skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried so hard to get into gov't tech but ultimately gave up. Jumping from the private sector to public seems impossible to me as an outsider.

A friend of mine, who is a lawyer and does HR for the federal gov't, spent about a week helping me get my fed resume tightened up and I still got nothing. I don't even care about the pay cut. It just seems like interesting work.
HN is overwhelmingly pro-AI and on the LLM hype train. Silicon Valley and YC are largely only investing in that sector right now. Pretending there is some huge contrarian group here is absurd
For those not deeply versed in US federal regulations: Part 4a of Title 15 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), which covers the "Classification, Declassification, and Public Availability of National Security Information" for the National Security Agency (NSA).

<https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-15/subtitle-A/part-4a?toc...>
Or maybe they do believe this, and entered into trades to express this sentiment. Now, they need the market to correct to what (they believe) is accurate, so they can take profits and free up their capital again.
TQQQ
Sometimes unreliable is a very funny qualifier. If something were consistently unreliable then unreliable wouldn’t be the right term.
You can only spend money on what your budget specifically allows. If you’re in the military, the fact that you are authorized to procure $1B aircraft doesn’t mean you can hire a $200k IT security engineer to protect your HR system and you can go to jail if you try to pay for an application upgrade out of that budget unless it’s directly linked to that program.

If you’re not in the military, the fact that someone else has a big budget doesn’t help you any more than your neighbor having a Mercedes helps pay your internet bill.

There are general budgets and people build in support costs, of course, but it’s terribly easy to find people who have been asking for budget to replace something years before its end of life but keep getting turned down in the congressional budgeting process. Politicians want to fund things their constituents like, but the unloved internal support app is just as much of a risk to have on your network.
The old-timers remember a term: “dark fiber”.

There’s going to be a lot of “dark compute” once we throw these lazy assholes out.

Speaking for myself, I’m thinking of what the economics look like when HBM is abundant.
It's pretty much the definition of a functional state that the police can gather more resources faster than any group of criminals. By the time you gather enough criminals to hold off the police for even a few minutes, most of the time, combined with the sibling's point of not that much physical money being stored at banks, there's not much money to go around to that many people.
Are you referring to the "Scroll inactive windows when hovering over them" setting? This still defaults to "On" in Windows 10/11. If you were saying you _don't_ like that scroll focus follows the mouse instead of locking to the active window by default then sorry, misread your comment :).
> How do you usually discover new games?

Daily exposures:

- Youtube, in the form of Nintendo Direct or Youtubers in my recommendation feed. - gaming channels in various Slack communities

Weekly exposures:

- the Epic game store weekly deal!
- recurring Trello task search for any new games the local library has bought recently (and put them on hold before the line gets too long)

Monthly:

- PS+ subscription new adds

> What are aspects of games that you enjoy?

Puzzle solving mostly? In my youth I played many console RPGs and FPS but now I find the stories cliche and boring and last FPS game I tried gave me motion sickness. Not great.

> What's your most recent favorite game

Lately I've been playing older games and tackling my steam queue. I finally got to Disco Elysium a few months ago, Unicorn Overlord next, did Sea of Stars last month, and am working on the Pedestrian now.

But really, Tears of the Kingdom was great, no matter how disappointingly bland the underworld was. Yes, the story is cliche, but the story is a framing device for the actual gameplay, always has been. Being able to build machines to solve Zelda puzzles is A++ gameplay.

Alternatively: the NYT Connections daily puzzle is the cause for my insomnia. The line between game and puzzle is blurry!
If the success of a single company -- indeed, a single product -- is really that pivotal, the industry is already on the brink of collapse.
Also try indiehackers site for lots of discussion around business building/marketing etc

https://www.indiehackers.com/
The hype follows what OpenAI's latest release does though, not what OpenAI may release in a decade or two.

> What excites the true believers is the slope, not the intercept.

The phrase "true believers" jumps out to me here. It sure makes AI (well, ML) sound more like a religion than a field of technological research.
But, I've yet to see the "rewards". I see tech companies laying off staff with the expectation of AI taking up the slack while every piece of software I use gets shitier. Show me the bottom line improvement, or better tools, better art, better music... It just doesn't live up to the hype.
I do think there are examples out there for this value prediction trick that could make sense, which is why I was a bit frustrated by the example they chose.

Someone mentioned sparse vectors for example, where you are guessing 0 rather than pointer++. Anytime where a value is somewhat predictable this could come in handy.
> Python isn't all that different

Again, Python's implementation of asyncio does not allow you to background worker code without explicitly altering that worker code to be aware of asyncio. Threads do. They just don't occupy the same space.

