skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate this comment. I'm currently working hard on something seemly straightforward (address matching) and sometimes I feel demotivated because it feels like whatever progress I make, the bitter lesson will get me in the end. Reading your comment made me feel that maybe it's worth the effort after all. I have also taken some comfort in the fact that current LLMs cannot perform this task very well.
What houses? In Canada we stick 5 of them in every basement with no path to ownership. They’re happy to share bedrooms because it’s better than where they came from. The “underclass” of today got in early enough to own land and will be the landed gentry of tomorrow
War is the consequence of a lack of defense, not the opposite. Nothing could illustrates that more than the period since 1947 and the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Never has the world been so heavily armed. We have nukes that can wipe each other out at the press of a button. The result? A period of peace unprecedented in human history.

Putin invaded Ukraine because he thought he could win easily. Countries don't risk their existence in that way unless lead by madmen.
It'll probably come back to you fast. My app is best to learn the note (letter/octave) of what's on the staff and mixed with practice on a real piano should get you back to reading
I wish you the best in this endeavor, but what made LinkedIn suck wasn't anything to do with LinkedIn and everything to do with becoming a social network that businesses could use to substitute for good old-fashion contact-finding. This damaged it in two ways: people started bending their accounts to be more (or less, because the spam problem is real!) attractive, and businesses started shotgunning recruiting info far past where it would be useful to the recipient.

If your experiment takes off, I don't know how it avoids the same fate.
Insurance.

Which requires due diligence.

Which means there is some guarantee that people belaying at the facility meet some basic standard of skill, so that people are not being dropped all the time and then turning around and suing the facility for negligent supervision/creating a dangerous environment.
My goodness the container UX is tragic. I thought it was just an initial release, they would make it better It's been more than year. I can't even recommend it to non-tech friends because I have trouble using it myself.
No? Speeding tickets I can see the justification for, but to implement this they do this kind of thing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driv...
Seconding this.

I'm unsure of interactions between antibiotics and detrimental gut flora such as Candida albicans, but Western medicine pretends that doesn’t exist anyway
Like everything in life.

You have to believe in something for it to work. Without belief it will always fail.

I am a retired psychotherapist and for psychotherapy to work the client must have the most basic assumptions and belief that psychotherapy will work for them, If not psychotherapy will fail.

If you are lonely you must still have a belief that what is offered is going to reduce the symptoms of Loneliness.

Take Krishna consciousness as an example.

You must believe whole heartedly that lord Krishna exists and simple devotional service and a commitment to, and love of, Lord Krishna will lead your soul to him when your body dies and your soul leaves this material world.

Isnt that a wonderful thing if you believe it.

I dont think any ai can ever reproduce the unspoken interpersonal, intrapersonal stuff that goes on, out of awareness, during the interactions between human beings.

I am thinking projections, projective identification, introjects and transference and counter transference as examples. You have to be human to know, feel, sense and experience these things.

No amount of coding trickery will duplicate the vast oceans of human experience
I believe you need to use the audio element specifically. The Web Audio API is subject to different restrictions than the audio element. I used a similar approach on Audjust: https://www.audjust.com/blog/unmute-web-audio-on-ios/

(nice site you created btw! I love seeing audio stuff for the web)
I do something like that, but a little bigger, and it works great. I put it together after a two-week outage a few years ago (we get multi-day outages almost every year). I have two Bluetti AC300s and four B300 batteries. That gives me ~12 KWh (~24 hours for us) and 240 V so that it can feed the entire house.

The buffer thing you mentioned is key... our average usage is around 400 W, so the generator can be pretty small and the battery system will handle the peaks. We have a hand carryable 2 KW inverter generator. The challenge with this system is that you need 240 V to charge the two Bluetti units (or two 120 V lines on opposite legs of a 240 V feed to ensure the proper phase relationship). I got around this by buying three Mean Well 48 VDC power supplies (meant for large LED installations). Each will do ~500 W. I plug them into the Bluetti units as if they were solar panels. Running the generator through them for 6-8 hours a day is enough to keep the batteries going indefinitely. That's 2-3 gallons of gas per day. And the first day of an outage requires no gas.

In the summer, we have a handful of solar panels I put up in the yard to keep the batteries topped up when not being used for outages (our outages are mostly wind+snow events in winter). Our evaporative cooler, chest freezer, and washer / dryer run off the batteries while the panels are up.
Despite evidence, Oracle Cloud denies break-in as pilfered info goes on sale
>> we're obviously looking at the earth's dark side

> We are not. Why would we?

Yes we are.

Because the earth is in between the sun (faraway) and the moon (where we are) and very close to the line between the sun and us (because they're close by in the image -- it's not like the sun is in front and the earth is 90° above us which would half-illuminate it, or 180° behind us which would entirely illuminate it).

