skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even single cells are able to sense and adapt to their environment. That is to recognize and react.
Pijul just may be the ultimate DVCS. Patch-based operation like Darcs, fixes the Darcs complexity bugs, and it's written in Rust!
My example was clear about NOT about autonomous driving. Because the previous comment seems to imply for everything you are responsible
> Why not build own version?

Probably because it costs like 10k per line of code for apple to implement anything decent. (not claiming that magnet is decent)
The term slacker was invented for Gen X.

Complaints against self absorbed and lazy millennials have been an annoying trope for my entire professional life.

The ancient Greeks complained thier kids were disrespecting them.

I do enough work with new grads to feel comfortable declaring the kids are alright. Gen Z doesn’t feel different fundamentally from millennials to me. We’ve had good (mostly) and bad hires over time. College hires (really any early in career hires) have more variability over experienced hires because they may not belong in it profession they’ve chosen, but that’s been true over time.

The one really shocking number is the 6/10 have fired a recent grad. Given how hard it is to get rid of someone generally that is a huge number.

FWIW, the last firing of a new hire I was remotely a part of involved a Gen x or elder millennial woman who could not behave appropriately at work and managed to document her inappropriate behavior on company IT assets.
you sure the west is not doing that "oppressing people who dare to mention a certain historical event that the party doesn't like" bit ? think again
Some of the debt is even A holds B’s debt and B holds A debt. Example: US and Japan.
And where will you go? 'the land of opportunity'? You are just parroting populist propaganda crap, but if you really believe it, please, why don't you go? If you can you should explore and find happiness. I see a lot of good things here; also bad, but I have lived in many places including nl (i am from there), de, be, es, fr, pt, uk, au, au, usa and a bunch of asian countries (longest hk) and yeah, everything sucks worse in my opinion than here. I guess it depends on your priorities. What you parrot is the right wing and populist agenda, do if this is your daily life, where do you live and where have you tried?

Edit: Luxembourgh apparently. That's a strange view of the EU really, but not necessarily the 'fucked view' really ?
We'll need to find even more people willing to expose themselves to legal threats and cyberattacks then.
Calendar of Geeky Events
Maybe this time is different for real, but people make this sort of prediction or warning every year for as long as I can remember. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq have consistently posted annual double-digit real returns. So what? What do we do with this information? Yeah, there is a lot of debt, but the economy is bigger too.
Presumably that is exactly when their taxi service rolls out?

While this has a dramatic rhetorical flourish, I don’t think it’s a good proxy. Even if it was safer, it would be an unnecessarily high burden to clear. You’d be effectively writing a free insurance policy which is obviously not free.

Just look at total accidents / deaths per mile driven, it’s the obvious and standard metric for measuring car safety. (You need to be careful to not stop the clock as soon as the system disengages of course. )
Came to say the same.

To add what you said, the poll asks: " 25% state that all recent college graduate hires worked out well, while 62% mention that only some were successful. Further, 14% report that only a few or none of the hires were successful."

The interpretation of result depends on what "some" means, it could be reasonably be 50%, 75%, 85%, or 95%. If it's 50%, it seems bad. If it's above 75%, that's pretty good overall,
I'm kind of with you, but I think you may be leaving out the impact of defaults and the cascading effect when country B ends up not being able to satisfy that debt?
> is today’s Wordpress still the same PHP hairball?

PHP has moved on, but WordPress hasn't.

Lots of long-EOLed PHP 5 shared hosting installs sitting out there, and they take great strides to keep things compatible as a result. No composer, global classes all over, etc.
The app is on F-Droid, which is mentioned in the article: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nutomic.syncthingandroid...

I’m not sure why it can’t continue to be. Does anyone know why?
Nice video, thanks for posting.
He gets basic facts wrong in his blog though. For instance the rewards are for referring people to sign a petition that says you support 1a and 2a. You need to be registered for your voice to count. He’s not paying them to register but rather to refer registered people to sign it. So it’s up to an individual to find registered voters to sign it so they can collect their $47 bounty per referred signee.
So basically your answer (and the correct answer most of the time) was that you don't really need distributed locks even if you think you do :)
Yeah if you want to know what the net debt on earth at any one time, the answer is easy: $0.

Until we start borrowing space dollars from aliens, every debt is someone else's credit, every liability is someone else's asset. The global debt must sum to zero.
What's more important than the absolute debt levels is the various marginal financial flows they generate - interest payments, derivative trades, ...

It's in a highly unstable meta-equilibrium.
Looking at the underlying thread[1], the author mentions that it's very hard to publish on Google Play

> Reason is a combination of Google making Play publishing something between hard and impossible

Can someone expand on what's going on here?

