skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We have an example. On one hand we have Tesla FSD, using throwing more and more resources an conventional AI training in the way the bitter lesson says you must do in order to progress. On the other we have Waymo using a more traditional approach. It's pretty clear which approach is failing and the other is working - and it's not going the way the bitter lesson says it should.

As I understand the article, it is going the way the bitter lesson predicts it would - the initial "more traditional" approach generates almost-workable solutions in the near term while the "bitter lesson" approach is unreliable in the near term.

Unless you think that FSD is already in the "far" term (i.e. already at the endgame), this is exactly what the article predicts happens in the near term.
> He opened his jacket and he was all bruised. So that's how he did it—it hurt—but you had to care enough not to care.

I don't want performers to risk their safety, health and life for my entertainment. Obviously I cannot stop it, but I can stop watching those who engage in things like this. (And I don't just mean the stunt performer, but the director, the producers, the studio and the franchise.)

I have unsubscribed from youtube channels when I felt that they were pushing themselves in dangerous directions. It is not like that alone will stop them, but if I would keep watching I would be complicit in the harm which might befall them.

There is the principle attributed to Houdini by Penn Jillette that a performance/trick should not be more dangerous than sitting in one's living room. Especially when it appears dangerous. I don't know about the exact line though. Strictly interpreting the "not be more dangerous than sitting in one's living room" definition would disqualify any performance where the performer had to drive (or be chauffeured) to the location of their performance. And that would be a bit ridiculous.
But you can't explain why its predictable that lesbians --> failure.
If you are running Linux, it seems to work well with Proton, though I didn't check it myself: https://www.protondb.com/app/7620
Literal audience. It’s a public broadcast/stream with a director and host and production design. It’s a deliberate choice to include it as part of their venture. There is value in the positive public opinion of the launch and coverage.
That's got to be worth more than just one million dollars . . .
It helps to use an ad blocker, even on mobile.
The argument that an iPad runs substantially the same OS and hardware as a MacBook weakens the authors case instead of strengthening it.

You can buy from Apple a computer that's locked down (an iPad), or a computer that's not locked down by the author's definition (a MacBook). It's a matter of consumer choice, not the company insisting on control of your devices.

The non-locked-down machines come in a different form factor than the locked-down ones - they usually have a physical keyboard and a larger form factor to accommodate that. This is partly for historical reasons, but very largely also for consumer choice - and also it makes sense that on the more flexible machine users are more likely to need a keyboard. This is all fine, you can't expect every company to sell their products with every combination of features.

I find more convincing the arguments about e-waste, but they need to be framed like that: sometimes we should mandate consumers get something they don't particularly want, for the greater good.
Ideally people who can't handle the course should get filtered out before being accepted to the college, so they don't waste any money. But since it's impossible to filter reliable at that stage, surely it makes sense to also filter early on in the course. (from the perspective of the student. If the college wants to take more of their money they could still direct them to a different, easier/more suitable subject).
The entire film is embedded on the wiki page. Public domain is cool!
You truly did not watch the video?

The point is that the EU and especially the US could do way more, but they are not doing it due to escalation management.

They are perfectly happy to keep Russia occupied bleeding themselves dry. The last thing the west wants is a cornered Russia lashing out with nuclear weapons or suddenly collapsing.

It is a very calculated slow collapse for Russia.
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Do you consider that constraint more or less real than the constraints imposed by the reality of impending climate apocalypse? ... Why?
I wouldn’t say linear algebra is a necessity to being a computer scientist. At least, not the full linear algebra content. Knowing matrix math is enough.
Are you relying on mainstream media again in the same way you did in the pre-social media era?

Oh no, it has something to do with the president-elect Trump and of course politics too. The first two paragraphs explained a lot and the later paragraphs were there to cover up his opinions by dragging in morality, teens and how bad the world had become due to social media.

I didn't read a single about misinformation, disinformation, fake news and how to counter them.

Hacker News was created by Paul Graham, and he is using social media. Which means ignoring social media isn't a wise decision.
> Maybe you don't seriously consider doing really bad things, and even take steps playing with the idea of doing them. I definitely have, especially when I was younger.

There was a lot more there just "considering". If they just had a night chatting about the state of museum security that would have been "consider doing really bad things" and "take steps playing with the idea of doing them".
The type of people are different.

Back in the 90s, you needed to have a decent amount money to afford a computer.. this essentially built a wall between people that came from affluent backgrounds vs. those that did not.

Now anyone that can afford a cheap phone can access the internet, and the user landscape has changed.

Back in the 90s, you could do random chat on ICQ and 95% of the people were friendly. Microsoft Netmeeting had a global directory of everyone using the software.. like a big phone book where you could call anyone in the world.

