skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some of them will make you literally call them up to cancel.

This should be illegal. If you can easily sign up online, it should be possible to cancel online just as easily.
Second this — Heroku pg is the main reason I've stayed with them, paying $$$/month to host my service. If Fly (or Render) can match the seamlessness of that experience, that'll be where I host next.
But that was after an embargo period of 12 months, during which a journal could paywall it. This forces immediate availability, which is a good thing.
> they generally have an actual problem to solve, rather than "solve N-Queens." Some companies (Dropbox comes to mind) have coding tests, but they're async, and they also aren't convoluted Leetcode problems.

I applied to Dropbox some years ago, and the coding test was an NP-hard problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectangle_packing
> Despite all of its shortcomings, Wikipedia has been a relatively successful model. It is decentralized with an army of volunteers that try to stick to reliable sources. It leverages the fact that honest participants greatly outnumber malicious ones.

Also probably because the honest participants have a good reputation.
> They do this using their monopsony power (they will buy all the fab capacity at TSMC and/or Samsung, and well before competition is aiming to do so either).

It's not just buying power - Apple pays billions of dollars yearly to TSMC for R&D work itself. These nodes literally would not exist on the timelines they do without Apple writing big fat checks for blue-sky R&D, unless there's another big customer who would be willing to step up and play sugar-daddy.

Most of the other potential candidates either own their own fabs (intel, samsung, TI, etc), are working on stuff that doesn't really need cutting-edge nodes (TI, Asmedia, Renesas, etc), or simply lack the scale of production to ever make it work (NVIDIA, AMD, etc). Apple is unique in that they hit all three: fabless, cutting-edge, massive-scale, plus they're willing to pay a premium to not just secure access but to actually fund development of the nodes from scratch.

It would be a very interesting alt-history if Apple had not done this - TSMC 7nm would probably have been on timelines similar to Intel 10nm, AMD wouldn't have access to a node with absurd cache density and vastly superior efficiency compared to the alternatives (Intel 14nm was still a better-than-market node, compared to the GF/Samsung alternatives in 2019!), etc. I think AMD almost certainly goes under in this timeline, without Zen2/Zen3/Zen3D having huge caches and Rome making a huge splash in the server market, and without TSMC styling on GF so badly that GF leaves the market and lets AMD out of the WSA, Zen2 probably would have been on a failing GF 7nm node with much lower cache density, and would just have been far less impressive.

AMD of course did a ton of work too, they came up with the interconnect and the topology, but it still rather directly owes its continued existence to Apple and those big fat R&D check. You can't have AMD building efficient, scalable cache monsters (CPU and GPU) without TSMC being 2 nodes ahead of market on cache density and 1 node ahead of the market on efficiency. And they wouldn't have been there without Apple writing a blank check for node R&D.
I'd love to live in a country where moves like this are considered populist pandering.
Holy shit, y'all weren't kidding. That Algolia task would be many thousands of dollars of work at agencies I've worked at, and I'd expect $1-2k even bidding as a freelancer (yes, just for a mockup of this size and complexity, not prod-ready). That's so far beyond reasonable, it can no longer even see its border.

Also, WTF is this about?:

> Important: Do not fork this repository to create your assignment. Doing so will wake a bot that prints out your code, immediately sends it to the shredder, and archives your application in our applicant tracking system. And anyway we’d rather give everyone an equal shot to show us what they can do.

They want you to host it on GH Pages later on in the instructions, so what's the point of this restriction?
By spending 1 minute seaching Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NZMMTKW
Plus minivan is way easier to park. I almost rammed somebody's fence with the rear end of the truck when I first drove a Nissan Navara.
Grants are only in the millions in certain fields. But more than that, $10K per paper, budgeted for 2-3 papers a year in a 3-5 year grant across all the NIH grants, is a lot of taxpayer money that could be better spent funding students, postdocs, and researchers.
There’s no such thing as a ‘realistic engineering take-home test’. When will we admit tests are not only unrealistic, but an utterly useless predictor of…anything?
As a candidate, I vastly prefer a take-home to live whiteboarding or pairing. That background sensation of being observed and evaluated greatly interferes with my ability to concentrate and perform at my best.

