skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree, of course you can have a career in tech. It just depends where you work.

You can work a series of jobs in tech, until accumulated wealth, ageism or disability ends it.
Shouldn't that be the A then? Since the network partition is still there but availability is non-guaranteed.
Reminds me very much to systemd-resolved.
but resolved has the ability to ask certain domains only on some networks, so that jour internal networks are not leaked to the outside.
Have your own notification system for following Bluesky accounts
Airplanes don't flap their wings and boats don't wag their tails.

Assuming that all technology should imitate nature is a naive engineering principle. The solution should solve the problem within the given constraints.
RealID seems to have added some verification requirements on US passports, but it doesn't look like it made US passports a form of "RealID".
OK to extra clarify there are techniques to make the drunken walk more efficient. You might compartmentalize interacting bits into a smaller compartment which scales with the cube of the compartment ratio. You might anchor the participants in an interaction to a membrane, which turns a ~>6 dof search into a ~>3 dof (x, y, rotation) search. You might anchor the participants to a filament or DNA which makes the search a ~> 1 dof search.
I wonder if--after a bunch more is said and done--we might learn a lot more about our human biases of perception rather than how to actually make things that are "intelligent".
This sounds vaguely like the series that Peter F. Hamilton has written, possibly the Commonwealth Saga?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_F._Hamilton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Saga
I thinks it's very reasonable. They provide an important security service, also the windows equivalent is many hundreds of dollars per year, per application, vs $99 per year which would cover any number of applications.
I think one should be careful with the word toxic. I’ve seen every manner of dishonesty and unscrupulousness and in some cases outright sociopathy and I’ve seen all these things done with an eye to optics: the right language, the right audience, the right timing to present stuff somewhere between “unsavory” and “fraud” in a fashionable light. This is locally non-toxic in the sense that it is unlikely to ruin the financials next quarter. It’s globally toxic in the sense that it’ll just kill your company over years or sometimes decades.

I’ve seen aspy nerds be the squeaky wheel (and very often be correct) in the long tradition of neuroatypical people who care more about an ideal than about fashionable niceties that fluctuate like hemlines called toxic way more often over the last few years. This is locally toxic in the sense that it can be temporarily disruptive until either the problem gets fixed or the aspy nerd gets fixed. But it’s in no way globally toxic: it never kills your business unless it’s one of two founders, and often saves your business from getting hit by an asteroid when the subject matter changes abruptly. Back when there was real competition at the apex of the software business you were cooked without those people around.

5-10 years ago Elon Musk was so popular in SV that people were buying up Teslas and posting every SpaceX launch and all but naming their kids after him. Today he’s anathema in huge parts of the Valley culture. Same guy, same behavior really. Good or bad? Eh, I don’t know, seems complicated.

Palmer Luckey was forced out of Meta for giving like eight grand to a conservative PAC, today he’s the darling of everyone with a family office.

Linux was built by a Linus that would call people “fucking brain damaged” on LKML, he’s mellowed but he built one of the longest-running and most successful engineering artifacts in all of human affairs acting in the “locally toxic, globally enlightened” mode.

The thing is that bad behavior at scale, bad behavior with real, lasting, irreversible consequences is almost never called toxic. This is the globally toxic behavior of those with power.

Transient words are routinely called toxic. This is the locally toxic, globally enlightened behavior of those with little.

This doesn’t seem like a word we use in a way that is either practically useful or morally sound.
Not necessary or sufficient, but with append only model you can at least trace back what has happened if/when something goes wrong
Good idea! I tried setting up an integration with TickTick, but their API is jank, so I gave up. I will try Todoist soon and maybe Things.
The universe has no obligation to be satisfying to you or me. Seeking explanations that feel good at the expense of parsimony is veiled numerology, not science.
That's called Youtube Automatic Speech Recognition (captioning), and is what this tool uses as input. You can turn those on in youtube studio.
Awesome!

In the "Protocol Handshake" section of what's happening under the hood - it would be great to have more info on what's actually happening.

For example, more details on what's actually happening to translate the natural language to a DB query. How much config do I need to do for this to work? What if the queries it makes are inefficient/wrong and my database gets hammered - can I customise them? How do I ensure sensitive data isn't returned in a query?
I’m gonna be the grumpy old man here, but this is a marketing page. If there’s science going on here, it’s not even mentioned. Instead it’s all artist’s visualisations of infra-red data of an unusual galaxy. Is the galaxy of any scientific interest? I have no idea from the article whatsoever.
On every new FF install I have to go out of my way to set it to a plain black background. Custom CSS in hidden directories, major PITA.
Kind of yes. I mean Trumps Supreme Court changes the rules because they interpreted something differently. So any political or government agency is all vibes based to me. Anything other interpretation is rose tinted.
Hi Hacker News,

We launched our site on November 4th, and so far, we've attracted 35,565 visitors and 132,733 page views.
Will the bubble burst for AI in 2025, or will it start to deliver?
The problem with this fatalistic approach is that refusing to participate hasn't been effective at preventing or stopping real world problems that come back and hit you anyway.

