skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Denisov-Blanch acknowledged that counting code commits is a flawed way to measure productivity but it can reveal inactivity.

Heh, a few years back I spent like a month diagnosing a problem where the fix was two hexadecimal characters on the same line.

Some bespoke hardware was dying by kernel panic within ~30s of starting up, after a bunch of library/kernel/vendor-drivers upgrades. I don't think a month is too bad considering I had zero C/C++ experience (yes, I pointed this out to them repeatedly), each recompile/test/lab-install cycle was really long, and the problem wasn't really in the kernel at all, but actually a pre-existing collision/corruption of the memory space where the kernel was being loaded.
Nobody's ever seen it!
Workplace HR “ethics” or “whistleblower” policies and processes are set up to protect the organization, not the person making the complaint. It’s you against the power structure in these situations, so you better have all your ducks in a row. Consulting with a very trusted advisor or attorney is probably a good idea.
> The word you're looking for is stereotype.

Sure, but that doesn't change anything. That some people will be unfairly characterized by this is an unfortunate byproduct of being born a human.

> There's lots of harmful and inaccurate stereotypes about all groups of people out there, and polite society generally frowns on using them as a form of bigotry.

Only the bigoted forms :) stereotypes aren't going to disappear out of inconvenience

> In fact, actual in class socialization is frowned on or punished in most schools.

I've never heard of a school that could combat socialization in any meaningful way.
Maybe we can increase the efficiency by having bots watch the automatic news, too, that way they can vote so we don't have to. With enough innovation we may live to see the first automated senator!
Why your employees want to “cash out” if they believe the company is able to go for a successful ipo?
This is funny because it's so accurate. I worked a year or two in college doing IT support for the College of Business in my final years of school. The prior boss who had actual experience in running IT departments was run out (fired) and replaced by an economics professor who had no idea what he was doing. The economics professor lead the charge in running out his predecessor. I don't know the reason but it was pretty ugly and everyone in IT support had zero respect for the economics professor. I came in after the fact so I had no skin in that game.

As an aside, every professor got a brand new $4000 Dell every year because if the college didn't spend its budget, it would get less money the next year. Most of these professors just used Office to do their lesson plans and that's it. This was in the 1990s and it was a huge waste of money. I would imagine it's much worse now. That probably had something to do with it.

I recently read a quote that paraphrased went like, "bureaucracies care about following procedure over outcomes."

I hope US universities get fixed. Their current state is a great disservice to the future of the country.
i wrote about the prospect of financial returns from AGI here if anyone's interested - https://sergey.substack.com/p/will-all-this-ai-investment-pa...
if "with a bit of practice" extends to "with a bit of research"

folks used to beat engines by playing lines that the engines could not calculate correctly. you could probably find lots options to play that give you an advantage, though youd still want a pretty good elo to pull it off
hmm, like, i love simplicity, and I'm open to other approaches, but I specifically wanted to solve the "send an email to an AI Agent" sort of concept, and give that agent rails to talk back the the human. Doesn't `import email` require SMTP, DNS, signing infra, etc? can it set up MX infra and receive payloads from a mail exchange?
I mean I registered in 2018 and then apart from some initial experimentation mostly abandoned Mastodon until like 2021. There are people "coming back" to Mastodon all the time, and I’m sure plenty of people (myself included) signed up on Bluesky, went "meh", and then uninstalled the app because their phone didn't have enough free space for OS updates.

Anecdotes are sort of interesting but not necessarily representative. Numbers are also garbage, mostly because bots are a lot of the numbers.

Things need time, and as Bryan pointed out, the goals are pretty different. Maybe both are destined to win in their specific niches of global vs. nonglobal interaction. Maybe Bluesky kills Twitter (which is mostly global chat) and Mastodon kills Facebook (which is mostly friends chat).
> That answer didn't hold up well at the Nuremberg trials.

that's just winners were punishing losers.

