skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I see what you are saying, though I find it a bit unfair.

It totally was, and on purpose!!!

>> In my years approaching 40,

At 48 I can tell you that slowing down is NOT what you want to do, speed up!

>> I can't say I care at all about sitting in front of a screen for hours on end making some doo-dad when I could be forming relationships that I missed out on earlier in life.

One does not preclude the other. Hell everything is better with friends! The thing about old people is we dont want doo dads we want to get shit done. You can build all the things you want as beer money projects with the friends you make and if one of them hits, well... Im sure you know better what to do with money now then in your 20's.

"Beware of an old man in a profession where men die young"
I'd recommend Linux Mint over Debian for people coming from Windows. Debian isn't as easy.
> * You will need to run not just one, but many simulations. However, the same argument that implies the simulation will be slower than reality also implies that it will be bigger than reality.

You don't need to simulate reality, you only need to simulate the minds that perceive reality. Thus cuts computational costs by many orders of magnitude over a reality simulation. We don't have the understanding yet to be able to precisely quantify it, but just eliminating the dependency on quantum mechanics is huge.

> * It is quite possible that an economic system would work very well at first, only to collapse 50 years later for a variety of difficult-to-foresee reasons.

And climate models could diverge from reality 100 or 200 years later too, we still run those because reasonably accurate short to medium term information is better than none.

> (unless it's quite crude and approximate, in which case it won't tell us much about reality.)

Even our crude and approximate simulations of quantum chemistry, protein folding, weather, climate, orbital dynamics etc. tell us a lot.
Oh yeah, I love Zeal. Also manpages can be nice, and ripgrep and fzf are good for searching local files
There's no reason why people are down voting your comment. Excellent software like Dash makes finding code documentation offline easy. You'll still need online search for things you're not regularly looking up, but offline resources would save a lot of time for people who habitually put everything into Google.
He only cared about posting here when it helped grow Cloudflare, now his account is only active in the occasional crisis management PR thread.
Three? Definition lists are read completely differently in Firefox, Edge, or Edge-in-IE-mode in Windows 11 Narrator. Multiply JAWS, NVDA, Narrator, VoiceOver, Orca, ChromeVox by Firefox, Chromium, IE, WebKit, Opera Mini. (Some of those combinations aren't possible, but 20 isn't an overestimate.)

Then realise: it's not just screenreaders. It's Braille displays, sip-and-puffs, Magnifier, High Contrast mode, keyboard navigation, speech recognition… Seemingly nobody tested any of it before they gave it to the end-user, so now it's your job, as the web developer, to make something that works.

Good luck! I recommend settling for "doesn't make it worse", since that's almost achievable.
Also ironically, by the time we became able to conceive of and communicate about such ideas, natural evolution has long stopped being the driving force behind how humans and human groups look and grow and evolve.
I stand corrected. Thank you.

I think my larger point, that jacking up premiums increases revenue, thus increasing the opex/profit pool (regardless of the percentages) is a perverse incentive to jack up premiums as much as possible

As in a 3-5 year (which is about what I've seen with ACA premiums) doubling of premiums, thus doubling the potential profit pool without increasing opex in any way. In fact, the use of third parties to provide "pre-approval" for an increasing number of drugs, tests and procedures reduces opex, leaving more of that 20% for profits.

In fact, my insurer has consistently raised premiums while squeezing providers who are now charging separate fees (meaning additional co-pays for me) for stuff that was once included in a single fee (one example is charging an "outpatient facilities fee" in addition to the copay for seeing a doctor. Increasing my costs, while the insurance company can just shrug and say, "that's not covered, suck it up!"

Meanwhile, doctors (especially GPs) are over-scheduled (my GP is scheduled to see every patient in 20 minutes or less), allowing the practices to charge for seeing more patients -- increasing their profits -- at the expense of patient health.

And heaven forfend having multiple related issues which require more than one specialty -- you're just shunted from specialist to specialist without much (if any) communication and a shrug if something unrelated to the specialist's area comes up.

The point is that the whole industry is fraught with perverse incentives that drive up costs, reduce the quality of care and a laser focus on the wrong stuff (i.e., services provided vs. holistic health outcomes).

It's disgusting and harms people. You'd think that by now we'd have decent healthcare. But the perverse incentives pushing toward financialization of, well, pretty much everything medically related, are actually impacting the average lifespans of Americans.

And more's the pity.
Few viable technology businesses and non-technology busiesses with internal software departments were prepared to see their software engineers suddenly suddenly expect doctor or lawyer pay and can't effectively accomodate the change.

