skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Joining a group of rich tech executives on Signal and “learning how completely dysfunctional the government was” sounds like cult behavior.
Fn keys are literally just layer keys:

They don’t send a keycode, they modify existing keys so they either send different keycodes or modify the keyboard’s state (e.g. toggle LEDs).

The main difference is, once you start rabbit-holing the custom layers, you don’t have to only put a layer on the F keys.

My favourite layer is holding down an extra thumb key to get arrow keys + home/end, pgup/pgdown near home row.

Since I have yet an extra thumb key, I made it so I get those navigation keys but holding down Ctrl, so I don’t need to stretch across both a Fn key and a modifier. And so on.

I have a combined Tab + Ctrl key: Ctrl on hold, Tab on click. All of these just work, no adaptation, no downside, just less movement.

I’ll never go back from this.
For new protocols, go with X25519MLKEM768, then it's quantum proof as well.
I'm working on a project on how to help engineers become sales people and put together an ebook to start the process. I'm looking for honest feedback on the book as how it would be for a foundation to something more. You can find it here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pwirbs67lhqqtlw05hsw4/MasterT...

Let me know what you think!?
I suppose then we will get to learn about the consequences of global dimming.
2024 was the successful culmination of 50 years of efforts to turn the US from a democracy into a single-party state, similar to Russia & China. That's a huge shift both for people who live here, and the entire world. Net neutrality is cool and all, but I've got bigger things to worry about.
For my account, only count stars by the top 50% of the contributors to the projects I have starred?
> but it is hard to read something like "all coworkers are NPCs" and dehumanizing expressions like that.

They did not say that all coworkers are NPCs.

What they said is "I knew that staying at the acquiring company was not it for me for the big company reasons you might suspect (lots of politics, things moved slowly, NPC coworkers, etc.)".

You should read that as "in a big company, there are more coworkers who don't do anything useful" rather than "at a big company, nobody is doing anything useful".
Amazing how many areas of humanities, physical sciences and informatics and engineering were required to achieve this result. Showcases the range and depth of human knowledge perfectly.
I don't understand what you're trying to say here. To share my experience as someone who volunteers, I find it to be one of the most gratifying (humbling, helpful, makes me see the value of life) things, and I think it's worthwhile to share the idea that it could help someone who is searching for meaning. I wholeheartedly recommend volunteering for everyone who can afford it (which I recognize not everyone can).
I'm not sure GP here needs to necessarily state "I volunteer and found it worthwhile" every time they recommend it.

What are these "obvious reasons" that volunteering won't help someone seeking direction?

I also don't follow why you haven't stated whether you've personally tried volunteering and whether it's "worked" for you, particularly when you seem dismissive of it and seem to looking for personal reasoning from others.
Having spent nearly 12 hours a day for a year with GPTs I agree that this is the way. Treat it like a professor on office hours who’s sometimes a little apathetically wrong because they’re overworked and underfunded
wait til 2027, you’ll see the result :-P
It’s a good point.

One thing I didn’t mention in the above post is that this is _technically_ a posting for the level below Principal AND Principal. Thus, you’re seeing the very lowest salary for the position below Principal and then the highest salary for Principal as the range.

Furthermore, the way that St. Jude does ranges is a bit strange anyways (to me at least), as the ranges listed are very wide bands that apply to all positions at St. Jude.

All that being said, I would argue we’re quite competitive on salary. If it’s a concern for you but you’re interested in applying, just apply and flag to me you’d like to discuss it early on in the process.
The girlfriend thing was very odd. At one time, "making it" meant now you can marry the girl, have a bunch of kids, and become a pillar of your community.

Get rich? Move to a small or mid-sized city, marry your girl, have some kids, and get involved. Need to be busy? Run a local business that hires locals. Use your money and expertise to improve your community, which is a lot easier to do as a big fish in a small pond.
They're saying the ISPS are greedy and don't care about quality, since they didn't accept netflixs attempts to improve quality. Seems straightforward?
Working on linux storage drivers for a decade or so taught me how to write code iteratively, slowly and methodically morphing it towards my goal, with each step along the way functioning, and an improvement over the previous step. You basically were forced to do things gradually. Upstream generally wouldn't accept a patch that just changed things wholesale, or even a patch that didn't make one "logical" change. Tools emerged to make such a workflow easier, easy, even. First Andrew Morton's patch scripts[1], then quilt[2], and then stgit[3], which I still use to this day on my own projects.

