skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Employers seem to have no qualms about publishing fake job postings.

I've gone to interviews only to be informed that the position was taken and that they "only wanted to know me".

It seems to me that HRs have started a game and this is just the logical consequence.
This is the same in Canada. It isn't possible to distinguish landlines from cell phones by looking at the number. All numbers issued in an area have the same area code.

The North American numberig plan looks like +1-AAA-BBB-CCCC Where AAA is the area code and BBB-CCCC is mostly meaningless. There are a few special area codes like 8xx for toll-free calls (the classic 1-800 numbers that businesses often use) but no prefix dedicated to mobile.

When I moved to Ireland I thought it was weird that mobile numbers were identifiable. Especially since I had a Google voice number which looked like a landline which really confused people and websites. "Trust me, just text it. It is fine."

> Do you get a new number if you move

I don't know about the US but this used to be common in Canada. Many providers would consider calls to different cities long distance and charge extra. So if you moved it was "polite" to get a new number so that people could call you for local rates. For example I went to university in Ottawa and changed my Toronto number so that people didn't have to pay long distance to call (even though it is the same province, about a 5h drive).

However this isn't really the case anymore. In the US and mostly in Canada country-wide calling us pretty standard so most people's mobile number will reflect where they grew up, and they will carry that around for the rest of their lives.

> and then change to a different provider?

Usually not. You can ask your provider for a new number in a different city and they will issue it. Most Canadian providers are country-wide so you don't need to switch provide if you don't want to.
It threw the underlying Vogonity of Theo de Raadt's compassionate soul into sharp relief.
Windows is practically spyware now, all they're doing with the platform is enshittification. WSL was the last "good" windows feature and it's just an Embrace Extend Extinguish play.
“cultural vandalism” indeed! It's ironic then that a nation that pride itself on preserving tradition should allow its national broadcaster the BBC to destroy early archives in the 60s/70s (https://www.quora.com/Why-was-there-a-purge-of-the-BBC-archi...). "Who would want to watch a program twice?" and "Wow, isn't storage expensive?!" Orwell would have turned in his grave.
Thanks. I should've mentioned that I want to do it myself, not relying on other services.
That's an interesting perspective how analysis can devalue works of literature. Stripping away the mythos, perhaps.
you think your guns protect you from your government? how much koolaid have you drunk?
How has your experience been installing Linux on the platform I described?
Agreed.

Also: the originals are mostly only relevant for their collectible value. Researchers can more easily work off digital scans. No need to buy anything or keep anything together physically, just scan it if you are really that interested.
As Above So Below
Seriously. It's bad enough sometimes that you go to friends house and have an Alexa responding to every half word. Now we have to put up with this?

For what actual gain? What percentage of a normal friendly conversation is something you want to actually review and document. Less than 5%?
"Nobody got fired for choosing IBM." It's not about being tech savvy or not, it's about self preservation and career advancements.

If you're tech savvy and push for FOSS in your org then you're the one on the hook whenever that SW fails or some coworker gets it to fail because now it's YOUR responsibility. But if MS Office fails than it's not your fault, it's Microsoft's, or Crowdstrike's, or whatever $BIG_CORP you bought it from.

Most people want a chill 9-5 and aren't willing to die on that hill for the sake of pushing FOSS religiousness. Martyrism isn't rewarded. You want something where you can outsource the risk to away from you, so that you can always go home early.

Why do you think Google uses SAP. Do you think they can't develop their own alternative on site? But why bother?
Yeah, so are people turned on globally, especially Europe.

This does not tell me anything. Maybe the republicans just have better arguments this time. Or the other way around. And then the losing side after elections may have to grind their teeth for a while. That is the way it is supposed to be.
> it just has no reason to exist

I’ve seen plenty of people who have found a legitimate use for it. And as many have pointed out it serves as a dev kit that also happened to be sold to consumers. It helps Apple and developers figure out what people actually want to use the device for.

There also seems to be a lot of people who find it to be a near perfect implementation of VR/AR, except for size/weight, price and perhaps the resolution and fov could be just a tad better.

These seem like things they could fix with a second gen non-pro headset.

The automatic eye adjustment and external screen may be an expression of an ultimate VR experience but can easily be dropped with a non pro version. With less heat the fans can be smaller. Perhaps they can start using those new piezo based blowers. The metal body and external battery pack will already help keep things cool despite the powerful chips and high power consumption.

The existence of the pro version will give a halo effect that will make it easier for Apple to sell a non pro version, even if it’s still more expensive than the most expensive Oculus headsets.

