skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just read the whole 44 pages and some years ago I spent a day or two delving into Crowley’s work. (I was curious but never had the time or need to practice any of the teachings)

There’s a spooky coherence in the descriptions and that’s what makes it such a fascinating read. The spin that this work puts on the subject - calling this “technology” and likening it to programming adds to this.

To anyone honestly wanting to take this for a spin, I recommend reading the biography of Aleister Crowley first. It’s an interesting read in itself and it also illustrates the risks/dangers. Pictures speak a thousand words.
The tennisball bomb definitely didn't work as advertised.

Just saying * looks around innocently *
> militant mentally ill

Hey, those guys vote.

What happens to Q-Anon and all those militia guys now? Especially if Trump pardons the Jan 6th leaders.
You're making the (large) assumption that the interviews are actually relevant to the position.
> If other charges appear then they should be discussed.

The HN post is on the news story. The news story is not a trial, and is about more than whatever charges are filed against anyone thus far. Other aspects of the story are already in active discussion.

I'm trying to get at more substantial discussion than on Twitter, by understanding why someone was speaking the way they were, by asking them.

> Seems like the FBI don't, for now.

Does it actually seem like that, or does it seem like probably the FBI expects that there will probably be additional charges?
Though, would the burrying have any meaning without the reveal? Its only purpose was to be used in the end. I have a hard time seeing the meaning of the burrying itself.
The cert gives assurance the right endpoint has been reached to bootstrap tls. So arguably its part of the attack surface. The tls key exchange may not have direct dependency but it has some indirect? Clearly the on the wire pki used to establish emphemeral session keys would be the main issue and that is down to the webserver and browser not letsencrypt.
Ditto!

I’m a long time lurker (under old defunct alts) and occasional poster but I’ve opened HN almost every day since I discovered the site in 2008.

This community has an outsized impact on my career and life and I’m eternally grateful for it. Thank you!

Happy new year and eine Guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr.
Try once again to make small inroads into frontend.

I took another look at the Android SDK (and holy crap...)

So now I'm bouncing around the web looking at various ways I can use my android phone to interact with backend code I've already written.

Tauri? Cordova? Electron?
Rest assured what I said is helpful to the intended target audience.
If you believe that, then you probably aren't included in that group.

Observations and references to experts and other once common knowledge aren't rants.

If you can't see how this would be useful, you have my condolences. The future is going to be a rough road for the blind.
Another thing to keep in mind is that they’d be displayed on a CRT monitor, which makes the image much more forgivable in person.
I’ve spent a long time in non tech enterprise and I think unix won. 15 years ago you would hire someone and they would be proficient in Windows and Microsoft office. Now people have grown up with Macbooks, Chromebooks and mobile/tablets. It’s not a major issue yet, but it’s increasingly becoming one as the generations in the workplace are slowly shifting.
Your theory would be valid if there were no mentally ill people in those European countries which offer good access to healthcare. Just google "Magdeburg attack", if you want a recent and very good example for this.
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> They shouldn't be able to do this

Really? ;) I guess you don't believe in the universal approximation theorem?

UAT makes a strong case that by reading all of our text (aka computational traces) the models have learned a human "state transition function" that understands context and can integrate within it to guess the next token. Basically, by transfer learning from us they have learned to behave like universal reasoners.
The staff title unlocks a new level of self-aggrandizement which is on display here and in certain published books.

As for professional qualities, I don’t think there is one. It takes a staff engineer at FAANG to do what a senior can do at a smaller company, because of all the other self—important people not listening to you. (Dealing with that is a skill though, so having that skill might be it.)
I suggest you re-read the entire thread and try to see your replies from a perspective other than your own. I don't think you realise how terrible you look here. It's not just the general cringiness of over confident youth, it's the doubling down on false superiority, the stench of antisocial tendency and the immature claims of success without the slightest hint of any evidence.

I'd be pleasantly surprised, and believe you'd achieved a modicum of self awareness, if you just deleted everything you posted here. But I fear that would be out of character...
I guess a senior engineer might be "linked" to a single kind of tasks (backend, frontend etc) while a staff engineer has knowledge in a lot of domains and can be the "bridge" for projects that need people from many different teams
I wonder if Jeff Bezos also hoses-down Blue Origin workers with ice-cold water to passive-aggressively attack demands of livable wages and sensible working conditions for Amazon warehouse workers.
I also was staff and senior staff when I held a salary position. To me these are basically bullshit titles created because companies have to keep on promoting people.
I don't think any solution will be perfect at eliminating all crime, ever. A statement doesn't have to be all or nothing to be valid, and I might also just be completely wrong. That being said it seems like a good thing, for my definition of good, to help the mentally ill.
You are supposed to have connections with knowledgeable people, so you can call them and ask for advice. That's how it works without computers.
> Elon Musk can not launch anything with enough mass to come remotely close to the yield on even a small nuclear weapon.

