skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without clear boundaries around conduct many communities become toxic. In gaming (playing and related projects) for example it pushes out girls and women, or at least to hide their gender.

Forums have long had rules, spoken or unspoken. Making them more explicit is helpful IME.
Everything you said about gdpr is wrong.

Publishing one name publicly gives no explicit nor implicit consent to third parties to handle such data.

You absolutely have the right to change your mind, and company need to delete your data on demand.

Gdpr absolutely codify the process to obtain, update and delete data from third parties.

And Gdpr definitely do not care how much hard is to unpublished data.
Then there would be no article.
In the UK at least the quality of product on Amazon has plummeted and listings seem akin to Aliexpress.

I can't trust reviews, cases products have caused serve health issues and claims made by sellers can be wild with apparently little to no vetting from Amazon themselves.

I don't use Amazon for any food supplements anymore and usually go to the highstreet (Holland and Barret), they've a much stricter standard to accept products into their stores.

Lots of things are just rebrands offering little value except next day shipping at a much higher cost. Anything I don't need urgently gets purchased from eBay, usually a much lower price.
Monorepos have one go.mod file. Bazel or similar build systems optimized for monorepos usually are used.
eBay can be good but some of its "features" are infuriating and ultimately drive me to buy stuff elsewhere.

Multi-item listings is the worst thing they've ever done because they totally ruin search results.

Let's say you're searching for something like a box of 200 disposable gloves. You dutifully type in "200 gloves" or "100 pairs gloves", filter by "Buy it Now" and sort "Price Low to High".

Suddenly your search results are filled with dozens of pages of results all priced at $0.99. How could a box of 200 gloves be so cheap? Because it's not showing results for 200 gloves... it's showing you a multi-item listing which contains packs of gloves in several quantities. One option is indeed a pack of 200 gloves, but that's priced at $20. The $0.99 option is, in fact, a single pair of gloves, listed as a "Sample".

You can't exclude multi-item listings from the search results, so this leaves things very much open to exploitation by unscrupulous sellers.

This makes the search basically useless for anything which could be sold in multi-item listings. It makes eBay unusable for me whenever I'm buying anything except for unique, clearly-listed items.

Another point of frustration is that you can't filter by shipping speed. Some listings boast a "Fast and Free" label which indicates that the item will be delivered within three days, but you can't actually filter on this in the search results. So if you need an item quickly, you just have to manually sift through all the results for items labelled "Fast and Free".

If any developers from eBay happen to read this comment, I'm available for hire as your personal rage and frustration consultant.
Would you actually enjoy running such a company? Even if is's a success, a lot of the activities involved are fairly stressful, and not much fun.
Aw, man, so good! Nostalgia... One Must Fall 2097's menu music, who would have thought I'd dredge that one up from memory.
The reason is simple. It doesn’t impact Microsoft’s bottom line. Poor Linux performance will eventually annoy someone enough to fix it, and being open source they actually can fix it
Maybe take that one back to the drawing board.
It’s got some potential.
Discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31877772
One benefit of adopting a 1,500-year-old code of ethics is that it's probably not going to suddenly change on you.
I really like eBay, using it for more than 15 years I never had a problem.

But I really wish it has some features that Aliexpress has.

- Sort by order numbers aka how many times people bought the given item. This is immensely helpful on its own too but more sales have more reviews as well! So you can see more feedbacks.

- Photo reviews. This is the killer feature to me on Aliexpress. Chinese online retail has a negative rep but I think I bought less fake stuff on Aliexpress than from Amazon actually. Or at least you know you are buying a fake which I don’t mind in certain situations.
I am saying that no state’s attorney would ever choose prosecute such a case because no US jury would ever convict a doctor that saved a woman’s life by correcting an ectopic pregnancy. Prosecutors have discretion and would take in to account the circumstances. There is not a medical expert in the country who would testify that a ectopic pregnancy is a viable pregnancy that should be left alone to allow nature to take its course…so a conviction would be impossible.

