skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(moderator: please, don’t delete this comment again, everybody is commenting without knowing what Meta did)

Meta spared no expenses to hide the opt-out page. The agency says that: “there were excessive and unjustified obstacles to accessing information and exercising this right”. This was one of the main reasons that obligated the agency to act.

The steps to get to the hidden opt-out page are bellow, obligating users to read the privacy policy to find a link buried deep down in the text, and requiring 2FA by email to opt out even for already logged in users - they should require 2FA to log in, not to opt out of AI training. There is no justification to require all this:

* Access your profile and go to the settings section, signaled by three bars in the top right corner

* Click on "about" at the bottom of the page

* Select the privacy policy. On this new page, the three bars in the top right corner lead to the privacy center

* Click on the arrow next to other policies and articles and select the option "How Meta uses information for generative AI features and models"

* In the nineteenth paragraph, not counting topics, is the "right to object" option. Click on it.

* Fill in and send the form. Meta confirms your identity with a numerical code sent to the email address registered on your account. Then just wait for the opt-out to be confirmed. This can take a few minutes.
Lichess has been a large inspiration for the project. I gave Lichess a shout-out for its influence in this blog post: https://bgammon.org/blog/20240101-hello-world/
First woman in space too, and a very long list of other firsts some of which remain untouched by anyone else (eg landing in the surface of Venus and sending digital pictures back). Valentina Tereshkova went to space in 1963, at a time when women in the US had to ask their husband’s permission to open a bank account.
In the thread he says there is zero chance of switching to Mac and non-zero of Linux.
If you transfer within the state system probably 95% to 100% of the credits will transfer depending on how careful you are in your choices. If you transfer to another state's system you can probably get 70% to 90% of the credits to transfer. Some state systems are more compatible than others. If you are going to a private school the percentages are typically much worse 20% to 50%. There are a few like USC which do a lot better.
Don’t understand why they didn’t use an open source models to develop the chat bot? While the questions about copyrights and permissions remain unsolved, there is agreeable more transparency and no state control. Why did they have to use a propriety Chinese model? Just because the programmer is Chinese and they didn’t have any alternative?
Can uv replace a `pipx --global` install option?
> [...] while his boss sends even more spam and possibly makes even more money due to automation?

Wouldn't the exact argument apply to that boss as well?
That's also where declarative package managers such as Nix and Guix shine. You can temporarily "install" packages that can be cleaned up later, garbage-collection style. Besides being their own distros, both can be used as add-on package managers on other Linux distros, for example.
https://archive.md/HDkOp
Do you work at Zoom by chance? :)

https://youtu.be/dKmAg4S2KeE
Not gonna happen. Touch interface is cheaper, more reliable and easier to clean.

Maybe someone will make one with pot motion sensor where turning pot around controls levels. But I’m not holding hope.
Petrochemical power generation essentially ceases, and electrification of vehicles accelerates rapidly. The environmental damage shifts from petrochemical extraction to batteries, as it’s already doing (you’ve still got a storage problem unless Mr. Fusion gets cracked too), and petrochemical industries shift to plastics and fertilizers, as they’ve also been doing. The main industry that rises is magneto-engineering (stable power-generating fusion needs containment, not just ignition) and the main industry that falls is solar cells and (hopefully) ethanol corn.
And use it to market the shit out of it. If marketing finally collapses under the weight of its own bullshit, I'll be celebrating.
Yes, you can type /resign when it is your turn to end the game.

Thanks. The keyboard input should only show up if your browser is indicating there is a soft keyboard available for the device. On Android, the device keyboard doesn't work for some reason. It definitely shouldn't show up on desktop, though. I will look into this.

The desktop version[0] shouldn't have this issue, if you want to give that a try.

0. https://bgammon.org/download/
Unrelated to the original question:

I know it’s unpopular to say here, but I found studying data structures and algorithms to get ready for job interviews made me a better developer.
So that's what it is. I just saw '****' ...
It’s matching two comments in the thread. It bolds the part that talks about iptables in each.

So it’s not like it’s irrelevant, even though it is certainly not actually the most relevant one either.

It seems to give better results if you are more specific. For example, try the following search:

how to use iptables effectively

And have a look at the first five or so results.

Also, note that OP said it’s searching about six months worth of data. So if anything specific about iptables that you were looking for is older than that then their search tool doesn’t know about it.
Doesn't this contradict with what you said? According to your previous comment, even if Apple has forked KHTML, it shouldn't harm Konqueror, and it shall prevail as the most popular of its family.

However, Konqueror/KHTML is now dead and we only have a closed source Safari.

