skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, Bob keeps asking for a self-serve reporting tool but in my experience, he doesn't actually want to use it. We went the route of putting all the data into a lake and hooking up GUI reporting tools to it and what did we get? Bob doesn't understand this or that column, Bob made a report that is fundamentally flawed, Bob sent a request for the engineers to make him a report using the tool and so on. Bob wanted something, or someone else, to do the work for him. When it became apparent that the tool isn't magic and can neither read minds nor divinate the true meaning of data in the DB, it became the engineer's problem again. So why not let engineers use the tools they prefer?
Coldplay's new album is made of river plastic
I mean, I doubt it was your intent to cast this unfavorably, and I certainly don't want to suggest you don't know what's best for you, but I read this as a receiver/router that pulls more power than all of your internal lighting, nearly as much (maybe more at peak) than your refrigerator, double that of a similar 5G device, and all of that strikes me as a really poor implementation. But I work a lot in embedded devices, so maybe I'm just overly sensitive...60W seems absurd for a set of radios and an SoC.
> A majority of people said they view disputes as a valid alternative to requesting a refund from a merchant. Half said they have disputed a transaction without first contacting the merchant

It's unfortunate that cc companies don't make it clear that these are not the same thing, and that businesses get hit with fees when customers challenge transactions. My startup has a $1.99/mo subscription, and when someone challenges a charge after months or years of happily using our product, they often don't realize that we get charged a significant fee ($15?) regardless of whether the dispute was valid.

The most annoying thing for me is when people (1) ask for a cancellation and retroactive refund, admitting that they didn't cancel before the renewal, and (2) then file a claim with their cc company claiming to have contacted us before the renewal went through. Even when I attach email proof to my dispute reply showing the true contact date and their admission it was late, the cc company always takes the customer at their word.

The only bright spot is that Visa (I think) started a new program to make it harder for customers to win on disputes where they've had a valid subscription and then one day decide it was fraud (as in, someone stole their card and signed up for it, not them). It never made sense that someone could claim to have been defrauded like this when the account is signed up with the customer's email address, which of course a true thief would never have used.

Fortunately we have a very low chargeback rate overall, but it seems like the deck is really stacked against merchants.
One thing a coworker said once that I think about a lot: ever read an article about a subject that you know a bit about, and invariably you come to the conclusion that the writer doesn't really have a good grasp on what they're talking about. Now think about all the articles you read about subjects that you don't know much about, why would the accuracy be any higher on those ones?

Kind of a bummer to think about.
Well, ok then this feature isn't for you. But you have an extra option if you want to make $0.02.

But in practice we know there is large group of people working to fund the internet, and I reckon the fair split might turn out to be that all of them (ad viewer, ad placer and content provider) get a slice instead of just the last 2. Think of it as the ad viewer's subsidy for supporting people who use ad blockers.
yOu cAn'T tRulLy bE fReE iF yOu cAn'T sELL yOuRsELf iNtO sLaVeRy.

I remember this take. It's the kind of thing that only makes sense in a dorm room full of financially secure people that ignore that this is simply creates a slave class of economically disadvantaged.
It’s about chrome car paint.
number of observable galaxies > galactic timescale ÷ human lifetime
And I go all out on Linux.
Belgian yearly car MOT: they're still using pneumatic tubes in several places around the country for papers. Saw those being used there in 2023.
My story about X windows...

I was invited to the Atlanta Linux Symposium in the late 90s and met just about everyone around the Linux/Slashdot/X11 world. I had been hacking on OpenGL drivers and one of the first to "integrate" 3dfx 2d acceleration into X.

I had a wonky alpha AXP desktop I'd built from random parts and porting X11 to 64 bits on Linux as the code & binary was actually still 32bit. I'm chatting with rasterman for a bit and up walks an older gentleman.

He'd been listening in on our conversation and was eager to get my take on X. I told him straight-up I thought it was kinda crappy and it should have used blah blah bah. He said "I'm Jim Gettys and I co-wrote X windows.." I was aghast...Oh shit. He laughed and we had a long conversation about how X was implemented.
Someone write a program that blacks out my screen every time my webcam senses I'm not breathing deeply enough
Google really is the IBM of the past.

No matter how smart people are or how much money they get, they won’t create something good if the incentives for the individuals aren’t there. Everyone wants to prove that they are above the pack by instead implementing llms from scratch and boosting on Twitter, even though they just followed a guide for a week.

Im not sure how to fix it, but I think it starts with management that are strong willed, have pride, are aligned with the customers are able to make the developers proud in turn and dishing out low status tasks to everyone from time to time.
Back when I used "The Relaxation Response" I believe. Taught myself in 7th grade.

