skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I'm personally not keen on LLMs, I admit I do have the co-pilot extension installed in Visual Studio and have been pleasantly surprised at how tab-completion is working. It seems effective for small blocks of code.

So, remembering that I not really a fan when I ask this... but why do you care if a candidate uses an LLM or Google as part of your interview? Do you care if they use an IDE or if they use a code completion plugin? In the end, do you not really want to evaluate if the candidate can produce good clean code?

If you feel like an LLM is too big a crutch, is that because what you wanted to test was memorization of a framework or a test of thought and workflow strategies?

To quote a resource I'm also not keen on but understand why it exists, does your concern about chatGPT during interviews actually point out an XY problem?
I use it on my work laptop. Reasons:

- a single solution that covers the entire storage domain (I don't have to learn multiple layers, like logical volume manager vs. ext4 vs. physical partitions)
- cheap/free snapshots. I have been glad to have been able to revert individual files or entire file systems to an earlier state. E.g., create a snapshot before doing a major distro update.
- easy to configure/well documented

Like others have said, at this point I would need a good reason, NOT to use ZFS on a system.
I don't think I'm moving the goalposts. Things like accessible restrooms and additional food choices are good and meaningful improvements. They aren't being dropped because they add value to people's lives for little to no cost.

It seems like the pronoun push has passed (the performative part about chastising people for not wearing a pin or updating an email signature, not correctly using someone's preferred pronouns), but I'm also largely removed from the portion of society that cares a lot about at it at the moment.

I believe PG's essay is intentionally trying to separate the two, and nothing you mentioned as remaining would be considered affirmative action (which largely would fall under what PG is criticizing imo).
CO2 is food for plants
I switched from Firefox and Never Looked Back
nice approach. highlighting key info like hostname can definitely help prevent mistakes
From their methodology page (https://db-engines.com/en/ranking_definition), it seems they use:

- Number of search results for each DB's name

- Google Trends

- Mentions in Stack Overflow etc.

- Mentions in Tweets

- Mentions in people's LinkedIn profile

Probably gives a vague idea of popularity of the system, but the measure is otherwise pretty useless.
What preparations that a bank does in any way helps all the actual people out in the world?

The net is inaccessible in a way the bank can't fix. Broken cables or something cuts off a whole area even if the bank and the city the bank is in are up.

Is there an established fallback that everyone knows about and is ready to use?

Credit cards used to have a fallback methilod (which was the primary method originally), where if the pos system is out, a business can still process a transaction off-line by taking an impression of your card with a carbonless receipt in this purely mechanical device. The receipts are all deposited at the bank at a later time.

Unless there is some fallback like that that's actually ready to go and everyone is ready to use when needed, then how do you buy soup and heating fuel? Hand written IOU's?

Every time I've seen a payment system unavailable, the various goods and services simply stopped. Even food and fuel. At all big and little scales.

Here in the US a few years ago hackers took down some computers relating to a major oil pipe. For something like a few weeks a big chunk of the country couldn't get fuel. It later came out that the computers that were affected were only related to billing, NOT anything about actually operating the pipe. Fuel could have been flowing the whole time. Rather than allow any tiny chance of a billing discrepency, they stopped the flow and let everyone freeze and starve and die from lack of ambulances etc. (a little hyperbole, idk if anyone actually died that could be tied back to the fuel cutoff)

This and other examples tells me that when "merely the billing" is down, that the goods and services stop too, and all of them, not just the luxuries. It is not valid to propose that grocery stores and gas stations will switch to some emergency humanitarian mode of operation for the duration of an emergency and figure out the crass money later.
Idk if it’s better. I’ve been trying to get into the university.

I taught a class recently. It’s pretty much yours to reign over. It made me never want to go back to corporate drudgery. It’s definitely not for everyone. Even into high schools teachers talk about being bullied by students. I don’t know what it’s like there, but some of it’s probably the schools not supporting the teachers with managing a classroom. Classroom management is really hard ime.
Snapshots (Note: NTFS does have this in the way of Volume Shadow Copy but it's not as easily accessible as a feature to the end user as it is in ZFS). Copy on Write for reliability under crashes. Block checksumming for data protection (bitrot)
Who do you pay carbon tax to?
This is utterly untrue. I work remotely for a large (8000+) company and when I go into the office, and I've been paying close attention, I've seen precisely zero white-boarding happening in the past 3 years. In fact, when people need to white board they reach for their laptop because they can save the information in a bette format, and others can add to it in the future. Excalidraw is a fantastic whiteboarding tool that has taken over the majority of diagramming where I work.

Post-it notes are not something I've seen used except for random sessions usually run by a consultant. JIRA sucks except for support issues, but most everyone just uses a google doc or spreadsheet and moves on with life.