(I'll note that I have no problem pairing in real-world work scenarios! I love discussing problems with my team. It's the artificial pressure injected by the interview process that really gets to me)
I think that’s part of the problem. They have no good plan on how to monetize them which is a problem. Instead of fixing that problem they just threw the baby out with the bath water.

Removing the free tier signals they can’t compete so they decided to remove something that only costs them money. Removing the free tier might even be a good/right decision, given their circumstances. What I am saying is removing the free tier appears to be them giving up on Heroku. It’s not like I’ve ever heard of someone migrating TO Heroku, especially not with their prices (and what you get for it). $25/mo per 512MB dyno? That’s just insane.

So if they aren’t trying to court new developers and they aren’t compelling as a PaaS to new customers then it seems the only place they can go is down. The lack of investment in the platform has already caused them to shed developers and today’s news will only accelerate that. All that’s left are people who are using it with Salesforce’s other products. Maybe that’s enough to make plenty of money but the Heroku we all knew (and some of us loved) seems to be gone, and that’s sad.
Another vote for cronometer, it's a lot snappier and less bloated than MFP, which I feel is crippled with ads etc.

I considered paying for the gold for cronometer, but 9.50 a month was a little expensive for me, in the same ballpark as something like Spotify or Netflix.
Your interpretation also seems reasonable to me.

I would say that "utilitarian calculus" in the second level represents possible disagreements over what the best calculus is, like "is measuring QALYs a good idea or should we measure something else?". I think "we should put a lot of thought into figuring out which methods are more/most effective" is in the first level, but the specific conclusion you reach through that thought is in the second level.
True, but the goal is to fight patent trolls or non practicing entities. Not take on legitimate cases of patent infringement against Oracle or Intel or Apple
Wonderful!! This will save $billions in US universities (at least) and speed research around the world.
It's a chicken and egg situation though. Both spouses "have" to work because both spouses started working. It should be no surprise that if you nearly double the labor pool that labor devalues and household income is split between the laborers.
This amp goes to 11 (https://youtu.be/KOO5S4vxi0o)
Tags would work nice, you can easily filter in and out. Select multiple tags to see the intersection. Like in https://lobste.rs/
> Humans are fundamentally solitary. That is our nature

This quote is getting lots of criticism but if you think about it , then you will realize it’s true.

Humans are capable of a wide spectrum of social emotions but 99.9999% of interactions are small talk and collaborations based on an already established pattern and procedure.

We are extremely lonely because although we are surrounded by 8 billion beings like us we only get to unlock the really cool stuff with about a dozen of them (after we spent thousands of hours in their company)
> Last month, five people had to be rescued after a pod of orcas attacked and sank their sailboat off the coast of Portugal. As the boat took on water, they deployed a life raft and were picked up by a nearby fishing vessel, writes Raffaella Ciccarelli for 9News.

> ...

> Conservationists urge the public not to view these incidents as malicious. "They are not attacks, they are interactions, that is, killer whales detect a foreign object that enters their lives and respond to its presence, but not in an aggressive way,” Alfredo López of Iberian Orca, a conservation group, tells Newsweek’s Robyn White.

Not that I necessarily blame the orcas here, but this framing is so bizarre and out of touch.

"Yes, they destroyed the boat and the people had to be rescued, but it's not aggressive."