Additionally, because the doctor and the patient are in an established doctor/patient relationship at that point, the doctor has a duty to act to provide the care that they are able to provide to save the mother. Failure to do so could make them legally liable for the mothers death.

Perhaps that is the difference between Poland and the US. Perhaps over in Poland there is not this duty to act and it is legally acceptable to let a patient die that you can save and juries and judges would accept that condition. Wouldn’t happen over here.
I agree, and Blade Runner is very dated (80s fashion and music). Alien on the other hand hasn’t aged a bit, and along 2001 and Star Wars really defined scifi movies. The same guy reinvented peplums with Gladiator, and war movies with Black Hawk Down. I think it’s enough to justify all the misses.

You can download IMDB’s database as flat files. It is interesting to see the evolution of imdb ratings over a director’s career. Some are remarkably stable like Woody Allen or Martin Scorsese. Some others falter like Brian de Palma. Ridley Scott has some ups and down but is fairly stable over a long career.
Life is between breaths. If you can always keep that to mind, whenever it ends, you have lived long enough..
As for The Question, I believe there is a fairly unambiguous answer...

http://www.gavinrothery.com/my-blog/2011/10/1/a-matter-of-el...
eBay has been great for maintaining old bikes. My hunch is that if someone is offering a used item, it's because the item exists, they have access to it, and want to get rid of it ASAP. There's less temptation to counterfeit something that maybe only one other person in the world might want.

I've also bought used industrial equipment on eBay, often for pennies on the dollar. Same deal.

For stuff that isn't second hand, I don't know what would prompt a seller to choose between eBay and Amazon, but it probably comes down to subtle differences between their fee structures and other policies.
> I assume many people have used it with no issue

This is also a dangerous assumption. If 95% of HN is outside of China, they'll have no issue with the website, but that validation is meaningless for the 5% behind the Great Firewall (percentages invented).

> Well if we think the site is a honeypot

That's not the logical assumption to make. A honeypot would have a valid certificate.

A broken certificate simply means either
a) the website you are visiting is misconfigured, or
b) a third party has intercepted your (possibly you, *personally*, and no-one else) communication with that website. You are not communicating with the website, you are communicating with the 3rd party. This might mean something as stupid as your ISP injecting ads into websites (a thing that happened before https was so prevalent), or it could mean a government-level actor with a more nefarious agenda.
Dogs and cows barely have rights. It will be a century before a computer program has rights.
I would ask your team what they want. But as a starting point, I’d suggest each team be completely self sufficient (ie not dependent on any other team), and whatever size that allows, do it. As a general rule it’s a manager and a few engineers. Some teams may need a designer, or a project manager, etc. Or for a time, teams may need to share a single designer or PM.

Most importantly, get regular feedback from the teams about what’s working, what’s not, and what they want to see changed.
> you handle payments,

Yeah, because obviously nobody handled any payment in 2005 … The same can be said for everything in your list.

And more importantly, it's unlikely that your business is more complex than what it used to be in 2005. And if you're spending more resource to deliver the same business value, you're wasting them. (That's why PHP is still ubiquitous btw, it sucks by most standards, but it's good enough to do business and that's what matters).
Of course he is.
Desirable for reasons independent of their density. You can't, as an example, replicate Manhattan in Upstate NY and expect people to flock there.
Do you have any public repos? Also, I did apply for the beta but I'm not sure if I was ever accepted, so maybe that is why I have the option. I've definitely never paid for anything though. https://i.imgur.com/KBRUSFa.png
I plug my P2715Q into a Dell dock which goes into my M1 MBA. The Dell dock is DisplayPort to the mini DP of the 2715. I get 4K at 60hz. I also use a Display Link as a second display when needed.
Memory safety for the world’s largest software project
Program it to be disagreeable, and you'll get a lot of help.
I couldn't get my M1 MBP that #dayjob supplied me to work with my dual monitors (1x USB-c -> 2x DP adapters), so I got them to issue me a Linux laptop. No problems.
> Lars Ulrich was right.

