skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I didn't phrase my question very well. I didn't mean "system calls" as in kernel calls. I meant system libraries, i.e. Cocoa frameworks. Quartz. Homekit. That sort of thing.
You're right. After all these years (and even writing a book that had Elixir snippets in it) I had never seen a single example showing it was possible and did not know it could do it.

Well there you go, I guess the pattern is equivalent but incidental.
Because they said so:

Preventing Harmful Generations

We’ve limited the ability for DALL·E 2 to generate violent,
hate, or adult images. By removing the most explicit content
from the training data, we minimized DALL·E 2’s exposure to
these concepts. We also used advanced techniques to prevent
photorealistic generations of real individuals’ faces,
including those of public figures.
I've had about 20 years of experience with getting service at Apple Stores, both for myself and for clients, and I think your criticism is unfounded, vague, and frankly sounds made-up rather than being a serious evaluation.

Apple consistently scores at or near the top of the industry for its support and service.

Anecdotally, they have gone above and beyond what was required or expected, for me, many times, including helping out when products were out of warranty.
If you'd want to try again, I can recommend "Elixir in Action" [1].
It has a great introduction to the basics of OTP later on in the book. I understood it much better after reading that book that any other materials.

While the book is about Elixir (which is a BEAM language) the underlying OTP principles are the same. The book covers "basic" OTP before moving on to some abstractions that Elixir provides.

[1] https://www.manning.com/books/elixir-in-action-second-editio...
There are templates like SaaSPegasus for Django (costs $) that will do all of those for you. I'm sure there are open source ones of various quality.
I love the idea behind it.

Does this offer the same functionality as google cloud pubsub but using kafka instead?
OAuth2 is a suite of protocols and standards you can use to build an auth system from people who have been working on auth systems for a while. it isn't strictly designed for federated auth, and arguably is targeted at internal systems because there are so many parts are "you need a system that does this, but how is up to you"

OIDC builds on OAuth2 to fill in those gaps with prescribed details and add additional systems necessary for a workable federated auth system. it _should_ be possible to use it entirely provider-agnostic fashion, but in practice it's like any complex protocol with optional parts in that implementations have incorrect bits or idiosyncrasies (why does Azure's provider sometimes serve public keys it doesn't actually use to sign tokens in some modes? god only knows) and you'll probably only provide integrations for a subset of providers, not just let anyone with a discovery link show up and use it.
The weak attempt at justifying this move is telling and makes it very clear that this is political backlash in response to Musk going "off message".

I doubt the intent is to quiet Elon but most likely meant as a warning to other Plutocrats/CEOs to ensure they toe the line and stick to the script.
There's actually a lot to learn. Which you'd know if you had ever done any IT work supporting Macs.
I had to root my phone and install Magisk with the F-Droid module to get F-Droid to auto-update like Google Play does, though. That could be an issue that Android 12 resolves, but I won't be getting that update on this phone.
This article conviced me decide to research and possibly try using Dexedrine/Dextroamphetamine. Wish me the best! I always wanted to try a potentially powerful nootropic.
You don't need DALL-E 2 to make those photos, you can just download generic underwater photos from other people.

In fact how do you know DALL-E actually created them, and did just regurgitate some it was trained with?
This is for enterprises and companies to run their mac fleet. Not end-user customer support.
Disagree. This is a misconception junior devs often have... that you need to ask permission to do your job. (Not unless the boss is dysfunctional, in which case it's time to leave.)

Tests and refactoring should be done as part of every ticket and typically don't need to be explicitly called out. This naturally pushes "done" so you don't run out of tickets early.
How many of those React jobs include RSUs from privately owned companies? I would venture that approximately 100% of the COBOL jobs that's all cash compensation/salary.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31425298 for a response, since this is a duplicate. TL:DR; I had never seen it and had no idea it was possible because I don't recall seeing any documentation or post ever mentioning it! Ignorance on my part.
The vast majority of startups aren't doing anything remotely complex enough to be able to save money on electricity by paying for developers to write more efficient software. Or if they can - the instances are few and far between.

The vast majority of startups are also heavily cash-flow negative - so anything you do likely won't pay for itself.

It's almost always a bet on a rosy future.
Is DALL-E still invite-only?
I love it, sounds like the Swedish shops with no cashier https://mashable.com/article/swedish-store-cashiers
Has it been tried before? How were disputes managed?
I haven't had any issues finding docs via Google

e.g. "render postgres" or whatever specific thing I'm looking for

It's possible my google search is now biased because I've clicked on links for render?
Will this have any implications for f-droid?
I find the framing of the discussion errant and interestingly, errant due to the perspective of someone who clearly was not there at the time, let alone has any real context for when and where Google emerged. The problem Google had was not at all that the answers one would seek did not exist, it actually solve that problem better than all the other search engines that existed by finding more relevant and accurate answers.

