skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that dissonance or shows that the concept is generally applicable? Human inventions can be misaligned with human values. The more powerful the invention, the more damage it can do if it is misaligned. The corporation is a powerful invention. Super intelligence is the most powerful invention imaginable.
Sorry you're getting downvoted and probably flagged, but I agree with you. The fact that someone made an entirely separate thing for this is mind-boggling, when a simple shell alias solves this problem, and takes literally 60 seconds to set up.

But then again, this is the same industry that thinks shipping 600 MB of Node packages and an entire instance of Chromium is what it takes to use ffmpeg, so, I'm not surprised, just disappointed.
> If you can't have ChatGPT write testable code because of your architecture, you have other problems.

There exist lots of reasons why code is hard to test automatically that have nothing to do with the architecture of the code, but with the domain for which the code is written and runs.
> for the 100,000th time, just stop using phone numbers for 2FA.

I agree, and I say this to whoever asks me too, and I avoid any services that still use phone numbers as a way to associate it to you (Signal, I’m looking at ya!)

However, easier said than done, some services still require you to use a phone number, like banks, some government agencies, insurance companies, etc., the services that actually matter if your data get leaked. I believe there should be a regulation to prevent using the phone in any way to confirm your ID, and never force you to provide one to access such services.
Product Management Will Be Taken over by AI in 5 Years
Running production app on fly. There have been some hiccups but generally we're quite happy with it.
> This animal figure is represented as a pictorial outline shown in side (profile) view with an infill pattern consisting of painted strokes or lines. It is therefore consistent in style with the visual convention used to represent pigs and other animals in the dated Late Pleistocene rock art of South Sulawesi, including at Leang Bulu’ Sipong 4 [1]

They base the interpretation off of other cave art in the area that's better preserved [2] and the fact that it's missing facial details of other animals found in the local cave art [3].

There's usually other context in archaeological speak, like buried bones and fossils that limit the possibilities.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07541-7

[2] https://www.bradshawfoundation.com/bfnews/uploads/sulawesi_p...

[3] https://cdn.sci.news/images/enlarge6/image_7902_1e-Leang-Bul...
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Yes, people do think that. And then they end up with an octopus of fragile external drives prone to problems and breakage. It's a sad state of affairs for the non-tech inclined. Like everyone is buying mopeds and pulling around trailers rather than just buying a small car.
EU regulations require, IIRC, separation of railway infrastructure companies (like Network Rail is in UK) from actual transport operators. The new regs coming in require that everyone (who gets through necessary certification) can bid for time/space allocation on the infrastructure.

It does not mean you have to privatise or can't nationalize railways, it just means that private operators can exist and have to be able to use same rules and rates for access to infrastructure.

Whether it's good idea or not I can't say, but there's a lot of pro-trade neolibby thought like that in last few decades of EU law.
I've always wished the USPS would provide this as a service. I register my name and/or any number of virtual address aliases. Then, I privately keep the USPS up to date with a physical address for each alias.

You can take it even further and authorize requests for verification. E.g., I can let my car insurance company see my zip code, or even just get a yes/no that I live in a specific zip code.
Wild piglets are very cute [1], adult wild pigs less so [2].

[1]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20180429-155847_Fris...
[2]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ausgewachsenes_Wilds...
I can't even get developers to read error messages, let alone documentation. The number of times I've had senior (by title) individuals send me screenshots of stack traces asking for help is too damn high. This field is a joke.
The purpose is not for it to “work”. The men who do this have not had success with women, and have grown frustrated and resentful. They feel powerless in this area. The only way they can reclaim power and feel better about themselves is to harass, intimidate, or harm women.
It is, starting only with product led me to this realization really quick.

One regret I have is not taking growing audience/following seriously.
To provide at least one positive example, I'm using fly.io to host a website I made for a friend (for her college capstone project), so I'm on the now-legacy hobby plan paying nothing, and I have had zero problems.
I’ll be bullish on fly when the awful outages stop. They had a hardware outage in the LHR region for a month, it was probably longer but I moved to a different provider so I haven’t bothered to check.
People greatful to a society for existing rather than constantly proving themselves above it.
... who cares about ideology when stalin decides to starve your nation to death in manufactured famine?

Yes we are going to be starved to death but its for the common good of a working man!

Nazi economy was going to collapse, it was based on expansion and looting.

Many historians make case that hitler started war too soon, but they forget that germany was running out of time and needed war to prevent collapse of their economy.

