skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Judging from 'comparing pointers of different provenance' can produce 'any result' ( here https://c3-lang.org/language-rules/undefined-behaviour/#list... ) everyone has to deal with it.

More low effort questions. Question about optional debug traps: are they available in optimized builds? Are any LLVM sanitizers available? It usually means language needs to have APIs to mark up your own allocators/containers/etc.

Does language help parallel/concurrent programs to be more readable?
Hard to believe IQ can be gene edited by 60 points simply like we can increase weight of chicken. And that without side effects. Is there any supporting evidence?

The fluorescent spunk made me chuckle. But I'd be wary of having such undeniable sign of gene editing on myself. It is going to be a huge issue.
This industry learned a lesson from the AFFF debacle. And that lesson wasn't "share everything".
Specialization hasn't occurred because everything keeps changing and specialists become either stagnant, bored or unemployable.

The size of a brick was standardized in 1840, then 1970 for metric. Let's get that kind of stability in software before we start specializing
Making wealth even more hereditary is an obvious answer.
Why not when I reply to a logical extreme, aka

> all forms possible, to the extent that if I can’t block it I won’t use the product
“ create a single government agency that provides support to the rest of the government. Might easily lose efficiency, as any other bureaucracy”. As opposed to huge corporations that are known to be the pinnacle of efficiency…
> And there are good reasons why this has been a taboo since WW2.

I'd like to know about these, cleanly separated from slippery slop fallacies "informed" by years of dystopian fiction. Also separated from history, which has always been written by the victors first and foremost.
Organizing involves advertising

Though I could imagine only official debates and no other communication allowed would be a no advertising approach
Training is another cash cow from big tech, on many levels. It is a bonus for resellers and partners, binding the ecosystem together. And the maze of certifications that expire every other year or so makes big tech corps even more money, and has everybody invested. It is also a useful sales tool, because they don't cost much and can be thrown in as a discount. You can also achieve a kind of vendor lock in on the career skills more easily with certifications. Legions of Microsoft technicians are pretty much stuck in the ecosystem, because if they switch their certs and experience don't mean anything anymore. Not everybody has the technical chops to switch ecosystem every year. Even more pressure to not move to open source (or another vendor).

If you think Microsoft makes it sales because its buyers are putting the right product in the right place, then you haven't seen a lot of Microsoft sales. This is absolutely not how it works. And it doesn't have a lot to do with corruption either.

The people making the decision to buy an IT product are often not its users, and often not that much concerned with making the best short/mid/long term deal in the interest of the business. They are very much concerned in making the best deal for their own careers, and as these are the people who buy the thing some companies have competently specialized in optimizing sales given that fact. Oracle has a reputation for this, and Microsoft as well, but all big tech does it (just some do it better than others). Of course, there's some nuance, you can't get away with it if your product doesn't work.
ragarding to the unverified mcp concerns, this is the same reason i chose OCI.

i chose OCI format for plugin packaging in my hyper-mcp project in order to leverage all the security measurements we have with OCI like image signing, image verification etc...

i chose wasm to sandbox each plugin so that they have no network or filesystem access by default

https://github.com/tuananh/hyper-mcp
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> I'm a software developer by training with an interest in genetics. I currently run a startup working on multiplex gene editing technology.

This is the author’s own description of his expertise.

I have to look it up since I am not able to validate (by myself) the very strong claim he made in the beginning paragraph. I am comfortable not reading the rest. The claim is:

> Our knowledge has advanced to the point where, if we had a safe and reliable means of modifying genes in embryos, we could literally create superbabies. Children that would live multiple decades longer than their non-engineered peers, have the raw intellectual horsepower to do Nobel prize worthy scientific research, and very rarely suffer from depression or other mental health disorders.
Kids these days wouldn't now the struggle of finding a weak termination.

Now get off my lawn ;-)
How do people find out about the rally?
This should be called "The Insanity of Being a Web Developer". You can be an SE without ever touching JS.
> Is this manipulation or information?

Looks like manipulation. Information would be a sheet of parameters relevant to the product. The cheapest and most expensive strollers can be claimed to be "Compact" and "Ergonomic".
Why do you care if your interest in the battery pack is that it lasts 200 - 300 miles? The only way this model would work is if maintenance/replacement of the batteries is the charging network's problem.
Exactly. Tell a truck driver, construction worker, farmer, fast food employee how hard your software job is.
One reason why the definition is more important when it comes to outlawing behavior is that when you get it wrong you are actually preventing people from doing something that is important and valuable to them.

Ironically this is something lawyers and judges would pick up on immediately. You need an underlying principle of harm that can be applied consistently.
Yeah I found the story, but this is not true:

> I could be arrested in Florida because my driver's license says I'm female

A true statement would be

> Florida now requires the gender on newly issued licenses to be your biological sex.

