skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Think about it next time you buy any product from there

Avoid buying would be to avoid making new debt obligations. But there are already a ton of debt obligations. When the US pays interest on the debt owed, would you consider that buying? Do you think the US should default on the debt owed?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-16/saudi-ara...
Generative AI and the Nature of Work
> When people aren't using the services there's always a reason.

That is what I was saying. There is the perceived return on investment of using the services designed to help get one out of homelessness, and it is being weighed against the perceived return of going back to the street. If you can bring in several hundred dollars a day on the streets that you can spend on alcohol, the effort of being in a place that is trying to help you change your situation might be hard to justify.

But a big piece of the equation is how easy it is to just get cash from well-meaning people on the street.

I'm not disagreeing with you about needing help with addictions, but there are two sides to the equation.
The user did not "miss this". They've reacted to it by saying that they have thought rice cookers work differently. Which indeed many of them do.
2 to 3 broke lots of code. Print became a function. Imports moved around. And there were subtle changes in the semantics of some things. Famously, strings changed, and that definitely affected a lot of packages.

Quite a bit of that could be fixed by automated tooling, but not all of it, and the testing burden was huge, which meant a lot of smaller packages did not convert very quickly and there were ripple effects.
One point of view for this is that Turing built practical computers during the war effort and then was forbidden by his own government to continue to build computers so had to retreat to theory. Church had no practical experience with computers and was looking as much to expand the theory of Mathematics itself. In their collaborations together and communications across an ocean they married a lot of the practical and the theory and solidified core parts of the theory (imperative/functional dualism [the Church-Turing Theorem often shortened to the Turing Theorem ignoring the contributions of both]; the Halting Problem [and its relationship to Church's Theorem]; more).

I think it's wrong to see it as a competition, because their collaboration did so much together. Computer Science has "two dads" and that feels appropriate for several reasons, including how Turing died. It is somewhat important to Computer Science that Church and Turing met in the middle, one with the deep raw mathematical theory background and the other with the practical (but at the time unacknowledged) background.

Also, it would be somewhat remiss to ignore that Turing did care about implementation and wanted to get back to practical implementation but wasn't allowed. There's a deep tragedy there and lot of questions about what would have been different if things hadn't been classified in the same way by the UK government. Though also in that case perhaps it would have cost us the Church collaboration that helped firm up the theory so well in our timeline.
My Year of Tech and Relaxation
It really would - is there any watchdog organization that is tackling this sort of thing and generates anything resembling a standardized data set?
> killed one of his employers

Employee* Jamal Kashoggi.

There is a good movie called Dissident on it.
Agreed. Would have expected a more thoughtful analysis. Though found this to be a bit light. Not against it, though i think a better analysis or link to something else would have been better
Silence, please When did everything get so loud?
Is sublime the specific shade of green?
I think you meant to post in the "Who wants to be hired" thread, this thread is for employers
This is why so many SWE on the internet are saying things like "I've applied to 300 jobs in the last two weeks and have gotten no interviews". Because it's shotgun blasting applications instead of catering and customizing to the job and company.
When we saw a rise in 3d printing, I was very hopeful that a hobbyist movement towards fabricating large-feature ICs would soon arise. Nobody's doing 4nm fabrication in their garage, I reasoned, but surely we could get to ~10um.

As I read more about the dark art of IC fabrication, though, I realized that even this was a faint dream. I had imagined a world of lasers carving troughs, and print heads carefully placing down the lines and doping the silicon, an elegant symphony of modern technology.

But the real world is much messier -- every stage involves dangerous and toxic chemicals, processes that are spoiled by a spec of dust in the wrong place, either causing a cascade of reagent failures or a physical impediment to correctness; distressingly analog and oh so messy and built by trial and error and refined by domain experts in ways that are intensely hard to replicate because all the same lessons need to be learned again each time.

I'm glad to see the work being done here for hobbyist fabrication, but barring huge leaps and bounds, the gap between the neat lines in Magic and the shiny silicon discs is a vast chasm owned by the material scientists, not the electrical engineers or the software engineers.
Why Everything Is Getting Louder (2019)
Thanks for the summary, that is very helpful.

At a language level though, it is either safe or unsafe. If it is "generally safe" provided you use it correctly, I would say it is not safe, in the strict sense.

I don't think data races on pointers are allowed (looking at the memory model: https://go.dev/ref/mem) but I am not sure I have understood your scenario fully. Maybe I should read that paper you mention.

Thanks again for the detailed response!
N=1 is a whole lot larger than N=0, eh?
It’s not really plausible that the NYT tech guild would have controlled for factors that would make the pay gap appear smaller, because their incentive isn’t to be truth-seeking, but to attain a superior negotiating position.
>Well, the life of a person whose addiction (always stemming from spirals or depression, abuse, physical or mental illness) has driven them to homelessness is horrible. Why shouldn't I give them the means to a brief escape from the pain?

