skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most school systems have failed to teach how to do research and critical thinking. Information has been around now what decades... Just go on google and search your degree. Read some horror stories and some success stories and evaluate them for yourself... Form a worldview...

That is where entire school system should take people. Give them tools to make at least someway reasoned decisions. If they love something, they can do it, but know that there might not be greatest financial rewards involved.
I am sure one of those companies will offer you a job. This is peak data science.
Where was That? Where I lived the biggest issue was that restaurants closed their dining rooms for a while and could only serve takeout.
It was suggested that I could take them to small claims, but I've never done anything like that before, and looking into it seems that Amazon makes it rather hard and admin heavy to do.

I've basically written off KDP for all future publications, and most of my current stuff is for sale through all the other book retailers.

It's a real shame as Amazon is the heart of a lot of indie publishing and provides a good service but ultimately they don’t care about the individual.

I have seen stories of slightly bigger indie authors also raising hell on Twitter and getting various other people involved (BSFA in this case) to speak to Amazon. In that case I believe they got paid.

I’m still shocked that Amazon let me pay for ads for a novel that I would never get the sales money for. That hurt more than just being delisted.
> i do not want to remote into his machine

> tailscale/zerotier

Same thing isn't it?

In any case it wouldn't be hard for you to just have an account on his machine, tailscale being perhaps the simplest setup. SSH in, cook his laptop at your leisure.
Easy way to do it:

docker run -it --rm -p 3270:3270 rbanffy/vm370ce

This will set up a VM/370 Community Edition running on a beefy virtual 4381. Direct your 3270 terminal to port 3270 and check the README at https://github.com/rbanffy/vm370 for some bearings.
I just went out on Printables and found the perfect anti pattern:

https://www.printables.com/model/866937-tamagotchi-case-for-...
I think that's very fair. Problem is when they expect those 4+ hours of work for free.
I used to help compile articles and layouts of a local Newspaper while in School/College (mid-late 1990s). They got me a “PRESS” ID Card complete with photos to make it easy to get into Press houses, and other Newspaper offices. That ID helped me get in anywhere in our town. This is a town with lots of guns, strict security after dark and stuffs like that.
While Tesla is seemingly lost on the direction, Lucid is making real progress. I am not sure if Lucid is profitable now, but they are going to be what Tesla was supposed to be.
Damn, the old Mac OS and dial-up modem connection noise took me to nostalgia-land! https://youtu.be/Clgl63CWOkM?t=167
For the childrens' sake I hope so. Parental accumulated tech debt from not keeping up with developments is stressful to deal with!

Looking around though I think it's going to depend on what industry parents are in. There's still a lot of cluelessness around even among people who have grown up in an era of computers.
XHTML was a move by Big CMS to make edit-and-FTP error prone. Before that you rarely had to care whether the tag was closed.
Better title would be “he filled in a pothole”. Not saying it wasn’t a good thing to do but, man, I hate this weird clickbait syntax that’s taken over everything.
But what push us forward? Maybe fear?
You are partially right, but your characterization is overly broad. Yes, FOSS does often copy closed source, but when doing that it often innovates on top of it - not only in features, but in extensibility.

Many open source projects become so widely used and powerful, they become a reference in the field not only because they are free, but because of their quality or feature set when compared to closed source alternatives. Examples off the top of my head are ffmpeg, qemu and Blender.
Pick a minor flaw, and immediately start expounding on what you do to mitigate it. For example, "I can't always keep all of a complex thing in my head, so I've learned to do X, Y and Z to keep up -- Z is a really cool tool, actually, have you heard of it? I've found that, in my career as a..."
I like your priest's style. Maybe more cybersecurity and anti-fraud
from the pulpit is the way to go now the digital realm has failed.
I'll have a word with our vicar, see if we can't squeeze a bit of
Kevin Mitnick and Julian Assange in between Proverbs and Revelations.
The big problem seems to be that whatever hiring filters are being used for jobs now are completely broken. You can have a CV and history that exceeds the requirements of the job (based on the description) by miles, yet end up either ghosted or given a simple form based rejection letter.

