skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's a reason Cloudflare doesn't allow large video files either - even though that probably counts even more as "web content".

And that's just as nonsensical. Bytes are bytes; the rationale should be based on bandwidth, not on arbitrary micromanagement of the format of the data consuming that bandwidth. If I encode that video in a giant self-contained blob of JavaScript that feeds the pixels into a canvas or something similarly ridiculous, does that magically fix the bandwidth issues?
Dimensions do not disappear after you cross the event horizon. In fact, for very very large black holes, you would most likely notice nothing as you crossed the event horizon (barring there being a huge accretion disk spinning around at a significant fraction of the speed of light and spewing X-rays). That's because it's so far away from the singularity that the gravitational field isn't strong enough yet to meaningfully distort space. But all paths at that point forward lead to the singularity.
Interestingly, at Google the typical developer workflow (google3) is very cloud native.

Most devs write code in VS code in the browser.
Many (most?) devs don't have a physical desktop any more, just a cloud VM.
The code lives in a network mounted filesystem containing a repository.
The repository is hosted remotely (everyone can see edits you make to any file nearly immediately).
Builds are done remotely with a shared object cache.
Tests typically run in the cloud (forge).

Facebook has similar infrastructure, although more pieces run locally (builds were mostly done on your VM circa 2020)

For my personal projects, I try to do most development on a cloud instance of some kind, collocated with the rest of the infrastructure.
well then why remove it on ipad/phone but not on desktop? make up your mind google
> they can't even have more than 2-3 checkout lanes open

Long lines at limited checkout lines is awful. Supermarkets do it because they don't want to hire more staff. Consumers notice it and will shop elsewhere... unless they live in a place where there are no nearby competing supermarkets.
Scam master's gonna scramble for a new job all too soon. Brrrroop - ante up, automate that fool.
But this forces architectures that may be problematic for certain use cases. Cookie cutter solutions will always end up getting bogged down with more and more options. And options for options.
Ask HN: Can I receive phone calls and messages online?
My mobile phone is broken. And it occurred to me, I don't really need a phone. If I could keep my number, but do calls/texts/voicemail from the computer/browser, that'd be great.

I know Twilio exists, and I've used it before, but their numbers cannot receive many 2FA messages (which is important, since SMS 2FA is often forced by companies/banks).

Any tips for achieving this? In Australia.
> Your morale issues aren't handled by your salary then you should simply leave.

If you're a "manager", morale issues on the team are your issues. This is basic, obvious stuff; if the manager isn't comfortable thinking about these things, maybe they should leave their job?

Again, if you don't like the way an employee works, you can order them to change it. If they don't, you can fire them. But you seem to be under the impression that "I'm the boss" is some kind of rational or moral argument and that employees need to feel a certain way about following your orders and realize that you were right all along. "I'm not threatening, I'm just convincing you with the argument that I'm the boss".
I think this article fundamentally misunderstands the core function of middle management. You can boil it down to 2 key tasks (on the front lines of a very large organization).

a) Interpreting: either top->down by explaining and enforcing corporate policy on hourly workers or bottom->up by ensuring workers enter data to be reported on correctly

b) "Encouraging": an employee calls in sick, again. Neither firing them or giving them the day off every time are desirable. The managers role is to "encourage" the performance and attendance (in one way or another)

Neither of these are low hanging fruit for automation or even middle hanging fruit for automation.

edit: I would also add that the comment "Union formation across the retail landscape will force corporations to reduce management head count" is backwards. From a management perspective, if labor gets rowdy you need more overseers to keep them in line. More union activity = more management headcount
Oddly optimistic article despite the title, but lol no. middle-management is like analogous for bureaucratic bloat and politicking. It’s been a punch line for decades that middle managers suck and don’t actually do much. This like saying AI will finally eliminate paperwork, dmv lines, or pointless meetings. The Inefficiencies are built in and Hierarchical structures of a traditional company Necessitate someone between the peons on the executives. AI isn’t going to somehow alter that.

Besides I want someone to be between me and my boss. An intermediary between me and the guy who can fire me at any moment.
No, I'm sorry, you haven't thought that through. Scientists don't research cancer simply because they're curious about "the truth about cancer"; they do it to cure cancer patients, because they think that's good. And despite how much "truth" they could discover by performing unethical experiments, ethics boards and the Hippocratic oath subordinate that goal to the broader ideas of medical ethics and what is "good."
Cupping is probably a better analogy. Also, there was a long stretch of time there where we didn't use leeches, at least in part due to the stigma associated with the older practice.
Anyone have a screen grab of what this actually looked like? All the articles reference a Tom Scott tweet which is deleted, so not very helpful.
That's interesting. It's like the "edge" in edge computing/caching is sort of a fractal developing over time. An edge becoming more and more tightly looped and furled, while topologically, the network stays the same shape.

