skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The benefit is that it gives you some suggested topics of investigation, including references to where it found that information. For example, I looked at one stock I'm interested in and it suggested there was a potential short squeeze in the making, and the references pointed out that that was 7 months ago. So it was summarizing it thinking that was a current state. It also suggested summaries about how changes in classification of the business might impact the stock price.

I'll probably use this in some of my investigations, but definitely need to look at the citations.
Consider the spectrum:

Absolute border security - it is literally impossible by land/sea/air/tunnel to cross into the US territory from Mexico without rapid detection and response.

...

Open border - the US does not impede general traffic from Mexico, bringing certain goods remains illegal but enforcement of this is limited to additional penalties after apprehension.

We are pretty far from both of those right now. I don't think the person you initially replied to was arguing for an open border. But surely it's not an ideal use of resources to stop all of these border based crimes in real time?

Most people are not crossing illegally. Those that do are going to have to actively evade those consequences as long as they continue an unpermitted stay. How much of our GDP should we spend to move "up" that spectrum? What benefits are we gaining by doing so? What consequences do we face?
Thanks for the callout! (I'm the founder)

I already have the "positivity" scores for each article, so I'll add a separate "positive and significant news" page in the coming weeks.
I mean, that's definitely going away if all other employers also move to five-day workweeks, so it seems like you shouldn't factor that in as one of the benefits of this schedule.

1920 probably
None of this matters once your analysts get ahold of it and dump 10MB of JS snippets on the page. Frameworks don't make things fast. Any one in existence can be cached out to Cloudfront and made equally "fast" from a TTFB/FCP perspective. But it's meaningless if you're executing half a million LOC in the client on every page load, as just about every e-commerce site eventually does.
I hate it when I get caught up in earthly matters.
- $$$$ Bloomberg

- $$$ FactSet

- $$ Capital IQ

Depends on how much money you have and what your needs are but that's basically it
Sorry for your loss. I enjoyed the write-up. It's fascinating to see how much ham radio has changed. It used to be the height of novelty (and expense!) for the privilege of talking to someone across the world in real time via dits and dahs. A lot of people don't realize that even though telephones existed in that time, they were really only practical for local or regional calls.
“Self-determined busy” otherwise known as a sustainable level of busy, if we’re steel manning. AKA on a PIP if you are an Amazon manager.
I heard an urban legend that the original eradication was basically carpet bombing the south with DDT back before we knew better.
I think the only way around this problem is one we can borrow from the demoscene art competitions: show your work.

In the demoscene, still graphics competitions, at least as far as I remember, most organizers defend against cheating by requiring the artists to capture snapshots of their work over time to show that they didn't:

1) steal other people's graphics

2) just use some kind of tool to convert a photo or rework somebody else's work

During the presentation of the works for voting, all of the stages are typically displayed for the crowd.

This works today because AI tools typically don't output any intermediate steps, and if they do they don't look anything like what a human would produce.

This works for most educational assignments as well.

Heck, in fields where Microsoft Word is an option, Sharepoint preserves the change history and it's a pretty simply matter to just review that history to show progression, edits over time, and all the other elements you might think of to show that the student actually wrote the document themselves. It also helps frustrate people who might just copy-paste dump other work into the document. The teacher doesn't need to review or grade ever single revision, just have it all accessible.

Two other practical examples of where this has worked:

1) In university all of my mathematics professors required us to "show our work", which helped with partial credit in cases we arrived at the wrong answer, but also defeated the use of advanced symbolic systems that simply barfed out the answer.

2) At work I had an issue with an employee who I suspected was claiming other people's work. He had a role that was supposed to be reviewing and editing their documents so it was difficult to prove. However, a review of Sharepoint's edit history for multiple documents showed no edits made by him on several major documents. This sparked an inquiry to ensure he wasn't using some alternative method, and the rest of was simple to deal with HR.
The thing is, Lego is a "nice" company, and they care about their image. Answering obscure question the best they can goes a long way, people will be more than willing to share their anecdote. That's great publicity, and all you need are a few guys answering emails, most of them are likely to be copy-pasted for the most part, people are not that original. And if you get a truly original question, it may take a bit more time, but the impact will be greater, and I am sure employees have great fun finding these bits of trivia.

TV licensing on the other hand is "evil". They are in the business of collecting a tax that many people see as unfair, and prosecute those who don't pay. Even if their actions are fully justified, they won't make your life better, it is simply not their job. Even if they are genuinely nice in their communication, it won't change the fact that their are after your money and have to be forceful sometimes, and everything will be seen through these lens, so they might just as well assume their evilness.
Then AT&T and T-Mobile will have no problem in providing firmware that is comparable to the duration achieved by LineageOS, with significant punishment should they fail.