To be fair to the Second Amdendment supremacist, he only compared the sattelite deorbit with the explosive arsenal of the wacko the FBI arrested, not tot nuclear weapons.
I’m working on similar issues with my terminal emulator. So I’d very much like to be part of that conversation too.
I feel your pain, though I blame the websites more than the browsers. I can run full firefox on my OG pinephone as long as the sites I visit aren't running a pile of JS lunacy.

My Onyx Boox runs Firefox happily too, but for that and the pinephone I'd recommend trying out a Gemini browser (there are several on fdroid). It's lacking plenty, but has an old-web feel, no sites are slow, and you can handily use it on old devices.
The size of the company handing out the titles.
That’s definitely not true, you can do both.
This is an interesting take. I am am from Africa thus context may vary. I would approach this from its fundamentals.

1. Who's responsibility does the venue selection and consequently payment belongs to. Where I am from people have option to contribute to the wedding budget but not specifically to the venue.

2. There is danger of people not liking the venue, this can lead people to drop-out and not attend due to the venue selection

3. This idea is great and can disrupt the entire industry
Depends on the company.

I've worked for companies where staff engineer is below senior engineer and for companies where the opposite is true.

And I have worked for a company where everyone is just a staff engineer with no titles to differentiate, liked this setup the best.

There is no industry standard, each company labels things differently.
It should be possible to achieve the same end by forcing management to use the "hardware of the people", getting them to do nontrivial on-call duty frequently, and making them dogfood what they make.

The real fucking assholes are the ones that enable the fucking assholes you refer to.
Only one of them will lead you to promo. If you want to do double amount of work for nothing - that’s your right.
Your feel is on the wrong place.

That had nothing to do with the creation of this model.
Scope of influence. A senior should be defining and building things within their team. A staff engineer or a principal should be influencing things more broadly than their team.
I wish you a year covered in hot grits in Soviet Russia, being spied on by old people via email.
I’m not sure any of them do really. It’s been 22 years since TDD made its entry into our field and it’s still worse than the runtime assertions which helped put people on the moon. I know I was lashing out at uncle Bob before but it’s really all of them.

I do agree with these people that nobody has ever regretted writing a test. Well, I mean, someone probably has, but the idea of it is fairly solid. It’s just also useless, because it’s so vague. You can write a lot of tests and never be safe at runtime.
If you want to self-identify as a grifter-grinder that’s also your right…?
Okay I’m with you, but if I’m not mistaken I believe you have slightly mis-characterized what strong eventual consistency is.

> Strong eventual consistency: Exactly the same, but replace "eventually" with "immediately".

I believe this isn’t quite correct. I was under the impression that the delivery doesn’t have to be immediate, but rather that any two nodes with the same set of events, regardless of received order, must be in the same state.
Corporations' motivations rarely coincide with deep, consistent systems strategy, and largely operate reactively and in a manner where individuals get favorable performance reviews for adding profitable features or saving costs.
> If you’re just looking to get the staff role, it’s almost always easier to get hired into it than promoted to it

I think this a big contributor to gendered wage gaps

So many people I’ve talked to are worried about how they come across to colleagues in their current organization and are worried about glass ceilings there

While the competition is absolutely coming across as too cocky and too abrasive, but continues interviewing at different companies until it hits, not worried about any ceiling or “terminal titles” at the current organization

If people are playing completely different games, the outcome cant really be compared
Okay, if I forget what p-value means and just take it to mean probability, I guess I can see the point? It’s still wrong through
I don't agree with the mentoring and leading part not being important except as a mediator to shipping. Mentoring and leading increases your soft power by giving people the opportunity to like you. This power can translate even to the next company since tech can be a small world.
Does that information improve or worsen the training?

Does it justify the resource demands?

Who pays for those resources and who benefits?
The article describes insight on how to gain leverage. Regardless of promotion plans, it's good to have leverage in the current economy so your career doesn’t end prematurely when the company goes to cost-saving mode.
2025 will be the year in which a certain operating system is used on desktop machines.
> The conventional explanation for what’s freezing young adults in place is that they can’t afford to grow up, given rising inflation and ballooning housing costs. Yet this doesn’t quite explain what’s going on.

