skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The more subtle the problems the more ridiculously poor the AI would be at catching it.

I question the chances it will be any better at catching the fellow who comes back in with the AR than reasonable management.

Insofar as catching people who are simply disloyal I would count it worthless.

At best it might make a bad guess at which employees are presently upset or dissatisfied until it becomes obvious how to fake it by which time it has become easy to guess who hates you because living under the eye of sauron it will be 90% of your staff!
you could replace it with a fuller 'interix' which was basically a full Unix with x and motif. I ported a large motif gui app but never used it. Microsoft later bought interix
People would stop eating
I like your take here, thank you
This gives me the idea to add features to target specific types of advertisements and pages for clicks and visits. Actively try to use the data in your favor to convince whatever algorithm that you’re a healthy eater with an active lifestyle.

To your point, unfocused fake data can be harmful to the faker but it seems focused fake data can work against the collectors.
Yeah. When I’m interviewing folks at my current company, and the Q&A portion begins, I tell them they can ask whatever they want or just reclaim the time; my notes are sealed. More interviewers should operate like that.
These days I just blame everything on histomine dysfunction and marvel that the medical complex has been so reluctant to pick it up.[1]

[1] https://www.bda.uk.com/resource/caution-advised-with-low-his...
To use an example from the article, no matter how often you tell a LLM to "create a jazz composition in the style of John Coltrane" you will never be able to play jazz like him. You aren't learning new abilities. You aren't becoming more creative or expanding your capabilities. It's an illusion.

It absolutely does matter, if we're talking about creativity, whether you are doing the thing or whether the machine is doing it for you. The former is art, the latter is extruded artlike product - literally anyone with the same model and the same prompt and seed can generate the same thing. That isn't creativity, and it isn't a part of you. Knowing what list of artists to add to your prompt doesn't confer their talent onto you.

If you want to use LLMs, fine. Just accept it for what it is - a shortcut. You aren't a coder, the machine is a coder. You aren't a musician, the machine is a musician. You aren't an artist, the machine is an artist. You're just a consumer putting in an order.
Have posted this before, but it really left an impression about crows, and the bond between their mates:

Years ago I was putting out the garbage in the back alley behind our building where I lived on the 8th floor. A crow attacked me out of the blue. Distracted by the attack, the back door slammed shut behind me. Since my key was only good for the front door, I had to walk around the building. That damn crow followed me the entire time, dive bombing my head, and screaming bloody murder at me. It was a little spooky.

When I finally got back inside and upstairs, I went and looked out the living room window, which looked out the same direction as the back alley. The crow had flown back around and was at the 8th floor looking in the window, from the other side of the pigeon netting we had on our balcony. On the inside of the pigeon netting, was another crow, desperately trying to figure out how it could escape. Not really sure how it had got itself through the pigeon netting in the first place.

I went out and sliced a hole through the netting and the trapped crow quickly joined its mate outside, who finally stopped screaming bloody murder. To this day it still amazes me that the crow's mate, knew which apartment I lived in and spotted me downstairs.
It has to do with you disassociating yourself from your biological being.

When the sperm and egg fused, thus you began, and you very much wanted to be alive: it is literally programmed into your genetic makeup. It was you who decided to divide and divide continually at that point.

My point is that when you use the word "I" you seem to imply only the little bit of yourself which exists in your prefrontal cortex is you, and the rest is !you.

If you regret being alive, that is different from claiming you didn't want to be alive at one point. Wasn't it you who suckled on milk? Who cried for care and love?
Ladybird isn't using rust.
THIS JUST IN: Judge Moraes has backtracked on the removal of VPN apps from stores and phones. He has just issued a new court order.

But the ban and the fine of US$8,900 for users who use a VPN to access X-Twitter still apply!
I had Covid once - when people considered the pandemic mostly “over” (early this year). The worst was the brain fog which took weeks to clear up.
> Fining even users is a bit surprising

Not really. Using VPN is illegal in China. The police can put you in jail for using VPNs. Of course, there are very few cases like this even though many people use underground VPNs. This is typical behavior of an authoritarian state: the government reserves the rights to punish you when the situation is right.
That seems true, and yet when we try to pin down specific differences there always seem to be exceptions. Like chimpanzees making stone tools. There's a spectrum of intelligence, not a binary difference between humans and everything else.

https://www.livescience.com/which-animals-use-stone-tools
bsd/vfs/vfs_vnops.c:

if (write_offset == INT64_MAX) {
/* writes are not possible */
error = EFBIG;
goto error_out;
}
Or you could...you know...multiply the number of miles by 1.609 or divide the number of kilometers by the same to get the actual correct answer. The fact that miles/km is close to the golden ratio is what we call a coincidence, and I'm really unsure why anyone finds this to be interesting.
Some of their reviews are either weird or questionable. I read them quite regularly, but I no longer trust most of what they say.
In Praise of Reference Books
I don’t think first and third world countries is a useful metaphor any more and It certainly is out of place here. This is one company that is gross. I am Not sure why one article about one gross company should stand as an example of an entire country’s decline. Weird.
The article could be clearer how many shapes they had to train to and something like complexity eg vertex count. A triangle and a square can be a judgement call when you're using your beak to tear it off.