- Go some place with no distractions.

- Lay down, and let your muscles go limp.

- Close your eyes, and just focus on your breath. In through the nose, out through the mouth, nice and slowly. I'd often hold at full breath for a few seconds just to let everything settle.. this is not a hurry.

- Focus on relaxing your toes, then your feet, ankles, calves, etc up through your chest, now focus on your arms... let all the stress run out your fingers like rays. Finally focus on your head, and push the stress out through the top of your head, or fingers, which ever feels easier. I'll also push stress through my toes too. The key is to release the stress from your body and visualize it... visualize getting rid of the knots and stress.

Some days, you'll get up to your calves, some days with practice you can get your whole body. But even your toes is an accomplishment!

- Your body will tell you when you are done. It is hard to explain, but you will know, "I'm done." When you are, don't rush to sit up, let your body rest a moment eyes closed, then open your eyes, wait a moment, then sit up. (if you were actually well relaxed this may stop a faint.)

But much of this comes from listening to your body. The noise of life isn't what matters... just listening to your body, and helping it relax....

I use relaxation, as a way to force other things out. So if work comes up, out it goes. Relaxation gives me a central focus, which helps with the whole experience.
Nah. You just set the prize at top 10.
I Will ******* Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again
Is the underlying implementation a necessary condition? Mathematica is a heap of shit, but it was deliberately based on lisp by sensible people and has astonishingly similar semantics. Afaik the language spec doesn't define anything incompatible with OG lisp and you can treat it like one without inconsistencies.
"cracked" is some gamer lingo for really good. I'm assuming they're referring to that.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cracked
The problem is the inspectors aren't even in a position to make a judgement call like that: they're given 100 pages of boxes to fill in and they have to color inside those lines. It's a systemic issue of how the jobs are split up and the communication works between them. (see the fact that the reviews did indeed trigger some work to be done that would actually make that judgement call... by an engineering firm that never actually saw the bridge and in part for that reason screwed up the call).
Because op’s usage of base implies base + stock. including a place where base = total comp is really misleading and is just being unnecessarily pedantic about terminology.

OP is correct that a base cash of 400k is truly rare if you’re talking about typical total comp packages where 50% is base and 50% is stock.
Almost every comment you make takes the dumbest possible interpretation of the comment you're responding to and runs with it, probably because setting up and flicking over strawmen like you're doing gives the illusion that you're smarter than you actually are to those who aren't paying attention (though based on how unpopular your posts are I guess it isn't working that well).

Not sure if it's deliberate or not. It makes you a miserable person to talk to in any case.
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Second-Hand Hallucinations: Investigating Perplexity's AI-Generated Sources
That's Gell-Mann amnesia

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13155538
That's an interesting prompt I tried on our Pulze.ai platform Spaces and we nailed it with automatically choosing the right model for this type of question gpt-4-turbo: "Yes, you can infuse garlic into olive oil without heating it up, but it requires caution due to the risk of botulism, a potentially fatal illness caused by Clostridium botulinum bacteria. These bacteria can thrive in low-oxygen environments and can produce toxins in food products like garlic-infused oil if not prepared or stored correctly."

I think that is one advantage of not just blindly trusting one model but finding consensus among many top rated models within one interface that allows you to quickly cross-check.
In the 90s you would post your resume on craigslist and get 40 phone calls the next day. Usually a call was enough to get an offer. Now you have to go through 4-5 rounds
I know you mentioned desktop in the end but it’s funny you got this exactly backwards- almost every Linux on a computer is either gentoo (chromebooks) or red hat/clone of red hat (servers)
Ask HN: What do you know about Suicide Prevention?
After staring at some "suicide education videos" that for me personally go in one ear and out the other, I realized I know nothing about suicide.

I know that more people commit suicide than are murdered, so suicide is a pretty big issue in 2024. But how effective are the suicide prevention programs? And why do people commit suicide anyway? I don't think I (truly) understand the causes.

I tried searching around, and found only a few unclear (to me) studies that claimed their programs were effective. I have a feeling like all these programs have side effects or are not a permanent solution.

The way those "suicide prevention easter eggs" are plastered everywhere by big tech, I am not getting a feeling like any of the "suicide prevention people" truly care about the people they are claiming to help, and most of it is just institutions trying to look good.

I have a hunch like the method against suicide is having actual support and people/friends who care about you, not babysitters who do it for a job. (Peer pressuring out of depression if you will.)

Everything I came across was really creepy "virtual" (as in digital) suicide education programs, with no clear results or effects. Just a bunch of fancy words on a website, if I didn't know they are a serious agency, I would have dismissed them as a typical bloated website.