Which reminds me of this classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeKX2bNP7QM

In my case, I didn't buy CDs, but I did buy lots of singles. I was probably one of the earlier iTunes customers, and LimeWire and RantRadio were where I found my music.
At sufficient scale, the problems of a monorepo tend to be more of a fixed overhead cost whereas those same problems at scale in a multi-repo approach tend to impact all engineers across the company. The fixed overhead can be addressed by hiring a dedicated team to manage the monorepo problems.
> You don't have enough experience to comment, you are only commenting on what you believe to be true.

I moderated dozens of large subreddits, many defaults, until a few years ago.

I'd love to know what makes you more experienced. Perhaps some concrete evidence?
Sure, but if you're hiring people in a different role that does all of the ops work for developers, this isn't "devops". This is just "ops".
Fun tangent, I recently went to Rally's (a really hard to find burger joint around my parts). I rarely go so its always a treat with their shake/glorious fries.

Found they've completely replaced the order taker with a robot, with order signage saying "help train our robot".

No opt out, and you can't get to an employee unless it recognizes the word employee. Recording in progress.

The ADA non-compliant parts aside for people with voice related disabilities, its BS what companies are forcing people to do just to buy a burger. I'm not going back after that.
The Metaverse Is Already Here
The original OpenAI blog post[0] says:

> Crafting a diamond pickaxe requires a long and complicated sequence of subtasks. To make this task tractable, we reward agents for each item in the sequence.

but a lot of these steps are standard Advancements in the game anyway[1] which I think is fair to plug into the AI's reward signal.

There are two possible extensions to this research which I think would be interesting from both an AI and a game design perspective. The first is seeing if the AI could learn that unlocking new crafting recipes was an instrumental goal that correlates well with rewards, and seeing if this was enough for the AI to "complete" the game (given a few video examples of building a Nether portal and killing the Ender dragon, etc.)

A second extension would be to train an AI to describe what it is seeing in the game, and getting an AI like GPT-3 to describe which steps it should take to reach the next Advancement, then getting the AI to guess which in-game actions are most likely to implement those steps. That would be something like an internal monologue that a player has when setting themselves a game plan, and would benefit greatly from all the Minecraft guides (or equivalent knowledge) that presumably exist in GPT-3's brain somewhere.

[0] https://openai.com/blog/vpt/

[1] https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Advancement
Corporations have legal personhood. That doesn't mean "human" at all. "Legal" here means "not, but gets treatment like one anyway". Like "virtual".
There's so much wrong with this piece it's mind blowing.

I'm not sure where the author got the impression that the long tail promised sustainable income for long tail content creators - that was always antithetical to the concept.

But if we look at YouTube's 6.9 billion in revenue for Q1 '22 vs Netflix's 7.9 billion in Q1 '22 it sure looks like the long tail still has a seat at the table.

And it's about to explode.

The problem with the long tail was the expense of content generation.

We live in an age where long tail artists get paid to create VERY specific rule 34 erotic art for extremely unique fetishes - but it necessitates the desire for that art to exist to be greater than the threshold of the cost to create it.

But the eventual erotic allowed version of DALL-E 2 is going to make SO MUCH bizarre porn at the cost of cents.

The long tail is precisely the part of the curve that's going to be most impacted by the coming tsunami of change AI is going to bring.

Why hire a service that has a C-list celebrity leave a happy birthday greeting for a loved one at $500 (current long tail) when you can have voice synthesis create an identical sounding result from an AAA celebrity (or extremely niche favorite celebrity of your loved one) for $0.005?

The long tail hasn't failed. It's still doing pretty fantastic.