> Median wages for full-time workers ages 35 to 44 are up 16% between 2000 and 2024, from $58,522 to $67,652 adjusted for inflation

- 2024 Median house price $402k

- 2000 Median house price $119k (or $216k in 2024 inflated dollars)

16% wage bump for a near-doubling of house prices? It seems like maybe the simplest explanation was right.
Integrating LLMs and Emacs with Gptel
Can you say more directly what you mean?

(People can guess at the gap between what you're responding to, and what you said, but why not spell it out.)
> What is the new breakthrough in robotics that is gpu driven ? There are subsets of the overall problem that can be solved by a gpu (eg object detection) but the whole planning and control algo scheme seems to be more or less the same as it has been for the past decades. These typically involve non-convex optimization so not much gpu benefit.

In the past two years two very important developments appeared around imitation learning and LLMs. Some starting points for this rabbit hole:

1. HuggingFace LeRobot: https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot

2. ALOHA: https://aloha-2.github.io/

3. https://robotics-transformer2.github.io/

4. https://www.1x.tech/discover/1x-world-model
The CNN article references the Bengal famine of 1943, specifically prioritizing food delivery to military personnel during WW2. The Food for Peace Act of came into effect in 1954.
They said “antiquated books”. Wikipedia suggests that’s more than 100 years old. The program is more than 60 years old. I’m sure some of the million-plus books that were sent over are antiquated by now, if they weren’t already. The restriction was only on manuscripts.
> Have you even skimmed the docs?

Yup.

Any committee that will leave entirely unpunished being lied to, directly, in person, by the fellow in charge of the biggest agency the committee is supposed to be overseeing isn't worth a damn.

Any committee that won't raise a big public stink about that agency's lawyers lying to the US Supreme Court? Same thing.

It's entirely possible to be both bipartisan and a Congressional committee but still be largely worthless to the public.

> Why do you take Snowden at his word yet ignore a bipartisan intel committee...

Snowden risked his ass (and is currently living in exile) to alert the public about long-running, major violations of Federal law. The most we get out of the absolute best member of that committee is "Man. The American public would be fucking incensed if they heard some of the things that we've been told in our chambers. Someone should really do something about this.".

And yeah, I'm aware that that report was written by a scratch committee assembled in the House and is organizationally unrelated to the permanent Senate intelligence oversight committee on which Wyden and company sit. In a crisis situation, these folks absolutely carry the same water, regardless of where they are on the org chart. One only need look at the retroactive immunity granted to the telcos for their long-standing, obvious violation of Federal law caused by their participation in NSA's then-very-illegal wiretap program to understand that.
This is so full of office politics that I'm glad I'm working at a place without it.

One tell-tale sign is that the article talks as much about which important contributions "won't get you there" as about which will. Including acknowledging that it's all important! Let all those dumb folks do all that other important stuff, focus selfishly on the hype-of-the-day topics so you can bag that sweet promotion. Relying on that there are many other folks that do the boring and less sexy stuff that keeps the light on. And which is ultimately necessary to lift you into your sweet promotion. Just that you want the credit, not those other folks. I'd be deeply resentful of somebody doing this ego-trip, and therefore, again, I'm glad my place doesn't have this divisive nonsense.
Churchill's famine is a different story altogether from the famines stated in the article though. Churchill's famines were directly a result of food exports to the rest of the Commonwealth while India starved. On the contrary, these famines mentioned in the article were often the usual in India at the time. While the Northern plains are very fertile, there is also a strong "luck" element that depends on the timing of rains and the monsoon season. Getting them wrong was often the reason for a large number of famines across the country. The southern part of India is largely mountain plateau and jungle and agriculturally poor, hence they often relied on imports from the north.

What really changed the equation for India was the Green Revolution, which happened because the first PM, Jawaharlal Nehru (a figure the current govt loves to denigrate and pin all their faults on), invited Norman Borlaug to replicate his Mexican success story for India.
Yes, please read the comment linked at the issue description: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/16270#issuecomment-161...
Possibly they could have, but why would they?

The company clearly doesn't work as it is.

So you buy the company and you now need $250,000 in hte next week to make payroll and rent. Where does that come from?

And each 2 week period you require the same cash infusion just to keep your job while you are losing customers due to the chaos of nearly going bankrupt.

Explain your thesis as to why the employees would buy the company and why they'd pay so much just to very tax inefficiently pay the money back to themselves every other week.
BTW, with the birth rates dropping well below replacement, a decline in the population is inevitable, and property values will drop.
They passed a function that throws an exception to a C ABI function. C ABI functions cannot tolerate exceptions because C does not support stack unwinding. It might work anyway, but it is technically undefined behavior and it will only ever work when simply deallocating what is on the stack does not require any cleanup elsewhere.