What a terrible line of reasoning. Enabling is also a component of how people remain addicts. There is such a thing as misdirected empathy.
> That place has absolutely nothing in common with western morals and mindset

That's why we support them militarily and send them F-16s /s.

There are no "western morals" there is only power and money. The actions of our politicians and corporate overlords show that they support everything Saudi Arabia does.
> Most developers I have worked with are incapable or unwilling to measure things

a quick start is setting logging level to Debug
Electoral Fantasy League
Curious to hear about typical use cases for this
If it's so obvious, why offer them? Why do deferred compensation? Why promise to pay in the future for anything?
This would be true if the federal allowed more than a nominal amount of logging. Most trees and logs come from private land. See page 8: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R45688
I’m an easy catch with bait like that. Doesn’t change the facts though
Losing Arecibo was, as I understand it, a big blow to the NANOGrav experiment, which is looking for very low frequency gravitational waves by measuring pulsar timing variations[1].

Albeit having limited field of view the Arecibo Telescope was very sensitive[2], and so could see pulsars that the other telescopes they used could not. And the longer they could collect data from a set of pulsars the lower frequency waves they could probe.

[1]: https://nanograv.org/news/15yrRelease

[2]: https://pirsa.org/20100068 Moving Closer to a Detection of nHz-frequency Gravitational Waves with NANOGrav (Arecibo details at around 10:20)
Swiss set record for longest hyperloop test
You'd likely be seizing a bunch of other innocent people's data too, then, no?

As an American, I'd be really surprised if we let that happen. I looked and found it apparently happened once, in 2009 in Texas: https://www.cio.com/article/278564/data-center-when-the-fbi-...

It resulted in another company essentially being shut down, and suing for their data back. Crazy. There has to be a better way of doing that digitally (I assume there is, these days, and we won't see something like this again).
> Python is never really going to be 'fast' no matter what is done to it because its semantics make most important optimizations impossible

Scientific computing community have a bunch of code calling numpy or whatever stuff. They are pretty fast because, well, numpy isn't written in Python. However, there is a scalability issue: they can only drive so many threads (not 1, but not many) in a process due to GIL.

Okay, you may ask, why not just use a lot of processes and message-passing? That's how historically people work around the GIL issue. However, you need to either swallow the cost of serializing data over and over again (pickle is quite slow, even it's not, it's wasting precious memory bandwidth), or do very complicated dance with shared memory.

It's not for web app bois, who may just write TypeScript.
Does information have to be true to be harmful?

Also thanks for the links, I forgot lurkers may lack context.
So it's better to assume my current employer is insolvent and to just follow that old conservative truism, "Fuck you, got mine."?
That's basically what happened when they tried (twice I think ?) to raid Uber offices in France, their boss pressed a kill switch and everything went down in seconds. It completely blocked the investigation.

Afterward Uber helped Macron campaign who then ordered National Financial Prosecutor's office to "stop bothering them" so I don't think anything new happened since.

Edit: Some sources in below replies for infos on both. Turn out I'm wrong for 2nd part it started earlier than his campaign.
@haydenbleasel1 very neat! I've been thinking of having one as well. Very similar stack! One "app" is missing in my opinion to be able to really run a SaaS, an "async-jobs" app for long running background tasks (calculations, process webhooks, perform long running tasks, database heavy operations, etc). What do you usually use here? Would be great to include as well.
That doesn't seem accurate. Commercial buildings aren't necessarily in the outskirts of town. And while the buildings themselves might be slightly more fire-resistant than typical wood frame houses, they're full of flammable materials. Look what happened with the Camp Fire in 2018.
It seems extremely unlikely in the US that such legislation could come about.

Even then, open source will almost certainly always exist. Services running offshore will exist. It would seem impossible to enforce.
I imagine that every time I shake hands with someone.

Maybe that didn't just remove their KFC-greased, butthole-stinky finger from their nose before we shook hands, or maybe they did.
It seems surprisingly high. I was googling trying to find a source beyond 'TV program said' but have failed so far.
This gets into the whole "fast for what purpose" discussion. For many purposes, JavaScript is quite acceptably fast. But it isn't C or Rust.
They removed entire standard library modules? Wut.
You explained it better than I could have.
First the data is stored in another country. Second are they really going to raid and take the drives at an AWS data center that has other customer’s information? How will they know which drive to take?
Completely for show since they even make press releases about it.

And its sad to see the atrocious quality of the BBC article. Even high school students learn that a journalistic piece, should make sure it touches the Five Ws of good journalism...

