skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similarly, I've used a project called nixos-infect(1) to install NixOS on cloud providers that don't natively offer it. It's worked well on the handful of boxes I've ran it on.

(1): https://github.com/elitak/nixos-infect
Lotta openings, but no one seems to be biting.

Meanwhile I know a lot of folks who can't find people. In most cases it looks like they're searching for a hyper-specific candidate.

At this point I don't know whether to blame new HR tools which seem to suck even more, HR putting out a lot of bunko posts to get data and look like they're hiring, or a Post-COVID job market that's absolutely flooded with marginal candidates, all of whom want remote.
> Airline tickets are not a commodity, full stop.

Why are they not? It's not like there are any airlines beyond oil sheikh owned ones that actually deliver customer service. The only reasonable choice a customer may have is to choose between operators that fly Boeing deathtraps or not.

The commodity is getting transported from A to B, getting treated like shit including getting groped by TSA or its equivalent, and not getting replacement for a bag that's marked as "lost" when it's actually clearly trackable with an AirTag to some bowels of any in-between airport.
For Linux, one has to build and enable the "mei" kernel driver[1] and then install the user-mode daemon "Intel Local Manageability Service"[2].

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

[2] https://github.com/intel/lms
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Which is the problem with games having kernel access for anti-cheat and <whatever-else-they-want-to-do-with-it>.

You don't know what they are doing in there. You don't really know who they are. Even if you do, corporate machinations might mean who has access to the facility to <what-ever-they-want-to-do> on your PC could change at any moment without your knowledge.

Most end-users are blissfully unaware of the potential consequences of these level of access (Games having kernel access, and browser extensions having all-sites/all-contexts access).
If they use any table or any of the features where there are a group of objects (pages) that have different status or properties, they are using databases.

It's pretty much something you accidentally create and use in notion without knowing unless all you are doing is writing documents.
* business doesn't want to be getting paid out of ransomware ransoms

Exactly why I said my point 2 above.

* at some point someone has to exchange clean money for ransom tokens

There is no such thing as "clean money" or "clean currency". There is fiat (aka: government money), which definitely isn't something I'd describe as "clean". It is usually backed by a bunch of people who tend to kill others (aka: US military) and that tends to be rather... dirty.

What is really going on is that they are referring to the crypto industry as some sort of "ransomware ransoms" and if you combine those two nonsense arguments (ransomware+clean), with the HN crypto hater bias, I didn't see it worth the effort to continue on, regardless of the downvotes I received.
I blame Nintendo for calling their "2 lights bar" that doesn't have any sensor a "sensor bar".
Wangarĩ Maathai
I am pleasantly surprised to find such a committee exists, excuse my ignorance. Doubleplusgood if it is actually knowledgeable and pushes the right issues.-
Show HN: Where AI is happening, based on ICML 2024 papers
I created an interactive map of all institutions that published at the International Conference on Machine Learning this year. It was done mostly automatically with some obvious errors fixed manually, but expect to see some inaccuracies
iirc the pilot retirement age is at least in part due to radiation exposure.
Multiclassing is hard, but some get by as a making a divine pact and taking Eldritch Blast and Prestidigitation as cantrips. When all you have is sledgehammer, even smaller hammers are nails.
Sure, that is the timeframe I grew up with so there is bias there. It also happens to be when the internet was starting be used more broadly.

Correct me if I'm wrong here because it is before my time, but prior to WWW wasn't the common use for the internet government and academic research, and technical communications of those actually building the internet protocols? Unless I'm wrong there, I just wouldn't really lump that in when comparing how the average person uses the internet.
> This is just another instance of I-hate-systemd-for-no-reason whining

systemd appears to (whether deliberately, or through incompetence) ignore kernel configuration and do its own thing. That's a good reason to complain, don't you think?
The MongoDB AI Applications Program (MAAP)
Almost every tradesperson I've ever employed has done a crap job. I have trouble calling it "skilled work"
Why use lightning when you can use visa?

Hint hint hint
I've edited my text to be more precise. But to elaborate:

Eh! Read what your link says:

> Beginning in Release 12.0, it is possible to globally disable Intel AMT.

It took them 12 versions to put in an off-switch, so only newer hardware even has one. And:

> Intel AMT can be disabled using one of the following methods: Through the MEBX menu: Make sure that Manageability Feature State is disabled, then open the MEBX menu and change the Intel ® AMT option to Disabled. This option can only be reenabled after a reboot.

That only works if your hardware vendor exposes the MEBX menu, which not all vendors do.

> Through an MEI command invoked by OS software: Invoke the CFG_DisableAndClearAMT MEI command.

For that AMT has to be already enabled and configured in the operating system.
Doesn’t really align with the articles I linked saying 2/3 of the deaths occur post partum and 80% are preventable.

