skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think you're dismissing the people such as myself that would note you as an idiot without comment and move on wanting nothing to do with you.

> Edit: tests ... with people you just met is an ineffective way to navigate the world. My 2c

Do you see the irony here?

I wouldn't personally run the kind of test OP is running, but I think that even in your case the test succeeded: they've successfully separated themselves from someone who is inclined take one aspect of who they present themselves as and immediately put them in a box, label them, and dismiss them. They don't have to know that you're that kind of person for the filter to be effective.
There's plenty of reports of YJIT lowering real world Rails applications latency by 15-30%.

There is also plenty of perfectly snappy Rails applications out there. People need to stop blaming the framework...
Not if you use proper python env and package management tools like pdm or poetry.
At least it's not the Alapin(2. c3). As a sicilian player from the black side this is like half my games now and I'm considering switching to some other defence because it's boring me to death. Not sure what I'd go for though, feels like the sicilian is the only non-dubious defence to e4 to offer real fighting positions. Caro-kann is passive, French is pretty passive unless they play Nc3 and you get the Winaver, Scandi is a snoozefest, and the Petrov is frankly disgusting in its lack of ambition. Two Knight's defence is very fun if they play Ng5 or d4 but now everyone's playing d3 to make the game as boring as possible.

I guess I'm stuck with the Sicilian. If anyone knows a way to make the Alapin wild and tactical as black, I'm listening.
Nothing is pushed. You can upgrade your Rails 7 application to Rails 8 today and no Solid* nor Kamal nor Thruster will be used in your app. It's there for you to use it. If you don't want to use it, don't. They released these new tools and, if you want to use something else, you can. That's the whole idea of Rails.
Something similar actually happened to me. Somebody called me about a job application I submitted through craigslist/email 6-7 years ago. This was while I was a student. I had to tell the lady that I don't even live in the same area.

Obviously this is nowhere near 48 years.
I recommend watching the Rails World opening keynote for some context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cEn_83zRFw
Amazon RTO Edict Reflects Fear New Hires Don't Know Company Culture
I am reminded of the decline of MySpace. It was just thousands of bots posing as users, posting ads on people's pages for e-books, pharmaceuticals etc. The bots remained talking to each other long after the last humans left.
Ah, fair enough. I do see that now that I look for it explicitly.
Yeah, my strategy is to when I start reading move my bookmark from where I am in the book to where I am in the footnotes so that while I'm reading I use the bookmark to quickly find the correct place in the footnotes.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41760667
MB, right? Mb is megabit

I only have to bring this up because network providers still insist on measuring bits
I'm glad that Kagi (and others) exist as an alternative for people who don't want generative AI in their searches.

Personally, I'm excited about more generative AI being added to my search results, and I'll probably switch to whichever search engine ends up with the best version of it.
Neat!

Just fyi I tried to add Criminal[1] and it seems like it was...partially successful[2]? The "Enter RSS URL" page loaded for a while and then stopped.

[1] https://thisiscriminal.com/episodes

[2] https://www.audioscrape.com/podcast/criminal
Replit Quickstart Guides
Love this, would love to see this run locally and allow me to add notes and associate docs with it.

Also, a simple local API would be fantastic.
I really enjoyed Factfulness by Hans Rosling et al.

Potentially a bit dated now, but A New Kind of Science by Wolfram was pretty eye opening.
While I like nuclear on the paper and its theoretical env impact, this one is hard to ignore. Add costs of current projects which became ridiculous in reality. Plus as we see with various wars nuclear powerplants would be a prime target for terrorists or even state actors, they are certainly not considered as excluded from wars, in contrary.

