skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The current model of NPCs have a limited dialogue tree. Saving CPU cycles by sticking to the script helps maximize their ESG score.
TurboTax owner Intuit to pay $141M to customers
If you’re in the fintech industry, you probably shouldn’t be surprised that Stripe wants to compete with you. They’re getting into every vertical. Either Plaid was irresponsible and actually shared sensitive info w a possible competitor (I doubt it) or they’re just trying to derail a competitor’s launch.
I realise it's uncool to say so, but I quite like the Touch Bar on my MBPro.
I should have been more clear, if my service crashed and was located behind a load-balancer the client would receive a 502 Bad Gateway response. That's based on the premise that I'm not writing the load-balancer and that it's been well tested and doesn't suffer from ungraceful handling of malloc failure. So yes it's important for a small subset writing things like load-balancers.
Well this is more master foo's unix koans than the tao of programming, but they're for sure cut from the same cloth.

http://catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/
Sure, you can go to SpaceX and Tesla and work on cool ideas and projects. The downside is that your pay is going to be lower and you will probably work more hours. You can go to a traditional FANG company and earn more money and you may work on cool/boring(depending on the team) ideas but you work life balance may be better. It's all about tradeoffs.
There’s a strange arrogance I’ve seen among developers and other highly compensated fields.
> (This dynamic isn’t limited to polit­ical reporting. In 2018, Bloomberg Busi­ness­week published a story called “The Big Hack” that was vigor­ously denied by Apple and Amazon. Based on these denials, certain tech blog­gers became convinced that the story was false. The fact that neither Apple nor Amazon sued Bloomberg for defama­tion—despite being extremely rich, finicky, and liti­gious—made nary a dent.)

That's an interesting point!

> But Politico has a strong incen­tive to protect their source. By making their own scan from a paper orig­inal, they wouldn’t open them­selves up to the disclo­sures of confi­den­tial infor­ma­tion that have tripped up others. (That said, printed docu­ments are not neces­sarily free of meta­data, as Reality Winner found out the hard way.)

If you color-scan a printed document at low-enough resolution, will it corrupt the color-printer dot patterns or are they resilient to that?

> I conclude it must be someone who only had access to a stapled, printed copy of the draft opinion. (If the person had access to the under­lying digital file, they wouldn’t have printed & stapled it just to unstaple it.)

IMHO, the author is reading too much into that and many other things. The impression I get is he already has a favored suspect (who is obvious though he doesn't name her), and his whole analysis is looking to find a path to finger that person.

It's totally plausible to me that a moderately savvy leaker with a digital file would leak a printed copy to protect themselves from metadata, and that Politico just used lesser equipment that the author assumes they would have. Quick and dirty is more often the rule than careful and perfect.

Even the meaning of the staple may be very unclear: at work I print everything stapled, because I set it as a default in my print settings. If for some reason I realize I don't want it, it's actually easier for me to remove it than to go back to my desk to print another copy after changing the setting and go back to the printer.
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I understand doing it accidentally or as a side-effect of hard-to-fix dysfunction, but it boggles my mind that they were fully explicit and self-aware and intentional about creating a process where you couldn't succeed without being an asshole. What a terrible place!
> It reduced the bias in the system from ICs writing up their own packets, which disadvantaged poor writers and poor self-promoters less. It got employees thinking less about promotion, since there was less they could control or do.

I agree that this seems positive, but you lose some things with this sort of change as well. ICs often have knowledge of their own performance that their managers don't, even when you're having highly effective 1-on-1s. You definitely don't want engineers spending huge amounts of time and energy selling themselves, but you probably do want them to at least a little bit!
>then we need to find someone who owns an Onyx that has asked Onyx to comply with the GPL and provide source, and showing that they refused to do so.

That's in the link I provided.

Unfortunately, there isn't an automatic enforcement mechanism for cross-border GPL violations. There aren't lawyers waiting in the wings to file lawsuits on behalf of hackers who want to own their device. There isn't a framework for reporting these violations to any higher authority to advocate for us. I wish it were the case, but it's not.
I think you are mostly wrong about this.

Newer programming languages (the ones from 10 years ago like Go and Rust) are much better than the ones from 30 years ago like Java and Ruby. This doesn’t mean that they should be used for everything but especially the simplicity of Go is always putting a smile on my face whenever I can use it. Compare that to Gradle Maven Spring Boot whatever Java stack - there goes your unnecessary complexity.

