skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in the 00s we put an easter egg into our mall kiosk wayfinding software. If you pulled up the software keyboard and typed in the name of the company it would show a card deck animation of our pictures. That was always fun to pull out. Used to have tons of them in the Westfield and Stockland malls across Oz. Wild to even think about how long ago that was.
Listen you don't tell people there are going to be layoffs. It's bad management.
> Waymo has remote workers who can provide information and directions to the self-driving vehicles.

And this tells you everything you need to know about the overall viability of self-driving cars. There's a human. There's always a human.

I've seen this in other "High quality AI" powered products too. One, for example, parsed the Twitter firehose for events that folks would pay to get notified about. But it had to be backed up by an entire call center worth of people - some of whom also monitored live feeds and others monitoring AI feeds - to make sure that the quality was acceptable.
Log videos you watch to discord using webhooks
It's a small project. It gives you random name and default webhook url don't forget to change it via popup menu.
I'm only now leaning of this phenomenon, and I'm absolutely floored that something like fractal wood burning has claimed the lives of 34 people (known), and there's a general laisse-faire attitude around it.

By itself this is close to the deadliest mass shootings in the history of the United States in terms of human casualties, even though the emotional impact is not the same.
I should add that Ed Fries, widely known for his role in the development of the Xbox and its impact on the console gaming market, has been repairing and reverse engineering old arcade cabinets in an effort to shed light on the earliest instances of many software engineering phenomena, including the earliest easter eggs. And his articles are a great read!

https://edfries.wordpress.com

Ed himself was responsible for at least a couple easter eggs in the earlier versions of Microsoft's Office applications. Here's more from him about that era in the industry:

https://rezmason.github.io/excel_97_egg/research/ed_fries_1_...
> Though you may just be asking somewhat rhetorically to probe for a response from a supporter

No, I was genuinely asking the question directly at the creator of the project, to understand their view of the contention they seem to be at the receiving end of.

I know the history of the project, but it seems to me like most languages in their pre 1.0 make claims about what they would like the language to be, not what it currently is, but they still don't receive their criticism in such manner. Or maybe I'm just reading into it too much. Hence the question :)
Student Data Reveals Sociodemographic Gaps in Procrastination Behavior
I would be surprised if any CEO would ever actually say there are layoffs until they happen.
Is there a difference when averaged out over time?
I would have made the kid do it
> As for merchant fraud, users are expected to establish business relationships with trustworthy vendors and hold them accountable themselves.

I’d just like to point out that a huge part of the reason credit cards are successful is that I can pay untrusted merchants with relatively low risk to myself. You are describing a massive drawback, bordering on deal breaker.
It's totally reasonable for an individual to say "it's not worth my time and effort to fix this, I'll just replace it." Taking a moral stand against repair-and-reuse in general is weird. Some people are on a budget where replacing even a $25 toaster is not a painless expense. Some people don't like producing unnecessary waste.

And throwing it away without replacing it punishes everyone in the house for the kid's mistake.
Any time I see it in practice, it always comes across as incredibly condescending and frequently flat-out wrong, because the person attempting to steelman has usually not done the work to understand everything that goes into the other position.

I prefer charitable interpretation (https://effectiviology.com/principle-of-charity/) which is a good platform for learning about the other's position, and potentially helping them strengthen their position for themselves.
From a methodology viewpoint this is interesting because they got data directly out of the usage logs of learning management systems.
Existing libs for JWTs and PKCE

Minimizing a credential stuffing attack requires detecting the attack and then adding captchas or other bot mitigation techniques.
I didn't know they had them in Australia too. It's a common chip flavor in Canada along with ketchup.

It's completely foreign to me too. I'm sure they're tasty, but I'm having trouble imagining what they would taste like.
That’s a poor comparison. Amazon spun off a cost center into a separate business, so that they could make a profit on infrastructure they already had to have for their core business. So even with zero customers “AWS” would still have to exist in some form for Amazon’s core business to function. That is completely different relationship than Meta’s core business and their VR initiatives.
I would agree that at a certain point there's a responsibility of Alphabet recommending videos that can literally cause viewers to accidentally kill themselves.
There actually is such a conspiracy. People who wrote these articles literally wrote they wanted V to die.

I'll make a detailed post about this next week.
The mineshaft gap!
Here is a hack for extremely fast grilled cheese.

Basic idea is to make the components separately:

1) toast two pieces of bread until they are dry and quite brown, this is important (to remove the water ) so that the bread does not heat up in the microwave

2) while it is toasting, cut up cheese for each slice, I use quarter inch thick 1“ x 2“ pieces, usually four per slice

3) after the bread is toasted, put them on a glass plate and butter them, then cover each with the slices of cheese

4) microwave 30s until the onset of melting

5) optional to add cold deli meat the sandwich after microwaving and combining

6) cut into fours and serve with optional dipping sauce

The dry toast and the melted cheese have a very good texture and taste and it takes about 3 minutes to make.

