skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My feed is now swamped with trash.

My friends, now we're all a bit older, don't post as frequently as they once did. I'm also a member of a couple of hyper-local groups which don't necessarily get posts every day, and I have no interest in anything else. I'm fine with this, if nobody's posted for a while then I'll see that and move on.

Facebook is not fine with this. Apparently I must be interested in archaeology, or sexist jokes, or various displays of flesh, or cars, or sports, or following someone that's making misogynist 'jokes' or ancient aliens conspiracies or a not-very-funny comic or more flesh or... I just must be interested in something, surely? It's just a matter of time before they wave the right thing under my nose and I bite and increase my engagement?

Is that the thinking? Because now 90%+ of my feed is unwanted shite and it's hard to find the few things I do go there for. And this is driving people like me and my friends away further, leading to a downward spiral of less content for those that remain, more 'suggestions' etc.

It's also baffling - multiple bullshit 'archaeology' groups will post the same picture (often of something not related to archaeology at all) on the same day, so they're clearly run by the same entity, spinning up millions of crappy 'groups' with low-quality content. Why do they exist? Who is benefitting from this?

AI can only speed up this enshittification, but the platform is already drowning in it.
> Warning: this publisher requires either enabling tracking cookies, or paid subscription.

Yes they're asses...

> There's no privacy-preserving way to read the article.

.. but, viewing with incognito mode should destroy the cookies on exit, and if you're worried about IP tracking, VPN?
Its interesting that this account was made 57 minutes ago, I assume this is a clumsy attempt at astroturfing?
The Hiring Paradox (Skills Gap 1)
So many of the companies are global, or at least have offices both in USA and Canada. Why do they hire devs in USA instead of Canada?
I do sharpen my skills every day at work. Sometimes the skills I sharp are used at work, sometimes they are not (but they are still relevant to my career and so relevant to any software-related job)

How else are we going to keep ourselves sharp? Besides, is on the benefit of the current company that I become more knowledgeable. Crazy to hear this retrograde way of thinking.
What is the advantage of a sodium based battery?
Historically a number of people started as single small developers with tools like FoxPro, Delphi, and (even earlier) Clipper/dBase. These allowed easy creation of some kind of UI. All of these have a database under the hood. The combination of the two allowed a lot of small groups to make quite complicated systems for a single platform.

Now there's an expectation for things to be web-based and the entry point feels less obvious than it used to be.
Even by US standard it’s ridiculous. AT&T offers a $25/mo prepaid plan with 16gb 5G and unlimited 4G. Not an MVNO but AT&T directly.

The worst part though is TMobile’s predatory billing practices. They lie through their teeth about fees and prices when you sign up and it’s absolutely impossible to understand what the hell is going on with their billing.

Fuck TMobile.
Germany got about 43% of its natgas from Norway in 2023.

And 0% from Azerbaijan, as far as I can tell, though other EU countries did -- very little, although there may be plans for this to increase in the future.

https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilung...

https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Gasversorgung/aktuelle_g...

https://www.bruegel.org/dataset/european-natural-gas-imports
And yet...

Aside from just not understanding it, it's plausible that someone would generate nonces weakly, say, from a weak source of randomness.

Even using a strong source of randomness for an AES-GCM nonce is weak over enough messages, since it only gets you 48 bits of collision resistance.

If you're not using random nonces, maybe you want to use a counter, and then you have to worry about race conditions, state resets, etc. (if your system lost power immediately after using nonce n, would it boot back up and reuse it?)
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
There is no proof this ever happened.
Some people in the comments are instead reporting that Elon "removed all tweets by @apple" which is also not true - the @apple account doesn't publish any tweets on their account, only ads. This has been like this since at least 2016.
neilpatel.com/blog/why-apple…
reddit.com/r/apple/commen…
2013 was a quite bad moment to move into Ireland. It was very hard hit by the crisis. Right now salaries are way better: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/greater...