If you turn on a lamp in a room, and hold an object between you and the lamp, obviously you're looking at the side of the object that is in shade. The illuminated side faces the lamp, which is opposite you.
Despite your sarcasm, I don't disagree. Except for the fact I didn't click on this because it was their corporate blog. I clicked on it because it was on Hacker News.

And then once I realized it was their corporate blog, I became a bit more apprehensive.
Users flagged it. I've turned the flags off now, but it's easy enough to understand why HN readers would be flagging an article like this: there have been a bunch of other major recent threads on the same topic cluster. Avoiding repetition, and especially the deadly duo of repetition/indignation, is a core principle to keeping the site interesting.
The problem with acupuncture is that the relative effectiveness compared to placebos has gotten worse and worse as better placebos have been developed for trials.

I.e. you mentioned "sticking a needle next to the right nerve" - that's a valid research question...and it was studied. Turns out sticking needles where an acupuncture specialist thinks they should go, versus just randomly has the same reported effect in trials.
> mobility and the ability to move to where the jobs are.

This is a sign of low class status and lack of success. Rich people change the world to fit their needs. Poor people change themselves to fit the world. Leaving your entire family and social network behind for work is extremely middle class behaviour
“This is not a very important machine, and I could have just reimaged the MicroSD card and be done with it, but I was curious if I could recover from the error.”
Been using this for years now, it's precisely what I needed given that I came to bass clef late in life
People change, orgs change, managers change or leave.
Anyone have recs for good Android equivalents?
Because they have evidence "in writing" that everyone at the gym had to pass a test that proves they know how to properly and securely belay a climber. In the event that there is an accident, the liability falls completely on the belayer and/or the climber and not the gym itself for allowing someone to participate in something that is "obviously dangerous" without demonstrating they have the ability to do it properly.
Yes. Human rights to free expression don’t end at the border, and are not contingent on citizenship.

If you only believe in human rights for passport holders, you don’t believe in human rights.

Furthermore, if you think your enemies having the right to publish whatever they like is a national security threat, you don’t believe in the nation or its founding principles as outlined in the US constitution.

State censorship is much more of a national security threat than foreign propaganda.
No but Wall St pundits do.
gorhill spoke against these sorts of testing sites back in Oct 2022

https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1583581072197312512
AI Resume Builder – Tailor for Your Dream Job
Excited to launch the beta version of AI Resume Builder. The simplest approach to tailor your resume for your dream job with AI assistant. Free use during the beta phase. Any comments are welcomed to improve its usability. Website link here: https://www.ai-resume.net/
> What does that have to do with US gyms requiring belay tests, which is a bunch of steps that doesn't involve "extensive warning in writing".

It lowers insurance bills. If you don't let anyone climb without having done a belay test and putting that paper in a cabinet for 10+ years, then you can get cheaper insurance.

It's the same reason why some gun ranges won't let random people in without joining up and going through a safety intro thing - cheaper insurance.
I don’t entirely disagree with you, however him switching to his emergency cylinder could still reduce his core temperature very quickly, no?

The heliox mixture supplied by the ship/bell is most likely heated/insulated (by the same warm water heating his suit). Once he switches to the emergency reserve, the 2-300 bar gas gets expanded to 10 bar, massively cooling it down. That cylinder was most likely already at 7-10°C (whatever the ambient temp was), so the heliox is probably coming out at just above freezing. Thoughts?

I haven’t dived trimix yet, but I know many in my club have indicated it’s easier to feel cold when diving OC trimix, and recommend it as yet another reason to only dive trimix on CCR.
collects liquid detection analytics

For a company that is very careful in phrasing its public communications, that description definitely raises some red flags. If it was something more like "detects moisture and warns the user to avoid damage caused by damp USB port use" it would be perceived much better.
I get a lot of requests for an Android version. I've never had time but I hope there is something good out there
The front fell off
In Norway there is a lead climbing certification. You attend and pass a weekend course including a final test, then you get a card.
In order to be allowed to belay/lead climb in a gym you have to present this card.
You can bring friends and let them top rope without the card, at least in some gyms, but the belayer needs to have the card. I think you can also climb on autobelay without the card.
Just check all of your proposals and design documents into source control, and you’ll still have plenty of commits!
Chiming in to say I downloaded this what feels like ages ago and occasionally come back to it when I’m away from my keyboard for too long, so thank you for this amazing app!
FTR the "Proof of possession" relies on a (specific) random number being received from a device.

It won't be long before that hardware device that is supposedly being held by a person becomes a soft device, which will then be impersonated.
The OSM community has had extremely clear rules around automated edits for most of its existence. Every experienced mapper has seen first-hand the sorts of problems they can cause. The fact that it's using AI in this instance does not give any sort of exception to these rules. To emphasize, there are already AI-assisted tools that are allowed,[0] this isn't a blanket application of "no AI ever," it's about doing so properly with the right community vetting.

