skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Litecoin, as a cryptocurrency, is rife with scams and offers no chargeback mechanism and either requires an end-user to run their own wallet software which can be hellaciously easy to screw up or lock oneself out of or get scammed out of by savvy hackers, or host the wallet through some third party who then has to deduct their own pound of flesh to keep the service running be that through additional fees or through the same anti-consumer "you are the product" practices as ad networks.

Apple (literally the single wealthiest company on the planet) "somehow" manages to sell inexpensive licenses to primarily ad- and surveillance-financed agents that infest end-user hardware through a marketplace that probably acts as a loss-leader for them to sell said hardware to begin with.

And "transfers of up to $1k/mo without commission"? (Why is that quoted in USD instead of Rubles?) Venmo, Zelle, Paypal, and countless other services in the US allow you to transfer $1k/mo and more without fees to other people using the same system and with a lot of friction to get money back out of said system. And the fees are still "only free to friends/family" specifically because you only need chargeback protection when paying to a business.
Probably very good. They've been known to communicate highly specific dangers to other crows and supposedly understand recursion:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/crows-perform-yet...

I haven't read it yet but there's also a sci-fi book about intelligent society of crows (Children of Time series):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Memory_(novel)
I also solved it by hand many years ago but I think I never realized there was another layer to it! I was pretty proud of myself when I solved it so I’m pretty sure I kept my hand-written solution somewhere — will have to dig it up again!
It's eventually consistent as well, so same guarantees as MongoDB in that regard.
Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company's True Culture

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41243278

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Start with a lower clearance working elsewhere for a subcontractor for a few years?
Evolution is just a concept/idea that describes whatever is actually happening out there.

It seems evolution is emergent given the physical ingredients and laws of nature, which points to some kind of inherent intelligence in the fabric of all stuff. By observing it for long enough, it becomes apparent that the stuff is behaving in a way that can be described as evolution (this is not some kind of appeal to intelligent design).

To whatever extent evolution is "intelligent" or "learning and solving problems", it is the underlying primordial stuff of existence at play. Thinking about this always blows my mind.
I think so. My uncle had quick case (meaning he died relatively quickly) and I think him having to have every single teeth pulled due to poor oral hygiene might have contributed.
Ravens are bigger than crows. They also have diamond tails, throat feathers, and deeper sounds. Ravens also travel in pairs while crows are frequently in groups.
There’s no CEOs excitedly talking about how crows will take over all the work that they’re currently paying humans to do, and how it is absolutely imperative that we allow them to ignore the fact that “shoveling all the data they can find into a for-profit turbo-autocomplete made up of trained crows” may be within the letter of fair use laws, but sure feels well outside the spirit of them.
> In India, the Judiciary has primacy over legislative.

You should read the Constitution before making random statements like these. The Parliament is supreme because every part of the Supreme Court (size, age of the judges etc) is in the hands of Parliament.

Unfortunately, like most countries including the United States, politicians prefer to use the Supreme Court to tackle knotty political issues. So, from the outside, it looks as if these courts are all powerful. Till someone proves that they are not. Like Indira Gandhi did during the Emergency.

The US has Marbury v. Madison. We have the Basic Structure Doctrine. The SCI invented a "Collegium" in the same way that they did the BSD. I am not going to go into whether these things are good or bad.

If the President asked the judges to go pound sand, there is nothing can can do about it except hold a press conference.

I consider the striking down of the NJAC to be illegitimate. If the government of the day had a backbone, every single judge would have been impeached.
TL; DR for the first part of the story: Developer discovers ASCII.

You're storing bits and you panic about hackers when the bits translated to ASCII display a URL? Come on...
I would not be surprised if the average crow is as smart or smarter than some people I have met in my life.
Nah, it was something unrelated to databases.

I can't even remember the details. It's like trying to remember nonsense sentences; they don't stick because they don't really make sense.

To the best I can remember, it was something like the use of an adapter pattern in a class that was never going to have more than one implementation? And it was buried a couple layers deep for no particularly good reason. Or something.

And yes, modern languages like the ones you list make many of the original GoF Design Patterns either absolutely trivial (reducing them to idioms rather than patterns) or completely obsolete.
What is unclear to me from reading articles is whether they are demanding region blocking (which may not be reasonable but at least makes sense) or a global deletion of that content...
With their transition to snaps and incessant advertising in “apt”, they seem to be fixing the monoculture problem all by themselves!
It's easier to know where you're going when you've gone to similar places a hundred times.

