skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with a state surveillance program that has unintended consequences is that the state can't "unsee" things about citizens. "The old way" can't be gone back to because not only the informal networks no longer exist but also because going back would tell everyone and many more would try to go through these "informal channels". Just in the situation of gay people, "don't ask, don't tell" was sometimes the policy before it became official policy and once it was official policy, it was doomed to be replaced because the state's ability to know simply always increases.

... and the article is likely related to the current headlines[1]. And here, I'd note that if the state starts looking for the "gender non-conforming", it's going to be finding more and more of them.

[1] "Donald Trump ‘to expel all transgender people from military’" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/11/25/donald-tr...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/11/25/donald-tr...
Cars are polluting less – but for how long?
I think this is a meaningful security problem. Most users won't know that the domain name matters. They'll learn eventually, but lots of opportunity for mischief in the medium term.

If you have `n1c.bsky` and then migrate to `n1c.dev`, Bluesky should set `n1c.bsky` as a redirect to your destination domain by default. If you ever choose to terminate that redirect, `n1c.bsky` can go back in rotation... but it should have an immutable record that you registered the name originally, migrated to `n1c.dev`, maintained a redirect, and released the redirect on <DATE>.
Other countries, maybe. But China is never gonna conquer or do reasonable business in India for geopolitical reasons.
It doesn't serve anyone to proceed with training if there's a disqualifying condition. We bear the same costs only to then decline to admit the candidate, and for that individual, it is a tremendous waste of time, energy, and opportunity.
Sony is reportedly working on a PS5 portable; hardware 'years away from launch'
When I was a research fellow in anesthesiology, my supervisor constantly made edits that seemed to me unnecessary, almost as if he felt it was required of him to demonstrate his mastery.

After he changed something I'd revised per his instructions back to my original copy I decided I'd had enough: I revised only where I thought it improved the papers and ignored the rest.

He never said a thing.
i'm using ai16z to make a swarm of AI waifus for myself based on chat logs of ex girlfriends who have ghosted me
I think the value of a repeated number can be found much easier:
```
long sum = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
if(i < n - 1) {
sum -= i;
}
sum += array[i];
}

printf("Element %d\r\n", sum);
```
The Lieutenant Governor of Texas, one month into the pandemic, was mulling how it might be best for society if we just carried on as-is and accept that a lot of old people would die:

> As a senior citizen, are you willing to take a chance on your survival, in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves for your children and grandchildren? And if that's the exchange, I'm all in.

The chief science advisor of the UK described his meetings with the PM of the UK in 2020:

> “He says his party ‘thinks the whole thing is pathetic and Covid is just nature’s way of dealing with old people – and I am not entirely sure I disagree with them. A lot of moderate people think it is a bit too much.’”

> Vallance’s diary also recounts how then chief whip Mark Spencer told a cabinet meeting in December 2020 that “we should let the old people get it and protect others”. He said that Johnson then added: “A lot of my backbenchers think that and I must say I agree with them”.
Currently, you can't. Chrome doesn't have a built-in API for getting these, but you can have a bookmarks widget.
"They're in Danish, but upload them to Claude or ChatGPT, and you'll have a much better source"

Eh, people don't know that Google Translate can translate documents (PDF, Doc etc.) as well?!
Please don't. This is how standards die.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9413
> In the last leg of your journey to avoid building a Kubernetes, your manager tells you that your app needs to programmatically spawn other containers. Spawning containers, of course, requires you to mount the Docker socket in your web app, which is wildly insecure.

This was true ten years ago, it's not been true for at least 2-3 years.

You can run rootless podman in kubernetes (I did) and you can launch pods from there. Securely.
Depends on the time horizon you choose. If you look at US stats, we're only 1.5 suicides per 100000 people above a previous post-WWII peak in the early 80s. Suicide rates in the first half of the 20th century were downright apocalyptic by modern standards, sometimes reaching 22 per 100000 before sharply declining post-WWII. If you want to look outside the US, Japan used to(~2000-~2010) hover at ~20 suicides per 100000, compared to our current all-time high of 14.

The increase is significant, but I wouldn't call it definitive proof of an urgent crisis.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/suicide

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/core/lw/2.0/html/tileshop_pmc/t...
Same here. It encourages deep indentation and at the same time makes the indents harder to quickly parse.

Also single bloody quotes. Why?
Do you think that, if “the masses” were cut off from Lake Louise, you in particular would still be able to go to it?
This article doesn’t mention morale or “esprit de corps” which was considered so essential that Clausewitz had a separate section in his writing for his thoughts on the subject.
Hmm I like the idea of providing a unified interface to all LLMs to interact with outside data.
But I don't really understand why this is local only. It would be a lot more interesting if I could connect this to my github in the web app and claude automatically has access to my code repositories.

