skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Given how power-intensive intelligence is

I’m not convinced there’s a reason to think intelligence is inherently power-intensive. Based on our limited samples, it’s certainly energy intensive, but there’s no reason it couldn’t be slowed down. In a world with less power available to life, one would expect speeds of e.g. predators and prey to be slower, allowing a slower intelligence to still provide an advantage.
What do you mean by "speed of light communication wireless"? Wireless signals (WiFi or similar) are already speed of light.
EWD is apparently Edsger W. Dijkstra for those also unaccustomed to reading him cited by his initials.
> the author seems like they were only there for a promotion?

Based on Blind and personal experience, the vast majority of people in big tech are literally doing that. It’s probably the most used carrot used by management in those companies too, so hard to blame them
Lots of places, for two reasons

1) companies usually hire ex-Googlers up-level because they're perceived as being more valuable (Google titles tend to under-represent engineer capabilities; an L4 Googler is an SSE elsewhere).

2) Google was one of the FAANGs that fixed wages via unofficial non-competes. Their compensation ladders still reflect that.
IMO if it is legal for police to lie to me, it should be legal for me to lie to the police too. Under oath in a courtroom is a totally different thing.
I've seen fireworks, gas stoves, portable electric heaters, peanut oil deep fried turkeys, etc.
I believe the problem is that the oral route causes most of it to be broken down in the digestive system. Nasal spray seems to be more effective because it has a chance to directly enter the blood stream rather than go through the gut.
This great for others, I jumped right into Claude and it was giving me better answers for the code I was working on. But, Claude quickly said 'too overloaded' and stopped so I jumped onto Gemini. Which in google style, is kinda average but up.
Isn't the 4th dimension time? So it's like objects moving in time and interesting each other.
What is a staff engineer but a miserable little pile of secrets that keeps everything running?
Ah yes, I should have mentioned them! I did have a really good experience there, and I appreciated being able to download an m4b file. Thanks!
At first I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt, but upon reflection I deleted that comment as pointless.

Your behavior is simply unworthy of attempting an intellectual discussion.
Can you give a before/after example of this happening? My impression has been that man pages don't change all that much aside from adding new features.
> Eng, Idea direction, project management, risk management, cross-function communication.

I'd consider everything on here an important for senior engineers as well. (Just putting this in numbers, if a company engineering is ~40% senior engineers and ~10% staff or above, if all the things listed have to go through that 10%, that's a big bottleneck.)
As a programmer writing OS-level utility software for Macs back in the day, I stumbled across one of the MS-preservation hacks in Mac OS. I wrote about it here on Hacker News twelve years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5322639

For your convenience, I'll quote the most relevant part of the story:

> One day, I was tracing through the OS code that handled a context switch and was surprised to find a bit of code that looked up the 32-bit creator code of the current application and compared it to 'WORD'. What the heck is this? I wondered. Turns out it was a hack added by the OS engineers at Apple to keep some other hacks in Microsoft Word working. If I recall correctly, they had to determine if Word was getting switched in or out so they could enable or disable the necessary hacks. So, in effect, they had a hack that would live-hack the OS to add hacks for Word's hacks and then live-unhack the hacks for everything else.

> I mean, when you're hacking the system to hack the system on behalf of someone who already hacked the system but for an older version of the system that's no longer there, now you're doing some hacking.
That is specifically sigma-delta type ADCs: https://www.analog.com/en/resources/technical-articles/sigma...
Hah, appreciate the response. Being able to stay out the drama is nice - though I do find my self sometimes craving the support structures and sense of belonging that these cliques provide. Especially when at work all I hear around me is Mandarin or Hindi, in the hallways, at lunch, essentially in any context except full-on work meetings where it almost feels like they're _forced_ to speak English for me.
So good, thanks for resurfacing this one!
It's worth noting that compiling the same code split up into separate crates compared to in a single crate will usually be faster due to the fact that cargo parallelizes per crate. That doesn't mean that having fewer dependencies won't still potentially help due to reducing the total amount of code that needs to be compiled, or that you couldn't split up the code you're writing yourself into separate crates, but if you're looking to bring in a dependency, the number of transitive dependencies you'd be bringing in as a result isn't necessarily going to be a good heuristic for the amount of extra compile time you'd be adding. In particular, a lot of packages that provide a large amount of functionality are already split up by those developers and then "combined" into a single package that brings them in as dependencies for this exact reason. If they're doing this right, they'll often have these exposed via cargo features that you can disable is they're not needed, and I'd argue that before looking to entirely swap out a direct dependency they're currently using, it's worth checking if the "bloat" they're unhappy with is actually something they can just disable via the feature set in cargo.