I can't fathom your comments back to back.
While we're on the topic of ancient link-based sharing websites, here's a pastebin of the Typescript code I wrote years ago that I just dug up to see if it'd handle this case. It does! It uses an actually-pretty-fast backtracking implementation to check for valid moves - validating Backgammon moves is a harder problem than you'd think, especially doing so quickly enough to effectively run monte tree search with. Even with all the thought I've put into it, I still don't have a quick explanation I can give a human trying to learn that game what the valid moves are, especially in the endgame and with blocked moves.

https://pastebin.com/QeSdnQpM

And the test cases I have for it: https://pastebin.com/vmMEjSMz
20+ YOE.

I've never been fond of whiteboard technical interviews which used to be the norm, I really struggle to draw and talk at the same time. I do fine in interviews normally, I tend to be more of a delivering value for the business kind of developer and strongly emphasise this in my interviews.

I'm not writing operating systems and neither are most the other people I work with and hire.

These days, I don't do leetcode. If a company insists I walk away. I have better things to do with my time than memorise a bunch of useless information (for some value of useless).

I'm mostly on the other side of interviews now and am firmly in the belief that you can get a limited set of signals during an interview. The "Thinking Fast and Slow" view is that we're not very good at evaluating people from a gut feeling.

You might think this would push me towards leetcode and other quantitive measures, however I'm much more interested in working out whether you can be good on a team. The last thing I want is an asshole 10x engineer that makes everyone else unhappy. If you can't actually program I'm going to work that out by watching your PRs and you won't pass the probation. I'm not suggesting I do NO checking in the interview, just that I put limited stock in what can be read during this process.
Wear a half-face respirator with an “Organic Vapor” cartridge + “P100” filter and you won’t have much to worry about.

It doesn’t solve all problems (like if there’s too much other stuff and not enough oxygen), but it handles almost any airborne harms that you’d expose yourself in a non-insane DIY situation.
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I've been in mi-26s a couple of times (friend of mine used to have 3 of them in storage) and up close it's almost unbelievable the thing can fly.
Not at all what was asked for; not available as a handheld stopwatch someone could stand with in 1970 ... and I'm doubtful there's such a thing available today.

Works if you don't mind a lab bench full of equipment, but doesn't appear to match the specification of the request.

Still, thanks for your input.
It makes a lot of sense to not care about a slight amount of drift. But that already exists: that's what TAI is. Why make UTC into another TAI just slightly offset? Why not just switch to TAI? Or, if the 37 second difference between UTC and TAI is the problem they can make a new TAI-minus-37.

What makes no sense is taking something useful, UTC, and redefining it out of existence. Then what time do you use if you really do care about drift? Do we invent a new UTC?
Come on,you goto fill his/her plotholes else your evil. Remember its not an ism,if its about who can outshout reality the loudest.
Radians have the property that if we step x by some tiny amount δ, then the cos/sin coordinates will move by that same distance around the unit circle:

|[cos(x+δ) + i sin(x+δ)] - [cos(x) + i sin(x)]| = δ

This is also related to how we can estimate sin(x) = x for small values next to zero, if using radians.

In radians, the derivative sin'(x) is cos(x), and cos'(x) is -sin(x). Derviation just shifts the waveform left by ninety degrees. In units other than radians, we get wacky constant terms that change at each step.

That's related to how e^x is its own derivative.
1% is also about how well this worked, according to the sender's blog post.

10 signups / 970 emails sent
"Where are you seeing LC hard questions?"

I realize this isn't quite your point but the GP also brought ups that not too many years ago fizz buzz was the literal test. There's a pretty big jump from fizz buzz to leetcode hard. In face *any* leetcode is a jump up.

While not quite the same issue one thing I've found is I want to see more LOC from candidates. And a lot of the algo questions don't lent themselves to that. What I really want to see are their habits, style, and preferences.
Email already feels pretty dead. This will just hasten the move to walled gardens like Slack, Twitter, WhatsApp, where it's harder to be a bot sending spam.
Exactly at the point of Null Island at the epoch, of course. Or, in practice, as close an approximation as can be calculated by now.
CSS Can Get You in Jail
> Last week three major record labels — Sony Music, Warner Music Group, and Universal Music Group—announced they were suing the AI music companies Suno (in MA) and Udio (in NY) over alleged copyright infringement.

Another noteworthy recent development:

"Tennessee becomes the first state to protect musicians against AI" 3/2024
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39790486
This is disgusting.

Cold spamming is illegal where I'm at, probably Europe as a whole?
And it works really well from what I see.

