skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking in generalities below, as we have found a few diamonds in the rough we’re happy to have.

All of the issues we’ve seen in the article, painfully.

The other one not mentioned is the assumption they have the same privileges as someone that has ‘put in the time’ and ‘everything has to be fair’. In general the concepts of sweat equity/rank are foreign, and many overestimate their usefulness to the org relative to their demands; without so much first mastering basic skills like writing, verbal communication, receiving critical feedback, or even punctuality.

It’s unproductive to rip on another generation. So as an experiment, we’re putting a few through a *8th grade level* English crash course, followed by a technical writing class. Our take is that millennials weren’t wholly prepared either, and the previous generations had the mindfulness to give us a hand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakir_Hussain_(musician)

https://youtube.com/@officialzakirhussain

https://zakirhussain.com/
You’re thinking in binary terms about a gradient.
I enjoyed the writeup and think it's a nice idea depending on the situation, but with serious limitations (for context, I also do prototype first, but still right a design doc at some point)

The main issue to me is exactly that we do throw away the prototype implementation.

Writing rich documentation for throwaway code is tedious, and at the early stages I see a split between the people that mostly read the doc and only glance over the code, those who almost ignore the docs and focus on the code, and some rare people actually looking at both and getting confused at the discrepancies ("you say you in your doc you store values in the remote database, but this code only writes to the local one, which one will stay ?")

Perhaps I'm just not good at docs, but doing code heavy prototypes with only very light and high level doc was way more efficient.

Then when we settle on one direction, I can freeze the main points in a separate documentation and rewrite the prototype in a more serious version.

Having a separate design docs also helps when the system components are split across many area. Having the doc even when it's a compact proposition standardizes the process and you never have to ask upfront if it will be needed or not.
Bit of an old article, but it checks out.

It's been well regarded for a while that a higher step rate causes less stress on joints and also reduces the effort. Overstriding does cause an increase in heart rate at a set pace in comparison to the same pace with shorter strides.

Our bodies are much more efficient at higher cadences, doesn't have to be Olympic games level but many people could benefit from increasing their cadence slightly
GPL v3 is the same day as the iPhone (August 2007)
The article's claim is that:

"Generating Correct Program Code Is Hard"

Emphasis mine. The claim is widely accepted and I don't understand why that has changed just because LLMs can generate program code. Note the missing word.
> heir next-gen version of Palm OS (the name escapes me)

It was called Cobalt.

https://www.palmsource.com/palmos/cobalt.html
> banks etc. won’t accept VOIP numbers

Use a VOIP number in the UK, they usually can't tell.

If you want a bulletproof solution for a US number though, spend $10/month for an additional SIM card and bona fide mobile number that goes to an separate, eternally stationary mobile device in your home country that forwards SMS to your e-mail or some other UI you can access from a public internet terminal, in case your phone is stolen, bricked, or held hostage.
How can that be privately owned?
Doesn't make sense to me.
The date is pretty suspect though.
I have a M2 Air with 24GB, and have successfully run some 12B models such as mistral-nemo. Had other stuff going as well, but it's best to give it as much of the machine as possible.
Here's a list of demo tests in case you're interested: https://www.oecd.org/en/about/programmes/piaac/education-and...

They're amazingly janky. I'll work on my literacy if you do better on your front end, OECD.
Americans can’t invest directly in Chinese companies and shouldn’t be obligated to host Chinese companies in their markets or be surprised when political whims ban them, since the lack of shared investment is political too. People clearly enjoy the content on there so the outcome is sad but it’s a complicated economic dynamic that is hard to grasp
Maybe not, like the airport in this story. But it’s created enough of a panic that if the technology exists, why not point it at the mystery drones? Or they already have, and they have zero clue what’s going on, but won’t say that…
The Court held that social media—defined broadly to include Facebook, Amazon.com, The Washington Post, and WebMD—is a "protected space" under the First Amendment for lawful speech
TikTok could just release a web app
Banning the sale of a single app controlled by an adversary is building a "Great Firewall" in your book? (Note that it is not even a ban on the app at the ISP level.) There are legit arguments against the policy but this ain't one.
If spying and influencing vulnerable youths is the problem, shouldn't we be getting EU-like privacy laws and anti-social-media laws instead?

Youths are just as able to get addicted to chinese-produced content on instagram and youtube as tiktok, and all 3 of those apps use algorithms that optimize for roughly the same thing (making you watch more ads and contents, profit).

Other companies collect similar amount of our vulnerable youth's private information, also for the same reason (to target ads).
Scheduling, and homework assignments, and textbooks [0], and handing in homework, and communicating absences, and asking the teacher a question later in the day in a groupchat, and the teacher sending an extra thing for everyone to read outside of class even just out of general interest, and communicating with peers about something in another class groupchat where the teacher isn't present, and...