Notably, a lot of the "extra" stuff that people have mentioned elsewhere in this thread is stuff that you can potentially turn off when using clap for arg parsing; looking at the documentation[1] to refresh myself, you can opt out of any combination of output color, automatic help text generation, automatic usage documentation, additional context being added to errors, and automatic generation of suggestions when the command is invoked incorrectly, and some of the stuff like being able to derive implementations by default and specific support for Unicode is already off by default.

[1]: https://docs.rs/clap/latest/clap/_features/index.html
The question is whether roads are a good thing.
The store which doesn't even provide one of the most useful Microsoft product (Visual Studio)?
Review: The article tries to define the staff+ role through the lens of 4 skills: technical, people, project, and product. The article then says that a Staff+ does all of them, both at architecture level and helping build up juniors in the team.
Finally it describes them as glue between different aspects of the company.
The article provides various blogs and a couple of books as reference for statements.

Now onto my opinion. The Staff that I've met in my life are more of the solitary type, the Individual Contributor class of person who have decades of experience in their expertise and supporting skills. Yes they may have the responsibility defining the work for others, but that mostly happens as an architect. They herd seniors not mentor juniors.

The article itself doesn't work hard enough to set the bar and explain to me why I should give the title to someone when in some companies these are just the responsibilities of a senior or at a stretch Principal.
With extremely rare exceptions, this has become position inflation for the sake of looking good when going to VCs.
I am not saying that the role of a senior engineer and a staff engineer is the same. I am saying that the primary --if not the only-- reason people get promoted is because management figures that the cost of paying them more is less than the risk of them leaving the team.

And, indeed, I believe that applies to every promotion up to something like the C-suite, where I have zero experience and can't comment.
It’s only rational if your choice has the possibility of fixing the problem. This choice didn’t. All policy presented will make inflation increase or prices spike (lower interest rates, tariffs, reduced immigration and deportation, corporate consolidation due to reduced antitrust enforcement).

Hence, your low information unsophisticated voter.
I object to the government pulling a medication report containing the name, date of birth, address, and ID number for me and the people in the pharmacy around the same time as me, and then setting a "watch" on me.

from the article:

> he showed up one day early to purchase his two-week supply.

Good thing he didn't show up in the next county one day early. Maybe that would've been enough for Goff to act.

The article also points out that pse remains non-prescription because if it were to become rx-only, the government would be prohibited from monitoring it. Here I was just thinking that prescription exists for the health and safety of the patient...

This whole thing is gross.

What's the significance of 2013?
Required watching imho, I watch this atleast once a year.
Yeah people just need to focus on doing the basics right [0].

[0] https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog/where-should-my-priorit...
Google doesn't exactly pay top of market.
I wonder what storied man-of-the-people and "very stable genius" Donald Trump will have to say on this matter?

Will his FCC chair appointment be on the side of the people, or will there be another 'unfortunate accident' of Trump hiring another generic pro-corporate-explotation Republican?

Only time will tell.
HS2 spent £100M on tunnel to protect rare bats
That taboo is long since gone (I'm assuming you're talking about South Asia, though).
Hitchhiker's Guide to Programming and Optimizing CXL-Based Heterogeneous Systems
mirror: https://archive.is/DLCA1
Reversed input strings will the next Enigma
Sure, you can have very sound theory to justify that

But how do we measure it? How can we tell that it was successful / good idea or not?

Even things like what is the difference between "chat.com" and "chat.ai"?

Would "chat.ai" for 1M be more efficient than "chat.com" for 15M?
Many of the eastern-european markets around here have a little mini pharmacy where you can buy stuff that's either stronger than what you can find in the US, or can't be found at all. Especially various topicals, they tend to have versions with 2-5% of the active ingredient whereas most of the equivalents I can find in the US are 1%; Obviously nothing that's controlled/scheduled.
People will want to draw the line in different places, but to me one of the most heinously inexcusable boundaries is when the police lie about the laws and the process.

Ex: "If you confess, it will just be just a week in jail, and if you don't, you'll be executed. And your agedmother will have to pay the fines, making her homeless."
We just need brain scanning technology to extract and reconstruct memories directly. It's probably not far off.