I make this for children often and add a bunch more cheese and meat so that four pieces of toast can be the main part of a simple lunch for 8 kids (each cut into quadrants).
but this is gobs of money that could be much better spent by the military

just off the top of my head:

- dramatic improvements in military IT (search for recent story "just give us new computers")

- more investments in unmanned combat systems

- just buy more of the things that work...numbers matter

etc etc
There's no electrocution risk with that?
Another example that came to my mind: Marjorie Taylor Green (US congress member).
The idea of audience capture appears to explain her rise perfectly:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/02/25/marjorie-t...
"I could have told them that wouldn't even work well"

I have no idea who you are, but IIRC that choice was made while Chris Lattner was still at Apple. I doubt that they could have made a better informed decision at the time.
Human settlements on the Moon will depend on answering two fundamental questions
That's one way to read it, but it might just be a related anecdote that the poster wanted to share. Without any explicit mention of blaming modern technology I don't think it's fair to make the assumption that the text is doing that.

Just because you respond to something doesn't mean you are either refuting it or agreeing with it.
I'm not sure I understand this. The Olympics certainly massively improved certain areas. Hackney Wick has went from a handful of warehouses and junkyards to having a brand new train station, lots of new apartment blocks, bars and restaurants. Stratford and the Olympic's area between it and Hackney Wick has also seen massive development. Expecting this development to come with stacks of council housing is unfortunately naive. London obviously has big issues when it comes to affordable housing but using that to discredit the huge amount of development that came about because of the Olympics is silly.
I am fine with that, you get compansated for the longer education period, you get 10 or 20 percent more than someone doing a cleaning job.
I'm not sure why that was ever an acceptable excuse. If you automate something and it gets people killed, where does the absolution come in, exactly?

"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment of Fantasia is quite illustrative about the dangers of automation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DX2yVucz24
Thank you for reminding me that viewers can't even vote down to try to inform others of how bad those videos are. YT's leadership needs to be replaced.
I think that is the point. The problem is, they're blowing up non deterministically.
"if their fair use claim is correct"

That clause is doing a lot of work here. You seem to be starting with an assumption that their claim is correct, but it's kind of a ridiculous assumption. Here are the usual categories of fair use, according to the US copyright office.

"criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research"

Which of these do you think describes Copilot? I say none. I also suspect that most people and most courts would say none. I don't think "arbitrary incorporation into other works without attribution" fits even a generous definition of fair use. Some might even recognize it as a definition of plagiarism. Can you make your case instead of assuming it?
Not to go too far with commercial promotion, but I'm pretty sure that in the US garlic distribution, especially the processed options, are dominated by Christopher Ranch in Northern California: https://christopherranch.com/products/
This article describes the first test as ending in a booster failure, but describes the problem here as the failure of the test asset to ignite. I would guess that the test asset is the hypersonic device itself.
I'm absolutely sure that's what I want. It would make my phone more useful.

For every 300 calls I get, maybe 1 isn't spam. I probably get 5 spam calls per day and under 10 legitimate calls per year.

There are so many simple things carriers could do. The biggest would be simply deleting silent voicemails would help a lot.

I kind of wish a company that actually cares about voice phone calls would come around. Give me the highest fidelity calls possible, give me features for recording, give me the option to block all non-authenticated callers, show me the actual call data and not just the caller id, etc...
Chasing Utopian Energy: How I Wasted 20 Years of My Life
> If you give me $100 today I can go out a buy $100 a pair of new shoes, and sell it for $70. Give me $200 and I'll go out and by two pairs of shoes and sell them for both $84 (total)!

Hilarious that you use the analogy of shoes. This is exactly the problem. Great explanation on this concept:

https://a16z.com/2015/05/15/a16z-podcast-why-saas-revenue-is...

> Grow profits every year by 30% and I'll be impressed.

Oh, you mean like Facebook did?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/277229/facebooks-annual-...
This plausibly might not be sarcasm O_o
There's a LOT more to this discussion.

SiFive claims they can fit a RV32E core into 13.5k gates, but to my knowledge, that's just the core itself without any of the IO, memory, etc.

A small 8051 implementation can be made in 2.7k gates with a lot of typical implementations using between 8 and 14k gates (but with a lot of proprietary features not actually in the spec).

Setting aside the question of power efficiency of 8-bit cores, the real question becomes one of instruction density as that determines the size of the storage and RAM (increasing these can have dramatic cost differences). To my knowledge, RV32E doesn't have a compressed instruction variant meaning every instruction is 32 bits long. 8051 instructions are between 8 and 24-bits long (generally, 8-bit for math, 16-bit for MOV, and 24-bit for immediates).