Arguing about which regime was worse is silly. Counting victims and who kill who and why is meaningless. Both were bloody and run by paranoid morons who left their nations in way worse state
Something to consider: Don't register to vote. Might seem counterintuitive but your address is publicly available if you do. Too bad since voting seems important, but not more important than personal privacy if you are in a similar situation.
It makes sense as a pioneer in AI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40876182
with Poetry, the onus is still on the reader to get something out of it, even in the west.
I recently read "Pale Fire". (without the preface and Nabukov's commentary). I enjoyed it thoroughly, without understanding a lot, which is fine.
Why Build a New Language?
> The researchers instead turned to chemical recycling to break down some synthetic components of fabrics into reusable building blocks. They used a chemical reaction called microwave-assisted glycolysis, which can break up large chains of molecules — polymers — into smaller units, with the help of heat and a catalyst. They used this to process fabrics with different compositions, including 100% polyester and 50/50 polycotton, which is made up of polyester and cotton.

> For pure polyester fabric, the reaction converted 90% of the polyester into a molecule called BHET, which can be directly recycled to create more polyester textiles. The researchers found that the reaction didn’t affect cotton, so in polyester–cotton fabrics, it was possible to both break down the polyester and recover the cotton. Crucially, the team was able to optimise the reaction conditions so that the process took just 15 minutes, making it extremely cost-effective.
Thanks for your reply!
Btw. my question was really out of interest and not to criticise ClojureScript.
Wow, gig or not, workers should be paid transparently.

Which should be obvious but this is kind of the problem with enshittification where once a business feels they have a bit of a moat (like with a two sided marketplace) they will erode the service to take every advantage unless stopped by regulation. No one likes regulation because it's effectively crufty technical debt and our political system is far too slow, corrupt, or incompetent to effectively refactor it so the best we can do is either nothing and endure the enshittification or layer on more cruft, usually far after the fact multiple years and court fights later.
For Android, if you happen to use Keepass as your password manager, I really like KeePassDX[0]. If the camera app you use doesn't support QR scanning, though, you'd need an app for that (and I don't think any FOSS camera apps implement this, as for as I can tell).

This one[1] seems the most up-to-date, by a German research group. You'd share the link as text to the KeePassDX app, search for the entry it's for, and it populates it with the HTOP/TOTP secret.

There are iOS Keepass clients that support this as well, though from what I can tell there's some drama with source code[2][3] in the landscape.

[0] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.kunzisoft.keepass.libre/

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.secuso.privacyFriendlyCo...

[2] https://github.com/MiniKeePass/MiniKeePass/issues/606

[3] https://keepassium.com/articles/keepass-apps-for-ios/welcome...

And other allegations under the ethics & transparency sections of KeePassium's list of iOS alternatives https://keepassium.com/articles/keepass-apps-for-ios/
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Depends… if you like to take your showers at peak times, the tankless might cost you more in opex (in addition to the capex).

More and more “tank” water heaters are moving to heat pumps which should use less electricity overall than a tankless (if you can handle the possibility of running out of hot water).
A query language? I don't think that's what I'm referring to at all if I found the right links. Business users can use SQL quite easily and tools like Powershell or Python make automating that easy.
I believe that pageview is an extremely poor proxy for relevance, because it is heavily biased towards subjects that are more likely to be looked up (there is a hundred reasons to look up the singer, there are but a few reasons to look up Madonna/Virgin Mary, because its too generic).

Just consider analogously, "House": People look up Gregory House about 4 times more often than "House" as in building, but thats kinda to be expected, and a very obviously insufficient reason for an encyclopedia to link "House" to the TV series by default...
Yeah, but why would I pay $3500 to use a 3rd party application that works fine on a $500 Quest 3 headset? Since graphics are only marginally better on Apple, this is silly they can't figure out how to do this themselves.
Microsoft agrees to $14M California pay discrimination settlement
> Both of which are 3-2-1 backed up.

Keep in mind that backups are a solution to a different problem than ECC.

If a file is silently corrupted you could be backing up the corrupt file for years and by the time you discover the problem, it has spread to every available backup.
The Space Race to Build the First Working Warp Drive
> with any user-perceptible lag whatsoever

About that part... Modern computers are insanely fast. How does every single piece of software manages to fill half a minute of CPU or disk I/O for enumerating some 3 or 4 items?

It's absurd.