I want to find someone who is actually proud of saving a tone of people over the years. Not the buzzword stuff.
I've been thinking for a while about the "reality is a simulation" idea. It may not be literally true, but it certainly is useful to try on as a temporary LARP. The more you think of things that way, the more it starts to make sense in a weird way. Nearly all media, that is to say nearly all stimuli/input, is irreflective of reality. Nobody knows what's going on.
It would make sense not to do any of that, "drive to the beach, fly somewhere for a holiday, take a boat to scuba dive, take a bus to the snow", if it involves burning fossil fuels.

Agriculture on the other hand can't be simply abandoned. Powering equipment from non-emitting energy sources is needed.
Show HN: MIT-Licensed High-Quality Video Game Built from Scratch with JavaScript
It depends on the field of expertise.

Some fields are such that they are hard to be expert in, but it’s trivially easy to verify expertise when observed. For example, playing tennis. It’s easy to identify a good tennis player even if you can’t play tennis at all. Another classic example is cooking. Even the most caveman-like philistine knows good food.

On the other hand, for some fields, verifying expertise (or ‘mastery’) is as hard as achieving it. Academic disciplines — particularly technical ones like science — are examples. In those cases, you probably have to rely on a trusted authority to verify legitimacy. Without that, you can’t distinguish the accomplished experts from the crackpot blowhards.
I have no idea what GOE is, but everything we learn about astronomy indicates that neither Earth nor our solar system is particularly unique, so “long sequence of dominoes” would be a very unlikely situation in something as large as the know universe, even ignoring the parts we could never observe.
What does the Congress have to do with police forces?
What do FBI and ATF have to do with traffic enforcement?
Actual police (one that enforces traffic laws) had actually been defunded and by democrats:

1. LA https://apnews.com/article/3ad962eb78e30975354f6036c6451022#....

2. NYC https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/01/us/new-york-budget-nypd-1-bil...

3. Austin https://www.npr.org/2021/10/24/1048790508/officials-in-austi...

4. Seattle https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-h...

5. Portland https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/protests/defunding-po...

I could go on.
Thanks for your feedback. You are right. I've lowered the minimum version to Python 3.10. If you want to give it another try, the package is on PyPI now.
Arista 7050 gearis pretty cheap on ebay and isnt too bad to configure w*th minicom. Needs 10 gig cards in the computers thoigh which are also not terrible on ebay
Not arguing with you at all, pick the tool that’s right for you, but I’m curious which tools you’re using that only work in Windows? I’m sure there are plenty out there, but I’m really only thinking of MS specific tools like Visual Studio and SQL Server tools.
Thank you, this is great! I hadn't considered changing the font for greater readability, but it's an obvious improvement. Good job with the links, too, that was a great idea. I've added 'blockquote' to your tag list, since I find that often gets a background shade of its own (e.g. code snippets), but otherwise I've saved it as is.

I tend to prefer interfaces in dark mode and content in light mode, so I'll see how I feel about the conditional logic there, I may eventually wind up going back to hardcoding some colours.

> Perhaps the next step is a "multistage" bookmarklet that applies more rules the more times you click on it, so the more forceful rules (like background color, which often messes up other parts of the site design) can be optional.

That's a really neat idea. I can imagine it stretching from slight readability tweaks all the way to a pseudo-reader mode. It would definitely be a bit more of an undertaking than either of our quick snippets, though.
Did you mean permission, not position? I’m not sure I understand what someone’s position could mean.
The field you're looking for in audio is known as physical modeling, it's a facet of the broader field of audio synthesis (along with subtractive synthesis, FM synthesis, granular synthesis, etc).

Physical modeling is primarily used to simulate musical instruments or create non-existent instruments like a 40 ft wide frame drum or a saxophone made of rubber.

I don't see it used that often to simulate non-musical noises, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were other people out there doing it.
Nowadays I just have a full hard drive in a USB enclosure, but it was nice to have in the CD era.
I can't be of much help here but

> I used to think that alot of physics was bs until I found a tutorial on Box 2D physics.

> The tutorials used real physics concepts, like momentum, coefficient of friction and others to simultate physical (mechanical properties of items on a computer).

