skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ideas are good; you do require some sort of KYC; then these proven humans can still be bots but at least the supply is not infinite.

What I would like to see is a 'interest' timeline which does not just show me posts from people I follow, but only the posts that interest me and nothing else from those users (unless i click on User timeline); for instance; i only care about english and dutch posts, i only care about tech posts (a tech poster might have gone to taylor swift; I don't want to see that post as i don't give a rats ass). With AI's language skills, this should be fairly trivial.

The problem is, once you need to make money, you will show me stuff I don't want to see and then I will leave. Rather you just ask me for $/mo and never do that, but we see how that goes with existing networks....
They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should -- Dr. Ian Malcolm
I've been designing chips for 2 years. One of our very well known third-party IP vendors clearly used HLS. I say clearly, because it was almost a 1:1 translation from OO C++ code, variable names, hierarchies, polymorphism, you name it. Absolutely everything about the Verilog was the complete opposite about how a designer organizes their state machines, etc.

Anyways, their IP very clearly violated the standards of a very well known interface, which could have spelled disaster at tape-out. I had to fight tooth-and-nail, and spent lots of my company's time trying to convince this third-party vendor that this was an actual issue. Only months later were they convinced. The revised code kept coming back and failing interface checks, which shows that they weren't doing these checks on their end. All I could think is, "this can't go well..."
Among academics programmers might have the worst asshole ratio of all. Is there any group that is even close?

Maybe there being so much money in programming changed that a bit. It seems like it was worse when people become programmers out of interest mainly.
AGI? It's either a few days or a thousand year away.
> Many employers get away with bouncing paychecks but you can get the state AG working for you by CCing them on email

Yes, this is the practical reality of the law. What the law says on paper that isn’t enforced isn’t relevant to one’s day to day experience of it.

> going through the hassle of collecting proof, filing a factual police report and showing up in court to testify

The point is as a consumer various public bodies will do this for you. As an employee (or investor) you have to do it for yourself.
The floating window doesn't update for me past the initial position. Windows 10 19045.5131. Chrome is up to date Version 131.0.6778.86 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Which is why the UK is putting in subsea cables between Scotland and England despite the added cost.
You’re an ex-Meta, ex-Google, ex-Amazon, or ex-whatever. You’ve just joined a startup, excited to apply the top-tier processes you mastered in Big Tech—only to find out they don’t work. Sound familiar?

As startups grow, there’s a temptation to adopt rigid frameworks and processes from big companies like FAANG. But what works for a trillion-dollar organization often fails miserably in a fast-moving, scrappy startup environment.

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I’d love to hear your thoughts—have you seen processes work against agility and innovation? How do you balance principles and structure as your organization scales? Let’s discuss in the comments!
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Talking about Unlagged, I would kill for a clear explanation (with diagrams!) of various netcode improvements in it, CPMA and QL.

I'm forced to try to piece together a mental model by finding crumbs on the web, with the current situation:

https://github.com/minism/fps-netcode

https://playmorepromode.com/guides/cpma-client-settings

https://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=2548041#pid2548771

https://old.reddit.com/r/QuakeChampions/comments/9jd3wv/for_...

PS: the modern way of enjoying Q3 is https://github.com/ec-/Quake3e or CNQ3, these days. Don't know about https://github.com/ioquake/ioq3
That sounds about right if your aim was to learn the language. I had the same experience with Prolog.
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It doesn't seem improbable considering it's a huge performance win and perhaps many won't notice?
Mostly the same as in early 2010s, but without growth hacking.

But, the problem is every incremental internet user after that was worse, regardless of country.

And adding to that, excluding propaganda, junk content or repost profiles mainly originate from global south as human labor value is low and people are desperate for income. (Yeah, I know, controversial thought, but on IG you can check country of all these reposting profiles and much of them aren't from EU/US). And these locations got connected to the internet specifically during 2010s.
I’m not punishing them. I am literally commuting a couple of hours a day to help my juniors. I don’t want to. But I do want them to grow in their roles. And feel like a full member of the team, as quickly as possible.

I will accept that some of my senior team feel punished. They don’t need to come in for their own careers. They’re past that point. But part of being a senior is passing your skills along. And upskilling others.
Prediction-Nuclear Pwr Will Be > 30% of New Installed Capacity in 10 Years in US
> large investors and executives have far more power

This is accurate. Money is power. The point is that independent of wealth, the hierarchy holds. Even among the wealthy, the most powerful suits allege breaches of consumer rights or fundamental freedoms.
I pretty much always use ECDF in preference to histogram these days.
I wonder if this could help with pronouncing words in other languages. That's always been hard for me
I found that out the hard way first time I worked in a company with European managers and majority Indian ICs. Acting European got me PIPed and then fired so damned fast for failure to shut up and do the needful.

