skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are species that have negligiable sensesence, QED death isn't vital part of evolution.

But even if it was, why should we limit ourselves to evolution? Evolution did not design us to go to the moon, to split the atom, to have transplantable organs, to fly, to brush our teeth with fluorinated toothpaste, or to use contraceptives — it has only just managed to keep up with us wearing clothes and cooking our meals.
Somewhat agreed, but I don’t think this demonstrates that kind of failure .

If the assumption is that the earlier system is responsible for rejecting spam, then I think it’s reasonable for the AI part to trust the email.

To your point, it should perhaps protect against text that would abuse the user. But in this case the text is very similar to official emails so wouldn’t be distinguishable to an LLM.

I think you’d need a more complex failure case to show the AI bit was failing or succeeding.
not anger, just, let's say, emotional discomfort?

I felt perhaps some of the stories "hit too close" on topics like the meaning (or rather, the lack of meaning) of life and civilization.
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To understand what Musk is saying you first need to understand what or who motivates him to say it. He didn't buy X for no reason.
...and that 'perfect LLM' will still be susceptible to novel attacks and randomly being wrong, too. Maybe it's just a bad idea to give AI the ability to prioritize or curate emails in the first place.
Reminder that quote is so out of context that the actual meaning, as it was intended, is wildly different.

https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/14/how-the-world-butchered-be...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5268899

https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famou...
What happens to US food production if the groundwater runs out altogether?
How does it know what keys to trust? TPM?
Currency wasn't a terrible store of value. The essay says as much:

> Ok, so why not sell the grain and store something less perishable, like money? Sure, you can’t put it in a bank, but you can just keep it. And indeed, our ancients do this

The problems with currency are listed as:

1. Someone can come into your house and take it.

2. Ordinary farmers cannot afford enough currency to replace the value of a failed harvest. (An entire year's revenue.)

3. In the event of a famine, the price of food rises, making currency a poor hedge against famine.

Only #3 applies to how valuable currency is in a famine, and it remains superior to local social ties when the famine strikes.

But because of its unaffordability and undesirable correlation with famine, it is not the favored solution to famine. It's just a much better solution than local friendships.

You read the wrong essay; the standard defense against famine is discussed in the following one:

> So we’ve established what the big landlord gets out of working with the smaller subsistence farmers around them – they get labor to put more of their large holdings under cultivation and even a degree of labor flexibility with wage laborers and sharecroppers drawn from the existing rural population. In this sense – and I want to stress this – the large estates need the rural small farmers to survive. This is why, even in periods of rapid growth among large landholding estates (like the steady expansion of latifundia in the Roman late Republic and early Empire), there remained lots of these smaller farmers. But what do the small farmers get?

> Just like the smallholders could establish horizontal ties with fellow small farmers, they could also try to establish those ties with the big fellow in the big house. Of course the mechanisms for establishing the ties were different: few peasants could banquet an aristocrat and most aristocrats would be insulted by a suggestion of an alliance through marriage. Instead the ties were strictly vertical – that is they were unequal. They often began with the farmer working at least a bit as a tenant on the big farm, but also typically included political support, sometimes military support (that is, coming out to fight when the large landholder did, often as common troops in his retinue) and no small amount of social deference.

> In exchange, in theory, the large landholder could provide the ultimate backstop against catastrophe – even a catastrophe that might ruin an entire village or rural area all at once.

In the event of a famine, the farmer has two options:

1. Leave the stricken area, in which case he's dependent on his stock of currency.

2. Hope for relief to be delivered by his social superiors, which depends on their stock of currency.
Be well. I'm so glad you are with people that care.
This kind of apocalyptic manifesto concerns me on two fronts...

One, it makes me worry about the mental health of the author. They are clearly really not having a good time living in our reality, and I hope they can find a way to relieve the suffering.

Two, I hope no one else gets caught up in it. There are a lot of strong words and claims but nothing remotely actionable. It's pushing pure panic/fear/angst.

cloudstrike is just a company that is strong on sales/marketing but weak on tech, who found a market that requires you to be strong on both. I don't think there's anything wrong with such companies existing, but it seems clear they should never be in a position to break everything. The fix could be the market, regulatory, and/or technical. There are tradeoffs, so we probably need to work through the arguments of different approaches and different combinations of approaches.
Right, I'm always annoyed when people talk about how std::vector has terrible performance (especially for games), which it certainly does if you just start with an empty vector with no memory reserved and append a few thousand items.