Those days are over and the internet is a much more hostile place.
Nice post about Tintin, one of my top childhood influences. I have a new edition of all the albums (much better than mine) unopened and ready for when my kid grows enough. The TV show wasn't so good IMHO - of course the narrative was great because it came from the comics, but animation quality was just so-so, or at least that's how I remember it.

If you liked Tintin and long for more comics of the same kind, I recommend you to try Blake and Mortimer. They're different (e.g. with a more serious and wordy style, hardly any comical gags, but also with more fantastic elements). But they are the closest I know, and in some aspects even better (I personally prefer them although I'm aware it's due to very subjective factors, most people would still rank Tintin higher overall and Blake and Mortimer don't have such a universal acclaim).

The only thing I dislike about the post is the gratuitous rant on AI at the end. It is great news that Tintin joins the public domain. Especially great because it's one of these cases where the owners have been especially abusive, chasing fan efforts done as a labor of love, lest they harm their sales of overpriced merchandising.

Why exactly should be worry about people generating AI images of Tintin? What is the harm done? We know what the original albums are, they will probably be preserved as long as there is human civilization (despite copyright, not thanks to it), and we can freely decide if we also want to read/watch/see derivative works (and which) or not. I just don't see the problem at all.
There’s also (in C#) init, readonly, required, and quite a few more keywords and techniques, governing property mutability, private class field mutability, and so on.

And then none of those techniques work as well as manually typing out a required constructor which hard-enforces that required data be priced upon object initialization.

I understand required vs optional immediately a la Rust and F# (ignoring for a moment F#’s null awareness) but as a 17 year C# dev, I’ve had to create an initialization chart to keep straight all of the C# techniques.
Euro-cloud provider Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform
I have a handful of friends who still post interesting stuff. I get shown maybe 50% of that, and yes, sometimes on the "throne of introspection" with my smartphone I [doom]scroll quite a way down so it's not like I never look.

FB still works for special interest groups and Marketplace. But the timeline is a morass of clickbait, scams, and borderline porn. And in my case, Coyote/Roadrunner clips and old comics.

The main timeline is so algorithmically generated - sometimes I get shown something, want to look at it a bit later, and never see it again.
An annoying failure mode of copying nurseries
Yea that's fair, just started, so we'll see. Thanks for the tip though!
> The pervasive availability of AI tools, which offer quick solutions and ready-made information, can discourage users from engaging in the cognitive processes essential for critical thinking

Yes, the quickest way for making AIs smarter than humans is to make humans dumber. (I know that this isn't what the author is saying, but the industry is going that way).
Did he have a pointy hair?
> DEI can be implemented badly, but that doesn’t mean that DEI is bad

I really doubt that DEI per your definition above can be implemented for a general benefit. Fundamentally you need to show that not hiring the best candidate is best. This is typically squared by saying that group dynamics and output improve with diverse viewpoints, which I actually agree with within limits (the limit being that if nobody agrees nothing gets done). But here we made a sleight and equated diversity based on innate properties to diversity of viewpoints, which are different things and it’s actually rather stereotypical to equate them.
I don't quite understand what "floating modules" are. Is it something akin to sidequests in a CRPG or a "sandbox VN"?

One interesting (and very complex) approach I've seen in VNs is multiple interleaved paths. Each path looks like a branch and bottleneck, but at certain points a decision taken on one path blocks or forces an outcome on another. You can linearize it into a single "branch and bottleneck" with extensive state tracking (this is how it's implemented, after all), but it's far easier to model it as multiple paths.
That brings up a good point! I could also go the hackthebox.eu route to train my security engineering skills, including cryptopals.

PlayerTwo was still a fun insane box :)
Outside the box, inside the burner: Biochar as climate-forward solution (2022)
Do you think the AI hype cycle will carry over into 2025?

For a little while longer, yes. There will still be executives with FOMO hoping to show they can optimize head count using LLM's. In my opinion the companies able to reduce headcount using LLM's did not really need LLM's but needed to work on big-data management but lacked the talent or priorities or budget to do so. "AI" gives them a way to outsource this to the cloud so it's more of a OpEx vs CapEx issue at the moment. Once those companies are sorted out I believe it will start to plateau. So perhaps more like 2026/2027 to plateau and probably shortly thereafter to start losing the hype assuming people are not tripping over SLA issues due to third party dependencies, rate limits, privacy incidents and network outages at which point it becomes a bigger cost issue for standing up and migrating to self hosting LLM's or the big-data internal development and integrations they originally needed to do.
He drew caricatures that would be easy for 1930s children to identify. There are very few depictions of non-white characters in the books that aren't in same way questionable.

