skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So... you're basically saying it works?

Working under pressure isn't a viable therapy, IMO. In my experience, it is a path to burn out and diminishing returns.

> Got any support for that?

Anecdotally, ~25 years of eating them, but there is plenty of evidence that prolonged use of amphetamine causes structural neuronal changes, even at therapeutic doses.

Here is one article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38665308/

> you look at the papers about externalising motivation/triggers

What papers? What do they say?

Also, fear (an external motivator) is a great way to release catecholamines for positive outcomes in ADHD, but it is also a great way to increase general stress, which has many other outcomes (free cortisol changes, etc).
I don't take Wikipedia as gospel, but that doesn't say what happened with earlier versions of Windows. And regardless, how did DR-DOS sue them if they weren't affected?
What? No; the problem is vastly more attributable to the tremendous transfer of wealth from the working classes to the wealthy that has occurred over the past 50 years.

Look at any graph of earnings by quintile over time, or of income or wealth inequality today, and you'll see that the fact that builders can't cut corners and sell us crappy houses and apartments that will fall down around our ears is far from the primary reason we have trouble affording things today.
Norman Mailer once suggested that advertising just be heavily taxed.

Since its positive impact on society is limited, this would be a way to channel some of that mind-warping wealth into actual civic improvement...
Cervical cancer is an obvious one that comes to mind.
this is EXACTLY where everyone should be applying… too many people are nuts to work at faang, I can live 50 lifetimes and never understand it.
> Apple had no money or time to invest in rewriting NeXTStep for a completely new kernel they had no experience in.

And even if they had had the money and time, Avie Tevanian¹ was a principal designer and engineer of Mach². There was no NeXTSTEP-based path where the Mach-derived XNU would not be at the core of Apple's new OS family.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avie_Tevanian ² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)
You know, if a bunch of nurses got their heads exposed to a radiation burst in an event, would they all get the same type of cancer? Probably not.
iirc there’s already an app for that in some sense, and a good amount of plausible deniability and backroom politics that can make up for any potential lawsuit. Similar issue to “proving” any kind of discrimination: a smooth corporate operator can CYA well enough to create a fake paper trail to justify any sort of decision making.
I doubt their vision. If it's for personal coding project, who would pick RSC ?
What will you give me if I prove you wrong? Let's make a bet. How about a note in the loser's profile for a month? 'I was a fool to doubt _____'. (I feel like we need something more creative.) :)

> if you're going to make wild claims you should back them up

Same goes for you.

I'm just going to preserve this claim here:

> I guarantee to you that there was never any government action (or even proposed action) against Microsoft for Office.

A guarantee! Can I sue if you're wrong? :)
Integration test are slow/expensive to run compared to unit tests and reduce your iteration speed.

Unit tests let you change code fearlessly with instant feedback.

Integration tests require basically deploying your app, and when something fails you have to debug the root cause.

If you’re doing a lot of mocking then your design is not good. And only public interfaces should have testing.
Back in the days when Apple acquired NeXT, Linux was undergoing lots of development and wasn't well established. Linux being a monolithic kernel didn't offer the levels of compartmentalization that Mach did.

As things now stand, FreeBSD represents many of the benefits of Darwin and the open source nature of Linux. If you seek a more secure environment without Apple's increasing levels of lock-in, then FreeBSD (and the other BSDs) merit consideration for deployment.
Not as fast as other 17B models if it has to attend to 10M context window.
Yeah well at least you tried, sometimes that’s just how it plays out. You might be surprised by how many people don’t even realize you CAN negotiate a job offer. I think it’s a little more well known among tech workers maybe?
Bias doesn't matter as long as you clearly state your priors.
> I am not sure whether DragonBSD is dead or alive today at all.

Oof, yeah.[0][1]. I hope they're doing alright - technically fascinating, and charming as they march to the beat of their own accordion.[2][3][4][5]

[0] https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release64/

[1] https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git

[2] https://www.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2012-03/msg0...

[3] http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/2007/02/Features176.html

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vkernel

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAMMER_(file_system)
I don't know about 'advertising', but Bahai don't allow campaigning when running for leadership position. I would imagine it would be some where along line of that. It encourage action speakers louder than words.

With all the modern techniques (used by neurosciences) in the modern advertising is pretty all entrainment and brain washing at this point any way. So no harm in making all that illegal. I'm pretty ok with a world with no advertising, and just function by word of mouth and network of trust.
I have also experienced this and subsequently bluffed it.

