skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status/status/1549934141738651648

"We've received reports of users being unable to access Microsoft Teams or leverage any features. We're investigating the issue and further updates can be found in your Service Health Dashboard via TM402718."
I see. The dynamics are much more complicated than I, naively, thought.
I've done freelancing before at 4 days a week and loved it, and have generally negotiated into 4 day workweeks at various startups. Give a shout-out to your company if they're hiring ;)
If you want automatic archiving, check out https://irchiver.com/ for Windows. It runs on client-side so gets an archive from your point of view, i.e. including Facebook content and partially-filled out forms, etc.
Provably there's little that can be said about chess at large when it comes from opening to endgame. Heuristically speaking though matching moves against even a beginner is a very bad strategy for play, as a recent speedrun being done by GM Aman Hambleton on youtube has been showing.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUfF6l4A6Ks
My view on AI making the grade will be when someone creates a stand-alone AI entity that can teach me to speak a language just as well as a human native speaker could.

I don't think that exists yet. If it did, I imagine we'd be hearing about it.
Good question. It’s not clear why the US being a federation is important or valuable — it seems to be true for purely legacy reasons: that the states were already pseudo-independent colonies prior to 1776.
`pyinstaller --onefile <script.py> [secondscript.py] [...]`

Statically links all the dependencies and the Python interpreter. Other machine can just run the executable, no need to set up a venv+pip.

Of course the binary is huge, but IME it works. Unfortunately it can't cross-build, so you need a VM or multiple machines set up with the dev environment to run pyinstaller for each OS.
> What they add from vanilla Nix.

Flakes add a couple of things:

1. They ensure the version of nixpkgs used is 'locked': In pre-flake Nix, working with nixpkgs involved using channels. The channel more/less was a clone of some git repository. But, what revision is checked out may vary from machine to machine, since the channels may be updated at different times.

2. Flakes provide a consistent entry point to Nix code. In pre-flake Nix, there were different conventions, but you'd have to know the contents of a file named "default.nix" to know how to work with it. With "flake.nix", the file follows a specific schema, and has a standard way of working with it.

> What they take away.

There's added restrictions on purity. IIRC, stuff like fetchUrl needs to specify the checksum when using flakes.

> How they work.

In pre-flake Nix, you'd need to have certain channels installed to use some expressions (or to use a tool like Niv to avoid using system channels).

With flakes, pretty much once you've declared your inputs and declared the outputs of your nix code (what its packages, overlays, apps, etc. are), the Nix code used by the flake is otherwise the same.

> Why channels are unnecessary with flakes (once they're complete) as TFA implies.

Channels are an implicit per-user way that inputs are used in Nix code. Flakes need inputs to be declared.

> Why else I should care about them.

The CLI is much nicer. e.g. you can have "nix run github:<owner>/<repo>" and it fetches/builds/runs the repo, if it specifies a default app or default package. - Stuff like this is why I'd compare Nix to "like Docker, without containers".

> Are they just adding the equivalent of lockfiles to vanilla Nix? If so, why is that such a hard transition? My initial impression on reading about Nix, and I've read a lot, is that Nix already had lockfiles.

I think the tool Niv offered similar functionality as the input locking from Nix flakes. But, well, that's a community tool, and still doesn't imply a standard way of invoking a Nix file.

There was a lot of fuss over the big Nix 2.4 release, which had many changes since Nix 2.3. Some of the frustration was that the Nix 2.4 release made breaking changes to non-flake stuff which worked in Nix 2.3.

I used non-flake nix for some time before trying out flakes. I needn't have waited. It's initially a bit of boilerplate to copy-paste. But, I didn't have pain moving stuff to flakes, and flakes are neat.
>Right now, NIMBY tries to prevent taller buildings.

It's simple: eliminate NIMBYism. It only exists because local governments and laws allow it. Don't do that.
> At least when it was public

Thank you, I was thinking I imagined that that existed.