If we move to renewables, over 100 years there would be 0 reason to have a single nuclear plant running anywhere, apart from making nuclear weapons fuel. I just wish we were now where we would/will be in 50 years in terms of renewables technology maturity and its spread.
Check out https://github.com/tyfkda/xcc, I've only used the native backend, but it's small and fast.
You're doing classic strawman. The other 2 guys arguing against me are also doing strawman. I can only wonder why that my lighthearted recall of my youth struck so much nerve in you and those other 2 guys.
> Nike (the shoe company)

as opposed to Nike, the Ancient Greek goddess of Victory, who contributes essentially nothing back to the OSS community
Krugman won his nobel prize in economics for his work on international trade, and especially protectionism of infant industries:

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2008/kru...

His NYT column might be controversial, but his work in international trade absolutely isn't.

It's like saying Chomsky is controversial to counter argue his work in linguistics. Chomsky might be a political hack, but his opinion on formal grammars is probablyt sound.

> I wonder, how much "textbook stuff" was removed from textbooks after 2008?

Basically nothing, to be honest? What should have changed?

The banks that collapsed into a financial crisis were effectively committing fraud. The federal reserve were publishing opinions that the housing sector was at risk as early as 2005-2006.

Also, it's difficult for a central bank to know the extent of the mispricing when there's active concealment of risks (eg. backroom deals with insurers and risk assessors) - you need full on auditing to spot that.

The bigger problem with 2008 is that almost no one responsible went to jail.
Creative Commons offers a portal if you wish to cast a wider net (music, video, 3D models)

It also includes Google Images and Flickr.

https://search.creativecommons.org/

I found the peachicks on Commons by searching "peacock" and then following categories up the tree. If people use the wrong search engine with naïve search terms, I don't know what to tell ya.

This is a parallel example of why reference librarians are still worth consulting, because they will guide you to the library's resources and databases, and demonstrate how to use search queries.
It seems like the image results for "baby peacock" are returning articles talking about AI-generated photos of baby peacocks due to some recent trend involving an AI-generated baby peacock image.

Have people tried searching for other animals? Maybe this isn't a case of Google being inundated with AI-generated photos, but just something to do with the results for this particular phrase.
Personally, the argument for strong types is when you’re writing critical foreseeably permanent architecture. It’s an extra layer of security and explanation.
In what world does this work?

$ curl http://your-website.com/public/../../../../proc/12345/environ

If your server is serving up your whole filesystem, you likely have a lot of big problems.
I have a hard time explaining why, perhaps because I did not know what a baby peacock looks like, but this somehow really drove home the "dark side of AI" for me.

I have gotten used to trusting search results somewhat. Sure there would be oddball results and nearly non-sensical ones, but they would be scarce through a sea of relevant images. Now with this, I would be blind to the things I don't know and as someone who grew up it with Google "just being there", it truly scares me.
Ha! Thanks for the elucidation. My assumptions around the GP did include the assumption of sex, but it was more in a honeypot context rather than as an end in an of itself.
It's been a long time since I read it, but it definitely gets better.
The problem in the US is price gouging and ISPs accepting government money to improve infrastructure then pocketing it instead.
I'm at a juncture in my career where I'm asking what could really motivate me to do anything that I really feel is worth doing in tech. In my earlier years I remember using both CompuServe and Prodigy. I'm not sure if it just hindsight colored by nostalgia, but I yern for the feeling I had as a young teenager when I could explore a quirky and curated world of information.

I'm starting to think that all this AI stuff has finally pushed the ads-based Internet past its tipping point.

I feel I could be motivated to work on a walled garden with moderation paid for by subscription fees. What would it be worth to you to have an entirely new online experience free of all the enshittification of the past 15 years?

Personally, I pay for Kagi just to have a small taste of what that could be like. But what if not just the search engine, but also all the sites be funded entirely by a subscription fee paid to the service profider? What if privacy could be a foremost feature of that world? What if advertising and astroturfing were strictly forbidden, and human authors would have to be vetted by other humans to be allowed a place in this world? "This content is Certified ads- and AI-Free(tm)."