I told a startup that I “was talking to Meta”, and they were like ok we cant compete with that. I hadnt even done leetcode yet I was just doing emails with Meta’s recruiter. I told the startup that its okay because I will be stuck in team matching for 6 months, and the startup bumped my salary 30%.
Interestingly enough, Apple did contribute to porting Linux to PowerPC Macs in the mid-1990s under the MkLinux project, which started in 1996 before Apple’s purchase of NeXT later that year:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MkLinux

I don’t think there was any work done on bringing the Macintosh GUI and application ecosystem to Linux. However, until the purchase of NeXT, Apple already had the Macintosh environment running on top of Unix via A/UX (for 68k Macs) and later the Macintosh Application Environment for Solaris and HP-UX; the latter ran Mac OS as a Unix process. If I remember correctly, the work Apple did for creating the Macintosh Application Environment laid the groundwork for Rhapsody’s Blue Box, which later became Mac OS X’s Classic environment. It is definitely possible to imagine the Macintosh Application Environment being ported to MkLinux. The modern FOSS BSDs were also available in 1996, since this was after the settlement of the lawsuit affecting the BSDs.

Of course, running the classic Mac OS as a process on top of Linux, FreeBSD, BeOS, Windows NT, or some other contemporary OS was not a viable consumer desktop OS strategy in the mid 1990s, since this required workstation-level resources at a time when Apple was still supporting 68k Macs (Mac OS 8 ran on some 68030 and 68040 machines). This idea would’ve been more viable in the G3/G4 era, and by the 2000s it would have be feasible to give each classic Macintosh program its own Mac OS process running on top of a modern OS, but I don’t think Apple would have made it past 1998 without Jobs’ return, not to mention that the NeXT purchase brought other important components to the Mac such as Cocoa, IOKit, Quartz (the successor to Display PostScript) and other now-fundamental technologies.
The Chef-branded distribution is still built from the same open source repositories that the CINC project is built from; it isn't proprietary. It has an additional EULA that requires people to accept and thus [presumably] pay for.

It's basically the same model as Red Hat. Except Chef never had the market penetration and brand recognition as a trusted source that Red Hat has.

Signed, someone who worked for Chef for almost 13 years.
I’d file that under the karmic payout thing. I personally hire and fire people but don’t have The Blacklist handy, and I’m not really sure that it exists outside of Roko’s basilisk-esque sense, in which it could be really bad if it really did.
It'll be worse actually, with all the vibe coders out there: https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/
your whole problem is that you want to work at big tech. I still get a whole lot of perks (not massages :) ) working for small private companies making MUCH more money now than 2016… big tech bubble is killing a whole lot of careers these days, tech hiring now is actually pretty good, I get emails from companies and recruiters (even though I virtually do not exist publicly, e.g. linkedin etc…) weekly or less
False. Whatever you got told in primary school was a lie.
I said that it violates no rule to include in program material valid tones that will spuriously trigger an ENDEC which receives them, and that it does violate a rule (specifically, a subsection of 47 CFR part 11 that I can't be bothered hunting down just now) to broadcast program material including such tones.

The example I like to refer to is my phone's PagerDuty ringtone, which includes a set of SAME headers (syntactically valid but encoding no meaningful alert, not that it matters) followed by the attention tone.

Nothing I personally do with that ringtone can reasonably qualify as a violation of 47 CFR 11, because I don't have a broadcast license and thus am not bound by the provisions of one, to include those related to EAS.

It would be a crime for me to broadcast that ringtone directly - not because of the nature of the transmission, but because operating an unlicensed transmitter in licensed bands is an offense. Depending on the specifics of my putative pirate-radio actions under this scenario, in theory a case might be made under 47 CFR 11.45.1 ("No person may transmit or cause to transmit...") for a fine along with the prison sentence, but I doubt anyone would see much cause to bother.

But, if I were to go to a radio station for a live interview in the course of which my PagerDuty ringtone went off and the edit delay failed, causing the ringtone to go out over the air - in that case the radio station would be considered to have violated the EAS rule.

edit: OK, I nerd-sniped myself and did look it up again; it's 47 CFR 11.45 https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/section-11.45 which has been amended since I last reviewed it during the Obama administration to forbid transmission of the Attention Signal (the equal-amplitude 853/960Hz mix that raises the hair on your neck) as well as the encoded headers that will trigger automated EAS equipment. It's not terribly well written in my view, and I'm much more familiar with the technical than the legal aspects, but there's no precedent at least of which I'm aware for anyone not actually an "EAS Participant" as defined in 47 CFR 11.2 to see any kind of enforcement action over an EAS violation.
And the cancer devastating the Tasmanian Devil [1]. It’s awful!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumour_disease?wp... (content warning)
If you win the gotcha game, what do you win? We can attack each other's words or we can try to understand each other. I think my words can be interpreted as I intended:

I think 'pure breed hacker' means much more than 'real coder' or 'can write competent 1980s-level production-quality code'.
Sure it's just a thought experiment.

But even in the strict context of the experiment for very heavy industry, like a steel mill or chip fab, they could be co-operatively owned in whole or by parts.

