skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We could probably find a middle ground for agreement if we said, "Don't use current-gen LLMs as a tutor in fields where the answer can't be checked easily."

So... advanced math? Maybe not such a good idea, at least for independent study where you don't have access to TAs or profs.

I do think there's a lot of value in the ELI5 sense, though. Someone who spends time asking ChatGPT4 about Galois theory may not come away with the skills to actually pass a math test. But if they pursue the conversation, they will absolutely come away with a good understanding of the fundamentals, even with minimal prior knowledge.

Programming? Absolutely. You were going to test that code anyway, weren't you?

Planning and specification stages for a complex, expensive, or long-term project? Not without extreme care.

Generating articles on quantum gravity for Social Text? Hell yeah.
Well I don't think an automated check would have downloaded maps. Also, Google Maps is being vandalized as well: https://natemat.pl/250163,jak-zmienic-nazwe-w-mapach-google-...
expoship.dev's design is a copy of shipfa.st

That's not cool.
Oh man I almost hope that they try not paying. The consequences will be fun to watch.
In using cerebrolysin I've always assumed that if it is a placebo the rituals and concepts behind it make it a very good placebo. It has a lot of "medical" potency to it because the idea of injecting pig brain "just makes sense". Also I really enjoyed my vacation to eastern Europe to acquire a stash of it.

For its clinical validity I do recall that it passed some clinical trails which I'd need to look up again however like most studies with cerebrolysin it was done in shadier more bribe friendly corners of the globe so its easy to dismiss the positives. Like the study on ADHD in adults done in russia where it massively helped the participants but the sample size was very tiny. Also I highly doubt that it actually cured "mental retardation in children" like some of the packaging claims.

EDIT: here we go for the clinical trails: https://go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB16599
A couple thoughts spring to mind:

1) You are a new grad. Contrary to what some people may say, you are on equal footing with every other new grad. Portfolios and your academic track record are only mildly interesting. Internships give a minor head start to some people, but from the perspective of someone who has been around for a few decades, that isn't a huge difference -- none of you have substantial professional experience. So your recent struggles do not need to be a factor when looking for work. Focus on your future, not your past.

2) More generally, at any stage of life, to get some momentum rolling after struggles -- start small. Do some tiny projects just to get warmed back up to being productive. Give yourself some successes to build from. Once you done a few tiny things, start building bigger things. You'll feel better about everything else once your most recent projects are successes.
How would removing ads help with any of that stuff? Desire for power and influence are not byproducts of ads.
I don't have to imagine it, every device I browse the web on has uBlock Origin and I've refused to use anything else for the past 5 years.
> The state we lived in only required maternity leave to be implemented at companies having more than 50 employees. Oh, and those two weeks were unpaid.

Likely the only reason for this minimal amount of statutory leave is a federal law:

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fmla

Though it does mandate twelve weeks of unpaid leave, not two, but it only kicks in if you've worked there for a year already.
There was a new release due on Google Play and App Store, I am not certainly sure but the removal was unrelated.
u could triple your sales: free tier _and_ free trial
Ehh, this is bullshit. Companies will hire when they need.

It actually makes companies more hesitant to fire.
I used to really dislike Cory Doctorow back in the BoingBoing days, but he's really putting out some great stuff lately. I'm not sure which of us changed.

Particularly nice that the top article right now is a takedown of a company that screwed me over, so I might also be biased.
Nope, changing graph shape requires recompilation: https://github.com/google/jax/discussions/17191
any other recommendation for articles regarding techniques that works for most people?
It's simple enough, it's just nonsensical. You don't get to declare rules for discussion of a topic. When someone proposes something, it is valuable to explore how it fits in different scenarios. I don't think I can make that any simpler for you, and frankly, I don't know why I'd need to explain that to an adult acting in good faith.

So would you like to address the topic or would you rather continue playing pretend with imaginary rule sets for conversation?

Ironically, it's you who is attempting (and failing) to shut down criticism instead of addressing it.
Hatchet is part of a series. They’re all pretty good.

The one thing I remember is how he found a rifle and ammo but eventually went back to the bow because it’s quieter and ammo is reusable. What a gamer.
I found speed dating and mixer events to be absolute terrible for the under 35 crowd. Obviously, ymmv, but I remember hearing from my own head and other people as we all left these events “why didn’t we just talk to the women at the bar? They’re way more attractive than the women at the event we were just at.”

If you’re in a place like NYC, the more attractive people don’t go to these events. They just don’t need to. Most of the folks I know meet their partners through apps because everyone is super picky about looks, income, status, and so on. Going to random bars and events isn’t efficient for that.