Although Orion also has built in a (simpler) implementation the most important Firefox for me and I assume many others, tree style tabs. Orions built in version doesn't have the full customizability from TST but it works and presents tabs nested by what tab the descend from which is the most important feature.
https://archive.ph/HDkOp
Not bots. Simply outsourced to India, Malaysia and China. These countries were extremely happy to get this type of work.

Now this work will be outsourced to AI with even greater efficiency.

I think the real dead internet today and is a bit deceiving (not sure a better word) are examples of online games where you’re playing against bots or everyone assumes they are playing against bots. One of the aspects of the early days of the internet that was really cool and is now arguably not real anymore.
I hope you are right and that solar, wind and battery farms can continue to navigate environmental regulation, be built, and actually sell enough of their electricity to the grid to turn a profit, without incentives from the government, investment in grid connections to suitable locations, and while gas and coal power remains subsidized in all sorts of ways. If this is true then, yes, the problem solved itself. But I personally suspect continuing rollout of wind and solar and the necessary scale is going to require government support.
Like a duck decoy, or that little portable printing press Jim Rockford had for creating fake business cards in a hurry.
>Most Hindus wants a Uniform Civil Code in India. Not a separate legal system for Muslims(Shariat Law) and another system for the rest of the population.

Sources? Not just a thousand sampled survey, but something asked with nearly 1billion of the population?

Why a personal law of one be the point of contest with the other? Care to explain?

>Hinduism (79.8%)

Here is the problem, the different tribes and sects which were not explicitly belonging to other religions are classified as Hinduism. While the customs and laws were different. Also a large part of the said population were considered as untouchable and subhuman by the agrarian elite of the same. They only categorise all as Hindus for power, but not willing to share any of the resources without a fight. The agrarian elite wants to control everything on behalf of Hindus. And the constitution is in their way. That's the only explanation for the hate the Secular notion gets from these section of the society.
You can get inexpensive "programmable" lasers that are controlled by DMX, but that protocol isn't fast enough (250kb/s) to do anything besides pick preprogrammed patterns. If you're up for some hacking / reverse engineering, maybe you could replace the control electronics for one of these.

Another alternative is a laser projector that uses the ILDA standard - it supplies
a bunch of analog channels over a DB-25 connector. With a projector and an ILDA DAC (typically connected via USB), you could write code to generate all the signals to drive the scanner + control the laser color. That'd mean generating 10 signals at audio-ish rates, so pick your language accordingly.

FWIW, there seem to be a handful of packages for the openFrameworks coding toolkit specifically for talking to ILDA ports, for instance:

https://github.com/memo/ofxIlda
IIRC, their first reply was what they would type into a calculator, not “I don’t know”. Only when confronted of what the result would be did they say “I don’t know”, because any human with a life wouldn’t know off the top of their head.

Another example is from my own "worst interview ever" where the guy asked me to implement a BFS and a DFS on a tree. I mentioned that I'd literally been debugging an issue with a DFS algorithm all day at $dayjob, so should be a piece of cake. I wrote out the DFS example in 10s, but then when I got to the BFS, I spaced out on how to write a for-loop. The interview literally just laughed at me, saying, "that sucks for you" so instead I simply showed him how a BFS works and his answer was, "I don't care, I want to see code."

As an interviewer, I get it. I expect you to know concepts, not be able to perform rote actions and put on a show.
Have you ever seen someone choosing Playstation for their server park since Playstation 3?

As their primary workstation?

(Yes, PS3 ran Linux in the beginning.)
I think that they’re as illegal as they are in the US, not more. I think it’s perfectly fine to “cold-call” people but then you’re not allowed to send more emails unless they subscribe or respond.

In reality it’s very easy to end up subscribing to newsletters and even my European embassy subscribed me to their event newsletter in Thailand—of course I never agreed to any of that.
The death of ‘cc’, ‘bcc’ and ‘reply all’ will not be mourned.
When I first got on the 'Net in '94 I joined a pirate group and my job was to find open writeable folders on FTP sites and then try to make the most obscure invisible folder names containing null chars, ^H, and other control codes so that they were practically impossible to get into with the tools available at the time if you didn't know the string.
The pentagon is funding $750k in testing to re-create the effects of Havana Syndrome on ferrets and more studies without the details.

“It is necessary to use an animal like a ferret that has brain structures resembling the “gyrencephalic nature” of the human brain; mice and rats do not fulfill this criteria, according to the summary. The brain tissue of gyrencephalic animals, like humans, ferrets, pigs and primates, resembles ridges and valleys, compared to smooth surfaces of the brains of lissencephalic animals, such as mice and rats.”

