skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we are hostile to most of our allies

One bad news (for everybody) is that I believe a lot of citizen of those "allied" countries don't see the US as allies anymore. The US are now seen as this unstable "partner" that threatens becoming an enemy (e.g. by invading those ex-allies militarily) and may well become an enemy.

And the feeling is getting worse everyday.
That's the CEO of AWS. At this rate, in 24 months china is going to take over the software industry despite their significant lag compared to the US.
Not that I'm defending 23andMe, but... I must be missing something - verifying that you are the account holder, and making sure you aren't using a password that has been breached is a dark pattern?

Was your colleague's password also exposed in a breach? Because if not, they would have seen a different UX than you did.

At least, I'm assuming you used a breached PW, if they are complaining it is not unique to them. There isn't any other way they would know it wasn't unique.
The odds in real life are truly not that much better, people are just willing to settle more.

But the thing is, if you’re online dating there is no reason to settle. If you wanted to settle, you’d just meet people in real life. Online dating is for you to take a chance at getting the best you can get. Sometimes it works and sometimes not. People just don’t understand this. If you’re not at the top % of the dating pool in attractiveness, stick to real life
A few years ago I compared them, it was not a microbenchmark, but a real application. There were a few million(almost entirely uncontended) exclusive locks being taken on startup, SRWLock was consistently faster, though the difference was not large.
They've done that for years, decades maybe: Searching handles synonyms well.

Host your own email. I do.
They even have a fancy title, "measurement dysfunction", and a smug "if you know you know" nickname, Goodhart's Law
the trouble with this one is that only observes one day workshop settings
You Can't Treat Me This Way: The Evolutionary Logic of Anger
I think FraudulentCoder may be falling victim to “media spin”.

There is a report [1] showing that the Social Security Administration had 72 billion of “improper payments”, which includes not only over-payments but under-payments, and does not necessarily imply fraud.

This summary was released under the Biden administration [2]: “[Inspector General] Reports: Nearly $72 Billion Improperly Paid; Recommended Improvements Go Unimplemented” https://oig.ssa.gov/news-releases/2024-08-19-ig-reports-near...

[1] “Preventing, Detecting,
and Recovering
Improper Payments”. Office of the Inspector General https://oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploads/072401.pdf

[2] I’m sure we all hope that the Inspector General continues to keep up this good work through any administration, and for that administration to have to answer any questions that work raises.
Yes but leaving out all other features and showing display ads for a still steep price of 6€ is not so great.
> Were you also brought up with the myth of that one super sperm that ‘fertilizes’ an egg?

> Then I have ‘bad news’. The story is completely outdated. A few dozen, sometimes hundreds of sperm cells enter into a biological conversation with an egg. It is about exchanging with each other, in order to eventually merge. Penetration is not the word for what is happening here. Call it a cellular mating dance.

This is clearly nonsense as IVF works fine.
ah, thanks, that isn't extremely exotic.
Kinda concerned the author thinks story points correlates with biz value....
Imagine the lab you could set up for 80k. And the projects you could do. IMHO not worth it going back to school.
Thanks for sharing that link!

Through it I was able to find that Apple had design guidelines going back to the Apple 2 era! There's even a fascinating anecdote about a surprisingly challenging UI problem for the Apple //e computer: How can we get users to accurately tell us whether the computer is using a color or B&W monitor? I submitted it to HN here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43452937
he probably just believes a source that didn't turn out to be directly funded by the US government, one you would likely dismiss as not a real journalist

I'm all for free media but the legacy outlets currently screaming about cuts are primarily upset because THEY just lost a ton of government funding but that's good because I don't want government run news, even if it comes in a bunch of brand names, and it's funny that all the "reputable" outlets just happen to be the ones with the closest relationships to the CIA and FBI and historically have covered for their worst injustices.

no, I do not shed a tear for what is happening to the old government controlled legacy media.
K-means is optimal for some problems, like in bolt quantization (and hierarchical initializations tend to converge quickly). It's not really applicable to TFA, since you'd choose the cluster count via metrics which have nothing to do with elbow criteria or whatever, but the lesson isn't to not use k-means or to use some other clustering algorithm; it's to know your goals and which model best achieves those.
Every facet of Microsoft seems to lack style. Every official/affiliated blog is ugly and inconsistent. C# looks ugly to me. Windows is fugly. Their fonts are horrid. It's to be expected
I have both T1D and MS. For MS, one leading idea is that getting exposed to Mono later in life can trigger the disease. There’s solid evidence for this.

For T1D, it’s similar - there’s a notion that you’re genetically predisposed to it and certain types of infections during adolescence can cause it to manifest.

I’ve had discussions with researchers in the space and apparently certain autoimmune diseases happen less often in “grubbier” parts of the world (their words, not mine) even when the population density is high, and an inference here is that >early exposure< to certain infections might not trigger some of these problematic autoimmune reactions.