At a bare minimum, a portion of those social-media people are voting, and it's not practical for me to create my own nation or pocket universe.
Why am I so bad at being bad at things?
Why all of the aggression?

I use it for what I use it for and want to talk about what I see on there with other technically minded people.
If it were me I would pick the one that I had the direct business relationship, or failing that the one that is solvent. But the strategy is specifically banking on the fact that small claims court is more favorable to individuals without legal training than other courts are, and the dollar amount isn't worth the company sending someone to fight over it.
MD5 hash collisions are unlikely to happen at random. The defect was that you can make it happen purposefully, making it useless for security.
Most places I've worked, despite similar security needs, have met them in a much less... performative way.

After all, the security gate is the first impression visitors get of your industrial facility, or office, or embassy, or whatever. You want it to look welcoming and secure at the same time. Projecting strength but not fearfulness.

If you must use the cheap fencing, conceal it with some plants. Where the fence is visible, go for some nice decorative metalwork. Move the turnstiles into a lobby and put a reception desk and some couches next to them. Add some meeting rooms (and toilets and coffee facilities) at the security boundary, so job interviews and meetings with suppliers don't give them unfettered access.
Enough of my adult life occurred during the time when significant chunks of population, often the overwhelming majority, were offline. I could very well compare. Somebody's reachability online, or at least via email or fidonet messages, radically improved the chances of continued contact and regular face-to-face meetings, whether it originated offline or online. The world not mediated by online connectivity was radically narrower. It required physical proximity (usually the same neighborhod, sometimes the same city), and exchanging phone numbers, an approximation of "online", was crucial for most longer-term relationships.
> You neglected to mention the president that has been convicted of multiple felonies

I took "the last several years" to refer to the currently sitting president. Even including the incoming president still illustrates the point, I think; the power he is likely to wield will come not merely because he is in the executive branch, but because the interests of the executive branch that he represents will be, in many respects, aligned with those of the legislative and judicial branches as currently constituted. (The judicial decisions nominally gave enormous immunity to the president, but it is checked by untested language that leaves unspecified, and so presumably in the hands of the judicial branch, decisions about what constitute 'core powers' of the presidency. I don't think it is likely to be successful, but I see it as very much an attempt to render the judicial branch still necessary even while essentially captured.)
But that’s not what this is. None of this precludes regular REAL IDs so the class of people arguably is only people with REAL IDs who are interested in making them an mDL. (Well, and companies implementing the specification)
"Why has our built-with-AI code base become unmaintainable?"
Sorry mate darts is on
Sure, but you can have your append only layer be provided by a core banking system, and have your applications communicate with that using a higher-level protocol.

I don't see what would inherently disqualify Mongo from being the backing layer for that core banking system then.
Sure, but tell me: How often do you see NixOS used as a file server, enterprise app server, in the cloud, as a web server, for big databases, email server, backup server, firewall, satellite server, in labs, banking, or critical mission servers? The answer is clear—hardly anyone uses NixOS in those roles unless it's for something experimental.
Interesting, I did not know this. I wonder why that happens. I would have thought, not having looked into how preconditions are implemented in Eiffel, that it might work the same as in C, that is like C's assert, in which case I don't know why there should be multi-threading issues with Eiffel preconditions.
The original name for audio cassettes was Compact Cassette, which presumably inspired Compact Disc. But that moniker was long forgotten by the time CDs came out (although its logo probably still appeared on some cassette shells).

I always considered "Compact Disc" to be a dumb name; but I suppose it was forgivable as a reference to the much larger LaserDisc.
> GPUs do not put their RAM in the same package as the processor itself

What I said: It’s the same reason why you don’t see slotted RAM on GPUs.

What matters in GPUs is predictable distances with direct soldered connections, hence why RAM chips always surround the main chip.
> sometimes people mean Open Source[1] when they say "open source," and sometimes they don't.

And when they don't when talking about source code, they are wrong. If someone says that an RJ45 cable is "a piece of software" because it's "soft" (you can bend it), would you say it's just a different perspective?