I'm making no judgement on whether or not that is a good idea (I honestly have no idea), but I do care about the truth (and we're in a thread about the importance of fact checking!) so I feel like it's important to point out misinformation.
As mentioned on that Wikipedia page, that big dragonfly-like insect from the upper Permian was already only slightly more than half the size of its ancestors from the lower Permian, which could have been caused by the lower oxygen content in the air.

The fact that it was still much larger than current insects is most likely explained by the fact that there were no flying vertebrates that could compete with it or hunt it.
Hi! I'm working on a project that could benefit from that kind of experience. Do you offer consulting services?
How are those different in your opinion?
I was talking with friends at a party last night about their white collar jobs, and yeah, SWE was the easiest and cushiest job in the room by a mile.

One friend had just finished a 3 month program to certify to fly a certain type of airliner. They probably had more intense study and testing in 3 months than most people do in a 4 year undergraduate program, SWE included.
it's been a while, but doesn't ryanair force you to pick seats (and pay for the privilege) when traveling with small kids, even tho _they_ are required to seat you together?
Much too tight leading for a book text.

This is a leading you'd see on the ingredients list of an energy bar packaging.

The other choices are fine.

Caveat: I studied typography and worked in that field for a decade.
This thread is hilarious. And proof that hn is a silo. This article is somehow attracting the simple minds. So absorbed in your own lives that you’d rather ban an entire industry then develop self control?

I’m also realizing this is cultural and symptomatic of the West - get yourself some core ideals and stop falling for clickbait. Sounds simplistic? This is how you sound when you say “just ban it”

Thank god none of you are in charge of anything so all you can do is post here - good.
yep. As a creative I miss that random dialogues from each ideas actually emerge
Easiest careers, but also the hardest job to keep things from becoming an ungodly mess.
Does overturning elections and banning candidates and/or parties also fall under the umbrella term “democracy “?
I think you went for a lazy reply rather than actually reading the comment through. Most of the things mentioned here directly improve security for the computer's owner.
More generous & valuable comment from reddit

The distinction between Lisp and the programming languages widely adopted in the industry is a bit like the distinction between artist blacksmiths and fabricators. If blacksmiths have the skills and technique to transform the form of the metal materials they work with. While fabricators essentially rely upon the two operations of cutting and welding. Blacksmiths will use those two operations in their work, but also have the more plastic techniques of splitting, drifting, upsetting, fullering, etc.

https://old.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/1eu9gd9/comment/likzw...

These additional basic tools are created from essentially the same working material, on the fly, just like the tongs in TFA
That documentation is not sacred texts so yes I am arguing against it.

My point is that intuitive is as not as subjective as you make it out to be. Which is partially reinforced by a lot of software where "last one wins" is the policy. This example here sticks out like a sore thumb.

No point pursuing however because you seem hellbent on defending tradition which is something that tires and bores me.

Just agree to disagree, move on.
I also had a fun experience in an open office, but the key element of it was that the office was only about 15-20 people and we were all on the same project and team.

When I visited the Big Tech office (as a remote employee), it was an entire floor with rows of unrelated people all together. My team was together but it felt much different, more distracting, and hard to have a conversation without feeling like you are bothering other people.
Learning a couple of programming languages and frameworks you maybe don't like conceptually is more what I would describe as "mildly annoying" rather than tough.
Funny coincidence, I just started Axiomatic! Eugene is up next.
It's interesting, I have been saying a much less intelligible version of this from observing my children.
They have been exposed to services without advertising, and as soon as they see an ad... "Another commercial!!!".
A part of me hopes their entire generation can develop a disdain for advertising based on the negatives they can see in their parents.
I really liked your article; it expresses more or less my own personal concerns around technology.

I am certain that whenever the opportunity arises to change my professional direction, I will do it immediately.

To me personally, as a profession, technology is not worth it anymore; it has lost its meaning.

I just use it as my leisure, nothing more.
I think most jobs are hard, but "grass is always greener" means we focus on what is hard in our job and easy in other jobs.
> I was talking with friends at a party last night about their white collar jobs, .... One friend had just finished a 3 month program to certify to fly a certain type of airliner.

An airline pilot is "grey collar".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey-collar

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2024/02/01/gray-colla...
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It is possible we are just at different stages of a similar journey. I will take this Sunday to reflect on this.
I'm not sure there is anything like it.

Over the course of my three-decade career I worked on apps, system frameworks (none of this web stuff, backend stuff) and nonetheless I too had to learn all manner of new (to me) languages, API, frameworks, tools, etc. And that doesn't really cover the changes in how software is created/delivered: agile development, tech-lead driven, QA then no QA, unit tests, code reviews, etc. Always a moving target.