But it is very frequently possible to find the actual maximum you will need, allocate that upfront, and everything's great.
I broke the first CPU I've bought for my own money, it was a PPro 180mhz back in early 1997 (2 days before Intel introduced MMX). I ran it overclocked at 200mhz for a good while until I started getting stability issues, had to downclock to 133mhz to use it after that (even 180 was unstable) and bought a new computer once I started my first "real" job.

Seen other HW issues, memory or motherboard(soldered memory) on my ex's laptop that affected only certain adress ranges, memtest86 has been my go-to to check computer health when random crap starts happening since then and I've replaced at least one memory stick on another machine thanks to it.
these aren't exclusive. ultimately our ability to function as engineers has to be in the broader context of the organization. to build thing that are designed to solve customer or organizational problems. to do so in a way that slots in with existing systems and cultures. the function sympathetically as part of broader team.

but _that_ should be enough. more than enough, and in any organization larger than 50 people its just not.
The main issue is that centralized electronic systems can be hacked at scale. That's what the paper solves, it slows everything down making it difficult compromise results en-masse. Verification is much simpler and cheaper than voting itself, and can be distributed. A distrusting community, for example, can build their own easily auditable tools, running on their own random machines, to verify the integrity of their community's votes. Thousands of communities around the country can do the same - again each using completely independent hardware, software and networks, all of which would have to be hacked. You may also be overlooking that we have the benefit of a reliable root of trust in the form of manually provided government documents and IDs that are carefully provisioned. You think in 10,000 years it will still be impossible to run a vote electronically?
Good stuff! Noticed this is written using the modern day variant QB 64.

Does QB64 still suffer from a slight amount of latency when you punch the RUN button associated with the fact that it has to compile the code before it runs it? I miss the dopamine hit from old school QBasic with its "relatively" instantaneous interpretive code when hitting F5.
By taxing the super-rich, so the productivity gains in the economy are fairly shared with workers to raise children and sustain their families, and do not end mostly stashed in tax heavens.
You could make your `T` type as dynamic as you want it to be.
DCPerf: An open source benchmark suite for hyperscale compute applications
This is flabbergasting:

>Three separate, well-placed sources have confirmed to Ars that the current flight software on board Starliner cannot perform an automated undocking from the space station and entry into Earth’s atmosphere.

When I read this in the article I shouted "What!" with mouth dropped open. Everyone outside Boeing (when NASA learned of this is unclear) thought that, if Wilmore and Williams have to return home by Crew Dragon, at least the Starliner they flew up could be brought down remotely like the two unmanned test craft were. Remote operation is, I presume, a requirement of the Commercial Crew contract.

The end of the article strongly hints that said inability contributed to Boeing's remarkably public effort to persuade NASA to return Wilmore and Williams in Starliner.
The thin end of the wedge is that you're a senator and the local gravel quarry in your home state invites you for a tour. They just want you to see how safe, low-noise and eco-friendly their operation is, and how many well paid jobs they've created for the people you represent.

Nobody's likely to say this is corruption, because nobody is envious of your exclusive tour of a gravel quarry.

Once it's established that that's not corruption - there will be some travel expenses. Can they have someone pick you up and drive you to the mine? Pay for your stay in a local hotel? Can it be a good hotel?

Now what if instead of a quarry, an entertainment venue would like to give you a tour?
That'll happen with permissive licenses
Last year I tried making a Sriracha recipe, but had to use green jalapeños because I couldn't find red ones. I hear that a red jalapeño is simply a green one that was allowed to ripen, so I can see why farmers might not have the time to produce red ones.

I'm now patiently growing some jalapeños in my backyard. Meanwhile, anyone know a source for red jalapeños?
It is - it's just that a really productive IC is a Senior Software Engineer. That's usually considered a fine place for a persons career to plateau.
Absolutely amazing. American TV was a desolate landscape with occasional stuff so good you couldn’t believe the oasis wasn’t a mirage. Max Headroom was in that category. And of course it didn’t start in the States.

Dunno if it would hold up today though
They will say nothing because there is no correlation - they could've been killed on their way to a doctor's appointment under a remote work policy.

