skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, especially seeing that there's a gene (or something. Was it halotype? idk) that originated in Siberia and was spread and shared shared among people in East Asia and the Americas. I know nothing about the field of genetics (if you couldn't tell), but saw a map of this recently
Mammoths and mastodons might be the only North American extinctions we can reliably blame on early Americans. The rest of the extinct macrofauna (30+ genera) fell to the end-Pleistocene comet strike and continent-spanning wildfires, or follow-on effects.
Because it is important to understand how the world works and America is a very influential country.
> Contrast that to Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, where we are definitely in the "Trough of Disillusionment".

Bitcoin has been hovering around its all-time high of around $74,000 and is still expected to continue to increase, especially now that several ETFs have been approved.
It’s actually far simpler.

If you’re rich, you can afford to confer with attorneys before, and afford pretty good defense attorneys afterwards. They also typically are major contributors to the community in some way (taxes, as an employer, etc.).

Poorer folks learn ‘the law’ from TV or their cousins or whatever, and often just get a public defender with an excessive case load. They typically don’t clean up well, and won’t come across well to a jury.

Who do you think the prosecutor is going to throw the book at to pad their resume?
> It's sad that this will be ripped out from him and other developers in a few months.

Diversify. Never rely on a single large monopolist for your only revenue stream.
hexen was a weird one
This is a great point. It's unfortunate that few engines and standard libraries implement base58 encoding/decoding. This is probably because it is a more complex format because it does not include certain ambiguous letters like l and O. Base64 is relatively straight forward to implement as it maps easily from a number to a character.
Occupancy Rates in Eclipse Path
It's a thing I run into with a decent amount developers these days, actually. I tried to work with a particular service to get them to fix their accessibility for months, and all I got was well, we fixed the tabbed navigation a bit. Which would probably be cool, if this wasn't a webapp that I was trying to use with all my various quick nav things, etc.
Andrew Ng Appointed to Amazon's Board of Directors
scale is becoming more and more important, not just for cost, but also as a key technology feature to help deal with unexpected traffic and reduce the cost of manual operations.
>>> I can attest that software engineers have it very very good

> On the whole I would rate the average software engineer as having a less stressful life than the average doctor

Those are very different statements, and I don't even disagree with the second.

Consider the possibility that the software engineers complaining the most about burnout are likely not experiencing the average amount of stress, so your casual dismissal of their suffering is really rather misplaced. Just as an example, a coworker of mine committed suicide, leaving behind his wife and two kids under ten. He didn't have it very very good.
> The big difference here is the Message app on Android is just a normal app whereas imessage is bundled deep in the OS with tons of private apis

I'm replying to someone who said the important factor is android is open sourced. I pointed out the relevant android program is not open sourced.
We have evidence of people living in Northern Siberia 72°N over 30,000 years ago, well before the last glacial maximum.

https://anthropology.dartmouth.edu/news/2016/02/new-evidence...
> iniSettings();

> enforceHTTPS();

> session_start();

> Global state things directly exposed to the user (programmer in this case). The problem here is, that this kind of thing immediately fails, when things start to use concurrency of any kind, because suddenly one has multiple processes concurrently setting global settings, without any kind of mutex in between.

No offense but I take it you don't have much experience with PHP (and that's fine).

Because your complain is exactly one of the beautiful things in PHP.

It's all per request.

It doesn't break.

You don't have to think about mutexes.
I don't think this fits the "non trivial user input" of my question, but, in my opinion, your "correct" use disallows most of the interesting/valuable use cases for LLM that have nothing to do with chat, since it requires sanitizing all external/reference text. Wouldn't you be mostly limited to what exists within the LLM? Or, do you think all higher level stuffs should be done elsewhere? For example, the LLM could take pre-determined possible inputs and generate an SQL statement, then the rest would be done elsewhere?
The renewed growth and increasing customer satisfaction--and our long-term success--were due to engineering abandoning a poorly thought-out policy before it crippled us instead of merely hampering us.

