skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I gave up asking questions on Stack Overflow at least a decade ago. Questions get closed as dupes, even when you mention them right there in the original question. Answerers want to believe that every non-trivial question is an X/Y problem. Answerers will nitpick irrelevant technicalities instead of answering the question. Stuff like that.

My biggest problem with SO right now is that the most popular questions are outdated and temporally incorrect. A big problem when you are trying to learn a programming language that has evolved considerably in the last 10 years. Go ahead and take 3 common beginner-level tasks in Javascript and Google them. The first result on at least two of them will have been last updated in, say, 2012. Even if the modern answer is there, it won't be the accepted answer.
I thought root-on-ZFS did not work well with hibernate, for some reason? Did I misunderstand something?
I have a raspberry pi running an AirPlay server[0] and nothing else. Turned some nice analog speakers into airplayable for like $20

[0]: https://github.com/juhovh/shairplay
I was under the impression that this has been verifiably true for years now.
Job applications, recruiter outreach and initial screening calls. I heard of an AI interviewer via voice chat on a reddit thread recently.
> They surely can, and Valve got lucky UWP didn't took off as they feared.

So what, assuming it had taken off it would just be yet another set of crap APIs to develop wrappers for.
what his involvement with comedians in cars ?
Yeah, that’s what I was alluding to. I think the OPs point still holds here- both of those are quite a bit harder than the built in Mac solution
Ask HN: Are any tech workers still happy?
I work as a software engineer at a publicly traded company with 10-20k employees, and I’m incredibly unhappy with my job. The pay and benefits are good (for now), but the past two years have thrown our workloads into overdrive, our previously cherished company values are all but dead, and our old performance review system has been replaced with “we refuse to call it” stack ranking and mandatory PIPs. And it’s not just me, I haven’t interacted with a genuinely happy or optimistic coworker in over a year. We are all burned out, no matter how much of our “unlimited PTO” we take.

Is it like this everywhere nowadays? News stories about “big tech“ paint a pretty dismal picture, but are these experiences endemic to the whole industry?

Are you still happy (or at least neutral) about your job?
Why does he want it to be done quietly? The only way democracy can work is that you convince others of your ideas. Seems like he doesn't want certain ideas to be advocated for at all, go work on them if you want but shut up about it.
This was not meant to be a statement about people who enjoy making music but that in general people don't suddenly become more willing to make their own music just because there is an AI tool for it.
It still takes the will and desire to do it even if the barrier is so low as it is now.
it's somewhat valid though, why continue providing free code for wp engine to resell when wp engine doesn't contribute to open source themselves?

wp engine has also bought out multiple competing hosts, so they're a direct competitor with deep pockets
> The only real synthetic alternative is ammonia

This is untrue.

Maersk launch a commercial 172-metre container ship running on run entirely on green methanol a bit over a year ago and has 25 more new green methanol ships in the build pipeline.

Australian companies have already contracted to supply green methanol sourced from solar farms after their build and trial of methanol shipping (tugboats) in Singapore.

> It simply seems there's no other realistic alternative.

You say that, the world disagrees.
I think I would add that: if I would be posting stuff and then someone who was an acquaintance only - would hit up a conversation about my wedding photos from 5 years ago how he remembers all were great, or would go with conversation about tv show I just added on my profile.

I would not feel comfortable, to say the least, I would feel creeped out. I would start thinking what kind of MLM he joined or if he looks to borrow money as last resort as no one closer would lend him any.

If that would be my close friend that would be OK.
Treat Extensions Like Apps
> Which sounds nice, but you can't really get something for nothing.

This is hyperbole. First, nobody's getting something for nothing. Second, the eligibility is limited. Besides, this is hardly the first time a price regulation has been applied to a failing market.

> I really don't want me ISP to track my income.