There's a whole host of new potential investigative technology that may be right around the corner:

- memory extraction

- DNA to photograph / phenotype

- photograph to DNA

- environmental DNA recovery from exhalation, etc.
This is the issue with social network sites, people go to alternatives and continue on being in an echo chamber.
There is a method behind this madness (... or rather title inflation). This webpage explains it pretty well (it is a bit tongue in cheek but it is Friday).

https://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com/2013/03/curriculum-v...
That's a tricky proposal, because even if you might legally lie to police without direct repercussions, the same lie could easily--and quite reasonably--be introduced into into a later court case as evidence against you.

Imagine a prosecutor, or a juror during deliberations: "He lied to police about not owning a gun, and he lied with a fake alibi about being somewhere else at the time. Those aren't the actions of an innocent bystander."
I've come to believe that society simply does not scale. Humans were never meant to be exposed to instant global connections.
Right. The "thought experiment" math is a tight packing of theoretical RNA molecules, and not intended to be taken literally, without a dilution factor; but only to show [some] people their intuition is WAY off about the power of large numbers to "create" unlikely patterns.

For example, if you ask most people how many randomly occurring Rubiks Cubes will just be accidentally solved even with Avogrdro's number of them, their answer is usually zero; and unsurprisingly they're the same ones claiming there had to be a God to create even the initial replicator.
No, it really isn't.

The amount of time is very long, I don't even actually know what it was, and I personally am not aware of anyone this happened to and have never heard of anyone this happened to. In the past you were expected to hit L5, 2 promotions from hire, and now the expectation is L4, so only 1.

An L5 engineer at Google is someone who is expected to be able to handle any medium-large difficulty task with some amount of cross-team coordination and get it done without much oversight. IMO every software engineer should be able to get to that point in their career eventually otherwise it indicates a pretty big problem.
I don't personally agree with the idea that senior is basically the end point of writing high level code. Perhaps it's just a difference in terms but I think of seniors at the high end of their capacity as being able to release high quality features. But if I needed a whole new app greenfielded, would I trust a senior to not only get the job done, but execute at a high level, with a clear vision, clean design system, beautiful code base, all the right choices of libraries, following all the best practices, linting, style, etc? Of course not.

To me, a staff engineer can deliver that application at that level, and can lead senior engineers in maintaining and enhancing it.

We also consider a level above that, the principal engineer, who is primarily focused on higher level and longer term thinking and less about individually jumping into tickets and features. They re-envision the entire approach to implementing the business logic and scale the business in ways that seniors are mostly helpless at. They do work through others much more, and I do personally see Staff Engineer as the highest level where you primarily are still coding day to day.
Cases like Tom Perez should never happen. He was held for the murder of his father who was alive. They told him they had video of him dumping bloddy clothes and they knew where he had buried the body. They the said that they would kill his dog and even brought the dog in for him to say goodbye. Should be illegal.

https://abc11.com/post/city-fontana-reaches-900k-settlement-...
Anyone have a copy of this: https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Techniques-Macintosh-Zigu...
It's a lot harder to make a mistake in binary mersenne primes, and if you loop your video's, 1 person should be able to do it quickly, so might be a bit boring.
It greatly depends on how focused I am on what I'm doing. But if I am working on something for 20+ minutes without taking a drink, it can be nice to reach over and still have some tea at the perfect temperature.
IANAL and jurisdictions differ but in general merely lying to the police is not illegal.
> then shut up

The Supreme Court, in its infinite wisdom, has ruled that you cannot exercise your right to remain silent by merely remaining silent, and that the Prosecution can say things like "you didn't have an answer when asked questions".

To exercise your right to remain silent, the Court says, you must say "I am exercising my right to remain silent".

And don't say "I want a lawyer, dawg", or else the police will say they were unable to find you a canine who had passed the bar, and thus your request for counsel was not a serious one and that they are free to continue your interrogation... and the Court (in this case, the Louisiana Supreme Court) will say that that was a perfectly reasonable interpretation of your request.
FWIW, to me it is just an embedded PDF. Sure, lots of empty space, but not terrible either.