The exception caused the stack frame to disappear before the OS kernel was done with it. Presumably, the timeout would have been properly handled had the stack not been unwound by the exception. If it had not, that would be a bug in Windows.

There is a conceptually simple solution to this issue, which is to have the C++ compiler issue a warning when a programmer does this. I filed bug reports against both GCC and LLVM asking for one:

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118263

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/121427
One interesting test that I see nearly all LLMs fail is coherent responses to tax questions.
Why write in the age of AI content
There's no way they're getting rapid turnaround with the damage it's has sustained on the last two tests.
The articles I’ve seen do not imply he lost his fingers working with it.

I’ve also never seen it associated with suicide bombers, you may be thinking of acetone peroxide chemistries (e.g. TATP), which are common low-grade explosives used by terrorists. Also highly inadvisable, TATP is a pretty shit explosive in almost all aspects (low power, low stability). Someone stupid enough to be using TATP should not be using HMTD, as the latter requires more discipline than TATP.

There is a technical gap between making HMTD and processing it into a form that can actually be used in practical explosive systems.
What makes a country communist?
I actually get annoyed when experienced folks say this isn't AGI, its next word predict and not human-like intelligence. But we don't know how human intelligence works. Is it also just a matrix of neuron weights? Maybe it ends up looking like humans are also just next-word/thought predictors. Maybe that is what AGI will be.
6 is kind of cheating. It's a restatement of 45^2.

3^2 is the sum of the first three odd numbers. 4^2 is the sum of the first four odd numbers. 5^2 is the sum of the first five odd numbers.

Edit: sorry, don't mean to be a pill.
> The former is a belief

It's based on the Law of Supply & Demand, which is always in play.
Sure, but in that spirit you then wouldn't need to mention that healthcare access would help. There will always be those crazy enough who will not make use of access to healthcare but prefer to make a plan on how to "seek proper justice on their own", which is what OP was referring to. The inhibition of that signaling is then a more adequate solution and should be part of the repertoire (as well as offering good healthcare).
Of the re3 project? Most of it, since it's decompiled from the GTA 3 executable. And just because compiled code is decompiled doesn't strip it of ownership/copyright.
Happy New Year everyone! I hope this coming year you’ll find the meaning you’re yearning for, spend it with people who deeply care for you, love and be loved. That you’ll flourish, feel content and happy. That you’ll experience more good than evil.

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C "clockwise/spiral" rule to understand declarations
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Even Hibernate has `em.createNativeQuery("type your sql here", SomeResult.class)`. I've never seen an ORM (for an RDBMS) that didn't make it easy to run SQL.
I understand all that - my point is the price is nowhere close to being too high for what's (allegedly) at stake according to AGI zealots, not to mention where the Chinese government sees the role of China world affairs in the coming decades. Hell, I even ball-parked the all-in landed price to at most 2x Nvidia's MSRP.
Or you can use stump remover (Potassium nitrate) which allows to use fire to destroy them safely.
Linux excels at drivers and device support. The actual kernel is nowhere near as good as its competitors.
Want to second that, not getting people an opportunity to like you can turn you into that person at the top who’s disconnected from line engineers work - and people won’t trust you enough to tell you when you’re making a mistake. Guess how I learnt that :)
So as noted you can configure the length, but you can't actually adjust the probability used by the auto-length formula.

The formula calculates how many bits are needed to store the approximate number of objects, then uses twice that many bits, rounding up.

For example, at 16000 objects git is still using the minimum length of 7 characters. But at 17000 objects it now takes 15 bits to store the object count, so it wants 30 bits of hash, which means 8 characters.
Happy New Year to All.
I’ve not taken the course but follow the author on LinkedIn where he distills typical B2B content approach with clarity. https://www.pierreherubel.com/course
That’s not the limiting factor, fwiw. It’s an operations problem for them at this point. Freeways are a big contentious point as well.
Cash is an asset like any other, why wouldn't that be acquired when the company is purchased?
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> The morality of something does not change based on where it occurs.

Morals and ethics aren't the same thing. What is considered to be moral varies from person to person and from culture to culture.
Exactly. Dynamic languages that allow self-modification create tech debt and bugs implicitly, which is why I prefer statically-compiled languages that have stable ABI/API guarantees. When there are too many "freedoms", there are no promises and zero stability. Static compilation (because all of code paths must be exercised and translated to machine code) or at least gradual-typing of dynamic languages are essential. rbs and sorbet are non-starters, mostly because it's fragmented, optional, not widely-deployed, and lots of extra work. Python demonstrated wiser leadership in this specific area by modifying the language.