When organizations use weasel words and spaghetti logic like this, they signal that they're not interested in arguing in good faith, and people start dismissing them out of hand.
Or just use the tools already on your computer.

www.passwordstore.org and stand up your own bare git repo.
IIRC, no, it doesn't. It redefines language-model scaling as a function of both training dataset size as well as number of parameters, as opposed to only the latter. Also, all predictions extrapolated from past experimental results are hypothetical, subject to future experimental verification. We don't yet have a body of theory good enough to trust those extrapolations.
joe rogan says awful things, and contributed to a lot of misinformation about a wide range of topics including neo nazi protests/transgender people/vaccines/pandemic... the list goes on and on. In general he gives a platform to a lot of people that say offensive/harmful/incorrect things and he does not challenge their actions or words but encourages it.
+1 for Fastmail.
DDG declared themselves part of the Ministry Of Truth earlier this year and I jumped ship immediately to brave search: https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318

I will have nothing to do with any of their products and no longer recommend them to others.
1. This is straight up <https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110310-00/?p=11...> and <https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050607-00/?p=35...>. Since the Chrome team probably have at least one team member who reads that blog, they'll probably do the same thing and make this the "the buck stops here" rule for anything that doesn't have special privileges, like the browser itself or extensions.

2. There should be a webext-exclusive API for placing items above the top layer.
Anything can be a creative practice once you learn that the rules that constrained it can be bent. Obviously there are areas where creativity will lead to massive explosions (which is how we know!) but programming, computers, art, hell even sitting in a toll booth can be creative endeavors. (Shout out to the fun folks working the booths at Universal Studios Orlando!)
Roundup / glyphosate may cause seizures in earthworms
My major criticism of living in the city is that everything is just really difficult. Sure, my apartment is only a 15 minute walk to the grocery store, and not a 10 minute drive, but it’s really damn hard to carry a big load of groceries for a mile. My apartment is on the third floor so moving any furniture in or any outdoor gear is a huge hassle. I have nowhere to store anything. I don’t have laundry in my unit. I have shitty heat in the winter. The building has mice. Oh, and this is in a nice part of an expensive city!
I want to generously overlook any particular words you used and totally disagree with your main point. :) I think that it’s a positive feature of threaded comments to spin off side discussions and minor corrections. In this case, the correction was wrong, but if it was right, I’d have appreciated it in addition to whatever else ended up being written by others.

What’s bad for discussion is when those receiving the reply feel attacked, as if the author of the minor point was implying that nothing else was worth discussing. I wish that neither parent nor child comment authors felt the urge to qualify and head off critical or clarifying responses.
I think this can be generalized into "use the method that works best with automated tooling".
We have separate accounts each, and an additional joint account. When salary arrives to either one of us, half of the sum goes to the joint account. The joint account money pays for the family and household expenses (mortgage, food, kids, etc.). The other half that's left is spent according to the consideration of whoever has it.
"can't Google for solutions"?

I will never understand the desire to handicap interviewees like that. I recently passed an live-coding interview in which I was asked to use an unfamiliar library; bc it was open-book I was able to look up its docs and use it to solve the problem. At one point I also hopped onto MDN to confirm a browser API. The ability to search and effectively leverage available resources is fundamental to our profession. Closed-book "pop quiz"-style puzzles -- where the surface area of the relevant material is unbelievably vast, and the relevance of the problem to the job's requisite skills is tenuous at best -- are highly
problematic.
How can ML models generate porn if they weren't trained on porn? It can't generate what it hasn't seen, right? So why are they training their models on porn?
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z-index: 999 !important;
top-layer: 999 !important;
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No actually, the problems they had are just that the US intelligence community needed relational databases. Keep in mind that this preceded the internet and online hotel bookings.
There are ways for students to side-step the problem (textbook resale, piracy, libraries), unfortunately lazier professors are using the textbook company homework websites as part of their grading metric.
The burden of proof is on the technologists, requiring them to release footage keeps them honest where human life is at stake.

It's not an unreasonable ask in those circumstances.
So last created layer wins the display? or can you indicate priority via css?
You don't understand what is being discussed here. The guidance was given to federal agencies to figure out how to make their research available publicly. There was no guidance given to publishers, they don't have to do anything. Read the memo. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/08-202...
You awarded 5 of them, or 3 of them?