Backpedaling on transparency is the antithesis of leadership.

Is there a word for that? Sabotage? Maybe too dramatic, but if we're going to toss around terms like "world leader" maybe it's not.
the catch is that this is a shady technique employers use to avoid having to pay out accrued pto
Nope, cannot do waves, only calm water.
Ai generated TikTok could be almost like wire jacking humans.
Watch standing can be automated to a limited extent, which will allow minor reductions in crew costs. But vessels making long ocean voyages out of easy reach from shore will still need human crew members to conduct repairs and maintenance while underway. And no, if a ship breaks down in the middle of the Pacific Ocean it's not feasible to fly engineers out in a helicopter to effect repairs.
> Didn’t cable have a similar business model. Charge + Ads.

Still does. Both OG cable and the cable-for-cordcutters streaming TV offerings like Hulu with Live TV, YouTube TV, etc. (even if the latter doesn't happen to sell their own ads, they are still charging for access to ad-loaded streams.)
I hate to break it to you but most of society works those days.

I wouldn’t think too much of this, if it’s that important just find a new job. Remember - it’s not Slack anymore. It’s SalesForce.
Land value tax aligns incentives better. If property values go down because the place sucks, at least your tax bill drops in line with that.
Open source funding model license
This comment isn’t wise. It doesn’t hold generally. That being said, Salesforce does expect to increase profits and revenues and has stated it doesn’t anticipate problems with revenues.
pretty much every art I've ever drawn was influenced by things I've drawn previously. How is that different?
You are correct but that's not what anyone's discussing.

If I search for "food", the reasonable result would be to get images that represent food according to its actual proportions of real life. E.g. if Pizza is the most common food at 10% prevalence, 10% of the images should be pizza.

That's not what OpenAI are doing.

They are introducing crafted biases to create images that deliberately misrepresent what the world looks like, and instead represent what they believe the world ought to look like.

--

You also need some reason why diversity "of this" is important but not diversity "of that". Why is diversity of race and sex so critical, but not diversity of age, height, disability? Should a search for "basketball player" yield 1/2 able-bodied people and 1/2 wheelchair basketball players? Why?

Then try to answer where you came up with the categories you do want depicted. Why are the races what they are? Should "basketball player" include half whites and half black people? Or maybe split in 3, white/black/Asian? Why not Australian Aborigines, native Americans, or Persians - so we can divide into 6? If you don't add Indian people to your list then, is that racist against them? How did you decide what must be represented, in what proportions, and what's okay to leave out?
This is absolutely delightful.

The little blue "not quite an IMSAI" case is wonderful.

This looks a bit more approachable than the mini PDP-11 clone (which is beautiful) as far as a piece of electronic sculpture.

And I think it rates a bit higher on the "cool" scale than the innumerable Z80s that are floating around.

I don't know much about the 1802, though. I just never really studied it back in the day.

The supercapacitor is a great idea.
Yeah, so basically these places are propped up by tons of people willing to sacrifice their time and lives for some corporate execs to get rich. I'm not really sure what can be done about that, except to opt out for myself and choose a career for myself that's a better balance of compensation, working hours, etc.

If people are going to let their ego put them in a position to be taken advantage of, isn't that basically their own fault?
> Obviously, everybody wants more money/benefits/etc, respect, pleasant work conditions, etc.

This is non-obvious, to the extent that I don't think it's true. People are more than happy to not optimize work related things.

People want respect and to be treated like humans for the work they are doing. Not being a doctor doesn't mean you should be demeaned
> One way to organise it is to ask people how much tax they're willing to pay, from which the land value can be derived (as that's the real point of assessing land value for someone who isn't willing to sell that's the real order of things). However, if someone bids on the land for that price you must sell.