I guess I can do this for my local file system now?

I also wonder if I build an LLM powered app, and currently simply to RAG and then inject the retrieved data into my prompts, should this replace it? Can I integrate this in a useful way even?

The use case of on your machine with your specific data, seems very narrow to me right now, considering how many different context sources and use cases there are.
> a helpful order of magnitude estimate is that the hiring process all told costs the company approximately a year’s salary

It feels weird to gloss over this since transaction costs this high have a huge impact on how the system should be designed.
If we're going to use excess power to run compute, I'd rather it go towards protein folding simulation. Something that might actually prove useful.
Tea with the Taliban inspired a veteran to bridge political divides at home
Exactly this! And you have to expect that as the diameter approaches zero your pasta becomes indistinguishable from a gelatinous lump of gluten aka paste.
Let's be clear, many folks in this country are perfectly happy to make the world more equal by dragging others down rather than lifting others up. If there's no way to escape the ills of humanity, it means you're stuck in a situation where the next generation cannot be assured of a better life. The aspiration of the American Dream is very much about escaping all the antisocial behaviors which dominate the lower class and having a prosperous life where you can raise a family that has a better life than you yourself had.

It's segregation by dollars, not by any immutable characteristic, and I do not see that as morally wrong in any way.

I will not sacrifice my children on the altar of economic mobility. I dragged myself out of poverty to make a better life for my family, and others can do the same. The US has some of the highest economic mobility of any society in the world, partly because we segregate based on dollars rather than on immutable characteristics.

If that makes me a NIMBY, so be it.
A nice limited hangout. Within the suspended reality field of the current USA military, the loss of a warrior culture must not be addressed. In fact, hidden. You are richly rewarded to place emphasis on almost anything else.
I love my job, but I'm careful not to give the impression at work. Best to keep them on their toes. I'm also good at weaving the corpospeak into conversations, but very few can hear the sarcasm.
Educational materials are freely available now (from elite schools even), so I see university primarily as a means to acquire credentials and to meet a high-quality spouse. Your kids don't need credentials, so I suppose the question is whether those schools would help them to be surrounded by the right kinds of people, and whether they wouldn't otherwise already be.

If you feel that it's a rat race, and if the people who go there are the types that participate in it (and later make their kids participate in it) despite knowing it's pointless, are they a good fit for your kids? If not there, where would they find a better fit? They're already economically secure, so your primary concern should be maximizing the chance that they end up with a happy family life and end up as well-rounded people.

Education is still important for them to grow up as whole people of course (c.f. classical takes on "liberal arts"). But if it's merely in service to developing an impressive resume, who are they trying to impress?

On a related note, these sorts of articles are always bizarre to me as someone not in that bubble. I was a B student growing up (mostly out of apathy), went to a state school, and have worked "normal" engineering jobs. I plan to have an order of magnitude less money than you, but that's still on the line of what I'd consider to be "generational wealth". Going to an elite school was never necessary except to make sure your kids are around kids who go to elite schools. Only someone in the elite school bubble would think it's necessary or that it's normal to make your kids' lives revolve around it.

Similarly, when articles like this conflate "eminence" ("becoming a full professor at a major research university, a CEO of a Fortune 500 company, a leader in biomedicine, a prestigious judge, an award-winning writer, and the like") with flourishing in life, it's clear to me that they're just living in a different world in terms of value systems. I was always in the 99th percentile on standardized tests, and being the CEO of a Fortune 500 company sounds like a total nightmare to me. I don't even want to move from an IC to management role or to reach the top parts of the IC track for that matter. I plan to retire from such work and spend more time with my family.
Well, doing experimental history like this at least establishes the bounds. There are limits to how hot you can make an oven given the different fuel sources.
:= for assinging a variable sounds and looks weird to me
You seem to be very confused. The person I responded to literally called their own position segregation:

> Economic segregation is not a net societal ill

They also said their position was classist:

> My reply might seem incredibly classist, because it is.

Maybe the real jerk is the person who didn't read the replies and threw out insults anyway?

In any case, it is literally segregation, just by economics instead of by race. Why am I a jerk for accurately labeling something? If you call people in favor of separate schools by race pro-segregation, does that make you a jerk for "accusing people of being segregationists"?
> People really underestimate the power of a shell scripts and ssh and trusted developers.