What is often missed even by those who were around and paying attention in that context back then, is that most people were blinded by the "good enough" factor that rather mindlessly simply assumed that Google served up if not nearly, approaching perfect results ... that there was simply no better results available. A clear fallacy, as one could and especially today can prove on their own by simply taking some site and page with the most important or even niche information on a topic, and then trying to search Google for it. You will likely find that there is approaching no string of basic search terms that you can use to find that resource. Even if it is a page that is part of a major, mainstream site, it is immensely difficult to find information using general terms.

I would argue that all the censorship and corporatizing and centralizing of information and data has only amplified that problem even beyond the early days. As a life long user of Google search, even long before there were public discussions of what a google is and people still thought AOL is the internet, I feel like the peak of Google and search in general occurred some time around the mid aughts, so, 2003-2008.

I would love to hear from anyone with similar direct contextual knowledge.
So to the question of does the world need another search engine? I mean I think the fact that so many people think yes enough to both create new search engines and in some cases fund them, especially when google for a lot of people myself included really doesn't produce useful results outside of basic questions, is yes.

It also makes more sense if users aren't the product and you can have a business doing 10's-100's of millions in revenue based on serving some niche without having the be exploitative via subscription or some b2b offering you make. Google is so big it's almost a certainly they are more than suboptimal at a profitable enough niche. DuckDuckGo proved that with it's focus on privacy which is most certainly a niche and the 100million in revenue they do.

Personally I think there's a lot of B2B opportunity for a lot of this information where the search can be a multi billion dollar business just not on the backs of consumers.
Management doesn't write the KRs for the individual teams or people. If they are, they're engaged in something, it's just not OKR planning. Objectives and key results necessarily become less precise as you move up the org structure.

> Management tends to "refine" what they were handed up by reframing it to sound like what their boss wants to hear.

Sure, that always happens...but there's no system of management that is perfect. Humans gonna human. The only thing a system can do is make us aware of the biases of the people within it.
This is exactly what I do.

I'm looking for organic answers rather than the BS that the top websites google sends me to, and often I can find it on reddit.

I would say that 30% of my search queries end with site:reddit.com.
What Do You Think About Preprints?
In my experience the ING NL app also works perfectly fine on rooted devices. You can usually apply a working Magisk Hide plugin relatively easily for apps that don't support it.

I suspect that some banks use a whitelist rather than a blacklist for certain phones.
YT Premium is expensive. Much more expensive than users expect.

Most people underestimate the value of their attention. Youtube earned 7 billion USD in ad revenue last quarter.

The value of our attention is a shock to most people. I suspect that YouTube may actually be losing money (as compared to ad revenue), even at the $12 / month--a price many users find outrageous.

I am calling this the 'ad gap', which is difference between what an advertiser is willing to pay, and what the user is willing to pay to avoid the ad.

One way to look at it is that users are irrational. But it can also be seen as a testament to the effectiveness of advertising.
Just one of many reasons its easier to do business in the US
Pro-rated billing is one of the many places outside of database query planners where Dynamic Programming is useful! Maybe there's a better way to do it, but well, if you give a man a hammer.. I wrote up how we did this at Equipmentshare back in 2016: https://tech.davis-hansson.com/p/price-wars.html
> In theory, 1px is equal to a single dot in a computer monitor or phone screen.

Even in theory, this has never been true AFAIK. Pixels (px) are relative to the properties of the viewing device, the user's OS and browser settings, etc. The author appears to be confusing "physical pixel" with "logical pixel".
Gold standard here we come? As a store of value, you can at least use it. Crypto? Not at all.

As I understand it, coins were originally introduced as granary deposit tokens. Food is indeed intrinsically valuable. The rest is all faith.
Sure but that’s it. Disney really doesn’t have anything in terms of content, more in terms of IP
> I think the point was that they were declarative ...

> I'm deeply familiar with React

I'm not trying to be snarky here but... React is not declarative.

Though it's good you highlighted that as that is essentially the fundamental difference here: WPF/QT are declarative, CSS is declarative, UIKit is (mostly?) declarative, HTML is declarative(-ish). React components aren't.
Define "art".

Yesterday we had an article on Duchamp's urinal. The art world consensus, after that incident, seemed to be that what made it "art" was the intention of the artist. (Never mind that Duchamp's intent was to point out that non-art was the same as art...)