[1]: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-androi...
> I wonder if they will ever say anything, though.

"Never interrupt your opponent while he is in the middle of making a mistake."
Ask HN: Which analytics platform do you use?
I wanted to use posthog, but usage based pricing scares me.

Other options: plausible, fathom, simple analytics

I usually deploy websites on Vercel but Vercel analytics is very limited and expensive.

What do you guys recommend?
Per the other comment: no, they don't. This data is not enough to evaluate its safety. This is enough data to mislead people who spend <30 seconds thinking about the question though, so I guess that's something (something == misdirection and dishonesty).

You've been lied to.
not everyone graduates into a strong job market, but tides can change.
If I were in your shoes I would make sure to do some coding/ get some certifications on the side of my restaurant gig
This is unconventional use of the term "distributed locking". This alternative just punts the hard part of locking to the storage system.
What the heck, I literally come from upvoting another submission's comment about combining LocalSend with Syncthing [1], because the idea seemed great...

That's gone very fast from "oh yeah!" to "oh no!"

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41891983
> avoid confusing it with work in arborism

funny!
A toy BASIC interpreter written in Guile Scheme.
https://archive.ph/vALFM
In most real world scenarios, the tradeoffs are a bit softer than what people in the formal world dictates (and doing so they forced certain systems to become suboptimal for everything but during failures, kicking them out of business...). Few examples:

1. E-commerce system where there are a limited amount of items of the same kind, you don't want to oversell.

2. Hotel booking system where we don't want to reserve the same dates/rooms multiple times.

3. Online medical appointments system.

In all those systems, to re-open the item/date/... after some time it's ok, even after one day. And if the lock hold time is not too big, but a very strict compromise (it's also a reasonable choice in the spectrum), and it could happen that during edge case failures three items are sold and there are two, orders can be cancelled.

So yes, there is a tension between timeout, race condition, recovery time, but in many systems using something like RedLock the development and end-user experience can be both improved with a high rate of success, and the random unhappy event can be handled. Now the algorithm is very old, still used by many implementations, and as we are talking problems are solved in a straightforward way with very good performances. Of course, the developers of the solution should be aware that there are tradeoffs between certain values: but when are distributed systems easy?

P.S. why 10 years of strong usage count, in the face of a blog post telling that you can't trust a system like that? Because even if DS issues emerge randomly and sporadically, in the long run systems that create real-world issues, if they reach mass usage, are known. A big enough user base is a continuous integration test big enough to detect when a solution has real world serious issues. So of course RedLock users picking short timeouts with tasks that take a very hard to predict amount of time, will indeed incur into knonw issues. But the other systemic failure modes described in the blog post are never mentioned by users AFAIK.
The debts can be in different currencies, or at different maturities, you can't just cancel them out.
There is no absolute frame.
That's a terrible solution. The Wayback Machine takes down their snapshots at the request of whoever controls the domain. That's not archival.

If the state of a webpage in the past matters to you, you need a record that won't cease to exist when your opposition asks it to. This is the concept behind perma.cc.
I’m not a neuroscience expert, but I do have a degree in philosophy. The Russell quote immediately struck me as misleading (especially without a citation). The author could show more integrity by including Russell’s full quote:

> Language serves not only to express thoughts, but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it. It is sometimes maintained that there can be no thought without language, but to this view I cannot assent: I hold that there can be thought, and even true and false belief, without language. But however that may be, it cannot be denied that all fairly elaborate thoughts require words.

> Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits by Bertrand Russell, Section: Part II: Language, Chapter I: The Uses of Language Quote Page 60, Simon and Schuster, New York.

Of course, that would contravene the popular narrative that philosophers are pompous idiots incapable of subtlety.
It never seems like any solution comes close to the ergonomics of having two screens.
Meanwhile: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41895718

While there seems to be an alternative, the root cause of Google's hostility to foss apps does not make me optimistic about this being a stable solution in the long run :(
Do you have a source? Preferably one that also says that Apple doesn’t spend that much when using code from companies they have bought?
Solving complex problems with OpenAI o1 models
they do, but google play is the main distribution channel for android apps, and without that many people will not use it (and many will complain). from the actual announcement:

> without Play releases I do no longer see enough benefit and/or have enough motivation to keep up the ongoing maintenance

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-androi...
Doctors really are not that highly paid outside of speciality practices these days. As you note, GP is the last resort for most largely due to this reason.

Many on HN make more than physicians these days. Doctor pay is not the problem in US healthcare and hasn’t really ever been.
Once I wrote a dist. lock blog using this resource. Here it is: https://medium.com/sahibinden-technology/an-easy-integration...
>You should never trust these things not to make mistakes, so I re-watched the 35 second video and manually checked the numbers.

