skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was it similar to this? https://github.com/facebookarchive/php-graph-sdk/pull/552#is...
> The abundance of small artisan coffee shops, mom-and-pop tool stores, custom furniture manufacturers, metal workers, etc. I was shocked to find out, when I ordered an office table on Rozetka (Ukraine's version of Amazon), that the seller reached out to me and asked me what height I would like the metal legs to be,

But those things seem like the opposite of progress because the productivity in such an economy is very low. If anything the decreasing supply of labor and therefore increasing costs were one of the driving forces behind innovation in late Medieval Europe because investing into developing costly inventions that resulted in higher productivity became much attractive.

e.g. Romans used “classrooms” full of slaves for copying manuscripts for “publishing” in contrast while literacy was seemingly increasing at a relatively fast pace in the 1400s this approach would have been prohibitively expensive (no slaves and literate people had much better opportunities so books were extremely expensive and this created a perfect environment for a printing industry to develop).

> Necessity is the mother of invention

I’d argue high demand and availability of capital are as important while low labor costs on their own (the reason why you find Ukraine so attractive) have the opposite effect. In the case of many developing countries/mid countries being able to export goods and services to countries with higher demand while remaining to be competitive despite of much lower (initially) productivity of course had a very positive effect (however I wouldn’t necessarily consider banking apps with very good UX to be a very good example of technological innovation, almost all bleeding edge stuff is still being developed in richer/highly developed countries and brain drain is a huge issue in Ukraine and other similarly poor countries)
What is the use case? Trail cameras already do this and they cost $50 instead of $200 with better photo quality and better motion sensing.

Oh and they take video too.
>people just aren't accepting

Careful you don't take the echo chamber for the world.

Reality is most people don't care about digital privacy, and more over do care about getting to recall (pun intended) what they were doing at an earlier time.

Both the benefits and concerns are real, we shall see if the furor in a small corner of the tech world is representative of anything in the wider world at large.
They do have evidence - their own experiences! It’s not very convincing evidence, to be sure, but as the replication crisis shows, even “objective” evidence can fail to be convincing or demonstrative for various reasons.
It may take many breakthroughs to yield a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis. Progress on a notoriously hard problem through introduction of innovative new ideas can certainly qualify as a breakthrough, imo. Naturally, the importance of the breakthrough will be judged by what can be built upon it.
https://archive.is/EHZ9a
This is a place small companies can get an edge, I feel. They don't have a zillion applicants, so they can be more hands-on in the interview process, and the interview process itself isn't clogged with years of cruft. They don't have to rely on "good enough" weedouts like Leetcode.
'Extremely impressive': melanoma jab trial results excite doctors
while beg bounty people can be annoying, you have to remember that people aren't obligated to sit down and find free bugs for any company (especially not a big one) - why would i sit down and look at some code for free for some giant corp when i could go to the beach instead?
>But the fact that there are sound components isn't contradictory with them being also semantic

No, I mean only sound, not semantic.

>Perhaps ancient Greeks didn't had modern means (e.g. peer-reviewed papers, social "sciences"), but they nevertheless captured the jest of it, while we're essentially not.

You're making a very unfair comparaison, the average ancient Greek did know even less about politics than we did. I don't follow your conclusion at all.
After decades of working on overly abstracted clever applications the only place I see elegance is in simplicity. I’d like to see more libraries like this on the front page.
Oh so like luigi? Great!
Definitely a lot of unanswered questions for me, feels a bit like a feel good piece honestly.
This is pretty much the same stance many people hold about Pulumi and I never found it compelling there either. In that product's case, the core languages for writing expressions are the languages that IMO have some of the most dysfunctional dependency-management stories in industry (Python, Node/JS/TS, Golang).

Since part of the sales pitch of using a general lang is emphasis on code reuse, it rings kind of hollow for me there, and here too.
Ancient crystals reveal the earliest evidence of fresh water, scientists say
Scavengers Reign captures the beauty and terror of a alien world
Descript Underlord
I think the point about hostility was not necessarily the operating environment as much as the game dynamics, which were based on frustration and repeating an action many, many times until stumbling on the solution.
China's progress and this accomplishment are very impressive, the more the merrier. But NASA does have two nuclear powered humvees driving on Mars at the moment.
Doomed if you do, doomed if you don’t.
Can't you just not use a certificate? It's not on the HSTS preload list.
Here's the written transcript for those who prefer to read rather than listen:

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197959218
> Western linguists don't consider the dialects different languages. If they do, they do it for political reasons.