By the way, I actually looked into your thesis last time this came up. If you control for all that it really doesn’t change Americas rankings. There’s enough studies on the impact of obesity, etc, on maternal mortality that you can napkin it out. I don’t happen to have the work I did anymore I don’t think but by all means, you’re welcome to check. It has a meaningful effect but it by no means accounts for the delta.

If you’re going to float something like this it would be great if you shared what led you to that conclusion, as I may have missed something. Other countries that have similar levels of obesity do not have the same outcomes, or even proportional ones.
> It taught me a lot about people, and the lack of respect some believe you deserve when wearing an apron.

Tell you what: stop looking at the customers as walking wallets, and you'll have your respect. Greater tips too. Guaranteed. 99 % of the time, it's the staff's fault.

And repeat this every morning: When the customer receives astonishing service and a mediocre product, it’s likely they give you a tip, maybe try again. If it’s the other way around, unlikely, and the enterprise is just a fluke. Do I expect undergrads working for tips to know this? Yes, god dammit!
When I was younger, the salary definitely would have been the top deciding factor. These days I'd willingly give up $50K for an extra 4 weeks of PTO. And none of that "unlimited PTO" bullshit either.
Put me in the disrespectful category.

> I had a first-class honours degree

If you want to pay for your own education then feel free to pursue any field of study you like. Why do you want me to pay for it if you're then going to wait tables? Let me guess you are working on the next big break in theoretical physics like Einstein at his patent clerk job.
> At this point more people would be pissed off that systemd is missing then using another init system.

Maybe systemd should stick with being an init system rather than a network interface management system.

> Systemd is here to stay, the most we can do is fight to try and make it better.

Perhaps we need to get the government involved for anti-trust actions to break up this monopoly.
No, because there's nothing to fix (at the system side).

Apps should use the right API from the right layer; when they skip something, no wonder they will miss whatever the skipped layer provides. When they do not need exclusive access to the device and want to play nice with the other apps, they should use pipewire/pulseaudio.

For 99% of apps, using ALSA directly is the wrong approach. You don't use IOKit directly in Mac apps either.
The New Embedding Model Training Platform
Nowadays I'd wager most ditchdigging is done with small excavators and I wouldn't want to operate one without some form of training. But I can use a broom if needed...
I believe they restrict themself to CZ content
"Why is this on HN?"

I don't even get what he's rambling about, I don't see any deep insight in this article.
Aye. I've heard MAANGA used.

They're not in the FAANG but you'd better believe they still pay well.

levels.fyi has most of these rough TCO numbers, for big orgs. SF firms pay the most but you're also paying $5900/month for an apartment with a reasonable commute in the Bay Area, and greater Seattle ain't that crazy yet.
You are right! Though I do have immense respect for those languages - not love, but respect. The way one respects a grouchy aging tiger. Not extinct, its ilk will be around forever, and I don’t want to be the one caring for it.
Someone else pointed out “databases”, which appears to be a vague all encompassing term for a bunch of features. Care to elaborate on which missing features you consider to be table stakes?
In 2015: “don’t waste time learning CUDA”
Oh - I see! If work were scarce then yes, that would mean employers can be more selective. This is a good reason to ensure it's easy and attractive to build businesses. Competition is good for employees and customers.

However, my main point is that just because one person did this and got noticed, that's not the same as the thing they did being what you need to do to get noticed.
I get paywalling investigative journalism, but paywalling opinion pieces is ridiculous.
shannon entropy is subjective for bayesians and objective for frequentists
Intel has always had randomly supported ECC on desktop CPUs. Sometimes it was just a few low end SKUs, sometimes higher end SKUs. 14th gen it appears i9s and i7s do, didn't check i5s, but i3s did not.
Maybe for Canada.
Exactly. The DJs that are innovative, crate digging, slightly pretentious music nerds are almost exclusively hobbyists, with a vanishingly tiny percentage of them being able to eek out a meagre living from it. The majority of full time DJs cater to mainstream audiences who absolutely do want to hear the same 50 - 100 tracks on rotation every time they go out. They want to dance and sing along to music that they're familiar with, and if the DJ doesn't play what they know then they won't dance, they won't stay, and the DJ won't remain employed.

It's actually very similar to web design - innovation has its place, but 99% of the time people want familiarity.

Source: spent a decade as a professional DJ
Nice. Shame it's only in Chinese though? :)
Right, I see what you're saying. I agree that there is a lot of subtlety in the way entropy is actually used in practice.
Those do exist, but as far as I'm aware the most common structure currently is that it's mainframe consulting companies and their consultants that command those salaries. Anyone in an actual employee position I've never heard of making above 100k/year.