If you're working mostly on 8 or 16-bit data like a TON of MC work is, then I don't see how RV32E could have any advantage. If you're working with a lot of 32 or 64-bit data, then I can easily see a RV32E chip requiring less space for the same results.

A 16-bit only variant of RISC-V that repurposes the remaining 50% of the instruction space (used for marking 32 and 48-bit instructions) would be a much more interesting option here IMO.
LOL, we aren't even getting started yet!
> You don't provide a path forward, and only make fun of something that is true, inflation and the money printer are running rampant. As for taxing, wealth redistribution is a way forward.

No one's talking about printing money except you. Meme comments and other regurgitations will get the responses they deserve.

> Next time please think about what you write, your useless comments don't advance conversation.

LOL. If you were serious you'd have replied to the GGP.
maybe you're only using a disposable brand like Juul? You could go down to 3mg here in Canada with the one I used.

Picking a salt liquid at random, this one lets you go down to 1mg, since they probably add the nicotine to a 0mg product:

https://www.dashvapes.com/products/e-juice/24/grappleberry+i...
I think the highly aspirational nature of the claims about V upon its original launch are why it attracted so much scrutiny. It claimed to do a lot of things and didn't clearly separate things that might be delivered in the future from those that would be features present in the language today.

And, judging by the review linked upthread, as of last month this has remained the case. For this reason, I'm not surprised that the scrutiny continues.
Right. It's kinda hard to get upset about youtubes content and then claim it's up to the courts to decide, huh? ;)
> Would we be okay if they charged a $3 “moderation fee” on every upload to cover the cost of paying someone to watch the video and evaluate how it fits YouTube’s rules? The big creators wouldn’t care, but the small time videos would immediately stop being uploaded and competitor websites would become popular overnight.

That would actually be pretty ideal - most consumers watch YouTube for the bigger channels and popular content anyway, so they would stay on the platform, which would validate that revenue model. The smaller producers and consumers would both leave, which would help build competitors to YouTube. The big producers who remain will be slightly disincentivized to spam low-quality videos (including those text-to-speech automated ones that some people here have found). And, Google will have no excuse for not using humans to moderate videos anymore (can't cite "cost concerns" when you're literally pricing it in).

Seems like a win-win-win to me.
FYI if one human could manage 10 or 20 cars, that would still be a huge efficiency improvement over the current situation.
>Sounds like a lot of infra and related spend via taxes or muni debt for a tech outcome that’s a privacy and autonomy nightmare.

That unfortunately puts it right in line with every other tech-heavy thing taxpayers have have to pony up for this century.
XWayland “Rootfull” Changes Merged for Running a Complete Desktop Environment
> What if I also told you that memorising facts is not the same as learning?

It's interesting, I believe this but recently have come to a little bit of a modified conclusion. I might not fully grasp a particular concept, but the brain is clearly a very powerful generalizer. Feeding in facts, even if they aren't fully connected for you yet, can help your brain make that connection. I think the key is to not just accept that I will memorize x, y and z but that i will keep thinking about it as I ingest new data.
Am I missing something? It strikes me that 4% isn't exactly a large layoff; it's more within the realm of regular turnover and corporate strategy realignment.

> “As part of a continued planning process where we regularly assess our resourcing levels against our company priorities,” said the company in a statement to Waypoint, “we decided to realign some of our resources to better drive focus and support our long-term growth. This resulted in some hard decisions that impacted approximately 4% of all Unity workforce. We are grateful for the contributions of those leaving Unity and we are supporting them through this difficult transition.”

It's unfortunate, but normal. Is the discussion that it should not be normal?
As a rule of thumb never ever allow external access to your ci/cd tools. At least hide it behind a vpn if people work remotely.
That is the common thinking but perhaps you are all just wrong about that.
YouTube didn't introduce content moderation (apart from copyright, and flat out illegal material) because daddy government told them to.

They introduced moderation because companies threatened to pull advertising because they didn't want their brands plastered next to awful content.

YouTube totally has the right to leave plenty of dangerous or morally repugnant content up. But they don't have the right to other companies' advertising money if said companies jump ship.
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" called this out over 120 years ago.
It's disappointing how most of the articles and videos criticizing the dangerous content don't explain why exactly something is dangerous. They just scream "omg high voltage" "one mistake you're dead" and so on. I honestly think they are worse than the source; it reminds me of the medieval experimenters and alchemists being oppressed by the conformist public.
One way that I've seen attempted steelmaning go wrong is that the the inferential distance between the disputants is much larger than they think it is[1], leading to a false steelman that is actually a far less persuasive argument than the original would have been if the steelmanner had the background to understand the argument. As part of a dialogue this can be very useful as it can get the participants to realize they differ in foundational assumptions rather than just whatever they're talking about. But outside dialogue it can make the practice dangerous if you're not careful.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HLqWn5LASfhhArZ7w/expecting-...
This doesn’t really address the point. As I said above, yes cash and crypto have this same flaw, they are useless without the ability to trade it. What is a dollar good for? Wrapping a stick of gum? That was the point. True utility value.
Oh boy, this comment is all kinds of wrong.