What you also have to understand is that many of the things you complain about are solving non-technical problems. Monorepos are great at breaking up silos between teams and enabling vertical development of features across the stack in an organization. They come with added complexity in terms of tooling and automation needed. It’s a trade of that might look bad if you only take the tech aspects of it into account.

Kubernetes in the cloud and its sister systems may look more complicated to you as a developer, but if you compare it to managing a physical data center including all the staff needed to operate and maintain it, it’s really much more simple especially when dealing with hardware failures, dynamic scaling etc.
I don't agree with this "multiplication table" idea. Octaves have the same physical distance between notes on the page in traditional notation, so they can be identified at a glance. People typically do not read octaves by deciphering the bottom note, deciphering the top note, and saying "ah, this is an octave".
I second using the screenshot tool in Firefox. PNGs can be embedded into PDFs more or less as-is, so a PDF made from a PNG is generally only just slightly larger.

Anything other than that and you will loose some formatting.
3% is still super low historically. Let's wait and see how the economy actually reacts to the rising rates. Back in 2019, the Fed got cold feet and started lowering rates after hitting ~2.5%. The amount of money in the system is also unprecedented. Judging by the reverse repo rate, people are sitting on $2T with nothing to do with it. Maybe higher interest rates will bring that down, but inflation looks like it will remain high for some time.
Cost-plus is supposed to be primarily for research and development, where the costs are highly variable to begin with.
Hmm, interesting, thanks! I'll try and fix that. Much apprecaited.
Hi, I work in an academic setting and I found datasette always interesting to publish datasets, but it is hard to host a python web application on institutional servers (would have to convince several people who would have to maintain this). Hosting static files is very easy - time to try datassete!
> Okay, because we haven’t actually touched on many of the reasons us pro-density folks think it’s a good thing: how do you suggest we reduce our emissions as much as we need to in the coming decades? Keeping in mind that a large proportion of emissions are from light-duty vehicles and heating/cooling buildings, both of which increase with lower densities.

Massive projects to resettle people in urban areas or dramatically extend public transit networks will take many decades to break even from a carbon emissions standpoint. It's much faster (and far more politically tenable) to electrify as much transportation (e.g., EVs) and heating/cooling as possible while moving our grid to clean energy.

> In any case, I don’t think everyone needs to live an urban life, I just think suburbia should get quite a lot more urban, and both cities and suburbs should be easier to get around without a car.

I mostly agree with this, although I think we can decouple density and walkability. My grievance was with folks who want to impose an urban lifestyle on everyone.
Let's say you're Lockheed and you have a 10B budget for X but you have a contract that lets you go over. What's to stop you from immediately placing 9B of that in rich pockets and trying to build the damn thing for 1B. After all there's no incentive to actually deliver for the 10B so asking for another 5B - bringing the total actual effort to 2B (see what I did there).
I didn't mean scalability in terms of performance, but scalability in terms of maintenance effort. It's easy to SCP some files in, but the moment you want atomic deployments, it gets unnecessarily interesting.
re 'auditory fine structure', humans probably use this stuff too. check out 1970s work by smith etc on 'chimeric sounds', a study mixing low-frequency temporal envelope + high-frequency signal content from different speakers. humans apparently use one part for speech, the other for pitch + location.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2268248/

sciam article hints at low harmonics mattering more to finches; some birds produce low harmonics via the 'pulse tone register', i.e. a mixing property of the dual syrinx. this is why birds sometimes sound like they've been run through an 8-bit encoder
>First off, most of this funding will go to a building.

Gross.
And the hall way is still shit! This app has so menny bugs. They can never leve things the same and let people just use the app.
Not in nature, no. But in socialization and culturally trained roles, yes.
I am looking on those other, more traditional sites as well, and junior-level embedded jobs (without moving to California or China) are still far less common.
So perhaps acetaminophen (Tylenol) is responsible for the increasing political divide in the USA and in the world? People literally care less about each other because their empathy is being blunted. How long does the effect last? Days at least if I remember previous reports correctly. There are a LOT of people using acetaminophen often. If the effect lasted a week would just one pill a week make you a less caring person? This seems like it could be a really big deal.
It supports voice as well at this price - I use it with Linphone to receive and place calls plus I was also able to setup a forward rule where any calls to voip.ms numbers will be forwarded to my cellphone. Edit: you are right though that plenty of providers reject it as being a voip number.
Thanks. I was mostly wondering how comfortable "Hacker News" is exposing it publicly... going on zero experience and just gut feeling I put it at about the same level as RDP.
Every push to the repo will create a new derivative work and reset the clock. If you don't pay, then your ten years old code will enter the public domain, but I would gladly agree to let anyone do whatever they want with my ten years old code if it meant better copyright laws.
Where are the comments in his code? :-)
Is this really any different from other social interactions? We all have different selves we present to our families, coworkers, social club associates, exercise groups, bar buddies, significant others. Your comment seems to imply that there's a binary "real person" and "Twitter person", and it's never been that simple. We wear many hats and many faces. All social interaction is compartmentalized.
I was about to mention HTML::Mason, which was superior to many other templating solutions back then.