Side note: these diseases aren’t fun, especially when working in tech. I’m appreciative of those dedicating their lives to researching autoimmune disease.
They lied to you, building software is hard
Where are you looking for a bachelor's degree that costs 80k?

Start with an associate at community College. It's way cheaper, maybe even free.
Yeah, it's good to mention. Still I believe that from the outside, in practice it doesn't matter much: if Trump gives the order to invade an ex-ally, who is to know if the US would do it or not? To the outside it is a risk, and a country making that kind of threats probably does not count as an "ally".
Sure, but now you're back to trust. Unless it's signed, which it doesn't sound like it is, anyone could fabricate their Twitter post history.
discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43440174
Cobra https://github.com/spf13/cobra uses https://github.com/spf13/pflag, which supports GNU style flags. Cobra has been developed for many years now and has a ton of additional features, like automatically generating the autocompletions and has tons of unit tests.

I'd just use cobra.
That's why plausible deniability should be implemented in such a way that one could have multiple encrypted profiles on a phone, each one with its hidden and encrypted storage, but the safe one wouldn't be empty or unused to avoid raising warning flags; all sensitive social media and communication would take place only on other accounts, still the user should maintain their day to day communications (family, friends) on the safe one. Encrypted profiles would activate only after entering their unique password, but the phone would immediately default to the safe one at each sleep or power off. This however doesn't protect from cell traffic analysis which would reveal for example the phone (tower+location+source and dest. IP+IMSI+IMEI+time) was connected to that server at a certain time, still would require more efforts from an officer than merely scanning all mail or posts on social media. A VPN helps, but as per above, now one would have to explain why they're using one, and I totally expect VPNs to be criminalized very soon.
> Was Tim hired as a teacher or trainer?

Do you think that's any relevant? Software development engineers in general are hired to work on projects as part of small teams, and their goal is to deliver projects. It's not story points, it's not burn down charts, it's not PRs, it's not LoCs touched. It's how many projects are delivered, and keep everything and everyone problem free. This means that if you are struggling, your team will struggle as well until you unblock yourself. If you can unblock yourself by having a team member sit besides you and walk through a problem, that team member will be helping the team.
https://genode.org/index

An operating system with seL4 support
Not to be a total fucking asshole... but:

> Someone needs to manage product delivery:

You mean the 2-week delivery cycle into an automated CI/CD? Good lord I hope they don't have a useless scrum master too.

> Someone needs to manage the backlog:

I'm curious what input the manager has into this besides reading through a list of engineer curated items.

> Someone needs to manage the training of everyone:

Tim seems to be handling that.

> Someone needs to ensure people are getting setup for their next job:

Tim seems to be handling that.

> Someone needs to ensure everyone is paid right:

HR has but one fuckin job as far as I can tell.

> Someone needs to handle it when two people don't get along:

Hey Tim can you id the asshole? How comfortable are you hiring/firing?

Obviously IME non-technical management has done nothing but played politics and prevented firing of shitheads who were wrongly hired.
Musicians picked Monster because they were reliable and had an excellent replacement policy not because of brand ego. The Darn Tough of cables at least in terms of policies
the complexity and expense and necessity for expertise of today's farming machines aren't what the OP is talking about, which sounds more like something from Asimov's Caves of Steel
Those robots want to be all your tools, with subscription and expensive maintenance that you can no longer do it yourself. And with the obvious kill switch. From tractors to other things
That's weird take unless you decided to be completely vegan.

Cows recognize people very well too and will definitely flock to their feeder yet we have been eating them for centuries. In fact, one could argue that to allow domestication a minimum amount of intelligence is necessary in the animal otherwise it's impractical.

Animals have various degrees of intelligence but that's hardly relevant.
What matters is that they are not our own species and they are less intelligent than us so we can dominate them.

People have been looking at some sort of morals in the food we eat, especially the animals, as if it mattered or made us better in any way (probably looking for some sort of religion replacement).

The circle of life doesn't care about your morals/feelings and if some other species were to become dominant because of their intelligence, they would gladly eat us.

Eating things in relation to their perceived intelligence makes no sense, but I guess you can very much go into the cult of veganism.
https://danluu.com/p95-skill/
> This is not hostility, but growing indifference.

Among others, the US is threatening to invade and annex ex-allies using militarily force. This is the definition of "hostility", and again this is only one example.
> If you want a degree get a degree.