>I could have clicked through the emails and copied out the data manually one at a time. This is error prone and kind of boring. For twelve emails it would have been OK, but for a hundred it would have been a real pain.

This seems contradictory to me.
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All their sensors didn't prevent them from crashing into stationary object. You'd think that would be the absolute easiest to avoid, especially with both radar and lidar on board. Accidents like that show the training data and software will be much more important than number of sensors.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/12/waymo-second-robotaxi-reca...
Without the 555 how can we have such fun make contests? The original www.555contest.com by Chris Gammell and Jeri Ellsworth (2011) had a tremendous response. 11 years later Hackaday held one with very creative entries. If you enter a contest you'll be forced out of your comfort zone (programming with solder) and will appreciate MCU's even more when you're done!
If you're lucky you'll get a phone call from (the late) Hans Camenzind as I did in 2011. And maybe you'll invent something goofy, like "Le Dominoux": https://youtu.be/PQOjkuJtBfM?si=Np2MSKgAp4ULwzcl
> They believe that support cannot scale, or if it's really needed, it needs to be outsourced to India or East Asia.

I disagree. They believe that support shouldn't scale with the size of the business, and should provide economies.
Raycast ftw - I can set margins and add entirely custom window positions and it all hooks into the same keyboard shortcuts mechanism.

I kinda like the ratpoison or i3 approaches to window management (which I’d characterise as “don’t worry about it, I’ll just do the right thing until you tell me to resize or rotate or whatever”) better though.
> CHIEF achieved nearly 94 percent accuracy in cancer detection and significantly outperformed current AI approaches across 15 datasets containing 11 cancer types

I would have thought that performance vs. human level is the most interesting benchmark? Maybe that is covered in the Nature article.
But a large chunk of taxes goes to pay off the debt
You're ignoring interest. If there is 100T of outstanding debt at 3% annual interest, that's 3T in interest per year. At a certain point it may be impossible to keep the overall interest payments going and the debt graph will collapse like dominoes.

The great recession was also mainly caused by debts within the US economy.
Waymo is using full lidar and other sensors, whereas Tesla is relying on pure vision systems (to the point of removing radar on newer models). So they're solving a much harder problem.

As for whether it's worthwhile to solve that problem when having more sensors will always be safer, that's another issue...
> I'm surprised The Verge apparently doesn't know

Really? Personally, at this point, I'm generally more surprised when they do.
It also cant draw a middle eastern man without a beard...
this seems like bad example.. a commercial company in the US almost always has Windows.. Windows is a merry-go-round of virus and intrusive, debilitating updates. Professional consultants in every big city exist to do nothing but get paid to babysit Windows. Why spend money on training a junior that may leave, instead of hiring the consultants that know how to babysit Windows? .. Secondly, real estate is close to law and banking, where there is a culture of semi-arbitrary seniority.. juniors do as they are told by their managers or else you are replaced. It is a situation that most adults quickly try to leave, but there are infinite numbers of new semi-desperate people to replace the juniors, as there have been for the last several centuries in those professions.

For those two reasons, a real estate office is a bad example of the dynamics of hiring junior (high skill) CS graduates IMHO

I agree that companies do a poor job of advertising and screening for skills that they really need. Guessing, it might have to do with HR or worse, bad-intention managers, copying the habits of other hiring practices blindly.
Not really surprising. Vector embeddings are really not that great at conveying arbitrary "without"s. The words the model sees are "alligator", "tail", and "without", but without means nothing. If something is in the prompt, it should be drawn, so it's going to make extra sure there is a tail in the image.

The exception is when it's common to refer to something that has an element removed, for example, a french king without a head.

There are some prompting software that allows you to negatively specify certain words, which is useful for example if you want a picture of a mustang, the horse. You can specify negative: car, and the model will avoid diffusing into anything looking like a car, but you can't get that level of control from chatgpt.
I worked in IT for a number of years without a degree, then went back to school. I had a discussion with some CS major seniors around 2011, who tended to be the more promising half of the class - I started talking about software version control. "What's that?" they said. "You know, like git or perforce or cvs" I said. "Git? What's that?" I hadn't even been programming before college, I was sliding rack mount servers into server racks and the like. I guess internships are where students would learn things like that, or independently.

On the other hand, I've worked with interns who were pretty good. One I knew had done a lot of side projects while going to school. He is now making about $300k TC, 3.5 years after his internship.

In the climate today, internships are the road to a job. People intern at a company between sophomore and junior year, and then another one between junior and senior year, and hope they have offers from at least one of the two on graduation (plus maybe a few more they applied to separately).