I'm 100% in on full-remote, but these warnings against crime when discussing RTO are a bit too privileged for my liking. It's not like you're safe and locked against all evils inside your home if you're working remote, you're still a human being and you'll eventually be required to leave your dungeon and do something in your life sometime.
You don’t understand. Women _want_ to work, like most people. House caring is a shitty, mostly thankless, boring, unpaid job — most of white collar jobs are much better in comparison. Rich people outsource most difficult parts to hired help. And for those who don’t — the total experience is not that interesting and too exhausting, only possible if there are no other options in life.
You don't need to manage 75 developers to be a higher-level engineer on the title/pay ladder.
> We're using a third-party product that functions, but barely.

> Our business operates in a specific niche and there are no other providers who cater specifically to our industry.

If you decide to do in-house, I’d recommend thinking about competing against existing as a new revenue stream, and spinning it off as a separate business unit as much as possible. I imagine this is implied in your question but it wasn’t specifically mentioned.

> Besides, can we even attract experienced developers to a non-glamorous industry like logistics?

Yes. Are you kidding? Non-glamorous reads as safe in uncertain times. It’s a positive point that will be a marketing multiplier for attracting talent, if coupled with other indications that your business has clear goals and good ideas.
https://archive.is/fWQ8u
> I think it’s safe to say a Taylor Swift concert ticket is worth more than $590.

It's very possible that's what it cost the organization giving the ticket; given it comes "from the San Francisco 49ers" and it's in their stadium, they likely don't pay market price for theirs. Valuation can be weird for "these are free to us and the general public can't even purchase them" at times.
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Developing these skills will always be useful, but I agree it's not always ideal to focus on them.
Thanks for sharing! The ideas are still relevant today! In fact the first documented radial menu is attributed to a system called PIXIE in 1969 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_menu
SA can capitalise on its green steel opportunity
> You can't just write some code and then say it must be secure because Rust was involved

Did they say that?
Your description of American TV certainly holds up today.
They should add a date to the title - I saw the $5 and hour and was confused. I swear I remember McDonald's starting people at $10 an hour even around that time.
In many ways guilds were also difficult to deal with.

As example, in some towns peasants were not allowed to smith their own tools and had to travel to the city and buy the expensive tools from the guild.
Not even that, you should just use currentColor rather than black in SVGs.
> honestly, I still feel safer using my iPhone over a PinePhone.

But is that a result of it refusing to let you run whatever program you want, or your faith in its ability to sandbox programs regardless?
> Trying locks on a house vs. sending payloads to an internet exposed server are not analogous.

Well, go write your congressman about it (or however it's done whenever you are), because it sure does look like the lawmakers and the courts do seem those two things to be kinda analogous; but I doubt that arguing in the HN comment section about laws has ever improved (or will ever improve) those laws.
I think of geothermal the same way I think of tidal power - seemingly renewable but not really. Harnessing tides dampens the lunar oscillations surprisingly fast (as discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37383283).

With geothermal, yes there is a huge reservoir of potential energy but speeding up the extraction of this energy is absolutely a terrible idea long term. I'm not gonna rant here, but look at what happened to Mars (only slightly smaller than earth) when the core cooled and the dynamo shut down.
Providing testbed maps for rapid iteration and is not the same thing at all as allowing you to play offline.

> WoW took 4-5 years to develop with "The original World of Warcraft was created by a team of 40 people, which eventually doubled in size as the launch drew close."

You’re moving the goalposts here. You asked about cloud tech initially. The topic of “have game budgets and teams gotten out of control” is a totally different one.

> so how is this handwavy?

These aren’t just game middleware technologies that we’re talking about - things like Java, SQL Server, have non distributable licenses. Systems like LaunchDarkly require active subscriptions and don’t allow for redistribution and are often deeply embedded in applications.

> And prior to this recent problem in games, middleware licenses worked just fine too and often shipped with server binaries

Some games still do ship with server binaries. Valheim is a good example. But, to your point earlier about WoW vs Helldiverd - games aren’t developed the same way as they were “prior to this recent problem”, player behaviour and expectations have changed. You can’t just go back to the way things were here any more than you can with social media, banking, email, movie rentals, etc.
Say it out loud - it's a play on words. "You rip a dese trousers, you mend a dese trousers"
Using Self-Supervised Learning for Dense Prediction Tasks
Yeah, always was being generous. Often is probably an accurate qualifier.
I think the phrase is "zero-cost abstractions", meaning "Supposing you want bounds checks, you may as well use ours and not roll your own"
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Sure, but the premise of the article:

Welcome to the very first post on Path to Staff Engineering! Subscribe, and I will teach you the skills to level up to Staff faster

Is basically "here's why you can't get promoted".