I really don't know how well something like that would turn out in 2024, but I feel I wouldn't be alone in wanting to give it a try.
Of the groups studied who spread conspiracies they don't actually believe, the author missed one trait I believe exists among commercial conspiracists, common conspiracists, and trolls - A strong belief in pessimistic nihilism, either conscious or unconscious.

A belief in nihilism is not at all the same as being a proponent of nihilism. In fact, one cannot practically be against nihilism without believing it exists in the world.

Truth needs to exist for life to have meaning. If you perceive that truth is being fundamentally undermined, then by extension, the lives people live are deficient in meaning.

I could just be projecting, but I believe deep pessimism about life is a rational explanation for conspiracists who promote views that they themselves don't believe. How else could someone have such fundamental levels of cognitive dissonance (not acting with directly malicious intent)?
“Even if exposed or leaked, it is one secret to rotate rather than all of your secrets, scattered across all of your services and their environment variables.”

I don’t think this is true. You’d rotate all secrets in the store, as they could be accessed/compromised.
Might want to check out Harpoon: https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/harpoon/tree/harpoon2

No comment on your one-file approach one way or the other, but like all of us, you will need to deal with tree-shaped projects, I've found Harpoon to be a good solution for this. Global marks can only get you so far.

Good luck with Audioscape btw.
I have been meaning to come back to this since reading Selfish Gene, but haven't gotten to it! I suppose I should :)
David Eddings' books are also my favorite of all time, agree about Belgariad and Mallorean. That reminds me that I should start them again. Thanks for bringing back a great memory!
And also for Linux :)
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
I'm not sure I like your parent's idea, but it isn't like the regular internet would go away... when you want useful, go there.

I wouldn't mind a modern take on geocities sorta system. Where: (1) You can make a webpage that could be about whatever the bleep you wanted it to be about. (2) Only allowed a reduced subset of web technologies. (3) That was free from any advertising or commerce/sales. (4) Was only available to individuals or businesses no larger than closely-held corporation. (5) had clear limitation on AI uses. (6) Had a complete index, categorized and tagged, of all the sites available.

But if I am being honest, that is just the nostalgia for the old internet talking.
You’re both right in a way, in that you’re able to reason about the word from usage and context but it’s a separate meaning entirely, #5 below

From Oxford Dictionary of English

verb (bags, bagging, bagged) [with object]

1 put (something) in a bag: customers bagged their own groceries | we bagged up the apples | once you've raked the leaves, bag them up right away so that they don't get wet.

2 succeed in killing or catching (an animal): Mike bagged nineteen cod.
• succeed in securing (something): we've bagged three awards for excellence | get there early to bag a seat in the front row.

3 [no object] (of clothes, especially trousers) form loose bulges due to wear: these trousers never bag at the knee.

4 North American English informal fit (a patient) with an oxygen mask or other respiratory aid.

5 (bags or bags I) British English informal a child's expression used to make a claim to something: bags his jacket.

6 North American English informal abandon or give up on: she ought to just bag this marriage and get on with her life.

7 informal, mainly Australian and New Zealand
English criticize: the fans should be backing him not bagging him.
Cordial or not, I certainly wouldn’t want to be friends with someone sociopathically “testing” me like that. It’s literal anti-social behavior.
I've built a lot of niche applications in Ruby, but a few years ago I switched most of my toy programs to python, because it's easier to find other devs who can meaningfully contribute if I write in python.

At work I have been using Ruby for longer than rails has existed. In those days there were lots of neat uses for Ruby (one of the most interesting being at NASA), but none of us knew if it would ever catch on. We didn't care -- Ruby made programming _fun_, and we were happy to use it even if no one else ever did.

It was partly the language that made Ruby fun but also the community. And it's out of this community that projects like chef, puppet, shoes, etc. were born. Matz has called Ruby human- oriented programming, and I can think of like that is human- oriented than community.
Pardon my sarcasm: You should work on WordPress. It's the most popular website framework in the world.
There are a number of ways this might get solved, but I would speculate that it will generally be solved by adding image metadata that is signed by a certificate authority similar to the way SSL certificates are assigned to domains.