It's market forces that are causing the edge to fractalize, pushing the computing and storage hardware closer to the customer, but only to a point. It may take a different market and different forces to push the edge to its end state.

I think centralized compute and storage could very well end up ceding some ground to private, redundant, locally networked dedicated computing/storage substrates, which might take increasingly smaller and more exotic forms. What an interesting time that would be!
EasyList is a txt file. If they can’t host it on CF, it means they can’t use CF for EasyList.

They didn’t ban the whole organization, but effectively told them to stop. I don’t see a difference.
100% agree.

https://replit.com is making progress on this. They've moved (almost) all dev tools to the cloud so you can just edit and run in the cloud.

My own project, GridWhale, goes one step further and provides a single, integrated cloud platform for development. Rather than writing separate programs for frontend and backend, you write a single program and the platform remotes the UI as appropriate. Here's a demo: https://gridwhale.medium.com/the-gridwhale-gui-system-55c449...
AI is going to replace neither and it's definitely not going to replace human-facing management work anytime soon. Reminder that we're decades and over a hundred billion into self-driving cars and they're a marginal phenomenon. If we'd listened to Andrew Ng we should have stopped training radiologists years ago. (haven't seen a lot of unemployed radiologists recently), and so on.

AI managers and lawyers replacing middle management is a good premise for a sci-fi story but not much else. Not to mention that the article focuses on retail. As long as Google uses middle managers I'm fairly certain ALDI will. They still use fax in Japan. If you want to talk about the pace of tech change in ordinary large business I'd take that as a reference point
Oh, I believe that - they are supercenters, and I that's especially true in rural communities. Walmart also has pure grocery stores (often much smaller). That's not the case with Target or the others. In the bay area, most the walmarts are not supercenters. I think maybe 2/12 or so are.
Nice work, that program is no joke.
The discussion on wikimedia phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273741
Well, that may be true with having to send the entire payload over a distance of space-time. However, if AI-based rendering could sufficiently predict the next frame, then you can just simulate the next frame without lag. Given it can predict enough frames in the future in relation to compute requirements, then all renders are local-only with "online synchronization" - at least, this will probably be how we do long-distance "calling" when we are a multi-solar system species; unless we find a way to break the speed of light limit. In a way everyone you talk to really would be a simulation; and they'd "sync" up to new data every so often for alignment.
It's one of the textbook definitions of a recession from a first year college economics course. That is, it's a standard definition of a recession.

For example, to quote the IMF:

"Most commentators and analysts use, as a practical definition of recession, two consecutive quarters of decline in a country’s real (inflation adjusted) gross domestic product (GDP)—the value of all goods and services a country produces (see “Back to Basics,” F&D, December 2008). Although this definition is a useful rule of thumb, it has drawbacks." (https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2009/03/pdf/basic...)

David Sacks points this issue out rather well.
The art is not destroyed or even damaged, since it was behind a perspex window.

But even if it had been destroyed, and even though I quite like Van Gogh, I'm not sure how much sleep I'd lose over it. There are 4 more of them, and when you get down to it it's a still life by an artist with a moving backstory rather than a peak of aesthetic achievement.

The loss of a species, which now happens so often that it's not really newsworthy, troubles me far more. To be sure, some species are tiny worms or bugs whose names I can't pronounce or remember, and whose ecological role I only dimly understand, as opposed to 'charismatic megafauna.' And statistically I know there would always be some level of species extinction going on even if humans weren't around. But with so much evidence of the ecological pressure created by humanity and industry in particular, the loss or damage of a cultural artifact seems like a very minor tragedy.
The author's point is that software consumption is fundamentally different from understanding of a machine. Just because there are thousands of SWEs being collectively paid billions of dollars to dump out enterprise code bases doesn't indicate understanding, simply that the skill is in demand. I'd honestly expect being somewhat tech illiterate is beneficial for a lot of these jobs, as it makes you care less about the decisions handed down from management
You can use the NaOH/CaO cycle to scrub carbon dioxide at atmospheric conditions and even regenerate the calcium carbonate with a (fairly cheap) methane + pure oxygen lime kiln (electric lime kilns are currently in testing).

I'm fact, as long as we still use mined limestone to feed kilns, one can just switch them over to burn with pure oxygen (possibly diluted with it's own exhaust to reduce flame temperatures) and get a pure CO₂/H₂O exhaust. Usage in construction partially reacts back to limestone using atmospheric CO₂.