Western linguists generally view the concept of a "language" as being a political one more than a linguistic one, and so rather than quibble about definitions they just use whichever word the people who speak the language/dialect would use. For example, from a book about Chinese dialects [0]:

> The debate as to whether or not the varieties of speech used by the Chinese should be classified as separate languages or dialects of one language is a difficult one, with reasons on both sides. The main criterion according to which some scholars tend to use the English term 'language' for the varieties of Chinese, is the lack of mutual intelligibility between the various forms of speech, the fact that the "various 'Chinese dialects' are as diverse as the several Romance languages". On the other hand, since there are no extra-linguistic (political, historical, geographical, cultural) reasons to treat these dialects as individual languages, the tradition is to call them dialects of Chinese.

The Chinese language varieties are dialects because it is politically expedient for them to be so. The Western Romance languages are languages because it is politically expedient for them to be. Linguists shrug and move on to more interesting (to them) questions.

[0] https://books.google.com/books?id=lCgnrA7Ke3QC&pg=PA1&source...
I’ll always endorse the heck out of lazygit when I see it mentioned, it’s one of the best pieces of software I have used. Sure it can’t do everything git cli can, obviously, but it makes 95% of what you do 100% better.
Show HN: Disable ChatGPT autoscrolling text animation
I built an extension that removes annoying line-by-line appearing text animation and allows you to read the response normally.

See demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2ur0wqaIpA
Interestingly Chinese did have things like this at the time the writing system formed, and they simply weren't written. You can see remnants of the old morphological system today in characters that alternate in tone.

For example there used to be a suffix -s that turned a verb into a noun. During the Han Dynasty this turned into -h, and then later turned into the falling/departing/fourth tone. Hence 教 jiāo is the verb "to teach", from Old Chinese *kraw, and 教 jiào is the noun "teaching" from Old Chinese *kraws.
That makes sense for soft questions. But I doubt it's HR devevloping a dynamic programming problem and writing a rubric for how good a score you can give based on a response.

I was mostly referring to technical tests, but I understand there are definitely some set of questions you need to ask no matter what. I don't really knock recruiters too much for repeating the usual "are you authorized to work in the US" kinda stuff even though it is the first question on their job application.
Before Obamacare, if California's taxpayers became the single payer behind medical care in California, then millions of poor chronically ill people would have moved to California from the other 49 states for the free medical care

--unless I am wrong in my belief that there is nothing California voters can do to prevent US citizens from moving to California.
I saw a demo of some software that can scan at 24 frame per second all of the workers behind a cafe counter, and classify them by which products they are working, their throughput, and special states such as using their phone, talking to a coworker, looking at the window.

what's something this thing could do in that same tier of hardware but would make people generally feel happy to see a demo of it? i know there are a thousand use cases that would feel good to hear, just literally spread a tiny drip of cheer with an anecdotal application for this
I'm a huge fan of MSSQL's transparent data encryption in situations where we have more than 1 client per database engine, and we want to separate the data physically.

I worked on a project where separate databases (a la Postgres) tied to separate clients wasn't enough. Postgres still can read across the databases.

With TDE we tie the key to the individual clients meaning even if the engine messes up, since the connection isn't made with the right key, you still can't read the contents.

We still did encryption at rest as that comes for free these days, for reasons mentioned here in the comments.

I just wish Postgres would come with TDE. Paying for software is fine, but the cost of MSSQL is way more than $0. In fact, it's usually cheaper to set up a Postgres instance per client. That way, when the engine messes up, well, there is only data of that client.

And I know a database is unlikely to mess up. I'm more likely the culprit, and as such I prefer to have my guardrails.
I would love to have the money (42k EUR) to buy Scewo, which is an advanced self balancing stair climbing wheelchair. Sadly enough, I doubt I will ever be able to.
How does this relate to classic tools like `expect`?
Yes, on the WinUI community calls it is quite visible, when the community asks about when is feature XYZ from Windows Forms/WPF comming into WinUI, and it is quite clear by some reactions that they don't have any idea about the said feature, and how behind WinUI is to them.
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I find it hilarious how upset the C-Suite twittershpere was about "over employment," but Musk simultaneously having 4-5 CEO jobs is totally fine and should not be questioned.
Your objection is addressed in the comment. See "If you're a materialist, you might object..."
There are free/open source alternatives: Revolt, Spacebar, Element.
We'll be covering this in detail in this week's Orbital Index. https://orbitalindex.com

One thing that's unusual about this mission is that it required a loitering communication satellite orbiting beyond the far side of the Moon to relay communications to Earth. https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2024-03-13-Issue-260
Not an answer, but it's my understanding that if it's not written by a human it can't be copyrighted.
> I can't find a reason for doing something like that.