If you're only paying the people you hire, that's not paying people for their time.

I mean sorry, but if you did a good job, we're going to make you an offer such that you won't need to quibble about $500. The entire difficult part is what you're asking from people you don't hire!
Unified Infrastructure and Application Code
You know its interesting you bring this up. My first internship out of college was with Colgate-Palmolive which from what I recall was one of the largest SAP users in the US at the time (early 2010s). I heard among the grapevine that it was a massive effort to change the whole company around to the "SAP" way of doing things and that competitors (like P&G I think?) attempted but failed to implement SAP and suffered due to it. I don't know if P&G eventually managed to convert to SAP and I often wondered if Colgate could have been run better without SAP?

It was so ingrained into their operations and personally I don't think they could attract the caliber of engineer required to implement an in house system better. The lack of good devs in the industry is a massive problem for companies like Colgate. You just won't get the FAANG caliber devs working for a toothpaste company unless you really go way above and beyond in compensation and even then that might still not be enough to get the numbers you need.

My guess is that SAP(or other ERP) is better than in house for a company that has no competitors that have successfully implemented in house. As soon as you have a competitor that can implement in house better (maybe Amazon compared to their competitors?) then the balance shifts and SAP becomes a liability more than an asset. Not sure, just brainstorming.

I left after a year because coming out of an engineering college with a CS degree doing some complex stuff and then having to writing reports in ABAP depressed me immensely and resulted in one of my worst productive years in my career. I was eventually not offered a full time position because I was so depressed that I just did not complete my projects towards the end of the internship. On a positive note, Colgate was very accommodating and they treated me extremely well when I was there. It worked out though as I am much happier today doing Angular/Python dev.
I think you may have misinterpreted how this works. We do not do any page or story or narrative level assessment or fact checking at all, or any fact checking for that matter.
Useful to who, and for what?
It is, if you're in California. It's the law.
I'm happy to pay the $15/month just to have the capability to have stuff shipped to my door overnight for free. There are months where I don't order anything at all. Compared to rent or food it's a drop in the bucket.
Ask HN: Why does macOS assume PC and PS/2 RTF encodings came from NeXT machines?
According to the RTF specification, \pc and \pca encodings specify the IBM 437 and IBM 850 code pages, respectively.

However, TextEdit and Pages both use the NeXT character set when rendering such files.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT_character_set

Example RTF code:

{\rtf1\pc\deff0
{\fonttbl\f0 Courier New;}
{\pard
\'c9\'cd\'cd\'cd\'cd\'bb \line
\'ba\~\~\~\~\'ba \line
\'ba\~\~\~\~\'ba \line
\'c8\'cd\'cd\'cd\'cd\'bc \line
\par}
}

This should create a box using curses-like line drawing characters. But on TextEdit and Pages, it does something else entirely using quotes and a superscript number 2.

Does anyone have any historical context?

Did NeXT machines do more word processing than IBM compatible machines at the time?

And why would this deviation from the standard continue today?
If Russia has more difficulty attacking countries around them, because they can't afford it economically, it would make many non-Western countries happy, too.
You are trying to apply a US-centric metric where it doesn't work. If you want research, you need to look elsewhere. Universities in Europe are usually for teaching and doing some broad research.

Highly specialized research on US levels is done at dedicated institutes like the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Fresenius, CERN, and many more in collaborative efforts on the EU level.
> I guess I shouldn't be surprised that Vox didn't highlight Oracle's CIA origins or its never-ending relationship with governments at all levels.

The reason is missing: There's a high likelihood that it was a sponsored article, at least inofficially. Some journalists love to write nice stories about companies - pre-dictated by those companies.