I moved in 2020 and it has been the best decision I could have made. Taking into account everything (savings rate, safety, working hours, job security, politics, closeness to my home country in Europe) it is the best place I could be by far.

All other places trade off too much in exchange of something else. For example, I would have better savings rate in California (maybe 60-100k instead of 30-50k a year), but it would be worse in every other metric, except perhaps weather, although I dislike hot weather.
> Arduino IDE is untouchable for serious stuff

Yes, but AFAIK you don't have to use Arduino IDE for Arduino stuff? e.g. there is PlatformIO.
Lua, I would say. Far easier to get it everywhere, and a very nice language, also.
Thats the reason I stopped using win+shift+S, to draw on snippet right away. Now if only I could do 2 snippets and merge them into one pastable immage in flameshot..
Better Binary Search in Haskell
As adults, not (as per this thread) genetically.
If we still had Gödel, I think he might prove that statistics can not be an effective substitute for cognition and logic.

Just my intuition.
A tough question indeed. The literature IMHO only covers some limited aspects and partial views to the whole system. Then there is the paywall problem for scientific literature. Honestly I don't know where to start.

EDITED: A suggested starting point https://eatforum.org/
Well it seems to be well-established MAD orthodoxy that if your enemy has nukes right at your border, and you don't have nukes right at their border, your deterrence ability is diminished.

See: the Cuban Missile Crisis:

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

In any case, even in a MAD setting every side will be constantly trying to manoeuver to a position of advantage. That's what military people do when they're not actually fighting, kind of how computer nerds play video games when they're not coding, eh?
The good old AGI to b2b pivot
Submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40627113.
I agree with this take. How the word "they" was used in the sentence implies a kind of "anonymous other", especially when they're a part of a group like a company. It could have been any member of that group, male or female. And there's a lack of individuality or familiarity, it doesn't matter so much the exact person.
UnrealSharp – an Unreal Engine 5 plugin that allows to create games using C#
I believe the same, but that is besides the point. I think the misunderstanding stems from your original post, which I think you should reread.

You state that "Apple should allowed [sic] to block apps from third party app stores on devices they paid for". No mention of users or owners rights post purchase. Did you mean "should not be"?

But long thread about nothing, I was just trying to clear up the misunderstanding.
Sodium-ion batteries are rechargeable batteries that use sodium ions (Na+) as its charge carriers12.

They are similar to lithium-ion batteries in terms of working principle and cell construction, but they replace lithium with sodium as the intercalating ion1.

Sodium-ion batteries are cheaper to produce, safer to use, and operate better in extreme temperatures than lithium-ion batteries3.

However, sodium batteries of equal capacity are heavier and larger than their lithium equivalents3.
I think that's all fair that both LMMs and and people get a certain (even unbounded) amount of "pretraining" before actual tasks.

But after the training people are much more equipped to do single-shot recognition and cognitive tasks of imagery and situations they have not encountered before, e.g. identifying (from pictures) which animals is being shown, even if it is the second time of seeing that animal (the first being shown that this animal is a zebra).

So, basically, after initial training, I believe people are superior in single-shot tasks—and things are going to get much more interesting once LMMs (or something after that?) are able to do that well.

It might be that GPT-4o can actually do that task well! Someone should demo it, I don't have access. Except, of course, GPT-4o already knows what zebras look like, so something else than exactly that..
The corporate press went out of their way to solidify this notion. Because of course.
There is no such equilibrium, it's an ever-changing state. And just because you approve of their right to do so doesn't negate the risks
How Private Equity Ate Britain [video]
His point is that government should bailout failing company. I don't think this will end well if it becomes a common practice to bail out companies.
Sukharevskyi on Drones, the Tech Race with Russia, and the Drone Forces
That transcription seems to be really bad. It's full of strange errors. :(
Ah one of my favorite theories! Here's a wikipedia link with even more fiction and formal philosophy covering the concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_individualism
>The taxi driver later said that there wasn’t anything unusual about Juha or his behavior. He just seemed to have sat in an uncomfortable manner, like he had hurt his back. He also said Juha might have been a bit tipsy.

