skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Android will block any update to an existing app that wasn't signed with the same signature. The benefit of using the developer's signature (even if the app is built by F-Droid) is that the F-Droid release of the app is not treated as a "different app" by the Android OS, and thus it can be updated by other app stores or through direct APK releases from the developer. If the user chooses to stop using F-Droid in the future, they can still receive updates through other means without uninstalling and reinstalling the app.

It also allows the user to place a little less trust on F-Droid because the developer, as well as F-Droid, must confirm any release before it can be distributed. (Now that I think of it, that probably creates an issue where if malware somehow slips in, F-Droid has no power to remove it via an automatic update. Perhaps they should have a malware response or notification system?)

More: https://f-droid.org/2023/09/03/reproducible-builds-signing-k...
So how long do you usually consider whether you're spending $5 or not?
> For those without means understanding is a luxury

Saying that those without wealth are barred from genuine understanding reduces learning to a matter of money. Plenty of us with limited resources develop deep insights by way of libraries, conversations, online education, or other active seeking in the margins of what time and means permit.

That proposition also throws away personal agency by framing understanding as something that happens only if external conditions allow it, rather than admitting each person’s power to seek knowledge and push beyond circumstance.

Your second sentence feels more balanced, setting up a good question: how do we bootstrap Gene Roddenberry’s future fairly while still recognizing personal drive, differences, and merit?
Fashion changes quickly over time, while good models of real-life processes are infrequently supplanted.

For your argument to work, you need to prove that the original article is closer to a 1985 Cosmo article than it is to something like Clayton Christensen's 1995 article on Disruptive Innovation, which remains relevant today (or disprove one of the premises in my comment).
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740 kcal of pasta and cheese went into the dish, and under half (370 kcal) ended up on that plate. People vary, but even short, old people with no exercise have a maintenance metabolism of 3x that. To maintain my weight I need 10x that.

I suspect most of the reactions here are cultural (do you get most of your calories with breakfast, are restaurant meals larger or smaller than home meals, is that the only food with the meal or do you typically have other starters and desserts, do you snack throughout the day, ...).

I typically eat once a day, sometimes adding in a small breakfast, I don't snack, I don't really care for desserts, and certainly for a weeknight meal I might make cacio e pepe but definitely won't also whip up breadsticks, cocktails, and a few sides most of the time. Nearly anyone with those eating habits would find this a small amount of food (in the sense that if they ate it instead of their normal dinner regularly they'd lose weight quickly, at least 3lbs per month, 25lbs in my case).

Even people who eat 3 square meals and snack some (no more than half a family-size bag of chips) through the day will find this on the small side (losing weight if all 3 meals are that portion) if they're moderately active, no older than 40, and no shorter than 5'10.
> Your subjective feelings are not valid logical justification.

Unless I am your boss....
... would be good. But it's been a decade and I think we're further from a society of polymaths now than we were then.

I'm lucky enough to have been able to afford a constant trickle of college classes for the last 20 years. It's awesome. I get so much more out of it than my younger full-time classmates are. But it requires a lot of sacrifice. I probably wouldn't be on this path if I had had kids, for instance.

So as nice as it feels to get excited about polymathy, I'd rather we take steps to make it normal.
Personally I think opening up steam and see your game (shipping) can beat opening up the editor but I agree that it's a very fulfilling industry.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schottky_junction_solar_cell
I have a question about LLM tooling that I would love to hear others thoughts.

So I'm currently using LLM-lite tools such as ChatGPT and simple copilot completions. These tools obviously provide utility. I have yet to play with more advanced tooling or models besides these. I'm currently experiencing absolutely no pressure at my job to "up my game," and my hobby programming is mostly done in very niche languages (contribute little to my resume whether or not I finish them).

Given this situation, I've decided to stop using LLM tooling altogether, with the assumptions that 1) the tooling in 2+ years will be completely different anyways so I'm not loosing by not familiarizing myself with the current "hot" tools, and 2) if I ever need to get up to speed with the latest LLM tooling, it is something that one should pretty easily get up to speed, especially with improved models (people have seemed to master the current state of affairs in matters of months, so in the future it should be even easier). I know some people will reply that I'm just wasting time when I could automate stuff, but in reply, I find coding tasks fun (I know, old fashioned) and I feel I otherwise have a good work-life-balance.

Do these assumptions hold up? Are there any perspectives I'm missing?
>>Maybe the military is just that good at filtering out those types during psychological testing, or maybe belonging is far more important than ideology.

