit holes only to repent myself afterwards.

Latest adventure an UEFI only motherboard (no BIOS backwards compatibility available), that no matter what, refuses to reckognise SSD NVMe that hold Linux instead of Windows.

Yes, one can complain the pesky OEMs still not being Linux Desktop friendly after 30 years, which in pratice doesn't matter to the regular consumer.
I have found that a lot of modern activists are more concerned with people who quit trying fit in to society than people who do fit in but are struggling. Anti social junkies, convicted murderers, panhandlers ,convicted rapists will all have long lines of credentialed activists and ngos defending their rights to squat in the street and break things.

Regular working people like barbers and kitchen workers who work hard to make ends meet are are not needy enough to to satisfy the activists' savior complexes.

These harm reduction/ police abolitionist types have an ideological point to prove and they don't care how many of us they have to sacrifice to prove it.
It reflects the importance of software. It's not like Europe foregoes using this software. No, we just use the American/Chinese software instead and become dependent on it.
I just got a new book on this subject: Midlife: A Philosophical Guide, by Kieran Setiya (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Midlife-Philosophical-Guide-Kieran-...).
Not got too far into it, but I like it so far.
This is a 43 minute video. Has anyone watched it in full length? I haven't, but I (European) agree with the title.
How so? It's a perfectly valid and complete English sentence either way.
On BSD, OpenSSH doesn't need to detect whether systemd is running or not (that's all that libsystemd does). The answer is always no.

Magic, indeeded.
That seems low.
Nix hashes do not guarantee build success. You can have a hash for a build that always fails.

Nix hashes also do not capture all possible sources of variation. You can have two builds with the same hash, one of which succeeds and the other fails.

Lastly, check out the failure rate on the NixOS release builds: https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixos/release-23.11
Stunning. You have to imagine it was right there in the script.
Wow! That is really well said and I think quite profound. I’ll check out the video later… I’ve been chipping away at understanding myself but I suppose I’ve not been very proactive about becoming myself. Recent years have been better but I’d posit that understanding oneself is a prerequisite in many regards to becoming oneself (if that makes sense). I think we’re becoming all the time, but having a clear understanding of who we are enables us to move forward much more confidently and decisively, whereas from the ages of 23-30 I was very unsure about many things, and so any becoming I was doing was very intrinsic. The key distinction now I think is that now that I’m more confident in who I am I am more prepared to reflect who I am in what I do and the way that I look in a way such that I’m ready, mentally, to be perceived by others differently. The downside of this might be that I’d be shunned in some settings, which is to be expected if I’m not conforming, but the upside is that I’ll be more likely to meet like-minded individuals. I’m not looking for counter-culture, but rather “what works best” I think (although there are many things about our culture that are not ‘what work best’ I am much more concerned with finding my own way and optimizing my own life rather than raging against the machine - I think meeting and talking with others that think differently than the status quo will be key in all of this and thus the post).
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You are arguing in favor of "argument from authority".
The medical use of the word "spectrum" doesn't always describe a continuum, but classification criteria along multiple dimensions. Autism is no longer considered a "position on a scale".
I did use this for actual work at a major European software/technology firm though, and nobody complained.

That is, actual presentations made from scaled-up nano, mini-manuals for the team written in plaintext, etc.
NZ had a similar loophole for our 15% GST (GST === our VAT/Salestax) however the loophole was closed by forcing the major overseas online retailers to collect the GST for the NZ government.

I didn't notice any bad effects - although it likely reduced online sales since prices went up by 15% for goods < $600.
Get all stoic and meditate or something.
That doesn't seem to be accurate. [0] [1] Microsoft consistently does mistakes that put its customers at risk, like being unable to secure their development environment so that when encryption keys leak in a badly sanitized dump into the dev environment they are almost immediately misused by other state actors against the US federal agencies. [2] How can you trust anything that comes out of the development if you cannot be reasonably sure about the security of it? And we cant really trust Microsoft reports either because of "Inaccurate public statements" (euphemism for lying). [0]

And if you argue with Andres Freund and the XZ discovery recently, he is really a Citus guy. Yes, that is now part of Microsoft but I guess you get my point of him not being directly hired by Microsoft AFAIK.