You could also extend the experiment to allow capital assets to be discounted, or allow worker-owned shares to be discounted. So you can get big, but only by building or by sharing, respectively.

Obviously the big industries today would not be possible as they are structured. But what would we get instead? Would the co-operative overhead kill efficiency dead, or would the dynamism in the system produce higher overall efficiency and better worker outcomes than behemoths hoarding resources and hoovering up competition? And if no one can be worth over 100 million (say), what would that do to the lobbying and deal-making system at the higher levels? One 10-billionaire would have be be replaced by 100 people.
one follows the other though, no? how can you make me buy something if I’ve never heard of you?
Yeah, I mean, saying stuff like this is polarizing.
How AI is steering the media toward a 'close enough' standard
No, I'm comparing to what you see on the average cookie consent banner [1]. If you dive into the 'manage' option, most e-commerce sites will literally have hundreds of third-parties listed that your data might be shared with. As far as I understand these are all direct integrations, either in the frontend or backend, not indirect - you don't have to ask for permission for companies downstream of your own providers.

[1] we don't get to see most companies codebases, so this is a good indicator of the amount of integrations
Here’s a surprisingly thorough and reasonable checklist—considering the source:
https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/stop-your-computer-from-randoml...
I interview people regularly. These are easy to detect… not in a direct way but i can tell when you are being assisted by AI. 3 so far this month out of 12, for those who were going to ask how frequently.
Inflamed hemorrhoidal tissue
"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"

The original point of Bitcoin was that someone else didn't keep custody of your money for you. You'd keep custody of it yourself, on your computer or a paper wallet.

Yet, there are tons of people who keep obscene amounts of Bitcoins on crypto exchanges or otherwise held by companies for them.

Why do people buy a cryptocurrency built on distrust of institutions that hold your money for you, and then give that cryptocurrency to an institution to hold it for them?

Did nobody learn anything when the former Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange imploded in 2013-2014?
I wfh pretty much 100%, and have inattentive adhd. I’ll occasionally go spend a day at a WeWork, either with other workmates, or by myself.

On days that I’m with workmates, I get nothing done. On days I’m by myself, sitting by strangers, I’m really productive. I can just lock in and chug through my work. It never made sense to me until I learned about body-doubling, kind of feels like what I was inadvertently doing on those solo days.
I guess it could be a family of four if you have two of them and both parents drive.
IIRC that was something they had been working on, but it got axed when ZFS changed hands and licensing became potentially thorny. My memory may be failing me though.
>A few cytoskeletal proteins did something non-classical, so we have to re-evaluate the place of life in the universe? What?

Yeah, I thought the find was interesting, but not nearly as significant as the article bloviated. Obvious that quantum bits have a role in everything in the universe, which likely includes the brain, huh? T'were worth a look.
"a few"

*saturates my Gigabit pipe*
People will hate me for saying this, but when people want to ban advertising they fail to realize how much utility they actually get from advertising when it is done in a straightforward, ethical way. At the core, advertising and advertisements are a way to inform potential customers of a product or service that they might like. A few points for consideration:

1. You probably only know about half the things you like, enjoy, and use because of advertising. Did you see a trailer for a movie on YouTube you wanted to watch? That is an ad for a movie. Did you get a demo disc for a new band at a party or club in the 90s? That is an ad. Did you see the concert lineup poster? Ad. No one complains when advertising is done well and provides utility.

2. Ads subsidize things you enjoy. Browsers, search engines, television, your tv, most websites, are all subsidized through advertising. You can say would prefer to just pay full price for it and avoid the ads, but most people clearly would not like to when given the option.

3. What even is an ad? What is the line? Are store signs an ad? Are movie trailers? Defining what an ad is and isn’t is messy and a bit silly.

4. The alternative may be worse. What happens when traditional ads stop working? Businesses still need to get their message out, so what do they do? They hire YouTubers to play talk positively about their product, they wine and dine journalists and publications for favorable coverage, which becomes easy because without ads they are hurting for revenue. If ads were banned this would get worse.

It is nice to opine about a utopia without ads, and believe me, I often do, but the reality is advertising has been around for thousands of years and integral to how business and even society works.
I remember reading back in 2007-2008 that Apple was interested in bringing ZFS support to Mac OS X, but discussions ended once Oracle purchased Sun. This was a bummer; I would’ve loved ZFS on a Mac.

After a cursory Google search, I found this article:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/zfs-on-snow-leopard-forget-abo...
Weird that I have no difficulty doing nothing. Getting something done is my problem.
Just these past few days, a fatal accident in China killed three college students in a car fire and the victims could not unlock the car door.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-xiaomi-says-activ...