In alternative reality, those who dropped nukes were facing trial in Nuremberg.
It also seems like a bad opsec if he creates multiple aliases for the same theme. Wouldn't you want to have one us soldier, one Russian, one African, etc. if you are trying to create red herrings?
yeah I think that's right - we put humanlayer in between the non-deterministic (LLM Decision) and the deterministic code (tool execution logic)
The end of this particular story was "charged with several felonies, plead guilty and received probation" so it's safe to assume this cash wasn't a civil asset forfeiture, and certainly wasn't from the sale of a house.
BRB rebranding to meatgap.dev
> They're trying to make a full Artificial General Intelligence.

> then they can immediately use it to make itself better.

"AGI" is a notoriously ill-defined term. While a lot of people use the "immediately make itself better" framing, many expert definitions of AGI don't assume it will be able to iteratively self-improve at exponentially increasing speed. After all, even the "smartest" humans ever (on whatever dimensions you want to assess) haven't been able to sustain self-improving at even linear rates.

I agree with you that AGI may not even be possible or may not be possible for several decades. However, I think it's worth highlighting there are many scenarios where AI could become dramatically more capable than it currently is, including substantially exceeding the abilities of groups of top expert humans on literally hundreds of dimensions and across broad domains - yet still remain light years short of iteratively self-improving at exponential rates.

Yet I hear a lot of people discussing the first scenario and the second scenario as if they're neighbors on a linear difficulty scale (I'm not saying you necessarily believe that. I think you were just stating the common 'foom' scenario without necessarily endorsing it). Personally, I think the difficulty scaling between them may be akin to the difference between inter-planetary and inter-stellar travel. There's a strong chance that last huge leap may remain sci-fi.
Remarkable. It was great for doing math, annotating texts, and taking notes for a couple of months. The device became less and less sensitive to the pen over time, which eventually became intolerable. I had kept it around to turn into an eink ssh terminal at some point except I found the iPad that replaced it superior in every way.
That was somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but the term isn't very consistently applied. I mentioned it just in case someone thinks that a person from a Latino/Hispanic background would have a hard time in this part of the country (I've met people who assumed that). I live in a fairly diverse area.
I don't know if this is the same thing, but you may be interested in this failed project from IBM in the 1990s that attempted to leverage Taligent and OS/2 to create a universal operating system that used a microkernel and was capable of presenting different UI and programmatic "personalities."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_OS
Programming style is as much a determiner of pipeline and cache friendly code as domain. It’s a set of techniques that can be learned.
Lots of comments about EC2's price. My personal experience is that we do not just pay for the computing power of EC2 but the productivity it offers: it's just magical that one can launch an availability group across multiple zones, set up its autoscaling rules, and let it run wild. Netflix used to build its platform on top of EC2s, and the result was that a single engineer can carry a pager for multiple services 24x7, stateful included, and still enjoyed great work-life balance. It's also amazing how hard it is for companies to replicate their own EC2 in their own data centers.
How America Outlawed Adolescence (2016)
> “Type ‘kiberphant0m’ on google with the quotes,” Buttholio told another user. “I’ll wait. Go ahead. Over 50 articles. 15+ telecoms breached. I got the IMSI number to every single person that’s ever registered in Verizon, Tmobile, ATNT and Verifone.”

SBF levels of self-pwning right there. When, not if, they catch him, the Feds are going to hang this clown out to dry.
My two cents:

- The "hacker" (I'm reluctant to use this term" seems to be too high profile for some reasons;

- We should discard Telegram
Appeals court reverses sanctions against Tornado Cash
The underlying technology not the company itself is good enough most people don’t really complain once everything is set up. But for people moving to or from different areas Comcast really comes off much worse than most ISPs.

You can notice differences in web browsing above and beyond what the highly gamed “speed tests” suggest. Wait times for a technician are somewhat region dependent, but it’s never great etc. Total prices are high even when they have some competition and get silly when they’re a monopoly.
Regarding decaf.
"The authors suggest the following standard values for the United States: coffee (5 oz) 85 mg for ground roasted coffee, 60 mg for instant and 3 mg for decaffeinated"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8603790/
<< That's not the state of today at all, and probably doesn't represent the near or medium future.