Microsoft as an organization could and should really do a lot more for security and privacy than they do. But first the culture would need to be that there actually is a lot of low hanging fruit instead of searching for excuses. [3] For instance, Windows Updates could be more reliable, predictable in how long they run and much faster overall. Windows could detect and stop ransomware much better. Microsoft could make Windows Server Core cheaper and have a separate more expensive license for the "full fat" Windows Server with desktop services. That would put some pressure on organizations to do the right thing and reduce the attack surface area.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/micro...
[1] https://www.wiz.io/blog/chaosdb-how-we-hacked-thousands-of-a...
[2] https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/09/results-of-major-tec...
[3] https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/it-takes-a-phd-to-develop-t...
I also used it at work in the SW team. Nobody else in the company used it tho. Everyone only used office 365 and that's that.

Stop extrapolating that your niche experience somehow is the norm.

There's a reason why companies prefer to pay for office instead of using raw text and latex files for free.
Based on the title, I was expecting this article to have instructions for calibrating an air quality sensor, rather than just explaining different error types.
Yeah at my indie conferences [0] if we live-stream the event that means we have an online audience too. I require everyone to submit their questions to a private chat server, even if you're there in person, and I curate them in real-time.

[0] https://handmadecities.com
Your comment is downright petty and silly.

Wisdom/Insight/Life Advice wherever it comes from is always valuable. It is up to you to tease out the kernel of knowledge from the chaff of religiosity.

I am no Christian, but i found Robert Alter's The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes quite interesting and would advice you to a study of the same.
I steered a friend towards Paperless (and away from an LLM solution) as a way of searching/accessing GBs of architectural PDFs recently - so far, it’s apparently working well for them.

https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
So maybe you need to update your benchmark. What do you think Hastings used to look like, that makes it confusing to think “Hastings is unsafe” and “safe injection locations don’t make places unsafe”?

Travis Lupick’s book about the origins of the place might be interesting for you.
Does anyone know if there's something similar for plain old geometry? I need some proofs beyond basic ones (for ex, I need to know how to find out intersection points of 2 rotated ellipses on Cartesian space).
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This is a simple tool to make it easy to repurpose YouTube as Twitter threads and LinkedIn posts.
I could perhaps find some of what I’m looking for in a counter-culture community, but I don’t think that’s what I’m describing necessarily (see more thoughts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40029893)
> That's missing forest for the trees.

However, when a person is making a post saying "don't trust those dodgy manipulated numbers" and offering alternative numbers, their post is a lot less convincing if their numbers are also dodgy
Honestly, I really don't see the point of having such megacoroporations here.

What has Apple and Microsoft done for Americans ? They pay little to no taxes, they spy on everyone, they provide increasingly terrible products...
So she can dispose of the syringes she sweeps on your kids playground? Easy to criticize her, when it's not your neighborhood being ruined. Also I didn't think she was arguing for indiscriminately locking the addicts, she just couldn't help but notice policing was different when white people were involved...
My point is really that it could easily be the norm though.

There's nothing hard about writing plain text files. You just need to write good English and have some feel for text as a medium.

In some way there's less to learn there than in word, where you can bold things, insert images, etc.

People outside this niche have even less need for complicated functionality. A sales team that writes in word could have written in plaintext, and have had an organised picture of all their doings, with little details, that will eventually be machine-digestable. The only problem is if you want to write mathematics, but then you have LaTeX.

An in-between solution, if you want things a little bit conventional, is markdown.
I have a Fibaro CO sensor on my z-wave network which is relatively low-pain and lock-in free. In my opinion CO monitors are a bit different from say CO2 or VOC in that they should really show 0 ppm at all times. If they don't you want them to alert you first and optionally record the data/send it somewhere. That's why I am fine with this device being treated more like a smoke detector than an IoT device.
Where we take an objective look at all options ranging from jQuery to Remix in order to figure which should you use for your next front-end project.
> the stress of using an outdated EMR system

Using an outdated EMR system is hardly a cause of stress. A more usual cause of stress is being forced to use a brand new (and unusable) EMR.
I do continue to find it weird how CSS is just relegated to this second class citizen when it comes to web development and huge numbers of folks seemingly have little to no interest in learning it beyond what they can copy and paste.

That wouldn’t fly in any other language.
>My point is really that it could easily be the norm though.

It couldn't and the proof is in the pudding. If it were that easy as you make it seem, we would have done it a long time ago.

Non-tech people hate switching away form office since that's the only thing they know how to use comfortably, especially to janky stuff like latex that's not WYSIWYG and needs to be compiled. Nobody is gonna use that shit.