But if you accept the art world's definition, the AI doesn't have "intent". Since there is no artist's intent, does that make it non-art? Does the AI programmer's intent count for anything?
> "The user (me) has no way of controlling that."

That's rich: he lambasts people for poor typography and then blames the poor typography of his own blog on someone else. As if he had no choice in the matter. Like using a different blog platform. Or setting up his own website.
> This is dehumanizing, not polite.

Arguing about what's polite will never cease, and is not useful. What is polite varies significantly from person to person and culture to culture.

In my experience and observation of those who handle these problems well, the majority of them follow OP's advice. They do it very smoothly that I never noticed it until I was taught the pattern and started seeing it everywhere.

What OP is saying is basically:

1. Focus on the action/problem and not the person. If there's a pattern, focus on the pattern, but have concrete examples ("You're frequently late" is not a concrete example). Using "You" here is fine.

2. Don't just focus on the action, but on the impact. Why was his behavior a problem? So what if he didn't complete the work by 10am? It is this that is phrased without "you", because you're trying to explain how it impacts you, not him.

Very consistently I've found people who really dislike this advice are also very poor at articulating the impact. They'll refuse to speak of the impact it has on them, and will often make their case based on principles ("One should...", "It is expected...", "It is a societal norm...", "A good employee/professional should know...", "It should be obvious why submitting the work after the deadline is a problem, I shouldn't have to speak to it ..."). Sorry to trigger anyone, but such people are poor communicators.

I should know - I was one of them. Changing my mindset from arguing on principles to arguing about impact was quite significant.
To the SEO listicle sites those 100 bucks are pocket change. To the high quality blog, it's maybe a deal breaker.
Google lets personal users stay on ‘no-cost Legacy G Suite’ with custom domain
The whole economy is intertwined. This is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but if you can park risk-free capital somewhere which generates high interest, the opportunity costs of investing in tech become higher, so VCs stop investing. Also - you're committing money in a business with a higher risk of not returning them given the economic outlook of their customers and revenue. Tech isn't isolated from the world.
Bad idea, for a bunch of reasons, the largest being the fact that your "vetting" process is at best a very rough facsimile of reality.

Quick, iterative feedback is by far a superior approach when attempting to understand how to build a successful product.
I've worked at two companies in their payment systems. This post does a good job of mentioning many of the billing system challenges. I think it understates how difficult and important idempotency is to maintain at scale with multiple teams though.

Additionally, it didn't mention financial regulation changes. India had changes sometime in the last few years which required whole new systems built that were specific to India customers. One example of complexity is this: does the system apply to customers who are in India or does it apply to businesses who are in India (the owners might not be)?

He also did not mention fraud, which is basically uncollected spend that results in charge backs typically. If you get too many chargebacks, you'll get fined. If you get even more chargebacks, you'll get kicked off the card network and will no longer be able to accept cards within that network.

Post pay (customer gets the product and pays afterwards) models are subject to more fraud, uncollected charges, etc.

There's also the fun of dealing with downstream payment processors. I haven't worked with a processor or bank yet that was very reliable. Sometimes they'd return 500 http codes and then process a payment, requiring manual intervention. Sometimes that happens with files of payments because most banks deal with files for transactions.
Did Einstein believe Indians were stupid? (2018)
It helps to set up a supervision tree so one thing crashing and burning won't bring it all down.
I find it kind of hilarious how many domain names have been bought during these projects, renewing all that must be a full time job.

Suppose he'll just make a tinydomainmanager.com or something.
Privately owned companies don't give RSUs normally they do stock options or revenue sharing but yes your point is good.

Startups and public companies both seem to pay better base salary for modern tech developers and also give you equity or profit sharing. Whereas the government or government contractor companies that often stick with old tech (it seems) you'll only get cash.

Banks may be an exception since many do give stock or good bonuses. But I don't often see bank positions looking for COBOL developers.
That’s what I do as well.
> in many cases the true objective for people and/or teams is not something that can be mentioned without being unspeakably impolite

At the individual contributor level the manager is always pushing for “personal OKRs” too

