skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fine. You are free to obfuscate and/or lie about your identity and location, and they are free to hire or not hire you.

Who said anything about install? They give you a company phone.

And you really think it is unreasonable for a person/company paying you money to do a task to know where on the planet you are located, emergency contacts, etc.? What happens when you get hit by a bus in Bangkok or have a scuba incident in Bali and are in the hospital for a week or worse? You just go dark and they have no way to send aid or even get status on the work you are now suddenly not doing, or obtain the current files so someone else can make progress?

Of course there are many inconsequential gigs/jobs for which it doesn't matter if you disappear, or lie about your identity or location, or are a North Korean spy trying to destroy the company, and you're welcome to work for those.

But I'm 100% in favor of remote work, and I would not remotely consider hiring someone for any consequential project or position without knowing they are who they say they are and they are where they say they are located.

And from a Corporate and National Security perspective, while I consider Return To Office largely outrageous, it seems quite reasonable for simple physical security measures to verify an employee is who and where they say they are.

Even more so considering the massive amounts of both nation-state-level corporate espionage and remote work fraud going on.
Staffing and maintenance are the business concerns for staying on old tech stacks. .NET developers should absolutely be taking them to the bank if forced to work on .NET Framework without being able to migrate it.
This is true but I still can’t figure out why more stores don’t copy Powell’s used and new on the same shelves model. In retrospect it seems so obvious that this is a good idea. And Powell’s has been doing it for decades.
Java has an almost unbroken history of hassle-free version updates, all the way back to Java 1.0. (Okay, okay, I know you have a specific anecdote of a broken version update. I said “almost”.)

The one major exception was from Java 8 to Java 9. There’s some good reasons why Java 8 to Java 9 wasn’t a smooth upgrade for all. But that’s a story for another day.

For slow-moving enterprise IT departments, that would involve a major “update Java” project. Which involves budgets and people and not doing other things in the meantime.

Hence why Java 8 is still so prevalent in enterprise world.
Comply with new speak citizen or else
The default setup I've been using for years is to dedicate a desktop to emacs, break it into 3 windows horizontally, and then each of them fluidly switches between being full-frame in its bit and being cut in half. That gives me up to six contexts to operate in at once, though it's certainly some sort of code smell to need that many for some particular task! But 2, 3, and occasional dips into 4 are pretty common, as well as having something open for other reasons.

This is also part of why I try to mostly, but not super pendantically, maintain the discipline of keeping lines under 80ish characters most of the time. Occasional spill is no big deal but constant spill gets hard to read in this context.

Partially this is just out of habit of many years, but lately it's becoming an actual advantage. My most recent project has me diving through multiple codebases, none of them in the same language; I've followed some interactions through Perl, Java, PHP, and Typescript codebases in quick succession. Both having the multiple contexts, that I have years of muscle memory using, and not needing to load up separate IDEs for each of them has turned out to be really advantageous. Emacs may not be the "best" at handling any one language but I don't think there's much better at trying to handle all of them simultaneously.
I'd add that WPF was "don't bother" up until recently when WPF support was added. (Though I don't know if that means stock WPF or that it supports the breadth of WPF controls out there, and whether it requires WPF component vendors to make changes)
In the US the problems are at a state level, and the federal government mostly doesn't have the direct constitutional power to do anything.

Though details like what color your house is arguably are first amendment protected speech and so the federal government could do something (but out likely go to the supreme court - in turn depending on the justices not the election results.)
It's not Rust, it's not production ready, and I haven't actually used it (only read the README and blog posts), but I really enjoy the ideas behind https://github.com/256lights/zb - see https://www.zombiezen.com/blog/2024/09/zb-early-stage-build-... for a list of these ideas.
I’ve observed that generalizations are usually wrong. There are plenty of MAGA people who care about the environment, and there are indeed MAGA people who couldn’t care less too.

It’s also strange to single out MAGA on cognitive dissonance- everyone, regardless of political affiliation has it.

At the end of the day blame the two party system. There are hundreds of thousands of people who voted for Obama and Trump, Biden and then Trump again. Let that sink in.
Can't speak for the person, who brought topic up, but I can't detect AI music from any human music. That's to say music rules aren't that hard, you can learn a basic structure, a few popular scales and a write a completely soulless peace yourself.
Google "Minor Scale", choose any note as a starter, and here you go. You can even add any popular drum pattern.
Soulless music written by humans is dime a dozen. It's out there, people just choose to listen to a better music. Scratch human written, there are algorithms based on music theory that could generate light music endlessly.

But the completely original peaces, written by professionals, aiming to express a feeling, are easily distinguishable from any AI song. AI songs doesn't leave you hanging or waiting, it doesn't know the value of breaking a pattern.