Even with a network lock, that product would be far more valuable than what is currently sold.
This became a much more engaged conversation than I expected! I interpreted the writer as saying that

1. Communicating your value to other departments is a skill that you can learn

2. Learning how to do this lets you own the narrative within an organization

3. Owning your department's narrative is how "normal" work relationships work

4. That engineering hasn't needed to do this before is an anomaly

5. Now's a good time to learn
Americans always admire the Japan and how beautiful it is, but somehow nobody wants to discuss how to implement Japan in the US.
I can't think about the Pilot ACE without thinking about the not much later Jupiter Ace, which was named after the Pilot.

Interestingly, the first more challenging program I wrote as a child was a prime counting program. Although I wanted a Jupiter Ace because I wanted to learn Forth, instead I had a Sinclair ZX80 with 8K ROM (and later a T/S 1000). With the speed of Sinclair BASIC, it'd've taken multiple years to count the first million primes, something that I use as a benchmark these days and which takes less than a second on an Apple ARM CPU.

I remember collecting counts to compare ln(x) with pi(x) and imagining how wonderful it'd be to have powerful computers that could give me the answers I wanted in seconds and minutes instead of days, weeks, months or years. I like to imagine Turing had imagined the same thing now and then :)
> the entire foundation of science is replication. So why do we have a system that...

Because science is just like a software company that has outgrown "DIY QA": even as the problem becomes increasingly clear, nobody on the ground wants to be the one to split off an "adversarial" QA team because it will make their immediate circumstances significantly worse, even though it's what the company needs.

I wouldn't extrapolate all the way to death, though. If there are enough high-profile fraud busts that funding agencies start to feel political heat, they will suddenly become willing to fund QA. Until that point, I agree that nothing will happen and the problem will get steadily worse until it does.
Somewhat related: Last night I fed 3 companies proxy statements to Notebook LM and had it generate a "podcast" on them. One of which was a 100 page document, which I read the bulk of, and the podcast was pretty good, though it did misrepresent one 2023 statement as being a current statement. Definitely a tool I'm going to be using more.
Of course I do. The fight should be fought within a reasonable expectation that it isn't impeding the progress of mankind. These aren't living entities that I should feel sympathy for after all. The idea that when they cease to exist they have some "death"? They're not people. If something doesn't go well, you don't [usually] die... you go do the next thing. If there's no longer a market for the product, it has no right to continue to exist for the sake of shareholders 'feelings' (read as: investment portfolios)...
Good news everyone - I was able to follow the link in the letter, successfully fill their form, and confirm with the TVL that I do not need a TV license.

We’ll see if they send mail or jackbooted inspectors across the pond to confirm.
Fabrice Bellard in particular (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard)
Very much this... and the Long Island CW Club (https://longislandcwclub.org) which has similar classes
I believe the article misses the point of the saying. It's not really about failing but rather about committing yourself to the objective. If you know in your heart you gave something everything you had, and you still fail, well that's spectacular or glorious failure.
That is exactly the sort of management that has landed many a company in hot mater before, including Microsoft.

Whether the managers remain ignorant by malice of incompetence is irrelevant. Directing your subordinate to do something that they should reasonably know would break the law or be anticompetitive is still illegal.

The see no evil defense is a piss poor defense that is more likely going to be used to show you knew exactly what was going on.
Disabling JavaScript on the site works for me, even on my VPN. So does this archive link (with captcha): https://archive.ph/PyDNq
> The position is not that it does not work well enough. The position is that it would not be a viable solution regardless of the quality of execution.

That's definitely the implication, but it doesn't really substantiate this, as far as I can tell.

"Past iterations were filled with pork, therefore future ones must be as well, therefore this conceptually cannot work."

For example, the RAND study that they said showed "strong evidence" that IFTs were having no effect actually... doesn't say that at all.

IFTs actually lowered apprehension levels, to which RAND says, "we conclude that there is strong evidence for the presence of a deterrent effect as migrants choose to avoid areas surveilled by IFTs—a proposition for which there is also qualitative evidence outside the data."

Then it goes onto say that for every other technology type, they increased apprehension levels, i.e. they worked. They didn't seem clear on why IFTs behave differently.
Too late. You have already been scooped by, of course, tumblr:

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> Everyone is reading this as intentional anti-competitive practices.

I think its fair to assume anticompetitive intent due to their history of anticompetitive behavior. Admittedly, in old enough to remember the crap they pulled all through the 90s.
Extend to Extinguish - Round 3. [0][1]

VS Code + GitHub + OpenAI exclusivity deals + Copilot = The best tools available for close to free.

To use the latest features they will only be found on MS branded tools like the ones above.

With the competition getting eliminated with total MS coverage of the developer ecosystem with almost everyone sitting on GitHub using VSCode and OpenAI.