I'd worry "eh good enough" is distorting the outcome.
Definitely not the intent. We can make it more explicit that we are not affiliated with yc.

Partly to prevent hug of death. If site holds up, we can open it some.
Texas State Police Gear Up for Expansion of Surveillance Tech
Edited - never mind, this is obviously random strings of characters.
NIHR's research is genuinely world-leading. Any output from "a pretty decent school of 25k students" (U of Kentucky) pales in comparison to the research outputs from studies that NIHR grants fund, many of which are international collaborations. NIHR and "the NHS" are of course completely separate organisations, though NIHR studies recruit NHS patients and make use of NHS patient data for health research. The fact that you don't understand this says a lot about the judgment you attempt to make of the UK's life sciences research.

https://www.nihr.ac.uk/about-us/our-impact/making-a-differen...

https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/search/funder/NIHR%20(ODA)

I'm sorry, but I must admit I'd never even heard of the University of Kentucky before today, and some basic research suggests it's not considered in the top 300 universities globally which is probably why. On contrast, there's plenty of universities within the top 100 (and top 10) within the (real) UK, particularly within the field of life sciences.

I was also pretty happy with the one-week turnaround the NHS sorted for me when I needed something potentially cancerous checked out (endoscopy). I didn't pay a penny for that, I don't pay a penny for my long-term prescriptions and I can see a GP same-day if I need to. Again, for free.
Thanks, I'm familiar with that usage but I had only ever heard it used in the context of web hosting companies and colos.

Basically a small VM on a crowded server for tasks like running a Wordpress site. So I was confused about why that was emphasized.

But it looks like it's expanded to cover things like GCP and EC2 which makes more sense.
Exactly! What’s the point of that if most of people have evening lights and blinds automated to run daily.
I think the efficiency of the market for lack of better term is showing its hand here as it is in everything else.

You used to go to an airport and see maybe 10 different airplane types and about twice that in trials and airline colors. Now you see three for each roughly.
Relevant: https://aientist.com/ (whatever this is)
As long as we're clear this is strategy and not price sensitive initiatives we all should be doing this. It becomes hard to discuss why Australia has no vlsi capability when it has the design skills. As does the UK, which did have vlsi capability. The argument descends to rational economic religion fast: we need an Oz vlsi and an Oz polysilicon solar capability for strategic reasons beyond price.

Likewise car and truck and rocket manufacturing
It would be nice if Signal supported that, and one day maybe it will, but it's not a dealbreaker for me. My linked devices have all the conversations I care about.

What I do care about is that I'm the only one that can read these messages and that they're a nonprofit funded by donations.
Studies in Abstraction
Can it help solve the replication crisis?

... Actually, no, I think I'd very much prefer the AI doesn't replicate for now.
FWIW at the big tech companies I’ve worked at, that part of the interview does not have any impact on hiring decisions.
food analogies don't work for pretty much anything
The reason for that is around 30 - 50 years of continual gutting of the NHS, aggressive implementation of perverse incentives and anti-targets (e.g. "hospitals get less money if they fail to meet X standard of care, because they do not have enough money"), and overloading of staff duties to reduce costs (e.g. Physicians now performing duties that receptionists used to handle, the lack of work force meaning they have to work long amounts of overtime on the weekend, the lack of rest contributing to bad decision-making, and so on).
i’d recommend buying “home assistant green”, it’s plug n play:

https://www.home-assistant.io/green/
There was a time in early 2000's when both sites were great and very competitive. I was reading both to see what opinions they have about products they both reviewed. Quality was very good on both sites, it changed later.
>and comparing him to an alt-right figure (which is very much not okay)

When I read your reaction to being compared to one of the most influential conservative political commentators, I had an inkling that you were missing the forest for the trees. Twas such an egregious transgression that you were compelled to virtue signal about how "very much not okay" that is, then attempt to gaslight people with scary terms like "alt-right" (nowhere in his Wikipedia is he listed as alt-right). This is a common pattern I see from a certain segment of the population with a high propensity to have pronouns in their profile. As an experiment I click on your profile, and, well...
I believe it's angiostrongyloides. The OP's description is accurate. It's actually a known problem in Hawaii, though elsewhere too, but with inadequate recognition.
For single-page sites that are ambiguously optimistic/unsettling, I think https://zombo.com/ contains a bit more actionable information. :p
Acupuncture, from the Ancient to the Current
Yeah, it took way too long to prioritize and deliver a non-assembly development chain and opening that up to the public at large.