Thank you for saying this. I briefly wondered if my particular company is just way behind or particularly dysfunctional and disorganized ( a possibility for sure ). I do agree with you observation on LLMs effectively lowering entry level skill ( yesterday I was able to dissect xml file despite it not being something I could normally do without any prep work and despite mildly unusual - I thought - formatting choices by vendor ). There was still a fair amount of back and forth for what some enthusiast would call 'perfect prompt' and interesting bugs that had to be addressed, but, having seen the daily mess at my company does not exactly make me a full blown evangelist. I see it more as a get to the wrong answer faster. That is the part that concerns me.
I have a charachorder. It's similar to music theory where you can hit individual notes to make up a chord. With chording you hit multiple keys usually that are part of a larger word and it outputs the associated word. This means instead of having to hit every individual key in sequence to type out a phrase one character at a time, you hit multiple keys at once to output words at a time. In the time it takes to output a single character on a keyboard someone on a charachorder did the entire word already. The longer the word the more speed is gained from this. It takes a lot of time to learn though, like a solid month of practice just to get near speeds I have with normal keyboard. Significantly helps with hand strain from typing all day due to requiring far less hand movement.
What does "discarding" Telegram mean?
N100 is an excellent chip to go for.
I'm currently using a aliexpress special with a celeron n5105 chipset in it.. it works fine as well, but I'd opt for the N100 next time if I had to replace it.

Celeron N5105

CPU: Intel Jasper Lake Celeron Processor N5105, 4 core 4 threads,64 bit, 10nm, 2.0GHz up to 2.9GHz, 4M cache

GPU: Intel UHD Graphics GPU, 24EU, 450MHz up to 800MHz

vs

Alder Lake N100

CPU: Intel Alder Lake Processor N100, 4 core 4 threads,64 bit, 10nm, Up to 3.4GHz, 6M cache

GPU: Intel UHD Graphics GPU, 24EU, Up to 750MHz

I bought a N100 model to run as my backup server (PBS etc) and its a cracker. Debian is so snappy on it.
Thanks hgarg!
You want people to give up trying to make something better because you don't think they've succeeded yet?

Multiple projects that are fairly distributed have achieved a pretty high level of success, and I don't think there's any reason to think we can't do even better in the future.

BitTorrent, Git, XMPP, Matrix, Mastodon, BlueSky - all different levels of distributed and different amounts of popular, but I'd argue they're all at least moderately if not wildly successful, and all are it least partially distributed.
Reminds me of a Dan Greer talk he gave at NSA from 2014 http://geer.tinho.net/geer.nsa.26iii14.txt

the basic gist is in the event of a cyberwar you could brick millions of peoples routers and their only natural solution would be to go to BestBuy to get a new one... which almost certainly is running a 4-5yr old linux/firmware version that is equally vulnerable. Of course this requires some remote access or lateral entry from other systems on the network, but it's an interesting thought experiment regardless.
We should not use Telegram -- sort of. I wonder whether Signal is better.
There was a narrow window where CPUs were big enough to have circuitry for JVM fast bytecode execution, but too small for strong JIT compilation. ARM deprecated Jazelle as soon as that window passed.
Wouldn't the overlap between “people who run OpenWRT” and “people who use EOL D-Link routers” be "people who run OpenWRT on EOL D-Link routers"? The table of supported hardware at the OpenWRT site lists several D-Link models which can run the latest OpenWRT release, and several of them are marked as "discontinued" (that is, no longer sold), a few of them even being in that status for more than five years.
The rear view is blocked when the bed cover is closed. That should NOT be legal
There is also https://fleet.linuxserver.io/image?name=linuxserver/libreoff...
It's actually kinda hilarious how RSC (React Server Components) is pretty much going back to what PHP was but yeah proves your point as hype moves on people begin to realize why certain things were good vs not
The Al robotics test: can you do that thing with your knees like Chevy Chase?!
Awesome. I did something similar on the old Raspberry Pi Zeros which had the right chip for it. It was a Linux kernel module with with a bit implemented in ARM assembly. All it executed was an add, I always meant to go back and reverse more functionality of the instruction set.