Whether they’ll increase resolution and fov is uncertain. They might wait until it can inherit the tech from a second gen pro version.
Remember that was the era of single processor PCs, if you had a really demanding CPU hog you generally had to forget about trying to multitask as the experience would be painful. If you had something like file compression happening (which could also occupy the HDD) it'd leave little for the UI redrawing, and this is also long before that aspect was accelerated
I made it build a function table for editing with authentication and roled based access to the different fields in the table by asking it:

"Build a site with a table that has editable stuff" Yes... I really said "stuff"...

"add authentication"

"add role based access to the different fields in the table"

It took like 5 seconds. The code is unusable for anything enterprise with how poorly it is. Especially the back-end and authentication would have to be completely rewritten and the front-end has no re-usable parts, but it works. It would work for a lot of smaller projects, even ones for tiny scale professional usage.

I'm not sure how a non-developer would deploy it anywhere, but it would be quite easy to get chatGPT (or maybe townie?) to generate a docker-compose file for it. I'm confident a non-developer would be capable of changing the "stuff" into something useful even if they didn't use townie for it. I don't think, everyone, could do it, but I do think a lot of of my very not tech but digitally inclined co-workers would be capable of working with it. I'm not completely sure how they would transform their various data sources into something that could be used by it. So I'm not sure exactly what they would use it for.
Meh, this looks like a YMMV kinda situation. I never had to "tinker" with anything since I installed Arch on the machine on which I'm typing this, almost four years ago.

Last week I reinstalled Windows on my work machine because the TPM was reset because I opened the case and all the MS account thingies got borked beyond repair.

Now there are a bunch of borken things. Like icons randomly disappearing in the taskbar (the button is still there and functional, but no icon). And every other time I boot it, something messes up the input language settings. It gets set to US English, although that layout doesn't show up in the enabled languages in the settings app. I have to add it and remove it to unbreak this.

And then there's my gaming box, which worked OK for a few months, but now something happened with the BitLocker screen and there's no more text, just the blue screen. If I type in my pin, it actually works.
I agree with your sentiment and I use Linux religiously too. Respect it for what it has accomplished and continues to. Most of my friends don't care. They're into productivity more than passion for computing in general. They don't care one way or another. Tomorrow if there's another proprietary OS that makes their work easier they'll easily pay for that OS and move on. Just saying that our sentiment isn't shared by everyone.
Like I said, not anti-email. I don't see why it's git vs cvs:

> Recall that git was also designed to work over mailing lists. git format-patch, git apply, etc.

Right, and when you do web things with that same git in 2024, it looks and works like it's 2024.

You could use an old git server/file browser UI, or the built-in gitweb[0] for example, but you don't, you use something more modern & featureful, working better on mobile, looking prettier, etc. Even Linux (with its history intertwined with git) uses Github[1] as its mirror, not gitweb or anything looking like the link above for OpenBSD.

[0]: https://repo.or.cz/w/git.git/tree/HEAD:/gitweb/

[1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
All dictionary words are reddit usernames with little activity.

One of the founders admitted that they had created thousands of fake accounts to give the appearance of traction.
Maybe one day your paths will cross and you can exact your revenge.
I use that mode on a Panasonic S1R to scan 5x4" film negatives, it does actually work.

However it requires a solid reproduction column mount, excellent lenses, perfect focus and vibration free environment etc.
Do you reckon a high psi stream of compressed air would remove the shavings? ie from an air compressor or similar
A well armed citizenry in mobility scooters freshly fed with McDonalds and chocolate cake attacks!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_ex...

You think your limits are the correct ones. Others believe picketing funerals with hate but banning porn is the wrong balance.
Can you give some example tasks that you do on both OSes? Just curious to know how the difference is so stark.
> My hot take is that GPT is getting better everyday

Really? My experience is that it gets better every release (every few months to a year) and then gradually worse until the next release.
While I believe you are entirely right from a developer perspective. I do wonder if the same is true from a UX and more specifically accessibility perspective as the author in the article describes.

If you are unsure what I mean, from the article

> I show them that a span with an onclick-event might seem to be behaving like a link, but that there are many layers of UX missing when you look a bit closer: right-click on this span, and a generic context menu opens up. When on the other hand you right-click on a proper link like this one a specialised context menu opens, with all kinds of options that are specific to a link. And I show them that proper links show up when you ask your screen reader to list all the links on a page, yet spans with an onclick-event don’t. Moreover, a span doesn’t receive focus when you tab to it. And so on. My students see this and they get it. And they love the fact that by being lazy they get much more result.
You ignored my comment on the oath.

Setting that aside, perhaps you know of another country with a voluntary force and a judicial branch upholding Heller[1] and Bruen[2]?

Even a cursory understanding of mil force is enough to seriously question your unsupported assumption. It's why we have the 2nd right after the 1st.