I use Firefox inside eatmydata nowadays, because it spends 10 minutes enumerating the same 2 directories every time it starts up (hundreds of thousands of times). The start menu and equivalents everywhere are already famous. Windows can't search files nowadays, not only it doesn't work, but it never ends either... The list is endless.
New Zealand government is attempting to solve housing crisis
Yanukovych "hightailed out of Kiev" because armed protesters broke the agreement and stormed the government buildings.
> Every system can handle a leap-hour, they happen twice a year in many countries, courtesy of DST.

Any DST aware system I've checked handles this as a timezone change rather than changing the underlying time, expressed in UTC. Even for locations where DST's onset removes an hour rather than adding one.
There is plenty of examples of CalVer https://calver.org/
Hetzner has been fantastic for us for many reasons. I’m not convinced the problems you ran into are Hetzner specific.
There's looseness around arrays because the API for emitting outputs from commandlets is also loose around arrays. There is just one function `WriteObject` that writes the value you give it as the output of your commandlet. If you call it once, then that's your output. If you call it multiple times, then the shell has no choice but to then make your output an array of all the values you write.

So if one invocation of your commandlet only calls `WriteObject` once and the other calls it twice, the shell in the first case doesn't have the knowledge that it should've wrapped that one output in an array too. And it can't always wrap commandlet outputs in arrays because that would be disruptive for commandlets that semantically only have one result and so always write only one output (like `Get-Date`).

And for whatever reason, they didn't want to complicate the API to let commandlets themselves be able to express whether they'll semantically write only one output or multiple, regardless of how many times they actually call `WriteObject`. Such an API can't be a static attribute on the commandlet because commandlets can have wildly varying output based on their parameters. It can't be an overload of `WriteObject` like `(Object, bool iMightWriteMoreValues)` because it has to work for empty arrays. So it would have to be a separate `IWillWriteMultipleValues()` function probably.

Edit: Also explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40874873
> Next, in 1995, having accepted this loss, and as part of an effort to leverage the taxpayer’s investment in the station, I called in my Alpha Town testimony in front of Congress for all transportation to and from the station to be commercially provided

Man with an agenda.
Why not build one yourself and sell staff out of it ?
The dilemma with wind turbines is that the small ones tend to be inefficient (and still much more expensive than solar), and large ones require huge up-front investments.

I'd love to be proven wrong about this though, if anybody has links to affordable wind turbines / generators, I'd be interested.
>> i found it gives a lot of 'foot-guns'.

Most of those are for backward compatilibity with earlier versions.

Recommend you place the following at the top of your Perl scripts:

use strict;
use warnings;

These are recommended for all scripts: https://learn.perl.org/first_steps/
Big difference between getting rows and changing rows
Note: this article includes more than just the email discussed there.
On a staggered (aka standard) keyboard layout, common programming symbols like !@#$%&*()_{}:”<>? need Shift anyway. On these keyboard you simply hold Layer button with your thumb instead of Shift.

One advantage is that you can now put the symbols on the home row.
Don't forget about analog computers like mechanical integrators or the anthykra mechanism.

Any device that would allow you to automate the production of devices like gears and cam shafts would greatly increase the bootstrapping rate.
The mystery of the Moon's two faces could soon be solved
Faustino Oro Beats Hikaro Nakamura
this is amazing! I guess I was searing the wrong keywords. Thanks, I’ll evaluate these.
The unknown toll of the AI takeover
Exactly, so then we agree, there is nothing useful about an algorithm that can decide whether one specific Turing machine halts. Utility only emerges from an algorithm that can decide whether entire classes of other Turing machines halt, not from whether a particular machine does.
"but some people actually wants to learn to adapt to others"

Yes. And I said I don't want to learn by fixating on nationality. Not that I don't take it into account.

And the quote above from the cover already talks about "asians". Even less meaningless. Not completely meaningless, but allmost. And all I read about the book seems like strongly fixating on nationality. Maybe it goes deeper at some point. I only judged from what I read. And I am aware of the potential irony given the topic, but so far I think, I understood enough.
> As in-a planetwide em-event knocks out all computation

This is an impossible scenario. There will always be working computers somewhere, either shielded, excluded from the disaster, or by luck. Now they may not be the easiest thing to get to, and if all you can find is an iPhone or some other trusted compute platform you're probably SOL.
CollapseOS [1] comes to mind, but that's more about bootstrapping simple chips for directing power as opposed to rebooting society, but one could argue that the two go hand in hand.

[1] http://collapseos.org/
From polish perspective, a nazis told you you are subhuman and treat you like it.

Soviets told you they are your best friend while torturing your brother and using you cousin to snitch on you.

You pick which oppression is worse - overt or covert.