Everything changed after 9/11. There is a permanent Flight-Restricted Zone above the capital now.
Just an idea, but what if direct financial support of the open source projects a company uses factored into raising a company's ESG score?
I'm not sure murder is the right crime here. Seems more passive like willfull neglect or something. Not a lawyer.
What evidence is there to prove this point? I consider their homing to be unfortunate but they do seem to be good faith players in the space
I am philosophically opposed to "Web 3.0" because I am philosophically opposed to cryptocurrency and do not believe it decentralizes anything.

Regardless of the follies of Wall Street, blockchains and smart contracts do not fix them. There is no particular reason why a DAO would not also cut worker wages to benefit the tokenholder class - it's the exact same structure as a corporation, just without the pesky regulation getting in the way. There is nothing about decentralized finance that guarantees that the employees are also tokenholders anymore than regular ol' brick-and-mortar capitalism guarantees that employees are also shareholders. If you want a worker's cooperative, you can start one right now without needing to buy Ethereum and develop a fragile smart contract.

DeFi isn't destroying power structures, nor is it making them less rigid. It's just a changing of the guard, from corporations and investors to anonymous "whales" and DAOs. This isn't actually decentralizing anything, it's just obfuscating how much the system has been corrupted.

As for open source and Free Software, well... their political opinions outside of hacker ethos are all over the map. The space is vaguely libertarian and vaguely leftist, which means there's plenty of people in the space who don't want more unregulated capitalism.

Your example about long distance calls is also wrong. Or, at least, missing some context. Skype was actually kind of late to the "cheap long-distance" party; the government had already done the hard work of breaking up the phone monopoly and ensuring that companies could place and terminate calls on other people's networks. This is because "permissionless" is not a capability, it is a policy. Even ostensibly permissionless blockchains could effectively become permissioned if miners and exchanges colluded in a way that made economic sense. I know this can happen because it's exactly the same thing that happened in Web 2.0.
The history is not dodgy. There was an attempt to make it so by overblown picky articles attacking a 0.1 language. I'm going to cover these next week.
It's not, you can "turn off" S&M and people will continue to pay you.

Subscription revenue isn't the same as revenue in other businesses.
Also, I couldn't find a way to preview a song to see whether it's one I want to buy. Searching for the song works, but when I press the play arrow to preview it, I'm prompted to join Apple Music. Canceling that prompt just returns to the search results, so there's no way to hear the song!
Haha, came here to post that song... Anyways, I still hear this every now and then (the sound, not the song) with my Ford C-max 2006 sound system and iPhone 12 mini, but nowhere near as often as back in the 90's and 00's. Back then I also had a separate vibrating module I'd put in my cell phone pocket (many pockets available at that time, Nokia 3210 did not vibrate), it would always vibrate before any ringtone (self programmed AirWulf) would start (of course).
I have most of my data in self-hosted systems, so there's no central authority to provide access if something happens to me. I've been pondering a system that could transfer control/release information to my wife if something happens to me.

One of the problems with secured paper storage of this sort of thing is keeping it updated. A lot of this stuff won't stay accurate forever. But obviously digital storage can be a huge risk.
> If someone is dying because of a video, the fix is not in removal of the video

It might not be 'the' fix but it could be 'a' fix. If your interest is preventing deaths that is.
Videos of Biden (speeches, etc) were regularly seeing abysmal like/dislike ratios, esp on official news channels like CNN. Then suddenly YouTube removed dislikes because of "dislike bombs". There was some speculation they were specifically pressured by someone (Biden or the media) to remove dislikes so their ratings would stop being negatively affected.

This is really silly because the theory assumes that A) Biden cares or even knows about people disliking YouTube videos of him and B) that CNN doesn't already receive preferential treatment from YouTube and couldn't just ask for an algorithmic boost regardless of how many likes/dislikes they have

Most likely it was because YouTube's own content (such as Rewind) was getting dislike bombed.
Just found my new hobby, learning V! Love the batteries included approach here. Kuddos :)
Like the Pershing IIs the US deployed in 1983. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pershing_II
This type of hostile response to a very valid question is why you are not changing the opinion of many users here on HN.

A leak is a valid concern, because it implies problems with memory management.

"We choose to not free some memory on purpose" can be a valid explanation , but needs more context.

You could be more persuasive by linking to the relevant code and explaining what memory it is and why you are leaking it.

Otherwise your responses just seem like deflection.