Beyond that, we are just getting started with remote work, the tools will improve, not so with physical space tools.
If Paul Graham published his list of favorite la croix flavors, would it be interesting because of who he is?

I don't understand celebrity worship in the slightest -- if a celebrity says something, why does that make it valuable to listen? Especially if it's poorly written drivel.
What is that supposed to do? How is that at all a showing of discontent? Heck, it publicly appears as an implicit approval of the current state of things.
At 10 years, it is newer than 15 but its not a new feature by a long shot.
I can only speak for myself of course, but from discussions with friends + co-workers I trust, I think there's subset of people working in software professions that are questioning the viability of these careers in the long run. Considering the now high level of difficultly of finding a new job, paired with the constant psychological warfare of every CEO boldly announcing that "Agents" are going to do all the programming work, plus the recent talks of off-shoring (not to mention seeing a majority of openings in other countries) are forcing the "hard conversations" to be had.

Can't imagine people are thrilled with their prospects.
Troodi: The AI Chatbot Helping Kids with Mental Health Challenges
I came across an interesting article about Troodi, an AI-powered chatbot designed to support kids and teens with mental health challenges. It offers tools to help with anxiety, stress, and self-confidence in a safe, judgment-free space.

The bot is praised for its preventive approach to mental health and the way it bridges the gap for kids who might not have immediate access to therapy. While it’s not a replacement for traditional therapy, it provides valuable resources to help kids manage their emotions in real time.

As someone interested in how technology can make a social impact, I think Troodi is a great example of how AI can be used for good. What do you think about AI tools like this for mental health? Could they be the future of wellness support?
"Should have detected the issue" implies it was an accident. YouTube has intentionally tanked performance in non-Chrome browsers before and been caught. Even when they weren't actively sabotaging other browsers they had big Chrome banners and "Works Better in Chrome" signs for several years in the past. If they did it _then_, it's hard to give them the benefit of the doubt that they just "missed it" now, and easier to assume they do things that are broken in other browsers intentionally.
Obviously it should be on the left, because that's where it is on NEXTSTEP.

Deep down there it probably extends NSDock or something like that.
Perhaps there's a little bit too much reporting on him.
Sounds like a good time :)
No, it's "interpellated", i.e. 'brought into being'.
Someone who won't say no and follows orders blindly is harder to work with than someone with unrealistic expectations and ideas. The latter is easier to deal with than the former in my view.
That was my first instinct, too, but instead of reflexively posting about it I double checked and found I was wrong and learned something new.
And rather than stop going to this evil cafe, people just go and don't pay.

So as long as you make out your flavor of the month business as "greedy and evil" you can paint yourself a moral crusader by going there and taking things for free. How convenient, eh?

"This coffee shop is a terrible place, therefore I will eat there for free everyday in protest!"
I suggest spending more time reading up on the impact of the birth lottery.

the OP didn't choose to be born to Canadian parents any more than the that a child chose to be born to Tanzanian parents. In either case, the child's life trajectory has been significantly constrained by their parents' social standing, wealth and health.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/03/01/144958/if-youre-...
Linux Foundation is much closer to an Evil Corporate than a rebel group. It is a pay-for-legitimacy scheme that abuses the Linux name and goodwill.

I wish Linus & co would distance themselves from these people.
The benefits of ZFS don't need multiple drives to be useful. I'm running ZFS on root for years now and snapshots have saved my bacon several times. Also with block checksums you can at least detect bitrot. And COW is always useful.
Problem-Solving Matter
Nonsense, it was common to have fixed-width layout (and design for 800x600 pixels screen res, maximised browser window)
I've been running Fedora on top of the excellent ZFSBootMenu[1] for about a year. You need to pay attention to the kernel versions supported by OpenZFS and might have to wait for support for a couple of weeks. The setup works fine otherwise.

[1] https://docs.zfsbootmenu.org
In the summer, one of my "hobby" is just to sit in my backyard and watch a couple of dragonflies circles around, swoop down and catch flies/mosquitoes. They have a way to fly close, rendezvous with the targets and then just swoop down in all of a sudden to kill them. Fascinating animal! I could sit there and watch them in constant state of awe.
China Reins in Its Once-Freewheeling Finance Sector with Purges and Pay Cuts
I am running my small apps on Hetzner Cloud + Coolify. What are the advantages of your product?
It's a great question.

What we are doing is to ask the candidate to have hands visible to the camera for the interview. But some systems are working with voice only and this will not be working in those cases.

Probably the best way would be to have the ChatGPT answer beforehand and confront it with what the candidate is saying?
Ah, statistics again. Wow, massive numbers. What happens if you add the terms latino and latina?

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2018-01-01%202...