(To add some examples.

Some languages I have known: Pascal, C, 6502 assembly, (introduction of the PPC and with it a whole suite of new callbacks), C++, Objective-C, (introduction of Intel hardware and now endianness issues), Javascript, Swift.

When I started my career, being good about managing memory, keeping things small and fast, was a sought after skill. Somewhere about halfway through my career you had to be an expert in concurrency — you had to be able to hold in your head multiple processes running where one can complete before another, where several threads might read or write to shared variables, and UI is being updated on the main thread, etc.)

And it was unevenly distributed as well. At Apple (and likely other big companies) there were "good" and "bad" teams. And I use the quotes because I think it is often relative for the specific engineer. That is, a team I dislike — perhaps it's a highly competitive team, or one under the company spotlight — another may thrive in.

After working for a few years on a particularly "bad" team, I, strangely, developed serious gastrointestinal issues that required surgery and the removal of part of my intestinal tract. Coincidence? I have no idea. But I tell people still in the field to take stress seriously.

Also anecdotal: as someone who still writes checks to pay many of my bills, I can tell you that I noticed my signature was shit during periods of stress, only got relaxed and smooth again when I was also able to relax. I watch my signature now for signs that I am tense.
If I saw ads that simply informed that would be amazing. I never see those ads. At all.

What I see are endless billboards, posters, murals on the sides of buildings, cars, busses, etc. I see it everywhere. Its inescapable!

Must be nice living in that different world. Can I get a ticket to wherever you are??
Isn't everything a wrapper for something in the end? Weird comment ...
I mean, my friend's wife is an eye surgeon. My husband's cousin is a pediatrician, with neonatal specialty. I'll take software engineering.
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I don't think anyone in that room would have agreed with that term.
The original tweet only speculated that it might work, but the article mentions and links to another about actual succesful attempts: "Tech News reported that the fake passport generated using ChatGPT-4o successfully bypassed basic KYC checks used by fintech platforms like Revolut and Binance".
> So what do you propose? That your king posts a comment and a troll brigade floods the thread?

Twitter is a broken model you are trying to fix with draconian surveillance.

Politicians/Statesman/ Corporations should not be on my 'social network'. They make a press release with their PR or do an interview and journalists should report on it.

My 'social network' should be my family, friends, neighbours, maybe some local social groups in my city.

This idea of immediate, direct communication from companies and governments is not a workable model with our social fabric.
I no longer assume that digital natives understand how technology actually works under the hood. They teach me about the latest social media trends, I teach them about computer hardware, networking, and terminology.

My kids: Dad, the internet's down.
Me: The internet's fine. You're just not connected to it.

And yes, my home office has an ethernet hardline because it's faster and more reliable.
It's not insanity. The specialists are the people building platforms, libraries, and tools. The idea of understanding multiple platforms is not a crazy idea like the author tries to convey.
"Police are harrassing the lower and middle class with frightening and coercive measures on behalf of the political elite. Here's why that's a good thing..."
I just ignore all reviews with more than 2 stars.
Under appreciated comment. The missing S in IoT. Lets not redo the same mistakes over and over.

My vacuum cleaner can access any service on my network. Maybe not the best idea. I tried to segment the network once, but it was problematic to say the least. Maybe we should learn that security must not be an afterthought instead.
interesting use-case. if you carefully read the small font, you can still notice some artifacts though
Truck driver is a special kind of hell because of the time away from home.

But if it paid well enough and had better job security, I’d much rather be building houses all day.

I worked in retail for a while and made it to supervisor. It was much easier than being a software engineer, the pay was just crappy.

Software engineering is definitely up there in terms of mentally demanding jobs, it just pays well.
>because the BIOS removed support for S3.

i hate this so much
China's molecular 'elevator' boosts immunity 150-fold against cancer, viruses
I used to work in a hospital. Software ain't bad at all, haha.
One thing a lot of traditionalists like yourself miss (sometimes I think it's on purpose) is that we have limited time.

Modern programming is not like 30 years ago. We have literal hundreds, if not thousands, of bits and pieces to assemble. I couldn't care less what some lone cowboy thought "strtok" should do decades ago. And how genius it seemed to him.

Apropos, why use "strtok" at all in this case, btw? Fine, the function might make perfect sense. The tool's behavior does not.

...But, well, he did made me care ultimately, right? But it's not welcome and now I think less of that person.

But again -- those were different times. To me if you don't do what seems intuitive (and yes I am replying to your comment here after the other and yes I am aware we'll never agree on what's intuitive), defined also broadly as "what many other programs do" then you are just John Wayne-ing your way into my hatred.