Here's the arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02373

Here it is in dark mode: https://arxiv.black/abs/2411.02373

(Seriously, we need to be offering dark mode more... I just wish the browser's pdf readers would also convert to dark mode and not be so bright. I can't be the only one that likes to read papers at night)
Same. Working indirectly saps my life force. Maybe some day in the future, but I'm about 80-85% hands-on nowadays. Seems right.
I don't understand why anyone would commit to so adhering to a speculative hypothesis H as to call themselves an "H-er", especially one so pointless and vague as "Rare Earth". There is some probability that a random star has intelligent life on orbiting planets, but we have no idea what that probability is. The original "Rare Earth" proposal suggested that the Earth may be the only such planet in the galaxy, but at that rate there could be hundreds of billions of Earths.
Qt Wayland Tablet Improvements
Alignment in practice.
Not far off?? Just imagine the insane amounts of training data needed to be accurate on that. Although brain scanning data to determine if a non-psychopath and non-narcissist is lying or telling the truth is probably not nearly as difficult
[dupe] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42080473
it's more likely that that kind of psuedotechnology would get promoted as a way to wash false or suspect testimony, like lie detectors were.

it's not even clear why you would want to anyways. Human recall is notoriously terrible.
Confession: Back in the day, before Macs had a real virtual memory system, I abused the Resource Manager and a file's resource fork to serve as a crude VM for an object management library I created so that I could write apps that used more C++ objects than would fit in memory. It was a hack, but it worked surprisingly well.
So let's see, Russia's population is 1/2 that of the US and it's irrelevant. But the US population is 1/5 of China's. When do you expect to see irrelevance of the United States as a world power?
There's absolutely a difference between an enumeration and a sum type.
BRB, getting hypnotized into "remembering" someone wealthy signed a contract giving me lots and lots of money.
this seems to work:

document.querySelectorAll('input[type=password]').forEach(i => i.type = 'text')

or if there's only 1 password on the page

document.querySelector('input[type=password]').type='text'
So like I said, I definitely believe that it happened, but I didn't see it and I have a hard time believing it was the norm. I was there 2016-2022. Also the "some L3 keeps sending me these crappy CLs" person sounds like a bit of a dick.
Quote the author “To continue advancing my career, I’d need projects that were even larger in scope and involved collaboration with more partner teams. But that just meant the project could fail due to even more factors outside my control, wasting months or years of my life.”

I am sure if he looks back and reflects again, he will admit that the success of a startup relay on 100+ other factors that out of your control. It is never a wasting time in your life. You learned how the world works!
It’s a classic definition. Soft/hard science fiction has two meanings either the topic is focused on hard sciences (physics) vs soft sciences (sociology) or “It can also refer to science fiction which prioritizes human emotions over scientific accuracy or plausibility.[1]”

So it’s not universal but is an accepted definition that any deviation from the possible or probable (for example, including faster-than-light travel or paranormal powers) to be a mark of "softness."

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

Popular science fiction is generally extremely soft, but occasionally you get stuff like The Cold Equations where the plot is driven by real world constraints. Even then it included FTL so a purest would call it soft.
https://annas-archive.org/md5/c79594767ff7d952edc0c65682d5ac...
The long lost San Francisco Bay ferry system
Other readers, please note that none of the above is an exaggeration.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/10/suspect-asks-for...
It's no longer senior, it's only L4 (new hires are usually L3). Also I never knew the time length for the cliff, but I think it was really, really long.
There's a limit to how much you can buy per day, per 30 days, and per year.
For me, everything important I have could be accessed from browser(as I do full system backup) and the cookie I have in browser could allow the app to access my data. How does QubesOS help in this scenario?
It’s going to depend on the requirements the company has. For example, if you need to deal with FIPS or IRS compliance, it is going to be tough.

When I was responsible for IT in a regulated scenario, we over provisioned laptops and used VMs or the Windows 10 Linux layer. We treated the Linux part like a developer tool.

If you don’t have compliance and audit risk, just find an angle to make it on. The puppet advice is good - maybe add shipping logs to a siem or splunk server.
It would be very handy if you allow putting text in query string for translate.

Example for google translate:
https://translate.google.com/?text=%s

EDIT: You already supported it! Nice, didn't see it mentioned anywhere. This works: https://translate.kagi.com/?text=%s

I wonder how do we set language in query string? And can we execute search immediately on visit instead of needing to hit the Translate button?
but would be okay if AI took part of killing them (if they were in the wrong place at the wrong time of course).

the Obama administration did this with the drone program...10 years before ChatGPT or LLMs
As a current (and now reconsidering) subscriber, I can't agree with this sentiment enough.
"Medication report" sure does make it sound a lot scarier than an indication of whether you had allergies.

You get that there are already detailed, retained records of your actually-sensitive prescriptions, right?
This looks like an awesome project! I wish you guys the best in your race against the machine.
> back when it was still Fedora "Core"

This was an extremely long time ago.