This article not only falsely predicts the death of the long tail, it fails to recognize that the long tail is about to hit puberty.
But it’s not ending civil rights? The legislature is still free to pass laws protecting abortion. All the heavily blue states that support abortion won’t see any change at all.
> But many (most?) single player experiences are just a pastime for me, as you say.

By this measure reading books would also just be a pastime? I see gaming more like an interactive story (especially singleplayer).
This sort of thing used to annoy me in my youth. But there is a lot of good stuff in there. These are directions on how YOU should live your life, so strike out as appropriate. SQLite is great and if pondering these rules helped, only a fool would avoid pondering them out of spite.
The author seems to be focused on low-quality reading, both in terms of the material itself and in terms of habits formed while giving the material the (scant) attention it deserves. He says we encounter almost half a million words daily. No one is giving that stuff a deep reading, or should.

The culprit is probably work. Think of how much of the typical office job involves ingesting low-quality information at high speed. The jobs aren't mentally taxing, but they do burn you out from serious reading, because of all the time wasted on peoples' shitty emails. You basically need to become a skimmer to survive modern life, especially if you work an office job, and there's a nonzero amount of mental effort in code switching from serious reading to half-assed work email reading.
> ...and you want to do it

That want, for some, takes root in their beliefs and faith. May sound ridiculous but many things do to anyone alien to it.
Yeah, Isao Tomita and Tangerine Dream come to mind. Contemporaries of Vangelis (the composer of the soundtrack of Blade Runner) from the 70's. Very similar vibe.

Jean Michel Jarre as well, though he had more of a beat. I like Morton Subotnick and the seminal album "Silver Apples of the Moon" it's more out there and experimental but it definitely it had a similar texture.
Base 13-Inch MacBook Pro with M2 Chip Has Significantly Slower SSD Speeds
I don't understand. Do you mean Americans are immigrating to China, given the trade imbalance?

Why does exporting come with the expectation of providing employment to countries who could not build competent industries. I am not anti-immigration, I am an immigrant myself, just trying to understand your argument.

I think economic immigration has nothing to do with trade imbalance, and all to do with quality of life. As an example, India may be exporting more to Greece, but there are many Indians who would rather live in Greece, and none in the other direction.
You seem to be confusing "sentient" with "motile".

Are non-motile animals sentient? Motile plants?
I'm not sure what their organization is exactly but a private company isn't allowed to force a religious test on employees. I think it doesn't apply to an open source project but I sure don't like it. It's exclusionary.
Great stuff. Thanks. Gotta love the data tape reels on the "home" computer.
> DevOps means Ops and Devs working hand in hand in a crossfunctional team.

Not sure how typical is my experience, but in my experience it always meant "ops is yet another task for the Devs".

Seems like this is a good interview question: "What does 'DevOps' specifically mean in your company?"
> I thought the same thing 10 years ago when I was spending years playing games and having fun. Now it feels like I wasted a colossal amount of time no matter how much fun it was at the time.

I don’t think you should blame yourself for ‘wasting’ that time. I’m sure past you would have considered it a waste to do what you do now.

There’s many things I may wanted to do differently, but I’d never actually do so since they brought me where I am now.
> What I don't get is when developers themselves are in favor of it

If you're comfortable with AWS and have built things as a software developer, it becomes clear very quickly. These things are intrinsically linked, and pretending they aren't is just kicking the can down the road until you have to solve some non-trivial problem.

There have been huge innovations and value-adds over the last 10+ years in cloud and serverless, yet everywhere I've worked that silos "DevOps" from devs has already baked in the culture that devs can just avoid knowing anything about AWS, that DevOps will be the gatekeepers, and that devs can just work within the "lowest common denominator" box of tooling that those gatekeepers think is appropriate. Meanwhile, infra costs are skyrocketing but it's all good because we're mostly "cloud agnostic."

