skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Others have already given good advice of the form "leave the company", etc. I don't disagree.

But consider, maybe he explains things like he does regardless of who he is talking to? Sometimes the best explanation for a junior developer is also the best explanation for a senior developer. Do you have any other reasons to believe he disrespects you?

You probably want to tell your boss "stop disrespecting me and giving me junior level explanations, stop being patronizing". Of course, you can't just say this... or can you? You can probably find a way to say this if you "grease it" with enough respect. Find a way to be honest and respectful. Maybe something like "I appreciate your explanation, but I'm having a hard time following. I think it would help if we could talk about things in higher-level terms I'm already familiar with, I already know what an API is so we can just talk about API's without going into more detail, the extra detail is distracting me from the thing I want an answer about, etc."

Just trying to give some advice that might help if you want to stay. But again, leaving might be the right choice too. Your call. It would help if you would be a little more concrete about what and how he speaks.
For those who are uncertain, I think the term "trespasser" is a euphemism for suicides. At a terminus like Waterloo the trains are approaching pretty slowly to stop just short of the buffers, so much less risk.
> These kinds of technologies, like AI models, are fundamentally “dual use”. The general purpose computation capabilities of AI models, like these other technologies, is not amenable to control.

I find that entire section to be misleading or even false. Comparing a N-billion or even trillion parameter model representing aggregated human knowledge and some (however limited) agentness when put in a harness like autogpt makes it a different category than a pen and paper.

Additionally it is not true that models are just has hard to control as a piece of paper. If millions of dollars are invested in each training run, the reseachers and the associated infrastructure then this clearly is not a simple piece of paper. It's more like sat tech covered by ITAR or semiconductor tech which is also export-restricted.
It's Vegas Creative (MAGIX), now...
https://www.vegascreativesoftware.com/us/vegas-pro/
Isn’t this implementation-defined?
Quite a few router OEMs do this these days. Its often a bespoke fork of openwrt so they can add their own features (OTA upgrades, web ui customization, etc), but still openwrt under the hood.
We moved to Portland that year and that article was on our mind a lot. I feel a bit more relaxed now that we moved out of the PNW (for a variety of reasons)

But honestly, I can’t help but think that the article was sponsored behind the scenes by someone who wanted to scare people away. Worked on us!
Okay, that's well and good, but you are sat there saying that you can manually input data into an embedded device, but for some reason can't connect a computer to it. Unless it has a built-in keyboard, that simply isn't true. If it was true, it would be trivial to prove. You could just name the device and situation.
Very cool. I wonder how it compares to fungi based approaches - https://mylo-unleather.com/impact/
AFAIK React 19 was tagged as RC recently, so that could be the issue, people where not using React 19 in the frontend because of not being ready
>It was established that, whilst analytics could not confidently detect a theft, but they could detect a person with a bike

Really groundbreaking stuff. I'm so happy public funds are being used to pump surveillance data to a mega-corporation so they can tell us who does or does not have a bike.
> "use a range of advanced technologies across our stations to protect passengers"

Total surveillance. Of course, that's for your own good. Do they guarantee that after 'smile detection' image is deleted. Or they keep images 'only for testing'?
Cool writeup! This has got to be one of the biggest security bounties ever paid out, right?
Equating physical property (subject to scarcity) and digital property is what ends up destroying the foundation of freedom in computing. Can we not perpetuate this way of thinking and instead find better ways to support creators?
So it doesn't solve the issue inherent will all inertial navigation approaches (error accumulates very quickly because of the double integration), it just has less error?

Seems like an incremental improvement at best.
Work on Security Instead of Friendliness? –  Wei Dai (2012)
> One final observation: the metric "swap should be twice the size of RAM" isn't so helpful nowadays

Remembered when I thought "if double is recommended, four times should be even better!". It was not.

Nowadays I don't use swap because I rarely run out of RAM, it sits there eating a few precious GB of SSD, largely unused. The rare cases when I run out of RAM have been buggy Steam games on Proton. In 2024, it has been only "The Invincible", and that game has reports of running out of memory on Windows too.
"Overestimation and miscalibration increase with a decrease in performance"

"Common factor: participants’ knowledge and skills about the task performed."

I understand the corporate use case. Justifying impact of low performers and quantifying the potential results.

Still, this kind of research feels tautological. It'd be surprising if anyone actually wondered if adding more low performers helped anything.

Even in tasks that require no skill, adding a person who isn't performing means they won't perform well.
I got around this by paying for a VoIP line and running 3cx to utilize it, 3cx can record calls. I've never actually done it - not even to test - because right around the time i got it set up covid hit and the people i used to spend 1-2 hours a day talking to on the phone about tech and other interesting things stopped having to drive to work so my phone usage is now down to maybe 4 hours a month on private calls that no one else would be interested in.