And I’ve never been able to be honest or “authentic” about that

Nobody could ever explain if it was professional development goals, extra responsibility or goals within the company or coding project, or actual personal. Other ICs would be excited to write their actual personal.
Google's Russian subsidiary is headed for bankruptcy
Looks opinionated and sketchy, sorry.
It works for me, which browser are you using? Can you see the certificate?
Wouldn’t a proper Turing test be one where people knew some of the photos were artificial and were asked to figure out which ones they were?
I was very pleased to see the option on apps.google.com today. You just certify you’re a personal user and nothing will change. Maybe they try again to charge in a few year‘s time… but for now. All good.
I started my professional life ~25y ago with a side project that by 2022 led to roughly 50 more side projects — The vast majority failed, some turned into 200 employee businesses, some others got acquired. In essence, I make a living out of side projects. Side projects are life.
You mean documenting various options or commands? Like an inline —help? I like that idea…
I'm sorry to hear about your experience! It's really shitty to have applied so many times in a year and gotten nowhere. I can't help you out but for to encourage you that interviewing is always a numbers game. I find it depressing and have to apply to tons of companies and I'm not your age. My only trick is to take breaks when I need them and keep trying.
When I lived in an apartment building, a guy in the next building decided he wanted to learn to play the saxophone and practiced on his balcony everyday. I hate the advice "just start playing" :)
Does he have a page in Wikipedia?
And then TurboTax sues you into the ground.
Problem is that outside of Fly, somebody still has to do the system admin. Erlang (used in an web application context) won't manage itself no matter how well designed it is. Stuff like serverless is meant to completely outsource DevOps.
> I think the next real killer search application is going to figure out how to index and make that content searchable not an alternative take on searching web pages.

IMO Google got lucky that they were able to profit from this kind of valuable information being out in the open in the early days, before content producers wised up to it. I think the gates are increasingly closing shut, and TBH I hope it stays that way. No one should have the right to just take this kind of value without giving back equally. Ostensibly Google has been giving back by being an excellent search engine but this seems to be on the decline.
>makes it very clear that this is political backlash in response to Musk going "off message".

The G stands for governance, including: "Governance deals with a company’s leadership, executive pay, audits, internal controls, and shareholder rights"[0].

Do you think Tesla is a model there?

[0]https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/environmental-social-an...
I basically launch tiny projects full time, and have noticed that these have a power law to them. He'll mostly hit $0, with some occasional mid-hits as he has listed, but if he keeps at it I wouldn't be surprised to see one of the later projects make 10x as much as the best one now.
These parents would be happy living in Oceana, I guess. Their kids will build it.
You're annoyed with him because his target audience is only the United States?

Why stop at British people? I can't believe this guy didn't consider Japanese-speaking people! Why didn't OP make an article for Chinese people?! Wow, can you believe OP didn't make an article for every single possible person on the planet?

Honestly, you make a good point at the start but I don't understand your rage at the end there.
> In fact how do you know DALL-E actually created them, and did just regurgitate some it was trained with?

I think DALL-E is not released so researchers are unable to take it apart yet, but this question was already researched a lot in the context of other generative models and so far they really did generalise (assuming a well trained model, the can overfit).
> Additionally, it didn't mention financial regulation changes. India had changes sometime in the last few years which required whole new systems built that were specific to India customers. One example of complexity is this: does the system apply to customers who are in India or does it apply to businesses who are in India (the owners might not be)?

IIRC, I've read this is one of the reasons that systems like SAP are so popular. They might be an ugly monster from a technical perspective and seem overly complex, but they provide thoroughly tested implementations that handle all that stuff.
Hoping for the best is not how compliance works.
Interstate H-3
I wonder if google could even return to its heyday if it wanted. Even if they stopped playing dumb games with search there a alot more malicious actors whose entire career is to fuck up search results now.
Facebook is censoring a vintage recipe for homemade baby formula
Someone recently failed to get copyright registration in the US for a work that he claimed was entirely the work of a program and he had no relevant involvement - the copyright office said human participation was required.

And in reverse, I think a lot of "AI art" we get shown does have human participation - people do pick the prompts and often iterate on them and only show the interesting results.
This is a great way to be bankrupted by crypto currency miners.
"ESG" is like "BLM" in that most all of us agree with the ideas those words represent.

Of course, as organizations see the public associates value w/ those terms they co-opt them and slap them as a label on whatever product they want you to buy. Then all they have to do is some hand waving to convince you their product is associated and furthers the goals of the ideals we recognize in the terms.
M A R T H E: A REFERENDUM
Google is 24 years old. They track everything from email to searches to website behaviour across innumerable sites.

If they still need a feedback loop on their search results page, maybe they should hire some other guys to tweak their search engine!
I think this shows the inverse. DESPITE being a language with a long history, and a proven track record of dependability, they are continuing to add novel improvements. This release includes a new core bit of language syntax, and the expansion of the JIT which is a massive performance boost now on the two most important platforms.

Turns out you can have stability and innovation!
As someone who has written down probably 100's of little ideas over the years, and never built even a single one of them ... I applaud you
Oh, well that's totally on them then. Agreed; if you're gonna go pro with your setup, you've gotta be able to stage quickly.
Generative art using C++ printer commands and a receipt printer
New Relic is using Elixir?