I will say it does help when slowly morphing code that it was all C code. C is very malleable, like clay. I've found code in some other languages I won't name to be less malleable, more crystalline, more necessary to smash to atoms to effect the desired change.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/3DB30283.5CEEE032@digeo.com/

[2] https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt/

[3] https://stacked-git.github.io/
Some more:

Quick'n'dirty:

.model small
.code
org 100h
start:
int 19h ; Bootstrap loader
end start

More "correct":

.model small
.code
org 100h
start:
db 0EAh ; Jump to Power On Self Test - Cold Boot
dw 0,0FFFFh
end start

Even more "correct":

.model small
.code
org 100h
start:
mov ah,0Dh
int 21h ; DOS Services ah=function 0Dh
; flush disk buffers to disk
sti ; Enable interrupts
hlt ; Halt processor
mov al,0FEh
out 64h,al ; port 64h, kybd cntrlr functn
; al = 0FEh, pulse CPU reset
end start
Social media makes me miss USENet
These conspiracy theories have been floating around since long before any of this became practical.
What Is To Be Done? The book that helped spark the Russian Revolution
Is he suing for class action on the claims of cookie stuffing? I haven't found the actual case in either link (the second one is for "creators" only), so I can't get the answer myself.
Yes, I mean if you got rid of H-4
> It seems like a lot to assume that suggests the author is not a fast technical learner and builder.

There are a lot of really, really, really smart people who never become generationally wealthy. Generational wealth almost always includes either luck, or intentionally heading down a morally reprehensible path.

You’ll have a tough time convincing me the guy who invented loom is smarter than or contributed more to mankind than Nikola Tesla.

Which is probably a perfect example because Edison took the morally reprehensible path.
Thanks a lot for the useful comments and for starting this thread. It would be helpful when one is talking about a job to add the salary range.
It makes a huge difference speculating about the success or un-success of getting a job in the 30K Euro range or in the 150K USD.
So what kind (salary range) of jobs have you successfully applied recently?
No. That's just how "web3" folks talk. I never managed to understand them yet. And I have to wonder if they understand themselves.
See the FAQ on job ads. Add yourself to one of the monthly https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring threads
why not process their data in the frontend using WASM?
Another open source concave keyboard design is the dactyl and dactyl-manuform.
People are complaining about it because they think it's unfair and it's abuse of IP law. People's interests aren't defined by court decisions.
We actually have an entire Immigration team dedicated to this area, and they’re awesome. Anyone who wishes to speak with that team is given a chance to during the interview process to learn more.
Freya Holmér: Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer [video]
What therapy did was give me a framework by which to debug myself.
Consider posting what your app does. You've got good about section on the plugin page, why not mention it here?

> Hey designers! Ever wish you could grab those stunning UI screens you find online and make them instantly editable?

> With Nudge, now you can. We’ve taken the hassle out of design inspiration and turned it into a tool you can actually work with. Think editable, customizable, and ready to roll – straight into your Figma projects.

It saves time for people who are surfing by, and tells them what problem you're solving, engaging a discussion (vs. just posting here as a launch).

Good job on building and putting it out there! I'm not a designer, but it looks incredibly helpful/time saving. In the video it seems I can just click on App store screenshots -> import and play with them in Figma? How does it manage assets/fonts?

Off-topic: https://nobodycaresaboutyourage.com/ (I came across this website a few days ago on Reddit)
Repeated contact is just one mechanism, there are others that scale to country size. The end result is called a high trust society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-trust_and_low-trust_socie...

For example, Tokyo has a lot of people and they actively dislike interacting with strangers but if you leave your laptop unattended while peeing at a coffee shop, it's very unlikely to have been stolen.
BCD for money like datatype makes a lot's of sense but there a strange lack of support for it in x64 (while the support in x86 was so anemic as to be almost useless). Easy to implement correct low-level financial math operations seems to be reserved to the mainframe!

Does anyone know why Intel publish a DFP (decimal floating point) library instead of pushing those instructions down to the microcode level like the mainframes do ?
Just finished watching "Ancient Apocalypse" on Netflix. They go over this kind of discovery

It's quite speculative, but also really fascinating. Even if what they claim is not completely right, it definitely shows how the current accepted understanding of the history of the Americas needs an overhaul and a lot more research

PS: if you like this stuff, also check out the movie "The Lost City of Z"
Great thanks for the info, this is along the lines I was thinking. I'm guessing that means you also have dedicated user accounts on the shared host for each developer? I suppose that would be pretty easy to manage with some ansible.

I've always liked the devcontainer approach, and in particular github codespace. But I've wanted to run it on hardware we can buy and manage. This approach sounds like it gets you 95% of the process, just missing a bit of the convenience around env per branch like codespaces can do. But that's hardly a problem really.
100% agree. That's why I'm building tools in crowded space. I'm building NeetoCal which is a calendly alternative and NeetoRecord which is a loom alternative. https://neeto.com/cal and https://neeto.com/record.
Are there any benchmarks documented for this, possibly comparing it to alternatives like pgstream or debezium? The "Test report" link on the website[0] returns a 404.

