skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember when Sony released the Xperia Play phone a decade ago, with a built in slide out controller. Something like that would be great to have, but maybe instead as a peripheral that clips onto the back on your phone. Wouldn't be much thicker than the battery cases that are common now.
Before the Microsoft take-over GitHub was fairly stagnant for quite a few years. Remember not being able to meaningfully copy code because it would also copy the line numbers? Kind of ridiculous that took such a long time to fix. But for the last few years ... yeah, I feel it's just getting slowly more annoying. I sometimes genuinely wonder if the people working on GitHub actually use it themselves.

I've tried reporting some really obvious and annoying bugs to GitHub, and they even never got fixed, took months to get fixed, or got fixed and then broke again a while later. I stopped bothering.

GitLab is still tons worse, so there's that.

As for React, unfortunately there is a contingent of frontend developers who seem to think that everything must be React, that React is the only possible answer, and everyone not using React is a decrepit developer and probably a decrepit human being and quite possibly a registered nonce, and will generally just forever bang on about React until the entire world has converted to React. Your frontend will be assimilated.

React is not the only tech where this is a problem, but it is probably among the more frustrating because as a user I don't really care what language or database you use as I typically don't really interface with it, but I do interface directly with your frontend.
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/02/07/rare-earths-discover...

https://www.mining-technology.com/news/us-critical-materials...

My note: mining for minerals is a great pivot for coal miners in the US.
Drug testing is mostly limited (for civilians) to those with access to sensitive, secret, or TS information. In those orgs, you have higher odds of being drug tested as a contractor in the same team than as a federal civilian.

Regarding pay, it's actually pretty bad. A typical IT worker will be a GS-11 to GS-13 depending on location and degree (possibly lower in some locations, maybe higher in some high COL areas). GS-13 in many places is restricted to management and SMEs, though they're bumping up a lot of the "working level" grades because they realize they can't compete in hiring.

To pick a high COL area where you might find GS-13 working level IT folks, San Diego GS-13's max out at $153k. If they're actually GS and not another pay system (has a different pay raise method but usually maps to some GS grades, like Acqdemo) then it takes 18 years to go from GS-13 Step 1 to GS-13 Step 10. Most likely they aren't starting at Step 1 in any grade, let's say they start at Step 4, then it's 12 years to max. Once maxed, they only get the general pay increase every year. There are few technical GS-14 positions (this is changing, but not rapidly) even in high COL areas so the only "promotion" option for many is to go from a GS-13 technical role to a GS-13 management role (same pay) and then leverage that into a GS-14 management or technical role, if someone dies and a position opens up. GS-15 technical roles are pretty rare.
Agreed, would be interested if someone with more knowledge could comment.

My layman's understanding of LLMs is that they are essentially "fancy autocomplete". That is, you take a whole corpus of text, then train the model to determine the statistical relationships between those words (more accurately, tokens), so that given a list of tokens of length N, the LLM will find the next most likely token for N + 1, and then to generate whole sentences/paragraphs, you just recursively repeat this process.

I certainly understand encoding proteins as just a linear sequence of tokens representing their amino acids, but how does that then map to a human-language description of the function of those proteins?
Sure, they will miss the flesh so badly, what a pitty they precipitated mankind extinction...
The successful languages without efficient dependency management are painful to manage dependencies in, though. I think Python should be shooting for a better package management user experience than C++.
The point here is that this isn't guaranteed, it's that it is likely. And as the other commenters mention, it's likelier than you think.
This is cool. I am just getting started in this space but its also my dream. Best of luck to you
This was a century ago, when aircraft engines were radial ones with propellers, and weren't all that different or complex than truck or tank engines (outside of layout and materials for weight optimisation).

Modern jet engines are technological marvels of engineering with extreme complexity. And there are massive advancements like turbojets, turbofans, high bypass turbofans, geared turbofans, open fan every few decades.

Any engine manufacturer from the 1930s could and did manufacturer plane engines. Nowadays it's so complex and capital intensive there are 3.5-4 companies remaining with modern efficient designs.
So excited about Incus running Docker containers!
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40948692
To be fair, they did improve several things in the PR flow over the last decade but there's definitely a lot more that could be done. I just hope they keep their API team well-resourced so that code review tools like Graphite and Reviewable can keep working! (Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Reviewable.)
But, does it have wobbly windows?
The federal government does too much. We could simply eliminate many of those agencies and save money for taxpayers, or redirect those resources to more important functions. There is excess capacity, it's just in the wrong places.

As for IT functions, all of that should be centralized under the GSA with proper security controls. There's no benefit to having every agency maintain its own IT infrastructure. Most of those staff are redundant and could be laid off.
Timezone, not the offset, should generally be stored.