> Chinese newspaper Economic Observer earlier reported that local traffic police had told the father of one of the victims that the car had caught fire after hitting the cement pole, and the car key had not unlocked the door.
rm -rf /

Won't work on IBM mainframe, its far more secure and complicated than that.
> Look at this web site (HN) which is used by some of the most vociferous nerds ever (including you and me) and tell me I am talking bollocks! Note the styles, layout, colours in use.

I use HN in a half window, so the text is roughly the same width as the website here.
The fact that YEC is incompatible with human evolution doesn’t mean people can’t believe both. Especially since “god guided human evolution” can mean something very different than actual evolution.
Strange choice of languages for their "multilingual" capabilities, but OK. I wonder why there's no Chinese.
Are you talking about Combine or Async Algorithms? This has been brought up before about Combine, but AA's repo still has some recent commits.
> Our testing shows that Llama 4 responds with strong political lean at a rate comparable to Grok (and at half of the rate of Llama 3.3) on a contentious set of political or social topics. While we are making progress, we know we have more work to do and will continue to drive this rate further down.

My experience is that these subjective benchmarks are completely meaningless, because the researchers involved have a strong incentive (promotions, discretionary equity) to cherrypick measures that they can easily improve.
Hard liquor ads are all over (e.g.) broadcasts of NFL games.

Cigarette advertising “bans” are not legislated, IIRC, but a result of the various consolidated settlements of the 1990s-era lawsuits against the tobacco companies. They’re essentially voluntary, and it’s not obvious that a genuine ban would survive constitutional scrutiny. It might: Commercial speech is among the least protected forms of speech.

But at some point a line is crossed: Painting “Read the New York Times” on the side of a barn you own is bread & butter freedom of expression.
Is that supposed to be a gotcha? You campaign. Talk to people, spread your message. You don't buy ads, you hold rallies. Encourage supporters to talk to friends and family. Do interviews. Is your idea of political participation limited to purchasing Instagram ads?
Would you be compelled to tell them the offer was from company Y? Or are you saying this is all predicated on Y being a famous company?
Around the time of Snow Leopard, it was rumored. I assume the Oracle buyout of Sun around the same time had a big part in killing that particular idea.
So is fraud, libel, extortion, sexual harassment, impersonating a police officer, perjury, incitement, performing a stage play without a license from the writer, etc. but this hasn't stopped congress from passing laws to abridge the freedom of these particular kinds of speech. It's quite clear that the "freedom of speech" referenced in the 1st amendment pertains to expressing one's own sentiment, and that this is not the same as expressing something one is paid to express. The mental gymnastics necessary to convince oneself that spending money is protected speech are likewise ridiculous.
He has got his mojo back now.
> I don’t think there was any work done on bringing the Macintosh GUI and application ecosystem to Linux.

QTML (which became the foundation of the Carbon API) was OS agnostic. The Windows versions of QuickTime and iTunes used QTML, and in an alternate universe Apple could've empowered developers to bring Mac OS apps to Windows and Linux with a more mature version of that technology.
>I wonder what gave them confidence?

I'd guess it was their lawyers...
Jonathan Levin’s three part series “*OS Internals” is that update, but they stopped working on and writing about Darwin around Catalina.
Really doing nothing and not just using the phone, for example?
I think anyone who has done the work quickly realizes all of that (i.e. no point kicking Ted while he’s down). Just thought it odd that the article is citing Ted to endorse the anti-Ted.
Or, instead of trying to decide which speech is good and which is bad, we could let anyone say anything they want, across any medium the cost of which they are willing to bear.
> And in all cases, you are self-imposing a restriction that will give other nations an economic advantage and jeopardizing long-term sovereignty.

Does advertising confer an economic advantage?
I would add a corollary to Pascal's remark. Not all of humanity's problems stem from that inability, bu the many of the ones that don't come instead from our inability to sit quietly in a room with others.

Fortunately, for more than 300 years, the Quakers have been showing us how this is done, and they inherit a long line of silent, social presence.
Hi! It is cool and works pretty well! Did not you think to sell it to business as a replacement for hr? I am currently building an HR agent, now finished with cv screening functionality and wanted to implement phone call screening for candidates based on CV of applicant and job requirements, basically the same thing you did, but to sell it to hiring side.

And if not a secret what model do you use? Is it gemini's multimodal real time API?
Go's wasm is pretty bad. Rust's is good though.
> Or, maybe, "leaning left" by the standards of Zuck et al. is more in alignment with the global population

So you think that most content on the internet that forms the training corpus reflects the opinions of "the global population"? Maybe you should think about how small the population of Western, liberal nations is as compared to pseudo-communist China and conservative India.
Yes, thesis statements are very useful, especially in the Internet age when we are overloaded with potentially interesting things to read. Unless I already believe you have something essential, I generally won't follow you on your mystery tour.

Maybe that reduces audience engagement time.