If he truly wanted a degree, he'd already be doing it. It reads more like what he really wants is a break from software but is still in an economic reality of needing a job.
Kotlin Coroutine Confidence – book in beta
Training Llama Using LibGen: Hack, a Theft, or Just Fair Use?
Degrees from Europe are very transferable. Germany, Italy, France, the nordics etc. all offer engineering degrees in english basically for free (or close) for all EU citizens.
I cannot think of any better and cheaper education path.
Some of the best engineers (and professors!) in the US actually got their education from minor and major Universities in Europe where they got their education for free.
With ALVR you can make a tunnel over usb with ADB.
and Campbells Law, and the CObra effect.

I had not come across "measurement dysfunction" before. Useful phrase.
If neo-feudalism wins the majority will be working on the goals of the feudal nobility, whatwver that may be.
That's because the linked issue is a different, but related tracking issue. The FP-in-const tracking issue was this one: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/57241
Yes, you can do the "old school search" part with embeddings.
I can't point to a citation but I'm sure I've seen it hypothesized that it requires both the infection, then some sort of injury to allow the virus to cross the blood brain barrier.
Yeah, in terms of new designs, Itanium got its last new processor in 2017, although wikipedia says it's basically the same as the 2012 design, and that was for an architecture with a poor release in 2001 and effectively dead by 2005. Manufacturing continued until 2020.

x86 will probably get at least a similar lifetime beyond the point where it's clearly dead. And then those systems will likely last another ten years. Maybe there will be retro builds for even longer (Intel Quark was more or less an OG pentium, 20 years later)
> Most Americans consider Europe to still be our closest allies and friends.

Maybe, yes. Do you know how many Europeans now consider that the US are not allies anymore? And how many take the threats of invading them seriously? Allies don't threaten to invade.

> Furthermore the US businesses are not stupid

The oligarchs of BigTech have clearly bent the knee. It would be irrational to trust them.
Thanks, I wonder what that's all about.
Yes, obviously it’s relevant you have a fundamental misunderstanding about what software engineers do. We don’t “build systems” we diffuse risk for the managers. If someone is “helping build something” they can spend their own money doing that. This is business, the less work you do the more money you make.
Does this work with multiple processors? It seems like you would have trouble if processor 1 calls cpuid but processor 2 does not for a long time, your emulation of proc 2 would need to be precise to a much-higher-than normal degree to be consistent with proc 1 behavior.
> Why we don’t have an LLM based search tool for our pc / smartphones?

I'll offer my take as an outside observer. If someone has better insights, feel free to share as well.

In market terms, I think it is because Google, Microsoft and Apple are all still trying with varied success. It has to be them because that's where a big bulk of the users are. They are all also public companies with impatient investors wanting the stock to go up into the right. So, they are both cautious about what ship to billions of devices (brand protection) and cautious about "opening up" their OS beyond that they have already done (fear of disruption).

In technical terms, it is taking a while because if the tool is going to use LLMs, then they need to solve for 99.999% of the reliability problems (brand protection) that come with that tech. They need to solve for power consumption (either on edge or in the data centers) due to their sheer scale.

So, their choices are ship fast (which Google has been trying to do more) and iterate in public; or partner with other product companies by investing in them (which Microsoft has been doing with Open AI and Google is doing with Anthropic, etc.).

Apple is taking some middle path but they just fired the person who was heading up the initiative [1] so let's see how that goes.

My two cents.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/a...
I started listening to this article (using a text to speech model) shortly after waking up.

I thought it was very heavy on jargon. Like, it was written in a way that makes the author appear very intelligent without necessarily effectively conveying information to the audience. This is something that I've often seen authors do in academic papers, and my one published research paper (not first author) is no exception.

I'm by no means an expert in the field of ML, so perhaps I am just not the intended audience. I'm curious if other people here felt the same way when reading though.

Hopefully this observation / opinion isn't too negative.
What about MSCSO at UT texas?

Online but same degree as offline, good AI offering that is recent and around $10K.

Georgia Tech is also a good one.

The university of Helsinki has similar things [1].

Germany and the Netherlands have affordable degree programs open universiteit/open universität are the keywords. Not sure if you need to learn the language.

I hope this seeds your creativity a bit so you can look for a solution that fits you.

[1] https://www.helsinki.fi/en/admissions-and-education/open-uni...
Well, it depends whose lives are we discussing.
Slaveowners lives changed less than lives of slaves.
Men lives changed less than the lives of females, who used to be treated like a property.
Medicine was and still is a big game changer for everyone who's health is not perfect. Weak used to just perish, only strong would survive to the next generation.
Capitalism and industrial revolutions brought us the levels of prosperity (in advanced world at least) that were unthinkable before:
-your house is expected to be warm now, some even have a/c
-you have water access in your house
-you have toilet in your house
-you can traverse huge distances very quickly with car, airplaine, train, anything
-knowledge access is insane now: basically free. Books used to be super expensive 500 years ago. If a library burned, the data was lost forever.