We cross-developed from Sun workstations to x86 PCs and quality of x86 native tooling wasn't nearly as good. But eventually building on x86 was actually quite a bit faster.
There's a reason NY is near the lowest per capita energy consumption for residential usage.
Some years ago I started leaving food in my patio for one crow that lived in an electric post nearby. Then he started leaving random shiny stuff in the outside table: pieces of metal, coins and once an SD card. The most suprising thing to me was that the stuff was always in the exact center of the round table.
It's approximately one kilometer.
10? If I am the 12th hire at a company and there's already a dedicated PM there, I'm out. 100, understandable.
Only Linux can run Linux containers, so you either want Linux to be a microkernel, or you want a microkernel that can run a Linux kernel. The latter exists, it's called WSL2
It moved to i think the forth floor and is as big as ever, just way more dense. But yes, in my younger years the technical bookstore over looking the park was a monument not to be missed.
Didn't know eating pie was 0 time.

Personally, it takes me less time to decide whether some new software is crap and not worth my time than it does to eat a pie.
I used expect a ton years ago, for AIX system janitoring. A lot of things required telnet’ing into proto-ncurses mainframe applications and going through menus, typing and selecting stuff etc.

The actual productive workflow is to do your task with autoexpect, and then refine the generated output:
https://linux.die.net/man/1/autoexpect
Spoilers for Meanwhile:

https://imgur.com/a/51u80NR
In any case, Amazon did give back to Elastic via code commits before the fork, so they didn't just steal the code, they also made it better. I can't believe I am defending Amazon, but this is a hill that I will die on: FOSS means free, as in beer.
chuckle Wish you the best as well. Hold fast to the one's you love.
Just use 3.
It's ugly but having a field that's just a dictionary is really handy and not too ugly.

We use a lot of them for things like "tags" (which can take freeform user- or ml- supplied image tags in key:value format). I adore it. (We tried mongo with one of our annotation systems and regretted it.) It's a very nice way to balance quick development (you don't need a schema change to try a feature for a while) with the benefits of a mostly schema-defined db.
Tom's - not the same quality it used to be.

Serve the Home - some articles only. Others are bad.

C & C - no comment, not enough experience with them.

Occasionally:

LTT (Linus Tech Tips), very commercial

Hardware Unboxing

Gamer's Nexus

JayzTwoCents

der8auer
I was curious since I'd never seen that thing, so I watched the video: that looks useful only if you have someone to apply it to you. Seems like there'd be a market for an automatic one where all you have to do is push a button and then smash it into your face.
...who let's a cat in their data center!? and where did the mouse go!?
I suppose it depends on the role, but IME as a hiring interviewer, that phase of the interview can important.

Do you truly not care to learn anything about the company you will spend the next 2,3,5,10 years with?
Lol. Migration of PC/GEOS to protected-mode 32-bit x86 was not some magical rubicon that wasn't foreseen.

Geoworks was doing well until its sales deals got utterly hosed by the Microsoft monopoly power play. That started a cascade of direct and indirect problems from both a technology and business perspective.
It's the same thing as making WINE: you implement the ABI in userspace. It's a pain in the butt and it suffers from compatibility and performance issues. Programs run with WINE often run into problems not found on their native Windows environment. It's better to have a standard that each operating system implements so that apps don't need a weird portability layer in-between.

Sadly, Linux doesn't give a shit about other systems, so any effort to standardize containers will happen outside Linux, and Linux probably won't pick up its changes because they already have Linux containers. So a WINE like thing would be the most workable option.

The current state of affairs is actually a much better solution. Just make all containers OS-specific, and ship the OS kernel and dependencies along with a shim, and run them with QEMU. Apps run way more reliably this way with no porting required. The devs do less work, the users do less work, there's less bugs, and you can run any app in any OS.
I don't see why it's so important to rewrite parts of the kernel in rust, or why Drew is so sympathetic to the cause. The linux project uses static analysis tools which provide some of what rust guarantees (outside of unsafe).

The language isn't the problem, it's the architecture. In Linux, all of the drivers run with the rest of the kernel. A bad driver can take down the whole thing, or perform arbitrary badness.

In Drew's own Helios microkernel, the architecture is right, and it's ready to have folks start piling on drivers in user-space. Those drivers can be written in pretty much any low level language that can produce ELF binaries.

It's surely a better path forward to slap a Linux syscall API on top of Helios + some new drivers than to clone the whole linux system architecture in another programming language. At least then, we would have gained something tangible (drivers can't ruin the kernel). Instead of having another Linux written in a different language, with all the same design flaws.
same what is amazing is that they seem to know we are attracted to shiny stuff: constantly glancing at our phones, counting coins, jewelry

i dont know if this urban legend is true but apparently one guy was raking in a few hundred bucks a month by training crows to find coins and cash on the street
Is a joke, it is very much in the theme of humans as test subjects, a common gag in his comics.
I felt this way as well, but I was fortunate enough to be working in a large company that had a senior engineer track leading to Distinguished Engineer (DE) and then Fellow. I knew that I wasn't Fellow material, but being a DE meant that I could focus on technical issues and not on management issues. Of course, management being management, they tried to give me a project that was not going well, so I left to join an early stage startup.