[0] Most notably: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Rapid

Edit to add: To be clear, they have since taken steps to try to resolve the concerns in question, the discussion is ongoing. I suspect at the end of this we will get a useful tool, it's just off to a rocky start.
The point of an RW lock is that it supports multiple concurrent readers. Why is it weird to expect a non exclusive lock operation to be non exclusive?
I’ve been hearing everyone talking about this phenomenon. Is it trending now?
Not an answer to your question but I have 8 iPhone app on AppStore, and many more on my phone not published. Made an Android app, but it’s hard to publish to Google Play compared. Stopped almost at the end in the approval process, because I felt like this platform must really hate developers. Or is it just me?

When I see the stats on paying Android users compared to iPhone, I feel I always will start on iOS and only maybe make to Android if it’s successful somewhere else first.
There's very nice presentation on Landlock in the last year Open Source Europe Summit Europe [1].

[1] Linux Sandboxing with Landlock - Mickaël Salaün, Microsoft [video]:

https://youtu.be/d85TDpv8L9U
RDNA 4's "Out-of-Order" Memory Accesses
Going there in a few months but NZ doesn't have anything new in its travel advisories. I tried reading the UK one and it is a mess of hyperlinks, the NPR link given says it is to do with the sex you declare on your passport.
Right? Photos and video? Why would I ever want to post video on my resume? Why would I ever want to watch someone’s video if I was hiring? Are we trying to land tech roles or screen time on reality TV?
As others have said, every state is already a dual state to some degree. But I would like to thank OP for introducing me to this useful term. (I took more poli sci classes than physics classes in college but still somehow never ran across this one.)
I think we can find similar systems across many ages, ZettelKasten is one popular now, mostly thank to How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens, LYT is another, I do not remember the name of another historical from a monk with cards like ZK, the Mundaneum from the early '30s etc.

The main point is that we need to store and retrieve small bits of information, mostly textual, then managing them to craft something out of such small bits. Computer do that with extreme ease and org-mode is probably the best solution we have, but still today 99% of the people are tied to classic files+folders model and completely ignore the power of notes. Even those who try some "note app" generally fails to generalize the concept mostly because the app itself is by far too limited because it's own programmers have not much a vision on the power of notes.

It's a pity because at least anyone with a high school diploma should know that concept and practice it regularly for life.
Extend your agent with 2,707 capabilities via Model Context Protocol servers
Penalises on training? Not runtime? The risk is that.
Ahi/Tuna doesn't have to be flash frozen in the US. There's an FDA exception for it.
I have an almost allergic reaction to the terms "agent" and "agentic" because they are so loosely defined and everyone seems to have different ideas as to what they mean!

I use "AI-assisted programming" to mean times where I leaned on an LLM to help me write code, and "vibe coding" for times when I didn't read or review that code at all (usually for prototypes or low-stakes one-off tools)
The way I've looked at it (and I work in the adjacent space of neurotech/sleeptech) is that it is likely we are assigning multiple diseases with the label of Alzheimer's because we don't understand the disease well enough.
Much as cancer arises and grows from natural cellular processes gone awry, this seems to be an organizational cancer, present in any company of a large enough size.
you under estimate the addictive nature of a basic chickens egg.

Very dangerous in the wrong hands.

there could be an eggsplosion

eggcellent
Sometimes there just isn’t a solution or it’s not the right time. That’s what bitching is good for. Imagine being the world’s most dedicated republican in 1750s France. You could analyze the state of the world and everything required to fix it but no matter what you do there’s still decades of feudalism left and feudalism fucking sucks. That’s where we are today and these bandaid solutions like making “better” companies are like asking the King to be nicer. It changes nothing fundamentally..

Maybe your lord is a great guy and he does everything right but tomorrow his son comes into power and he could whip you. That’s what a good company is like. My new manager is an asshole who ruined my great job.
I can understand this sentiment in other contexts, but here? I'm not sure. They're exfiltrating how bad I can play sheet music? I'm not really sure if I see the problem?
I’ve started using MCP just days ago and I feel the way I felt the first week I used ChatGPT.

It’s incredibly exciting. I started using the Atlassian MCP to get Claude to help me clean up our tickets.

Do things like “can you find all the tickets related to profile editing and combine them into an epic?”
I agree with a couple other comments here -- this is a bizarre model where one programmer does no individual work and does all the helping.

A much healthier situation, to me, is one where Tim does stories like everybody else, and when people need help they ask the group and whoever is the best at that thing helps them -- or whoever hasn't helped in a while.

Surely there are easier stories for those who need the most help, and Tim should be taking on the hardest stories by himself?

Or if you really do have an insanely lopsided team where everyone is straight out of school with no experience, and a single super-senior dev, then... shouldn't they just be a special kind of team lead who is expected to mentor full-time and not be subject to metrics?