I think eventually all digital cameras and image scanners will securely hash and sign images just as forensic cameras do to certify that an image was "captured" instead of generated.

Of course this leaves a grey area for image editing applications such as Photoshop, so there may also need to be some other level of certificate base signing introduced there as well.
A great fantasy book is "The Fifth Season" by N. K. Jemisin. The whole broken earth trilogy by Jemisin is amazing. Here's to fantasy books!
All the ‘terrible lizards’ DID go extinct.
Fantastic work on Termichess!
Reddit is already lost. I was talking to the mods in a large political subreddit and they said after Reddit started charging for API access, all the tools they used to keep on top of the trolls and bots stopped working, and the quality of the whole subreddit declined visibly and dramatically.
Your unauthorized access has been reported to the Fair Use Bureau.
At the Hetzner Summit two a few weeks ago they presented the servers used for this.

I am not sure about the exact specifications anymore, but they are building dedicated servers for this with custom chassis where each server has a ton of drives and I think they each had 40 GBits networking. These are special servers that are not available to customers directly.
This is covered in the spec. "Use your best judgement" is the answer. What's the other solution? Just give up and version you software sequentially/by timestamp?
I second the Black Company. I recently turned some friends onto it and got back in as a consequence. It was such a great twist on how a dark fantasy reads. Totally agree for Garret PI.

I'll have to add my other fantasy favourites : The Kingkiller Chronicles (though be prepared to be left hanging) and the Stormlight Archives are truly excellent.
Thanks! From the blurb, this looks perfect, and I've been meaning to read some Terry Pratchett. I really enjoyed being a substitute postal worker in Yoku's Island Express.
You're right. Those shouldn't be completely ignored. They probably shouldn't be the only argument to make tech decisions upon.
Did you ever build any webapp in Ruby on Rails? You should check it out!
If juniors are being cut out and seniors are being increasingly relied upon to do more and more, that seems to be unsustainable in the long term
And the pack-an-AM-radio approach is likely to fall victim to old batteries. Low probability emergency equipment people are likely to forget about.

And a common use case for this would be people evacuating a disaster area. Being able to put up a simple transmitter with localized instructions would be a very good thing. As it stands there are government transmitters out there running looped broadcasts with general information and closure information.
It is just named after the poem, as a reference to the SV ideology of stepping back and letting the machines and the networks decide our future.
Scifi here but the most embarrassing one I have to admit to loving is the stainless steel rat series by Harry Harrison.
Advanced Custom Fields 6.3.8 Security Release
it's not necessary to keep it in your car. the point is to keep it in a bag, which you could quickly bring to your car or even carry with you.
again, do they obey the laws of physics? can they decide to go against what the physical interactions in their brain guide them to do?
> where the incentives are aligned towards me, instead of against me.

It's great to read these words. People are starting to get it.
The Internet is not for you, it's against you.
They want money, they’re riding the hype wave, not advancing anything and I’m sure most or all know it.
WTF. Why should Comcast need their customer's SSNs?
Cheap is a perfectly fine way to say low in price and you knew exactly what I meant...
One of them is in interstellar space
A read a comment here a while ago about "search and rescue" being a euphemism for military applications and that's the first thing I thought of when I saw this story.
> Do you have a link that explains all this?

No, and I very much doubt any link exists. I am instead guessing based on experience with other govt. agency budgeting and procurement processes. The procurement process is very likely to have been a single bulk buy based on an estimation of upcoming demand. Then demand for the free tests likely did not meet the estimate, leaving a backlog in the warehouse of aging tests. I.e., they likely encountered a real life example of the "beer distribution game" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_distribution_game).
Nice! I didn’t know the project.
Thanks for sharing!
A growing list of fake podcasts generated by Notebook LM
I'd love to try this, but a few months ago I tried Wayland and half of the stuff wasn't working :/
Type Theory and Formal Proof (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/type-theory-and-formal-...)
The Next Stage for Chips and Cheese
In this vein, junkie Kindle Unlimited sci fi hits that spot for me too.