This is the classic "Maker vs Manager" dilemma that we've created with regards to technical career path ascension. A staff ENGINEER is still an engineer; reserve that role for your strongest ICs. Make them an engineering MANAGER or DIRECTOR or VP if their role is to manage people, situations, and communications.

I postulate that one of the many reasons organizations eventually fail to innovate is that they bias towards manager instead of maker. Once that happens, you've taken some of your strongest ICs and given them only one option to "level up": "Go manage people".
Wrote the commentor on a sheet of glass and metal, sharing their thoughts at the speed of light over a planet-spanning communications network with thousands of nodes in low-Earth orbit, while others on that network acts as patrons to sponsor such research as "can we grow mouse fibroblasts in gatorade and other soft drinks as part of an ongoing project to build a meat robot?" (the answer, is this is surprisingly more viable than they expected).

It's very easy to be overconfident where the boundary is between fairy tales and engineering, the boundary between fairy tales and science is even harder, and even domain experts can get that wrong in both directions.
His most recent LinkedIn role: Fulfillment Center Associate I, Part Time, Amazon.
From the article: "Watch how your audience reacts. You have the benefit of being able to see how people in the audience react. See if they're engaged or falling asleep, and tailor your delivery."

Tips like these are becoming increasingly less applicable in the advent of remote only jobs.
I believe we have reached 85-90% of what AI/LLMs will achieve with current technologies, and further progress with be asymptotic. I don’t believe more parameters were make them
better and companies will spend billions training and realize this.

I also think there will be a huge war in terms of AI-consumable content and many content creators will sue AI companies that use their content without licensing it. It’s going to become extremely expensive for new AIs to get trained in my opinion, and businesses still won’t be able to make money from them.
What are you basing this assessment on?
If his timeline and application are true, he was technically still the chairman of his company while working at McDonald's, if in name only.

> 10/99-10/01: chairman, i-traffic (an agency.com company)

> 10/00-10/00: counterperson, mcdonald's (4th & broadway, nyc)

I sometimes think about going back to work at food service jobs after I retire, just to keep busy. I enjoyed those jobs as a high school and college student, and I wonder if I still would, or if I might be too spoiled now. And if my back was tired at the end of a shift when I was 21, I guess now I might just die.
Reminds me of Armie Hammer selling timeshares in the Caribbean.
Fair, but certainly that's the responsibility of the purchaser, no? CrowdStrike couldn't feasibly know how all their customers utilize their software. That's the end user's responsibility.

Software fails, machines fail, we all know this. The technical leadership at Delta should know this. Do we think software vendors should be responsible for ensuring their customers safely deploy their software? I can't imagine that playing out well.
>You can pick one up on Ebay

Are they, legit?

I used to collect coins before the days of the internet and decided to pull out my collection and thought about getting back into it. It's just scam / fakes everywhere on Ebay.
Why should it be necessary or thought of as important to do that?

A great and experienced programmer is gold and what we need more of.
Brownnosing ladder climbers are a dime a dozen.

What companies need to do is to ensure that a person who is who is great
at their job and loves the role are compensated for the great job they do.
and the value they bring to the company.

If necessary, create senior programmer (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12)
if the company feels it essential to change title to get more money.

Up or out is just dumb.
This article is a bit of a misdirection. Most the tickets were given by local organizations to their local politicians. Tickets to Rodeos, parade booths, local tourist attractions, and maybe the odd concert or movie ticket. Otherwise they were bought as gifts independently.

There's no actual direct connection to Ticketmaster or Stubhub themselves - the 49ers giving tickets away to Santa Clara bureaucrats does not actually strengthen Ticketmaster's legal position in any way.

It's really more a problem with the $590 gift limit itself, and the actual link to Ticketmaster is hyperbole to make you click.
Or maybe you just have some aphantasia?

My visual imagination absolutely can have a time dimension just like my audio imagination. I can remember sequences of film from movies I have seen many times with high level of detail, and then if I so choose change what happens in that sequence to whatever I want.

I think it's more that as humans our audio fidelity in general is less detailed than our visual fidelity so it is easier for us to notice limitations in our ability to imagine visuals than in our ability to imagine audio.