> Also, I was originally asking about free threads...there's multiprocessing

Eh, the obvious reason to not want to use separate processes is a desire for some kind of shared state without the cost or burden of IPC. The fact that you suggested multiprocessing.Pool instead of concurrent_futures.ProcessPoolExecutor and asked about manual pool management feels like it tells me a little bit about where your head is at here wrt Python.
Might not be long-lived.

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983
Ah sweet, man-made horrors beyond my comprehension.
Such odd things seem to happen a lot lately over there. You also have the odd behaviour of police in the Karen Read case
Anything you receive via post office. Sender/Receiver address is scanned. Post office uses OCR's for sortation and that information is captured.
The slope has changed between 10 years and ago.

You are free to disagree, but don't pretend like you don't understand what the AI crowd is saying.
Literary.salon: Goodreads with a Point of View
> The hype follows what OpenAI's latest release does though

Yes, because what OpenAI releases today helps us improve the prediction of what it may release in a decade or so.
It used to be that Ubuntu had more resources to test against various laptop hardware. These days, it's much easier to buy hardware that just works with any kernel.

Unless you intend to pay for support, I see no reason to not prefer Debian in 2024.
Cult of the exponential, considers sigmoids heresy.
Setting up a retro multi-node BBS on OS/2 Warp [video]
This was the thing that started to bring me around to optional typing as well. It makes the most sense to me as a form of documentation - it's really useful to know what types are expected (and returned) by a Python function!

If that's baked into the code itself, your text editor can show inline information - which saves you from having to go and look at the documentation yourself.

I've started trying to add types to my libraries that expose a public API now. I think it's worth the extra effort just for the documentation benefit it provides.
Not an answer to your question, but you can just click on the button in the middle of the screen-shot to start the in-browser emulator and play.
They won't let Americans in, except during the mas games, and even otherwise you can usually get in with a Chinese tour group. One of my American coworkers in Beijing went back in 2011 or so, and didn't have any problem, although I got the feeling it wasn't as interesting as she thought it would be.

Educationally speaking, the DPRK would catch up pretty quickly if they were able to liberalize their economy as much as China, even without all the help they could get from ROK, Japan, USA. It isn't Afghanistan (where liberalization wouldn't stick), or even Laos where there is a lot of work to do on modernizing society, which makes its current state even more depressing.
Ah. The metadata. Inconsequential, then, to a degree.
Trump doesn't follow through on anything he says, whether good or bad. Ever. Just hollow gibberish.
who's Bernie?
What if you have a potential worrisome alpha emitter already in water. Keeping some fish in that water might give you heads up when something is going wrong.
If AT&T had spent more on security, this would not have happened. I absolutely do not believe individual engineers should be held liable.
do you have any other language in mind that can be embedded into the editor like lua?
i remember that sublime text had python, but i don’t remember anything relevant from then.
This is really cool. I've been building a GUI system in Rust that features an expression language[0] — and we ruled out using CEL a while ago because the canonical Go CEL interpreter would cost several megabytes of runtime footprint (e.g. in a WASM bundle.)

Haven't measured the footprint of cel-rust yet, but I expect it's orders of magnitude smaller than cel-go. The Go runtime itself is the culprit with cel-go.

This Rust implementation may let us port to CEL after all, while maintaining Pax's <100KB wasm footprint. Nice work!

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[0] https://www.pax.dev
Managing a farm of virtualenvs and mucking about with my PATH doesn't address the user-installable problem at all. And it seems there's a new tool to try every few months that really will fix all problems this time.

And maybe if you're a Python developer working on the code every day that's all brilliant. But most people aren't Python developers, and I just want to try that "Show HN" project or whatnot.

Give me a single command I can run. Always. For any project. And that always works. If you don't have that then your build system needs work.
I cancelled my AT&T account over 10 years ago, yet they still stored my (old) address, full name, and SSN in the previous hack in March.

The fact we don't have decent legislation to materially punish incompetent organizations is beyond absurd.
Output switching should be done in the audio menu. If you have to touch the Bluetooth settings after the initial pairing something is wrong.
This is probably a reference to US postal or mail covers.

The USPS takes images of most or all postal mail as part of its delivery and postal sorting/routing processes. Those covers are retained for a limited period of time, and actually have, so far as I understand, significant privacy protections associated with them, of the sort notably absent in most electronic communications.

See:

Mail Cover (Wikipedia):

Mail cover is a law enforcement investigative technique in which the United States Postal Service, acting at the request of a law enforcement agency, records information from the outside of letters and parcels before they are delivered and then sends the information to the agency that requested it.[1] The Postal Service grants mail cover surveillance requests for about 30 days and may extend them for up to 120 days.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_cover>

MICT: Mail Isolation Control and Tracking (Wikipedia):

[A]n imaging system employed by the United States Postal Service (USPS) that takes photographs of the exterior of every piece of mail that is processed in the United States.[1] The Postmaster General has stated that the system is primarily used for mail sorting,[2] though it also enables the USPS to retroactively track mail correspondence at the request of law enforcement.[2] It was created in the aftermath of the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people..