And non-tech people are the ones who sign the checks that make the purchasing decisions, and those people hate any kind of friction, hence why companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc are so successful.

Your view on things rings like that infamous HN comment form 2007 saying why Dropbox is a useless invention doomed to fail since we can host files locally on git and easily spin up a FTP server to share them if we want to.
I disagree, you need both. Statistics sometimes obscure the reality of what's happening and can't be relied upon in a vacuum. I recently learned about on hn about a story where Amazon's statistics proved that there was no wait time problem on it's phone lines even though it was a common customer complaints. We need a mix of statistical analysis and first hand accounts.

Source: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/95066/jeff-bezos-explains-the...
Needle exchanges are an evidence based, immediate way to reduce the presence of discarded needles on the street. Safe injection sites prevent the needles getting on the street in the first place.
> so unless the prediction itself is uncertainty (which it should rarely be based on the training corpus, I think)

Why shouldn't you ask for uncertainaty?

I love asking for scores / probabilities (usually give a range, like 0.0 to 1.0) whenever I ask for a list, and it makes the output much more usable
That seems like checkbox-compliance theater. Also doesn't seem to be supported by official findings. There are notions that actually you cannot be fully GDPR compliant with Microsoft 365. [0] Therefore state organizations sometimes do migrate to different offerings. [1]

[0] https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/pre...
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/04/germanys_northernmost...
64 Bytes per Embedding, Yee-Haw
It’s worth having a mental model of _why_ OR can be suboptimal. Often it’s because you’re only hitting an index on half the conditional, or forcing PG into a bitmap scan, or worse turning and index lookup into a sequential scan. Not to bang on about indexes too much but a partial index on the OR condition works if you’re lazy, although splitting into two queries is often a great solution as it gives you two fast queries to combine instead of one slow one (although sometimes that implies PG’s statistics are incorrect because it might have been able to know which side of the conditional cuts out more data).
Flang-new: How to force arrays to be allocated on the heap?
You reminded me about documentaries, not sure if History channel or somewhere else, about abandoned towns from Wild West days, almost as they were back in the gold race or train building days.

Modern Pompeiis, without the corpses, until those wood houses finally collapse due to Nature's action.
I specifically mentioned diversifying as a means to limit risk.

My post is not targeted to the people who have started a lifestyle business or someone who has built a $100M enterprise from the ground up.

Much of the worlds wealth is concentrated through inheritance and the effect of compounding interest.

A person of normal intelligence with a large inheritance can easily live off other peoples work by a diverse portfolio, accumulated by previous generations. Large wealth inheritance creates obvious power imbalances in any economic system, unless every participant(or most, anyway) in the system has themselves large amounts of inherited economic wealth.

My (skilled) labour is valued somewhere at $50-$250/h. Yet, the offspring of the ultra rich("the owning class") receive x10-x100 of what i receive without lifting a finger.
The Hezbollah is currently attacking Israel with Iran's backing and operational support.

That building in Damascus was obviously used by Iran and Hezbollah as operational or command centre, or similar, since personel from both the Iranian military and Hezbollah were killed in the attack.

Hence it was perfectly "legal", for Israel to destroy it in self-defense.

Do you think it was "legal" for Iran to fire hundreds of drones at Israel's civilian areas (which is what Hamas does as well, btw)? I think that this would be a more obvious breach of "international law" if you wanted to be such a stickler for it...
It's down to the age of the business. I have the following hypothesis:

<5 years = sensible

5-10 years = JIRA incursion, agile factions

>10 years = Project manager and bureaucrat hostile incursion

I quite like the latter if you're working from home. You can get a LOT done on shit you actually care about when you're on conference calls just as part of a faction to make it look bigger against another corporate faction.
Ha. I used to work in a sales-oriented subsidiary of an engineering company.

In the early days, I could take people out for a $100 lunch, no problem, but I couldn’t buy a $30 card for my computer.

In the parent corporation, on the other hand, they could fairly easily get a $5,000 test rig, with no issue, but needed to fill out forms in triplicate to take you out to a fast food greasy spoon.

Towards the end of my tenure, you basically couldn’t do anything, at either place, without said forms.

But many successful dev tool companies have made their money by marketing to bosses, as opposed to devs. That goes for many fields; not just tech.
How do they measure detriment? One interesting thing I felt while reading the article was that many of her complaints like having to sweep up syringes or people defecating in the street would not be registered as crimes.