Personally, I’ve been single the entire time. I can’t get matches on apps due to poor facial attractiveness. So, I stick with IRL scenarios. It works a little better but it’s still bad.
Ads are an assault on the mind
Because that code is very hard to read, especially with a complex HTML structure.
I get your point and won't hurry to object. You maybe right. But I wouldn't hurry to agree either. You may be wrong as well. This is questionable. For example many people enjoy bloody violent games and movies (I specifically did during my teen years, when I actually wasn't formally allowed by the ESRB ratings) but absolutely don't want and never wanted anything like that to happen in the real life. Perhaps a middle way should be chosen - still ban all, incl. AI generated child abuse content - don't really normalize it, but don't put anybody in prison for having artificial pictures on their PCs.
yes it is, but it does not matter if you have finished rendering and now just waiting for the next frame.
the nootropics community suffers from certain individuals who will retake free online IQ test with only a few days in between to "test" these drugs. It doesn't really work well... For a proper retest one has to wait at least 6 months.
This is a three hour advertorial for antipsychotic drugs presented as two homeless crazies waiting for a bus.

I actually thought Thiel was more coldly rational than this nonsense, so I appreciate the enlightenment after reading the transcript.

Note/Disclaimer: I have sufficient Gates Foundation inner knowledge to know this is just nuts.
The default algorithm in Anki, in case you don't know it
Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to 'clean up the mess'
That was amazing, and we absolutely need this kind of enforcement of court ordered judgments in the USA. It's mind-blowing 1. that Delta fought/ignored to the point where police had to shut down their operations, and 2. how much they even fought back when their counter was already closed down! This corporate mentalities of "We'll do anything except pay what we owe." and "We should always be able to throw more lawyers at a problem to delay it."

Not to mention having the manager pay the police out of her own pocket. Doesn't Delta have a petty cash policy giving discretion to managers around payments of small amounts like this? The whole thing was both bonkers and very entertaining!
It's hyperbole, but humans do tolerate a similar outcome all the time. Our modern technological civilization is in many ways built on suffering. Migrant workers suffer to pick our vegetables and clean our homes, child slaves suffer to build our electronics and mine rare earth minerals. We buy goods from companies like Amazon knowing how they treat their employees. Most of us don't care as long as we get our goods on time. People have rationalized far greater evils (chattel slavery, manifest destiny, imperialism and colonization), incorporated them into their moral framework, and turned the cognitive dissonance into virtue. Those people simply choose their lot in life, they're lazy and indigent, God made them less than us, that's just the price of progress.

Omelas is just the inherent hypocrisy of human morality and the banality of evil presented as reductio ad absurdum. If it's possible to accept the suffering of millions for ones' own benefit - as it clearly and demonstrably is - for the sake of our imperfect modern world, surely it would be even easier to accept the suffering of only one scapegoat, for the sake of utopia? The truth is, most people would simply learn to live with it.
In the enterprise space, it isn't. You often have to build software that will run on different database back-ends. Just because your worldview doesn't align with other people's doesn't mean you own the truth...
> The fact that we tolerate this shit is unbelievable.

The fact that we tolerate it is relatively expected; the fact that Snowden leaked 90% of this stuff a decade ago and nobody cares is what's unbelievable. We kinda deserve to be surveilled if this kind of apathy is what dominates our behavior and executive function.
Oh, we're in that discussion. I have yet to see a valid argument for advertising of any sort that outweighs the negatives that the industry currently displays.

We're well beyond the arguments for the recommendation graphs and the open market. Adtech, as it's currently practiced, is basically rage farming in disguise.

Gotta maximise that emotional quotient.
You can even imagine an alternate reality where the central ad serving entity emerged as pull-based instead of push-based.

Ads can, in theory, serve a useful purpose, informing individuals of products and services which would legitimately make their lives better (e.g., I bought a low-end immersion blender a year or two ago, didn't know they existed too far beforehand, and am quite happy with the ease/safety improvements over any other blending strategy I used to have, especially for bulk and/or hot liquids, especially compared to what I paid and how much space it takes, but without _some_ kind of ad I might never have known about the product (not a perfect example, since I learned about them from a friend, but hypothetically)).

The push-based ad ecosystem has a tacit assumption that people don't want the products and services being sold. That's a mostly true assumption, but instead of the solution being filtering to better products, well-vetted products, avoiding added-cost-without-added-benefit lookalike products, not advertising outright frauds, ..., the industry has opted for more invasive ways of forcing us to watch things we won't ever care about and siphoning invasive tax/healthcare/... information to slightly reduce the miss-rate in ad serving.