Perhaps intoxication + a muscle spasm caused him to floor the gas at some point? Maybe his leg fell asleep while driving?
Also, the in-memory feature (‘:memory:’) allows you to start working “on the fly” and saving the work to disk later.

Really convenient for the user, zero cost for the developer (same API for in-memory/fs db and smooth transition between them).
> solid naivity not only in EU in past few decades

I think there were some naïveté on the US side of thing, just like both were naive on how mainland China would turn to democracy as it opened to outside trade and industry
The research community is talking about creating a body to summarise existing knowledge for the public and decision-making communities --- the IPCC sort, but no one knows why is it not happening yet.
EU expected to impose import tariffs of up to 25% on Chinese electric vehicles
I categorically refuse to use Adobe products, and I encourage anyone reading to migrate to alternatives.
“Linux/Mac support is not yet implemented.”

Bummer…
If a blind individual can solve a visually oriented challenge is not really a question of their intelligence but more a question of accessibility/translation. Just because I cant see something myself doesnt really say anything about my ability to deal with abstractions.
That sounds like a decent solution, but I'd rather have all that content in text files so there is meaningful version control with features like diffs and merges. Some engines will store the data this way but give you an editor to manage it, and there are dedicated level editors as well but every project is different and it could be the case none of that would have been helpful to you.
I would not ignore the 20th century here. WW1 and WW2 may have not taken up that many years, but their death tolls and overall impact were tremendous. Millions were also killed in Vietnam and Korea as well. Then there's things most people in the West are not so familiar with like the Indonesian mass killings [1], Nigerian Civil War [2], Chinese Civil War [3], and so on with numerous other major events with millions to tens of millions killed.

I also think it's clear that the reason that we call the Cold War, the Cold War, and not WW3 is because of nuclear weapons. If anything the general trendline seems to be for conflicts of far greater violence, intensity, and instability over time, but this is currently being masked by nuclear weapons among developed nations. Although the current trend of nations picking ever more idiotic 'leaders' is suggestive that even mutually assured destruction will likely give way as a deterrent, sooner or later.

It's a great time to support life becoming multiplanetary!

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_19...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War
According to that document, the US _signed_ it in 1995, but has yet to _ratify_ it (notice the blank space in the third column).
The extra weight is an issue for cars.

Not so much for neighbourhood battery packs that smooth local area roof solar or for industrial scale battery parks next to solar and wind farms.
At least some of this seems like an a summary of this: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/physics-and-astronomy/s...

Did you forget your sources? And why did you write in such a strange way?
Here are a couple of great videos about this topic:

https://youtu.be/b_fcC_fmQqc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIctOo6thEc

Tim.
Google, supposedly full of AI experts, doesn't understand what current AI is good for and its limitations. A lot of AI critics (and enthusiasts) expect AI to be a know-it-all that never fails and provides authoritative factual answers. But current technology AI isn't good at all for this.

I use AI everyday for giving me opinions, starting points for re/search, reviewing my work and brainstorming. AI is fabulous for that and was a life changer for me. Hallucinations are actually welcome because they provide new perspectives. And when AI fails me, that's not different from getting an unhelpful perspective from a friend.

I wish more people were focusing on what LLMs do best: augmenting human abilities rather than replacing them.
Exactly. There is so much trash in my feed it has become a tedious chore to scroll through for any real content. Very little signal, not worth the noise.

Not to mention embarrassing that a viewer of my feed would think that I am some sort of knuckle-dragging horndog.