Monopoly with close to no competition all without any regulatory scrutiny has been achieved internally. With the extending being the extinguish.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38280513

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34612959
> grand vector space

what.
Chesterton's menace
(I'm pretty sure you mean ng/mL. Some countries measure in nmol/L, too. [1], [2])

Obviously it depends on which "population" you're talking about, but it's pretty common. Insufficiency is also relevant and should be avoided if possible. The NIH estimates perhaps 1 billion global cases of deficiency (including "subclinical deficiency") and "50% of the population" (so ~4 billion) cases of insufficiency. [3] Prevalence unsurprisingly varies by sun exposure (climate and lifestyle) and absorption (i.e., "skin melanin content" as [3] puts it), and also by age.

Vitamin D supplements are quite cheap. I currently take 4000 IU/day and have taken as much as 10000 IU/day (for months at a time) in the past. Whatever the government might imply with its "RDA" or whatever, this should be completely safe, at least for anyone without very specific preexisting medical conditions - and the treatment for excess vitamin D levels (and the commonly associated hypercalcemia) is generally to just lay off for a while ([2], [4], [5]). Supplementation does work - I have blood tests to prove it. Regardless of any of the previous discourse about influenza or any other virus, it's probably a good idea for a very large fraction of the HN audience.

[1]: https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminD-HealthProfessiona...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D

[3]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK532266/

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D_toxicity

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercalcaemia
Senior Bullshit Engineer
Most people don’t need a public IPv4 address and can live with CGNAT.

For the relatively small number of people who do need public addresses, renting them from a cloud provider or buying blocks at auction are still economically viable, in comparison to the capital costs of upgrading everything that needs upgrading to support IPv6-only.
True. Market/economic forecasting is quite unreliable, partly because you're trying to predict human behaviour which is changeable.
I’m willing to accept the risk
I wrote a clone of TECO[1] (Text Editor and COrrector) for MS-DOS back in the 1980s.

Teco was something the CS upper classmen were using to prove their hacker creds back at Rose-Hulman in 1981. It's a horrible editor, but it does macros, and was good enough to build the first version of EMACS.

[1] https://github.com/mikewarot/teco
This text is above the line. Please fix your orientation and cease writing below the line.
How many quantitative trading firms have gone out of business?
Very interesting. Particularly their notion (paraphrasing) that SWEBOK attempts to record generally recognised knowledge in software engineering while excluding knowledge about more specific subdomains of software.

That over-deference towards general knowledge coupled with some sort of tie to a similar Australian effort probably explains why the software engineering degree I began in Australia felt like a total waste of time. I remember SWEBOK being mentioned frequently. I can't say I've gotten terribly much value out of that learning in my career.
From their main page, it looks like all of the letters with this line have something below it which is redacted.

Could it be that they print the letter (perhaps sign in person as it is a legal document) and then scan/OCR it prior to sending? The redacted thing would then be an identifier for the recipient to be automatically filed.

The email convo is from 2006 and this could be a realistic tech setup for this kind of organisation.
The space lasers guiding hurricanes along the chem-trails is totally real!

Just ask anyone in the braintrust states...
It has been extremely obvious to big social media personalities for a while that this has been happening, and research has been done regarding it which I'm sure will come out in the next few years. Whether or not it will lead to anything meaningful, I have no idea, but I struggle to see, as the article points out, why the Israeli government should have such close access to channels such as these and very senior employees working on their behalf. No matter what your view, this seems less than ideal.
> I'm surprised this isn't more common.

The surveillance in the US is too good and the penalties are too steep. If you try this, you'd be looking at 20 years in federal prison.

This incident also serves as a counter to the "security theater" argument some make against the TSA.

The TSA catches most bomb, knife, and gun threats and makes the risk of getting caught too large to attempt.

Hijackings used to be common in the US. Not anymore.
Why are you making this personal? Do you know me? Do you know where I live, or how much I really earn?

(Spoilers: One of the ass-ends of Europe, not that much - _certainly_ not anywhere near what my US counterparts earn, even "adjusted" to local terms)

Or do you hate Microsoft so much that you think that frees you from, you know, having basic human decency?

I suppose you've found this to be great excuse to go on a crusade and avoid having a civil discussion with another person (and, to be honest, insulting them in the process). Bravo.
> Capitalism + ever more powerful cannabinoid drugs => problems.

This is even more true of the black market. Legalization will reduce these problems, even with no regulations (which is not the case).
Has VS Code dominated the code editor market? If not, is this a prerequisite for discussing anti-competitive issues?
RedLetterMedia Phantom Menace review. A remarkably unique mix of comedy and genuine insight.

I feel like the Star Wars prequels were largely ignored culturally for years, but after the Plinkett review they keep coming up. There are even weirdos who insist they're good now.
I called CQ with my horn in a traffic jam and got into a pileup, heh. Just kidding. A ham can dream.