The issue with plants is just that they are really inefficient compared to solar panels, to the point where scientists have some success feeding solar-industrial synthetic acetate to plants [0] and ending up substantially more efficient per solar-capturing area than outdoor plants.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31957068
Ten years ago at my first job I used to colorize photos professionally, seeing how this tedious process has been automated away brings me the same joy as when you automate a routine with a shell script.
We're seeing the drive to Internal Development Platforms and Platform Engineering teams who are charged with eliminating developer toil and creating golden paths (ironically coined by Spotify engineering)/paved roads to production as a response to the complexity inherent to modern apps and the modern app SDLC.

Not so much an abstraction over public cloud as it is an opinionated consolidation of DevOps, SRE and cloud engineering.
Make it a web request so they can get a user agent. block the impacting user agents.
For anyone who skips the intro and just goes to the results, this is what they see: https://imgur.com/tEK73e8

A suggestion: clean up the blog post's charts and headers to make it much, much more clear that what's being compared isn't python vs postgresml.
Python can be fast if you don't intentionally cripple it. Doing the following will be most likely a lot faster than postgresml:

- replace json (storing data as strings? really?) with a binary format like protobuf, or better yet parquet

- replace redis with duckdb for zero-copy reads

- replace pandas with polars for faster transformations

- use asynchronous, modern web framework for microservices like fastAPI

- Tune xgboost CPU resource usage with semaphores
The Arnhem Space Centre made three (sub-orbital) launches this year, so it's no longer a "proposed" site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnhem_Space_Centre
I don't think the author understands what middle management does.
But someone has to decide what metrics AI will use, how many cousins of upper management can be hired, that sort of thing, and that's where middle management is irreplaceable.
I'm not sure that anyone does.
They are literally kids, and managed to get global attention to an issue for the price of a can of soup and two tubes of glue. Pretty effective use of meager resources if you ask me.
The Town of Pullman
Matter[0], not sure why I thought emailing myself links was the most efficient way to organize things. Browser bookmarks lead to sync woes. Different iCloud accounts kept Safari’s reading list from being perfect. Less than 10k followers on Twitter and I end up reading a lot more articles that I save these days.

[0]: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/matter
Hard days that those interested in trying to DIY with an RPi or RPi0 just can't, that there's no parts available.

There's some various other boards we could possibly use. Few are small. Many lack CSI interfaces for attaching cameras. And then, for your outdoor use, ruggedizing is another huge leap.
Exactly this. What results from this field has the potential to be downright terrifying and dangerous on so many different dimensions.

Which is exactly why it should be studied, especially in a society where we still ostensibly have some semblance of respect for the individual.
exactly there is now not only a direction that you cannot go in, you can't detect it is not there any more. the analogy with time still fits. the only way through time is forward toward the singularity but it will take you forever to get there. the best you can do is stop and that would take an infinite amount of energy.
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That's a lot of wild claims and very little evidence or even analysis.
My favorite "natural" undecidable function is the the Post correspondence problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_correspondence_problem).

In short, imagine I give you a set of dominoes that have strings on the top and the bottom. E.g.:

D = { banan/b , 0/an, a/a } (Where 0 is the empty string.)

A solution is a sequence of dominoes selected from D with replacement such that the string made up of the tops and the bottoms are the same. In the case of D, the sequence:

[banan/b , 0/an, 0/an, a/a]

is a solution. Solvable(X) = 1 if there exists a non-trivial solution for X and = 0 if not. So Solvable(D) = 1.

Solvable(X) is undecidable. Like a lot of these kinds of problems, the proof is gross, but the basic intuition is that I can encode the compute history of a Turing machine in a set of dominoes so that there is a solution iff the machine halts.
The hubble image looks much more aesthetically pleasing, even though it clearly has less detail.
I did a similar thing (also with some ugly python) to generate the closest integer fraction approximations in increasing length:

3/1 = 3.0
22/7 = 3.142857142857143
311/99 = 3.1414141414141414
355/113 = 3.1415929203539825
99733/31746 = 3.1415926415926414
312689/99532 = 3.1415926536189365

The jump in length from 355/113 to the next one is quite noticeable, and it does not happen with other irrational numbers, such as e, which progress more smoothly:

8/3 = 2.6666666666666665
19/7 = 2.7142857142857144
87/32 = 2.71875
193/71 = 2.7183098591549295
878/323 = 2.718266253869969
1457/536 = 2.718283582089552
2721/1001 = 2.7182817182817183
25946/9545 = 2.7182818229439496
49171/18089 = 2.718281828735696
271801/99990 = 2.7182818281828185
> This is a bit of a sarcastic wink that the difference between a "Pirate" and a "Privateer" really isn't much. You go off on your sea vessel, you attack trade ships and plunder them. The Privateer just has a piece of paper (the Letter of Marque) that shows that you're doing it on behalf of a power.