Technically i've been paying for a voip line for 20 years, and shoehorning it into 3cx was mostly to allow my young kid to be able to call his aunt or someone who isn't on our PBX (grandma and grandpa and his siblings are, already).

believe me i was really annoyed when android stopped being able to reliably record calls. Another alternative that i did actually use is a 3 channel breakout connector on my cellphone, a DAC/ADC, PC microphone and headphones. You could tell the OS to "monitor" the microphone, and record mix (remember those days?). Or now-a-days you'd have to use VAC(virtual audio cable) or something to manage the routing. Speaker out goes to mic in on phone, and vice versa, hit record on your PC, and both the remote side and your side will be recorded. I never got too deep into this because it's a huge hassle unless you have a phone just for this; but multi-channel recordings would let you have synchronous audio, for, say, correct transcriptions.
I'm assuming that LLMs will hit the plateau that all emerging technology hits.

Just because cars used to travel at 25 MPH and their speed increased to 75 MPH doesn't mean we are going to drive them at 300 MPH anytime in the future.
NCR had a couple of SMP 486 boxen (NCR 3450, 3550 & 3600) that were supported by SCO Unix, SVR4 and (early) NT. I think they had support for OS/2. ALR, Unisys and Compaq made somewhat similar 486s with roughly similar OS support (although I vaguely recall the Unisys stuff was OEMed elseware). The support problem was 486 predated standardized SMP hardware (APIC), so it was all custom hardware.
Clearly people of every ilk exist, but my claim is that people like this are irrelevant to the debate around socialized healthcare. Show me an American politician who's run on the platform of openly wanting to hurt the poor because they deserve to be hurt, their electoral victory, and that person's vote against a socialized healthcare initiative. It's not a thing.
[I was wrong, see below]
Looks like it moved to here

https://extensions.htmx.org/

But this is weirdly hard to find on the new site as searching just opens a scoped google search.

Probably would be good to setup redirects to the new extensions site.
Magic-bean tokens. I think most on that bug-bounty site are done like that.
Sentiment analysis can be pretty valuable in marketing/propaganda.
I seriously wish I could find who works on this kind of biological reverse engineering.
nmi - Nautical mile (1 nmi/hour mentioned above)

Today the international nautical mile is defined as 1,852 metres (about 6,076 ft; 1.151 mi).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_mile
Archiving television programs was not Stokes’ only fascination. In fact, the tech-savvy hoarder also took an early interest in Apple computers — and amassed 192 Macintosh computers before she died.

I'd really like to know more about why she collected 192 Macs. What did she think/know?
Because you have to pay to keep a traditional centralized database running, you have to trust the people running it, and when those people don't want to run it anymore, it's gone.

With a blockchain, you pay to modify it, so moving stuff around costs cybercoins, but even if no one wants to mint blocks anymore, you can still read your copy, which has your cards in it. And in that event, if you want to move stuff around, you still can, because anyone can set up a validator, even if they're the only one interested in keeping it going.

But I think this is reasonably unlikely to happen to any of the top blockchains on a reasonable timeframe. Whereas a game company shutting off its servers is virtually assured.
> React was originally designed to be the V in MVC.

React wasn't designed to fit in the MVC model. However, if we are trying to draw an analogy, as far as I can see it most closely resembles the controller. It is where the events are handled to update the "model" (state), which are propagated to the "view" (DOM element). What makes you say V?
A quick look in a mapping app shows pretty much a rectangular grid.
This is gold: https://www.intellectualventures.com/who-we-are/meet-iv/

“I really like the fundamentals behind patent law,” says Michelle Macartney, director, IP attorney for Intellectual Ventures (IV). “It’s a fascinating area of law, this fine balance between fostering innovation and not going too far in granting monopolies.”
Oddly specific. Why implementing "forEach" and "toArray" instead of using the functions from Array.prototype? [1] I can see `Array.from` used elsewhere on the code.

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Is IKEA smaller than Novo Nordisk?
You use protectionism like it's a bad thing, but I'm sure the folks in the military industrial complex see what's going on in Ukraine and realise it wouldn't be a bad thing if the US had some domestic small drone manufacturing capabilities.
Banning DJI could both encourage some of that manufacturing, while also stemming the flow of data to China.

We used to spend ludicrous amounts of money to fly spy planes to map hostile countries - now a hostile country has a access to a huge number of drones providing live camera data. These drones are hard to track so the government doesn't always know if they've been flown near sensitive areas. It would be negligent of the government to not try to do something about it.
The complaint is typically about access. If you have a policy you'd like your rep to advance, you're stuck going through the same channels nearly everyone is: call, write a letter, etc.

If Alice Armalite or Bob Browning[0] wants something advanced, they call their guy who knows not just Stefanik, but probably a bunch of other reps socially through her.