I don’t think H1Bism is even primarily about depressing IC wages in the west, it’s about middle managers being so burdened with pointless make-work from above that they just don’t have time to lead. They need people who don’t need to be led even if it costs in terms of quality and efficiency.
I’ve been tempted in that direction too. Or using something like “Forth”. Both strike me as a “solve AoC with an abacus” style approaches, requiring bigger levels of problem understanding.
Personally I see NO CASE for WYSIWYG suite, so well... For the the case is why wasting time and energy to learn and use such software instead of invest time, in time, at school, to learn LaTeX, R/Python etc and then profit for life.

Commercial IT evolution is really damaging the society but well, those who want to know if something else exists could find answers easily enough...
There is some important piece of context there though - if leaders aren't capable of the emotional intelligence to process blunt feedback, they are bad leaders and there is no hope of change. Learning to recognise them and just leave them alone is one of those valuable life skills that most employees learn sooner or later. Some people are just not going to take feedback and if they end up in management that is that; there is nothing to do but enjoy the show as best you can.

In that situation fluffing the feedback will do nothing. It might take years of effort to get marginal improvements and it is more productive to focus on something that is ... well ... more productive.
Reminds me of the Cameron Todd Willingham case—an innocent man Texas wrongfully convicted and executed. The prosecutors brought his Iron Maiden poster into evidence in that trial, to paint a picture to the (very conservative 1990's Texas) jury that his heavy metal music interest was an indication of "satanic" evil.

- "At one point, Jackson showed Gregory Exhibit No. 60—a photograph of an Iron Maiden poster that had hung in Willingham’s house—and asked the psychologist to interpret it. “This one is a picture of a skull, with a fist being punched through the skull,” Gregory said; the image displayed “violence” and “death.” Gregory looked at photographs of other music posters owned by Willingham. “There’s a hooded skull, with wings and a hatchet,” Gregory continued. “And all of these are in fire, depicting—it reminds me of something like Hell. And there’s a picture—a Led Zeppelin picture of a falling angel. . . . I see there’s an association many times with cultive-type of activities. A focus on death, dying. Many times individuals that have a lot of this type of art have interest in satanic-type activities.”"

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/07/trial-by-fire (2009)
>likewise there's clear and obvious cases of conservative content being silenced like Donald Trump's interview on Joe Rogan kept off the YouTube trending page as the most recent example.

This is news to me. I learned about both the Joe Rogan and Shawn Ryan interviews from my Youtube front page.
Including Minecraft (Bedrock / consoles) :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnTUmksfRJU
so, in essence, a "for you" feed, based on your "follower feed", which filters posts based on your interactions (e.g. upvotes) with content on the platform? sounds cool

about the monetization: i would strongly be against sponsored posts / the advertising BS we see in current social media. yes, it's what made them so profitable, but IMO it's also one of the main reasons why they suck. IMO, a subscription based model would be the only viable way: it's an optional subscription, that gives you mainly social benefits: icons, decorations for your page etc. furthermore, early access features would be accessible to subscribers only. (yes, X has a similar subscription model, but it barely focuses on social status benefits; having played MMOs, I must say that humans are ready to spend big sums of money for social status items, even if it's just 'pixels on a screen'; however, a simple blue badge is OFC not enough to make someone spend big bucks.
What harmed users? They agreed to all of this when signing up
A "relic" lol really? Better tell that to nginx and postgresql
Yeah, people thought Walt Disney was crazy at the time as well.
I doubt that a German company is doing that. In addition spinning up a new car is a multi billion dollar enterprise and for 50 years Mercedes have released “the car of the future” in the shape of the new S class. Automotive journalists routinely call it the best car in the world and it’s where innovations start to trickle down from.

Other car companies do great things but it’s easy to see how Mercedes could be spending that much when you factor in that every car has to be completely new at least once a decade.

Chrysler built their biggest hit vehicle on obsolete mid-range Mercedes technology they were able to borrow.
Your example is an incorrect use of an assert.

You never use assert for conditions that are logical (error) conditions that the program is expected to handle.

For example your browser handling 404 HTML error is only an error from the user perspective. From the software correctness perspective there's no error, there's just a logical condition that needs to be reasoned about.