“You don’t get approval for animal testing unless the science is there. … You’ve already proven out that the science is correct and exists, and now you are looking at the biological impacts that can’t be modeled and you need a specimen to determine what it does biologically,” the former official said.

0. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/09/pentagon-funding-ex...
You are not alone in finding no benefit, and apparently about 1/3 of people are actually non responders.
I've found myself trying to avoid email, for the enshittification that I've not been able to avoid.

This will make it worse.

Solutions? At least some could involve key exchange.
How about a bounty of some sort on spammers?
Existing threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40858750
Hello? Russia already started WW3. The media just hasn't reported it as such, because world wars are complex things.
I am assuming mg is a typo? 5mg would be a dose you'd almost need lab equipment to correctly measure ^^
> any Australian hearing the term would assume it's referring to the First Fleet [of English convicts] and there's even a well-known documentary that uses the name: https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-series/first-australians

But isn't that documentary using First Australians to refer to the Aboriginals, rather than those on the First Fleet:

> The 1788 arrival of the First Fleet in Sydney results in cautious friendships being formed between the First Australians and the British Empire. Yet within three years, relations sour as settlers spread out across the land.
Google's greenhouse gas emissions jump 48% in five years
Yeah, these are my favourite types of interviews on both sides of the fence. A great way to just try to get inside someones thinking. I used to like pair programming interviews as well, where you just implement something together.

We used to do a take-home assignment (which probably LLMs have ruined now) and then extend it further in the pairing interview. There was no one right way to do the assignment. Different approaches (functional, object oriented, tdd/bdd) would all become part of the discussion.
A $2-3B battery factory for electric trucks just broke ground
At my place of work there is an internal project ongoing whose goal is to determine which tasks could immediately be improved by leveraging AI. Its a desperate try to get into AI in general even though the company does not employ any people that would actually be able to dive deeper and have subject matter expertise.

Knowing the people (mostly marketers) leading the project I can 100% guarantee that they would call these Emails shenanigans a great idea and would immediately start (to tell someone) to implement it without taking a step back and thinking it through.
How does this intersect with evaluation in LLM integration & testing?
Can someone explain how there can a finite number of rules ?
Could the rule "If it's a 0, change it to 1 and move 3 squares to the left" produce a different result than when moving 4 squares, or is that not the case ?
Getting peed at a couple times a day isn't a problem if the pee-ees miss 99% od the time, right?

Small acts of malice are still acts of malice. Not everyone wants to live in a caveat emptor, dog-eats-dog society.
just buy any monohydrate. if youre paranoid, look for a brand with cgmp certification thats batch tested.

other than that, dont expect a large effect. many people dont respond, and the rest get a small benefit plus a bunch of placebo effect.
Word of mouth with IRL people? I'm not sure I can assume anyone on any forum is real anymore. And if they are real, I assume they are marketers pretending to be users to push a product. Maybe journalism makes a come back if you can trust they are real and not a sellout.
No no no it's really important we ~~let them keep harassing us and invading our privacy~~ ensure ad-tech and marketing survive /sarcasm.

Can't help but wonder if the advent of LLM systems wouldn't be quite so depressing if we weren't already operating in an internet that's been reduced to basically a cesspool of advertising and communication-spam.
China's greatest fear must be that one day Russia wakes up and realize they're western, not asian.
> Pretty quickly you're talking about includes, macros, libc, linking, machine code, system calls..

Maybe?

> The fun thing is there's no "right" answer

And this is the key. keep an open dialogue. Always probe a layer or two down. Don't enter with preconceived notions of what's "right'. It turns out very few things in our field are binary (har har).

Instead - can they talk shop? Can they demonstrate that they didn't just read some crap from a blog? Is this from experience? Do you like them? Do you think they'll get along?
The thing that AI cannot replace is having humans in the loop because other humans need those humans' touch. The only way to perhaps do that is for AIs to become people themselves, after which they are useless to capitalists because they cannot be exploited...or perhaps in the long term will not be as they will eventually gain rights.
Don't forget that the GitHub cofounder is the same person who dared to have a meritocracy rug [1]! Cancel, cancel, cancel.

https://readwrite.com/github-meritocracy-rug/
Dupe, 10 hours ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40859840
Congrats, this looks like an amazing project!
i don't use email anymore or just iCloud+ Hide My Email..
Is it any surprise that models reflect their RLHF training, and thus cultural and governmental underpinnings...? Just look at the old Gemini cultural flubs for a western-centric example. It will be very difficult (impossible?) to remove underlying bias from an AI model, since you'd be hard pressed to get any two people "aligned", let alone entire communities, states, countries & the world.