I think that right now it's the best time to be alive, however from the perspective of political systems I think the ultimate solution is model dictated by the original American Constitution with limited government and division of powers. Economically free-markets, lack of central bank, gold standard so that we don't have perpetual inflation that steals our savings and purchasing power. This and of course amendments for equal rights for men, women, all skin colors.
I sure hope they have distributed redundancy if they are going to publish a single sole public point of easy disruption by federal government

Because once someone in the Cabinet finds out they can make the legacy .gov backback disappear by a simple FBI raid or threatening the local utility to turn off the power, they are most certainly going to do that at some point in the next 200 weeks as they run out of things to destroy.
Do you mean to imply that my quantum rocks (also useful for reiki) are pseudoscience?
I wonder if OP would be able to test out of the basic requirements - algebra, language, etc. I was able to skip some of my curriculum because I took some of classes in high school that transferred over, and some I just fully tested out of - saved me probably at least a semester's worth of classes.
It's stupidly hard. 10/10.
wtf is vibe coding lfmao
If only there was a link to a page somewhere that could answer this question for you.
Does the OS that lies on top of this kernel need to be formally verified as well for the security guarantees to hold?
> All the concerns you list are the least hard part of getting a degree.

I don't think that "paying $80k" and "finding the time to actually get the degree while maintaining a full-time job" are the "least hard" parts.
Very good article, managers just want short summaries of what's going on and sometimes these summaries come in the form of bad metrics.
Write Your Own Tools
> Not exactly a new sign of "becoming hostile" IMO.

It feels like you missed the hostile actions. There are many, but let's just mention the fact that the US repeatedly threatened to invade militarily.
A lot of places will allow you to transfer an associates to a 4 year. Do the general education requirements at the CC, which is practically free and will be easier to work into your schedule. Then transfer directly into your major of choice (talk the uni about this first).

Some states also have "adult learner" deals which bring the cost down if you're older. Not sure if you're old enough. If you aren't yet, you're close--I knew someone in their late 30s doing this when I was in undergrad. If you're too young, wait a couple years, save up, get a head start on your degree of choice, them do it.
> If you can unblock yourself by having a team member sit besides you and walk through a problem, that team member will be helping the team.

I don't dispute that; hence the 20-30% pairing. But if it's the case that all day, every day there's at least one person on the team who is blocked, then you don't need a "Tim", what you really need is a new team, because that's an unacceptable level of blockage.
When people (men and women) seek out casual sex, sometimes it does come from an unhealthy place, but sometimes it does not. It does involve some risk, emotional and physical, but that risk can be fairly small. These facts differ a bit by gender but not nearly as much as many people assume.

So, let's stipulate that someone is looking for casual sexual encounters. Wouldn't it be counterproductive for her to not have sex on the first and only date? If she's obligate-kinky, do you think it would be healthier for her casual encounters to consist of vanilla sex she doesn't enjoy?

What would you do at a sex party --- only have sex with people you'd kissed at the previous one? Or do you think going to sex parties in the first place is a "red flag"?

As for the tacit implication you identified that "kinky acts with a girl on a first date" is an achievement, I also found that framing a little offputting.
The article contains a peculiar mix of exploitative pickup-artist memes ("SMV", "negging", "easy-mode levers like money", "hitting a bodycount", casual dating as a way to develop serious-relationship skills, "hoe phase") with explicit rejection of them ("honesty", "vulnerability", "is it alright if I kiss you?", "Sex isn't something you 'get' from women—it's something you create together", "trust is necessary if you want to have great sex", "other people who play games, a perfect little soup of toxicity", "Be honest, be present, be genuinely interested in your partner's pleasure".)

I'm not really sure what's going on there. Is he incoherent, is he trying to phrase his radical message in redpill language so he can deprogram the redpillers, or are we maybe just misinterpreting him?
I can't quite tell what the manager in this story should have been doing though. Where is their value add? If its just MBA fluff playing psycho games with metrics then I'd argue they can get fucked.
Fine; why is that a problem for them? Why aren't they ignoring it? Etc, until you find a motivation that's not directly reducible to the technical challenge for which you're offering a solution.
I appreciate your empathetic need to help, but the answer is not more tech, no matter how that tech is funded. It's less tech. As a species we have to return to more local life where we grow up knowing those around us, including the opposite sex, and pair off that way. Humans did not evolve to live in gigantic cities of millions of people and be able to select mates from the entire dating app population (I include Facebook and Instagram in that). The way our instincts want to select mates works best in local groups, like how we lived as a species thousands of years ago.
With the Trump presidency cutting off a lot of foreign aid, it'll be interesting to see which country fills the void.

With the troubles at the border, it will be interesting to see how other countries respond. Are they willing to forego US tourist money?

At a personal level if I were a tourist from the US, would I be shunned by touts or denied access to nice places ("sorry mate, not allowed in the Tate. Cheers")?