Then don't apply for the discount.
Sorry, how would shopping cart (list of products to be soon bought) in an iframe is "better" than outputting it straight to the page HTML? Wouldn't it make it hard to design it?
>verifiably true

Who/how was it verified?
Usually yeah. Though it sure appears that a lot of apps requiring a recent iOS lately don't need too. It's curious where that push is coming from, if they're all individual company choices, made at once, for the first time ever.
> I've always been dismayed at the misdirected fury around corn syrup as if it is somehow worse than any other sugar.

My main issue with corn syrup is that it just feels different in my mouth. It has a "stickiness" to it than regular sugar does. I guess that's not exactly a bad thing since it effectively ended my soft drink consumption.
UBI is not relaxation and leisure.

But, yes and for good reasons. UBI is easier to implement after you have fee healthcare and free education not paid from UBI.

In Finland we have free healthcare, education and guaranteed minimum income, minimum pension etc. But because it's not unconditional like UBI, it creates perverse outcomes where effective marginal tax rate for poor people can be over 100% and is often 80-90%. In that kind of situation UBI is easily tax rate neutral. Only thing preventing it is paternalistic attitudes.
Spain proposes 100% tax on homes bought by non-EU residents
The axiom of choice entails the law of excluded middle, i.e. it takes you out of constructive mathematics. Mathematicians seem to really like the extended world of ZFC.

I expect there's an equivalent addition to constructive type theory that yields non-constructive type theory. Adding more axioms isn't necessarily making systems better though.
I'm reminded of Tony Hsieh whose "eccentricity" lead directly to his early death.
> We were able to lend a lot of money to these countries

I always thought this was true, but it's not. The entire Marshall Plan gave out about $80B over a decade in today's money, which is peanuts by our modern financial aid standards.

The main value the US provided to Europe after WWII was security, a stable common currency (almost all European ones were pegged to the dollar), and private investment.
Note Oracle's statement is already a week old (Jan 5th), it's not in response to this Whitehouse order. Expect we'll see a new statement from them soon.
The one thing Paul missed is Russia's role in the rise of wokeness. The Internet Research Agency controlled over 50 percent of the largest ethnic Facebook groups in 2019 and organized multiple BLM protests, including one attended by Michael Moore.

Wokeness was a state sponsored attack.

But as with most things, it isn't mono causal. The largest blame should lie with the social media platforms themselves. They created something that rewards the narcissistic, anti-intellectual and authoritarian tendencies that drive both wokeness and the alt right.

I think focusing too much on wokeness itself would be an error. We should focus on the conditions that lead to these kind of unhealthy authoritarian-leaning social movements in the first place, which is social media, inequality, inflation, etc.
> The complaints about, say, LatinX have far surpassed the number of actual proponents of it, which were a small number of people of the left.

You speak about it in the past tense but it's still very much a real thing. Just last week I was listening to an Ed Zitron podcast and one of the (many, many) ads was for a podcast that featured "latinX voices".
AI set to fuel surge in new US gas power plants
I have a site, where I do posting, on an irregular basis[0].

I hesitate to call it a "blog," though. I suspect that my greatest fan is Yours Truly. I basically write for myself.

I have no plans to stop, but quite some time can go, between postings.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany
This architecture sounds like a profound engineering failure, not a sales problem. The sort of failure that should get engineering leaders fired.
Yes, I always see people post comments like "why not just use (some crazy stack of CLI tools, markdown, source control, and CDNs) it's way better for XYZ reason" not realizing that the people behind most WP sites--which constitute something like 25% of the internet--are in general extremely nontechnical people who are posting recipes, sharing knitting patterns, writing travel blogs, archiving family photos, etc., and who have ZERO interest in anything that looks like source code.

And I don't blame them! I run wordpress sites and I sigh with frustration any time I have to insert a custom HTML block, and I am technical. When I'm writing on WP I want it simple and easy.

WP is also not just a CMS where you can drop in something else. It's a colossal ecosystem of plugins, themes, and so on. Some sites run on entire mini-ecosystems within the WP ecosystem, e.g. generatepress/generateblocks/generatecloud.
Not an anecdote.