Who's more likely to actually get the ear of a politician: you, or Alice Armalite?

To be clear, I don't think it's a good look for a politician to have personal ties that close with any lobbyist, even ones for the American Foundation for Fluffy and Adorable Kittens.

[0] Not real people, one suspects.
all one needs to understand is that there are names that refer to objects in Python. Nothing is passed by value.

The closure returns whatever object the name refers at the moment. That is all.

def loop():
for i in range(10):
yield lambda j=i: j

`j` refers to the same object (int) `i` refers to at the time of the lambda creation (the desired result). `j` is local to the lambda (each lambda has its own local namespace).

Just `lambda: i` code would result in an object that `i` refers to at the time of calling the lambda (`i` name is not local to the lambda).

https://docs.python.org/3/faq/programming.html#why-do-lambda...
Unfortunately the EU has already rammed their legislation through. The US is always going to be compared to EU propaganda about "how they protect the people".
Agreed, this seems like a positive outcome for everyone except maybe the private equity people who own Westinghouse.
> subscription-only model

When did they do that? I guess I only really use Lightroom; but you've been able to buy each major release outright for ~1.5years of subscription (last I worked it out)
Ah yes, bike, no bike
IE support, haven't removed some of the shims, planning on doing so over time
I don't see how you're deriving that quality from the suggestion. Losing complete control over your game's ecosystem is not an essential property of the technology I'm suggesting.

Perhaps if you explain what you mean, I'll understand the point you're attempting to make.
in what way would that loss of control be complete?

the contract developer would still have knobs and levers for adjusting rarity, issuing new cards, etc.

they wouldn't control the secondary market, but that's no different from Magic The Gathering or Pokemon or good old fashioned baseball cards.
Not much can be done to change the ethical stance of the hospital or the surgeon that decides to work for them.

I assume many doctors and hospital administrators, like the overall population, are money or status hungry, and they are willing and able to hurt people to maintain their lifestyles.

There are no regulations enforcing transparent reporting of less than optimal surgical outcomes or what those optimal results are. I would be more worried about that.
I once had an Asus motherboard we had bought for $DAYJOB because it was one of the few boards with enough PCIe x16 slots, many years ago, before that became a setup many people wanted, and the motherboard failed.

So we RMA'd it.

The replacement was DOA, did not even power on.

So we RMA'd that.

The replacement to that one failed fairly shortly thereafter.

After that, I said that was enough sample bias in a small sample size for me.
I'm probably totally ignorant, but how would htmx work with a static site generator? Isn't the whole point of htmx that it extends the front end to dynamically interact with the server and get responses to inject?
up until 2022 i had 2 options, dialup, or 5mbit DSL. I don't consider hughesnet workable for anything other than email (seriously, 1500ms latency on a good day?)

As siblings comment, this only works if you're not a captive audience.
I don't think there's any productive place to put restrictions on what drugs adults are allowed to buy of their own volition. It's not the government's job to make sure I'm making the best decisions for my health, and by and large it doesn't in any other context. I really do think people should talk to their doctor and get their expert advice on what drugs to use, when to use them, and what to look out for. I think a lot of the time a doctor should say "No, you really ought to avoid that drug. Here's why". Creating a situation where this has legal weight and can wind you up in jail, no matter how you frame it (Like what's the penalty for getting a drug without a prescription?) is doing harm.

Even without the jailtime, if we assume some people need certain drugs, and they just can't afford to talk to a doctor, or can't get an appointment for 6 months, and at best can hope to go through a process of needing to circumlocute to avoid seeming "drug-seeking" while trying to ask advice about a particular drug and get legal permission to buy it, that restriction is harming those people. I don't think a doctor telling you not to try a drug should mean you can't make that decision for yourself. I don't think more people taking adderall should trigger an investigation into doctors that decides that too many of them gave their patients that clearly wanted adderall the permission they needed to buy it. This pits doctors against their patients inherently

We absolutely should use the government to regulate sellers of drugs. We should crack down significantly on false advertising, doctors being paid to push drugs, and poor quality control practices within manufacturing operations. This is something we do inadequately under the current regime. We absolutely can't do it for black market operations. People who want drugs that are illegal currently don't have an option they can really trust to the level of things government health agencies vet. Creating demand for black market drugs by locking people out of regulated ones causes any effort the government makes regulating the sales/manufacturing side of drugs to be useless for those people
I don't think "being in the Play store" means something is trustable, it just means you trust Google Play Services and Google with all of your data, and by extension, the US government.