[1] Justice Antonin Scalia reading Heller(2008)[1] for the majority:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/oyez.case-media.ogg/case_data/2007/...

[2] https://www.oyez.org/cases/2021/20-843
> Despite my PhD being in NLP, they still seemed incredulous at my assertion.

I've the feeling the term "AI" erased in a lot people mind the fact text generation is a classical NLP text; they actually had no clue what NLP is in the first place. So we became to the current absurd situation where opinions of people with actual expertise and knowledge highly related to the thing are dismissed.
i don't believe in free will either, but this isn't very convincing evidence.

eureka moments don't hit like bird poo in the middle of the street. they hit people who have spent months-decades thinking about the problem.

a more convincing argument is that they didn't have a choice in choosing that ball of yarn to pick at - mostly it comes along as an irrepressible urge to figure it out.
Can you please define terms so that I can understand exactly what you mean? Meanwhile I decided to check Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial says

Climate change denial (also global warming denial) is a form of science denial characterized by rejecting, refusing to acknowledge, disputing, or fighting the scientific consensus on climate change.

I cannot assume this corresponds with your own use of the term which is why I suggest defining terms but I'm wondering if anyone reading this sees some slight problem in the Wiki wording? Let's assume any disputation will have to include peer-reviewed evidence if it's to be seriously considered though according to Wiki, it won't be, whatever the evidence. This is science - according to an anonymous editor of Wikipedia? As described by Wiki, this is a religion.
> The US is a wonderful amazing place.

Do you really believe this?
Why (setopt ...) does not give "assignment to free variable" warning
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> I can say whatever I want; as long as I am not threatening someone else's life or liberty.

The people who are in jail for, as you claim "offending others online" were threatening people's lives.

> The system you defend is banning sharp objects

Again, not true. I can buy as many sharp objects as I want. I can even take them out in public if I want. The law even allows me to use them for self defence. We've had a problem with some people buying weaponry - and it is weaponry which has been banned. You can go into any DIY store and buy all the knives, machetes, and chainsaws that you want.

> The US is a wonderful amazing place.

I would encourage you to join the 40% of your fellow citizens who have passports and go explore the world rather than reading about it.
Same. I was writing my own language compiler with MLIR/C++ and GPT was ok-ish to dive into the space initially but ran out of steam pretty quickly and the recommendations were so off at one point (invented MLIR features, invented libraries, incorrect understanding of the framework, etc) that I had to go back to the drawing board, RTFM, and basically do everything I would have done without GPT to begin with. I've seen similar issues in other problem domains as well just like you. It doesn't surprise me though.
Maybe you are using the incorrect distro model for you and would benefit of a slower release distro?

I am fine with fedora on my main and professional laptop because they are used almost daily and then are kept updated regularly. And honestly I had one small breakage in 10 years and I could just boot with the previously installed kernel for a week until the problem was fixed so it wasn't that big of a deal.

I have another computer that serve as a streaming box in my leaving room connected to my video projector. I use this one much less frequently, especially in summer so I don't want to have to spend a lot of time doing updates. For this one I decided to install almalinux. Since it is a very long term support distro it only receive security updates and major bug fixes so it is very reliable, the kernel version is well tested and the frequency of system update is very low.

In the past, people would have complained these distro were lacking important newer versions for their own usage and needs. This is not an issue anymore with flatpaks, container tools, distrobox, VMs + that trend of dev/devopa software installed on your homedir directly via curl | bash or some versions manager like nvm, sdkman, pyenv. Nowadays you can use the very latest versions of software on top of a dinosaur.
I wonder how many developers at Red hat or Canonical actually "dogfood" their OSes at stock desktop configuration, instead of immediately going the "pro" route of basically using a custom kernel, disabling autoupdates, using a barebone DE, removing Pulseaudio / Wayland etc.

I've seen posts like yours a million times, and they can always be summed up as "no mantainer actually uses the default setup for more than a few hours before removing anything that could cause a conflict between nominally unrelated packages".
I am for numbers. Thats very unideological. Then people can pick their identity/label as they want, but in the system its just a unique number.
I love make because it has simple syntax, is language-agnostic, and provides consistent builds regardless of the tooling used. This is especially visible if you combine it with multi-language projects (e.g., C/Java/JS all in one).

Instead of running multiple commands, I can type "make prepare ship" and the magic starts. While it has its challenges with language-specific tasks, use language-specific build tools, like true Unix philosophy demands :D. When I need language-agnostic dependency management, make's simplicity is still unmatched compared to modern alternatives. And no, bash scripts can't match this with ease.
I find the parent poster's wholesale purchase of American exceptionalism... optimistic, to be kind. But I also think you're over optimistic thinking it is a forgone conclusion that any military, regardless of any bill of rights, would be able to easily crush a popular revolt. That depends upon a lot of factors.
a link, a palpable link!