Its Minnesota. The numbers were off to from the last time I checked them.
Its now 13K for my kids school and 26K for the Minneapolis schools.

>> But do you think there might be other differences beyond just the $/student that might explain some of those differences?

Well yeah.
- Poor families can't afford to send their kids to private schools.
- Poor families don't have any vouchers or charter schools as alternatives
- Poor families cannot be bused to other, better school districts like mine or other suburban schools
- Most poor families are single parent homes which means driving kids to far off suburban schools is not an option
- Many suburban schools are closing their enrollment unless you live in the district now.

The educational SYSTEM is what keeps poor families without any options to give their kids a better shot at being educated and going on to a 2 year or 4 year college. When you have no options, then you're stuck. This makes no sense to me why this is a political issue. Don't you want kids to have the best opportunity to be successful? Why not open up to vouchers and charter schools? Why does the Minneapolis school system refuse to allow this? The answer is too obvious to require elaboration. Its because their enrollment (which has already dropped precipitously over the last decade) would drop off even more. This would then mean lose a ton of funding from the state.

At the end of the day, the MPS does not want competition because it means less money then from the state, even with the abysmal graduation rate, falling enrollment and tens of thousands of people moving out of the Hennepin County, they continue to refuse to change anything - which is pretty depressing when you think about it.
This reads like a re-telling of Atlas Shrugged, dressed up for the 21st century but the causality runs from lack of government spending throughout the decades after the Great Financial Crisis. The EU deliberately chose to starve itself of government spending while the US swore off austerity after a very short period. The net result is a debt-to-GDP ratio for the EU around 89% while the US is at about 124%. So for all the clutching pearls about innovation and anti-capitalism, it really comes down to whether the state is prepared to inject demand into the economy via deficits - the US decided it was OK and the EU (mostly Germany) stubbornly stick to their "Schwarz Null" policy of balanced budgets.

Contrary to this thread, the EU needs more productive investment from governments, not less. And while we are it, the dystopian hellhole that the megacap growth tech companies have created in the US (and dominate valuations for the broad US indices) is something the EU should pat itself on the back for having missed.
Why do you consider it political. Isn't it just a wise thing to do?
Great work!

I am out of my depth when it comes to reading papers, but I second 'The Prompt Report' from your list.

It gives a great taxonomy that helped me understand the space of prompting techniques better.
Call me when you have a free market economy delivering broadband.

You don’t.

The situations are not comparable.
> First, foster competition.

What are you imagining, a dozen companies constantly tearing up the streets to lay down yet another run of fiber to everyone's homes?

Once you get to a certain density, things like 5G or Starlink or whatever aren't going to scale. It doesn't make capital sense to have a bunch of companies run practically identical lines to every home.
Individual atomic working commits don't necessarily make a full feature. Most of the time I build features up in stages and each commit works on its own, even without completing the feature in question.
They know they're being talked about derisively and don't like it. They want to keep doing what they're doing, but they need you to not talk about it, so they can get away with it, so they attack the term. They know exactly what they're doing.
The large renewal "uplift" is partly a strategy to get in front of the C levels and board of directors.

I heard of a one billion dollar renewal quote from Broadcom. The company didn't pay anything close to that. But it bypassed middle mgmt... Not exactly sure what the overall strategy is here, but this is not an isolated incident.
Got some examples of articles that were edited? Should then be possible to check on iA.
You can easily verify this wasn't the case by checking archive.is and seeing that the checkbox was removed for a day before the new one was added or checking stories and comments on what happened or looking at the commit history since the repository is open source.

If there were no facts in evidence, it your alternate possibility would still not be plausible since there's no reason the person wouldn't hide the checkbox if they didn't want to delete it but there's also no reason not to just delete it since removing it from the client is as much of a code change as changing the text.
Vito, an important member of the New Jersey crime family DiMeo (Italian Mafia) during the early 2000s was gay as well
I quit my job to launch a WhatsApp calendar assistant
For those who don't want to install yet another app, I built a WhatsApp AI assistant to handle your daily research and manage your Google Calendar, lists, reminders.