Some people have very strange misconceptions about LVT & Georgism.
In this particular instance though, a the summary judgement ruling is pretty much going to be what the whole case is about. A trial would be to determine the facts of the case, like "Did archive.org distribute copies of books?", and there's really no question about that. A summary judgement asks the question "Assume we did what the plaintiff says we did, do we have a right to do that anyway?". And that's really the only question this case will answer.
I worked for a non-tech manufacturing company that had holiday shutdown and 1-week summer shutdown (first week of august). It was my first real job out of college and I kinda assumed most companies were like that. Since leaving that place, I've been pretty crushed to find how rare this benefit is and can't believe I took it for granted.
Toilets are pretty efficient already and we have the airplane kind that use even less water. For California it might make a difference to pipe salt water for toilet use but that wouldn’t make sense around the Great Lakes.
Can you give me an example of a popular Go project that doesn't have any dependency on GitHub?
They’re under continuous incremental change. The problem is that infrastructure has momentum that lasts centuries. The infrastructure that works well is the infrastructure that people want to use and it’s the infrastructure that people want to invest in, and people make their living decisions around the current state.

US suburbs are often sprawled out enough that they aren’t really walkable. There’s a millennia of incremental changes that you’d have to make to an area like Phoenix to make it look anything like a walkable dense city.
Isn't it designed to be _just_ good enough to stop people using (and paying for) Slack instead?
The tax is still paid, just indirectly.

The only way to avoid it is to move to areas where land is valueless.

Why does a tailor on Saville Row in London charge $10k while the tailor in southern Italy charge $1k for a bespoke suit?

Land values and land rents: https://twitter.com/dieworkwear/status/1549648048426344448?s...
This is a good summary.

One other thing to note is that not all publishers are like the big 4-5. Many mid level and smaller publishers will sell libraries perpetual single use or sim use copies, sometimes after an embargo period.
How old are the tracks and the cars? Anecdotally, the streetcars in Dublin are quiet and don't make any sort of racket. Same for the (single, sad) streetcar in Atlanta.

Streetcars (and buses) work best on dedicated or semi-dedicated routes. The problem with their reliability, in the case you describe, is the cars that are creating the traffic.
Humans are smarter than you give them credit for. They will adapt with increasing skepticism. I don't see why this is a threat to democracy.
I don’t know Canada unfortunately. But maybe Windsor? EEs working as control engineers across the river in automotive while I was there could easily pull surgeon-level salaries in an area that has a cost of living a fraction below SV
Calls are working for us, but not text chat.
Normally this would be the part where I give an insightful commentary on the nature of fair use, the various carve-outs for libraries, the balance of rights, and so on... but I just got done having to torrent something I paid good money for so frankly screw the publishers.
Jealousy is a deep, natural instinct. There are tons of studies that show how various kinds of monkeys/apes will happily eat a piece of fruit or whatever, but if you give the monkey next to them a piece of candy instead, the first monkey will go ape shit and never eat the fruit again.

Many, many people think like this. I remember talking to a software engineer from MIT a while back, I don't even remember what we were talking about. But, I distinctly remember him expressing an attitude where someone else received something that he felt that he deserved, regardless of whether the other person deserved it also or not, and to him, this was just about the gravest injustice that he could imagine. He was like visibly angry clenching his teeth while talking about it. And it had nothing to do with whatever the thing was, hence why I can't remember it. To him it was a very deeply rooted idea of "fairness" defined in this sort of simple-minded, inflexible way. And he was ALL ABOUT removing the thing from the other person as opposed to trying to get compensated equally himself.
> The game is positive EV and the only reason that figure 1 doesn't make money is they wager less every time they will win and more every time they will lose.

But that's how investing in a stock works. It's not a weird anti-strategy they came up with. If you put money in and let it ride, it bounces around and you gain nothing.

And you gain nothing in part because they do focus on that single asset, with no diversification.

If it was +50% and -40% you'd lose money if you tried to do a normal investment, but you'd gain money if you rebalanced properly.

So I still think they're discussing some useful properties and scenarios, even if they don't make it clear that there are different types of expected outcome.

