skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know one of the early execs and he is a total prick. In the early years they changed the driver pay to a new scheme and after all the drivers had already been paid they decided it was too much and tried to claw it all back from them. He was trying to figure out if they could sue the drivers to get it back.

Anecdotal of course, but that really soured me on the whole company and from what I can tell they still treat everyone like shit. Sort of par for the course for the companies exploiting the gig worker loophole.
I'm wondering how well Google is going to fare against the next wave of things like GPT-3, DALL-E, etc. The quality of content+link farms, comment spammers, etc, is going to continue to improve.
For iPhones I don’t quite understand the article. The only thing “made” in China is the battery. The phone is only assembled in China. But all the components are made outside of Chinas. Assembly is much easier to move than manufacturing the components.
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Nobody has yet to identify one of these in real life in North America. There have been multiple stories, but even reporters who have visited the purported sites cannot find these stations.

I don't doubt that China is up to some shenanigans around the world, but this particular dubious story is getting repeated over and over.
* According to Tex Texin, the first numeronym of this kind was "S12n", the electronic mail account name given to Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) employee Jan Scherpenhuizen by a system administrator because his surname was too long to be an account name. By 1985, colleagues who found Jan's name unpronounceable often referred to him verbally as "S12n" (ess-twelve-en).*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym
No, I'm very much talking about the Google models. From the original link:

"We have taken multiple steps to minimize these concerns, for example in internal trials, we apply input text prompt filtering, and output video content filtering. However, there are several important safety and ethical challenges remaining. Imagen Video and its frozen T5-XXL text encoder were trained on problematic data. While our internal testing suggest much of explicit and violent content can be filtered out, there still exists social biases and stereotypes which are challenging to detect and filter."
I know someone that doesn’t tell people they work at Apple. They say it’s a death blow to making new friends, always resulting in in the same “well, I don’t like Apple because” or “well I prefer Android because” conversations (or their inverse).

I thought they were exaggerating until they proved it to me, by letting me witness the train wreck, at a social gathering.
This is what my fever dreams look like. Maybe there's a correlation.
ok, all of that is fine and dandy but that's not what this is about. the subject of the article was worried about lead poisoning, probably from what they knew about lead solder. they were probably not eating the watch, or boiling it with mashed fruit, so I have a hard time believing that they went to the hospital because they believe they ingested heavy metals.
No, they were a design error introduced by the ANSI committee.
Any insight why they need so many clusters?
There's no telling that that money would be going to renewable research anyway. So why all of this concern? There is no imminent decision between the two. Those investors would not be spending the money on endeavors you care about. If it is a fraud, then let that money be wasted to prove the concept a fraud once and all. You should welcome that, as that would further your position in a definitive way before the public.
I feel like those folk weren't Happy so much as Blissfully Ignorant.
I think Jose does a pretty good job of explaining how the expect benefits of Types would or would not apply to Elixir.
I agree. For most CRUD applications, developers should mostly integrating off-the-shelf components, and not constantly be reinventing the wheel. The reason for that being, that customer value (and satisfaction) can be attained by delivering a usable product, and that is what pays the bills at the end of the day. Whether that product is implemented in Python or Elixir is often not visible.

On the other hand, if the task at hand requires a novel approach and using tools that are less frequently used, then that will also be justifiable. Are you developing something that only makes sense to run on the BEAM virtual machine? Go ahead and work with Erlang or Elixir.

Now a third category is programming for enjoyment. In that case you don't work with the constraints of profitability, and you can just have fun. And don't worry too much about Beating the Averages (http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html)
These "risks" only exist because people somehow came to believe they actually have control over their "likeness". They don't. They never had. It's an illusion. The only risk here is exposing this for the lie it is.

Maybe once it's trivially easy to copy someone else's "likeness", society will finally be able to accept it and evolve past it.
This is not even in the top ten criteria for selecting a doctor. If I find a doctor who knows what they are talking about, actually listens, and actually lets me make an appointment, I'm not walking away from that unicorn just because their front office has trouble with voicemail.
Boeing was a very very different company then. I’m bullish on blended wing body, but I would have much more confidence if it were Lockheed or someone emulating the SpaceX, rapid development cycles working on this.
Amen. BUT, be aware that the delivery assholes often hijack restaurants' online presence and put up fake phone numbers that go to the middleman, not the restaurant.
Ruby on Rails used to be one of the most popular ways of implementing MVC applications in the server. Has Ruby been hit by a similar fate?
If you aren't convinced that paper is the right choice, look at exit poll vs official tally studies for US presidential elections starting in 2000.

It turns out that the discrepancies are almost always in districts without paper trails, and always favor one party.

Unsurprisingly, the discrepancies favor the party that keeps blocking federal voting machine standards.
> paywall

I did not see that.