It's unfortunate, but a lot of literature of the time needs to be read with the general ambient racism that was sloshing around in mind.
I'd say it's fairly explicit that it was written by people with leftist sympathies and I assume that's what they meant. I don't get how anyone could find their portrayal of leftists very flattering; unless your notion of "leftist" is Biden/Macron/Starmer, I guess.

Not sure how someone could create a world like the one in Disco Elysium without having some kind of political ideology or why anyone would want them to be fixated on moderating themselves to the point of killing any sense of individuality in the work.
It'd be like checking out the new Mel Gibson film and being annoyed that it comes across as having a conservative Catholic ideology.
Australia is a colonial nation that unified its entire continent - that's beating the US, who have two large neighbors and a couple small ones.

(Of course both countries have indigenous nations inside them. They're actually very similar, which I think is the reason Australians tend to be culturally resentful of the US on surveys in a way almost no other country is.)
I have elder relatives who have trouble using the iPhone, in particular after the flat UI was introduced with iOS 7. The UI and behavior can be quite inscrutable.
it is predictable because they are hired and promoted because of their sexual identity and gender (which has no connection to job duties), not merit.

The moment you start hiring based on identity, instead of merit is when things will go south
I mean, you have the same problem. What does 'best' mean, and how do you accurately measure it?

Of course you will have an answer, but how various things are weighted when making a decision is pretty subjective.
if you're attempting to go full reductive logic, this statement:

> No one who ever mentioned the term "cargo cult" is endorsing oppression or promoting rapists, corruption, racists, or any nonsense of this sort.

doesn't work, as you don't have sources for that.

> No one who uses it is even holding in mind anything related to Melanesia.

Which is the whole point of the article, to give you background.

In the same way that some newspapers have listed "rawdogging" as one of their words of the year, saying "oh its ok you can use this" but neatly forgets to mention what the word _still_ means to a sizeable number of people.

> figures out how to frame your own PC term as oppressive. It's exhausting.

Come on. oppressive? The entire world of corporations is oppressive. You need to conform to not be fired. The "In" words change all the time. The list of banned phrases changes monthly. thats normally down to the whims of just a small bunch of people in the c-suite. If you transgress, you're yeeted out.

That is oppression, not voluntarily reading article that makes you sad.
i miss my crazy necktie
> Companies and organizations want to hire the best for any given job, and given this preference, there will always be discrepancy btw hired and general population.

This is an assumption, not a fact. Companies hire less-qualified candidates all the time through nepotism.
There’s the Ineos Grenadier[1]

> The Grenadier was designed to be a modern replacement of the original Land Rover Defender, with boxy bodywork, a steel ladder chassis, beam axles with long-travel progressive-rate coil spring suspension (front and rear), and powered by a BMW B58 inline six turbocharged engine.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ineos_Grenadier
It's #1 on DDG, which afaik is american?
You should blow the whistle, because that’s illegal. And leave the rest of us who are nowhere near that to live a regular life without having to enforce sexist/racist policies.
In Debian build-essential package is only recommended dependency of pip. Pyenv obviously wouldn't work without it.
For Defender there is Ineos Grenadier https://ineosgrenadier.com/
powerline adapters don't have any network access do they? just a layer 1/1.5 device and that's it?
> The problem I have with all this is not so much the substance of what is going on at Meta.

Positively surprised.

> My issue with Zuckerberg is his spinelessness and opportunism.

You and me and Elon Musk are fully in agreement here. Some people say Zuck defected when it was clear the Biden admin wouldn't protect him against EU fines, but who knows.
Yes, the copyright owners are known in the fan community for being really aggressive and hunting even harmless not-for-profit fan works. Which makes me sympathize even less with the two last paragraphs in the post (not that I would sympathize much anyway).
What also comes to mind is Yoko Tsuno [1]. I'm not sure how well known this is in the US. The creator Roger Leloup was supporting Hegré on the technical drawings. For people who like the 'ligne claire' style, definitely check it out. The science fiction aspect of it might appeal to the audience on HN.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Tsuno
> how to do it has been well known for more than 3 quarters of century

Don't leave me hanging! How to do it?
I guess it helped she lived in Russia? where she could throw the US governments laws into the garbage bin?
Farewell to Pacifism: Japan is rearming – DW Documentary [video]
It happens today. However, companies fail for multiple problems that come together. Bad software quality (from whatever source) is typically not a very visible one among them because when business people take over, they only see (at most) that software development/maintenance cost more money that it could yield.
Cargo cults are a specific kind of cult where the ceremonies come from imitating some other community. And complaints about cargo cult programming aren't only about people doing ineffective things, it's also about people seeing someone else doing something effectively but then not doing the work to understand why it's effective. It's a complaint about people being so close to being much more effective, but then snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
> If you can write a Dockerfile to install something you can write a bash script.