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

The Hollywood Reporter has much better quality reporting including context:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/net...
Sure, it's possible. I'd lay 100-1 against though.
I have not heard discussion of that, but trying to reconstruct what it would be my guess is: AI companies with closed, non-distributed models in the clear with the GPL (but not AGPL code). But Meta would not be able to distribute their weights without also distributing the GPL code with it that went into the training? Is the controversy that it "linked" all the other source code that the model was also trained with and therefore all thus source code must be distributed too if the model weights are distributed?

I'm really curious because my best guesses sound ridiculous to me when I type them out.
The idea is that you log in, design your restaurant layout on the world map, assigning coordinates to your tables, then create a menus.

When people try to order or book, they can choose their desired seat, and, as soon as they order a dedicated table timer will start, tracking how long they haven't been served for.

Moving forward, we want to be able to fly around and see which restaurants are available, book a seat and have one app for all restaurants, bookings and reservations. This has to be free for everyone to use.
But we're talking about the password issuer (e.g. India), right? They have an interest in protecting their citizens and limiting the power of other local governments to abuse them
Off gassing of volatiles and water would damage the wood too - wood has a lot of oil and other volatiles in it that help hold it together.
Flip side of this is the very high cost of true organic and pesticide-minimal/free foods. And yeah, not being honest is somewhat commonplace, regrettably. I for one don't always like wiping off the mirror for a better look.
President Macron spoiled this for everyone in an interview with Variety.
Feature-rich PHP development library
That tracks for me. My most read blog posts were howtos I wrote for my own future documentation.
scarcity mindset
Saudi Arabia is the country that was alleged to have killed migrants en masse at its border with Yemen. Don’t be shocked that their interest in human rights and thus working conditions is inexistent: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/21/saudi-arabia-mass-killin...
Can’t see how this is not AI generated
It draws more power because the NIC can't power off completely. So Microsoft and every hardware vendor are incentiviced to turn it off to look good. (And probably
to please regulations)

That it is defaulted off I feel is motivated, but to make it so hard to turn it on is pretty pathetic.

The fury Microsoft generated by turning it off in a Windows update still fuels me. I had a remote PC that I need to access remotely during holiday season. And Microsoft turns off my ability to power it on, with me left trying to figure out why I can't access the machine anymore.
MiniNeuralNetwork
If you want a real 'farmers box', look into Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). I've never seen those programs not be local seasonally-appropriate food. The change in produce over the year is part if the fun.
In some sense even the best talks are an attempt to distill things we have learned into a tight enough package that it helps people (a) think a little differently and (b) go read and learn more themselves. Sometimes that turns into self-promoting puffery, but I don’t claim to have anything particularly original to say in this talk. To the contrary: the whole point and structure of the talk is “This stuff is out there, let’s pull it together and get thinking about it!”—pointing to good work other people have done.

Now, maybe it lands that way and maybe it doesn’t, but I think that our industry could use lots of “discovering something mundane and wrapping it up as a TED talk” if it helps us to be more serious practitioners of the discipline. Most of what we need is mundane, after all! But that doesn’t mean it is unimportant, and it doesn’t mean everyone already knows it.
Vitamin C sufficiency is very important to humanity, and freshly picked produce very expensive. Vitamin C seems to be largely unique among nutrients in how fragile it is, being destroyed with any significant storage or cooking.

Supplementation with ascorbic acid in shelf-stable tablet form seems like a reasonable compromise.
There has been a bunch of info on Dubai's relationship with foreign workers [1, 2], so it does not surprise that Saudi has the same problems.

Underneath the veneer of mid-east progress, there are bodies buried underneath skyscrapers.

The most frustrating part -- I am south asian and my family thinks that Dubai is admirable. when I show them docs that say otherwise, they collapse into a state of denial.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DelMtGr0DKI

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MJS1ijshHA
Thanks! Getting it working on an embedded system would be a fun addition and a nice intro/training project for one of our new engineers (I think…).

What type of API are you thinking of? It already runs on a YAML config, so maybe a web server that takes the config as a JSON body instead?
Puerto Rican here. Everything on our island is like that. Preventive maintence is ignored and our insurance companies go bankrupt every big hurricane
It's better to not gamble your retirement on the assumption that your company will be solvent in 40 years. That's not really antagonistic in any way.
In my experience, vo2max doesn't seem to correlate with stress. I've been stressed out for the last few weeks at $dayjob, and my vo2max has been consistent with more relaxed periods (high). How much of a variation do you perceive during stressful periods?
From the docs[1]:

> Iroh is not an IPFS implementation.

Still cool

[1] https://www.iroh.computer/docs/ipfs
Uh, new housing has always been more expensive than older housing. That’s normal.

When more supply goes on the market, existing stock goes lower in price - when there is enough supply.

That is how it always has been.