Part of the challenge in a "freeze spec" approach implicit in "only fix bugs" is that it assumes the market requirements are well established. That was definitely not the case for Internet protocols/functionality in 1992. HTTP traffic did not exist yet (along with a couple of dozen other things that would quickly become dominant by 1997.

The effect of the bug fix stall was to give our more nimble competitors more growth and more runway. The fact that Cisco did very well was despite the "just fix bugs" mandate.

I offered the story because I thought some folks reading the linked post would find it unbelievable that a company would decide to fixate on a single simple metric when operating in a complex and evolving environment.
Do you wonder why it was written that way? Most news articles about misfiring feature launches don’t include the owner of the company.
Yup.

No public-facing announcements from Microsoft, but we know this is a thing as of RISC-V Summit NA 2022's talks by the foundation itself. This and that features/extensions being requirements from Microsoft.
It was never a sustainable business. Amazon was burning cash in the hopes of somehow making Alexa profitable, but they have now realized that won't happen and are turning the faucet off. People should be happy that they were able to get in and make some cash while they could. What would you have Amazon do instead? Make these charity payments forever?
No it’s more of a bad bet on what was thought to be a good engine.
Hard to make money when your planes are grounded.
https://crankyflier.com/2023/09/26/the-problem-with-pratt-wh...
No. The lack of infrastructure investment for the last 40 years is the biggest threat to America.
Inexpensive 10 key hid usb keyboards are common. Either interface directly or dismantle.
> stealing

Assuming there were an empty seat, could this really be considered stealing?
I bought the one with the screen. It constantly shows advertisements so I can't have it in my line of sight while doing anything else in my home. If you buy any personal items be sure to take them out of your amazon "recently viewed" queue immediately.

It shows me triumphant notifications (!) that turn out to just be a request for me to review a product. Yes, that's why I _bought_ this device, so the company I bought it from can use it as a portal to ask me to do free work for them.

It has failed to add any value other than as a device I can use to ensure that our Alexa skills are in fact working or not when I take bug reports out of our queue.

For the amount of counter space this thing swallows I constantly wonder why they couldn't have put a few USB charging ports somewhere on the side of it.

Speaking of USB and/or Bluetooth, why aren't there any "peripherals" for this device? It's just a useless screen connected to a cloud of corporate garbage that no one would ask for and it has zero ability to step outside of this sphere. So, yea, jam it full of "generative" content, how could you possibly make it worse?
AFAIK, only SIDH-like schemes that exposes auxiliary points are broken, so others schemes like CSIDH may have some chances?
https://issikebrokenyet.github.io/
I’ll read a story like this and can’t even comprehend what living that life must be like.

For all our gripes in the modern world, we have it really really good.
Huh, weirdly I was just searching for solutions for this just few days ago - I've got some ESP32 projects with keypads and LCDs, which usually are wired little further away from the ESP and other attachments, so the wiring is somewhat PITA. This thing could help it go from 12 wires total for both LCD+keys to only 4 using shared I2C wiring, quite nice!
It might be useful, but the specific effectiveness depends on the accuracy of the model's output. Of course, even if there are issues with the output, adding a manual review should still save a lot of time.
Sounds more like depression than burnout. Burnout tends to be targeted; not motivated for a certain environment or direction.

Hope you get better soon.
Came here to say the same thing. But I suppose if you extend cosine into negative values you'll see it has a maximum at zero so its derivative must be zero. Don't know about sin'(0) offhand but you'd think it wouldn't be hard.
One week of your garbage not getting picked up will change your behaviour.
Yeah these are complete fabrications.
Oh yes, it’s the “terrorists” fault they bombed that school, decimated that hospital, and gunned down escaping hostages.

That logic is wild to me.
The Fediverse is definitely where all the stuff belongs. I do use a service for all of this. I pay $12 per a year, and have stashed away quite a lot of stuff there.
What are the win conditions? What do they need to make that happen? What is the timeline? How feasible is it?