Offsets rotate throughout the year.

If you store only the offset, you can’t necessarily apply a delta to the time and localize it to the origin locale.
You've just painted a clearer picture than I did: the crux is that it is a supply-side problem.
> Donald Trump’s animosity toward Mark Zuckerberg is getting even more heated. In a post on Truth Social on Tuesday, the former president threatened to put “election fraudsters” in jail, name-checking the Meta founder in the process. [1]

That was three days ago. A few months back he called Facebook "the enemy of the people". I will never understand why these platforms bend over backward to accommodate the guy who would destroy their entire business if he felt it personally advantageous. It feels like a modern, business-specific twist on the paradox of tolerance.

[1]https://www.fastcompany.com/91153300/donald-trump-threatens-...
You're going to need A LOT MORE information about how you will use that information before I participate.
This is why Perl stays attractive to me — not because of the language, but because of CPAN and all that accumulated API interfacing knowledge expressed therein.
I noticed that Rufus popped up for me a few weeks ago in the Amazon app on my pocket supercomputer. It was late and I was bored when I first saw it, so I dinked around with it for a bit.

It was clearly and obviously ChatGPT, and it was stupendously simple to jailbreak it to do arbitrary ChatGPT things (by basically just giving it verbal permission to do so).

It wrote some dummy code for me. It dabbled around with fairly simple physics questions. (I don't verify any of the output -- I was just goofing around.)

By the very next day, I couldn't get it to do any of that at all, but it was still capable of having a potentially-productive conversation about stuff for sale on Amazon. I expected that this might develop into something actually-useful at some point, and it seemed like it was getting closer.

But more recently, it doesn't even remember what the last prompt was, so conversations (even about product details that would help me make a purchase) are a foregone conclusion.

Thus, Rufus is presently approximately as annoying and devoid of context with its insipid repetitiousness as my nearly-useless Alexa devices are.
Sounds like an advance fee scam to me

https://www.occ.gov/topics/consumers-and-communities/consume...
For how photorealistic paintings can be made with little painting skill, a setup with mirrors, and lots of patience:

Tim's Vermeer
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3089388
I'm pretty sure the platforms are in it for the money.
As usual, life is stranger than fiction.
THat's absurd. That's it, that's the comment.
Hack of the Year award, stat!
The answer is obvious but if you say it out loud a billion people will get mad.
Shop elsewhere?
Omar a minimum we need to deduplicate insane degrees of replication. Why does virtually every government agency have dedicated law enforcement? Narrow it down, reallocate budget, eliminate the wasteful overhead.

It’s not all or nothing here. We spend too much and get too little out of it.
DoD is a good example of an extremely expensive government project, and I’ll definitely agree it’s less efficient than it could be. Wasting 200M every year seems like the kind of thing which should get attention, either by not hiring until clearances are approved or speeding up the clearance process somehow.

One of the broader points is that government waste and private sector waste look different. We would like organizations to provide services at cost (or as close to at cost as possible) to consumers. That’s zero waste. Profits are waste (arguably a necessary evil, but a waste from the consumer’s perspective). Paying people to do nothing is waste.

One of the promises of the private sector is they can keep costs low by innovating on the product, figuring out ways to make it faster and cheaper. But very often that’s hard, or not possible, or not convenient. So they “innovate” on price or market position instead. Tacit collusion, enshittification, monopolization, cartel behavior, acquahires, shrinkflation, etc. are all symptoms of private sector waste. Not innovation.
How we sped up Notion in the browser with WASM SQLite
I use rufus all the time, I can vouch for its usefulness!
> Why was multiuser so important?

Because computing devices, and access to them, was not so ubiquitous back then. Families all had to share a single computer. Business users had to share access to large servers. There were no smartphones. Some had to travel to an educational setting just to see or use a computer.
I look forward to receiving my 30 cents in settlement money in five years.
But hey, in 5-7 years there will be a settlement to the inevitable class action lawsuit and each of these customers (that fills in a form, ensuring only a small fraction actually do) gets a $3.75 credit on their next bill. The lawyers will get 30% of the settlement and each walk away with several million dollars. Justice! chef’s kiss
Consumers are lucky to get just horseshit instead of lead based yellow colorant.
Whether or not it's disingenuous, it's our time that didn't need to be wasted in the first place by them not storing phone records
I wouldn't worry, I think what you're saying is pretty well known. We've all heard it before from every tech evangelist out there. Everyone knows that sometimes tech naysayers turn out to be wrong; the point is that it's pretty useless information.
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Great post and congrats on launching your product.