.byte 0x05 @ iconst_2
.byte 0x06 @ iconst_3
.byte 0x60 @ iadd
.byte 0xAC @ ireturn
> fictional advertisement for such a product in a sci-fi story

Beyond the Blue Event Horizon by Frederik Pohl

The artificial food was called CHON.
Bach's Etching Technique
Huh I recently retired all my Dlink routers as soon as they stopped getting security updates, lucky me.
Link to ethics complaints?
thank you! your feedback means a lot :)
why not say canine?
Ask HN: Any suggestions for identifying macOS users in outbound?
I am building an application for macOS. In my outbound sales efforts, I am looking to filter out those who use Windows as their computer.

This is only temporary, but I don't want to waste my time on people who can't even use the software.

LinkedIn has great filters for industry, job title, etc. Is there a service that provides something similar for OS? Preferably with emails or LinkedIn profiles?

I would image this would be possible given all ad platforms track things like Device type, etc. What am I missing ?
As we should. Climate scientists consistently underestimate the impact and speed of climate change.

It's funny how the measured mass of the electron being revised monotonically upward is literally Feynman's textbook example to a priori detect fudged scientific data[1], but when we see climate impacts continually revised upward—decade after decade—we just smile and nod.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment#Millikan's...
Signal is absolutely better. Telegram is e2ee in name only
...are people actually paid to write code? It's a means not an end!
The "You Probably Don't Either" is a little presumptuous. Many projects probably don't need cloud run either. Certainly, many projects shouldn't even be started in the first place.
That is very neat! I love clever uses of data structures like this.
It's not a roadblock, but it is an issue since faster typing leaves you with more time for thinking, but also has can have an important side-benefit of not breaking flow if you're not distracted for long
Economists and auction theorists have a term of art: “revealed preference”. It’s typically not applied to society in the large, but I think it’s useful to zoom out from time to time.

Our society, whatever the internal dynamics, has a revealed preference in the extreme, a preference so forceful it’s an idee fixe, a singular objective.

We will sacrifice anything: arbitrary loss of life, arbitrary suffering and indignity, arbitrary damage to the planet to transfer wealth upwards constantly to the maximum extent that we can blow past the feeble speed bumps that our institutions represent.

This upwards wealth transfer is in two senses of the word “up”: from poor to rich, and from young to old. We openly advertise targets for the economy like “the stock market” (US equities overwhelming held by boomers and rich people), or GDP growth (real wages at the median, go back to Venezuela commie). We don’t even pretend we’re optimizing for anything else.

Lina Khan is trying to enforce laws already on the books and is deemed dangerously radical.

You think these sociopaths won’t kill people? They’ll kill millions of people if they have to, they’ve done it before.
Nepotism is a well documented phenomenon
FWIW, this seems like the arrest/seizure - doesn't mention heroin and honestly seems pretty sketchy. Aside from a prior arrest for selling weed, using a BS 'hit' from a dog is pretty thin pretext to search the cans.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3100482-9-1-16-PPB-M...

Oregon's money laundering statute is here:

https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_164.170
Along those lines, I am building https://github.com/claceio/clace for teams to deploy internal tools. It provides a Cloud Run type interface to run containers, including scaling down to zero. It implements an application server than runs containerized apps.

Since HTMX was mentioned, Clace also makes it easy to build Hypermedia driven apps.
f(g(), h()) can't work with MRVs, only f(g()). multiple-value-list, multiple-value-call, and quietly ignoring unneeded values makes them much more usable.
Only 9%? Seems low, lol.
I'm sure this script is wonderful, but it's not a replacement for the apparent target of the author's disparagement, created by the legit folks at MacPaw (established 2008). A good place to start is the free Unarchiver, which can extract anything you can throw at it. https://macpaw.com/the-unarchiver
> they needed some show trials to pacify people

Which people? The Europeans were occupied or liberated under effectively caretaker governments. Americans didn't need pacification.