> Having a reserve/bankroll to recapitalize is key to winning any +EV game.

Not really. If it was +10% and -5% you wouldn't need to recapitalize ever.

> Otoh, if you knew it was oscillating around a mean, and not doing a random walk, you could always sell high and buy low

Notably, the strategy in the post does work for a random walk.
> I disagree. No planning has lead to many ghettos. The planning we've done here has avoided ghettos. I think the data is very clear on that.

Citation? Where is that? Where I live the planning regime was famously ineffectual in the '50s and '60s, and as a result it's far more livable than big cities that had more planning: https://www.economist.com/special-report/2021/12/07/the-big-...
https://4dayweek.io/ is a job board specifically for 4 day week jobs

(no affiliation)
There's two revelations here:

* big companies have entire teams (internal and consultants) advising them on large changes in the name of productivity, cost reduction, whatever. These teams contrive metrics, KPI, and correlations, between what they do and the success of the business. These teams are paid bonuses, promotions, etc., based on these metrics they themselves contrive.

* small companies blindly do what the big companies do because surely these big companies know what they're doing

And everyone suffers. Except the people who implement this stuff. They probably have celebrations.
When I buy a physical book, I can lend that book to a friend. I own the book.

When a library buys a physical book, they can loan that copy out to patrons. They own the physical book.

For over ten years now, libraries have taken a single physical book, scanned it and removed the book from circulation, and lent out a single ebook. This has been a common practice founded on an interpretation of fair use laws, which allow format shifting (recording a vhs to DVD, for example) and lending, and also copyright laws which explicitly mention the legality of digitizing books for accessibility reasons, to serve the visually impaired.

This "one physical book in storage equals one ebook" lending is the "controlled digital lending" the archive does, and is the issue at stake in this suit. Publishers argue that libraries should not be allowed to lend any ebook except those which they set a specific lending limit to- charging the library a fee every X number of checkouts or every X number of months.

This is obviously not how lending physical books works- the library can buy a hardcover and loan it out to patrons, repairing the spine and binding over and over, eventually moving it to a special collection for viewing on site when it's hundreds of years old and can't be handled.

As a seperate, and legally shaker issue, the internet archive created the "national emergency library" during the pandemic. The logic here was that nearly every library in the country was closed, there were within those libraries physical copies of these books that weren't being lent out, and so the same concept as controlled digital lending could apply. This move by the archive was signed onto and supported by thousands of libraries around the country, who agreed that their uncirculated physical copies could stand in for the extra copies checked out of the archives emergency library.

It's important to note the archive does not loan any book published in the last five years, period. This is a self imposed limitation that your neighborhood library does not work under, but it means that the "lost sales" publishers allege were not of new books. Nobody ever got screwed out of bestseller status because too many library patrons read their book, and that goes doubly so in this case.

All that said, the issue isn't whether the internet archive messed up with it's national emergency library. It's whether the whole concept of loaning a book is limited to printed copies, and thus ebooks must be repurchased by libraries ad nauseum-- or if libraries can keep a physical copy in a storage room and loan out a digital copy one at a time, exactly as they do now.

Bottom line, our libraries (and especially their ebook collections) will be much poorer if this decision goes to publishers.
for a global company it’s a bit weird to shut down for such a christian focused time of year. and a lot of roles can’t shut down. i’d rather get pto at my discretion
I have a local NAS not accessible off my LAN. I have a couple different folders.

I have accounts for family members to access and I manually copy stuff back and forth to Dropbox for things I need remotely.

One folder for documents that’s flat with all files prepended with the relevant date. This is everything from receipts for my car maintenance to passports to mortgages.

One folder for photos with a sub folder fir each year.

One folder for taxes with paystubs, filings, and all tax related docs.

One folder for videos with subs for movies, tv, and autotorrented.
Effectively, it means you have to ask current employees how much vacation you get.