The biggest problem for Perl was that PHP was almost built for the web, while Perl was "just a normal programming language."

I wonder where Perl would have been if there had been a packaged and easy to install version of Apache with Perl, mod_perl, HTML::Mason etc. pre-installed in some way in late 90s.
If you think the problem can only be solved by management attention, and you cannot demonstrate to your management that the problem is impactful enough that it deserves their attention, either you are incapable of making a clear enough argument to focus on the right problem, or the problem isn't actually as dire as you think it is (or management is bad and wrong, or at the very least mismatches your values).

Two of these are a signal that perhaps you shouldn't be promoted. The third is a signal that you should leave.

In a less generic sense, I think that there are almost always ways to improve incentive structures and encourage people to focus on specific problems that don't directly involve SVPs. Your manager has some control over your rating. If you can argue that "customer happiness" should be a priority and as part of that, end to end bug triage time will impact ratings, you have successfully created an incentive structure that will reward that, without involving anyone who can modify compensation structure.
I'd argue they are far from some of the smartest people in the world. Smart? Sure, some (many?) but I've known quite a few idiots in software. But I'd hardly compare the regular software engineer at a FAANG to some of the geniuses in the world.

But they put up with it because it's a career and not a job. Many of them couldn't handle a minimum wage or working class job. No breaks, short lunches, no wriggle room for life, permanent fast-tracks to firing.
At first I thought the “missing” line in the middle of each stave would help me. My myopia, astigmatism and nystagmus make traditional notation incredibly difficult to read, on top of its inherent complexity. The “missing” line actually clarifies the top and bottom two lines. However, the multiple positions notes can sit relative to a line, and the seemingly arbitrary number of optional lines make this system completely unworkable, for me.
> Presumably the bidder eats the loss at first but what happens when they run out of appetite? Does the project just... end?

That's why these contracts go to large companies, as opposed to small ones.

If a small company loses interest in finishing a fixed-cost project, they might go bankrupt, and leave the government up crap creek without a paddle.

If a big company loses interest, they'll keep struggling along, because they can get hit with the stick of 'you'll never get another contract from us ever again.'
The schedule of rate increases had already been announced. Given that a less aggressive schedule was unlikely given inflation, there was a possibility of a more aggressive schedule. I think the market is reacting to that.
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Hasn't Yodlee been doing this way longer than Plaid? They are (or at least were) the backbone for mint.com
I clicked the link ready to read and then feel critical about a criticism of meritocracy, but found the exact opposite. This makes me realize that promotion in the current state of tech and likely other types of businesses is pretty far removed from merit. Great article, and it's sad that business has made it necessary to point out that doing a good job and being awesome are the most important parts of promoting employees. There's a lot of fat to be trimmed in organizational structures, I would hypothesize.
Looks super cool. What kind of NLP?
> there's automatic approval of overruns.

That is not quite correct. Cost-plus specifies how charges are priced, it does not specify budgets.

I could sell you pencils at cost-plus. How many pencils you buy is up to you, not I.
The 50bp bump was telegraphed and the forward guidance seems to be consistent with what the Fed has been saying for a while, so I’d be skeptical (as, frankly, I usually am) of the usual simple causal narrative between the concrete event and the same day market movement.
> You'd need to find a way to expose it to the Internet

This can be tricky if you're stuck behind a CGNAT, which is becoming more common. I maintain a list of solutions to this problem here:

https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
Gotcha. I was asking because we just got a new set of blinds that are decidedly not motorized. I think I've seen some third party motors you can add though.
> once we touch a page it becomes committed – it can't be uncommitted again because the OS doesn't know how the stack is used.

I wonder if this could be solved by the code itself. Every so often tell the OS that you don't need all of the stack pages that are currently unused.