I saw one ad ("Sign in or register for email updates and this box won’t appear again. We’re grateful for your support.") but could read the entire article after dismissing it.

On subsequent pages I got a couple of similar dialogs but was able to read several articles.
So many places you can even pay online with "regular" Square or Shopify or Stripe
Salary negotiating leverage? The worst they feel the more likely they accept to be lowballed
Never was a big fan of the Dead, but I did have an opportunity to see them in concert once.

The Dead encouraged taping, and the last few row of the floor seats were reserved for it.

It was an interesting thing to see. The back few rows was a forest of microphone stands and microphones. This was no casual thing.

The other interesting thing was that the band did not talk to the audience. They walked on stage, started playing. Played a bit, paused, said "We'll be back" and took a break for intermission.

Then they returned, started playing and then walked off. I honestly can't say if they said "Thanks" to the crowd, or waved, or anything.

It was just their familiarity with their audience, and vice-a-versa. I guess none of that was really necessary.
Just out of curiosity, in your opinion what's the benefit of using a packed struct and all the generated bit fiddling compared to just a regular struct? Just better memory consumption?
Those new phones fail to connect with my hand because they're so huge. Is the audience sedentary or always in an automobile ? The 5 is my last Pixel most likely.

That's a non sequitur but I might as well contribute to the pile on somehow. But I hope I don't have an opportunity to test the 911 feature on this phone.
As you said, they can sell without Google for China and technically it's possible on other market (see Amazon Fire, Meta Quest) and widely used for embeddeds, thanks to open core OS. AppleOS device is by 3rd party strictly impossible.
I can imagine a person killing other people. I can draw a person killing other people. I can make a computer draw a person killing other people. In all three cases, zero people were harmed.
This is a complete fabrication. More people need to flag posts like this. It originated with some nobody from Poland on Twitter and the media took it and did what they love to do…keep you all panicked so you need them.

https://www.rferl.org/amp/russia-us-nuclear-test-ukraine/320...
Arthur Conan Doyle believed in fairies. Then those who believe in fusion are in good company.
> If I don't eat 2,5h before and after sleeping, would this be enough?

Some researchers think so, yes. I don't think anyone knows what is optimal. Research is ongoing.
It's not about the price YOU, the customer pay. It's about the scumbaggery that these lowlives perpetrate on restaurant owners. The best one is how they impersonate the restaurants online, hijacking their online presence and setting up fake numbers as the restaurants' own.

Never use food-delivery services. Not only are they scammers, but they (and this is first-hand observation) mess with, eat, or take your food into a public shitter.
A better question: why does a child need a smartphone?

I don’t want this to be a “back in my day” old man yells at cloud type of rant, but seriously, why?

What I’ve observed, often, is the child requests a smartphone because someone else at school has one, or the “cool kids” have them. Parents don’t want their children to be outcasts, so, they give in and buy the phone. The parents then have to contend with managing device time and trying to control conversations online. Many give up.

I have not observed anything good yet from giving children smartphones, honestly. The main benefit is parents can track and communicate with their children more easily, well, their are ‘dumb’ devices for that as well which are less harmful to a child's mental health.

Don’t get me wrong. The internet can be a wonderful place. There are some truly awesome ways people can learn and connect thanks to the web, but smartphones and social media for children are not one of those ways in my opinion. All i’ve seen from this combination is anxiety, depression and other negative effects.
Ask any company dependent on Ruby how its recruiting efforts are going.
This is clearly a matter of opinion. When you frame it as "providing search results of the internet" yeah sure it doesn't sound so bad. But there are things on the internet far more fucked up than anything I could imagine, let alone describe in such a specific way that a model could generate a picture of it.
Yeah, I suppose you're right. Ultimately in such a tracing effort I imagine they probably would encounter a bunch of telcos passing the buck until it gets to a dissolved overseas entity who cannot be held responsible for anything.
This is strange. Lately, I've had a number of people in different situations (especially at work) tell me of similar efforts pushing back on organized process or.. organized anything, including note-taking, task tracking and more. Is there some kind of attempt at a mental revolution here or is this some kind of response to people being overloaded and not wanting to carry the mental burden/weight/let it go?

I almost feel like this should not even be a topic. Using tools to help organize thoughts - why do we care if it helps people? - not all brains work the same. What is wrong about organizing one's thoughts and spending time doing so??

I can see the argument that one can get lost in a meta-loop of sorts, but that's probably true of anything when you take into account procrastination - or certain brain types - that are prone to loops. For some people loops feel good, right? I say this as somebody who is lightly on the spectrum.

Even the pushback against knowledge management as a practice is perplexing - there was a time where Peter Drucker, for example, thought knowledge work would someday be all there was left to do.