The Ukraine conversation is (to me) shockingly un-nuanced and light on details.
Don't worry, reality and time will find a way to make reality worse than anything a fiction writer could've conceived in the past. Even Brave New World seems quaint now.
Over several years. From a bank she held a controlling interest in. With 85 other defendants. It's nice to imagine the buck stops with her. Apparently the people who've passed this sentence are hopeful for this outcome.

So.. "you won't be murdered to cover up state incompetence." If you like.
Cool thanks for all the archive links yay!
> It is possible to say "would you like to come up and see my Theodor Geisel prints" with ulterior motives.

Depending on which book they’re from, the odds of an ulterior motive may be quite high indeed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Lady_Godivas

(Possibly nsfw—mild cartoon nudity)
Agreed, on something like battery of tests for `Safety4all` but it'll be too generic not for an enterprise use case.
Why are they never going away? Every use you list there is specific to centralized, industrial agriculture. That's a modern invention that could absolutely be rolled back if people grow more of their own food and buy locally what they can't do themselves.

Humans made it very, very long without plastics and PFAS. Are we really to assume that a few decades with them and we'll never go back, by choice or otherwise?
Zero interest rate policy.
Silla (East, Gyeongsangdo) destroyed Baekje (West, Jeollado) forcing migration en masse to Japan around mid 6th century then they finished off the militarily superior Goguryeo (North Korea) with the help of Tang (China) to create a single state for the first time. immediately started attacking Tang to reclaim old borders

Election results from yesterday reflect regionalism. Gyeongsang-do always votes conservative right, pro-US, pro-economy and Jeolla-do always votes socialist left, pro-China/NK/Russia with a leader who was a former defence lawyer for organized crime groups including his gangbanger nephew who murdered his girlfriend and her mother after a slight. He's next in line to be the president.
Maybe not just to its AI:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/02/gaza-palestini...
> I'm not terribly convinced that software engineering is harder

I don't think it really matters what jobs are "harder". Nothing in the article is making the claim this is unique (or for that matter universal). The author's experience was in engineering management, and that's what they're writing about.

It's relevant to our industry insofar as it's reflective of an experience in the industry. I'm personally a bit cautious around claims of what is harder or easier because they tend to be pointless comparisons mostly used to dismiss valid criticism with whataboutism.

> I'm now 20 years into my career and never once have I come across this attitude. People take sick days all the time for mental health. I feel terribly for this person that they felt like they couldn't but this is far and away the exception rather than the rule.

I have definitely worked at organizations with a tech-bro startup culture where working non-stop (and drinking heavily) were idolized and anyone talking about mental health would have likely gotten a "man up"-esque speech (regardless of their gender, though shockingly these companies are mostly men). I have also worked at places where mental health was nominally respected but, like anything else, substantially more leeway was given to people perceived as high performers. I'm glad you haven't had to encounter anything like that, but I wouldn't even call it uncommon, nonetheless exceptional.
>A group of economists recently performed an experiment on around 100 of the largest companies in the country, applying for jobs using made-up resumes with equivalent qualifications but different personal characteristics. They changed applicants’ names to suggest that they were white or Black, and male or female — Latisha or Amy, Lamar or Adam.

Why is 'white' uncapitalised yet 'black' is... immediately after using white?
I beta tested many of these products and found them so dystopian and useless I refused to ever participate in a beta again.
very funny posting an article from 2021 about hamas using human shields after israel has spent 6 months claiming every hospital in gaza has hamas tunnels running underneath them, blowing them up, then killing and starving everyone
If you like volcanos go to Costa Rica, you can even hide in some places there and nobody will go after you.
Scientists discover first nitrogen-fixing organelle
Method for making a holographic linear position encoder
Right but you can tell all those people “this idea is literally impossible, the machine cannot do it” and at least some of them will listen to you.

Whereas in, say, government, people can just believe any stupid idea they want for an indefinite period of time.