Some kids have zero interaction with pen and paper for at least some homeworks, where they'll receive the assignment in a class group, do it on the tablet, send it back there as a PDF, and get back an annotated PDF with the corrections.

Not all schools are doing all of that. Some schools are though, and most seem to have implemented some subset.

While doing this, the kids are not necessarily taught the basics of what's going on on their devices. They tend to not know the difference between, say: a browser and a search engine; a window and a tab; a menu and a tool bar; an operating system and a desktop environment [1].

Source: students of mine, telling me about their schools and how things work.

[0] if there is a textbook. It could just be PDFs of lessons, which could be all from one source or various sources.

[1] until I keep pestering them until they start to see a bit clearer, even though we're not doing computer subjects :)
brew install dillo, for those of you on MacOS
4% of $400M is $16M, more than enough to cover annual Wikipedia infrastructure costs in perpetuity. What would one consider “enough” if this is not it?

I think it’d be fine if they stated their endowment target to achieve perpetuity (as a donor, I want to give to orgs who think in 100 year or perpetual terms, instead of having to waste resources constantly to have to sing for their meal), but find it exceptionally poor taste to beg as if they’re going out of business. I assume this is because if donors knew they already had $400M in the coffers, donation volume would decline. I don’t believe greater transparency is unwarranted, considering both their non profit status and mission.
No? The point is to keep the user's system free of non-free dependencies. As a user, I don't want to audit the several hundred packages that a single Rust application might decide to pull in; I'd prefer if such a thing were enforced instead. Otherwise, you might as well go use any of the hundreds of non-free distributions out there.

The Rust/Cargo license is also terrible grounds on which to build a free system anyway.
You think it's bad now? Wait until LLMs become ubiquitous.

If the ability to critically reason is something that must be deliberately practiced, then the siren song of instantly reaching for an LLM the moment (THE SECOND) you have a question—without at least taking some almost meditative time to ponder and spin the problem around in your own mind—represents a potentially catastrophic decline in basic reasoning.

Furthermore let's not fall into the trap of believing that LLMs are just another tool like a calculator. If anything an LLM is more like a universal calculator where you can simply say, "Here's a math problem, please solve it for me."
What a weird comment. Were you trying to prove devmor's point?
Yes that one, and yes it’s a real human. I don’t think it would work as well with an LLM, something about there being a real person there helps immensely with accountability. I’d encourage you to try it out if the idea is interesting, it’s nowhere near as weird as it sounds and it really does work for keeping you focused.
> Are Huawei backdoors part of the active telecom control that China has in the US networks currently?

No. There were audits and fond no backdoors in Huawei equipment.
I haven’t checked the website or who is behind it, I came to the same conclusion that donations to WMF do not actually benefit the operation of that website a couple years ago and stopped all my donations.

I feel it is dishonest to request donations this aggressively and painting it like the website might shut down otherwise, which is not true.

Finance whatever groups you want with that money, but don’t make it look it it would benefit the website - But please, explain to me, why should I start donating again, maybe there is a factual error in the article or my own research? Or is all you come up with really just “something something the right”?
When I first installed GUI on Linux on my Rpi zero(with 512MB RAM), it was one of the three browsers along with midori,qute that worked without crashing.
You got it! Hope you have some fun with it. :)
All my knowledge is trial & error.

I've found the people over in the DT forum are pretty helpful with the cloning and usage aspect of things: https://forum.dangerousthings.com

Additionally, Iceman's Discord people has tons of smart people: https://discord.com/invite/iceman
60% of Bytedance is owned by American investors https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/technology/tiktok-investo...

> Susquehanna, a global trading firm, first invested in ByteDance in 2012 and now owns roughly 15 percent of the company, a person familiar with the investment said. The Chinese arm of Sequoia Capital, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, invested in ByteDance in 2014 when it was valued at $500 million. Sequoia’s U.S.-based growth fund later followed suit.

> General Atlantic, a private equity firm, invested in ByteDance in 2017 at a $20 billion valuation. Bill Ford, General Atlantic’s chief executive, has a seat on ByteDance’s board of directors. The company’s other notable U.S. investors include the private equity firms KKR and the Carlyle Group, as well as the hedge fund Coatue Management.
You can do that with a “real” Twilio number and skip the second phone.

All of my US banks and credit cards accept VOIP numbers now. A few did not when I first started traveling.
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I should probably have clarified - I don't actually use the phone as a backup for 2FA through SMS. That would probably require porting the number if something happened to the first phone, or setting up 2 seperate SMS 2FA methods on every account (where that is even possible). Also, I hate SMS 2FA.

I think of the 2nd phone as basically just a little portable computer with Bitwarden, and on which I could probably use some sort of messaging app or email while I replaced the first phone.

Yubikey is the popular answer so far. I have thought of that in the past, but never followed through on. Less versatile (can't run apps)? Certainly more portable.
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Most of my US banks work with VOIP numbers.