Perhaps the internet is bifurcating into lowbrow and highbrow, and facebook has chosen a side.
How come? Most large companies have big legal/HR departments that are very efficient at the whole visa application process. A small company won't have that expertise/staff. I mostly see startups being more concerned about the visa status of applicants.
Maybe it's used neutrally in greetings (e.g. "Hi guys,") but when referring to someone specific, if you say they're a guy, it will generally be assumed that person is a man.
Government data show gasoline vehicles are up to 100x more prone to fires than EVs: https://electrek.co/2022/01/12/government-data-shows-gasolin...

Data from the National Transportation Safety Board showed that EVs were involved in approximately 25 fires for every 100,000 sold. Comparatively, approximately 1,530 gasoline-powered vehicles and 3,475 hybrid vehicles were involved in fires for every 100,000 sold: https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/environment-energy-coordinatio...

Statistics from 2015 showed that 174,000 vehicle fires were reported, and almost all of them involved gasoline vehicles. Tesla claims that gasoline cars are 11x more likely to catch fire than a Tesla, and that the best comparison of safety is fires per billion miles driven. If we compare using this method, there are approximately five EV fires for every billion miles traveled, compared to 55 fires per billion miles traveled in gasoline cars: https://driveelectriccolorado.org/myth-buster-evs-fire/
One of my fears with the growing use of LLMs for writing software is that people are using them as a catch-all that prevents them from feeling the pain that indicates to us that there is a better way to do something.

For example, nobody would ever have developed RAII if manual memory management didn’t peeve them. Nobody would have come up with C if they didn’t feel the pain of assembly, or Rust without C, or Typescript without JavaScript, etc. Nobody would have come up with dozens of the genius tools that allow us to understand and reason about our software and enable us to debug it or write it better, had they not personally and acutely felt the pain.

At my job, the people most enthusiastic about LLMs for coding are the mobile and web devs. They say it saves them a lot of time spent writing silly boilerplate code. Shouldn’t the presence of that boilerplate code be the impetus that drives someone to create a better system? The entire firmware team has no interest in the technology, because there isn’t much boilerplate in C. Every line means something.

I worry LLMs will lead to terrible or nonexistent abstractions in code, making it opaque, or inefficient, or incorrect, or all of the above.
Anything similar for Basketball?
> Melatonin won't improve the quality of your sleep

This has been my experience with melatonin too.

I usually wake up after 3-4 hours and find it hard to get back to sleep after. I have no issues getting to sleep the first time.

Taking melatonin in the evening before I sleep (even a high dose of a few mg) doesn't affect whether I wake up, but if I take it immediately after I wake up, it helps me to fall asleep again for the rest of the night.

My sleep issues seem to be caused by stress, so maybe CBD would be good for me.
This post has managed to piss off everyone: employees who didn't realize founders were getting liquidity events while they're still sitting on their more-often-than-not valueless equity, and founders who feel they've earned it and don't like the implication they haven't.
> and how much of a pain in the ass it reliably was to get them to actually do most of it

Nah, Nokia's OS was a joy to use and super fast with its shortcuts.
Well, since the SQLite database is one simple file, isn't SQLite a hassle when you have some concurrency/parallelism ? And what if you have separate services that need to access the same DB ?
Elixir v1.17.0 Released
My first job was at Woolies and we used the same terminology.

> I haven’t worked retail in well over a decade yet I still sometimes subconsciously face up shelves when I go shopping, especially if I take something off a shelf. It’s a curse.

Same here!

Worked at a couple of fashion retailers after Woolies and will also ensure clothes hangers are always facing the same way.
> You could just go through the account recovery flow for the airline app to regain access to your account.

On which device? You can't use a public pc (or a local friend's) because you'd need to get your new passkeys on it and that's not safe.

Buy a new laptop/phone on the spot?

I'm going to make up a new conspiracy theory that says this push for passkeys is there to sell more devices, because shared devices aren't safe any more.
As a Spaniard, I know México used to do it fine 50, 60, 100 years ago. Ditto with Argentina, albeit the level of violence and social issues are nowhere close to México. What happened?
For remote interviews, when the interviewer(s) have their cameras turned off. Or the camera is on but they look completely disinterested or disengaged. Once I had a guy's phone go off and he checked the messages while he was asking me a question...
And yet some idiots want to grow these in Spain in the 2nd worst place of the country to plant these beside of the Almeria and Aragonese deserts.