The more mundane reason is probably because it's more appealing to use those skills to enter law enforcement or become a private military contractor than knowingly and overtly breaking away from society to form and maintain an organization that uses violence to achieve specific political aims.
Exactly. That’s precisely the angle someone would use if they were trying to hoax or embarrass your publication.
If this is important to you, I would reach out to Senator Wyden's office on the topic [1]. He is a known good advocate of sensible technology policy [2]. Companies do not fear complaints, they fear statute and regulatory requirements. Genuinely wishing you success in your policy advocacy journey on this topic. Pretend you're a lobbyist; you're lobbying for computational freedom gratis. Cory Doctorow might have some helpful advice for you too, his contact info is easy to find.

[1] https://www.wyden.senate.gov/

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Agreed. 52% sounds an awful lot like a normal distribution.
I love Uiua mostly because it's a very different, but incredibly programming model (if you don't know APL/J/BQN or another array language). It's also quite a polished language IMHO, with clear design choices, great docs and a lovely online editor at https://www.uiua.org/pad

Together with some other people, I've built a Uiua track on Exercism: https://exercism.org/tracks/uiua/ It has 90+ exercises which makes for a lot of fun content.
"shrink the accented letter to fit the label height with the accent"

Ah, memories of youth... not to mention KEYBCS2.
Yeah, double standards but the dating game is so confusing nowadays!
Perhaps, but do you think these groups would NOT train just because of some state law?

It feels like the "no scammers" thing you see on Craigslist ads; as if some scammer would say, "Darn, and I was really hoping to cash in on THIS one; I guess I'm out."
The particular math used might get stuck in a local optimum ...
> how many of you who say that they can't find the job any more, have considered manufacturing?

If one wants a skilled job in manufacturing, they have to earn a qualification first, or go through a period of apprenticeship. The wages for most manufacturing jobs are much lower in the west than for knowledge workers, and openings likely fewer - it's only recently that new manufacturing sites got spun-up after decades of continuous decline- thanks to 2 pieces of legislation from the Biden administration; the Inflation Reduction Act and the CHIPS Act
This is terrific. I’m trying to get it running on my older Subaru. Will see if I can hook this up if I can get that working.
It seems odd you’d have to install a browser extension for analysis. It’s a bit to intrusive for me to consider using it.
If you're going to copy my code onto HN I would appreciate attribution.

/s
you can't create real polymath... polymaths are self-created... that's the physics of this.
Agreed!

> "Do You Even Want to Be 10x?
You don’t have to. You’re not a lesser engineer if you operate at a steady clip, write clean code, and value stable processes. Seriously. Some workplaces thrive on consistent, methodical improvement—and a 10x renegade might actually hurt them."
Can you elaborate on the ethical reasons? I should mention that I'm not very smart.
There's something very satisfying about electromechanical clocks, I think it may be the combination of math-y/steampunk-y gear-driven timekeeping with actual accuracy. I have always thought once I Made It Big I'd get myself a Seiko Spring Drive watch[1] - hasn't happened yet...

1: https://www.seikowatches.com/us-en/customerservice/knowledge...
> seems like a signal

Also “mil-spec”, and in a totally different context i.e. big box retail, “contractor grade”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_grade
Oooh, I got hit by one. I got a random email from a long time back community level friend/acquaintance. An old timer who seasonally migrates to a popular south of the border retreat.

Over a back and fourth of vaguely brief emails asking if I could do a favor. He doesn’t have a working credit card and his cash is not useful getting a digital gift for a friend.

A hard luck friend (the dying kind) is having a birthday and asks if I could order a gift card of a generous amount (to cover part of something else she has always wanted.)

You know who the sucker is. Casually generous and asking little of others. I did reclaim my losses due to the fraud (consumertopia ain’t all bad) and learned a valuable lesson. These fraudsters hacked my friend’s gmail account and knew whatever that provides.
More often plate carriers and body armor, mag holders and other “operator” gear than just military syyle vests. “tacticool” is the ironic label given to overtly “tactical” gear.
>And no one noticed this

people did, it's just that you get attacked or reported if you do so, not this thread specifically but in general
This episode was my introduction to the paper. It is a really great discussion, and Ivan's editing and audio production is really fun.
Some of the most productive people I know, who can get on the fly the ideas are 50+. So if you are going more slowly, maybe it is on you? I don’t think is a good and fair generalization. Is any?
Can't beat zettelkasten!
One of the most user visible things they did, though, was make it work better if you didn't have a config file.
Out of curiosity, what would you say the current state of the art is for full compilable decompilation? This is something I have a vague interest in but I'm not involved enough in the space to be on top of the latest and greatest tooling.
> Uh, a lack of "being polite" does not justify state sanctioned extrajudicial punishment.

In theory, but we're dealing with humans here.
The existence of black cops and their similar treatment of minorities does not eliminate the possibility of there being racism.

For example, there are documented cases of emancipated black slaves becoming slave owners themselves prior to the Civil War, some of whom were known to be at least as brutal with their slaves as their white peers.