Compare this to a BUG which is a mistake (an error made by the programmer), for example violating some invariant, going out of bounds on an array etc.

This is a scenario where the program is violating its own logic and constraints and as a result is no longer in a valid state. Assert is a tool to catch BUGS made by the programmer and nothing else.
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This kind of happened in the UK already. For instance, Bournmouth, a town on the South Coast, attracted homeless people for the obvious reason that the climate is typically warmer than most other places. I assume SF held a similar initial attraction?

In response to this small influx, local authorities encouraged charities to set up shop offering help to these people with drink/drug/social problems with a view to getting them back into regular housing.

Some years later, the problems have become much worse although the number of charities operating in the area has grown exponentially.

Speaking as someone who has experienced homelessness, for a short while, I believe the only practical solution is to give people housing at the outset before the desire/need to move elsewhere takes root.

The obvious response is that it is not that easy and would be unaffordable but my retort is that the current situation is likely costing a lot more while, at the same time, not fixing anything - other than creating multiple charity jobs.
Hard disagree here. I run FreeBSD and OpenBSD both since 20+ years. My current laptop has FreeBSD installed and OpenBSD virtualized for the better wifi drivers. FreeBSD is the clear leader on the desktop.
How does a regular, casual user of Bluesky know what ban lists to use?

How does one know to trust that a ban list is "clean", i.e. hasn't had a bunch of people added just because someone disagreed with them?

Will such ban lists be able to keep up with the rate of bots being created?

(I'm not on any of these social media platforms, but I'm considering Bluesky, at least for reading purposes.)
my hopes would be that the proof of human uniqueness (via World ID), combined with moderation, would be enough to combat this problem.

current social media platforms can't cope with it, because the user supply is infinite, as only an email is required to create an account
"Surface" is quite a bit of statement.
What’s really funny is that this doesn’t sound far off from the reality of what architects (the house kind) actually have to deal with.
I didn't do it last year, but the years before I used Racket and Common Lisp. I might try Common Lisp again since I really want to rediscover the experience of programming w/ Sly (a fork of SLIME).

I'm also considering trying to solve everything with Z3.
The project aims at shit to no only a portions of the farms, and especially one from the meat industry. They’ll still have plenty of food.
I feel like this is one of the many places on the internet where people see “China” and instinctively feel the need to give some variation of cocktail party nationalism. I’m hoping HN can tolerate a little nuance here: acknowledging that China did a smart thing isn’t an endorsement of autocracy. In freedom-loving countries we should figure out if their ideas are compatible with our values on the merits of each idea itself.

To be more direct, the ability to build infrastructure that benefits a region or the whole country is entirely orthogonal from the style of government. It’s a matter of vision and political will. The US built the interstate highway system and plenty of other infrastructure projects.
Commercial software and ignorance make users less productive... I do not spend such time in finding my files thanks to Emacs/org-mode/org-attach to master them, I do not waste time with Office suite to prepare documents, I use LaTeX and org-mode and that's hyper faster once learned.

Essentially FLOSS tools must be learned in time, typically at school, than you can profit for life, commercial software is an endless low-learning process full of frustration to do anything. No LLM can solve that, it's a chosen design for business purpose.
My one is packed with not strictly necessary gadgetry and while well made, replacement bits are not terribly cheap.

Like the first thing was the rear left ride height sensor broke and I've never previously even had a ride height sensor on a car.
Microsoft keeps creating the best tools for phishing.
Helps if you tell us what it is.

Reddit ads might be OK if there are subs that coincide with the topic.
I think it's a trivial observation. For example, it's clear illiterate people in Europe still knew what a cross meant when on a building, there is no doubt about that. There are many more religious symbols that were also well known. Flags and official seals similarly had well known meanings in their own areas, as did various military symbols.
I'm across the channell right here, but worked with americans and for quite some time and also have some relatives living there. Attitude feels different to me.

Two week vacations aren't the norm, people schedule meeting on Friday 6pm and make pretend a lot. Time and effort put into work in the end doesn't seem to differ, but people seem to reinforce the idea the company basically owns them. That of course is highly subjective.
You mean you don't believe in the power of "they should just..."? ;)
The project seems to get some love... only sporadically.

I guess it's cool still of course, but why should anyone use it? I see a lot of pro's with emojis, and at the bottom that it's pre-alpha, which negates everything else. 13 commits/7 months - when do you expect to reach alpha? Do you expect to escape pre-alpha in the foreseeable future?
> clone their voices so they can have their sound-alikes speak to others in meetings in different languages

Yeah, no. Automatic text translation is "ok" but automatic translation direct into a work meeting in your voice? Enjoy your HR meetings and lawsuit for unfair dismissal based on botched translation.
Or Swedish, Danish, German, Finnish, Dutch, and many other European countries where the laws protect workers.
I guess everybody has their own preconceptions of what's wasteful.