Some challenging tasks Coco AI can complete instantly:

"Remind me to take vitamin D3 every afternoon until March"
"Get child-friendly events in Dublin new years week, add to family calendar"
"Find my grocery list and send my husband a reminder about it in 2 hours"
"Find the next sunny day in SF and add beach day to calendar"
"Add client lunch to the next available free slot on my calendar"
"I found a house, remove ALL upcoming house tour events"

The Tech
Meta API forwards incoming message to our webhook hosted on render.com w/ Docker. Incoming request converts to a message in our DB and we call our Agent loop w/ multiple tool calls (calendar read/write, reminders read/write, lists read/write, internet search, etc). Using GPT hosted on Azure / OpenAI. Google Calendar API for calendar event access. Practically everything is async. Postgres for DB, Next.js for frontend, FastAPI backend.

I quit my job for this in October. Would love all of your critical feedback, suggestions, and any questions!
> Without giving it much thought, why is this hard for a modern C++ compiler to detect?

It is hard in the general case because none of the operations individually are a problem: "create a variable on the stack", "create a pointer to a variable on the stack", and "return a pointer" are all valid operations. It's the last two together that become a problem. And there's no mechanism in C++ to connect the two together, so that this case can be recognized and protected against. Compilers can try, and see some obvious cases, like you've noticed, but it's going to be a conservative analysis at best.

> Is it an intractable issue?

In some sense, yes, in others, no. Solving it correctly in 100% of cases is not going to happen. But they're working on some things that will hopefully catch most cases. We are supposed to get some more news on that soon, we'll see.
Archive link: https://archive.ph/coAvU
There is multiple levels of AI engineers:

1. The actual deep ML researchers that work on models
2. The "AI engineer" who creates products based on LLM's
3. The "AI researchers" who basically just stack LLM's together and call it something like Meta-Cognitive Chain-of-Thought Advanced Reasoning Inteligence or whatever it is.
Thanks for your work in pointing this out! Like a trademark, we have to defend this term if we want its meaning to persist.

I don't have specific sources, but to those curious, the gist is this: open source, or more accurately free software or free culture, is not about the creator. It is about affirming the rights of the user, to use the work in any way they wish, which includes selling it.

A common phrase to correct this unfortunate misconception is "free as in speech, not as in beer". The price tag is not the issue (you can actually sell free work, like by commission or by phsyical copies), the freedom of the user is. This includes the freedom to reuse the content in a commercial manner. Just about the only freedom that may be restricted is the freedom to restrict others.

You may disagree with this, but this is just the history of the free software, free culture and open source movement, which built a significant portion of the software world we have today.
That is not what the research shows. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9835670/

“One hundred seventy-three performers (80%) indicated at least one head impact/head whip during their stunt career. Of these, 86% exhibited concussion-like symptoms and 38% received one or more concussion diagnoses. Sixty-five percent continued working with concussion-like symptoms.”
Someone being payed 100 million dollars is expected to have 20/20 foresight. Ludicrous sums of money come with ludicrous expectations.

The presumption that we're all rational actors with access to reliable information is not borne out by history. Anxiety and ego trump reason every time, and those at the top are often trapped in misinformation bubbles that make them think a fire is nothing but smoke.
How recent was the last death of a veteran, given to Ancestry.com, compared to what your efforts have now exposed?
Voyage-code-3
The salesperson in question was the CEO.
> Could maybe perhaps train an llm on a plugin and have it assist.making a free or not bloated version of some popular ones.

And we are now back at the "having your plugin stolen" problem.
Yes, you clearly are trying to be offended by reality.

You said in reply
> The article doesn't claim that cargo cults don't exist, they just work very differently and the story that Feynman shared is likely inspired by an exploitation movie from the 60s.