I just think about a problem for two seconds and then have the entire path mapped out.
VPNs are not illegal in China. About a third of people in China use VPNs and the govt is fine with VPNs unless you're using it to break the law.
If you're curious about the point early in the article "Can there be any permanent value or any absolute truth in the world in which the three angles of the triangle have ceased to be equal to two right angles- in a world in which time itself has lost its meaning, in which infinity become so finite, and the finite is lost in the infinite?" there's more at: https://meaningness.com/collapse-of-rational-certainty
Yeah, it's super fun for folks who do have these diagnoses, and now have to defend them. "The autonomic neurologist who diagnosed me said..." etc.
Another tip: hamburger menus are customarily at the top left: it would never occur to me to look for one in the bottom. It's more convenient to use where you put it, but convention trumps convenience when the convention is as strong as this.
It means bless you.
If signup is too onerous, just post your similarity search request here, and I will post the result here.
The Web Chaos Graph
The whole point of some of their articles was to go into the more esoteric technical details rather than gloss over them like some other sites. So in that aspect you are correct: it wasn’t for “the average joe”. However, for some people it was what they wanted.

That attention to technical detail and knowledge is why people like Der8auer have an audience today and people respect his opinion.
Not remotely without a cooperating app or app store. But they could detect VPN traffic for most VPNs and tie that to your sim card which is tied to your ID.
The pluggable storage (CSI) and networking (CNI) aspects of Kube tend to be a little limiting, in that a cluster generally only expects to have one at a time running.

There is Multus, which is extremely well regarded CNI that enables mixing and matching different CNI Plugins. It works great, but it does involve diving into an additional level of complexity, and it can be exciting/unstable building the setup.

Maybe the author didn't have rights over the cluster to do this or interest in mucking about deeply in this admittedly complex/highly capable system was limited. Or maybe just using an adding like this was appealing as non disruptive! This seems like a pretty creative & direct way to extend what they already had. There are good well tread options for higher power, for mixed modes of networking, but this strikes me as a nice way to add more without having to revamp the base cluster, which I found super cool & direct.

https://github.com/k8snetworkplumbingwg/multus-cni
But did you get crow credit for the save??
My point is that we don't frame animal intelligence as something comparable with humans or somewhat close. I'm not trying to create a leaderboard of intelligence. I think we should consider other species as capable of intelligence, and treat it with the same dignity we give to children.
...hence a warning would be helpful, not a fools errand
In regards to some of the other replies:

While birthdays are technically anniversaries; I've never met anyone who calls a birthday, an anniversary.

Birthdays ≠ Anniversaries. Just like Squares ≠ Rectangles. (All birthdays are anniversaries, but not all anniversaries are birthdays; just like all squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares.)

I'd rather use the birthday field for birthdays. So when I say (and I imagine 99.999% of other Americans say) "anniversary" we mean everything other than birthdays (most commonly: wedding anniversaries).
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/ar-messaging...

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/googles-ar-save-button-woul...

https://twitter.com/KilroyAR/status/963767972853665792

https://medium.com/shipharder/augmented-sticky-notes-a3a1416...

https://deepgram.com/learn/ar-note-taking-airnote

https://inevitablehuman.com/ar-based-messages-will-change-th...

This just the front page for googling “leave notes ar”

I’ve seen this published in ubicomp journals in the 90s, student projects including a variant I did in the 2000s, and the idea gets repeated over and over again.

I don’t think it’s ever been successful as there isn’t such a compelling use case. You can already leave post its / put up flyers which has the massive advantage of discoverability and simplicity, you can leave reviews on google maps/yelp, and beyond that niche applications like geocaching implement their own lookups. The idea of “just leave whatever you want” is so unspecific as to not really be useful, nor do I even know that I want to read the one note someone randomly left 4 years ago letting me know the toilet was broken.
What is Rawls?
Another version of this discussion that comes up frequently is something like the "Support local businesses!" thing, where we're supposed to spend more money at the local diner and ignore a chain like Denny's.. but Denny's is open 24 hours. And people should use Mom+Pop's furniture store, even though they can get a better price plus light bulbs, and the rest of the groceries from Walmart. And we need to use less water during my showers, and ignore the golf courses or the chip factory down the road.

The idea of being a "responsible consumer" at most just delays the inevitable shutdown for a few years, because economies of scale is a real thing. Moralizing to people that they need to spend more money / time / convenience / change their habits isn't effective, because even if consumers are genuinely interested in making sacrifices in exchange for quality, everything that's independent is closing anyway when the small owners sell out to whoever is buying. Those who thrive on mergers and acquisition don't care whether consumers are "responsible".