What's next, sampling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics_of_Deadly_Quarrels ?
Can you expand on what they removed from Windows server? Removing options for normal users is one thing, but for sysadmins is another thing
"See, when you build an education product, you’re competing against two massive institutions: the formal education system (schools, colleges, state universities, etc.), and the laws and cultural expectations around that system."

Well, there's your problem. I worked for years in those markets, cooperating with their needs, not fighting them. You succeed in such markets by helping them do what they already do... just better. Disruption happens at a procedural level, not by changing what they do. So does the monetization: "We just saved you $20K per year, and only charge $10K - everyone wins."
Hmm, because of automatic caching/parallelization I guess. Also, aren’t shell scripts even weirder?
Surely an API would be on MSDN and not the user forum. (also sarcasm)
sic too.

https://tools.suckless.org/sic/

It's what ircpipe does but far before.
Basically it's a QR code masking your contact details. You can put it anywhere. It costs about $5.
Only if your input language changed to a right-to-left language (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, etc). Was that the case? I'll investigate it either way.
I’m mostly referring to the design language. The newest Model 3 refresh looks a lot like the previous Model 3, which looks a lot like a shorter Model S. Then look at the visual difference between Lexus, BMW, Mercedes, Mazda. Tesla has improved their vehicles a lot, but they’re all still Teslas and some people prefer more X, or more Y.
A lot of the CNI/load balancer stuff was added as band aid for applications that don't cooperate nicely with k8s.

Applications that act "native" and don't need a lot of the extras...

Well, they arguably mostly use just the scheduler then :D
Of course, and the counterpoint is that there have been revolts that toppled governments. The issue is that pro-gun people take it as a given that the US army, a body of people with both vastly more training and more firepower than the population, will have trouble with it.
Your makefile is a mix of 2 slightly different syntaxes. That leads to the kind of confusion like when you write interpolation, is it bash interpolation or make interpolation, and so on.

Make was made for system languages with slow compilation time where avoiding unneccesarily rebuilding and paralellization become crucial features. If you don't utilize or have a need for that then make does not bring anything to the table. If you DO have such need because your project is big now, you prolly also need monorepo workspace management etc, at which point you just use a modern tool like bazel.
I just played with townie AI for an hour or so... Very cool! Very fun.

There's still some glitches, occasionally the entire app code would get replaced by the function the LLM was trying to update. I could fix it by telling it that's what had happened, and it would then fill everything in again... Waiting for the entire app to be rewritten each time was a bit annoying.

It got the initial concepts of the app very very quickly running, but then struggled with some CSS stuff, saying it would try a different approach, or apologising for missing things repeatedly...and eventually it told me it would try more radical approaches and wrote online styles... I wonder if the single file approach has limitations in that respect.

Very interesting, very fun to play with.

I'm kind of concerned for security things with LLM written apps - you can ask it to do things and it says yes, without really thinking if it's a good idea or not.

But cool!

And anything which helps with the internet to be full of small independent quirky creative ideas, the better.
I wouldn’t say they have caught up. The self driving features alone are in a league of their own. Supercharger network is also unmatched for reach and reliability.
Without the originals, however, it's not so difficult, say for a dystopian government, to replace the work entirely with a completely different propaganda attributed to his name. As modern governments do to flip the script on everything from the events of the world wars, the history of the founding of the United States, slavery, and every other politically charged topic hijacked to rally support for one violent or profitable ideal or another.

It's very easy to imagine that tomorrow some government somewhere will be describing the dystopia that George Orwell predicted would occur if people were suddenly allowed to speak freely.

In fact, it's easy to imagine that even the original works themselves can barely serve to protect the original message.
Classic "I've a nail so everyone will have nails and all they need is a hammer" attitude. Not everyone will use DHCP. Static IP is a thing for a reason. I use it on servers, Wi-Fi printers (for mobiles to immediately pick them up), IP packet logging/bucketizing based on client, etc. There's a lot of spheres in computing other than the end-user one which is just the final tip of the iceberg.
Any country that can roll on normally with a debt of $35 trillion has to be amazing.
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Why don't we have personalized search engines?
- Search as it is today sucks

- Google is an ad-engine, not a search engine

- SEO is gamed all the time

The end result is a search result that isn't that valuable.

Why isn't there a tool that allows me to:

- search good content I've read

- search curated (from other people I trust) content

- search books and other paid material I have bought

- search my notes (that are scattered throughout 5 apps)

All in one?
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.'
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