I suspect it comes down to individuals identifying themselves as being part of a new tribe (e.g., cops), allowing them to treat members of their former tribe (by race) as "others". The degree to which they mistreat their former tribe likely stems from how their new tribe perceives the old one (i.e. many cops believe they are above "civilians" and especially minorities).

That is ultimately the core of racism.

This has been demonstrated repeatedly in simple classroom experiments where children are divided into two groups based upon some arbitrary characteristic (e.g., eye color, clothing, or even some new identifier passed out to them) and quickly displaying camaraderie within their own group while antagonizing members of the other group.
Where in my comment did I bring up race?

The comment I was replying to claimed criminals were criminals because they were powerless. I think most criminals are criminals because they're bad people (the opposite of CRT's Marxist analysis).
The DSL paradigm is generally how I go about using LLMs on new projects, I.e use the LLM to design a language that best represents the abstractions and concepts of the project - and once the language is defined, the LLM can express usecases with the DSL and ultimately convert them into an existing high level language like Python.
I know that feeling all too well. There's an Australian guy with a very similar email address that keeps entering it incorrectly, and I end up with the promo emails for these accounts. And because some of them are geolocked to Australian IPs, it's impossible to unsubscribe via the links in the footer.
I implemented the very slow flood fill for Spectricon, the paint software.
Here is a great video on cooking pasta with less water:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=259MXuK62gU&t=219s
> we have an actual duty to resocialize you

You may feel that you have this duty. I do not feel that I have this duty. You are placing upon me an obligation that I will not accept.
Yeah, that's one reason why the arithmetic is crude. The PDF says the following things:

About 1/3 of US adults have been arrested by age 23.

About 1/3 of US adults have a criminal record.

Black men in the US are about 6x more likely to be incarcerated than white men in the US.

These figures aren't all about the same thing -- different classes of (alleged) offence, and also "adults" versus "men" -- and indeed the black:white ratios may be different for arrests, and criminal records, and incarcerations.

It's not obvious to me whether we should expect the black:white ratio to be much higher for incarcerations than for arrests or criminal records. If it is, then that would indeed be one of several possible explanations for how the crude calculation ends up with more than 100% of black men in the US having a criminal record.

Anyway, my calculation just pretended that the black:white ratio is the same for arrests / criminal records (take your pick, both are alleged to be up to ~1/3 of US adults) among adults as for incarcerations among men. Probably false, but I was just looking for a ballpark figure.
> schools will not allow the parents of a student that has a record to come on school campus

It is even wider than that. I have noticed in my wider circle of friends. Deciding somebody is "bad" and ostracising them.

Often when people are at their most vulnerable and need to wrapped in love by their friends they get the opposite.
Well arrested doesn't mean thrown in jail. Sometimes you are arrested then just given a citation. Open intoxicant, noise violation, underage drinking, speeding, bonfire in a field, peeing behind the bar, etc. I can see it.
I would really like the data to be stored...
not in the cloud.

Must one set up a S3 compatible stack on a home server somewhere?
How to Disrupt Network Effects (2020)
It's (almost) all a big scam.

End of 2024: How a Chinese firm ran a billion-euro carbon credit scam: https://www.dw.com/en/how-a-chinese-firm-ran-a-billion-euro-...

Early 2023: Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest certifier are worthless, analysis shows: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/18/revealed...

You'll find dozens of other examples when googling it.

It's a nice concept in theory, but due to lack of regulation and oversight essentially a free open playground for scammers.

GHG not produced is the best GHG saved, simple as.
At a 200-person company, sure. But when you're in the tens or hundreds of thousands, that's a hard no. Especially when dealing with out-of-scope dependencies.
In what way would it become a modern take on 1984? In terms of surveillance? Afaik the telescreens were non-interactive, right?
> very likely could have stopped the violence with a few tweets.

That he didn't was repugnant and a dereliction of duty, but even if he had, do you honestly think that mob would have done anything different? People in groups don't think normally, that's pretty well studied and established; I don't think it would have made one whit of difference.

But he should have tried; I'm surprised someone didn't even tell him to just for the optics of it.
This reminds me of how as times changed, once illegal behaviors are now considered normal because "big tech" embraced it.

Remember Kazaa, BonziBuddy, Gator (The OG adware), etc.? They were demonized for collecting data on all the web traffic you were doing it. They got sued by the FTC and were forced to change their business models and/or close down.

Then Facebook, Google came along and did the same thing in the early 2010's except via cookies and Javascript, but somehow that's ok. Even worse, it's considered a normal business practice.

It amazes me that Honey has been able to become so popular given it's business model has always been more of a hack than an actual product. How did commission programs not sue them for fraud?