They were largely left to rely on loyalty and other kinds of fragile non-monetary factors to preserve their existing talent and institutuonal knowledge and otherwise scavenge for scraps when making new hires.

For those companies outside the specific Silicon Valley money circle, it was an extremely disruptive change and recovery basically requires that salaries normalize to some significant degree. In most cases, engineers provide quite a lot of value but not nearly so much value as FAANG and SV speculators could build into their market-shaping offers.

It's not a healthy situation for the industry or (if you're wary of centralization/monopolization) society as a whole.
He may also "operate" with 50% of his bonus depending on Google Hardware doubling in market-share.

How much would you bet to win against me in a card-game if you have to show me all your cards and I show you none?

Rest assured, I will maintain the task to beat you in another container than all the details I need to beat you.

> So? You're talking about the person, which is just the host hardware. There can be multiple threads running on that hardware at the same time in containers.

...what?
Minor correction, while PB stood for Patrol Bomber, the Y was producer's code (Consolidated). For example Martin had PBM Mariner.
Cool, I enjoy doing Connections! Do you have a blog post or github code available? Or do you stick to only xeets?
Harvard Dean Says Students Should Not Pursue Grad Degrees for Professorship
I worked at a MegaCorp, and we required all new hires to (1) teach the next hire our architecture, core user journeys, etc and (2) the new hire had to present their learnings to the team, standing with their (quiet) teacher.

Both of these steps were crucial. The presentation serves a ton of purposes, it ensures both the student and the teacher learn the material enough to present with a whiteboard, and the team can catch any mistakes or misunderstandings at a time when they'd have the most sympathy towards ignorance. It also is a good low-stakes way to force someone to present and get used to the team and talk to everyone in a formal setting. We also always ordered pizza + beer after too make it a "fun" (or at least casual) environment that wasn't too serious.
New keycaps for HHKB and other Topre keyboards
Why though? Microsoft will stop providing security updates at some point (if they've not done so already.)

I could see the advantage if you had an industrial use for Win 7/8, or perhaps in an air-gapped environment and for certain software. But a privacy-enhanced Firefox seems like an odd choice in such an environment.
Wow, I found this hard to believe. I still couldn't find the figure of % arrested for a felony, but I found a reliable looking source that 8% of adults have been convicted of one in 2010, so I find it very believable now. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5996985/
Well if we're going to do this I'll start by pointing out that people that excuse Hamas's atrocities and crimes not only against Israeli Arabs and Jews but also against the people of Gaza are complicit. This constant encouraging of such things by outsiders such as yourself is why the disaster has been going on for the last 75 years. You keep telling the Palestinian's to keep up the struggle we support you. And it's just misery year after year.
I'd be wondering if sending the request was enough to get you on the list.
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This doesn't appear to be a thing you can easily do anymore now that social media has sort of supplanted it, but I used to email members of bands that I really liked when I was between the ages of ~12-16, so this would have been around ~~2003-2007 or so.

The band members wrote back with a surprising frequency, and were extremely polite and grateful for fanmail. I remember that I had a fairly in-depth email session with Justin Pierre, the lead singer for Motion City Soundtrack, where I asked him about how he comes up with songs and what touring was like.

Now, obviously, there's reasons that kids should absolutely not ever do this, because there's a lot of really crappy humans who might try and exploit the kids or do otherwise horrible things, but I was lucky enough to where that never happened to me, and everyone who wrote back to me was very professional and seemed flattered that anyone liked their music enough to write a fan email. I think email was still a new enough thing to where most people weren't writing fan emails.

It's something I reminisce about occasionally, and while I don't really agree with any of Reagan's policies, I will acknowledge that him writing back to this kid was genuinely a kind of cool thing to do.

ETA:

Before anyone goes judging them, I should point out that my parents did not know I was doing that, and would likely have told me to stop if they did, precisely because they would have been afraid of me being coerced into something horrible as a minor. I don't think they realized at the time that it was even possible to directly contact band members via email.
When pitching this, be sure to focus like a laser on what actual value the company would get by sponsoring. "Good PR" doesn't count for much at all unless your project is already well-known and very popular.
[Recycled from related submission] For your amusement, a relevant music-video titled "The current state of search engines" [0]

Yes, I know about the quotes
I know about the dash and OR
It's all ass
Google doesn't work... Anymore

I have to add the word "Reddit"
To every goddamn search to read
Content made by humans
Google doesn't work... Anymore

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrFv1O4dbqY
But I'm waiting for the finetunedz/merged models. Many devs produced great models based on Llama 2, that outperformed the vanilla one, so I expect similar treatment for the new version. Exciting nonetheless!
March - early June or Mid September - November

Avoid July and August, horrible heat and most people have left the city
Is “reproducibility” actually the right term here?