Consumers aren't children or robots, but we also don't have any choice or agency.. in the US at least there are 4-5 companies that make 80% of the groceries you buy. Telecommunications and media are going to look even worse, depending on how you want to measure it. As much as I hate to say it, it looks like only big government can protect us from big business. So yes, blaming big tech is missing the point, but so is blaming consumers. Write your congressman I guess? Wish I could write his economist instead though.. for whatever reason discouraging monopolies doesn't seem to work, so maybe we should look instead at deliberately incentivizing variety.
I mean to point out that "signal to noise" is what's often being overlooked, though "noise to signal" is more descriptive terminology.

it's very easy, in american fast food, for example, to ingest a great amount of unnecessary sugars (difficult to digest lipids, etc) while your body is trying to just get necessary nutrients themselves. worse, since we are built to remember results of eating, if some low nutritional signal to noise "food" satisfies some necessary essential nutrient craving, it's easy to remember what it was that alleviated a craving before, and tail recursively go eat the same shit again.
I just create an all-day calendar event and manually change the date each year.
Almost anything you can do with concentrated PV, I can do better with photovoltaic and a resistor immersed in the same thermal storage medium. It is wildly more versatile in the face of clouds and piping + insulation costs.
Oh man! The nostalgic feeling seeing these photos give me cannot be put into words, esp. for those who haven’t used tapes. There were stores in my country where you would give a list of songs you wanted, select the quality of the cassette tape, and in 3-4 days would get the recordings, a primitive Spotify list. I also had a combination radio/cassette player deck on which, whenever a good song on the radio came up, I would record it, to have my own mix tapes.

Recently I found, to my amazement and delight, that a robust cassette hacking culture still exists to circuit bend walkmans and create loops, eg see this course: https://dogbotic.com/cassette-hacking or the HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13386973.

Tangential, but I’ve also started to at 8-track tapes. You can pick these up really cheap at estate sales and players are cheap, too.
That's definitely true. I absolutely loathe snaps. I just don't know what distro I'd use instead for my headless servers.
For something more systematic/reproducible, it's possible to use rr[1] to record the program, and in a replay run to the end (or whatever boundaries you care about), run "when-ticks", and do various "seek-ticks 123456789" below that number to seek to various points in the recording.

I've made a thing[2] that can display that within a visual timeline (interpolated between ticks of the nearest syscalls/events, which do have known real time), essentially giving a sampling flamegraph that can be arbitrarily zoomed-in, with the ability to interact with it at any point in gdb.

Though this is not without its issues - rr's ticks count retired conditional branches, so a loop with a 200-instruction body takes up the same amount of ticks, and thus visual space, as one with a 5-instruction body; and of course more low-level things like mispredicts/stalls/IPC are entirely lost.

[1]: https://rr-project.org/

[2]: https://github.com/dzaima/grr
Most first world countries have long and vivid histories of food safety scandals. In the US in the 2000s, the PCA comes to mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_Corporation_of_America

The UK had mad cow disease, Italy continues to deal with diluted and falsified olive oil, the EU has had repeated horse meat scandals. Most recently Japan had a health food supplement scandal in which many people died.
Yeah my agenda is correcting or clarifying misleading claims about software I've written. Competition is otherwise great! I think it's a good thing to have more choices.
What if they’re all, by our own definition, intelligent…

… but what makes us special is that we’re the only ones who care ?

What if ego is the unique human trait?

What if the reason my goats don’t communicate with me isn’t because they’re dumb… but because they couldn’t care less ?
Here are a few cultures bits about crows from a village in Northern India.

- If a crows is sitting near your house and screaming, you are about to get guests or visitors.

- During monsoon time, a whole month is devoted to feed your ancestors. We put food out on leafs (banana is hard to find, peepal or turai squash leaf does the job). It's mostly eaten by crows. It is believed that ancestors visit you back as crows.

I never saw local crows doing extraordinary "smart things". They were very good at stealing food: especially butter during winter. But never heard about a crow opening a latch.

While nesting, they will dip a dry branch in water to make it soft so that they can bend it without breaking when making nest.

I never liked crows as kids. They would often kill small squirrels (chipmunks rather) and sparrows whom I liked very much -- though rarely.
The extreme cost of collision repair and ever ballooning insurance cost is what keeps me away. Also each year the recharge savings over gas disappears has the local power companies jack up rates.
I have been using OpenSearch as a core component of the data plane for my customers specifically and exclusively for its:

Search functions; and
Data ingestion and transformation pipelines,

as well as a vector database for its k-NN approximate and radial similarity search functionality (with text embeddings for vector indices provided by another managed service). The current trench of work is focusing on moving all of the above into OpenSearch serverless collections.

I do not have the APM/monitoring use case anywhere near in my vicinity, and alarms and monitoring get griggered by / send metrics into CloudWatch.
My dad recalls working with the first electron microscope to show up at Kansas State University. (Somehow he B.S.ed his way into a graduate level course because he wanted to learn to use the microscope.)

He says you had to break a glass blank to get a good cutting edge. He apparently was often given the task of breaking the glass because he seemed to get better knives.

I believe he said the mechanism that was used to advance the sample into the knife to cut the sample/slice involved a long metal bar where heat was dialed up to make the bar expand in length — that amount of expansion being the thickness of the slice they were after.
> “There’s an IC sitting out there who just had an amazing idea for a new feature/product. What happens?”