The IT job market has been tight since the end of 2022. I don't know what position someone who is ready is in, but just doing classes probably isn't enough. I tended to learn something in a semester, and then apply it after. Like I learned Java one semester, and during the semester started fixing bugs for a free software project that was online. Then I had a small program I wanted, and did it in Java. Similar with C++, computer graphics and other things - I learned it during the semester, then applied it during summer or winter break on little projects.

On a wider level, I wouldn't disagree the managers and owners of the field can make you work to death without caring about you and the like. On an individual level though, if people want to break in they need to do the right things, know the right things, and get a lucky break. I can say everyone I know who kept at it eventually got a break, but it can take longer than they wanted it to. Also, from late 2022 until now has not been a great time for new talent.
I am updating my low level and algo knowledge; what are good books about this (I have the one written by the author). I am looking to build something for fun, but everything is either a toy or very complicated.
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> "People in Europe are white" is really something you just hear from people without any European historical culture, and/or people wanting to sell a racist ideology

That's clearly talking about current notions, and not "current in the times of Jules Vernes"

Your request for me to "read more carefully" is very much unwelcome : stand by your own writing instead of trying to shift the meaning
Polar Ice Crisis 2024: Arctic and Antarctic Near Historic Lows
> Employees don't stay at companies long enough to warrant training them

We're a smaller but growing company, and this is the case for us. If you're planning to move on in 2-3 years it's just not worth it for us to invest in you.

When we grown a bit larger we might have some more positions that are compatible with short-term work, but so far we rely on devs to have a lot of independence and domain knowledge.
This is disappointing. SyncThing is one of my reasons for picking Android over iPhone. I hope the author reconsidered. Would any GoFundMe-style donation goal make the hassle worthwhile?
https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-memory-wayback-...

I appreciate their ethos and I've used the site many times (and donated!), but clearly it's at the point where Kahle et al just aren't equipped either personally (as a matter of technical expertise) or collectively (they are just a handful of people) to be dealing with what are probably in many cases nation-state attacks. Kahle's attitude towards (and misunderstanding of) copyright law is IMO proof that he shouldn't be running things, because his legal gambles (gambles that a first year law student could have predicted would fail spectacularly) have put IA at long term risk (see: Napster). And this information coming out over the past few weeks about their technical incompetence is arguably worse, because the tech side of things are what he and his team are actually supposed to be good at.

It's true that Google and Microsoft and others should be propping up the IA financially but that isn't going to solve the IA's lack of technical expertise or its delusional hippie ethos.
So country A pays 3% to country b, who pays 3% to country c who pays 3% to country A
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Another vote for Moom here. By default it doesn't have any Aero Snap style drag zones and only presents itself as a hover-popover attached to the green button, which is perfect for my use of snapping which is only occasional. Its ability to divide your screen into a grid of your choosing is nice too.

Yes it's not free, but it's a cheap one-time purchase and I've been using the same license for a decade now, so it's close enough to free that the difference is moot.
https://github.com/localsend/protocol

Defaults:

- Multicast UDP for discovery

- HTTP for file transfer

Will work in an office, but not for a email transfer to a customer
doesn't matter what model you use to explain it.

cortisol.

too much of it or too regularly opens the door to many diseases.
> I’m not advocating for avoiding accountability for misconduct/malice - but in most companies, things are convoluted enough that individual blame is often misplaced, one is always juggling various limitations and issues trying to deliver.

I didn’t think you were advocating for the situation that occurs. I was merely proposing that “blameless” processes are possibly mis-assigned blame (heh) for company cultures that become centred around ducking accountability.
I'm in a similar boat, but I've always felt the opposite! I've always felt the second law is kind of a shoe-in and maybe even shouldn't be a law at all.

The first and third laws, "energy is never created or destroyed" and "for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction" are always true! To my knowledge, no process is ever allowed to break either law. (With exceptions for cosmological process like the expansion of the universe that we really don't purport to understand.)

The second, "entropy can only increase" isn't! That's right, I said it. The processes it describes (a cup unshuttering, or coffee unmixing, or particles all finding their way into the same side of a box) are totally legal process, albeit statistically unlikely. If you restrict your system to few enough particles (say, n=3), random processes that decrease entropy are not only possible, but something that happens with regularity!

Now, I make no claims to be right here. I suspect that Eddington fellow probably knows what he's talking about. But, this has been a longstanding thorn in my understanding of physics, so I'd be interested if anybody has any interesting insights!
Weaponised Autism
And who gets that pay off? And what do they do with it once they get it?
corporate pricing is driving inflation. housing as an investment is driving the price of rent (in addition to collusion on pricing through RealPage, et al)
Sure, but that's a matter of taste, so until we have money left as those things are taken care of, no need to spend money on aesthetics. And we are not that routinely sending people into space.