It’s a bit like arguing that Linux is not open source because you don’t have every email Linus and the maintainers ever received. Or that you don’t know what lectures Linus attended or what books he’s read.

The weights “are the thing” in the same sense that the “code is the thing”. You can modify open code and recompile it. You can similarly modify weights with fine tuning or even architectural changes. You don’t need to go “back to the beginning” in the same sense that Linux would continue to be open source even without the Git history and the LKM mailing list.
Spring or autumn. Summer is simply too hot.

I preferred it over Barcelona, too.
I was that guy at my previous job, and had a much better experience.

For starters, at that company, I always fortunate to have a manager that had my back when it came to deflecting requests that didn't come from him or her. If a random person reached out to me with a request to do some non-trivial work that I either didn't have the bandwidth or interest to do, all I had to say was, "Sorry but I don't have the time to look into this right now. If you need this prioritized, please run it by my manager." 99 times of 100, my manager never heard from them.

The biggest upside to being the go-to guy for people across the department/company is that you get to collect acquaintances and contacts. It's a fun little micro-superpower. Extremely valuable when you need some bit of info from someone outside your team, or need someone to cut through some red tape to get something important done. It means I also have a modest network of people to hit up when I go looking for new opportunities. (This is how I have landed 100% of the jobs in my decade and a half of civilian employment.)
Big River isn't about software so I don't understand the connections you're making.
(after rereading what I just wrote)

Actually Gabor Mate and Noam Chomsky are just really good examples of what I'm talking about, right?

Like: if an activist said something, and a normie person objected to it, and you came back with "Noam Chomsky says this is just fine to say", you wouldn't expect that to persuade the normie. That doesn't make Chomsky wrong! It just makes him not all that rhetorically useful.

Same deal with JVP.
What is the pricing? Also, why the strange "neuron" pricing for CF models?
I believe that may be the spectral test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_test which I mentioned in the explanation when showing the lattices visually
I can't stand all the "AI" junk, especially when things worked better in the past. My pet peeve: I used to be able to ask google maps while I was driving "What's the E.T.A.?" and it would respond with, you know, the answer. It's been broken for many years now and responds with nonsense.

Another one: I can't tell my phone to change it's name to what I want. Basic "AI" fail.
Its not gone, because there is no much stronger replacement yet.
I have a hard time about the "cannot reproduce" categorization.

There are places (e.g. in the Linux kernel? AMD drivers?) where lots of generated code is pushed and (apart from the rants of huge unwieldy commits and complaints that it would be better engineering-wise to get their hands on the code generator, it seems no one is saying the AMD drivers aren't GPL compliant or OSI-compliant?

There are probably lots of OSS that is filled with constants and code they probably couldn't rederive easily, and we still call them OSS?
On my dual boot machine:

-Windows 11: 60-240 seconds before I am connected to WiFi and can open a browser to my home page

-Ubuntu 23: no delay, it just starts.
I think the literature is clear enough on the difference between calory restrictions and intermittent fasting. The latter being much effective because it also reduces the production of hunger hormone, not the case with the former approach.
They are still supported and works perfectly fine still. Remember that browsers supports different DOCTYPEs (HTML5, XML, HTML4 strict and non strict etc) and they are not going away anytime soon, probably thousands and thousands web sites out there that doesn't implement HTML5 and never will.

Frameset is deprecated in HTML5, but your index page can be of the older frameset DOCTYPE and each frame valid HTML5 page with a <!DOCTYPE html> declaration. This is why frames (and iframes) are actually great because you can mix old an new.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>My page</title>
</head>
<frameset cols="100%" rows="10%,*,10%">
<frame name="header" src="header.html">
<frameset cols="20%,80%" rows="100%">
<frame name="sidebar" src="sidebar.html">
<frame name="main" src="main.html">
</frameset>
<frame name="footer" src="footer.html">
</frameset>
</html>

e.g main.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>main</title>
</head>
<body>
main
</body>
</html>
Depends on what you're aiming for. For my use case, I'm aiming for the feeling of talking to another human. I built an iOS app for little kids to call Santa. Low latency was important. Now I'm working on a mock interview experience; same deal, needs to feel like the real thing.

Re: contextualizing the filler. No, but it's a good idea :) This thread made me think there's a way to generate one on the fly based on the first part of what the person has said. The challenge though is it seems to me that filler phrases usually relate to what the person said last, not first.
Women Who Code organization disbanding
I think that convenience is a big factor in online shopping, but I agree with the parent that it's a bit of an overstep to say that saving time is "the" reason to shop online.