How would you even quantify the feeling of frustration at seeing someone defecate next to a car in the street. Seems like a very complicated issue to measure scientifically.
Is that autistic, or is that just normal for someone who cares, and who actually has a favorite episode? I can't imagine not picking up the title after watching an episode a few times.
A Teacher's Solution for AI
Hey, I’ve been teaching and coding for 4 years now. I believe AI will change our way of study and learn. But current bots are hard to use for my students. That’s why I made an app using Google Gemini Pro for students to summarize&paraphrase texts, give profession recommendations and solve questions. No prompt, just copy and paste. All free with daily limits. If you try it, I’d be happy to hear any feedbacks. Take care
It isn't easy:

- to have no build toolchain
- to work without javascript
- to have single configuration points
The James Webb Space Telescope Runs JavaScript, Apparently (2022)
In a lot of companies, web sits under marketing...
That rule explicitly states that it's not for being able to stop, though, it's just to have time to react to the driver ahead stopping. Two seconds isn't nearly enough to stop in front of a stationary object. At highway speeds it's even barely enough to not rear-end the vehicle ahead if it has to panic stop.
Revealing of what? That racist jokes were normalized back in the 1970s? It’s not like we stopped telling exactly that same joke—we just changed the social norm around who is allowed to tell that joke. Are you more likely to treat people fairly because you won’t tell that joke (but would still laugh at the similar Dave Chapelle bits?) and what does it have to do with his platform?
Database Passwords in Server Response in Amazon AWS Glue
That's not true. America is still a democracy. The US as a whole is an ally to the West and Europe.
You weren't listening. It's one platform, which means that the guy that costs the company $200K annually who approves expenditures wasn't overworked and could eliminate a bunch of waste across twenty teams.

I mean sure, a cynical person might ask why even bother paying that guy when his salary could be divided up into $10K per team for a hundred books a year per team, but that kind of talk gets you dragged in front of HR for a "discussion".
Most mainstream discussions of inflation also ignore the effect of government spending and public debt on inflation.
Corporate life...

I got a shitty Dell. It broke. I got another shitty Dell. That broke. I got another shitty Dell. That broke. I got a shitty Dell.

BUT WE ONLY HAVE A CONTRACT WITH DELL. Perhaps you shouldn't have a contract with Dell? Silence. Then the brain gets going.

You realise the best bits of your life are when the Dell breaks because it takes 5 days for them to work out how to send a new one out through the layers of PO and ordering politics which are responsible for the account with Dell in the first place. That is 5 days of bliss where you can't do ANYTHING because of the vicious corporate security policy so you sleep for 5 days, catch up on friends, be a human again.

I love Dell. I don't want a ThinkPad.

But I own a MacBook for my own use.
Thanks for sharing, and congratulations on your achievements (especially considering your beginnings).

You and I are of similar age, and have a similar backstory, so if I may, I’d like to suggest the following:

Help others.

For me my midlife crisis was quickly eradicated when I turned my surplus time and resources to assisting the needy through volunteer work.

I hope this resonates with you - it was a significantly positive turning point in my life, which gave me a great deal of perspective and gratitude.
I mentioned garden gnomes as an example of how supply side economics and “scarcity drives demand” doesn’t work.
XZ Backdoor – Breaching Trust in Open-Source Collaborative Development
Arguably, most people I have encountered don't actually know how to use Microsoft Office in any kind of depth but it is a familiar environment for them. It is like most people don't actually drive a car well as supported by car accident statistics.
Most work probably shouldn't be done in the Office suite but rather some information system copying the formalized process. Most text processing should probably decouple content from form a lot more and there certainly are people that do just that but it is not the norm.
As if this was the only problem with them, such machines are incapable of flight in general.
I think there's a bif citation needed on whether social media influences anxiety and depression in younger people. It's a nice scapegoat, but the world is harder and more competitive than it's ever been. I can't work in a textile mill and become a union president and support a family. The job doesn't exist anymore, and even if it did it wouldn't pay enough to achieve those coveted milestones of a "quiet life."
Starting flapping in that orientation may give very good control over forward/backward forces until you're ready to lift off. Once they lift off, the blades are too fast to observe, so they may well apply an additional rotation. Mechanically, they're clearly capable of such movement.