It's Mozart vs Salieri all over again.
The Fish Doorbell would be a great use case for AI, but I'd rather live in a world where volunteers just watch the video and ring a bell whenever a fish wants to get through.
yeah. author misses that buck2 is nix like. seems he is in mind of prev gen assembly systems.
Actually that superhuman AI is already here.

> Copilot agent mode can create apps from scratch, perform refactorings across multiple files, write and run tests, and migrate legacy code to modern frameworks.

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2025/02/24/introducing-c...
It's character 0x7 in ascii and has existed since before ascii was even standardised.

You can type it in a terminal with ctrl-g. It won't be displayed in most cases and if you've configured your terminal like me won't make a sound.
Any time I hear this administration accuse someone of anti-Semitism, I have to wonder whether it's actual anti-Semitism or simply support for the existence of Palestinians.
That is charitable.

I see a clear path of decline.
FYI, next time try `watch -n 5 <cmd>`
These things have upstream kernel/u-boot support, so it should be rather smooth sailing with uptodate kernel.
Drew Struzan: The Man Behind Your Favorite Childhood Movie Posters (2024)
Interesting, are you saying that instead of reaching for `let foo = bar; in expr` you usually use something like `with { foo = bar; }; expr`?

> Since it uses attrsets, we can use their existing functionality, like `rec` and `inherit`; rather than duplicating it.

`let` supports `inherit`, and is always `rec`. Or is that your point, that it is needlessly duplicated functionality?
I think this sentiment is actually incredibly sad and more or less the crux of the matter.

AI is a tool intended on increasing efficiency. The way you describe the act of making art/crafting things seems to come through the lens of efficiency, where you're wasting your time in the struggle of improvement.

The time spent struggling is not time wasted. The struggle is the single most important aspect of learning and improving. Its how lessons learned reach the deep subconscious as if you're walking or writing with a pen. No good musician, painter, sculptor, systems engineer, etc became that way without that deep struggle. If someone says they never struggled, be wary of them.

If we round off every corner in the name of efficiency and the bottom line, all we're left with is toil. We don't benefit from that toil, the people who push for greater and greater efficiency do. No matter how efficient we get, the excesses produced by the efficiencies will be guarded. Food thrown away, excess milk dumped in the dirt, crops burned, profits stowed away.

The AI can only exist via previous struggle. The music produced by AI will only ever be a shadow of Human struggle. It will never truly exceed that struggle. A series of vectors in memory on a graphics card can't know the feeling of a beat as it resounds in ones chest, or the resolution of a chord as the bridge turns around. It can't know the sympathetic emotions of a story told in lyrics. It can't know the nostalgia evoked by a shadow in a painting, or the familiarity of an expression in a face.

Only we as humans can create this, and its sad and disgusting to see these tools used to degrade the human experience for an ounce of profit by people who refuse to allow themselves to understand the struggle of creating art.
> You're talking like go to market is rocket science.

It is absolutely a data-driven science when done right.
i accept that the risk of turning into a slacking-off culture is there. the problem is the exploitation and the lack of perspective for a better future. this can be addressed with better education. we need to teach people to motivate them to do something meaningful to the benefit of humanity. see my other comments here for more thoughts on this.
> People will run their .net framework software until they literally can't anymore. If MS won't/can't support it, another way will be found

Yep, I'm sure there's at least some out there who switched to running off something like Mono on Windows to work around some unpatched .NET Framework issues.
MCP Resource Poisoning Prompt Injection Attacks
People are complicated and their behavior can be predicted by a single variable?
I think some of this is down to the inability of some folk (that to be clear, I think is stoked by the parties for marketing purposes) to differentiate between the beliefs of their party and their own personal beliefs. In this way, parties are not a matter of beliefs really as much as they're a matter of identity. I've witnessed this with my own family: my parents are and have always been Republican, and even though they hate Trump and virtually every policy he stands for, they still voted for him. When questioned why, you get various somewhat incoherent notions of hating Democrats. And... fair, as a Leftist, I also hate Democrats, haha. But I still voted Harris because as distasteful as I find the Dem establishment, they're closer to anything I want to see in the world than anything on offer on the other side.
I'm not excited for more szewage in the water
https://www.jw.com/news/insights-epa-wastewater-permitting-a...
We can look forward to seeing smugglers bring in basic supplies in the dark of night. Because asshats in Washington think this is some kind of game.
Feedback: The units on square feet per acre are inverted. Should be acres per square foot.

I recommend having the solution check unit cancellation to confirm that it works.

I'd also like to see a choice between multiplying/dividing in the equation.
How can anybody trust the US ever again? Trump completely ignored an existing free trade agreement with Canada and Mexico that he himself signed.

You have to assume that the US is sane a maximum of four years in a row and in four years another Trump 2.0 will again be completely ignoring all their agreements.