Chase, for one, does not.
Given that there's known neurological complications from Covid infection, it's possible it's a contributing factor to the drop in test scores.
Think of it like a subset of MIFARE.

In a simple sense, NTAG cards can do NFC things, but MIFARE can do lots more (access control for example)..and also NFC things..somewhat.

Magic mifare refers to special cards that let you bypass the write-lock of genuine mifare cards. These are mostly used for cloning keys (either for red-team pentesting or for people who want a copy of an office key for whatever reason)
FPGA's also have billions of transistors now, but adding more block memory means removing transistors from something else, such as LUT's, registers, DSP blocks etc.

As always it is a tradeoff, and given many designs don't need much block memory, or need so much memory that external memory is a better choice anyway.
Audits can only conclusively prove existence of backdoors, not lack of backdoors. At best, you get some assurance.
I predict that Apple will do this. Supposedly, they are considering making a TV, after years of not wanting to. And it makes sense with the landscape of today, where TVs have become a privacy nightmare and their interfaces are arguably worse than ever. It seems like ripe picking for Apple, playing to their strengths. If they do end up making a TV, I think it would make sense for it to be a dumb TV. Like how the Pro Display XDR is a dumb monitor, not having speakers or a webcam. Apple already makes a good TV remote, which could probably be repurposed easily. And thanks to CEC, I never use my actual TV remote anymore except to navigate its settings menu on rare occasions.

To me, the question is would it have an actual TV tuner in it? Would Apple bother with making a whole interface around scanning for channels and such when it’s not a common use case anymore, adds complexity, and isn’t necessarily in their interest financially? Maybe it will end up being a very large monitor, but sold like a TV. Perhaps alongside the existing Apple TV box, which would hopefully get a rebranding.
Your model is oversimplified in a way that downplays the value of ads to the manufacturer. They don't reach out to sponsors and get a $50 static offer per TV in deals. They do some math and figure out that they can make at least $X per customer on average over the lifetime of the TV by selling ad slots dynamically.

The subtle difference here is that because the sponsorships can be updated live across TVs that have already been sold, the actual value of each TV sale can be made to go up after the date of purchase by updating software and/or changing the ad deals.

So the manufacturer isn't pricing the TVs at a discount precisely equal to the ad revenue they receive per TV, they have to price the TVs based on a complicated formula that includes both a rough estimate of the minimum value of ad deals and customer willingness to pay (keeping in mind that customers are choosing their willingness to pay based on a landscape that has no ad-free models!). And what's more, the manufacturer is free to alter the deal after the sale is made to try to make a larger profit per-TV than was originally priced in.

You make it sound like it's a reasonable outcome of an efficient market, but the current situation—where one party can and does alter the deal retroactively and unilaterally—does not create an efficient market!
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5 years from new grad to L6 is way more realistic and normal than 4 years from new grad to staff, which is L7 at Amazon. If you're good a year to L5 is pretty normal and if you're exceptional 2 years from L5 to L6 is normal as well. The quickest L6 to L7 promo I've seen is 3 years, though that one started at L5 and has 7+ years tenure, so probably between 8-10 YOE total
The short-throw projectors only need to be a maximum of 12" from the wall. That's for the largest size, so if it's 12" away you get a 120" screen. You can move it closer for a smaller screen. This should work with most TV stands.

I have an earlier model of this one: https://www.usa.philips.com/c-p/SCN355_INT/screeneo-ul5-smar...

Hmm, looks like they are starting to make them "smart" now. Boo.
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All Sony Bravia TV’s ask you if you want to configure as a dumb TV during initial setup.
Yeah, I just tried taking the test too. I'm shocked that anybody could successfully complete it. It's dreadfully unclear how you're even supposed to answer the questions.
Already happened with cars. That's what OnStar was/is.
> the C-suite he arrived with included Tim Cook.

Untrue - Cook was hired from HP in March of 1998. Jobs was interim CEO of Apple from February of 1997.
It's not very surprisingly that it got a real political bias:

>UnHerd was founded in 2017 by the billionaire hedge fund manager Sir Paul Marshall as its owner and publisher and conservative British political activist Tim Montgomerie as its editor

The only "left-leaning" political people they invite are either saying similar statements to what the conservatives says (no to LGBT, no to abortion or no to feminism) or it's the kind of radical and divisive left leaning person that is just a useful idiot to the conservative (such as leftists who claim anyone who doesn't follow their belief is somehow a paid shill).
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Probably unnecessary detail because I assume it's solveable, but if you use key based auth for the SSH to the fixed desktop, how do you make sure you still have access to that key if you lose your main device/s?