As you can tell, I’m great with people. :)
A congressman wanted to understand AI. So he went back to a college classroom
Yeah, no. I've ridden the Google train enough times to know how often products get killed which I rely to keep my business running.

Google would need to be, say, half the cost of AWS to get my business.

Toss in hiring head of product from Oracle? No one in their right mind would use Google Cloud
A rooted phone would be enough to gain access without needing to brute force guess passwords. The rooted phone could just force a prompt for the user to supply their password again for an application such as Teams, and this password could then be captured as well as the key used to derive new TOTP values.

Hence there is seemingly some other weakness allowing login to a corporate Microsoft e-mail account. For example, a method to enrol a second/additional TOTP generator by only knowing an account password and not needing to supply an existing TOTP code. Or a "lost my phone that generates TOTP codes" recovery process. Or for example, a Kerberos ticket accepted by Exchange can be obtained using a method that only needs a valid password and not a TOTP code?
Is sneaking into a movie theater not stealing either? And even if not, what about the extra fuel that needed to be burned because of his weight?
Building a Linux Container Using Namespaces: Part – 1 (2020)
This is a neat trick but it will select the whole 'paragraph', which in most logs means the entire row. Triple click the following:

b214a2bb-c3c1-48fb-8272-10a2808337f3, something, ...

b214a2bb-c3c1-48fb-8272-10a2828337f3, something else...
I would love for something like this to be attached to LibGen where it reads the millions of scientific papers. As in my opinion human knowledge today is more than what a group of people can handle let alone individuals. Their is lot of domain specific knowledge that would translate and be used in other domains but unless by chance a human with speciality in both domains sees it will not get ported or assimilated in the 2nd domain.
having exhausted the number of people he can sell his “crypto bad” books to, gerard has now pivoted to “ai bad”.

nothing new. https://pessimistsarchive.org/
Its unconscionable. The least Amazon could do for this poor kid is to at least write a check of $5.5M that would be roughly the amount they would make if they keep doing same thing till age of 65.
Related:

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

>"A linear encoder is a sensor, transducer or readhead paired with a scale [measuring device] that encodes [retrieves, gets, fetches] position [from a physical system]."

(Patent (now expired) is one method of making an Optical Linear Encoder based on Holographic principles... a Holographic Optical Linear Encoder -- or perhaps just Holographic Linear Encoder -- for short...)
Fuck yes, Hardlight.

Actually the community that got me into figuring out how to make computers dance for me.

Loved the FreeSpace Source source Code Project. Loved the Universe. Game engine was awesome. So many hours wiled away as a kid on FreeSpace/Silent Threat/FreeSpace 2.
Namespaces Cgroups Conatiners [pdf]
Yeah we need a government takeover of the Better Business Bureau. Only government bureaucrats are qualified to test things. Credit scores, too. Has to be government. Let's throw in a social credit score too so that consumers know who to trust on an individual basis
Isn't S3 egress billed at something like $0.01/GB? Even if you assume they exfiltrated 100TB, you're only talking about maybe $1k. I can't imagine they'd have alerts fine-tuned enough to catch that without driving their on-call staff crazy.
“dozens”

lol, is this a burn?
Global rainforest loss continues at rate of 10 football pitches a minute
I realize there are many, many factors that contribute to English spelling being so weird, but doesn't the Norman invasion account for the lion's share of them?
Why is Base58 used instead of Base64?
probably an Oversight
In my personal experience, Australian journalists are generally pretty careful to distinguish Australian dollars from US dollars from other dollars when reporting on international stories, at least in the article body (headlines less so, but the journalist normally has no say in the headline). Of course, for domestic news, it goes without saying that “dollars” means the local currency
The problem is not discoverability. The problem is there is nothing there to be discovered that is useful or entertaining enough for people to pay money for. The only thing surprising here is that it took so long for Amazon to admit its a failure.
Should You Pack Lunchables for Your Kid's School Lunch?
My experience was similar. I never really understood the point of sin and cos until I used them to draw circles on a TRS-80. And then it's like "Oh, they are very useful and straightforward functions." And then it made sense why you'd divide a triangle's side length by the hypotenuse, since that's just scaling by the radius.
There is danger in that as well, you could be copying transparent/hidden text as part of the copy, and if you paste and <enter> without reading what you've entered, it can be dangerous.