Currently reading a huge series with easily digestible books by Ryk Brown The Frontiers Saga.

Also anyone remember the old Sten books? There’s a modern rip off that’s very good, amusing and has cartoon violence it’s called the Undying Mercenary series by BV Larson.

And finally, Taken to the Stars and Backyard Starship get honorable mentions but really there is pretty much infinite versions of this shiz.
I'm not sure if I understood something wrong, but .env files are for development, not production. It never crossed my mind to use .env files for production deployments, but skimming the blog post, it seems like people do ship a .env file to their production environment?
Interesting that both ruby and python are on the jit path. less is more.
That IS great, but hardly trashy!
No individual US state has anywhere near the economic, historic, political or social hegemony over the rest of the nation state as is seen with England in the UK. In a lot of contexts outside of the UK, saying "England" is completely comprehensible as meaning the UK, regardless of correctness. No one is going to say "England invaded Iraq" and be confused.
Absolutely love Adam Curtis. I was first exposed to AWOBMOLG in the basement of the Palais de Tokyo as an idealistic undergrad, and bristled at his claims. Since then it has become one of my favorite pieces of filmmaking. Great soundtrack too.
We're still a very long ways away from LLMs/AI replacing SWEs. I don't even think we'll see them replace SWE in my lifetime, at least not with the way LLMs work currently.

LLMs are great at producing single functions, maybe even a whole class. But they really are terrible architects and can't produce something that requires multiple systems to interact. Their simple method of "predict the next token" is bad at planning and is mainly incapable of producing complex systems.

Until AI gets to a point where you can just say "Create an MMORPG with these features [....]", there will be a need for SWEs. Until then, it's just "Create a function that adds all the stat bonuses from the player's gear" and hope that it can understand your other code that defines the player's gear.
In terms of info per dollar, you can't beat Littler Books' master collection.
As your own quote implies, even bull bars can be type approved. There is no reason why a Cybertruck couldn't.
I have found that if I read the internet, the world (tech employment) is ending. But if I look at my email and messages; there is more work in front of me than I have time to do.

It’s probably less sustainable of a career than working for the IRS and more sustainable than working as a musician.

Ultimately it comes down to choosing what problems you want to face on a daily basis. If you don’t like excessive change (economic and technological) then it’s probably not a great career for you. If you’re willing to accept those risks and face them like any other problem you will be fine.

I use AI on a day to day basis to code, but it’s not going to eliminate my job anytime soon.
You sure about that "pure clean" part?
"It is argued" is a weaselly phrase that means nothing. It is argued that the Earth is flat, too. What's the evidence and what is the academic consensus?
If you enjoyed 1Q84, and haven't yet read the Wind-up Bird Chronicle, there's a little bit of a connection you might enjoy.

The first Murakami book I read was Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, and it's still one of my favourites, with a new translation by Jay Rubin coming out later this year. The book of his that's always spoken to me the most is South of the Border, West of the Sun.

If you're ever in Tokyo, consider visiting the Murakami library at Waseda University. It's got a small cafe downstairs, sometimes with live music performances, and lots of nooks and corners for sitting and relaxing with a book. There are copies of all of his books, and tons of translated copies in many languages.
61.5% sounds like a lot, but how much electricity is needed to replace everything that fossil fuel is now used for? I think it needs to increase to 400% or so to do that.
you wrote "they have control" and told me to think.

now you correct yourself, "they did" have control.

confused why I'm the one who needs to think before I post when you're the one backtracking.
You would have to be soft in the head to rely on any LLM for researching information on a medication you're actively taking.
Is this showing the world your search bubble?