I grew up in the era of 14.4k modems, so I'm used to thinking that network bandwidth is many, many orders of magnitude more scarce and valuable than CPU time.

To me, it's wasteful to download an entire image over the Internet if you can easily compute it on the client.

Think about all the systems you're activating along the way to download that image: routers, servers, even a disk somewhere far away (if it's not cached on the server)... All that just to avoid one pass of processing on data you already had in RAM on the client.
So were you were just saying that LLMs aren't AGI?

Or was there something more to it, specifically related to ambiguity/illusions?
No. Ignoring that Python does not have anywhere near this level of optimisation, read() has side effects so optimising it away would be broken in the general case.

It could be optimised away if all following uses would invalidate (seek, but only with SEEK_SET or SEEK_END) or ignore (pread/pwrite) the file offset, but that seems like an enormous amount of fussy work for what I would guess is little to no payback.
The AI hype is so strong that they're rolling out a feature to forge people's voices BEFORE they roll out the feature to sign your own voice cryptographically.
Of course. When it comes to expensive tablet, why should one buy an Android over an iPad? The software still sucks (especially userland, even after all these years), and while Android phones are starting to get longer support, this is not true for tablets. iOS is buggy as hell also, but not as much as Android.

And when it comes to cheap tablets, why should one choose anything else than an Amazon Fire, or some other random Chinese cheap tab? Won't even mention that the bottom of iPads aren't even that expensive as they used to be...
I think that there is an official and an unofficial reason. The official is that something must be returned to nature before climate change destroys everything. The unofficial is, in my opinion, that EU politicians are terrified by US elections.

In all western countries, far right groups are crawling to grab more and more power gradually. Those groups feed basically on farmer followers, ruthlessly brainwashed with fake news, antiscience and outrage, and the system has proven to work well (See US).

Until now traditional parties believed that could control the situation and appease the farmers with more money, and maybe even benefit of some votes of grateful people on return. The wake up has being brutal. Each euro given to farmers is just a victory reclaimed by this groups, that nurture a higher discontent.

So now that they are coming for they political heads and the time is running out, traditional politicians feel the pressure to take some delayed unpleasant decisions before is too late, and getting rid of the fake farmers to build a market from there is a first step. If fake farmers can sell subsidized meat for a lower price, the real farmers suffer for it.
Thanks for that reference.
Why a teenager's bird-flu infection is ringing alarm bells for scientists
Yep, there are on-shore plans, but there is a lot of NIMBYism that results a resistance to these necessary projects.
Someone already packaged them up in PMTiles format, if you want to explore the dataset (uses MapLibre): https://wipfli.github.io/foursquare-os-places-pmtiles/

https://github.com/wipfli/foursquare-os-places-pmtiles
Remapping Keys on Specific Device Using VID and PID or Handle with GUI
Assign Keyboard Remap, Auto Clicker, Screen Clicker, And more on specific keyboard or mouse using device VID & PID or device handle. With the help of AutoHotkey Interception by evilC and Interception Driver by oblitum.

You can connect multiple keyboard or mouse on your device and remap one of your keyboard or mouse without affecting the other one. Using AutoHotkey as executor allowing it to do almost all automation task. This also can be used as AutoHotkey script manager (Run, Exit, Store, Delete, Edit, Create, Run On Startup for each script) with user and beginner friendly GUI. What's more, it also simple and lightweight (
85.9 MB-v1.3), make it a powerful automation tool with potential to cover almost every automation tool out there.

This project is open-source using Apache 2.0 License. You can freely use, modify, and distribute this code under the terms of the license.
With the current cost of housing in the UK, how many of the homeless already have a job (or few) - but ones that don't pay well enough for them to afford housing?
We keep going in circles on this. Give them cash and suddenly you have lots of people cheating the system to get the cash, like all the beggar gangs that hangout outside supermarkets. Do means testing and you build a whole wasteful bureaucracy that costs 2x as the actual cash given to the people in need.

IMHO, just setup a public day labour program. One day of honest work for one day's worth of wages. Show up in the morning, don a uniform and do your assigned task, no questions asked.
Destroying fisheries goes directly against food security. Fishes are more efficient as source of food by energetic reasons.