And, yes, I know Spain it's highly irregular and due to the orography you can have literal deserts and green, Britain-like mountains and later Montana/Idaho like flat farmfields over very few hours by car kinda like USA.zip, but that's not the point.
Reducing consumption and demand doesn't necessarily lead to harm.
How Guanxi built the Taiwan tech powerhouse
> Poland and Latvia are planning to send back Ukrainian males who dodged the draft there.

That's inaccurate - Poland at least declared that it will cooperate with Ukrainian authorities in this matter should they decide to recall their men.

So far the only thing that happened in this direction is that the Ukrainian consulate in Poland stopped providing services for adult Ukrainian men.
I can't see any other ending for this than people simply giving up on using social networks, at least those that exist now and exhibit this phenomenon.

I feel that in search of a few more dollars from engagement, they are slowly killing their main product. People will eventually learn that this is not a useful thing, and avoid it, although it happens slow. But once this enters the mainstream consciousness, it's over.

Maybe other social networks will appear, that will somehow guarantee you are interacting with humans, or maybe something else will take their place. But anyone who thinks they can extract value from humans longterm by drowning them in machine generated nonsense is wrong. People will adapt.
If you're careful about it, you can store the canonical runtime state for e.g. a videogame in :memory: database; you then get saving/loading for free with SQLite backup API.
I don't think you're toast. Experienced engineers will always be in demand but this is masked by current economic conditions.

I am working on a project (https://flyingcarcomputer.com) and struggling with C at the moment. If you want to chat, email me at hackernews.vudcc@passmail.net.
I think if the idea of your company failing doesn’t cause you at least some stress then you probably shouldn’t be running a company?
> You opened with.. That makes you a pork chop. At least to the person that used that term. You are holding some strong opinions that raise eyebrows.

He specifically called me a pork chop for the "lived experience" as he himself says in his own post. What are my strong opinions that raise eyebrows please?

I mentioned I'm vaxed and said "regardless how you feel about Covid".

> I can, you don't have a monopoly on stories heard and COVID was at the root of many a sad tale.

Never claimed any monopoly. One last time, I'm specifically talking about listening to your fellow citizens offline not antivaxer types online.

> Which punishment for purely what thoughts are you referring to here ?

Should have just started there friend.

> there are far worse countries to visit and even those can be navigated safely enough if not comfortably.

I'm at about 100, no argument there either, that's very true.
Something is missing in your theory. Tim Cook, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, etc. are sitting on something really valuable.
You mention in your README that you had to fork it in order to make it so you could trigger renders programatically instead of having to click a button. Couldn't you have just used render from the core lib directly?

https://motioncanvas.io/api/core/app/Renderer#render
Yeah, I have enough high school chemistry knowledge to know that lithium and sodium are in the same column on the periodic table at least and can read about energy density and cost, but I'm really wondering where these things will fit in in the economy. In theory I might dabble with hobbyist level solar systems and controllers and battery packs, but I don't exactly feel like sourcing a bunch of 18650 cells and spot welding things together - give me an already packaged battery please.
Seems analogous to bouba/kiki effect:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect
> If the only thing that can solve problem X is AGI (e.g. humans), and something else comes along that solves it, then rationally that should be evidence that the something else is AGI right?

No.

Because there might undiscovered ways to solve these problems that no one claims is AGI.

The definition of AGI is notoriously fuzzy, but non-the-less if there was a 10 line python program (with no external dependencies or data) that could solve it then few would argue that was AGI.

So perhaps there is an algorithm that solves these puzzles 100% of the time and can be easily expressed.

So I agree that only being able to solve these problems doesn't define AGI.
Why we need lisp machines