Meanwhile you can apply to a role where you meet maybe one of the requirements, and then wind up with an interview. It's completely backwards, and makes me suspect that whatever system is being used to filter out applications simply doesn't work. That either the recruiter sorting them or the AI system being paid for is somehow doing worse than random chance.
Really old GPU's were different but the 1080 is similar to later stuff with a few features missing. Half precision and "tensor cores" iirc. It could be that the very most recent stuff has changed more (I haven't paid attention) but I thought that the 4090 was just another evolutionary step.
I've been a publisher on KDP for more than 10 years. Automated lockouts and unresolvable technical issues are the norm for Amazon's seller and publisher tech.

* Features are rolled out quickly. They are often in a half-baked state, or are implemented with a poor understanding of the needs of authors and suppliers.

* Edge cases are numerous and handled poorly.

* Because the barriers to entry are so low, KDP and Seller Central are magnets for passive income hustles that exploit technical or policy loopholes. For instance, the KENP scam started out about 10 years ago, using internal links to fool Amazon into thinking a book had been read in its entirety to maximize KDP Select payouts. It has since evolved to leverage AI-generated content and click farms (https://nicholasrossis.me/2023/08/23/understanding-the-kenp-...).

* New policies and technical fixes designed to head off the scammers lead to false positives and automated lockouts. For instance, good luck if some algorithm thinks you're posting fake reviews.

* Automated support is deeply flawed, and very frustrating to deal with, as TFA describes.

* Human support can't keep up with the sheer number of cases and situations.

* Amazon is very siloed. I've heard that teams are encouraged to come up with competing products and then "fight it out" (rumor had it this is what happened after Createspace lost out to the KDP team with paperback print on demand). Support teams from different groups do not work well with each other, and resolving problems that touch more than one team can turn into a nightmare as neither group wants to own the problem.
Are you ready for Heddy?
Crazy how rails pjax became an entire JavaScript framework
Ask HN: Which coding/data newsletters/podcasts do you follow?
I follow a few data/coding newsletters and podcasts:

- Pycoder’s Weekly
- Data Elixir
- Last Week in AI
- Bite Code!

What does the HN community find interesting or insightful?
Betting your life to get a hallucination is not worth it even at 1:10000 odds.

Guess what - you're missing out on a fentanyl high, so awesome that people sell all they have to get more!
Getting Featured on MSN, Business Insider, Inc, Forbes etc.
There are problems where understanding one level below the abstractions indeed leads to better solutions. However, I would argue that for a large set of problems, this is not the case. I think being aware of the abstraction (at multiple levels) would lead you to choose the right abstraction level for solving the problem. Of course, apart from school assignments, these abstraction levels are never given with a certain problem, so the more you know, the better you'll be able to see it.
You can release them as midi files, those would easily fit on a floppy..
Organic solar cell gains counterintuitive efficiency boost from entropy
> SQLite, by default, offers strict SERIALIZABLE Isolated transactions which is the strongest isolation guarantee

It's not. SQLite is READ COMMITTED at best. Yes, it serializes writes, but it doesn't imply it serializes corresponding reads. Transactions could be easily interleaved and lead to races.

It's amazing how this falsehood is prevalent among devs.
Yes, shame binds you very much
Brainstem hacking should be a regular term.
I think Wikipedia has it wrong actually after reading more closely. It’s not a way to solve the year 10,000 problem, as in a date formatting issue akin to Y2K, as Wikipedia suggests.

Instead it’s to get you thinking of the long term future.