On the other hand, you seem to be underestimating the fact that even the best, most trusted developer can make a mistake from time to time. It's no disgrace, it's just life.
Those are the same kind of question. take god or the "special" out of the second one and you will see that is only that part that most react against. Noone reacts with the antropic principle to the Fermi's paradox, noone even reacted with it to the simulation hypotheses that in my view is for all intents and purposes the religious one. but only because it did not contain, by Name, the God, it is acceptable.
A downside to these schemes is that the stability of the electric system now also depends on large communication networks and some computer solving some algorithm. I can imagine the outages. I prefer my power outages to be caused by good old fashioned weather rather than Hadoop kubernetes cluster operator eventually consistent race error.
there were some homeless issues during the financial crisis during Harper. Lets not politicize needlessly.

We know homelessness is a crisis now and not from many decades of low to no homeless issues. Exception being above.

So whats the supply demand if it were a free market?

World war level immigration numbers attempting to blitz the 2030 worker shortage problem. Leading to a large increase to demand. Smart long term, but short term we now have significant consequences.

https://www.blogto.com/city/2024/01/25-international-student...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/death-to-can...

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/failed-to-protect-...

But the federal government also intentionally and heavily decreased supply.

Carbon tax greatly impacts mining, concrete operations, lumberjacks, etc. A regressive tax that's in each cycle doing increasing damage to the economy. We are getting uncharacteristic tax breaks and shameless $250, not because of any attempt to buy votes, but because the economy is collapsing. Major productivity crisis.

But worse yet... 5% interest rates on mortgages?

The entire real estate market, which is highly manipulated by the federal government has some extreme consequences that need to be addressed.

The winner of the next election can simply stop doing the above and it should solve the problem.
Bird flu detected in raw milk sold in California
o1:

- better for when the response has to address many subgoals coherently

- usually will not undo previous bugfix progress that was made earlier in the conversation, whereas with Claude if you start having extremely long conversations I have noticed it allowing certain bugs it had already fixed to be reintroduced at much later times

Claude:

- image inputs are actually very complementary for debugging issues, esp if visual at all (eg debugging why a GUI framework rendered your UI in an unexpected way, just include a screenshot)

- surprisingly very good at taking descriptions of algorithmic or mathematical procedures and making captioned svg illustrations, then taking screenshots of those svgs + user feedback to enhance the next version of svg illustrations

- more recent knowledge cutoff, so generally speaking somewhat less likely to deny newer APIs/things exist (eg o1 told me tokenizer.apply_chat_template and meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct both did not exist and removed them both from the code I was feeding it)
Why wouldn't blobs be comparable? A blob is just a byte array, and those have fairly natural equality semantics. They're wrong for Unicode strings, sure, but this is akin to complaining about string "1" not being equal to "01".
OpenAI and Other AI Companies Pay $2 an Hour for Kenyan Jobs
> I'd like a citation for that claim.

Well... the most recent stats I have for Canada [1] show: 41.8% financial issues (aka, housing becomes unaffordable thanks to exploding rents, wage stagnation and general inflation), relationship issues (36.9%) and domestic violence (13.3%) coupled with a lack of shelters, the remaining 10% are attributed mostly to (mental) health issues.

The US population will likely be skewed more towards mental health issues being the root cause, particularly combined with the opioid crisis (it's always hard to tell - do the drugs themselves cause the issue or are a ton of drug users just self-medicating because they have no access to healthcare or other ways to cope with stressors?).

From personal experience (aka anecdata) working in dodgy bars in Germany and hanging around with punks in my youth, the only people I know who "voluntarily" lived on the streets admitted to having mental health issues, mostly varieties of what I'd judge to be claustrophobia today.

> Where's the money coming from?

Reverse tax cuts for the rich, ban foreign investment into housing unless it's adding capacity to the rental market or it's used for primary residences. At least banning foreign investment is being tackled by Canada [2], but other countries should follow suit - the sooner the better.

[1] https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/5170-homelessness-how-d...

[2] https://jingdaily.com/posts/what-canadas-ban-on-foreign-home...
Looks like there's a swarm of them in the comments of this submission!
Can't even be a racist homophobic misogynist officer in the NAVY! What's the world coming to!
> the military is a thing that many young men are attracted to

I have high doubts about this in modern days. Military used to get some recruits, then keep a good chunk of them because of sunk cost fallacy once you realize the hardships. Nowadays, you can see the sacrifices you have to make in your life by just googling it, and just not signing up for military. It's just less "sexy and cool", even from hyper-masculine perspective.
The employees are making that judgment in an environment that has been tainted by the psychological manipulation itself.

How many people have brains that are going to seriously put up a fight for objective truth when other people talk them up like that? If you tell me my team is full of excellent talent I’m not going to self-sabotage my ego and question it.

It’s negative psychological manipulation when it’s being used as an excuse to fire and replace reasonably productive people.