Being located in the US, I am arguably far more concerned about the US government tracking me than the Chinese government. The US government has jurisdiction over me, the Chinese government does not.
This is true on Mac but Windows is remarkably good at allowing most old software to still run. I still run games and professional applications from the 90s on Win11 and only occasionally need to set "compatibility mode" or change resolution. I haven't even had to resort to running a VM with an old version of Windows yet (although that's always an option).
I'm using "local community" as a convenient placeholder for all the various things that count as community-based activities and groups.

> When there's a loneliness epidemic that is especially pronounced with young people, it seems really silly to act like local community is a general institution

One of the reasons for the loneliness epidemic is that people have stopped seeking out and participating in things that get them face-to-face with neighbors. That's a thing only those people can fix for themselves. As a light example, you said

> I am nothing like my neighbors, never have been, and have never known very much about them in any of the places I've lived.

Where in the same breath you both claim that you have nothing in common with your neighbors, and that you have never known very much about them. However, you can't know if you have anything in common with them or not unless you get to know them. A first step toward finding what community exists around you is as simple as making it a point to get to know your neighbors.
Do you think that everyone who ever released a "bullets cure cancer in a petri dish" study didn't think of that?

Whether or not they did, it's still a necessary part of the discussion.
The author makes a mistake early on “hoping” when he buys a new car there are alternatives with adaptive cruise control as “good” as Tesla. This is the problem with Musk’s hype. There are many, many better systems. Including Mercedes level-3 self driving which is far beyond anything Tesla have. Simpler systems like autopilot which perform better are in Audi’s Hondas and more. People really need to understand that Musks pitch is simply a lie and there are independent tests proving how far behind Tesla are.
I honestly can't recall that ever being true for the controller, but it absolutely was true for the UDM/UDM-Pro on release and for quite a while after, so I guess it might have been true for the controller as well for a while around then too, I don't setup controllers that often.
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No, solar still hasn't figured out how to replace the power demands of the grid. It can only supply daytime power (if that) and makes the grid more unstable requiring fossil fuel peaker plants to supply gaps in production. Grid batteries are still insanely expensive and remain production capacity limited, not to mention all sorts of other problems that will come up installing that much battery capacity. Solar is only cheaper than Nuclear when you ignore the battery requirements to make it a more fair comparison of ability - when you include battery requirements, solar is more expensive by a fair amount which is ridiculous when you consider that Nuclear has gotten more expensive since the 1960s which doesn't happen to technologies unless you stop producing (which we did).
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> There was a code path where you could send someone negative amounts of the currency and it would happily pay them a negative amount of currency and charge you a negative amount of currency, thus transferring their account balance to your against their will.

This is a bug I remember from the Apple II game "Taipan" (in which you play an 1800s opium-and-silk trader in East Asia). You could borrow negative amounts of money from a lender who charges extremely high interest. As a result, the lender would quickly end up owing you tremendous sums, without your having to do anything else. Wikipedia mentions this:

> Note: A bug in the original game allows the player to overpay the moneylender, acquiring "negative debt". This "negative debt" will accumulate interest very quickly, and will count towards the player's net worth. As the game's vocabulary of number words ends at "trillion", this can cause the game to display garbage instead of the player's correct net worth. This has been fixed in the online "for browsers" version of the game.
This!!!

I have the same advice, but coming from a slightly different perspective.

You haven't given us enough information to actually judge accurately the situation :

Maybe you are below the expectations for you level, maybe you are asking questions which you should already have the answer... And on the other hand, maybe your boss is just an inconsiderate a*hole, have some weird age related prejudice, or just an immature person.

Or maybe you both just have two very different communication styles, "He will explain like I'm either very junior or a 5-year old." might just be the way he explains things to everyone and you are taking too personally.

I have seen both sides, and countless of in between. But at the end of the day it always ends in the same place. Perceptions are hard to change, and people get very defensive when confronted with their mistakes.

At best, you have a "hard conversion" with your boss, the problem is resolve. And you get a "normal" work environment. At worst, the hard conversation goes south : your boss pretend to treat you differently, but deep down now see you as an under-performing and now complaining employee. Do you really want someone like this decide your promotion/compensation packages ?

There is a lot of talk about "hard conversation", navigating difficult personalities etc... etc... In my experience, that works well between peers of equal standing. Between employee/employer , the power differential make this a moot strategy.

Or maybe you say nothing, and work extra hard to prove yourself. But then you are working harder to go from -100 to 0...then get burned out in 6 months. Why not just apply the same effort somewhere else and go from 0 to 100 ?

Obviously you want to do your home work. (self-)reflect on your behavior and take your part of the responsibility in the equation. If you have someone you trust at work, getting another perspective is really valuable. where ever the fault lies, you can still learn from the experience and grow.

I like the (medical) saying "don't order a test if it doesn't change the best plan of action". IMO, the environment you describe if not really conducive to sustainable long term success. The job market is very hard right now, so it might still be your best option. But if you can... slowly start exploring external options.