The Wikipedia article does say that is the goal of the Long Now Foundation, but not how the leading 0 is related.
But how do we know the answer you gave us wasn't generated by the sneaky prover? :)
Can't you just ignore it? Don't they just want feedback to improve their product?
Maybe the kid likes to learn about computers and there’s enough time to do both.
Isn’t that kind of on purpose though? I think you will get flagged if you just post general news articles. It looks like political posts are only accepted if they have some relation to technology.
TL;DR: Some dude didn't spend effort identifying a product suitable for his expectations / requirements, now instead wastes it post-purchase on trying to understand the product in order to solve the situation.
That, and cause some hard to repair changes to people's understanding and evaluation of hardware and software.
https://www.archivebuttons.com/articles?article=https://www....
Today, the narrative is to lie about everything. Our sales call it aligning truth so we can receive a paycheck but they are lying again, they just need to lie about everything. But in the end you can see everybody does it. Marketing is leading, politicians are following, adjusting LLM to present data they way they want it is just fine tuning us to accept more lies and get used to them.
> Maybe that's just indicative of my current "AI" cynicism, but it was remarkable to me how immediately my opinion changed.

The "you read that on the internet?" attitude, aka "wikipedia isn't a source"
This was bouncing around the last few days, if you have a few devices as well as the M1 (though i'm not sure it able to work over the internet as opposed to a local network): https://github.com/exo-explore/exo

Otherwise set up Ollama's API
> it is never too late to learn math.

Unfortunately your experience is atypical. I have seen a few people trying to learn math late(ish) in life, but I haven’t seen a single one succeeding. I am not claiming it is impossible, because I thing everything is possible, it’s just that I haven’t seen it done.

Congrats to you for beating the odds. It is quite a singular achievement.
> The notion is that the software they build belongs to them. They possess a sense of ownership over the software, which comes with a set of moral and perhaps legal rights to the software, which, importantly, are withheld from any entity other than themselves. The “developers” enjoy this special relationship with the project – the “developers” being the special class of person entitled to this sense of ownership and the class to whom the up-and-coming source-available movements make an appeal, in the sense of “pay the developers” – and third-party entities who work on the source code are merely “contributors”, though they apply the same skills and labor to the project as the “developers” do.

That's... literally just proprietary software, with "source code available on request"?
Open job postings have no downside to the company, but a lot of upside:

- You can tell overworked employees that reinforcements are due soon.
- You can tell the government to ease visa requirements to increase your worker supply (so you can pay lower salaries)
- You signal (to the market, your employees and applicants) that you're a successful company in need of talent at literally no cost.
They know CUDA monopoly won't last forever.
I am left with questions...

Are a content analysis of films supposed or expected to be Truth - with a capital T? Can they be? We are in the realm of fictional narrative as to what concerns the films. Granted, all fiction and narrative must have a connection with Reality - i.e. 'the real world' (however that may be defined) - anything else is impossible. However, fiction is a playground where you can play with the concepts that exists in Reality, in ways which we cannot do in Reality itself [note]. So it is by nature 'detached' from (but coupled to) Reality.

As ChatGPT is an AI language model, is it reasonable to assume that what it can and will produce is always a narrative? Even when asked to make a computer program, are ChatGPT producing 'factual code' or a narrative written as code? Albeit, a narrative that can actually be run through a compiler?

If ChatGPT produces narratives, then the question is not whether analysis of science fiction films are True or False, it is a question of how good the narrative is - i.e. its quality ... I think?

And here only humans can judge the quality of the narrative. It is currently impossible for an AI language model to evaluate a narrative (I contend), as its evaluation will itself be a narrative... (this may be where our humans minds are currently being tricked by our own human invention, the 'AI'...)

So in a way, does a film analysis narrative made by an AI language model about a science fiction film not become science fiction in itself? It is the knowledge about the premise of the analysis narrative that becomes important. But then the premise is important everywhere we meet narratives? It this obvious or non-obvious?

My head is slightly spinning here... as it seems to me that the film analysis is in itself a narrative and is visually presented in a format that shows and indicates a narrative...?