I don't have any specific insight here, but Vox aiming to be a "modern" media company seems to be an especially good candidate for such marketing.
Dall-E doesn’t have to generate Emma Watson:

https://i.imgur.com/4YHP5GI.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/vAIIhwF.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/HgIWb7C.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/nEQzPJm.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/WUxIefs.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/YEcGTk3.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/elnyzvF.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/KQH93nV.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/RLhmSDM.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/6UB9Mdc.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/W2JgDLa.jpg

MidJourney can trend (sorry) that way, though:

https://i.imgur.com/UVQBKoJ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/xxoJBoh.jpg

// all prompts by me, hallucinations by indicated
I have more experience with Go + interact with it more regularly at work, whereas choosing Rust was mostly for fun/exploration. I realized I don't have the bandwidth currently to learn/debug a new language I'm unfamiliar with, especially when I don't have strong requirements for memory-safety or performance. This is just a hobby project for me, so I'm moving to a standard network stack that I'm comfortable with in Go.

I'm not completely abandoning Rust, however, as I am still using it for some other personal projects. I am having a good time writing CLI tools + cargo package management/build system is incredible.
>I think everyone is too focused on technical prowess

>and will tell you nothing about quality of code delivered.

These statements seem a little contradictory or I'm misunderstanding the context.
Thanks for admitting that US-backed mujahedins[1] ended up as the evil the west was supposed to prevent from emerging. Try to guess how the history is going to rhyme with Ukraine this time.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/1993-independent-article-abo...
Yeah. I did some Internet sleuthing and found a potential contact for the Salesforce Open Source Program Office and reached out. We'll see if they get back.
I'm pretty sure the US doesn't need a revolution in the federal government subsidizing private business ventures. We've got more than enough of that already. The idea of federal funding being verboten in the corporate world is more akin to an ideal state, rather than one to be avoided.
excellent. i've been waiting for an M2 macbook pro
The genre is often referred to as “slice of life”.

I really love the ones that doesn’t have a “story” but just places you in a world with interesting characters.

Stories are overrated.
Repeat of the car market? I'm going to make a bunch of money off the old computers collecting dust here, and Apple's going to have to unlock support for new OSes on them, making all its money on services.
There are plenty of homes near grocery stores in the suburbs. Not every home, but plenty if that's important to you. Location, location, location.
Amazing, you can brush aside everything he said as "wrong" without providing any evidence or any sort of interesting argument whatsoever.

Not to mention your counter claim makes no sense and is far too broad. Which humans can't function outside of a society? All of them? For how long? For 10 milliseconds? What do you mean by "function"? What does it mean to be "outside of a society"?

The post makes perfect sense to anyone who is actually willing to understand it, rather than poorly attempt to nitpick at some aspect of it you hold near and dear to your heart.
Ex-herokai here. This post made me have feelings. I wrote them up on my blog: https://xeiaso.net/blog/rip-heroku
Im about to go down this path for fun with the saas template I’ve built for myself, but my concern is what am I going to screw up security-wise? Im not an expert by any stretch - I know the basics. I guess we’ll find out!

I just never worried about this with Heroku. I already use the paid tier there for some projects, but the writing seems to be on the wall, so I’m sampling the alternatives. Render is probably where I end up though.
Vim continues to run as the parent. When you exit the child shell, you're back in Vim!
Resume driven development. It's nothing new.
While what you're saying is generally true, one should also keep in mind that people (especially engineers) are extremely biased and tend to drastically overestimate the cost of mistakes.

Github Actions went down yesterday, disrupting the service for thousands of companies. They also went down today.

And yet, if they didn't have the "move fast" mindset, they probably wouldn't have Actions as a product in the first place.
If only Oracle put as much effort into their stock management
What about a take home test that should take 15min or less? Something not as simple as fizzbuzz but still takes < 15 lines of code?
https://animedb.jp/
Link to image:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cicero-Moraes/publicati...
So the whole Github is my resume can be gamed to look like I have contributed to high profile open source projects?
I hope this (White House Office of Science and Technology Policy guidance) is another nail in Elsevier's coffin.