Amusingly, the US Congress still has the enumerated authority to issue letters of marque. If I ever become filthy rich I'm totally going to bribe^H^H^H^H^Hcontribute to a congressional representative's campaign to get one.
I'll accept being ostracized for my weird hat if that's the price of, you know, NOT DYING.
Some astro photographers use StarNet[1] to remove stars altogether. This allows you to blend them back in[2], potentially after additional processing.

As the name suggests, StarNet uses neural network for the job[3], and at least yet hasn't been trained on Webb data AFAIK, so might not do a good job there.

There also seems to be a similar tool with the same name over on github[4], but seems to be a separate effort.

[1]: https://www.starnetastro.com/

[2]: https://astrobackyard.com/starnet-astrophotography/

[3]: https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/808556-starnet-v2/

[4]: https://github.com/nekitmm/starnet
Leave your spouse and find someone to have children with. This is honestly brutal advice but it isn't fair to your spouse or you to be living with such spiritual attrition.
Phonecalls can be solved by sip, sms is harder.
Adam Curtis on the fall of the Soviet Union's parallels with modern Britain
"ML" was never monopolized by Python. Boosted decision trees, as the post demonstrates, are commonly done in Matlab, R, or Julia. Deep learning however is 99% Python interface.
Actually it does, or religion. I'm assuming you're not a fan of evangelicals?

That seems like a barb, but the fact is that it's quite difficult to maintain community organizations without a central business or religious organization. However, profit maximization and digital first precludes physical community, where you have the people you have. Everyone can opt out and play WoW instead.
>"If employees suspect a cybersecurity breach (e.g., a phishing attempt, compromised passwords)... But one in six (16%) would try to handle the situation themselves, which represents millions of workers in the US. A positive, human-centric security culture rewards cyber-safe practices and uses mistakes as teaching moments."

...Good? Handling-it-yourself is exactly what you want to avoid ANYONE doing.

IT security incidents need to be reported and discussed immediately on detection with managers. The fact that the survey suggested that Millenials and Gen Z do this suggests that they on average understand this better than EY does.

What an embarrassing article.
"AI" is making some amazing advances these days. It's fueling quite a bit of optimism and outright delusion. It's getting a bit tiring to read through all the hype.
What's the difference between stimulant use with a prescription and stimulant use without? A priori why demonize one as abuse and accept the other as legitimate.
Low effort comment that didn't read the post.

- Multiple formats were compared

- Duckdb is not a production ready service

- Pandas isn't used

You seem to be trolling.
Yes. I coach CTOs and what they often miss is middle management. And I wondered how these tasks why CTOs need middle management could be replaced by AI - and I couldn't square those ideas.
I've never heard "processed" refering to selecrive breeding or genetic engineering. I thought it meant mechanical processing, heating/drying, and/or sometimes shelf-stabilization with chemicals. I don't think corn on the cob is considered processed, other than the harvesting and possibly shucking process if shucked.
Can one of the experts commenting here let me know a good process to get started with learning to decompile/reverse engineer/modify Windows programs?

Is it worth doing any of those online ctf thingys? Any recommended resources or books I should check out?
Both things are true. If you improve on them you have it, if you don’t then it doesn’t mean you don’t.
In some ways tech can do better. It can constantly monitor many more details than a human can. It doesn’t give you a disapproving look when you take too many sick days but it does calculate a score showing over the month you got less done than your coworkers.
This is probably one of the fastest possible FFI solutions, but if you're already enabling experimental features, Project Panama [0] is already in preview and will likely become the dominant FFI mechanism on the JVM.

[0]: https://openjdk.org/projects/panama/
When you say "and" do you mean what are the benefits over the other, or do you mean "using both/either"?

I'm just interested in getting a comprehensive way of getting everything to go through the tunnels I want them to go through. Adblock and/or firewall is just a bonus.
Maybe if he could back up his assumption with facts and data, people wouldn’t be dismissing it so quickly, but he’s offering nothing in terms of a good argument

Middle managers also tend not to form unions unlike low skilled and low educated frontline workers. Also making good, fuzzy decisions is harder for machines vs doing simple, low skill, repetitive tasks
Counterpoint: Who was designated "essential worker" during the pandemic?
Same here! It also feels "good" to support a good start-up which I use almost everyday
Well the OP is about using a watch to find North.

As I understand, a sextant can be used with a nautical chart, a compass and an accurate time keeper to find position, as long as a horizon can be found and you have an idea of your latitude. While a cool viking discovery, they aren’t really practically useful.