The employment contract is highly lopsided. An employee is harmed far more when they are fired than a business, and Netflix exploits that advantage with this organizational culture.
Falling History
What's the nuance here? Was the person a criminal or a would be terrorist?

This whole comment is weird, what "political persuasion" is here? The armed forces do not filter out people of a "particular political persuasion" unless this phrase means "person with ties to terrorist groups".
makes sense, thanks for the explanation!
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If you were to build a library like `rill` in the Go-way, what would your Batch API usage look like?
So the gist of the article is this: The C++ committee should take charge of tooling and implement standardized tooling that matches the standards. Okay, but that won't stop the existence of other tooling, including old tooling, and it won't fix the problem of legacy code. So what's the point? Why bother? Plus unsafe memory calls are mainly found in libraries and applications, not the core language. How will standardized tooling fix that or any of the existing problems for that matter?
I disagree that using channels is necessary for concurrency. Consider the following iterator based signature for your Map function:

func Map[A, B any](in iter.Seq[Try[A]], n int, f func(A) (B, error)) iter.Seq[Try[B]]
I've have been prescribed +.5 a long time ago, more than 15 years ago I think. Was warned that once you go forward you cannot go back. I am still not wearing glasses though my vision for small fonts has took a serious hit lately. Back then I had excruciating headaches but Flux fixed that so I chose to forego the prescription.
> to be really vendor agnostic.

This is an anti-pattern in my opinion. If you're on cloud provider A, might as well just write code for cloud provider A. If and when you'll be asked to switch to B you'll change the code to work on both A and B.
The equivalent of safety squints for your hearing would be conscious control of the tensor tympanic muscle. As with safety squints, I don't think there has been much study on the effectiveness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_tympani_muscle
Netflix has a reputation for the highest salaries in tech. That tends to attract top talent.

https://medium.com/dice-insights/netflix-ceo-explains-why-he...
By relatively new, I meant "within the last 100 or so years." Princeton only ceased being a Presbyterian school in 1920. Certainly some graduates went on to other things before then, but the old model goes back hundreds of years.
The Tetrahedral Days of Christmas
For sure this is just another form of laying off workers, but as bloated as the federal government is, I'm fine with it.

You do realize that for at least the past year, the only reason the employment reports have had a positive figure is because the government is hiring more people than the private sector is laying off? That's unsustainable.
Right. Why not carbon tax all industries (and imports), then subsidize select essentials like pumping water and growing agricultural goods?
Dairy cows convert calories to milk at over 24% efficiency. And you still get the meat.
Of course people are too poor, but any kind of wage increase will be immediately snatched up by the landlord caste.

I remember the days when Covid stimulus checks came 'round in the US, half of Reddit was up in arms over messages from landlords all but demanding they'd get their share (or the entirety of it).

Landlords should not exist for long term housing, period.
If it implements a subset of a scheme standard then it is not an implementation of a scheme standard. Is that not obvious?
These days I think everyone's breaking some rule in the EU
I think you're getting downvoted for the unsupported assertion that "If you write comprehensive unit tests, it is not easy to have bugs in golang." Probably because you made that assertion in the context of a discussion of channels, widely believed to have underlying concurrency semantics that are subtle and easy to misunderstand, making "write comprehensive unit tests" seem like a strategy that's apt to let real-world problems slip through (because a programmer's belief that their tests are "comprehensive" is likely to be mistaken).
> I would expect only a minority of developers would be willing to try working there, despite the awesome rewards.

So much this. OP's description of the work environment is stressing me out and I don't even work there.

At best a strategy like the one described above will get you the top 10% of people who are willing to put up with that kind of work environment, which means you might get the top 10% of single, childless 20–35-year-olds—people who are motivated first and foremost by ego and pay and don't value stability and work-life balance. But in the process you're more or less explicitly saying that you're not interested in people who are further along in their lives and value stability and reliability more than ego and raw paycheck size.

This means that you're missing out on the top 10% of 35–65-year-old engineers who are now parents with responsibilities outside of their career, even though the top 10% of that bracket would typically be "better" by most metrics than the top 10% of the younger bracket you're pre-filtering down to.

In a startup environment this might be a perfectly rational tradeoff—you want to filter for people who don't have much else to do and can give you a huge amount of unpaid overtime in exchange for you stroking their ego—but past a certain size and market share you need the stability offered by mature, experienced professionals.

If Netflix failed to get over that hump, it's not so surprising after all that they fell so hard in the last 10 years.
TIP: Remember to check if you can get a glimpse of your feet with your peripheral vision. If you are then you are slouching so adjust accordingly.