In my opinion, the US cannot be trusted with any treaties ever again the way they currently are.
I need to do more of these
What if git was a game show all along...
Hitting common ports looking for poorly configured drupal/wordpress/django installs is a thing I've seen bots doing for as long as I can remember.
Honestly, if a project in 2025 is on .NET Framework, I am simply not going to believe any statements about pending modernisation. Simply because if it was going to happen, it would have happened already.
> projected would, in that year alone, prevent up to 4,500 premature deaths and 800,000 cases of asthma, reaping up to $46 billion in health benefits.

That's the even crazier part - the savings in health benefits. Not sure what it takes to motivate even the most selfish out there.
I wouldn't say that LLMs have "ignited". I think they've gotten steadily better at autocomplete, but I don't think they've crossed any important threshold on the way to the sort of autonomous intelligence that Lenat was after.

I also don't think it was Lenat's original point to have an inconsistent ontology, as evidenced by his early projects. I agree that he eventually had to admit that. What I'm saying is that when he admitted that he should have recognized that it cut at the heart of what he was up to. Something I think borne out by the fact that he spent his whole life on something that didn't succeed on its own terms.
To me this is the bigger problem. Using LLMs is going to happen and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it. So it's important to make people understand how to use them, and to find ways to test that students still understand the underlying concepts.

I'm in a 100%-online grad school but they proctor major exams through local testing centers, and every class is at least 50% based on one or more major exams. It's a good way to let people use LLMs, because they're available, and trying to stop it is a fool's errand, while requiring people to understand the underlying concepts in order to pass.
Having just done that on a massive monolith (10y+ codebase continuously developed) I would recommend biting the bullet and doing upgrading all of your projects at once to either .NET Standard or .NET 9 where applicable. Pause development of new features or just do minimal changes on the main branch. We had a ton of footguns (EF6 -> EF Core, WPF, WCF, file serialization, multiple web services) and we were able to complete the migration in 6 months.
This sounds like the words of someone who has tried others.
Maybe the alert could be four beeps on your terminal
In other words, the threat actors had access to the breached network during the 22-ish months before they were discovered.
What benefit does running another program offer when the program running the command (shell) already provides that functionality?
More than two is a bit painful, in my experience, as I don't think Emacs has directional focus like the usual X11 WMs (e.g. i3, bspwm) and C-o works well with only two.

Magit and sly/SLIME work much better with a second window, I'd say.
I think Trump hosting million dollar dinners deserves to be called out more than the concept of consulting, which I’m sure is used for both good and nefarious purposes.

If you’re referring to actual instances of former politicians being paid exorbitant consulting fees by corporations that they helped regulate, though, I’d be interested in better understanding what’s going on there too.
I don't think "most economists" have a favorable view of it. It is a fringe theory from the 1800s that has never been implemented.

It is super regressive and effectively replaces everything with a housing tax and food tax.

It would be a massive tax break for the rich. IP, stock, and service income would be tax free.

It is primarily popular with a narrow band of white collar technology workers because it would benefit them immensely as their 500k SWE salary become tax free to be picked up by some poor school teacher living next door.
How is it possible that text-to-score/notation is lagging text-to-audio in music generation? Generating audio seems wildly more complicated!

Since you are working in this space, I wonder if you could comment on my pet theories for why this is true: 1. Not enough training data (scores not available for most songs), or 2. Difficulty with tokenization of musical notation vs. audio
Here's an isochrone — travel time — map from 1881, centred on London. Note the legend uses tens of days to measure time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Isochronic_Passage_Chart_...
It's not much of a generalization if I'm talking about the people in my community. YMMV.
Mm, regurgitated human prose-slop sounds delicious to me
My brother wrote about this (and I won't pretend to understand the nuances).

This project explores the changing meaning of hunting in American political and cultural life from 1945 to the present by mapping the evolution of the ideas, vocabulary, and values legible on the pages of nationally circulated outdoor magazines. These sources suggest that huntingÆs public significance transformed in both character and intensity over the second half of the twentieth century. In the immediate postwar decades, the political culture forged and propagated in these magazines reflected a faith in government, in collective engagement, and in public life. However, in the 1970s, the ideas and principles articulated by many hunters and outdoor writers increasingly privileged individual rights, questioned the utility of state action, and defended private prerogatives. Concurrently, the degree to which hunting gave shape to the identity of American sportsmen heightened dramatically during this pivotal decade.

https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/4613/
Just landed: streaming ingestion on Cloudflare with Arroyo and Pipelines
> It's almost like people are complicated and when you are forced to choose between two parties you almost always go for the stronger male person

That seems like an unfair conclusion not rooted in empirical evidence. How do you explain the numerous democratically elected female heads of state? What does "strong" mean here? Do you think that current US leadership is "strong" or merely "loud"?
These Benchmarks are asinine to determine the quality of "creative writing", all chosen by engineers without a single artistic bone.