Personally, I tried to put it off because I like the idea of shopping local and supporting local businesses. Plus, shopping in person was familiar and a skill I already had.

In retrospect I think the thing that really pried me away from in-person shopping and into online shopping was that online shopping (Amazon, in particular) serves as a "universal backstop" for whatever I'm looking for. Like, if I try and find an item in a store and I can't find it (or it's too expensive) then I can always find it online. So I throw a request at my local store(s), they miss, and an online retailer catches the request behind them. Once my now-ex got us a Prime membership this got even easier, and now I start most of my orders online (except food, obviously).

I have no idea how typical my story is but the point is that there's more than one road that leads to online shopping, for sure :)
Hi! Tailscalar here. This is very topical for me! Over the past 3 weeks I've been working with internal stakeholders to remove our SSO tax - the sso tax is a pet hate of mine. A couple of weeks ago we removed it from our pricing plan after my proposal was approved, and today I released a blog on our website to announce it more widely: https://tailscale.com/blog/sso-tax-cut

I knew of https://sso.tax (which we are not listed on but I did include in my blog), but didn't know there was another website too!
Does anyone know what NLnet's involvement is? It says it's a french initiative and, clicking through, all I can find it that they "partnered", but it doesn't say if they provide part of the money or how this collaboration works:

> The French public administration is rewarding maintainers of critical Free Software that it uses. Its Free Software unit (an OSPO) has partnered with NLnet to put four notable projects in the spotlight and award them the BlueHats 2024 prizes.

(For those not familiar with NLnet, they fund a lot of cool stuff. Picking a random one I like from the list of currently funded projects as an example: https://nlnet.nl/project/CryptPad-Blueprints/)
So you are right, we have records of all their work... so why would you post falsehoods... Based on their own work they were spying on an IDF encampment in the area, its so sad that you can't even do the barest of research and present obviously misleading information and then have the audacity to accuse someone of being slanderous and disrespectful, you've been slandering Jews all day on multiple threads but get insulted when someone calls a spade a spade.

Additionally, every single time so far that Israel was accused of killing a journalist its later come out the "journalist" was working with Hamas, Obviously the Hamas propaganda mouthpiece (AJ) isn't gonna publicize that when they have people like you who will happily swallow every single falsehood they peddle. Please consider getting your facts from this reality and not the false one you invent in your imagination, barring that simply sit down and stop spreading more hate.
LLL lattice reduction is the same algorithm that can be used for cracking PuTTY keys from biased nonces from the CVE a few days ago. 'tptacek explained a bit about the attack (and links to a cryptopals problem for it, which I can almost pretend to understand if I squint) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40045377

In a similar vein, the SciCraft minecraft server had a creeper farm which used some sort of black magic setup in order to deterministically manipulate an RNG state to trigger a "random" lightning strike at a specific block every frame in order to get better creeper drops. https://youtu.be/TM7SutJyDCk
The whole commentary about the "supermodified" class of competition entrants is making my laugh:

> Nostradamus was written by Tim Dierks, a VP of Engineering at Certicom,
who has a lot of expertise in cryptography. The program defeats the
optimal player by reverse-engineering the internal state of the random()
generator, which he states "was both easier and harder than I thought it
would be". To be sporting, it then plays optimally against all other
opponents.

> Fork Bot was based on an idea that Dan Egnor came up with a few minutes
after hearing about the contest. Since "library routines are allowed",
his elegant solution was to spawn three processes with fork(), have each
one make a different move, and then kill off the two that did not win.
This was implemented by Andreas Junghanns in about 10 lines of code.
Unfortunately, since all three moves lost to the Psychic Friends Network
after the first turn, the program exited and the remainder of that match
was declared forfeited.

> The Psychic Friends Network is a truly hilarious piece of obfuscated C,
written by Michael Schatz and company at RST Corporation. Among other
things, it uses an auxiliary function to find good karma, consults
horoscopes, cooks spaghetti and (mystic) pizza to go with various kinds
of fruit, #defines democrats as communists, and undefines god. We're
still trying to figure out exactly what it is doing with the stack
frame, but we do know that it never scores less than +998 in a match,
unless it is playing against a meta-meta-cheater.

> The Matrix was written by Darse Billings, who holds the prestigious
title of "Student for Life", and recently started the PhD programme at
the University of Alberta. The RoShamBo program defeated every opponent
with a perfect score, based on the simple principle "There is no spoon".

> Since The Matrix is also the tournament program, it has complete access
to all other algorithms, data structures, and output routines, and is
therefore unlikely to ever be overtaken. As a result, this category is
hereby declared to be solved, and thus retired from future competitions.
Windows 11 isn’t that slow. Are you booting from a HDD?