[0]: https://streamer.kuvasz.io/report.html
System76 built the fastest Windows Arm PC
The event is very fresh. <24h as I write this comment. The claims are not laid yet, but as far as I can see, it's starting with wire fraud, and they'll go from there.

I don't think they're in the (private) discovery phase now.

P.S.: I'm not a US citizen, so I'm not familiar law terms in the US, if the above comment makes no sense, please forget what I said and move to next comment in the chain. Thanks.
Its helpful in certain cases for sure but you hit the nail on the head. Totally enables a lazy approach where everyone now needs to waste time watching a video so collectively the cost is much higher in terms of time spent.
If only there were some sort of legislation designed to reign in monopolies, duopolies, collusion, and business practices that prevent competition :)

You know who doesn't have a monopoly allowing them to charge whatever they like? Netflix.
No, he's claiming breach of contract and unfair practices. Cooking stuffing is just a customer issue, not a partner one. He would have no standing on that front.
Send such questions to hn@ycombinator.com like explained here https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
I'm guessing you don't actually mean what you just said? You gotta be careful with derogatory words you don't know the meaning of.
That's not what's happening.

Instead, it's that there's some people coming into your gallery, studying the art and its style, and leaving with the learned information. They then replicate that style in their own gallery. Of course, none of the images are copies, or would be judged to be copies by a reasonable person.

So now you, the gallery owner, want to forbid just those people who would come to learn the style. But you still want people to come and admire the art, and may be buy a print.
I really like the way you put it. It's a serious task that's often neglected, and certainly rarely practiced with such rigor.
Though we are a non-profit research institute, I don’t want that to be an excuse here: I’m looking to hire the very best software engineers to build a new foundation for all of genomics. That’s not a small task, and I certainly don’t want folks to feel like their careers are hindered by working on such an important and hard problem. As I outlined above, I think we are hitting that mark on being competitive at face value today. I do appreciate the sentiment though! Postdocs are vastly underappreciated, and we do work right alongside many.

Another very important note: it’s definitely not a support role. This is a role where our team owns the intellectual contribution of what needs building and how it’s built. Just wanted to make sure that’s clear!
So the solution is to have the judiciary become defacto legislators?
The Lost City of Z, the book, was fascinating. Highly recommended. Didn’t see the movie.
"fix this"

You mean backtrack, right? I don't think we should give them credit
> wannabees looking to be a rockstar for the clout/popularity.

In order to get money. Hardly anyone cares for this kind of popularity just for the sake of it, but a lot of kids these days dream of the money and lifestyle they see from top influencers.
Heroku Moved Twelve-Factor Apps to Open Source. What's Next?
Of course! For us, it’s important to understand that we already have many, _many_ people that know biology. So what we’re really targeting is the engineering chops.

Again, anyone interested to see if they like it/could learn it, I encourage you to check our learngenomics.dev
what is the difference of running the same code 5 times in parallel or running the same code 5 times sequentially?
During his college/grad school days, he was going half nuts, ideas would come to him faster than he could write them down.

Finally one professor saw what was happening, insisted that Gauss take some time off - being German that involved walking in the woods.
The problem isn’t that someone is trying to improve government efficiency.

The problem is that we picked a billionaire professional internet troll to do it whose stated goal is cutting 2 trillion from the budget.

And ignoring the fact that Elon is already running 3 companies, you couldn’t possibly find someone with more conflicts of interest than the richest man in the world.

Here’s a quote from Reason (hardly a left wing publication) that sums up how absurd their goal is.

“Musk and Ramaswamy's public pronouncements thus far do not inspire confidence. Musk's promise to save "at least $2 trillion" annually—approximately one-third of all (noninterest) federal spending—suggests a lack of familiarity with the federal budget. Roughly 75 percent of all federal spending goes to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, defense, veterans, and interest, and the final quarter includes priorities such as infrastructure, justice, border security, health research, national parks, unemployment benefits, disaster aid, and disability benefits.”

Large organizations are inherently inefficient because id the non linear growth in communications overhead. If you don’t understand an organization, coming in and hacking away at it is insanely dangerous. How many companies have been ruined when hedge fund buys then and starts trying to “maximize efficiency”?
Looks like it's done for. Am curious whether the mentioned layoffs may actually happen or whether U.S. Steel is just bluffing.
Sound like a billion-dollar idea to me (and Atlassian)!
This is an interesting read and it’s close to my experience that a simpler prompt with less or no details but with relevant context works well most of the time. More recently, I’ve flipped the process upside down by starting with a brief specfile, that is markdown file, with context, goal and usage example I.e how the api or CLI should be used in the end. See this post for details:

https://neoexogenesis.com/posts/rust-windsurf-transformation...