Of course getting the "every so often" right to avoid a huge slowdown in edge cases isn't easy.
>Insurance companies are in a much better place to price this insurance than NASA

Is that really a thing? The risks of adverse selection and moral hazards would seem insurmountable.
I think this is the biggest thing here. User credentials need to be protected and hopefully this type of open-market approach brings about more democratization of data.
Ah, it looks like the firewall rules need to be copied to each host separately. That's not a dealbreaker, but not as easy to deploy as having them managed centrally (by the lighthouse, I guess?).
Thank you for the detailed response! It’s the sort of project I find intriguing, so I’ll have to do a little more digging. May end up being beyond me though.

Edit: I see that Marathon does make several watches with the 2824 (which would presumably simplify the process).
All new construction in California has to have solar panels. So the long term end game is set.
Eat less. Eat better. Breathe better.
what is wrong with this thread….
i would like a friend who is comfortable being vulnerable with me and viceversa.Idk how social media provides that.
Docker and Tailscale are all you need. I have all my services in single docker-compose yaml.
On the subject of IP-KVMs, I miss¹ something that I can plug on the USB of several computers, and access them by the bare serial interface, without messing with video capture and peripheral emulation. It would be something much simpler than the things available today, even requiring less wires.

The main issue I see with it is that it would need to connect to multiple host USBs and only one client.

1 - I actually don't miss it anymore because I'm not in a situation to use it, but I used to miss it.
My grandma has a mechanical watch she only wears on sundays - to the church. Whenever I was visiting her she asks me to wind it up for her before the mass. She uses this same watch for over 30 years with minimal maintenance, and it's not an expansive brand, just a good noname watch.
More high-level Zigbee compatibility site: https://zigbee.blakadder.com
I don't make this comparison lightly but I'm reminded of Leonardo DaVinci. How much talent does one need to create something like this? It's not enough to be just 'good' at engineering, design, watchmaking, and writing... you have to be amazing at it ALL of it. AND have motivation to do it.

I'm just in awe.
Welcome to ML.
> If all that isn't enough to stop the problem, then the problem lies elsewhere in society.

That is what they're researching: how to stop people from harming themselves, others, and society by smoking.

Tobacco companies can't market directly to children, but they have been working around it in many ways for decades. The latest method is vaping.

Science and policy are not "one and done". We need to know if past policies were mistakes, and we need to adapt new policies to changes in tactics by bad actors.
"I think you very much can say that "at the boundaries, applications are procedural" (i.e., they do side-effecting things sequentially)."

You may be able to; I can't. I have a number of incoming event streams that are not necessarily ordered.

Now, like I said, you don't implement all code everywhere for all possible missteps, so you may have specific apps that get away with assuming orderedness. But it is not a general thing you can rely on.
> Bezos Earth Fund

I assume this is to clean up all the trash Amazon sells?
You'd still have a copy of the database on any device that was running the client.
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Not in this case as commercial crew has two providers. So if Boeing doesn’t do the work, they just won’t be paid, and SpaceX will get more flights (and this is exactly what has happened). If this keeps going indefinitely, NASA will on-board a new partner besides Boeing, such as SNC’s Dream Chaser (other potential options include Blue Origin, who eventually want to build an orbital crew vehicle, and even technically Lockheed Martin who own the plans to Orion and are allowed to bid it commercially).
Yes, even 10M for 100 Univ's and make Stanford one of them and then give more to which ever Univ makes most progress to the cause. One would think he would know how to hedge his money across since he is a VC.
That is the case in most of Europe as well (under SEPA Direct Debit), and has been for many years now.

I've not had to dispute an ACH debit yet, but at least at most German banks, it's literally a single click and the money is back in your account – up to 8 weeks after the payment (any reason, no questions asked), and up to 13 months in case of fraud ("no mandate").
SQL tables/crappy code and my sad face.
In general, I would like to see money and decisions moved as local as possible; however, doing so can have some obvious efficiency and collective action problems. As the other poster refers to, slicing the pie on shared/interdependent resources also is a challenge.
This is breathtaking, couldn't stop reading until finished. It'll be my go-to example of the best possible educational material.
Netflix Targeted with Lawsuit Alleging Securities Fraud After Subscriber Miss
I'd had trouble canceling a Planet Fitness membership in the past. There would always be some excuse like the manager who processes cancellations was out, etc.

Last time I brought some muscle: my 6 foot 4 son with terrible acne and a friend of the family who hasn't had a shower in years. It was all too clear that we'd be crowding the front desk until I got satisfaction and we experienced 0% bullshit.
wait, is the 200 million just for the building, or for the entire facility (new equipment, etc)? Building a new facility in itself seems a worthwhile enterprise - though as a postdoc myself I'd rather have pay bumps for the postdocs :)