Probably because they had good ole Silicon Valley VC money to scare them off.
Yep panel costs are falling, maybe close to bottom by now, but everything else (labor and supplies) is going up. Panels are no longer the driver of a solar project cost.
Ecosystem collapse due to anthropogenic climate change
Plumbers do often use initiative and offer improvements over what the customer initially requested.
Basically, as I understand it, there is none. If you want to collect copyright infringement damages, you have to register for copyright, pay, and deposit a copy. Otherwise you have a copyright on creation and don't need to deposit anything. The vast majority of created works are not deposited anywhere.
> The majority of "militia members" are ... middle age ex-military guys who lost their kids to an unfair, biased and broken "family court" system.

Cite? I mean, really, what?
It's also tasty in chai, though rarely present in store-bought mixes (but you can just toss in a couple of threads when brewing).
>>[...]but do you think these groups would NOT train just because of some state law?

To your point, the groups will likely continue to train (seemingly illegally), but the quality of the groups will definitely be degraded due to the more limited pool of qualified trainers driven by the presumably high-deterrence of state laws. The original comment above asked why we don't see high(er) performing militia groups, and these types of state laws seem like a strong contributing factor.
> Since when was ISIS an American militia?

Luckily that was never asserted.
What you write sounds plausible at first, but then there’s this example from the German KSK:

„In 2018, the German Federal Criminal Police Office uncovered a plot involving unknown KSK soldiers to murder prominent German politicians such as Claudia Roth, Heiko Maas and Joachim Gauck among others, and carry out attacks against immigrants living in Germany.[7] Also, earlier that same year in a separate investigation, the State prosecutors in the city of Tübingen investigated whether neo-Nazi symbols were used at a "farewell" event involving members of KSK.[8][9]

In June 2020, German defence minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer announced that the unit would be partially disbanded due to growing far-right extremism within the ranks.[10] The KSK had become partially independent from the chain of command, with a toxic leadership culture. One of the force's four companies where extremism is said to be the most rife was to be dissolved and not replaced.[11]“

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kommando_Spezialkr%C3%A4fte
I've been on the fence about generalists vs specialists debate for a while now. Although people love to bring up examples of outstanding geniuses like da Vinci, it seems society as a whole moves towards specialists.

Natural selection shows that cooperating specialists do better. So I'm not so sure how useful are these efforts to educate new generations of polymaths.
Yeah, thanks. I think most likely I'd start by emailing the spec authors in question, since there's a decent chance you & I are misunderstanding something. Maybe a small tweak (like "services shouldn't reject clients without a really, really good reason, like you're authenticating guards at Fort Knox type stuff") would be sufficient to make this a non-issue.
That is not at all how things work at Meta. The impact of the things you deliver as an engineer has a direct effect on your performance review. For better or for worse, that also means that engineers have a ton of leverage on deciding what to work on. It's highly unlikely that the engineers working on this were laughing at it while doing so.

Don't assume that you can simply pattern match because you've been at another big company. I've been at three, meta being one of them. And they have all operated very differently.
I don’t know if the military is copying civilian patterns or vice versa. But in the military the Line Manager is a noncommissioned officer, and if they want to stay that role forever that’s fine. As long as you can keep up with your unit. But commissioned officers are more “up or out”. If you don’t have a trajectory that gets you to stop being a lieutenant someday, then odds are very good you’ll be encouraged to leave. Not everyone has to end up a two star general, but you aren’t meant to clog up the ranks for people younger than you who have the potential to be one.

The Gervais Principle suggests that you keep a few of these around in case upper management tries to mark their territory by asking for consequences (usually for their own decisions) so you have someone to throw under the bus. I don’t think that’s wrong, but conservation is often very different from thriving. It’s an artificial state that is still precarious and lacking agency for the subject.
This isn't my first interaction with Kragen on this site, so unfortunately I'm not sure all his criticisms are genuine. He's said a few interesting things, but the amount of stuff he's written about my post is well over twice the length of my actual post, so at some point you just skim read.
IRL I knew someone who was charged with child sexual abuse. He went to prison awaiting trial, but the prosecution dropped the charges before it got there. He was released and went about his life.

Meanwhile his mug shot photo in the local paper was the number one google search result for his name. And then it reached syndication for other news sites as well.

Ideally those news paper articles should be updated to say the prosecution dropped the charges, but the reality is that at where I live, the arrest makes news but the prosecution dropping charges does not.
NotebookLM is more than just podcast generation. I came into the middle of consulting project where there were already dozens of artifacts - SOWs, transcripts from discovery sessions, client provided documentation etc.

I loaded them all up into NotebookLM.

I started asking it questions after uploading it all to NotebookLM like I would if I were starting from scratch with a customer. It answered the questions with citations.

And to hopefully deflect the usual objections - we already use GSuite as a corporate standard, NotebookLM is specifically allowed and it doesn’t train on your data.