Right, it barely moves above the zero line.
As a staff engineer at my company, my stupid manager expects me to do his work all the time. I'm hardly building things but just managing jira, talking to other teams, managing shit, writing docs, dealing with politics etc. I never signed up for this crap. But sadly this is where many companies are going
No, that's a different word that doesn't work in that context.
I've been programming since 95. I have crafted beautiful handwritten codebases with much more complicated requirements. But at this point, I see code quality not as an end goal, but one of the trade offs.
> the grass isn't greener anywhere else

That may be true, but even the act of looking can provide some measure of hope, which can make everything more bearable.
The sweet spot for cognitive function appeared to be between 20-24°C (68-75°F). When temperatures deviated from this range by just 4°C (7°F) in either direction, participants were twice as likely to report difficulty maintaining attention on tasks.
Perhaps not:

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

(Specifically the top item, "the process by which we encounter a culture's or ideology's values and internalize them").

Edit: Doh! On checking the article, that's even the same link the author embedded!
I should clarify that when he calls it vaporware he means that he is interested in propagating the actor model concept rather than any specific language or implementation.
> exactly a result of Apple wanting to prevent app distribution channels other than their App Store

Nah, it's because PWAs were a standard created by Google, with Google being the primary market driver, solely with the interest of advancing Google's own interests (both in undermining Apple, and making lower-end devices more usable in developing markets). Don't think Google invented PWAs, or heavily pushed them, out of some charity. Notice also that as the ultra-cheap phones (~$100) have become more powerful, and as Apple refused to take the bait, that Google's efforts behind PWA have mostly ended.

The same goes for RCS, even though it was initially made by a neutral vendor forum. Google became the heavy pusher of RCS, not just for the sake of Android, but because they had carrier deals to use Google's own infrastructure (Jibe) for RCS, and forcing Apple to accept and integrate with their own infrastructure is a better position to be in.

This is also, let's be clear, not the first time that Google has tried an "open" standard to advance their interests and bludgeon competition. AMP is what happens when the standard catastrophically fails.
https://charmindustrial.com
Google has a habit of intentionally delivering degraded versions of their services to not Chromium based browsers, particularly non-Chrome versions of their browsers (determined by User Agent).

There's a pretty famous example of Google deploying a specific variations of Youtube to Microsoft Edge browsers (back when Edge had it's own engine) and that specific variation would cause Edge's hardware acceleration to break. If you overrode the user agent to present as google chrome, the problematic invisible parts of the page disappeared and everything worked as intended. And what the specific problem HTML was would change just as fast as the MS team could roll out fixes. In effect they were playing a game of "break the browser" against their competitors to force them to apply temporary fixes that would then later have to be removed resulting in unnecessary code churn in their competitors' code bases.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18697824
I know a lot of American tourists have historically had issues in Sweden with credit cards not having NFC chips.

Is that still the case?

If not, I would just prepare my phone/smart watch with apple/google pay. Hopefully ATMs won't swallow those.
Pleas do. I never seen anyone make serious attempt that didn't make him seen like amoral monster.

Correct explanation for empty tomb is that people either were lying or misremembering. People are known to do that all the time.
the history of over-promising and under delivering: https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/
What about just using perplexity? It's already doing that I think.
the article does mention that the client rejected a similar approach. steganography seems like a bad choice for a museum setting where you don't own the images.
It also explains why there's been an alarming trend over the last 10 years of people just getting more vehement about everything.
We are already living and working like ants in a colony.
Human corporation is not much different from ant colony.
Ants have queen, humans have CEO.
Ants have spec: worker/warrior/support, humans have work specialization: sales/developer/support/etc.

the same pattern emerges at the state/country/economy level: taxpayers/military/elites: a human only exists to work, pay taxes and pay bills

the ultimate emergent goal is total subjugation of a human economic unit to the needs of a colony
NTFS was able to be extended in various way over the years to the point what you could do with an NTFS drive 32 years ago will feel like talking about a completely different filesystem than what you can do with it on current Windows.

Honestly I really like ReFS, particularly in context of storage spaces, but I don't think it's relevant to Microsoft's consumer desktop OS where users don't have 6 drives they need to pool together. Don't get me wrong, I use ZFS because that's what I can get running on a Linux server and I'm not going to go run Windows Server just for the storage pooling... but ReFS + Storage Spaces wins my heart with the 256 MB slab approach. This means you can add+remove mixed sized drives and get the maximum space utilization for the parity settings of the pool. Here ZFS is still getting to online adds of same or larger drives 10 years later.
I had a good experience using https://coolify.io/ for this, I think it's a good business model to resell VPS with a friendly interface, basically what cPanel is right?