The post here is not a good example at all of metrics failing to capture work. In reality, it is surfacing the fact that either Tim's job title and metric are totally wrong for him individually, or else that Tim is failing to contribute the hardest code, and the team is failing to distribute the "helping" workload. In both cases, the metric is working as intended, and it is surfacing something very important than needs to be fixed. (Remember, "fire Tim" is not the only possible action you can take because of a metric.)
Architecture Diagramming Tools
Sight reading is equal parts being quick to parse the score and being quick to understand the piece harmonically/rythmically. This is why random exercises or simple songs don't really cut it.

Also, it's all about compromise. When sight reading a serious piece you will almost never be expected or be capable of playing every note. You have to understand what's important and what's feasible, and to do that on the fly you need tons of musical experience.
Ex-games-programmer here: I used to code the C64/NES/etc many moons ago...

From the article:

> The 6502 is a microprocessor that is used in the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and the Sega Genesis

This isn't correct: the Sega Genesis (aka Megadrive) did not have a 6502 in it at all.

It had a 16-bit 68000 as its primary CPU, with a Z80 alongside (commonly used for sound and music in Megadrive games, but also to provide backwards compatibility with the 8-bit Sega Master System)

> The 6502 is a very simple processor, it has only two registers, the accumulator and the program counter.

This is incorrect: the 6502 also has both X and Y index registers, as well as the accumulator.

And, if including the program counter as a register, then it's probably also necessary to also include the status register, and the stack pointer too.

All of which the article later discusses :/
Well you can quit being a cop if you don't like the experience. You can't decide to quit having police if you don't like how they treat you.
Because this one is in Go
We still don't have a correct model for what Alzheimer's is, and therefore how to treat it.

Compare this to something like HIV, where we were able to quickly understand that the virus attacks CD4 cells, and limits the body's ability to defend from disease.

With Alzheimer's, we're still in the - is it amyloid and tau? is it inflammation? is it viral?

This is compounded by our limited understanding of the brain.

Another hypothesis which I ascribe to is that we are lumping multiple diseases under the label of Alzheimer's because we don't understand it enough.
> Russia Today will never tell people there's a genocide in Gaza, while TikTok does tell them that

Well if RT was banned for other instances of disinformation, then Tiktok should absolutely be banned for this one.
That’s the case in many countries. Rare ground beef is a very different proposition to a rare steak. The reason that a lump of rare beef is safe(ish) is that bacteria are not good at migrating into the muscle tissue; if there’s something undesirable present it will likely be on the surface and is destroyed by cooking. But once you make ground beef, all bets are off; if there was, say, E. coli present on the surface, it’s all over the place now.
Oh great and here i was convinced my setup is private ಠ_ಠ
Not sure if I fully agree on that. Using AI as a tool can usually reduce the total time it takes to complete an assignment or project by like 50%, not to mention it also reduces the amount of time spent pulling your hair out feeling stuck by like 80-90%. Of course, you lose out on most of the learning experience but it's not like the old days of smuggling in rolled up papers or writing inside a water bottle -- "cheating" (if you can even call it that) has basically never been easier.
What! For a living? Say more!
Curious timing
lol no, I have worked with companies that do that. Many developers have very specific personality types, and they also think in technical terms rather than customer terms. It isn’t a bad thing, it is why they are good at what they do.

The most successful companies I have worked with have a good product manager that can take customer input and work with a technical manager to balance priorities/effort. The technical manager consults the team before making decisions (such as SCRUM meetings if using that)

Issues come into play when folks start distrusting developers. When we say it will take 4 weeks or 8 weeks to implement something, there is a reason for that. We know the code. We know how much of a PITA it is to work with, and we aren’t being misleading. On the flip side, we have been trained to give conservative estimates thanks to crap management and unexpected pitfalls, so we try to understand promise and over deliver. If management could recognize this, everyone would be happy, provided they recognize that 8-week timeline is fine and they don’t promise something different to the client and trust devs to do their thing.

EDIT: Managers also tend to forget that we aren't a machine in a factory. We have good days, bad days, and everything in between. We excel with using our brains, however our brains suffer from anything between lack of sleep, depression, and other nonsense due to just plain having a bad day. I feel like it is more noticeable with us because we rely on our brains so much more than other folks in other professions do. Shoot, even random noise in an office, whether working at home or at an office, can hurt productivity.

Now I have myself missing dev work. Hoping to go back soon. Currently unemployed.
I know of a couple:
- How to fix damned near everything [1]
- Reader's Digest Fix it yourself [2]
- Audel's Carpenters and Builders guide [3]

That Audel's, my wife got me for Christmas a few years back at Lee Valley Tools, I think. Was about 1/3 of what the listed price is here.

[1] https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?ds=20&kn=how%...

[2] https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?ds=20&kn=read...

[3] https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/audels-carpenters...