I don't want to just be closing Jira tickets. I want to actually solve business problems well. And to do that, I don't want to be constrained to someone else's "box," throwing code over the wall to them, and hoping for the best.
I mean we could replace Deckard with a pizza delivery guy, or even a camera drone, and the story won't change a lot. Try changing Neo in Matrix, Dave on Space Odyssey. And there's nothing wrong, the main character is the spectator, which makes it a more deeply philosophical movie, the replicant captcha is performed on the viewer. "What's meaningful" the movie asks.
> a raspberry pi can pretty much serve 100k req. / second

I appreciate the sentiment, but my intuition says that number is too high. What would that look like? I can't picture nginx or haproxy serving up a static 'hello world' response at that volume on a Pi3.

And if you do anything with a slow-ish 3rd party API you're probably going to hit the TCP socket limit before you can respond to 100k/s.

Legitimately curious about whether my intuition is wrong. I don't have an unused Pi handy to test it myself.

Edit: It's possible you're citing https://levelup.gitconnected.com/serving-100k-requests-secon... ? Pretty interesting article in any case, especially this claim:

> This test pitted a native C++ server against a scripted Node.js one, so of course the outcome was given. Well, not really. If I run the same test using µWebSockets.js for Node.js, the numbers are a stable 75k req/sec (for cleartext). That’s still 8.5x that of Node.js with Fastify and just shy of 75% of µWebSockets itself.

Edit 2: Doing a bit more research and finding some other benchmarks online, it seems like 100k with µWebSockets is plausible. I recant my skepticism.
There were computers before the IBM PC you know :).
Hum. The reality is that almost every big budget movie today is targeted at a international teenage audience. And goes for the lowest common denominator across the US, Europe and Asia. That doesn’t leave much for originality and atmosphere. Superheros with cartoonish SFX and violence, violence and violence. And some occasional fart jokes. That’s pretty much it.
It matters to someone like me. The range of current Telsa's is just on the edge of what I need under normal conditions, which means that it falls short (fails) under worst case winter conditions. When I'm driving around to a few customer locations during a work day, I don't want to be wasting time sitting around waiting for my car to charge as that's time I don't get paid for. 747 miles range would mean it handles the worst days, and even handle the case of driving to a data center in another major city round trip. It's nice to finally see a company pushing the range envelope a bit further!
Yes - and it's also true for many DevOps people. Some would argue that's even true for many managers. It's just not a good idea if you want to get where these people where supposed to get you when you hired them.
haha, I've been in that situation myself. The replacement was born a couple of years ago, and I'm being forced to change her poop-filled diapers, teach her how to talk..
Take care that you don't glorify or support these blackhat endeavors. Otherwise the show itself may contribute to new harms.

And profiting from misery and suffering is reprehensible.
> As to your knowledge these claims about fructose and ethanol being "metabolic cousins" are false? Do you have any references for this?

Ethanol is metabolized ethanol->acetaldehyde->acetate->acetyl CoA whereas fructose is metabolized through the fructolysis pathway, which eventually enters glycolysis the same as other carbohydrates. All energy nutrients eventually end up at acetyl CoA and enter the citric acid cycle, but there is nothing uniquely similar about fructose and alcohol besides being metabolized only in the liver, which is also done for a lot of other nutrients from food. This is all in any basic undergrad biochemistry textbook. Short chain fats from fermented vegetable fiber in the gut for example are widely regarded as super healthy, and are also metabolized in the liver, and nobody says "vegetables are basically just alcohol without the buzz."

Lustig is just confused in my opinion, and he has a particular type of personality where conflicting evidence entrenches rather than weakens his confused opinion. I had some initial interest in learning more about his ideas before I actually met him at a conference (I am a PI researcher in this field) and found him to be arrogantly dismissive of any and all technical questions and criticisms, without trying to understand what people are saying.
People make the argument that unused RAM is wasted RAM.

I wonder if the same logic applies to CPUs.

Unused clock cycles is wasted CPU.
If you find yourself in Amsterdam, there’s an automat chain all over the city called Febo. I really like it.
That's a great video, thanks for posting it!