I have a friend who went from being the form to the latter and immediately doubled his salary, despite the consulting firm making it clear that he was at the bottom of the totem pole, despite his being 5 years or so into mainframe work.
With SPARK mode you can check them at compile-time with provers and elide the runtime checks. You can do _very_ sophisticated type predicates this way.
> We did not have access to the policy documents used by DOD’S war planners or the details of the U.S. strategic nuclear weapons targeting plans.
This limited our ability to verify that the process of transforming policy
into targeting options functions as described by DOD officials.

This document is a description of the targeting process, which existed even when the actual output of that process was "every single city in Russia and China with a population greater than 50,000"
More expensive is better!

Anecdotally I've heard that the larger chinese tech companies love exFAANG, because 'American engineers are better'. Maybe the Silicon Valley Mythos is another export?
related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29429385

in it, the author of the article uses the example of building a stair to motivate the discussion of how in practice, when rubber meets the road, things get complicated in very interesting ways
Unquoting took me several implementations to wrap my head around and consistently get good enough. As did register allocation, which is more of a VM issue.
It doesn't even need to be a hack, or a malicious new owner taking over a game or other software package that has such access.

The original company could be malicious/stupid/both. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk... for the most famous example of “both”.
I empathize with this point of view - if not in any other way then in principle.

However, as a counterpoint, I'd suggest that encoding all known invariants as types may be prohibitively cumbersome and time-consuming - to the point where writing the program becomes more of an exercise in proofs rather than producing something useful. Often the invariants of a program are implied or can be easily inferred by the reader, which can actually make the program easier to understand for both the reader and the writer by leaving some things unsaid.

Of course, whether a program is easier to understand when its invariants are written down vs. when they are left to be inferred by the reader is probably a matter of circumstance, so different tools for different jobs and all that.

I've recently been writing a small program in Go - my first foray into the language - and I thoroughly enjoy how it gets out of my way. The lack of rigor is freeing if you don't stop to think about it too much.
This whole system was aimed at minimizing the infection rates between students which you won't solve by just opening the windows. Imagine you have some smoker indoors: How do you transport off that cancer inducing poisonous cloud without distributing it in the whole place?

Plus in Germany there are quite a few schools located directly at heavily used streets, so just opening windows will not exactly give you really fresh air (I mean, it will lower the CO2, but otherwise its going from one bad state into another), plus it increases the noise levels considerably.

And yes, ACs are still uncommon in Germany. In return, most buildings, including suburb style homes, are not just made from cardboard. This means the buildings have a lot of thermal inertia which can be used to manage heat during hotter phases.
HTML/Javascript need a lot of work to make it usable again, so I love seeing attempts at fixing pain points like this.

That said, even after reading the Why HMPL section, I don't see why I would use this? I mean, the examples look like verbose, complicated alternatives of what HTMX does much more concisely and without me writing javascript.

Bravo on getting the project here though! That's an accomplishment!
Practical SVG (2016)
1 amazing work, but 2, zooming out:

OSS at some point forgot that the web + hosted UX is great for saas companies because they can more easily charge rent. But the web isn't great for building input UX (it's all bloat + jank and you have to completely reimplement the input elements to do anything useful, on top of shifting sand).

moving UX back to desktop thin clients would be leapfrog innovation over the saas companies. I include things like MS word as a 'thin client'. MS word 2003 was more responsive than any web interface for just typing. slack has like 2 features and is still somehow sinking into the ocean unless you have a supercomputer because of electron.

the data can be shared or backed up somehow sure; that's just file hosting with a collaboration layer maybe. but desktop UX would be a superpower for any tool that needs powerful input
Big discussion three weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40832146. Ignore the "Notion clone" branding and view it as its own thing.

I tried it out in docker and quite like it. Running it on my Linux PC I can access it from other devices anywhere through ZeroTier. It's still early stage software, and lacks easy robust backups, so I'm not ready to rely on it for anything important, but I'm hopeful.
You actually just kind of gave an example of what I meant! Developers are the consumers in this case, and they'll almost always opt to use AWS and Azure versus hosting their own infra. It's easier, faster, usually cheaper, and it makes you yourself are more marketable.

There's a reason software-as-a-service has beat out software-as-a-product. While people might think they want full ownership/control over what they're buying, they want it to be as safe or secure as possible, they want it to be self-hosting and not communicating information back to the distributor... that's just not what plays out for the most part.

OpenAI vs Mistral, Coinbase vs Metamask. I'm not that old, but I'm beginning to notice a trend where the fast, easy, cheap business model wins the most market share, and then slowly works towards providing more values-aligned features as it grows. The company aligned to consumer values from the get-go usually has a tough time keeping up (although they can usually still carve out a good niche from people who are particularly values-focused - Mistral and Metamask aren't doing poorly by any stretch of the imagination).
My gripe is not about the nomenclature but about the usefulness of such weapons.
Move in 3D space + rotate in 3D space, I think.