Even old ‘shotgun shacks’ are too expensive because zoning restrictions (and too much easy money) has caused everyone to inflate everything.
Yall should run your own experiments and let the Backrooms' endless datum of frivolous fictitious information stunt a child's most crucial time of intellectual growth, facilitated by an indifferent giga-corp specializing in robbing attention from humans.
Time-dependent neural arbitration between associative and episodic fear memories
The authorities asks for access to these online documents? Similarly to how they ask to access to physical documents (they don't break down doors and break locks on file cabinets). If the personel of the company does not disclose some of the online documents, and these documents come up later (e.g. because they are referenced in some of the documents that did get disclosed), the people who did it get charged with tampering with an tax investigation.
Here you go: https://logbuch-netzpolitik.de/lnp500-zombiecalypse-im-grune... (it's in German, tho)
It’s as simple as most consumer printers printing A4/Letter, and most paper being A4/Letter.
There can be both government oversight to bring the issues to light, and consumer action based on those issues.
A ChatGPT-like assistant but private for developers
Congrats on launching! What’s the difference between this and Feature Flags in PostHog?
You require the company to fund a pension held at a custodian. If the company goes bust, your pension benefits are not impacted. Importantly, the retirement contributions are on top of your wages, versus being expected to find the cash for retirement exposure out of your own wages such that a 401k requires.

Australia's system is a model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superannuation_in_Australia
Sounds like obstruction of justice or what not
The power supply on my monitor makes the most annoying whine, and I have to unplug the whole strip just to get the room quiet. It took me a while to find the source though, only after unplugging things one my one did I find it must have been from something connected to the computer.

Is there an app or tool that you can use like a dowsing rod to tell you where a certain pitch is eminating from?
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Remote: In-office preferred

Willing to relocate: Yes, but would take time

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I've been in the industry for over 9 years, working in government permitting/licensing software.
You’re moving the goalposts quite a bit.

I said they weren’t the same as in person.

The reason for zoom fatigue, as the papers call out, is because zoom or similar is fundamentally different than actual in person conversations.

They are missing something important. Several things which are important, actually.

Just like twinkies vs ‘real food’.
Wow! $15k per month. You must be making bank.
That is not true in general, but you really have to learn the language.
Just is all you need considered harmful.
That's awesome. Care to explain? Looks like Laplace estimator of some kind?

P.S. Query sharing is supported:

https://www.imdb-sql.com/?query=SELECT+*+EXCLUDE+%28titleTyp...
Drugmaker shut down after black schmutz found in injectable weight-loss drug
> How can that only be coming out now?

I had written a longer comment but deleted it and I am posting this instead.

It's about value of life. And no, not all lives are worth the same at all!

You still need hint? Here's something from this article:

> more than 21,000 Indian, Bangladeshi, and Nepalese workers have died in Saudi Arabia since 2017

Adding to that - it's common knowledge here. Such news came out in International magazines/news as well (and keeps coming out) - you must have missed them, or it didn't register.
You may be right. I personally think this work is net beneficial, and although I never expected to be in MP or threads, I now find doing a lot of DNS (processing end of day logs of 300m records per day, trying to farm them out over public DNS resolvers doing multiple RR checks per FQDN) that the MP efficiency is lower than threads, because of this serialisation cost. So, improving threading has shown me I could be 4-5x faster in this solution space, IFF I learn how to use the thread.lock to gatekeep updates on the shared structures.

My alternative is to serialise in heavy processes and then incur a post process unification pass, because the cost of serialise send/receive deserialise to unify this stuff is too much. If somebody showed me how to use shm models to do this so it came back to the cost of threading.lock I'd do the IPC over a shared memory dict, but I can't find examples and now suspect multiprocessing in Python3 just doesn't do that (happy, delighted even to be proved wrong)
The politics of the situation might make a perceived lack of technological solution a convenient scapegoat, that is true. However, from the HN comments section, suggesting a technological solution to a human rights abuse problem doesn't move the needle, because it is not a lack of technology that has caused the human rights abuse. You are responding to a non-issue that hasn't been presented to you and that you have no authority to solve.
It is intractable in practice since there's no outside force putting pressure to do so. Actual engineering disciplines seem to manage to have such standards, and it's in part because there are real legal and monetary liabilities at stake, unlike in software.
Simpler for who?
It's a bit easier to mitigate heat related issues which can cause fatalities in 2024 than trying to control people getting bitten by mosquitos or drinking contaminated water in 1910. Not saying it'll definitely get to 0, accidents do happen, but it could be a lot lower.

The only question is if there's a will do actually try and mitigate it.
Then write in Mickey Mouse
No, that's the crux of the problem as framed by purported rationalists including EA.

The real existential question, once you jerk off into the cosmological mirror for long enough, will still be "do you want to?"