(Edited to clarify the key-based auth sentence)
I have Chase credit cards, they accept my Hushed number. Don’t have a Chase bank account. I use Schwab, they accept VOIP numbers.
> the committee do read your design docs, sometimes very carefully

Yadda yadda, that may be true sometimes but that the quality of the doc would get you promoted makes no sense and is also not a good metric. I think most of these committees look at who approved it and what known people thought/wrote in response. I was told in this promo-game to try to get comments from high-level people for this reason. That is more a popularity contest, and less a competition of well articulated ideas.

I think most people here want to improve the way things are. We talk about engineering practice to improve the practice, not to please management or give career advice. Usually, at least.

This is where it happens first. A bunch of engineers (or just generally people with boots on the ground) get together and find better ways to do things. Before agile was mainstream and corrupted beyond recognition, the waterfall model was the way recognized by management and working within that model would have gotten you promoted easier. Things evolve.
I’m no Tiktok fan but the US has extremely broad free speech protections and its hard to see how this could be constitutional.

Individuals posting videos of themselves is clearly speech so we are in the 1st amendment territory. None of the usual exceptions for certain types of content (defamation, threats, fraud etc) apply because the restriction isn’t on specific content.

The only way out I could see is saying national security/secrets require us to prevent the Chinese company Tiktok from operating in the US.
My comment is not directly related to the particular project which is impressive, but more to its presentation. If you go to the author's website, you will find neat to-the-point manuals and other useful information. This is what I call the real Web 3.0. Simple and to the point. Also the main company page is humorous in a good way, about the mad scientist etc.
[dupe]

Earlier on the OECD report: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42376014
It is at some level if you take definitions to extremes. If you actively avoid conversations and socializing with other people, you will probably suffer personally and professionally. Of course, that doesn't mean you always have to be the "life of the party."
Does a political affiliation, explicit or implicit, invalidate their criticism of Wikimedia?
Agreed. Thanks for pointing this out. Went to the main page and this was the top headline:

> Joe Biden’s pardons are a moral surrender Liberals have been cowed into submission

I won’t bother wasting time on it. I already have hundreds of tabs open with content I mean to read. I’ll work on clearing some of those instead.
IMO, if apple were to make a TV, it wouldn't be dumb. It would probably have similar software as their current Apple TV hardware.
At this point, I think it's better to point to the MDN docs.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/te...

Your link uses some deprecated functionality that was only ever created on Chrome.

Anyway, it's good to know that browsers actually did implement that. It was a major complaint when web components were created.
Oh, they added that? Very nice, I'll update my instructions and scripts, thanks!
1) this is going to open younger peoples eyes to installing stuff outside of app stores. which i think is a great development.

2) if We believe that social media has the ability to influence to the degree that we’re going to outlaw a company, why tf are we not outlawing all manipulative algorithms, from every country? i absolutely do not magically trust billionaires just because they’re from the US… and i certainly don’t trust them more than i trust any government. there’s reasonable arguments that they’re more dangerous than governments. after everything we’ve seen these social media titans do, it’s absurd to trust them. we have so much actual material real evidence of their societal manipulation in every direction.

3) im not at all convinced outright outlawing is the answer. but i’ll kinda rhyme with 2) again, if We collectively admit it’s dangerous enough that it must be made illegal, then all of these companies are dangerous—all of them.
Do I need to water trees during the winter?
absolutely to no ones surprise
In the past 15 years I have gone from 100% Microsoft to 0% Microsoft. This is a direct consequence of Microsoft’s spitefully anti-user behavior.

They lost me for productivity 10 years ago and gaming 3 years ago.

I was a customer but I never will be again.
> UHC is acting rationally when it squeezes more profit from people

A company is not acting rationally if it knowingly and willingly creates enemies that can and will act against it.

“Unless it is more profitable to do so because…”

Rinse and repeat.
I wonder about this regularly and think back to discussions on this topic back in 2020-2021. Are there more recent studies or research on this topic you'd recommend?
I would argue the lack of action against those was due to lack of political will. At least at the beginning many saw Uber and Airbnb as net positives, American led innovators offering competition to hotels and taxi cartels. TikTok on the other hand is getting hammered by both sides of the aisle. the incoming admin has its contradictions but has been pretty pro tariff / anti Chinese competition so I am not sure games like that are going to play much but we shall see.
Maybe but I don't think anyone has seen it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_electric_dipole_mome...
I remember the late 90s QNX Floppy demo disk - OS/Desktop (well GUI), demo apps, and a web browser on a single floppy (1.44MB).
They already do, all they gotta do is take out the redirect to App popup and voila.
The ideas are good, but wow, the implementation is borderline criminal.
For anyone who isn't aware: that's the pair of gears with the smallest number of teeth (and by extension, largest teeth for a given size pair of gears) in the ratio of 2.54:1.

As I'm not a machinist, I'm not going to try to explain just where in the geartrain you'd use this pair to convert your metric machine lathe into a US customary lathe, but that's what they're for.