That's probably inevitable without regulation (it's cheaper to bully people into watching ads than to improve your ad inventory, with the side benefit that as an ad network you profit when suckers fall for the frauds too, plus it's easier to charge the company making money instead of the end consumer, so a profit-focused company will naturally swim that direction). As an alternative business model though, imagine great search tools on top of a pool of better ad inventory, where you could choose the demographic info and interests you wanted to be considered for a particular search session instead of having that inferred from your browsing history and the raw copies of your paystubs your employer is likely selling.
If it's an illegally biased opinion then presumably it will be overturned on appeal. Otherwise Irish law looks prohibitively business-unfriendly.
I feel like when people write Ruby like its Java as opposed to say, smalltalk, a lot of what makes ruby wonderful is lost.
Fair point, I‘ve been considering todays standard of one year off for each child.

That said, at least in Germany, you can‘t get to 8 years with 2 children as the maximum time for parental leave is capped at 36 months per child.
Yes, these solutions are possible. Or maybe manage followers through an ACL controlled by a smart contract or something similar. That’s why I am asking really, to see if there are easier ways. It feels like this should be a common problem, but we probably got used to everything being public by default.
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Tor is not resilient against timing correlation attacks.

Suppose Alfred hosts a Tor onion describing relativistic physics.

Suppose Bob cautiously uses Tor to consult such information on a regular basis.

Then depending on priviliged access or leverage on the internet backbone multiple approaches can be used:

A) suppose some regions randomly suffer internet or power black-outs. Obviously a Tor onion interacting with the Tor network is not in that region. While a Tor onion disconnected for the duration of such an event is possibly/probably in one of such regions. Similar for tor Browsers.

B) instead of waiting for spontaneous events they can be elicited (costly in case of internet blackouts, very costly in case of energy blackouts).

C) instead of disabling participation, one can randomly stall it: if ISP's at both ends co-operate or are compromised, network packets can be intentionally given known pseudorandom delays on top of the spontaneous delays. By calculating the correlation of the delays one can identify which Tor user IP address is frequenting which Tor onion host IP address. This works even if the added delays are smaller than the spontaneous delays, because the spontaneous delays are uncorrelated with the injected delays so the "correlation" of the spontaneous delays with the injected delays will average towards 0, whereas the correlation factor of injected delays will correlate with the injected delays. The number of packets necessary to have true positives raise above the noise floor depends on the relative sizes of the spontaneous variation in delays and the injected delays. If the injection delays are smaller it will take many more packets before true positives rise above the noise floor.

This article is from the time of the Snowden leaks, more than 10 years ago.

The moment they have correlated the traffic on your ISP's end, with the traffic on the specific Tor onion's ISP's end, they can just ask your ISP for your true name.

In this case the experts were convinced cookies were used, which is conceivably correct for a fraction of the users. The cookies and ads were probably multifunctionally abused: tracking random browsing, spam email for lucky hits, propagation delay injection of the advertisement packets, ...
For MySQL, for smaller deployments, I've found Galera to really be a handy HA system to get going:

> Galera Cluster is a synchronous multi-master database cluster, based on synchronous replication and MySQL and InnoDB. When Galera Cluster is in use, database reads and writes can be directed to any node. Any individual node can be lost without interruption in operations and without using complex failover procedures.

* https://galeracluster.com/library/documentation/overview.htm...

* https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=galera

The closest out-of-box solution that I know of for Postgres is the proprietary BDR:

* https://www.enterprisedb.com/docs/pgd/4/bdr/

* https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/BDR_Project

There are systems like Bucardo, but they are trigger-based and external to the Postgres software:

* https://www.percona.com/blog/multi-master-replication-soluti...

Having a built-in 3-node MMR (or 2N+1arb[0]) solution would solve a bunch of 'simple' HA situations.

[0] https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=galera-arbitrato...
Well, I use xrdp almost as a rule, but theoretically you _could_ map the hardware devices and run them from the container--I've seen it done before.
There’s a throwaway line about not being able to empirically test the business strategy model as applied to Intel, but that’s kind of a key point. Ohm’s Law can be empirically validated, so we know we’re not vastly oversimplifying in modeling because it stands up under empirical test. Even if you thought this kind of analogization between the physical and human worlds was a good idea (and I very much don’t think that), the lack of sanity checking against empirical reality on the business strategy side stretches the analogy to a breaking point.

Look, the post is fine as far as it goes. If you want to tell a simple story, that’s fine. The problems start when you try to understand what’s actually happening in the real, chaotic world (like why Intel had a bad second quarter or why it laid off a bunch of people) with reference only to your too simple model.
I've since gone and figured out how to do it on Proxmox as well after lunchtime: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2024/08/17/1530
In Columbus our regional transit agency COTA built parking lots out in the suburbs.