The trick isn't installing things, it's uninstalling them. Docker container is isolated in ways your bash script equivalent is not - particularly when first developing it, when you're bound to make an occasional mistake.
>low budget propaganda

That’s really what it boils down to for people like you: the production values. No contest, the US is unbeatable in that department. Anything but to be seen as a sucker.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%8...
Get them the comic books; they are well worth the money. The stories, the imagination, the artwork, the language, the settings across the world, the spirit of exploration all together fires one's mind. They are some of the best comics ever written.

Here they are:

1) https://archive.org/details/01TintinInTheLandOfTheSoviets/01...

2) https://readtintin.blogspot.com/

PS: Also Asterix comics - https://readasterix.blogspot.com/
> I don't think putting thumbs up on social media posts count as "growing into friendship".

The interactions I have seen on social media did not consisted from thumbs up only.

> If you get out of social medias you actually realize your only chance to make relationships is by going outside and meet people that are close to you.

What actually happen to most people is that they stop showing up in meetups organized through social media (majority of them) and over time loose those relationships. From what I have seen, removing yourself from social media does not create new relationships for most people.

You do not build relationships by NOT being somewhere.
Bird flu jumping to humans and mutating has been talked for 20+ years now. In asia any bird flu outbreak usually followed extreme culling at chicken farms. It will be ironic if it mutates and spreads around the world from US after all the racist comments of Chinese eating habits during covid.
Chinese university applies for undersea cable cutter patent
Did you also managed to rename "scrum master" ?
I think I explained myself poorly.

> At a large-scale organization, as an SWE, I did far more programming work than I ever did as a DA.

Yea, this is what I meant. The amount of programming I do now as a DA feels low (since I'm a software engineer historically, that's what I meant with "but for a software engineer" - a bit of a confusing sentence). Well specifically, the amount of engineering feels low.

> That said, there are different ways to cope and build skills—it takes time. I do side projects and, more importantly, write about them regularly [1].

Good point, to what extent do employers see this as experience though? It's my experience they don't care at all. Maybe I'm looking at this wrong. The reason I'd do it is (1) I want to keep on building and (2) I want to keep on building experience as a SWE that employers will be impressed by. I'm not sure if I want to switch back, but for now I want to keep that option open.

> More than once, people have reached out with job offers just because they stumbled across my writing on Hacker News or other social media platforms.

I guess you answered your question here. I think it's good enough to test it out :)

> As a DA, I mostly wrote aggregation queries, built dashboards, and did some Python, Pandas, and Notebook munging.

Yea, I see a lot of SQL queries here, notebook stuff (so also Python/Pandas) and dashboarding. It's probably a 50/50 split. I have a suspicion that my manager wants me more on the programming side of things though. So far me as well. I'm allowed to pick any tool I find right for the job. I already wrote a bash script today.
This is true. I have a couple of DVDs of old Tom and Jerry cartoons.

There's no way those cartoons would be released, today.
> Then why is it so poor that it sometimes

it being a company that estimates the location based on publicly available information like "This ASN belongs to this corporate entity which is registered in this country/related to this association" and so on.

There is no official hashmap with "IP => Geographical Location", they're all guesses and estimates.
I call these people 'word thinkers'—they can't get past the actual words used to the concepts being expressed.
They were still in complete control of the platform though. You couldn't just take a OS build and put it on another generic computer without a lot of hacking and/or picking hardware as close to the actual hardware that the OS could handle the differences. I know people did it - heck I had a hackintosh netbook back in the day, but it was not a trivial process and someone had to have done the work already for the "Average" consumer.
Had never heard of it (in spite of being European, not from the US) and it looks like my cup of tea, so definitely will check it out.
The article says that the buggy timer has 2 different methods for reading.

When reading directly, the value may be completely wrong, because the timer is incremented continuously and the updating of its bits is not synchronous with the reading signal. Therefore any bit in the value that is read may be wrong, because it has been read exactly during a transition between valid values.

The workaround in this case is to read multiple times and accept as good a value that is approximately the same for multiple reads. The more significant bits of the timer value change much less frequently than the least significant bits, so at most attempts of reading, only a few bits can be wrong. Only seldom the read value can be complete garbage, when comparing it with the other read values will reject it.

The second reading method was to use a separate capture register. After giving a timer capture command, reading an unchanging value from the capture register should have caused no problems. Except that in this buggy timer, it is unpredictable when the capture is actually completed. This requires the insertion of an empirically determined delay time before reading the capture register, hopefully allowing enough time for the capture to be complete.