I'm going to succeed in having my entire 40+ year career in software without ever having had to manage another person. I'm fortunate enough to have had a number of managers who can recognize my strong (and weak) points and then use me in the most effective manner.
Because the product isn't the newsprint, it's what's written on it.

By your own math, a subscription is 65% cheaper than it once was -- but the reporting is still expensive. Try outfitting a team to go into a war zone, or maintain bureaus, etc.

The problem is that the "good enough" free articles are usually just rewrites of the ones from the people who did the reporting.
https://imgur.com/a/FcmNLbx

I’m extrapolating but this would hardly be “misrepresenting” his position.
It is often the case yes... Which is why picking sides without beeing involved is often a mistake.
No lawyer haves access to the documents because it’s a secret investigation.
Could not agree more.

I think there’s a parable in the Bible about this one:

No one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved.

He was specifically talking about bringing new paradigms to an old system. Sometimes, it’s just easier to start over. It has been my experience in programming that starting over almost always yields better results, but it does take time.

That’s why apples m1 was so successful. They took the time to rebuild just for apple. But it was 100% worth it.
You just gave me jamais vu.
> I often argue such things should be put in portfolios to show off skills,

Sure.

> This kind of academic or portfolio work is also clearly not what we're discussing because of course it has inherent value in just the creation.

You are no boss of mine, i discuss what i want. :p What you are saying here is exactly the point I am making. You only see the value of the software which is provided by its direct use. So much so that you don’t even want to discuss the alternative values and cide me for even bringing them up.

Imagine that you take steel bars and forge a garden fork out of it using blacksmithing techniques. There is value in that, in as much as the person who made it become a better craft person by doing so. Even if you can get a better fork at home depot for much cheaper.

> If you make it to do app and share it with me, I really don't care.

That is up to you. If you make a todo app and share it with me i will ask you what made you interested in making a todo app. But yeah a todo app is not a particularly inspiring thing in the grand scheme of things, so unless you are a very junior developer or you are trying some new technique you are unlikely to get much accolades for it.

But todo apps is not the only thing one can do. If you implement some cool artistic image filter, or write a process scheduler, or make an auto-router for pcb traces i will celebrate that with you even if there are better solutions out there. Because those are your “garden forks” and the skills you learned while making them can’t be taken away from you.
We're not the only intelligent life on earth. We cant even define intelligence or measure it meaningfully. If we accept that human children are smart, then we must accept that species at equivalent levels of cognition are as well.

Elephants, crows, dolphins, octopi, chimps, orang utan are all clearly very smart, and more intelligent than a human child.

Besides being biologically irrelevant, the separation between humans and animals creates this weird divide where we constantly assume that we are the only intelligent life. It feels to me a bit like thinking the earth is the center of the universe. Maybe one day we'll understand better what other minds are like and we'll understand better how we are not alone or special.
"Mouse? Where we're going, we don't need mice."
It sure looks that way! He has just issued a new court order backtracking on the removal of VPN apps from stores. But the fine still stands: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41405776
Thank you for trying it out -- "top stories" is a generic feed; I'd encourage you to sign up for a free account and follow authors and topics you're interested in.

That said, this point --

> Most importantly, the cost has to be no more than the site would get for serving that visitor ads.

is the disconnect. The ads aren't providing enough revenue to be self-sufficient. Hence the paywalls.
I think this is less of a problem with FOSS. If the current iteration is acceptable, and the next generation generates pushback, then the community can branch off in multiple directions that each faction believes to be best.

Going back to the biology reference of monoculture... in evolution you do have times where the population is mostly homogeneous, until you encounter events that promote/favor diversity. Eventually events settle on one main "winner" configuration and the cycle repeats. Similar here in my opinion.
Not sure if they still do, but farm.bot was using Nerves.
I was in this position. Either advance to Staff Engineer (with 0% coding) or leave the group.
The group I was a part of did not realize that not all good developers make good managers.

I've always firmly believed that I am not good in a people leading position, and that I excel as an IC.

I never ended up finding a new group in the company, as a company-wide layoff of software engineers ended my relationship with them.

I just found a new role as an IC, and I couldn't be happier.
As someone who doesn't kill them, I can explain the compulsion.

People feel threatened by insects. They tickle, they sting, some spread disease. They can be painful. Some species can do major damage to structures and crops. They look alien and menacing to many people.
Let me introduce you to the concept of psychological warfare. . .