Except we have established that in substance the cargo cults are performing the main claim of repeating observed actions in order to provoke cargo, and there is no evidence for your pure speculation regarding where Feynman got it from.

Ironically enough, that means there is infinitely more evidence that the cargo cults were engaged in the precise thing you are so concerned about than your Feynman theories. He could simply have engaged in poetic license, or been, horror, told by a colleague that was there.
Either this is a bad faith comparison, or there is some serious financial illiteracy involved.

2008 was the year the US dollar crashed. If you take 2008 as the baseline and measure things in US dollars, your conclusions will be nonsense. European economy was never as strong as the 2008 figures suggest. It was the time when the US had already been hit by the financial crisis, but nobody knew if it would hit Europe as well.

You get different results if you use 2005 as the baseline. Back then, the exchange rate was pretty stable for a while.

Or you could use 2002 as the baseline and get really weird results. When the euro became a real currency, it was often valued below $0.9.
That wasn't a crucial point of my argument. I disagree but everything I said still applied if you replace increase costs to decrease profits. And there is a response to these things, like increased costs. This is pretty uncontroversial basic economics.

Even that doesnt matter. Just do it directly so you know exactly how much the subsidy is worth. Tax their profits and transfer it to the people. It's simpler, more visible, less unintended consequences
The Sonos Port claims to be able to trigger your amp to turn on, though I don't know how it works. It's called a "12v trigger." Quick searching mostly found people asking on Reddit how the heck they could use it and mostly getting "most hardware doesn't support it."

I did find this interesting comment, though:

> You can get a secondhand Sonos Connect (Gen 2) for about $100 these days; they are the predecessor of the Port and are functionally the same for your purposes.

Also if I wanted to make a product like the Connect/Port I think I would spend another $3 in materials to add both an IR blaster (like the Harmony hub has -- it's so powerful it bounces off the walls perfectly well even to devices on different shelves) for amps with remotes, and to also offer as a separate purchase, a simple relay switch module for old stereos that don't have remotes -- they could be left on and have their power controlled by the Sonos.

As far as I know that's not a thing with any Sonos or competing product, though.
> Engineers are in a better position to understand what the customer wants and needs.

I assume you are an engineer? I am too, not judging :-).

Everybody tends to think that they are in a better position to know how the product should look like, I think it's a normal bias.

Not that salespeople are better. I hate the direction Sonos chose. Just saying that engineers are not always the best at understanding what customers want and need (if you asked me, I would say that everybody needs Yubikeys, and yet people actively fight to keep their right to reuse the same weak password everywhere :-) ).
Explain fixed-point math to a small-to-medium sized business owner.

With signed 16-bit integers (which Apple Integer Basic provided), you've got a range of 32767 to -32768 (wikipedia says Apple Integer Basic couldn't display -32768). But if do the naive fixed-point using 16-bit ints, you'll have a range of 327.67 to -327.68, assuming 2-digit for decimals.

16-bit integers didn't have enough precision for many of those 1970s/1980s use cases.

yes, floating-point math has problems. but they are well-known problems - those corner cases were well-known back then.
This is fantastic. We need more controls like this to put the screws on the obscenities that are modern telecoms. What would be the next great step to take is to mandate local loop unbundling like was done with copper. The fiber should be publically owned and privately owned providers have the option of a handoff to deliver their service over that local loop. But I'll take one minor win at a time.

Hopefully the users most interested in these benefits can start to get them as soon as possible. Any bit helps for those where $20 is actually a big stretch.
To some extent, usability.

But since the target audience was always technical (although gullible) people, the incentive to make it useful beyond coin purchases never manifested.

But moreso: scalability.

The blockchains that are worth anything don’t scale to the level of total worldwide transactions per second.

I’ve heard “But Lightning!” — sure, so before I can send any money, I have to find a fellow to relay my transactions against.