> the agreements that came out of those trials

The trials inspired some agreements. It didn't create any, other than the precedent of holding leaders accountable for crimes against humanity.
Would you purchase their stock at a 55B valuation?
This is an incredibly bizarre comment - I buy unsweetened yogurt and sometimes mix honey in before I eat it.
> The court found the contracts aren't property because no one can control or change the application's code any longer. In fact, the creators took pains to make sure of that.

Hmmm... Hunting for analogies, perhaps it's like an event where people arrive at the park, everybody puts a fixed $20 in their own opaque anonymous box, and everyone blindly shuffles boxes before leaving with (probably) someone else's box, thus cross-shuffling their money/coins.

Sure, the $20 before and after is property, but the event itself isn't really own-able in the same way.
Ok but the iPod could literally act as external storage.

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

> Some versions of the iPod can serve as external data storage devices, like other digital music players. Prior to macOS 10.15, Apple's iTunes software (and other alternative software) could be used to transfer music, photos, videos, games, contact information, e-mail settings, Web bookmarks, and calendars to the devices supporting these features from computers using certain versions of Apple macOS and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
So, let's say you want to deploy server instances. Let's keep it simple and say you want to have 2 instances running. You want to have zero-downtime-deployment. And you want to have these 2 instances be able to access configuration (that contains secrets). You want load balancing, with the option to integrate an external load balancer. And, last, you want to be able to run this setup both locally and also on at least 2 cloud providers. (EDIT: I meant to be able to run it on 2 cloud providers. Meaning, one at a time, not both at the same time. The idea is that it's easy to migrate if necessary)

This is certainly a small subset of what kubernetes offers, but I'm curious, what would be your goto-solution for those requirements?
Original title:

"X's Objection to the Onion Buying InfoWars Is a Reminder You Do Not Own Your Social Media Accounts" [sic]*

This fits the char limit, still makes the point:

"X objects to The Onion buying InfoWars, says X owns your social media accounts"

* It's [t]he Onion News Network but [T]he Onion, surprised at 404 editors!
I'll talk to the team about it, thanks
> Just as a carpenter doesn't use a hammer to saw, we as a profession should strive to use the right tool for the right job

I think this is a gross misunderstanding of the complexity of tools available to carpenters. Use a saw. Sure, electric, hand powered? Bandsaw, chop saw, jigsaw, scrollsaw? What about using CAD to control the saw?

> Suddenly there is no build step anymore

How do you handle making sure the JS you write works on all the browsers you want to support? Likewise for CSS: do you use something like autoprefixer? Or do you just memorize all the vendor prefixes?
Funny, I pulled up HN while I go through modding a Wii I got from hard rubbish.
Speed is not all that important but being able to reliably touch type is. The translation from the mental to the screen should be done with a minimum of conscious thought as that detracts from thinking about the code.

To the extent it's important at all it's a matter of removing mental load. Anything you have thought of but not yet put on the screen is load.
I bet we mine asteroids for minerals-to-sell before we do for minerals-to-eat.
I don't think it makes sense to conflate vendor lock-in with taking a dependency on a given technology. Do we then have "Linux lock-in" and "Postgres lock-in"? The term "lock-in" shouldn't be stretched to cover this concept imo.
> what does something like Nuremberg trails matter in a country where someone who can incite an insurrection and then become president again, or a world where international criminal court orders are ignored?

Nuremberg had nothing to do with insurrections and revolutions. It also judged the Nazis according to standards that didn't exist when they committed their crimes; the ICC was created after Nuremberg as an imperfect system. Imperfect, however, is still better than nothing.
Not sure Signal would have made a difference for this criminal. All the data on them I saw in the article was likely captured by someone in the channel / group message.

It’s just plain poor opsec, but I kind of expect that from someone with poor enough judgement to be a criminal.
Maybe he is operating at the next level. He is deflecting because the investigators will think that he is trying to lead them away from this true identity and become even more convinced of it, which is exactly what he wants.
Kubernetes has a steep learning curve, and certainly a lot of complexity, but when used appropriately for the right case, by god it's glorious