They call it park and ride. [1]

People who live in more remote areas or even not far away in the suburbs will park their car at the parking lot and hop on the bus as it heads toward areas like downtown where a lot of jobs are or to other large employment centers. Sometimes people just meet up at these locations and carpool too so you don’t have to take the bus.

They don’t have to stress about traffic, or pay for parking (parking lots are economic outflows so this is a nice side effect), and they can work or read or do any number of more productive and interesting things instead of pay attention and drive.

This is just one example where without even making any drastic changes we can reduce reliance on cars and leverage existing infrastructure better than we are today.

As cities like Columbus and other small/medium size cities modify zoning to allow for more dense development in urban corridors instead of additional vehicles on the road, turning your 15 minute commute into 45 minutes - 1 hour, we can reduce the impact of population increase on our highways and we can do so at much lower cost in all aspects with better transit (bikes, trams, bus, sidewalks).

Socializing auto-only infrastructure is not smart and it’s way too expensive not just in terms of taxpayer dollars but also in the mandatory costs of car ownership: insurance, loans with interest, data harvesting that you won’t have a say in, gas, wars to secure gas supplies, kids dying in car crashes instead of living good lives, new windshield wipers, oil changes, etc. - these are all costs we can reduce for more people. [2]

For those living in rural areas nothing really changes (frankly not much changes for suburban areas either). They’re already on the gubmint dole and receiving large road maintenance subsidies that their tax base can’t support. They’re more than welcome to spend an hour driving and paying for parking but that’s not an excuses to not build sidewalks and other basic necessities where most of us live.

[1] https://cota.com/static/2cfd967c94034d9508e7b4f8eb01fa3d/cot...

[2] https://htaindex.cnt.org/total-driving-costs/
This is likely the same as a distributive law of monads... https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/distributive+law on good days i might understand this stuff..

Another less high-brow connection: associativity of matrix multiplication relies on the usual distributivity law..
And to short-circuit the argument: approximately no one is, at the same time, a professional coder, writer, artist, detective, translator, doctor, and <insert one or ten or a hundred more occupations here>. GPT-4 is all of them at once, and outperforms an average professional of any of those occupations in their respective field.
> I could still buy a car, a house, raise a family, have some savings, etc.

You are an outlier. Very few SDEs in EU can afford to raise a family in their own SFH on a single salary while living in a location with any notable IT jobs market.
Next they'll be removing Firefox because you can access adult websites with it.
> “How is your experience working at the company? Can you tell me about the company culture?” ... If the interviewer gives a vague answer, dig deeper: “Can you give me an example of how the company culture manifests in day-to-day work?” This can help you move past generalities and get a better sense of what life is really like at the company.

If you are interested in what life is really like at a company, why use vague abstract concepts such as "culture"? Especially if the company has multiple engineering teams, and you are interviewing for one of them, it is quite possible that the "culture" differs from one team to the other. Why not ask something like "how does the team communicate on a daily basis?", "do you use practices x, y, or z?", "what do you expect from a new hire on this position?", "what are your most important values in the area of tech for which you are hiring?"
I am grateful for F-Droid but the usability is not great compared to the built-in Play Store.
I don't get the downvotes here. These are real world constraints.
The author also assumes too much of the interviewer's honesty. A vague question can easily get a misleading response.

Tell me about the last 3 people to leave the company.

That will reveal volumes about the company culture. And often they are volumes that the interviewer didn't want to reveal.
In addition to not having to pay out at the end of employment, they also do the "unlimited vacation" thing to reduce the liability of unpaid PTO on the books. When our revenue was hit hard in the early days of covid, the company I work for asked everyone to take a week of their PTO to help the financials look better.
Google will never "accidentally" or even because of a justified policy remove any of their own apps from the store. That's a big favor right there.
Most-expensive cities to raise kids in US. $40K a year in San Francisco
Write it in React, and if you run into performance issues, there are a bunch of well-known performance optimizations you can make which are easy to discover. It's a well-trodden path that many engineers have walked before.

Write it in your own vanilla framework, and you will effectively re-invent all the complexity of React, but in a way that no one has ever done before. It's easy at small application scales, but once your app gets large, good luck debugging the thing that exists primarily in your principal engineer's head.
Your typical ACH transfer takes 3 days, but it seems like some banks have set up some kind of agreement or system by which transfers are pretty instant. Between the bank where I have my personal checking and the bank where my sister and I share an account, transfer is instant. There's a newish means of logging into one bank through another, and once you establish that relationship it enables this kind of transfer.
It's a negative signal not to be able to critically assess how you're doing - both for an individual and a company.

The best teams know that being embarrassed about problems, or, at minimum, acknowledging some of the downsides of an intentional decision, is not the best way to solve them.
grossed -> glossed

(aiming to help non-native English readers, vs nitpicking-pedantry)