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_Isolation_Control_and_Tra...>

39 CFR § 233.3 - Mail covers. <https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/39/233.3>
Never in the history of man has the slope of progress been linear. The AI crowd is entirely predicated on a platitude.
If AT&T has the power to sell said data to whichever 3rd party it wants, why should this bother me?
> You make it sound like the entire purpose of the trans movement is controlling what terms other people use for you.

It's not the entire purpose. That's part of it, the rest is about enabling abusive men to insert themselves into any place that women and girls have separate from men and boys. They won't accept that women have the right to say no. These men have a rapist mindset and the trans movement is their shield and sword.
This is what made me give it a shot in TS, but the problem is your types at interface boundaries tend to be annoyingly complex. The other problem is any project with optional types soon becomes a project with required types everywhere.

There might be more merit in widely-used public libraries, though. I don't make those.
The customers are the victims, not the companies.

You picked the wrong point to counter with. The real problem is that the corporate decision-makers who bear the most responsibility will never be held accountable. They will always be able to shift blame to someone below them in the corporate hierarchy.
There's never been an era where that wasn't difficult for the majority of humans.

What's changed isn't that becoming harder, it's that hosting websites which don't need any understanding of html/css has become hugely easier and therefore done by far more people, including less tech-savvy people.

Somehow you're seeing that as a bad thing, focussing on the fact that the number of websites that are set up with the operator using html directly to create each page has decreased from 100%, but that's not actually a negative it's just the side effect of the positive changes!

(Sure there are some specific situations where a person who would be capable of using raw html chooses to use a CMS or something that does restrict them, but it only restricts them if they don't care enough to choose one of the millions of simple options for not having that restriction.)

Try to notice that your glass is more than half full, and that it's never been easier for anyone to create a website with the choice of manually writing hrml or not!
Your take reminds me how self driving car boosters have been saying for the last 20 years. I know Waymo is out there driving itself IF you don’t count the operators with remote controls connected over 5G. We could achieve AGI today if you don’t count the Indian worker sitting remotely typing a response to your chat messages.
They don't have an incentive to share their view of reality until after they make investments that would capitalize on their belief in that view of reality. After they take those positions though, it is in their best interest to inform everyone about what they view to be real. It would seem to be risky for them to try to take positions based on some false narrative on some aspect of the market because if someone else finds and publishes the true narrative, and that becomes the prevailing sentiment, they would be harmed.
The slope changed between 1980 and 1990.

The slope changed between 1990 and 2000.

There's a pattern somewhere, here.
Are they? Virtually every comment on this thread, and the two others from the past week, have a pretty negative sentiment overall if not more or less saying "I told you so"
and then, to the stars!
Just read this... yes, what an amazing HBO mini-series his life would make!
Normal users who just want to run some code shouldn't need to learn why they need a venv or any of its alternatives. Normal users just want to download a package and run some code without having to think about interfering with other packages. Many programming languages package managers give them that UX and you can't blame them for expecting that from Python. The added step of having to think about venvs with Python is not good. It is a non-trivial system that every single Python user is forced to learn, understand, and the continually remember every time they switch from one project to another.
Or they just sold it / gave it to NSA and needed a cover story…
Er, what is your AIffiliation? Do you work for a coLLMnar database company, maybe in eGyPT?
Making charts (of any kind) accessible is a really hard endeavour. I watched the demo videos and if I’m allowed to make a suggestion... Add the context to the data points. A simple “50k” might not cut it for people navigating the plot with their fingers over a smartphone.

Full disclosure: I worked with those peeps a decade ago and really love their work.
> just getting burnt out and spending a week on the clock re-watching all of Star Trek: Voyager

That's a Tuesday for some GS folks. Not all, some of the best folks I ever worked with were GS11-12's. Some of the worst also. Very few in the middle.
"We Kill People Based on Metadata", ex-NSA chief General Michael Hayden:

<https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/05/ex-nsa-chief-...>

As Bruce Schneier has noted, metadata equals surveillance, as it's actually far more amenable to analysis and inference than whole-text or audio capture. Though that latter may have shifted significantly with the rise of LLM AI techniques.

<https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/03/metadata_surv...>
What a spectacular route.
Python's dependency management sucks because they're audacious enough to attempt packaging non-python dependencies. People always bring Maven up as a system that got it right, but Maven only does JVM things.

I think the real solution here is to just only use python dependency management for python things and to use something like nix for everything else.
No, the root-cause is not AT&T were "attacked, by criminals"; there's a much wider issue involving Snowflake and multiple customers. The full facts are not in yet.