Hmm maybe I should hook up my iambic paddle to the horn somehow. I'd need a keyer of course.
Yes, the idea is that this is a replacement for the torrents they make public. In case the IA goes away, we'll have this distributed dataset to fall back on.
That line is referring to shared libraries linked to a dynamic executable. If a shared library isn't installed or available you will receive an error similar to the following:

$ ./main
./main: error while loading shared libraries: librandom.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Which is indeed a runtime error.

There is also the common use case of hot-reloading compiled code which dynamically loads and unloads shared libraries without restarting the entire application. It needs to be done carefully but you've likely used an application that does this. Failure to load a library, or loading an incompatible one will also create a runtime error.

Looks like there is a lot of bad generalizations in here, but they are technically correct on this one.
In the pre-paid market niche, you have people who really struggle to put together the money for an iPhone 12 all in one go, and T-Mobile has essentially worked to create a razors/blade model with some obfuscation. It's possible that disaggregating phone plans from installment pricing would benefit consumers in the long run, but let's not act like everybody would be prepared to transition to that world immediately. (I don't think T-Mobile is exactly concerned for their customers, but this subsidy regime exists for a reason.)
https://www.learnui.design
People who can’t see their colour TV pay more than people who can’t see their B&W TV.

Oh to be a a fly on the wall when the inspector has to explain the difference to a blind person.

I think it made a lot more sense in the past. The license is set up so it’s a consumption based tax rather than taxing everyone. So only people with TVs paid TV tax. If colour increased the costs, only people consuming colour paid those increases. I imagine it made much more sense before consumption was ubiquitous
Is Linux collapsing under its own weight? On Rust for Linux
In this 2 days it changed from "probable" to "confirmed". Anyway, I don't know if there is something new to say. Anyway^2, this video explain a lot of details about how they found the number that were not explained in the old post. (New probabilistic algorithm, then confirm with the (old?) deterministic algorithm, use a distributed "cloud" of computer of volunteers to make all the tests).

PS: [spoiler alert?] After watching the video I realized the background is real. I was expecting a joke or something. I'm too used to Zoom and fake backgrounds :( .
Gary Marcus says a lot of things, very few of which anyone should pay attention to.
GpuScript: Program and debug any GPU in C#. Turns a laptop into a supercomputer
This initial release is just the beginning. The goal is to turn every C# programmer into a GPU programming expert, without having to master CUDA, HLSL, or other GPU computation or graphics languages. Future libraries will include instantaneous AI neural network construction, training, learning, and thinking. Tutorials are available and new tutorials will be posted frequently to help programmers get a head start in the next paradigm shift in both programming and AI.
Sure, but a 20% more twenties and thirties is much more valuable to me than 100% more sixties.
> Popular OOP languages include C++, C#,
Cobol 2002, Java, Python, Lisp, Perl, Object
Pascal, Ruby and Smalltalk.

:)
True but I think there's still an element of falsifiability to a teacher's evaluation of an essay that doesn't exist in an oral exam or interactive discussion. An essay is an artifact and if a teacher is giving student A worse grades than student B, a third party can look at that artifact to see whether it's remotely reasonable. A 1:1 discussion or an oral defense is much more subjective.

Not saying this is a fatal flaw, but there is a bit of a tradeoff there.
How long have you been using your bank and its website and how satisfied are you with their service such that you are overlaying your lived experience onto your assessment of the trustworthiness that the website projects?
"Room occupancy sensors" are a common product. Butlr apparently uses a low-rez IR camera, although they avoid calling it that. Passive infrared is common. Millimeter wave is available.[1]

[1] https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/IoT-Commercial-People...
vscode is developed by VPs borged from github, no? those wouldn't know. not that I approve such things, certainly not.
While that's true, there's always exceptions. So I wouldn't say this with a defeated attitude. But I think it is also important to recognize that you can never measure things directly, it is always a proxy. Meaning that there's always a difference between what you measure and your actual goals. But I don't think it is just entrenched people that don't want to recognize this. The truth is that this means problems are much more complex and uncertain than we like. But there's actually good reason to believe the simple story, because the person selling that has clear evidence to their case while the nature of the truth is "be careful" or "maintain skepticism" is not only less exciting, it is, by nature, more abstract.

Despite this, I think getting people to recognize that measures are proxies, that they are things that must be interpreted rather than read, is a powerful force when it comes to fixing these issues. After all, even if you remove those entrenched and change the metrics, you'll later end up again with entrenchment. This isn't all bad, as time to entrenchment matters, but we should try to make that take as long as possible and try to fix things before entrenchment happens. It's much easier to maintain a clean house than to clean a dirty one. It's the small subtle things that add up and compound.