Open source, in the context of software, has a particular meaning. And it is the case that many software developers don't know it, so it's worth teaching them.
This is stupid. Your citizens want to buy a product. You won’t allow them to buy the product unless it’s manufactured locally. Company offers to invest a hundred million dollars in manufacturing in your third world country. You refuse.
If I were Apple I’d just say ok. We’ll avoid one of the world’s 200 countries.
This is exactly what I've been trying to figure out. At some point the LLM needs to produce text, even if it is structured outputs, and to do that it needs careful prompting. I'd love to see how that works.
OP is specifically talking about code contributions. You can (I have) make that type of contribution to proprietary software.
> The fact that customers launching exceptionally expensive payloads (the US space force, for one) tend to demand new boosters is not consistent with this.

That used to be true. It no longer is.
> Following the Supreme Court’s guidance, we’ll reverse a decadeslong executive power grab.

Talk about doublespeak, given the recent Supreme Court decision to make the president essentially immune from criminal prosecution. The Trump administration's stated goals and policies could not be further removed from the ideals of small government and limited executive power.

I'm quite sure the "sharpest technical and legal minds in America" have better things to do than help these clowns, but I'm also sure they're not actually the targets of recruitment here.
The article highlights several intriguing points. Notably, OpenAI reports that 75% of its revenue comes primarily from consumers, rather than corporate subscriptions—a telling statistic.

Additionally, one-third of American employees now use AI for work at least once a week, with even higher adoption rates in certain roles. A recent study reveals that 78% of software engineers in the U.S. utilize AI weekly, up from 40% in 2023, while 75% of HR professionals do the same, an increase from 35%.
To be fair to the other commenter -- this was back in 1962, when Fidel's regime was (elections or no) by all accounts quite popular and broadly supported, and in any case much more legitimate than the regime which preceded it. Meanwhile, the US never had even borderline free elections until some 130 years after its founding (and they were never really quite free until the 1960s). Ironically, by 1962 its elections were still not "free" by modern standards.

Still, "legitimate" is a weird choice of words to describe unnecessary and provocative WMD deployments in any context.
In practice humans aren't particularly safe drivers.
Ubisoft Pressuring Steam to Remove Player Count Tracking After Star Wars Flop
suffix the language name plus name would give us redis-py.

Which in turn would create the filename redis_py.py

Which would immediately raise the question why not a dot.

redis.py

> There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Ray Dalio: The Changing Domestic and World Orders Under the Trump Administration
Imo better to start with a generic name in the early days at least. Best case your generic name becomes a brand name, ie airbnb.
Moving the storage controller to the SoC makes sense for Apple because they already did the work for iPhone/iPad, and it reduces part count. Having no upgradeable parts inside probably also reduces failure rates. It's not the trade people here would make, of course.
If it's hoopla over nothing, why do you firmly identify with one of the factions defined by the article?
Microsoft calls Windows "the most open operating system" [video]
Go to 3:30 in the video to see the slide.

https://imgur.com/a/AHOSuOb
You mean I’m not the only one who has wondered if you could etch a knife shape onto the back of an acrylic clipboard? Something that wouldn’t show up on X-ray, but could be punched out with little effort on the plane?

My wife says it’s a wonder I’m not on the no fly list.
Web Applets: open spec and SDK for creating apps that agents can use
Partial tl;dr: The post starts from supposdely refering C++ language-safety, as in memory-safety, type-safety, defined-behavior etc., to discussing the personal safety of people in/around the C++ community.

It then seems to focus on one particular case. I haven't fully dug into that affair, but it seems that:

1. In 2011, Arthur O'Dwyer was charged and convicted of two sexual offenses, for which he served a 120-day prison sentence with a longer suspended sentence. One of the offenses may have been rape of a drunk person, but I don't quite see how that squares with the light sentence.

2. He served his sentence, and for the next 10 years did not repeat-offend. During that period he was involved in the C++ community including the standard committee.

2. In 2021, some people asked the C++ Foundation to remove him from CppCon, where he was scheduled to speak. The claim seems to have been that victims of the same offense as O'Dwyer had been convicted of would feel discomfort/lack-of-safety, and avoiding that justifies not letting O'Dwyer speak, attend etc.

3. The foundation kept the complaint secret, conducted a secret process regarding this matter.

4. The foundation's board's decision was to throw O'Dwyer out: They cancelled his talks and forbade his participation from that point onwards. They did this after a "review... of the case and its handling by an outside independent inclusiveness consultant" who apparently consulted that CppCon increase its exclusiveness. See: https://cppcon.org/announcing-cppcon-safety-policy/ which does not mention any names.

5. Izzy Muerte was upset about the secrecy, and they and some others were apparently upset by some aspect of the decision, claiming that "the C++ committee and then-organizers of C++ ... circle[d] the wagons, protect[ed] “one of their own”, and [went] out of their way to threaten, silence, and remove anyone who was deemed a threat to upend the status quo." This is the part I don't understand at all given the decision I mentioned in (4.).