Length

Slop Score

Repetition Metric

Degradation

Moby-Dick has chapters as short as a page and as long as 20. According to this benchmark, the book would score lower because of the average length of its chapters.

These aren't benchmarks of "quality". A chapter's length is not indicative of a work's quality. That measurement, on its own, is enough to discredit the rest of the benchmark. So so so so so so so misguided.
Try it out, open a terminal and type `for i in 1 2 3 4; do printf '\a'; sleep 1; done`
I'm not sure where you've seen left maximalism in the government so far. You get a choice between right and "let's not disturb the status quo" centrish party. There were barely any strong left-ish opinions for quite a while. That whole idea of a conflict seems really artificial, looking at the news from the outside. Let's hear about the left once someone actually manages to force through things like: more residential buildings overriding nimbys, progressive tax without trivial loopholes, wealth tax, kill gerrymandering, federal level build-out of trainlines, etc.
Ah yes, an article from 2013. "It was a different time."
It's just one pretty trivial example, but many months ago I had to develop some backstory for my character in a D&D campaign. I had some character background and some paragraphs I wrote to start off with, but I wasn't sure what direction to go exactly and was trying to come up with different ideas. I dropped what I had into a prompt built to setup a pseudo-text-adventure-game using a local WizardLM model running through KoboldCpp, then I ran through it interactively to the point of getting incoherent about 100 times in a row. This yielded some new ideas, some old ones, and overall an interesting distribution of outcomes; where 2 or 3 happened most commonly, and all 100 were basically variations on about 10.

I won't argue that any of what the LLM came up with would stand on its own as particularly interesting - often quite the opposite - but it showed me examples of all the "obvious directions to go" as well as some other RPG cliches that I could either adopt or choose to avoid, and ultimately served as an excellent brainstorming assistant with interesting ideas and the ability to carry through and embellish them with enough detail to get a sense for either what works or what doesn't.
Leverage erasure encoding for durability and avoid both the tripling and local parity. You'll get better durability than 3x while only taking up significantly less than 2x the space Backblaze open sourced their library and talk about it here, https://www.backblaze.com/blog/Reed-Solomon. They use a 17:20 ratio that'll get them 3 drive failure resistance for just 1.17x stretch (ie a 100mb file gets that resilient while taking up 117mb of space)
I have had a Kinetic since 1999; a millennium birthday present to myself.

It's a bit of an oddity.

The lithium-ion power cell needs to be replaced every 5-10 years, and it's relatively expensive part.

It has more mechanical complexity than a quartz plus the same maintenance.

But it works really well. It's a hybrid.

I love it despite this, it's unusual looking and the quirkiness makes it fun to talk about.
There's cost based pricing and there's price based costing.

Food and clothing, anything with complex supply chains tend to be cost based pricing. As a rule of thumb, it's x3, maybe x4 for a well-branded item like Nike or Calvin Klein. Most innovations are on supply chain. E-commerce was such a big thing because it could cut out one middle man and lead to 30% price cuts or profit margins, and yet all these online shops ended up appearing in malls anyway.

Software is price based costing because there's no fancy supply chain. iPhones may be somewhere in the middle, hardware tends to have the worst of both worlds - high fixed costs and lots of middle men.

A McDonald's may have franchises and may own some restaurants internally, but they don't want to lose money, so they may base it on the lower profit margins - it makes no sense for a burger in one spot to be $4 and a burger in the franchise to be $5; both need to be $5.

Generally luxury brand do use more expensive parts, whether or not those parts add to the quality. And they do have higher profit margins. But the retailers, distributors, etc still take a 30% cut or so. And in the end, Louis Vuitton is still probably making lower margins than Plants vs Zombies.
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Well graduation rate is a pretty terrible way to grade education, especially country to country. You could have 100% graduation rate today by just passing everyone - that's basically what we have in primary education and there was an article here just last week about how most college students are functionally illiterate.
Nobody needs this thing indeed. Nice to have, but out of 100 producers I know only 1 employing end-to-end AI in his process. People love to mold and generally touch what they creatively pursue. Even most of the elevator music (so called vapourwave) was and is being done by humans.
If anything that argues in the other direction since an equivalent US appliance at the same wattage will draw almost twice the current as a UK one. If we’re talking about the risk of overheating then current is the big factor.

In the UK we can put a fuse of e.g. 3A in the plug of a device that is suited for the devices expected draw, but if I understand correctly this could be 15A for the same device in the US?
You can certainly combine modern construction techniques with traditional looks. Don't expect 1:1 looks but you can make them less boring.
We already have mitoviruses, it stands to reason they they might adapt to infect mitochondria that are being delivered to cells.
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