Can you share these said tutorials if possible? Thanks!
Personally I wouldn’t trust OpenAi to work on super intelligence - it can indeed cause mass extinction.
Government is completely different story they will specifically train AI to develop biological, chemical and weapons of mass destruction. Train it to strategize and plan on how to win war conflicts, social engineering and manipulations, hacking. And obviously will let it control drone planes and tanks, artillery. Give it access to satellites and so on.
Nothing can go wrong when jarheads are at work :). Maybe it will even find the trillions of dollars that Pentagon can’t find during every audit they can’t pass.
And you really think an LLM-assisted program that follows experimental design principles wouldn't be able to find the best cheesecake per each judge's tastes and map and optimize the overall heuristic space of cheesecakes to find the best of the group according to multiple metrics..?
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The default Flask Jinja2 templating engine. It can get you very far.
I was going to say the same thing. I generally use Laravel instead of "raw" PHP these days, but still...
Ask HN: How do your organizations manage correspondence?
For anyone working in large company. Is an app or an email sufficient to manage a formal letter?
They can want all they like, doesn't mean they're going to be effective. Again, no-one cared until the arms dealers' incomes were threatened.
Ilya Sutskever I recognize from OpenAI, Daniel Gross I have met several times (friend of multiple friends), Daniel Levy I do not recognize at all. Who is he?
Concerning indeed. There's an alarming amount of redditor-types who take great pride in internet surveillance and censorship, and I'm convinced they're either trolls, or truly naive enough to believe they won't be targets of what they defend so ferociously. As long as their political enemies appear to be in the crosshairs, they'll die on that hill.
> Now think about all the articles you read about subjects that you don't know much about, why would the accuracy be any higher on those ones?

Why wouldn't the accuracy be higher? Extrapolating that way from limited experience is not something I would personally do. I would read everything, learn gradually, and continue learning and testing information with experiments and more information.
Security people on high alert for every possible scenario with no sense of relative risk or attack surface wonder why their concerns aren’t taken seriously.
I believe you have to listen to the experts on the topic, consider their biases and motivation, contrast the varying viewpoints, compare the philosophical or scientific foundations of the arguments against your researched world view, and either reach a conclusion or leave the question unanswered. More the later.
I've been thinking about this recently with internet comments on here, reddit, etc. There are very few topics on which I'd consider myself an expert, but whenever one comes up, the "top" comment (often something contrarian/snarky) is always significantly incorrect.
> If you ever read an article on a subject with which you have a lot of first-hand experience, you’ll notice that they always get major things wrong – basic facts, dates, names of people and organizations, the stated intentions of involved parties, the reasons a thing is happening – things even a novice in the space would know better about.

No, not always.
And obviously one of the points that people don’t need AI tools, because corporations need agent like AIs that can quickly replace all the staff.
A comprehensive translation of upstream React 17.x into Luau
As someone that works in the crypto industry, I feel this every time I see the news or articles report on it, or comments here talking about it.
> ISOs make little sense over a regular disk or filesystem image for just about every use case except burning to optical media ...

Uh what!? About every single Linux distro has .iso files available.

And it typically makes way more sense to dump the .iso to a USB stick than to an optical media because it speeds up the installation big times. That's the case for Ubuntu for example.

And an example as to why optical media are kinda falling into irrelevancy: some distro like Ubuntu ship an ISO that doesn't even fit on a DVD anymore. It is an ISO meant to be dumped to a USB stick, not an optical media.

Now of course the downsize is that there is something very nice when you burn an .iso to a write-once optical media: once you've verified that the disk's cryptographic checksum is correct, you know the disk's content won't change so there's no need to recheck it (at least not for security purposes).

With USB stick that's not the case.

> I know nothing about Ventoy, though.

...
'Production' is an interesting appeal to authority, if I may risk using terms improperly.

My 'toy' controller/replica are production but due to planning - have no weight. Two people care in the 'oh that's mildly inconvenient' sense when they break. Everything moves on.

To lean into hyperbole a bit: for every shop that's rootless, there are nine that are rootful.

I don't say any of this to be defeatist, more... realistic. There's:

1) what people say they do
2) what people actually do

These can be, but don't have to be, the same.

It's surely trending positively, but I'm also not interested in arguing about window dressing while the house is on fire.

What does SELinux or AppArmor look like in this hypothetical, disabled per usual? Plenty of work to do. No pats on the back yet.

I say all of this a bit heavily - not OP. Closely related to some heated talks I've had this week. It's easy to bike-shed endlessly
I think you're reading past jayd16's point. Just about anybody can figure out how to program x86 assembly, if they put in the effort. Saying this as a mom of a child who very much cannot program. It's one thing to want to be a successful programmer; and another thing entirely to want to program.
I have no reliable recipe, and I suspect you may not find one, but anecdote:

- Military for 12 years.

- Programmed some software that become widely adopted in the community in a "bro-level" fashion.

- Got hired by someone else in the community who started a government contracting company. Have the sort of job responsibilities and salary you describe, with no prior formal experience, but lots of independent programming/software design work.