Nevermind though. I knew some UNIX cowboys of old. I don't miss them one bit. The way this tool behaves smells very strongly of them.
I noticed that for web developers "developers" is a synonym of "web developer". Being a non-web developer, I find this at the same time mildly amusing and offensive.
About spit out my coffee, hilarious title.
V8 Explicit Compile Hints with Magic Comments
Ich muss mich aber fragen warum dies nötig wurde.
Niemand an meiner Schule hatte eine Allergie, Erkrankung dieser Art oder irgendwas.
Was ist seit den 1980ern passiert?
Sind es Umweltgifte? Farb- und Aromastoffe? Zuviel Süsses?
Ich kann es mir kaum vorstellen dass das menschliche Erbgut so kaputt gegangen ist.
Wir haben eine exzellente medizinische Versorgung und Forschung und Entwicklung gehabt.
Mein Frau lehrt an einer Waldorf-Schule. Die Kinder leiden wirklich keinen Hunger und Not.
Leider aber werden viele Kinder gekündigt da sie verhaltensauffällig und somit unbeschulbar sind.
Es kann doch nicht sein, ich würde es verstehen wenn die pure Armut oder Gewalt in der Familie die Kinder kaputtmacht.
Sind es die Smartphones?
Using CompressorJS means lossy image compression. You really shouldn't be calling this "Instant, Lossless File Compression" on your page.

Also, because you're using CompressorJS's default settings, you should know that PNG files > 5 MB are converted to JPG (https://github.com/fengyuanchen/compressorjs?tab=readme-ov-f...). Your site, however, keeps the .png file name ending for the converted image, again falsely suggesting lossless compression.
> due to everyone wanting to export to the US to obtain Dollars, the US has a truly unique negotiating position in a trade war

Seems like the plan relies on the key assumption that this will not change. But why is this the case?
I don't see anything here you couldn't already do with Photoshop. And it sounds like he hasn't actually tested it - just made a big claim. Most of the KYC systems are using multiple authorisation items. If they were just verifying the photo they would be easily hackable without LLM's.
Good article but a minor nitpick is that port zero is not strictly an invalid port as it's often used to allow the OS to pick an available port at random.
Any more info about this version of Yellow Box running on Windows? Apple’s Windows apps have always fascinated me.
I know almost none of those things. I've done great as an ML engineer. Sure I have to learn new things sometimes, but curiosity is why I got inti this in the first place
> 32-bit apps, which IBM introduced with OS/2 2.0, were never supported.

This was obviously due to the divorce, but also that the Cruiser API wasn't finalized.

> Our initial OS/2 API set centers around the evolving 32-bit Cruiser, or OS/2 2.0 API set. (The design of Cruiser APIs is being done in parallel with the NT OS/2 design.)

...

> Given the nature of OS/2 design (the joint development agreement), we have had little success in influencing the design of the 2.0 APIs so that they are portable and reasonable to implement on non-x86 systems.
An advertisement ban is also an interesting idea from the theory of free markets perspective.

Consumer needs are met by the most efficient producers, products compete for consumers on the market. That makes a ton of sense. But ad spending inverts this relationship. Consumer needs are no longer an external condition for the market but become subject to producer intervention.

This creates a source of misalignment between incentives for producers and the public good.

I think outlawing ads would go a long way towards fixing capitalism.
I don't think the fact that it costs money is the core issue; if it got really cheap it would still be very bad and maybe worse.
Except that reviews are ads...
How would that be easier to come by?

Who would maintain such information repositories and what would the incentive be to take that on? (As they no longer could be supported by ad revenue.)
This wave of fascism has been at least in part paid for and cheerlead by SV.
Yes, true. I had the impression that the tiles themselves were being stored as geometric data in the postgres DB, then fetched and served. But I might have been confused by the article starting "Once you have created your vector tiles...". The GitHub page is a little ambiguous tbh.
the online view is not the primary way readers are expected to read the ebooks. downloading the epub and reading on an ereader (edit: where line height and font size are customizable) is the expected and best supported method

however, contributions are very welcome and everything is hosted on GitHub if you'd like to suggest improvements; or send your thoughts on the mailing list
Now that porn sites in some areas require a government identification to access, it's just a matter of time before their verification system get tested by this. If they're going just on appearance without a database check on the backend, soon every high school kid is going to know about this workaround.
I don't feel like it's a hard subject to document oneself on. I suggest reading about the history of eugenics [1], from Wikipedia for example, and then branching out into more academic works, if you feel like going further.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_eugenics
I think the formation of the Lakes by glaciers was substantially different to glacial action we see today. It's commonly accepted that the Lakes were formed by the existence of the Laurentide ice sheet which was up to _2 miles_ thick in places - that's vastly different to the glaciers we see today and the effects that they have had.