Personally I think the price is high given the free alternative, but would pay it if you made some kind of security guarantees around one docker container not pwning the others, maybe you marketing can emphasize that self hosting docker containers is a footgun if you don't know what you're doing.
Forest loss data is available for the study period (2000 - 2020). I've worked with this specific data source quite a bit. While it's known for being the gold standard in global forest loss estimation there are many countries that criticize it for over estimating loss. Going back further than 1985 is difficult/impossible as the estimate is derived from satellite data.
I agree, though I do think it says a lot that some variation of this comment gets posted every time the subject of Blue Origin comes up, to the point where it's almost a cliche.

It's a little unfortunate that New Glenn is merely "competition for SpaceX"; not innovative enough to stand on its own as a marked improvement to private spaceflight capabilities the way something like Starship (or even Stoke Space's Nova, if it comes to fruition) will be.

But everyone has to start somewhere. New Glenn should be a great competitor to Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy at least, and SpaceX does indeed desperately need competition right now (lest they risk becoming a monopoly).
Logging off life but living on: AI is redefining death, memory and immortality
Show HN: Making AR experiences is still painful – had to make my own editor
Hey HN!

My co-founder and I have spent over a decade building mixed reality projects and have been growing more and more frustrated with the process. From the number of tools needed, to client sign-off, to the complex esoteric tech stacks. And especially how slow the iteration loop is when dealing with interactivity and UX.

Two years ago we decided to stop whining and fix the fundamental issues. Ordinary Objects [0] was built with our core needs for AR prototyping: a very tight iteration loop between editor and real device, real-time interactivity while editing and clear and concise flow management + mapping. There are many things that layered on to make all of that possible: making it multi-user from the ground up, handling assets without a fuss, and building up a new interaction language.

From a technical standpoint we wanted to be native on the all of the platforms that we support, and do that as quickly as possible. Two years ago the best tool to achieve that was Unity, and I believe that is still the case today. Everything else is inside our custom C# Redux implementation. Our multi-user needs are very different from games, and it helped a lot to learn from Figma's technical notes to implement our pseudo eventual consistency setup. Its been super nice to be multi-user from the get go, we've been able to explore much more functionality this way.

Once the core churn eases up a bit more we will be open sourcing this particular C# Redux setup. As it has nothing to do with any engine code.

The website has some quick examples of how the design tool works [0]. But if you want to view a more complete prototype here is something Gregor, my co-founder, put together recently [1].

Over the past year we've been testing with closed groups, and have been excited by what everyone is making. Now we are ready to open it up for all of you to try! Give it a spin and let me know what you think! And happy to answer any questions here :)

[0]: https://ordinary.space

[1]: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/onlinegregor_mixedreality-spo...
Thank you! Yea we also heavily rely on the Go Docker SDK, also had a fair share of weird Docker edge cases to solve. I've spent more time in the Docker source code to debug stuff than I'd like to admit.
> i can think of much worse things than taking up more of our land with CO2-slurping trees

This does not have the effect on atmospheric CO2 that you implying, unless the resulting paper is deeply buried - not incinerated, or left to rot, or biodegraded in any way.
Realizing that the sex classifications (male, female, intersex etc) are only tangentially related to gender roles seems to me to be about the most basic concession to reality that one could make in these times.

What constitutes the gender role of "a man" or "a woman" is fluid, not well defined, and subject to change. What constitutes "femininity" and "masculinity" is also fluid, not well defined, and subject to change.

Even if sex was a binary (which it isn't, but it's not a terrible argument to say that it is close enough to one for many purposes), when it comes to gender we all exist in a multi-dimensional space with so many variations on so many themes. Insisting that gender is binary is so harmful, even to people who consider themselves as being at one or other end of that binary. It's fine that there are people who fully embody a particular Victorian-era notion of masculine and feminine (or any other one, really), but the vast majority of us are nowhere near that simple. Insisting that gender comes in only two forms, and has no fluidity to it hurts all of us.
I think the problem is people are going to start playing, everyone is going to train in their own things, businesses are going to want to train different architectures for different business functions etc. I did my first real adventure with training last night, $3,200 and a lot of fun later (whooops) - the tooling has become very easy to use, and I presume will just get easier. If I want to train in even say 10ish gigs, wouldn't I want to use a DC, even with a powerful laptop or DiLoCo? Seems unlikely DiLoCo is enough?

(edit: I may also not be accounting enough for using a pre-trained general model next to a fine tuned specialized model?)
Regarding kids on their own: have you considered Revolut?
The contribute to the ecosystem, a little to the WP code, but use for free the services that Automattic provides.

It's the services that they got cut-off from. They are separate things that to the layman are seen as "wordpress".

> I don't recall voicing an opinion

Well, you mention they contribute to the ecosystem. If it is not your supply chain, you cannot dictate how it is run. You call it an attach, they call it a commercial endeavour.
Building a business is more than just building the app. And everything can be duplicated for cheap, especially with gen-ai. But small-businesses will transform, continue and dare-I-say thrive.
Tesla Sales Are Tanking in Europe