[note] This 'playing' with reality may actually feed back into Reality, and often does. Here I do not relate to entire branches of narrative which is intentionally made to make feedback to reality e.g. so called 'news' (at least modern news and journalism) and political influence/propaganda.
Could you please give a firsthand account of an instance when a great engineer built a novel solution? I feel NIH syndrome is way more common cause for building things from the ground up
> darn adults these days won't teach their kids how to use the computer!

I would bet most of the greyhaired people on here as well as those who were born at the time of the personal computer revolution didn't have parents who were proficient in a technology that was literally just made available to consumers yet those kids learn to use a computer on their own at a time where there was no internet available to check.

Why do kids suddenly need to be taught personally when they are the first generation to have the greatest amount of resources to learn how to use a computer available for free, in multiple teaching styles, multiple formats, at different levels of detail?

I feel this is related to the helicopter parent mentality that replaced parenting styles from earlier periods
Simple Login (SL), Addy (AD), and DuckDuckGo Email Protection (DDG) are the 3 alias email services I use. Both SL and AD can send and receive. DDG only receives. You can disable the sending direction and simply allow the forward service to run. I believe you will be able to handle this technological challenge. SL and AD are free for 10 aliases, but AD also includes PGP in the free tier. DDG allows for unlimited aliases but does not support PGP; nonetheless, it is free.

How great would it be if you could combine the benefits of such services?

I appreciate your time.

SL: https://simplelogin.io/

AD: https://addy.io/

DDG: https://duckduckgo.com/email/
Do you have any guides for that? I'd like to try my hand at it.
The free market competition inevitably has winners, that's what created big corporations. Once they're powerful enough, they can bend (lobby) the government to do what they want.

In fact any presidential candidate will need to have the approval of the richest people in the country to get anywhere, even just to pay for the campaign expenses.
Awesome!

That's pretty much how I make websites up to this day.

Later, if it grows, I usually add a stylesheet file to separate content and layout.

Then I sometimes add some JavaScript.

Then I sometimes add some backend storage and processing.

Then I need a certificate for https.

Then if it gets a lot of traffic, I put a CDN in front of it.

And that's it.
Shortcuts was massively downgraded within one or two Apple-first releases (the original app was amazing, let me do local automations on the watch that included texting and API calls)
> Sometimes they can sleep up to like 18 or 12 hours a day. That is a lot of sleeping for a cat.

Can we just put the author of these pages in charge of the whole Internet please?
If apple offers these in a data center that’s open access it’s game over for NVDA
"Don't know why you're getting downvoted..."

Ha, some of my most thoughtful and most balanced posts where I've put both sides of an argument have been downvoted the most.

Sometimes—usually with controversial topics—I've sat on my post and watched the votes oscillating up and down so in the end I've ended up with none or near zero.

From my experience, almost inevitably, downvoters don't offer a counter viewpoint or argument. Whilst irrelevant when it comes to my posts, it is important when scaled up to real politics. Voting out of gut reaction isn't helpful.

It seems to me that as gut reaction can now be manipulated so easily in today's world that it's a substantial reason why democracies and the democratic process are in such a mess.
Still top of the list for me is Olin Shivers' 1994 acknowledgements to his scsh project:

>Who should I thank? My so-called ``colleagues,'' who laugh at me behind my back, all the while becoming famous on my work? My worthless graduate students, whose computer skills appear to be limited to downloading bitmaps off of netnews? My parents, who are still waiting for me to quit ``fooling around with computers,'' go to med school, and become a radiologist? My department chairman, a manager who gives one new insight into and sympathy for disgruntled postal workers?

>My God, no one could blame me -- no one! -- if I went off the edge and just lost it completely one day. I couldn't get through the day as it is without the Prozac and Jack Daniels I keep on the shelf, behind my Tops-20 JSYS manuals. I start getting the shakes real bad around 10am, right before my advisor meetings. A 10 oz. Jack 'n Zac helps me get through the meetings without one of my students winding up with his severed head in a bowling-ball bag. They look at me funny; they think I twitch a lot. I'm not twitching. I'm controlling my impulse to snag my 9mm Sig-Sauer out from my day-pack and make a few strong points about the quality of undergraduate education in Amerika.