As a PhD dropout, I reached the same conclusions as you but it took me a lot longer to get out due to inertia and circumstances. In the end of the day, you don’t need a PhD to do science. Do it if you find it fun and you can afford it. In the meantime, provide value to people using your product and skills.
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If Python's dependency management is better than anything, it's better than C++'s. Python has pip and venv. C++ has nothing (you could say less than nothing since you also have ample opportunity for inconsistent build due to mismatching #defines as well as using the wrong binaries for your .h files and nothing remotely like type-safe linkage to mitigate human error. It also has an infinite number of build systems where each system of makefiles or cmakefiles is its own build system with its own conventions and features). In fact python is the best dependency management system for C++ code when you can get binaries build from C++ via pip install...
I love the boot loader file https://github.com/Wack0/maciNTosh/blob/main/boot_files/Syst...

Sidenote: The Open Firmware syntax is so unreadable. No wonder it was scorned. A lost opportunity.
Come on. That’s a pretty unfair reading.
MRI Prototype. BBC Tomorrow's world.
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I don't get how this optional static typing works. I had a quick look at [1], and it begins with a note saying that Python's runtime doesn't enforce types, leaving the impression that you need to use third-party tools to do actual type checking. But then it continues just like Python does the check. Consider that I'm not a Python programmer, but the main reason I stay away from it is the lack of a proper type system. If this is going to change, I might reconsider it.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html
I was under the impression that the government wasn't allowed to create a mandate that a telco has to save all phone records like that, but it doesn't stop a telco from doing it themselves. I think that would fall more under GDPR limitations?
If that's the case then they're probably more upset that they're not getting paid for this data than anything else.
I would consider it if you don't have kids and feel up to the presumably very intense work environment. I would want to be prepared mentally and financially to quit/be let go though, while at the same time viewing it as an intense, potentially lucrative, learning experience. It could be awesome and hard but fulfilling or a disaster. It is definitely a risk, with potential rewards. If you are just looking for an interesting job, then I'd look elsewhere.
What the NSA wants, the NSA gets. No legislation is needed when the system is working as intended.
Personally I found 80286 and 80386 much easier than Z80.
But this is an entry point to assembly code. It's inherently unsafe.
Yes. The only advantage of the "space pen" is that it works upside down. Ballpoint pens work fine in microgravity, but not directly inverted.
CEL is super cool, it's really great to have a quick and easy way to add a filter parameter to every list API on your server. This project should add an easy way to take a list/iterator of something that implements Serde Serialize, and filter based on a CEL expression.
Anything you can make in Word you can theoretically make in LaTeX with a ton of work that people who make LaTeX CVs don't both to do.

This is like saying "anything you can make in Photoshop you can make in Paint".
I wouldn’t even reply to that. It’s pretty obvious there’s a difference between being anti-defense and not wanting to spend an infinite amount of money on it.
I don't see a reason as to recording who contacted who. If it's for billing, just record duration, if they're not an 'unlimited' customer and flags on whether it'd incur extra charges (i.e roaming, international call)
Really excited for this. Once some more time goes by and the most important python libraries update to support no GIL, there is just a tremendous amount of performance that can be automatically unlocked with almost no incremental effort for so many organizations and projects. It's also a good opportunity for new and more actively maintained projects to take market share from older and more established libraries if the older libraries don't take making these changes seriously and finish them in a timely manner. It's going to be amazing to saturate all the cores on a big machine using simple threads instead of dealing with the massive overhead and complexity and bugs of using something like multiprocessing.
Idk man, tell that to the market in Europe. I didn’t say sweet wine was bad, I said Napa wine is over priced and often sweet and juicy at the expense of more refined flavours - but still costs ridiculously more than nicer wines from elsewhere. But that’s America for you.

And, before you write me off as a pure US wine hater, I often stop into a shop here in London, Pacific Wines, which specialises in US stuff and buy things. As I said, not all US wines.
> It was pretty common to run into checkmarks who were actually literal nobodies

Why does that matter? It was a guarantee that the account was verified. The word "verified" meant that the account belonged to the actual person. Now it means nothing except that the user is a suscriber who gets their posts boosted in replies.

Even if the old Twitter only verified exactly one person ever, it would still be better than the current state.
Regardless of whether or not one personally enjoys the work one is doing, if one really is contributing to society, one should get fairly compensated for it.

Additional requirements not common in the private sector, such as rigorous drug testing, ethics codes, requirements on gift reporting, increased surveillance, etc., should come with additional benefits to compensate. Instead, government workers submit to these requirements and a substantial pay cut.