Objectively soviets did way more damage and set Eastern Europe decades back. Under nazis you knew who was the enemy, under soviet everyone was paranoid who the enemy is.

Its still debating which one of your limbs to cut off.
Thomas Edison invented the gas pressure regulator that we still use, initially for this specific gas. To think that carbonated beverages, medical gas and welding all come from this is kind of cool, even more so due to the design being mostly unchanged to this day. He used to 'study break' with laughing gas. I think that might be the most interesting of his inventions and it may be one of the few still in use in the same form.
For me, the shortest path i found from full-stack Web Dev to full-on AI Rockstar was this one YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhtjd7yGGGA which clarified for me, in just 40 minutes, exactly how to 1) leverage my knowledge of Postgres into getting my hands dirty tokenizing a huge repository of any content into pure magical numerical data inside a vector db, 2) apply my years of experience building local site search UIs into the actual nuts & bolts of transforming a search query into an effective AI prompt, and 3) do all that on a cheap little ec2 server without a single GPU in sight! The video is over a year old now (!) and there are more recent updates and similar how-to's elsewhere, but this short, practical, and honestly amazing story of a guy crushing on the perfect first use case for AI on a website spoke directly to my web dev soul, and really demystified all the AI hype for me, so much more so than the firehose of AI-wrapper content ever could!
Nushell isn’t anywhere near as powerful as PowerShell.
Jesus fucking Christ. Can these companies learn how to write software? Quality is dropping like dogs. Twilio used to be a good company and now they are utter shite. Such a shame. Leetcode and bad hiring practices have done this to our industry.
It applies. I did a debloated Windows 10 IoT Enterprise install for a friend (who's giving this laptop to his future wife) and iconcache in Explorer is still broken and giving me the occasional white page icon, and nt authority\system gets access denied when trying to delete %localappdata%\microsoft\windows\explorer\iconcache* while explorer is kill.

Bad forever!
that was before internet now phone number leaks can be way more troublesome due to the way all of our data is connected to it via 2FA
There's an operating Omnimax dome at the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal. I don't know how it compares to The Sphere but if you're close by it's worth the trip in my opinion.
I understand the motivation, but seems like there's no long-term plan here. Forever prop up the species by killing off competition? It doesn't seem like an efficient use of limited conservation resources to forever re-balance closely related subspecies filling similar ecological niches.
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Project Highrise is a relatively new clone/successor to Sim Tower. It was okay to good when I last played and didn't suffer from the issue I always had with Sim Tower which was the waves of people leaving.
We didn't use phone numbers to prove our identity back then. It was only used to call you. You often wanted it to be public so you could be reached. Now it's a critical piece of information required to access services online and prove who you say you are.
*LED :)
My first real job was at FAANG with 2 co-technical leads with 0 reports and 3 people working with them.

They were iOS-specific, and called in to lead (and I was hired) after a sprint where not-iOS people had built an iOS app. It was pretty good!

The problem was, their heads had inflated so much that they had ascended to the heavens in terms of self-proclaimed computer scientist.

So they wasted months and months rewriting the app to have a Redux implementation in Objective-C, 4 years after Swift came out, and pitched it as a final solution to making the app reliable and dev velocity fast, as compared to that horrid codebase they had to inherit.

The relaunched app took 18 months, was missing features, had a 2/3 higher crash rate. And the core problem, network reliability, came down to them acting like the networking code was some prized expert-level thing only they could manage...but the issue was they re-implemented TCP and were blocking ACK packets on frame rendering. So it'd be really fast and normal then hit the ack queue limit, and only be able to send one packet every ~16 ms.

Just thinking out loud because it's very funny to find out Redux also ended up being too much in the JS community, and I hadn't heard till now.

But hey, our managers managers manager really liked that one video of that one stilted live replay the initial 6 months in demo could do.
You can see a bit of the Walled City in the old Van Damme movie, Blood Sport [1].

There used to be an incredible multi-story arcade outside Tokyo, あなたのウェアハウス [2], with two of the floors being themed as KWC. The weathering on all the elements (including the escalator and crane games!) was fantastic.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smGHdOU4Qu4

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warehouse_Kawasaki
You have it backwards. Fox News compared itself to the “mainstream media” and labeled themselves “fair and balanced”. Conservatives ate that up and actually believe that Fox News is fair and balanced and that the “mainstream media” isn’t.

I go the no news at all route these days. We live in an age of cheap, effective, easy to create misinformation.
That's fair – the spherical view does so much!