Man, I bet my answer and my VP's answer to that are gonna be rather different.
If a ding that gets mentioned in planning is 1 point and they regularly try to fit 144 point projects in a sprint without splitting it up, that's likely to be rather dysfunctional.

I mean it is possible that gradual point drift would get there. But sufficiently improbable that I know what I'm betting on.
>> Arguably, Tcl can do GUIs much easily and can integrate C less awkwardly than Perl.

We used Perl/Tk for GUIs on that old system. It brimgs the ease of Tk GUIs to Perl:

https://metacpan.org/dist/Tk/view/pod/UserGuide.pod

>> Nowadays it falls into the category of tools that were once somewhat used, but now are obscure

To be sure, but a lot of it still works without changes!
> In other words, evaluating the candidate by their questions is just bias towards those who are already in good situations.

It sucks for the employee, but the unfortunate truth is that filtering for someone who's already in a good situation is actually a really good filter for the employer. As you say, it doesn't necessarily mean there's something wrong with them, but being unable to find a job for an extended period of time—to the point where you'll look for anything and not try to filter workplaces at all—is correlated with undesirable traits. Meanwhile, being steadily employed in a chaotic market and asking questions that show you're not desperate and are evaluating me as a hiring manager are both correlated with positive traits.

Again—not that any specific candidate is problematic or good because of those situations, but you will tend towards better hires overall if you watch those cues.

The hiring process sucks and it sucks that this method of filtering works, but it does work.
> in the actual experiment the lady succeeded in identifying all eight cups correctly.

:)
I don’t like the wording of the question but saying “talk to a product manager” is a red flag answer that would be the exact wrong answer an engineer would be looking for.

A good manager coaches their engineers on how to package (one pager, demo, talking to partners etc.) and present their ideas to get buy-in from leadership, these types of managers are the ones hackers like.

A bad manager is one who gives a dismissive “talk to a PM” answer, who doesn’t coach through the politics/process of the company and simply dismisses your ideas outright. If you hear this type of answer it gives the impression of those “just do your job and keep your head down” sort of workplaces with management that’s bad for growth.
in a db
I assume it's derived from the OCaml generic type syntax (the first Rust compiler was written in OCaml after all), for example the definition of the type `Option.t` in OCaml:

type 'a t = 'a option =
| None
| Some of 'a

I think this is the case because IIRC this function:

fn slice<'a>(s: &'a str) -> &'a str { &s[0..2] }

Is generic over the lifetime of `s`, and it I assume it would have been difficult to distinguish generic types and lifetimes.
I thought LLMs had pretty big promise until I started trying to use ChatGPT to help me learn Godot. Literally every answer it confidently spit out was just dead wrong. Didn't matter if I specified that was using v4.22 a million times, it'd still give answers mixed in with v3, or in some cases even solutions from other frameworks like Unity. It also mixed up GDScript and its shader language.

Just absolutely awful and unusable. God help whoever has to review or modify a game made in part by a different dev using ChatGPT.
I like the sentiment, but human children who are 2 completely dominate all known animal intelligence. They can speak in sentences and use tools in complex ways. There may be studies that show a raven might use a stick to help it find food. Well, a two year old will carry a stool halfway across the house to reach the scissors that will open a bag of veggie straws :) At 3 they can recognize letters _easily_ and start learning how to read. At 4 they can with a bit of practice learn the piece moves of chess and start strategizing.

Animals can definitely be intelligent, and we should learn more about them and how they perceive the world, but when you play with a 2.5 year old for five minute there is no doubt that humanity is beyond special.
You assume that's speech he doesn't like.
Probably this story, though this is the Ars Technica thing about it:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/11/how-a...

Follow up a few months later:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/crimi...
Perhaps a look at Japanese software development will give an interesting look into the subject, not sure how accurate this one is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky1nGQhHTso
Then there is politics and a controversial one is mentioned here. ''US spy agencies began recruiting former fascists and Nazi collaborators. US officials freed Class A Japanese war criminals from prison, some of whom went on to lead the government in Tokyo.Many of these figures were involved in founding the right-wing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has essentially run Japan as a one-party state since 1955 (excluding a mere five years of opposition rule).A textbook example of this was Nobusuke Kishi, a notorious war criminal who ran the Japanese empire’s Manchukuo puppet regime and oversaw genocidal atrocities in collaboration with the Nazis. He was briefly imprisoned, but later pardoned by US authorities and, with Washington’s support, rose to become prime minister of Japan in the 1950s.Kishi’s fascist-linked family still commands significant control over Japanese politics. His grandson, Shinzo Abe, was the longest-serving prime minister in the East Asian nation’s history. https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/08/07/atomic-bombing-ja...