That's mostly because conservatives 1) desire tax cuts at any cost and 2) want to demolish the entire administrative state. The stability and consistency that comes with a well-funded civil servant class are an obstruction to their stated goals.
The military? Yes. They get more money than they know what to do with - I heard a story about how there's a base where all they do is build M1 Abrams tanks on an assembly line, then disassemble the tanks, and re-assemble, and then disassemble, Ad Infinium, in order to spend all the money they're allocated. It's always a political winner for Congress to give more money to the military, so their budget has become astronomical and only continues to grow.

Every other agency and branch of the US government? Absolutely not.
Am I wrong, or all this ends up doing is round-robin DNS, which is no good for a geographic CDN?
This is super niche is my feeling, not going to be super easy. Musicians are a niche, those that use these visuals is a niche within, those that will like your particular style is a niche within.

That said, I'd guess that business managers are a waste of time. Musician's themselves are typically accessible on social these days. Make them custom art for their music and share with them. Probably only a small clip is needed, something to get their attention and hopefully reach out to you for custom work. This is where you can charge bigger prices.

The patreon approach is a great start but unless you really can build a huge following it's going to be hard to make it add up to to a greater sum. Prove me wrong though!!
Thanks, it does look neat, and relatively small I guess, but I should have clarified my definitions.

By small I meant like, at most only a few files in a single folder I can just drop into a project and be off running quickly and easily. Seeing cmake in that repo for example was a big sign that it's still way too big for what I want.
As we drift inexorably toward the singularity all markets consolidate, all software companies are aquired or merge becoming vertically integrated monopolies. The final, penultimate everything-system will be simultaneously the largest company ever, the largest software ecosystem ever, and by definition the most valulable and simultaneously also the most vulnerable.
The article paints it as a scammy gallery of self promoters wanting to equate their value with the well known people on the platform.

The well known people are likely to exit such a rogues gallery fairly quickly.
"Stack Overflow is no longer uploading the data dump to archive.org."
"We would really rather users do not upload the file to archive.org or similar data pile sites."
They have no way to stop people from doing that under the license. Only kind words. Since they've made it deliberately hard for people to train on, I'd be really surprised if people didn't put it on Archive.org and HuggingFace Datasets. So long as it's under the license, it should be fine, right?
I am not a lawyer.
What they said about access speed issues makes little sense to me, I torrented their dumps before just fine and was very happy to seed it.
Well it’s as if you put your data in Salesforce and Salesforce got breached… maybe you’re bad at picking vendors but the real loss of trust would be on Salesforce.

In this case, Snowflake was also the cause for the Ticketmaster and Lending Tree breaches according to the article so…

real lack of trust in Snowflake now.
The interpreter does not and probably never will check types. The annotations are treated as effectively meaningless at runtime. External tools like mypy can be run over your code and check them.
This is misleading.

The idea behind the site was to allow founders to approach the VCs with any question not just to pitch or network. For example, I was planning to use it to ask for guidance on a go to market issue.

I actually think sites like this are a great way for people to get expert advice that normally are only available to the experienced or well connected. Be nice if the people were doing it for altruism and not making money on it.
There would be no benefit to doing that since free accounts can access it.
There are only a couple of US states less dense than e.g. Norway, and even in those states the vast majority of the population live in small, higher density areas.

The areas where the vast majority of Americans actually live are fairly high density.

Some cost might come down to density, but not much.
I worry for having a centralized IT infrastructure as that now puts every single agency at risk from a single attack. No one would call a neighborhood "secure" if every home used the same key.
I believe you are correct. That's what I was referring to with "illegal in many countries". Most judgements on this issue predate GDPR, but before GDPR, many countries already had similar laws and attitudes. For example article 2* and 10 of the German constitution protect personal data and communication, not just from others, but also from the government. Not unlike the GDPR.

Some service providers in Europe don't even want to save any data. The linked judgement above was the German state suing Telekom, which didn't want to save that data, and losing. Given the state of affairs, the question of "illegal or not" doesn't really come up as much. At least I'm not aware of any high profile judgements.

Besides Telekom, which always tried to minimize they data they keep to the point of fighting it all the way to Europe's highest courts, most other telcos don't really care and pick whichever middle-ground is available between "must" and "must not". Whatever is least-likely to get them into trouble. Right now that just happens to mean "save little".

* It's not stated explicitly in article 2, but the German constitutional court decided that it follows from those personal rights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informational_self-determinati...
Yeah, you're right. Data breaches are essentially just slaps on the wrist to companies like AT&T. Maybe it's possible to fine them based on the proportion of the userbase that was affected and the profits they generated for a certain time period.

I wonder if this will push companies to stop using external vendors to store and process data. If companies stored all of their info in house, it would prevent the case where compromising one vendor compromises everyone's data. But it would also mean that each individual company needs to do a good job securing their data, which seems like a tall ask.
The "Horgan Surface" and "The Death of Proof"