That said, I can't help but wonder if there really is something bigger/some kind of trend going on here and I can't quite put my finger on it. Is this something evolutionary? Are we trying to evolve/seek a better way as an organism?

Is anybody else seeing/feeling the same trend?
Too much “I” in this style.

“Bob, your SQL PRs tend to take longer than usual and I’ve noticed it is because of a few technical things in how the sql is written. I used to make similar mistakes. Can we review these patterns of issues tomorrow?”
While I actually do appreciate the importance of postal anonymity, the Zodiac Killer is maybe not the best example to select.
Their entire service IS delivery, so WTF is the "service" fee?

It's still an insulting rip-off.
The German government screwed up royally and it’s probably one of the only things trump got right when he said it was stupid to depend on Russian gas.

They should never have phased out nuclear power.
People have moved where food is and war is not.

Leaving the community you grew up in to live in a tiny rental home while your kid dodges junkies' used needles in the playground just so you cam afford to take a vacation in Aruba is a uniquely modern phenomenon.
I hope though there will be an ML product that can do a decent improvement in this space. Even small improvement there brings significant ROI.
Or a TicketMaster purchase.
Agreed that MJML is great, but I wouldn't call JSX a useless abstraction. Using JSX as a templating language for MJML has real benefits, like being able to use javascript directly in templates instead of having to remember handlebars/mustache/nunjucks/etc templating syntax.

And libraries like mjml-react make it really easy.

https://github.com/wix-incubator/mjml-react/
Google has done incredible work on basic machine learning research that has enabled other individuals and organizations to do amazing things. In terms of actually implementing new machine learning technology, they've pretty much hobbled themselves to the point of irrelevance. In some ways, it may be for the best that they've ensured that the future of machine learning will be written primarily by those who hold opposing views.
This looks interesting but I think I'll stick with MJML [1] for a while.

I can see that a few other people already brought up MJML so I hope I can have some value added but basically MJML is fanatical about making sure all their changes are supported on a very wide range of email clients. They have hundreds of contributors and 10k+ starts on Github all fixing bugs and compatibility. The project has 2000+ commits. Any new framework that comes out is going to have a lot of catching up to do.

When I use MJML I feel very confident my email will work on many different email clients. And even be responsive.

[1] https://mjml.io/
To be fair, California has cool nights and in LA you're likely opening all your windows in the summer/spring/fall evenings to cool off your house.

Rainy weeks are the worst for radon in our house because we keep everything closed 24/7. It reaches around 6.

But our yearly average is more like 1.9. It's probably still high enough that I'll do something about it eventually, but it's not high on my priority list.
My tv runs Android. My exercise bike runs Android. My DJI drone's controller runs Android.
>And it provides counterfeiting and fraud resistance, along with the ability to add detailed tracking to letters very cheaply.

Yes, this is what I was curious about.

(For non-Americans' benefit: All USPS shipping is tracked with barcodes, except for stamped mail. USPS offering this would benefit merchants who would be able to ship very small/thin items in envelopes with tracking, and people in general who want to be able to follow their stamped letters' progress.)
RFC: C++ Buffer Hardening
Stifling communication and censoring the internet happens in Kashmir, where 6 decades of cross border terrorism by Pakistan have made security situations a hell to maintain. The USA tacitly supports Pakistan and looks the other way when its funds are used for terrorism.

When you have a large part of population as riot hungry foreign funded troublemakers, to maintain peace, cutting off the internet in times of escalating situations is necessary evil.
I'm in the middle of a dedicated theater room project. We're doing 5 seats behind 4 seats, which is probably more than we'll likely use, but it does have the benefit of expected use will have people farther away from the side speakers.

Depending on the seating costs and budget and other things, I think it makes sense to go ahead and put seats around the sides... in case you end up having extra guests, they can sit in comfort, even if the audio isn't ideal.

On a small budget, you can do a lot with just two decent speakers rather than speakers built into an ultra thin flat panel. Thrift stores often have nice speakers that may not be visually pleasing but are likely to be aurally pleasing.
I feel like this is a dumb question. But how exactly does Durable Objects help you avoid replication and leadership election? I've read the high level overview of Durable Objects, but sadly, the answer isn't clicking for me...
would you ever do that?
It’s a great thing, it prevents war between two nuclear armed nations.
Designing a new iPhone that does everything the old one does slightly better has very little value added.

Being able to replace broken iPhone12s with new iPhone12s is real. An iPhone18XR on paper is just a piece of paper.
Honest question about step #3, there's a theory of YAGNI (you aren't going to need it) I feel going on here. Information overload/hoarding is not good either.

One thing I cannot shake is, there are things that I know I learned, but I can no longer remember. Without a prompt, a shred of something from the past - a note, a book, something - I often cannot recall it anymore.