The theory is you can "take what you need" so long as you're getting your work done. In practice, company culture of course dictates what's considered reasonable, and as best I can tell it is highly variable between companies.

At my "unlimited" place, it seems like 3 weeks is considered reasonable, especially if split up. But I know someone at another company who has had trouble getting more than a week for a couple years running.
Sydney; was able to join a call on my phone that someone requested me to join, but I cannot open the app on desktop at all.
everyone short GME is long AMC. AMC is just another distraction. plenty of studies on gme.fyi or /r/superstonk
Downloading as a PDF and viewing on a big modern tablet is a really enjoyable experience! Years ago PDFs just seemed to take too long to render each page, but now it's like flipping through an actual magazine. Probably been this way for a while, but I only really noticed today.

Page 24 though. Oof.
Funny seeing this here as I've been thinking a lot about text-based browsers lately. Just a couple days ago I tried to build this one from source, but I put it aside due to the dependencies on PCRE and a JavaScript engine. (I am running a hand-rolled Linux "distro" so I can't just install ready-made binary packages.)

I do really appreciate that this one uses libcurl on the backend. Surprisingly few browsers do this--Lynx, Links, and w3m all have their own networking code. They have bespoke HTML parsing and rendering as well. I'm lately thinking I want to see a text-mode browser that just glues together libcurl, curses, simple HTML rendering, and maybe an existing HTML parsing library. No text-based HTML rendering library exists that I'm aware of.

Also these classic text browsers have their own implementations of FTP, NNTP, and some other legacy cruft. I'm thinking most of this could easily be provided by libcurl (if at all).
And yet all over the world plenty of cities people rich and less rich ride public transit all the time in close quarters with one another.

Go ride the public transit in Paris, London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, just to name a few. Nobody bats an eye. It's just "normal"
So... give the benefit to everyone??
Damn! You just made me spit out my drink!

That's as flimsy a strawman as you could find.
How does HN have such ridiculous ideas of what other people are making? I had someone yesterday tell me that a mid-level marketing role at Stripe was pulling in 3-5M per year, and probably made 20M over their four years there.

An SVP is pulling down a base of $300-600k, and stock comp (option grants & RSU's) may be doubling or even tripling that but very few are getting 10-100x base. Maybe C-levels, but even then I'd wager more people can fit in a Boeing 777 than are seeing packages like that.
Jobs died 3 years prior to this.
Always move companies. There's always somewhere that'll do better for you.

My company gave us more holidays off, decided to add extra days off before and after holidays that typically land on weekends, unlimited PTO and a policy of encouraging you to take time off not shame you for using 1 day for a doctors appointment, and surprisingly unlike literally everywhere else I worked, they gave me an 8% raise to account for inflation.
> When I do try Nix people say “oh don’t do it that way, even though that’s what the docs say, now the way to do it is this new way.”

What were you trying to do such that the way the docs said to do it was wrong?
Scientists reveal origin of mammal evolution milestone: warm-bloodedness
> Some companies offer unlimited PTO. The catch is

...that unlimited PTO can't be accrued, and is usually still subject to approval to use like regular limited PTO, which makes it an easy mechanism for arbitrary favoritism by managers without the fallback that if your PTO isn't approved you at least keep and accrue your balance which can be used later in your career or cashed out, and which the company then has an incentive to allow.you to use to clear the liability from their balance sheet.
Show HN: A better way of version controlling IAC
I believe I've reached a point in my career, and used Terraform enough, that I can confidently say that the semver system for managing IAC code bases simply doesn't cut it anymore.

I'd love more widespread feedback on how I currently propose we version control our IAC. If the feedback is constructive and forthcoming, I'll move this written piece to a more formal location.

This is currently being tested, with extremely positive results, at Cisco (yeah, the networking company.)
yep! i just spun down that service and didn’t bother to use it again, i wanted something simpler.
Tech? I don't know why people strictly consider Google a tech company when its an advertising company and makes most of its money from that.