>If I thought anyone cared, if I thought anyone would even be reading this, I'd probably make an effort to keep up appearances until the last possible moment. But no one does, and no one will. So I can pretty much say exactly what I think.

>Oh, yes, the acknowledgements. I think not. I did it. I did it all, by myself.

https://scsh.net/docu/html/man.html
Microsoft's WSL 2.3.11 Brings "New Kernel Modules" & New Features
I'm sort of expecting a rubber band around the crown going down to a gear tied to the wheel.
Years ago, somebody had as his Usenet .sig line "perl is margarine, awk is butter" (unless the order was reversed). Whatever Perl's many faults, I used awk a good deal less after I discovered Perl.
Weren't high turnover rates at FAANGs largely due to people job hopping to other FAANGs for even higher salaries?
This isn't a discussion about content. Content on the web is more rich and diverse than it's ever been.

This is, as ever, a discussion about production - about the web having matured around a limited set of standards and frameworks, and web development no longer being as fun as it was, before it was a job for many people here (or at least before expectations became so rigid.)
The British government admitted that its decision was based on pressure from the United States, rather than any evidence that Huawei was actually a threat.[0]

The US threatened to cut the UK out of intelligence sharing unless it banned Huawei, so the British government caved.

0. E.g.: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jul/18/pressure-.... There are also statements from former British officials confirming this.
Late but that's awesome! Thanks for making the update!
I currently use ChatGPT 4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Gemini 1.5 Pro for various personal and work-related tasks, and I often compare them on the same task. It’s really hard to decide which performs best overall for me. Sometimes one will be obviously better or worse for a relatively trivial reason, such as a longer context window or overeager censorship (looking at you for both, Gemini!). But usually, especially for the extended back-and-forth interactions that I find most useful, I am unable to state objectively which model is better.
Event-driven = Loosely coupled? Not so fast
I assume you're referring to Kowloon Walled City?
wow, Congrats her to dev community.
Its not just a "now" thing, been going on for at least 20 years and probably longer. I worked all my career at small companies and generally there was little to no interviewing for any of our so-called "open positions". The last company I worked at was in a defacto hiring freeze most of the time I was there; for about 2 years I was the last IC hire they had made, and some people left too. The whole time we had multiple open positions advertised. We did cycle through a few contractors which seemed all that management was interested in.

So I don't know what bigtech does, but smalltech just seems to use open positions to signal "we're healthy" or just forget they even have them out there.

And population is growing all the time so that will make new openings positions too, but it doesn't necessarily translate into higher percent employment.
Small government => big corporations (claim of the previous comment)

is not the same thing as

Big corporations => small goverment (the argument you're trying to disprove)
Reminds me of what they say about composer Johann Sebastian Mastropiero:

« Whenever -due to economic necessity- Mastropiero was forced to compose music by request or commission, produced mediocre and inexpressive works. On the contrary, when he only obeyed his inspiration, he never wrote a note. »
Right, but those videos are amateur and get 200 views on TikTok.

You want to produce a video of any quality at all? You're using files.
I think fu pay me applies here.

If you're going to "assess" me for 5 hours, I'm going to send you an invoice for 4 hours with 1 hour special discount for special fwend.
This Week in React #192
Godot bindings for Swift
https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftGodot
Curious for people who think this is unethical how they think about swag at conference booths?

The range of practices I’ve seen go from just come up to the booth to get some trinket to put in your email address to get something a bit more valuable to listen to our 5m spiel and you can pull something out of a claw machine.

Is there a line there that you personally wouldn’t cross? A line that’s prohibited by your company policy? A line that you believe makes a company unethical and should be prohibited? Curious where everyone falls on this.
> Booking.com -> Pretending other people are looking at the same property

Only one left! Call the hotel -> Plenty of room and cheaper (which is not allowed according to the booking.com model ...). This illegal in some places (including where I am) but they do it anyway.