That being said, most people copy and run bash script straight off the internet, so clearly not worried about copying stuff they haven't read!

e.g. https://bun.sh

curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash
It occurs throughout the entirety of the article.
Ford's hands-free BlueCruise system was active before fatal Texas crash
Punishments have a side effect of deterring. People don't wish to be punished so they don't transgress. It shouldn't be the focus of punishment. One problem is that the severity of punishment can be varied in order to vary the deterrent effect, whereas the punishment should fit the crime. That a certain fair punishment is not sufficiently deterring others is immaterial to a given defendant.

Fair punishments may deter insufficiently. The deterrent effect involves the probability of being caught and convicted. A law enforcement and criminal justice system that is not effective at catching and convicting can just crank up penalties to keep the deterrent effect high.
So it's also adware... as if I didn't need another reason not to have an always-on Internet-connected microphone in my house.
TL;DL: They're awful. Pallid. Silly. Boring.
Answered in 3rd paragraph of TFA:

> The news has left dozens of Alexa Skills developers wondering if they have a future with Alexa, especially as Amazon preps a generative AI and subscription-based version of Alexa. "Dozens" may sound like a dig at Alexa's ecosystem, but it's an estimation based on a podcast from Skills developers Mark Tucker and Allen Firstenberg, who, in a recent podcast, agreed that "dozens" of third-party devs were contemplating if it's still worthwhile to develop Alexa skills
You are very focused on the Noida scene. That's an outlier in the Indian real estate situation right now. Almost everywhere, there is a "shortage" of housing, forget about ghost cities. Also after RERA, a lot has changed. You seem very confident in your analysis but honestly you need to look up more.

The backbenchers are doing a better job than mr Rajan, growth numbers are easy to judge for all.
This has not been my experience at all. I do see this in the management layers, even with team leads, but the typical IC engineer does NOT spend any significant time talking with stakeholders, support, or users. They do have to work with other devs, but even that is frequently over chat, and not as much in-person, though it depends on the particular people and the company culture.

Yes, you really can go into a tech career and avoid talking to people much, much more than other careers. Just stay out of management if you don't like talking to people.
josh, just found this reply from you.

I've used mercury for corporate bank accounts and they are great! i don't think they do personal bank accounts, that was why i was asking about it:)

best, santy!
The US is a corrupt, dysfunctional civilization that won't even do anything to stop mass shootings, so it certainly won't stop speeding or ensure corners don't get cut in the design or manufacturing of passenger transportation machines. The authoritarian-inspired consequences you suggest won't be applied fairly or properly, a priori.
Glad he quit alcohol as I did at 21. I found out then that marijuana is the best antidepressant and anxiolytic, Xanax second place. But benzos are anticonvulsants with significant withdrawal effects.

I dread having a mandatory talk therapist and am not sure how that helps social anxiety. Free book warns to not trust psychiatrists because you may go in for stress and never be allowed out. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ocxbp8l5uo6anu7us7fjw/quackLa...
“Not ivy quality” - Only people with 150 IQ get into Harvard? News to me.
Related:

Microsoft says Russian hackers breached its systems, accessed source code

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39641953

Microsoft actions following attack by nation state actor Midnight Blizzard

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39061800
I think this is great, but it strikes me as the DIY embedded hardware equivalent of what coders often do.

“I could manually enter 100 lines of text or…I could spend all afternoon writing Perl to clean and correct my noisy OCR data…and end up with the same 100 lines of text.

But also I’ll have built a tool! A tool nobody asked for. I really hope I can get someone else to use it so I can feel better about my lost afternoon.”