People with brains that suffer from memory loss/recall issues/Alzheimer's/dementia/long term retention - etc. - how does doing #3 address that? I feel like maybe you don't need to look at it all the time, but couldn't having that around as a reference still be a prompt for you at some point later in your life, where maybe you can't just remember everything?
Dang! Back in early days of AppDynamics, the founder who started AppDynamics after working at CA got hit by CA lawsuit, which lasted for a while but eventually got settled. Similar allegations. it was highly unpleasant and detrimental to the IPO preps. Some of my colleagues from there went to Cribl and sure hope they aren't going to be impacted, but they likely will will.
It isn't obviously complete either, and definitely still has bugs. And there are significant changes on master that haven't made it into a release yet. I think it is more that the maintainer(s) no longer have a lot of time to put into it. Which is fine and understandable. Maybe eventually a fork will gain enough traction to take over, or maybe one of the alternatives will become more popular, or maybe the maintainer will come back, or pass it on to someone else.
Cool thing to think about, sure, but I can't put an empty barrel outside and have the sun fill it up with oil. If you know how to do this, please let me know.

Deep/shallow geothermal (and hydro, tidal, wave, wind, solar) have those pesky borders and politics to deal with when looking to harness them. One country can't arbitrarily go to some other country and harness their geothermal, erect solar panels or wind turbines, etc.

The parent posters were, extremely obviously, not having a discussion on where various energy sources originated from in a science sense, but the politics surrounding the trade of those resources.
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That was the theory on the eve of WW1, wasnt it?
Here's my simple (unix) note taking system: https://github.com/Aperocky/diaryman/blob/master/diaryman.sh

Whenever I type `diary` in the terminal, it opens vim on a text file that corresponds to today. All of the diary files are nicely ordered in directory structure that goes $DIARY_ROOT/$year/$month/$day.md

It worked very well for me over years.
> It seems like urban people just don't grok how anything works outside the city.

Earnest question: is it possible that the people asking were genuinely curious?

And a follow-up: why should they grok your lifestyle?

People have a thousand different things they need to deal with on a weekly basis. Having a full understanding of how someone who lives a hundred miles away probably isn't high on the list.

Every time I've traveled and it's come up that I'm from Seattle people tend to ask me the same things: where is Frasier's apartment, how many Starbucks are there really, and do we all throw fish or is it just for special occasions. A coworker from Texas gets asked if they own a horse.

I guess my underlying question is how is this anecdote relevant? Maybe I am misreading but it feels, to me, like you're just having a go at "those silly urbanites", which, if I'm right, seems unfair. Do you know how to get from Queen Anne to Columbia City on King County Metro?
It’s very cool to have so many moments that normally evaporate captured in audio recordings. Anyone know a compilation of good recordings? I’ve gone down the dead live videos youtube algo rabbit hole but I’d love a guide.
Yes, there are numerous micro benchmarks that demonstrate this. Python has improved in speed, but outside specific uses cases where a C based library performs the bulk of the computational lift, it certainly lags behind. This despite some much duplicate effort to create JIT compilers and performance tuned runtimes.
You're welcome. I'm one of those people who gets stuck on gathering information. I told my therapist I had 15 thousand bookmarks and her comment was "Why don't you just Google it?"
One basket = Higher Concentration Risk but better economies of scale
Multiple baskets = Higher Complexity Risk lower economies of scale
Well, it's not as if any of them were going to work on solar or wind power anyway, so what does it matter to you?
- dealing with C level abstractions in a very ergonomic way

- ability to import and use C libraries, no FFI or custom bindings required

- clear & logical distinctions between different pointer types and arrays

- allocators as a first class concept. this makes zig really safe because you can pass in test allocators that will report leaks etc.

If you enjoy hot takes and ancient memes, I made a talk about zig a couple of months ago where I lay out why I think it's The Chosen One to succeed C.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCmOfRcmkN0
LinkedIn is uniquely positioned to avoid site integrity issues because there is an honest to god source of truth - HR itself. Federate the data custody and allow company and employee to publish who is working where.
Indeed. It goes against everything the site claims to be about.
Anyone from Square, Stripe, or Shopify want to chime in on this?

I haven't had a problem finding Ruby devs, but I haven't had to hire in a couple of years.
Who is this intellectual class, that makes this organized assault? Can you name figureheads and their organizations?

" Not only do we have the truth on our side, ..." That sounds very extremist to me. I have my beliefs yet would never claim that the objective truth is on my side. In my opinion, it's also counter a scientific mindset and worldview.

What you are writing sounds a lot like Cultural Marxism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_th...

I don't know what is true or not, yet at least from the evidence presented in the wikipedia article, I see very little basis for your claims.