Money often starts out as necessity or one of it's close cousins. If I were 1) 8k miles away from my target, 2) in a region with more internet access than employment prospects and 3) needed to eat, I can see a path to profitable disclosure.

> For me, doing the right thing is beyond all these things,

This can be a luxury. After a year or 3 of kids in and out of hunger, what's right can get reframed.

> and I don't care about money beyond buying the necessities I need.

Getting beyond that is the thing.
An Engineering Manager Challenge
Nvidia and AMD are bringing Microsoft's Copilot Plus AI features to game laptops
Faith healing has heavy religious tones. Yet not everyone who responds positively to a placebo is religious. So, it feels sort of weird to call the placebo effect some form of faith healing.
> Step 3: Set Up Your NetJet Account

Yeah, it’s a self advertising post.
Honestly, I think any person or organization that bought in to the blockchain hype should be barred from making any financial decisions of consequence. If they bought into a scam as obvious as the blockchain crap, they're clearly not capable of holding any real responsibilities.
> I fail to see how this will address affordability in any meaningful way

Especially since it's unlikely that we can address the housing shortage by building single-family homes.
Hindenburg report on Axos
First impression: nifty.

Having sat with it a few minutes though, why would I choose this over the classic:

https://core.tcl-lang.org/expect/index

or any of its analogs such as:
https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/google/goexpect
https://pexpect.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/ruby_expect/1.6.0/RubyExpect/E...

edit: ah. it preserves the UI. This has potential.
Anki is a flashcard system that makes use of spaced repetition to help one learn a topic.

I came across a project/service that used Japanese anime screenshots to teach the language, and incorporated it with Anki cards. Not sure if absoluteunit1 meant that project by what he said.
I think this is missing the point. I don't think anyone is arguing that pharma spends a lot on marketing and that this cost is passed on to consumers. Rather, the point being made is that the US system disproportionately funds pharma R&D. Meaning, if the idea is to have parity with other countries, at least one of several options needs to happen: 1) other countries start funding more R&D, 2) other countries drug prices increase, 3) we accept that less R&D occurs, or 4) we find alternative sources for funding R&D.

Glib answers like "just do what other countries do" don't address any of that.
> Is it not a rare disease?

We don't know. Possibly.

> It has been recorded around 100 times worldwide, and is notable enough to publish a paper when it is observed.

Indeed. Had it been recorded more often, it wouldn't be as notable.

> It is probably more common than diagnosed, but still incredibly rare!

Hence rarely diagnosed. :)
The important part of understanding the Doge Election Protocol is understanding that the goal is different from a modern election.

Somewhere like India or the US uses elections to work out which major faction has the most power. This is a big improvement on the factions actually fighting, the process actually simulates a battle in a loose sense and something like first past the post voting (while ugly) is good enough.

A protocol like the Venetian use is obviously satisfying very different goals. As the article points out, there are interesting properties of the system that influence negotiations and consensus building. And I assume the oligarchs already know roughly how the power breaks down if there is a big fight, there would be less factions to keep track of. I really liked the article because it explores all this.

I'd also observe that (in politics, anyway) a system where nobody quite knows how it works encourages a certain level of moderation. If people can figure out how to optimise a social technology to their political benefit they will (gerrymandering, strategic lawsuits and judge selection, regulatory capture, purposefully choosing policies to get just enough votes and no more, etc, etc). If the actors have no idea how in practice they can't do tight optimisations.
> Totally, but leetcode wont filter them out.

Coding challenges won’t filter every pathological bad hire, but coding challenges do catch a lot of bad hires.

LeetCode shouldn’t be the entirety of the interview. It’s just part of it.
I guess I’m thinking intra-product category here. A sofa that costs 2x the price of another, I’m expecting to be 2x the quality
I've actually had people cheat on live coding sessions.

For north of $2m over your career, cheating probably is the smart thing to do, especially for a borderline candidate, as there's a fair amount of evidence that the prestige on your CV will make things easier going forward.

However, my problem with take homes was never that the candidate would cheat, but rather they'll probably spend way more time than the 2 hours allocated.

I'm actually less worried about the candidate doing that, than I'm worried that the interviewer bakes in a bunch of assumptions like having a machine setup to do the task, having the specific domain knowledge and experience, and then accidentally trolls the candidate with little to no avenue for feedback.
Microsoft layoffs hit HoloLens, Azure cloud teams
A lovely take. For years now, JHU has been emphasizing that the benefits of psilocybin are strongly correlated with whether one has a "mystical-type experience." My own explorations (long ago) strongly bore this out.
Strongly agreed. I started scrolling through the website, was somewhat interested, and might have considered it, but just closed the tab when I saw mac only.
Monetizing expertise through spreadsheet models (2023)
Hacker culture was already on its deathbed and this is the final nail
Did you intend to link to this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...