But w/ time should it be 7?
Interesting that saving for emergencies isn't one of the options. Having some savings would certainly reduce some stress.
Show HN: Lessons from a Flightless Bird (Book)
On leaving my previous employer after seven years as CTO, it struck me that there are plenty of books on business written from the perspective of great success, and quite a few on spectacular and notable failures. What there didn't seem to be were many books on management and technology written from the point of view of a company that didn't exactly take off, but also didn't crash and burn. Given that most companies are somewhere between these two extremes, there might be something to be learned in this middle ground.

Largely for the benefit of my children, so that they don't have to learn their lessons the hard way, I have spent the last couple of years putting together a few words on the key topics (management team dynamics, culture, technology, sales, product, etc). This seems to have turned into a book. It might be of interest to some of you, and in any case feedback is welcome.

There's a sample chapter available at the above link. Oh, and a Developer Alignment quiz, if you fancy giving it a try.
I'm pretty sure C-suite executives are not officially exempt from criminal laws that apply to everyone else, but I guess the Supreme Court may yet rule otherwise.
I'm not sure how to phrase this in a way that complies with the spirit of HN (open to suggestions!) but that's a pretty American take on electronic music.

It's not necessiraly wrong, but it holds just as much for any other genre of music and the choice of "EDM" to make the point is pretty typical.
> Semantic Clarity: Converts web content to a format more easily "understandable" for LLMs, enhancing their processing and reasoning capabilities.

Are there any data or benchmarks available that show what kind of text content LLMs understand best? Is it generally understood at this point that they "understand" markdown better than html?
On most systems, that is not the case. Typically a user's home directory is `/home/USERNAME` so `~/etc` would be `/home/USERNAME/etc`.
I couldn't think of something more unfriendly. You're assuming that every town is a college town.

You're implying that you're willing to be a customer at a place that is so undesirable to work at, that the only reason the staff work this job is that they are lacking alternatives and want to get away from this job as soon as possible.

Finally, if they aren't studying anything then you are basically telling them that they are stuck in a dead end job. How friendly!
A pizzeria was (shortly after the date of TFA) the very first ethnic food restaurant to open in my father's town; he told me how wonderfully cosmopolitan they felt going to eat there, which gave me a different appreciation for the pizzeria set in "Happy Days".
No. ~etc is equivalent to /home/etc.
~/etc is the same as /home/<current user>/etc.
IBM isn't the big deal that it used to be.
> Because one is not expected to tip in Germany, only in the Balkans

As someone from the Balkans, it's customary to round up at a restaurant if you were happy with the service. With card payments this is mostly going away, but you still can do it.

But only if you were really happy with the service and want to reward that. None of this American "you're literally forcing the waiters to starve to slave for you if you don't give them at least 20% tip" bullshit.
The Kennedy Airlift
Only if you type: k, m, w, v, x, z. Also: /, \, >, <. *.

Edit: uppercase too! In particular: K, M, W, but also: D (especially interesting), N, R.
No one is "policing bodies and activities" here, sounds to me like you are just being oversensitive and trying to twist the discussion into one that hates on guys. This sort of coded misandry doesn't work on me anymore, it's so overused, many people have wised up.

So I will say it again: any woman who thinks she will accidentally develop a masculine physique is a fool. She has a poor understanding of weight training and the human body.

Just as any man who thinks he'll get that physique on accident is also a fool!
The background is white on my machine, are you using some kind of extension to force "dark mode"?
It's not a huge deal, but it misleading. Gulls are widespread over land.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ring-billed_Gull/maps-ra...
Totally agree. I live in a country where tipping is not normal but will gladly give tips to staff when they make me feel like they want me there.

I have been to a number of places in the post-covid era where they expect me to shell out large sums of money for little value. Just recently being in the US had me feeling this way more than elsewhere, but I can point to other examples in Europe.
I can't remember the last time I felt like I was being treated by any wait staff as a walking wallet.
hard to know if github code is the code it is being installed unless you build it from github. 1/10000 people check+install like this
Astronomers scrambling to save the most powerful X-ray space telescope
I am sorry if my post made you feel this way. I was simply stating that I noticed that all the related news where being deleted, but no intel related story was on the front page. It seems that I simply missed them.
When I was disassembling roms for the Cinematronics vector arcade games I ran across a very interesting function to draw a 7 segment digit. The caller would set a starting position which would be at the middle left vertex, and a delta (dx, dy) with dy equal to the digit width and dx = 0. It would then either draw to or move to current position plus (dx,dy). Then it would swap dx and dy and optionally flip their signs. The sign flipping is done conditionally based on a bit mask (same for every digit) and the draw/move option depended on the digit to display. From that center point it would go up, right, down, left, down, right, up, right. IIRC that final right move could leave it at a decent location to start the next digit, but I think in practice that would leave too much space. An odd algorithm with very little state, which was important when you only have 256 12-bit words of memory.