AT&T's data was compromised as one of Snowflake's many customer breaches (Ticketmaster/LiveNation, LendingTree, Advance Auto Parts, Santander Bank, AT&T, probably others [0][1]), which occurred and were notified in 4/2024 (EDIT: some reports says as far back as 10/2023). Supposedly these happened because Snowflake made it impossible to mandate MFA; some customers had credentials stolen by info-stealing malware or obtained from previous data breaches.
Snowflake called it a “targeted campaign directed at users with single-factor authentication”.
The Mandiant report tried to blame unnamed Snowflake employee (solutions engineer) for exposing their credentials.

How much responsibility Snowflake had, vs its clients, is not clear (for example, seems they only notified all other customers May 23, not immediately when they suspected the first compromise). Reducing the analysis to pure "victims" and "criminals" is not accurate. When you say "criminally prosecute those whose negligence made this possible", it wouldn't make sense to prosecute all of Snowflake's clients but not Snowflake too. Or only the cybercriminals but not Snowflake or its clients.

[0]: The Ticketmaster Data Breach May Be Just the Beginning (wired.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40553163

[1]: 6/24 Snowflake breach snowballs as more victims, perps, come forward (theregister.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40780064
Sigh... we are going in circles. You like the slow boot. You like suspending things, I'm against it. I'd rather not elaborate, because you will like the opposite of it, no matter what.

Everything is fine...
JS had an event loop since the start. It's an old concept that Python seems to have lifted, as did Rust. I used Python for a decade and never really liked the way it did threads.
Sorry to say, this site looks like a scam. I dont know if that's on purpose or not but I have no idea why did you think this is the right place to post it.
I live in a decent sized city, ~1 million people.

On a commercial prime account, I frequently find items that are listed as next day delivery only to get them in my cart, go through the checkout process and on the final page find that shipping will actually be 7 business days.

Every time it comes up, I am now attempting to get our company to close its Amazon account. It's not convenient or useful if I have to spend an hour navigating through constant lies in order to find the 1 product that actually ships when it says it will. I can go to a department store or office supply store and buy the things for the same cost in less time.
So... you think the only LEDs that are unreliable are the ones so new that we don't have data showing they're unreliable? That seems sorta laughably circular to me. How about we just get some data showing reliability problems instead?
Starting off with "In the realm of..." instantly gave it away
Probably because the size of the full-resolution "skins" are of significant size, which may be an issue on phones with limited storage - especially if they implement custom assets to fit each size rather than just scaling. Which also may happen to be correlated to the sort of phones who won't use the highest quality versions in the first place.
The least they can do is support pull requests using fast-forward merges.

See: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/4618
Just stop it with these zero-effort pointless zero-content off-topic swipes. This is explicitly not allowed here.
Topology as a Dietary Choice
Others can speak to the bottom line improvement. I'm sure for investors the "return" looks a lot different, but for my own uses various AI tools have been a major boon to my productivity.
oh thanks! how do i shoot? I thought it was spacebar.
I've played plenty of mobile games designed for touch that were fun. They are different than console and PC but they were still fun.

I play "Doug Dug" almost every day. I played Pixa (same devs). I thought they did a great job of coming up with a way to make the game fun on touch. "Skiing Yeti Mountain" was great. "Planet Quest", "Severed", "Sword & Sworcery EP", many more.
That is only true if you believe research never has dead ends and progresses on a well-defined curve.

It does neither. What OAI or others release next does, in the very best case, help set a floor. And if it's a blind alley to a local maximum, even that isn't super-helpful.
Now where is the updated Hunt the Wumpus? Somewhat ad-laden: [https://jayisgames.com/games/hunt-the-wumpus/]
Shooting is with Ctrl. Space is to interact with something (open doors, activate levers, buttons, etc).

Digits (1, 2, 3, etc) are to choose weapons (knuckles, pistol, shotgun, etc.)
It would be interesting to have a list of companies not run by NPCs mindlessly chasing after the perceived next big thing.
Looks Like enter your email for getting access to XYZ - pay with your data get open data. No thx.
> Drug testing is mostly limited (for civilians) to those with access to sensitive, secret, or TS information.

Based on my experience, every federal organization requires at least a public trust clearance for every IT contractor.
“All you need is irrational faith and you too can be unable to distinguish between hype and overhype!”
It's not 20k, I know cases of 100k's more
First you were talking about those games just existing, now you want me to prove to you that "they don't suck". That doesn't seem fair. Anyway, here you go:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1519310

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1889620

Those are the two that I could easily remember, there are much more games (already in the 10s) that embed the LLM APIs for things like dialogue generation for some parts of the game, e.g. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2530950/