You've titled your post June 4th Incident, but linked to Wikipedia's list of things that happened on June 4th.
That's kind of how I feel about the entire prospect of 3D printed houses in general. The idea of 3D printing an entire house is objectively cool (insofar that anything can be objective), it feels like the future, and viscerally it feels like it's a cheap way to get endless houses which would be a good thing.

But, at least right now, all the 3d printers do is extrude walls and floors. What percentage of actual home labor is involved with the rough framing of the walls and floors? Certainly not "zero", but you still need to clean up everything, install drywall, paint everything, install plumbing and electrical, etc. I think the idea that we're going to be able to use 3D printing to address the housing shortage is a cute but kind of naive idea.
> Whenever things tip over to an "ideology", you start getting these power plays that are light years away from the original goals.

It's worse. Whenever things tip over to an "ideology", you no longer can question whether the original goals are right, just, moral, fair, reasonable, or achievable.
It sounds to me like you read a different article than I wrote.

The point of my article was not "Encryption-At-Rest Is Bad" as you seem to have taken it to mean.

Rather, the point is that other techniques, when you sit down and actually think them through, do not provide any significant value over just phoning it in with Full Disk Encryption.

How you get from "software libraries that encrypt-at-rest routinely fail to provide value on top of full disk encryption" to "Scott says FDE is bad" is unclear.

Additionally: From a software perspective, the risks you all outlined are morally equivalent to the hard drives grew legs and walked because they are the same risk; namely, loss of control of the actual hard drives.

The article in question is focused on threats when those drives are plugged in and the keys are being used to encrypt/decrypt data. As several others have pointed out already, I explicitly state this, repeatedly. I don't know how to make it more clear.
I upvote you even though I disagree with your comment.

I have worked for US firms for a very long time. I'm not living in the US and have no family relations to the US. The cultural difference I observed is that the US if fully focused on profit maximisation to a point that can only be described as unnatural.

The examples you witnessed for me are just examples of people doing things because they enjoy doing these things. They don't optimise them for profit, they don't optimise them at all. They do them because it works for them and because it pays the bill.

The obsessive and excessive single goal optimisation of profit is, in my opinion, a cultural phenomenon linked to the US. It's worrying since it is quite an aggressive way of living....
Your nickname is so cool, I love it.
So what is wrong with a company talking about its tech product in their blog post? In this case it's a particular person from the company...
If it's not interesting, it wouldn't be upvoted.
Not a parsimonious explanation - more likely, the visual cortex needs to be trained in order to see anything, even in the mind’s eye.
My experience with high performance computing is that the shared execution units and smaller caches are worse than dedicated cores.
Presumably, long term these kinds of printers would be ubiquitous, so you just pop into your nearest hardware store, give them the CAD file or a picture of what you want and they just print you a replacement. But obviously like with any new technology it's the initial bit which might be painful.
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What possible answer do you think there could be to this question? Facts are true statements. Questioning what your interlocuter thinks a "fact" is isn't going to move the debate forward in any useful way.
Comments like these are doubly great, useful tech perspectives, and a reminder that the comments often do not reflect understanding of the original submissions.
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Looks interesting but it's not generating anything for me. The button loading goes on forever, the api calls getting the status goes from data: 1 to data: 2 to data: 3 - at 3 the button stops loading but nothing else happens.
The article pretty much ended just as I expected the comparison to begin.

I think car comparison is an interesting niche where video reviews are by far superior to articles like this. You can get a handle on interior, exterior, driving, handling and any "quirks and features(tm)" much better in video format.

Either way, I'm not sure who the target audience is supposed to be? I guess it's just filler content for the site to not appear barren.
In the future we'll all just be unreliable sparse caches of the AIs
You forgot first and foremost that a percentage of people just show up with the right answer. This has always bothered me about "brain teasers". Just testing for "have I seen this before".
The idea is that you haven't really quit early, you've opted not to take the position. It's really more of an expectations thing than anything else. Nobody's going to be mad that you decided not to stay.

For the two times that I've opted not to stay, I just don't list those companies in my work history at all. I've never been asked about them in an interview and have never had to explain.

If I were to be asked, though, I'd just say something like "I decided that I wasn't a great fit and left during the trial period so that the company had the best chance of finding a more suitable candidate in a timely way."
Vendors who pay bounties often restrict public disclosure, and the professional value obtained from being able to talk about the research you do may be worth significantly more than the payout