In terms of optimizing code, I’m not sure if there is a silver bullet. I mean when I optimize Rust code with Windsurf & Claude, it takes multiple benchmark runs and at least a few regressions if you were to leave Claude on its own. However, if you have a good hunch and write it as an idea to explore, Claude usually nails it given the idea wasn’t too crazy. That said, more iterations usually lead to faster and better code although there is no substitute to guiding the LLM. At least not yet.
I've actually contributed to the Ray Tracing In one Weekend project. The process is pretty manual. The book is actually written HTML, and the code snippets are duplicated from the source (not linked in). Before release, it's a manual process to go through each book and read/build it from scratch.

In my opinion, the open source nature really is the key thing here. Most of the issues are small things (typos, confusing verbage, etc). So it get's refined as people read it.
Good thing the US is a constitutional republic, then.

Almost like the founders knew that "mob rules" was a bad idea...
How many people or nations should collapse as a means to that end? I do appreciate your candidness, I know it seems like a snarky question.
Most NPC thing I’ve ever read.

You’ve built a screen recording software and you’re calling employees of Atlassian NPC.

Whilst being an Elon Musk fan.

Paying to be brought up a mountain and being shit at even that.

Find a shrink
That case dragged on for 5 years, and ended up with them paying $95 million anyway. I think if they could have proved that they weren't doing it, they would have. Maybe I didn't say that clearly but it makes a lot of sense.
Loom is pretty great. It does one thing and does it well. It’s obvious and easy to use. It’s fairly priced. It’s a great tool for remote work!
Its a screen recorder system. Rather than looking at a dedicated program that costs money, Loom comes up in Google first and works.
Yes. The difference is that if one employee at a large company gets hit by the “lottery bus” or loses interest, the business doesn’t go under.

Also some companies like Microsoft, Salesforce, AWS etc are more trusted by “the enterprise” than Google.

Is there an easy process for your customers to move their data over to a similar service if they don’t want to renew the contract?
This kind of works on people too. You’ll need to be more polite, but asking someone to write some code, then asking if they can do it better, will often result in a better second attempt.

In any case, this isn’t surprising when you consider an LLM as an incomprehensibly sophisticated pattern matcher. It has a massive variety of code in its training data and it’s going to pull from that. What kind of code is the most common in that training data? Surely it’s mediocre code, since that’s by far the most common in the world. This massive “produce output like my training data” system is naturally going to tend towards producing that even if it can do better. It’s not human, it has no “produce the best possible result” drive. Then when you ask for something better, that pushes the output space to something with better results.
The story here is about Apple paying a settlement because Siri was sending audio snippets surrounding invalid wake word activations back to their servers without users realizing it.

In the story, there was an implication that these audio snippets had been used for targeted ads. This is very clearly not true.

A separate issue is whether Apple take audio from opt-in full hey Siri sessions and sell that advertisers for targeting.

I very much doubt they do that, but even if they did that shouldn't be part of the "your phone is secretly spying on you through your microphone" conspiracy theory because of course your phone is listening to you if you just said "hey Siri" and started talking to it.
This advice reminds me of my list of rules for technical presentations. One of which is no live coding. Record your live coding if you need it. Live coding serves no one, and if you record it, it's there and it works.

I do not know of a case where a recording is not better.

"Oh, but what if you have to update what you do"

Then when you practice it for your presentation, record it and put that in.

"Oh, but I don't want to edit the video"

If you have to edit the video to take out the useless parts, you are just leaving the useless parts in during the live coding.

"Oh, but I enjoy it"

The presentation is for the audience.

"What if they ask a question"

If they ask a question about what you did, you can easily replay it.

If they ask a question beyond that, you can also dive into live coding, but that's the exception.
Not surprising. Apple sometimes forgets that they're not just a computer company, but they're also a fashion company. They make products that strive to perform well and look good. The fact is there's no way to make this thing strapped to your head look good. It's not sleek, it's not fashionable, it doesn't make you look cool. In fact, it accomplishes quite the opposite.

Hey, maybe this is how the "Pro" model will go down. It'll just be for office use. What they need for this to be successful (maybe) is an "Air" model that's more the size of normal glasses. They'll probably have a hit if they can do that.

I figure they're using the Pro to develop the technology and get real-world customer feedback for what works and what doesn't. Essentially, the early adopters are purchasing the ability to shape the future direction of the Vision product line and UI - and get utility in the meanwhile.
Where did you read this? I’ve read in multiple places that the jungle there is quite inhospitable to humans because there is little easily accessible food. The source that comes to mind is the book The Lost City of Z.
Is the problem that the antonym is a substring within "without losing the data in the database"? I've seen problems with opposites for LLMs before. If you specify "retaining the data" or "keeping the data" does it get it right?
Your examples are at the extreme end. You can be a fast technical learner or builder which does make you special but not be an inventor or someone who can grok science and systems similar to Tesla / Edison.

Loom != DC or AC electricity its a helpful tool not transformational technology such as electricity.