... then the post pivots back to discussing the replies of C++ heavyweights like Sutter, Dos Reis and Bjarne Stroustrup and how they inappropriately handle complaints/concerns regarding C++ memory safety. Then it's complaints on problems with the standardization process (which may well be perfectly valid, I'm just being concise), gatekeeping by Bjarne, Herb Sutter not keeping promises and wasting time with cpp2, modules making it in without proof of a working implementation and with relevant input ignored, Gaby lying and/or gaslighting, and additional accusations (again, possibly all with merit).

There is then some attempt to tie the the O'Dwyer affair to Muerte's criticism of the three's behavior on other matters, that I don't buy.

This gets you to "Come Play My Game, I'll Test Ya", which is where I've gotten thus far.
A Surgeon Warned People to Never Kiss a Baby. This Is Why
and humans! https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-echolocate
I was skeptical at first, still am somewhat. However, I've been using OpenAI's app and its new search engine feature I can't see myself going back to traditional search engines.

I use copilot with Claude for software development, I cannot see myself going back to traditional autocomplete.

However, I do not see how else AI will revolutionize anything else especially now that they've hit the limits of what is currently possible with the technology of our time.
Indifference isn't a virtue. If you try to pursue it, know that wherever the lines are, someone can push them even further. The sadist will always outpace the stoic.
Most places can issue you with a physical token instead, like a Yubikey.

It's just unusual, so the first line in helpdesk don't always know about it. And people seldom want to start a battle with the bureaucracy on their first day on the job...
What matters more is that it won't launch again until 2025 and will never be cheap to launch due to the expensive SRBs.

And ESA knows this - hence the spluttering of paltry funds towards cheaper vehicles.
Microsoft's Outlook and Teams Outage
Not only I first met my wife online, I proposed her online. We originally lived thousands of miles away, and had near zero probability to physically meet by chance.

We're together for more than quarter of a century.
Being able to validate credentials via the public facing website without MFA was a considerable problem as well. Also not locking down accounts after failed attempted logins.

Wifi with 802.1X and certs would have been fine here without MFA.
Why Are All Tech Products Now Shit? [YouTube] [video]
Original source: https://fandompulse.substack.com/p/ubisoft-insider-alleges-t...
The word "middle class trap" only makes sense for China based on FX rate. Rich Chinese will continue to diversify if not outright emigrate while the middle class is trapped by necessity. Meanwhile the savings/investment rate is so high that the Chinese middle class will enjoy things that middle classes in few other countries have, once normalized for population density. Right now they already lead in industrial robots per worker (behind only South Korea and Singapore). They will lead in service robots per capita one day as well.
Does it offer creating a mutable view on top of the immutable structure that can be used to accumulate a whole set of changes to later be materialized into a copy with the changes? (or to be used directly, at whatever cost would be required) That's something I've been wondering why it's not more of an established thing. It would basically be docker, but for in-memory reference graphs instead of filesystems.
I went to the repo with so much hope. Not sure about the documentation though. Also isn’t this what Seaborn is for? Sort of …
I read through several of the top level pages, then SQLite, but still had no idea what was meant by "context" as it's a highly ambiguous word and is never mentioned with any concrete definition, example, or scope of capability that it is meant to imply.

After reading the Python server tutorial, it looks like there is some tool calling going on, in the old terminology. That makes more sense. But none of the examples seem to indicate what the protocol is, whether it's a RAG sort of thing, do I need to prompt, etc.

It would be nice to provide a bit more concrete info about capabilities and what the purposes is before getting into call diagrams. What do the arrows represent? That's more important to know than the order that a host talks to a server talks to a remote resource.

I think this is something that I really want and want to build a server for, but it's unclear to me how much more time I will have to invest before getting the basic information about it!
Reminds me of expertsexchange.com before they put the hyphen in it (now experts-exchange.com)
Yeah, I think passenger game-theory is the number one reason, and that was already in place on September 12th, 2001.

Passengers are now aware that hijackers might actually just buying time until they can trigger a murder-suicide attempt, and many will believe it is likely enough that they need to fight for their own lives. The old assumptions that "almost everyone gets out alive by passively cooperating" no longer hold.
PH is a website that program managers from big companies such as Microsoft and Google go to get ideas for new features.

I recommend against post anything to PH unless you have patents, or a big marketing budget, if not your idea will just be copied by big companies before you can get the word out about your product.
You can mention a trademark. You can't use the trademark in the name of your own product. Even in cases where you're legally OK (e.g. mentioning your product is better than <trademark>, or is made for <trademark>) they can still sue you, though it'll be much easier to win the case.
Honestly you probably only need a shoot a few before the debris is a huge challenge for the rest of the constellation.

They're not as impregnable as the military's new LEO obsession makes out.