skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, you seem to know a lot about running multibillion dollar companies in completely different industries!

So let's imagine you run Twitter and you're operating in every western country on the planet. Now, all those countries have different laws and regulations. Are you, the CEO/coder/whatever going to be the one who sits down with regulators and discuss the nuance of their laws? How are you going to deal with law enforcement requests? FOIA requests from journalists? What kinds of information can you store about users in different locales? What kind of government compliance do you need to have in place for enterprise customers? How many hours per week are you allowed to require for workers in Germany? Can your translation contractors in Poland work through the holidays? Or maybe you consider lawyers just another one of those pesky salespeople/moderators who gets in the way of genius?

That's just one tiny segment of the company. Try to imagine how many other moving parts there are besides the four roles of "CEO," "coder," "salesperson," and "moderator."
It's not so much people in the US who believe that top science and engineering roles should be filled by immigrants, but rather employers who want cheap labor and can control the immigration laws indirectly via lobbying and campaign contributions. US work visa laws give preference to foreign students who earn advanced degrees in US universities. Those students are thus more willing to tolerate low wages and poor treatment in PhD programs because it still beats returning to their home countries.

I don't blame the foreign students for this, but it's important to understand what's really driving the current situation.
Amazon product search is worse ;)
Seems to have been offline for over 14 hours now.

Not many people seem to have noticed.
Eh I've already seen people posting links to Mastadon instances with the same format. Unless "Twitter style social" dies the format will live on.
If you run petabyte size storage clusters, engineering for compliance should still be small fraction of dollars saved compared to what you’d be paying in cloud (even with old pricing).
Isn’t “gave a fuck about school” relevant to scoring a college applicant?
The clever reason scammers can’t spell (2019)
Although I bet there are a lot more either useless or scammy projects in crypto than in gold (fiat must have the most scams since it's the most popular), people writing off the entire industry as a scam is disingenuous, myopic, and so often delivered with obvious jealousy that they had the chance to buy up some space cash when it started but said it was stupid so now they will stick to that argument.

I had to donate to Wikileaks years ago via a very expensive wire transfer since the credit card companies bowed down to the USA and cut them off. If I had BTC, I would have used that for almost free.
I just want to be able to tag an outgoing message with #silent to signal to the receiving device that I do NOT want to notify the recipient with a sound (for people or houses with babies that may be sleeping).
Fundamentally you're talking about the problem I alluded to in the 3rd point: Software projects work best with a single (or small group of closely knit) decision-makers at the top who bear ultimate responsibility for the implementation of the project.

The problem with governmental design-by-committee is that it spreads out the responsibility such that the failure of the project does not fall on any individual or small group.

The lack of concentrated responsibility breeds an environment that incentivizes grift rather than delivering value.

If the iPhone bombed, it was going to be Steve Jobs' fault. He had final say in all design decisions. If Healthcare.gov bombed... whose head rolled? Excerpt from the wiki article of Todd Park, CTO in the Obama administration:

'''

The initial version of HealthCare.gov, which was deployed on July 1, 2010, was built in 90 days by Park and his team at HHS. The first HealthCare.gov was cited by the Kaiser Family Foundation as one of the early highlights in the implementation of the healthcare reform implementation progress. HealthCare.gov was also the first website ever "demoed" by a sitting president

The following two versions, from the relaunch of the front end in May 2013 to the badly flawed marketplace that went live in October 2013, were developed by contractors and overseen by officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, outside of his purview within the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. When the extent of the problems with Healthcare.gov became clear, Park was tasked by President Obama to work on a "trauma team" that addressed the "technological disaster". Park, along with Jeffrey Zients, led the "tech surge" that ultimately repaired Healthcare.gov over the winter, eventually fixing the marketplace sufficiently to enable millions of Americans to find plans and purchase health insurance.

'''

How many of those unnamed officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services got fired for a multi-billion dollar boondoggle? The reason bureaucracies (both government and private) love process, documentation, committees, etc., is because the primary goal of any bureaucracy, far and above its nominal mission, is to continue existing, and a primary part of continuing to exist is to avoid blame for anything. Delegating decision making to committees and process is a key way to avoid blame.

"Who is responsible for this mess?"

"Nobody is responsible, we followed the process. But don't worry, we've started the process of forming a committee to update our process manual to prevent this mess in the future."
,,it's because there is higher interest in increasing the safety of Rust programs''

Another explanation is that fuzzing is generally expensive and it's easier to focus on unsafe parts of Rust programs than whole C++ programs.
raising prices by 50% on a steadily depreciating asset
Starfield projection is a critical system. You want to see Bogies from the first pixel possible.
To be fair, most organizations should have a list of allowed and forbidden apps and require a third-party security assessment before any cloud, SaaS, or network-enabled/social app is allowed on organization-owned device.
Everyone's already taken the bait, but I'm an awful fish, so I'll post their secret .onion url: kiwifarmsaaf4t2h7gc3dfc5ojhmqruw2nit3uejrpiagrxeuxiyxcyd.onion

It's not really something I'd be comfortable with either, so I get it, but everyone in this thread should at least understand that the average kiwi farms thread is roughly as offensive as the conversations at every job site that constructed all your houses, every field that grew your vegetables, and every rig that pumped the oil for your car. I'm not saying it's okay, but you have to accept it to some extent. Those people are out there offline, too.

While you're at it, check out their "Christmas Art" thread and think of the average Nazi spending most of their time being a perfectly polite and non-hateful person: https://archive.ph/TffRs
Sad to see it go, but I perfectly understand. You may or may not remember, but we had a chat about some of the backing tech about 5 years ago. I am one of the founders of 3dc.io and we are shutting it down for similar reasons. Ironically our tech stack behind both products is pretty identical.
It absolutely replies to “is <number> prime” with the correct answer.
Proposal: Controlled vocabulary for attitudes towards forks, PRs and bug reports
Can technology and the Internet replace private concierge services?
It's worse in Asia (x8), Oceania (x8) and Latin America (x14). Wow.

Asia $0.01/GB => $0.08/GB
Oceania $0.01/GB => $0.08/GB
Latin America $0.01/GB => $0.14/GB
> I’m a prosumer photographer with a fairly sizable collection of high end Canon glass, and I now vastly prefer my iphone (since the 13pro) to my SLR setup

For what type of photography? Seems hard to imagine you'd "prefer" your phone over a nice lenses, but I guess it's less hassle to just use the phone?
Yeah, and I totally get the quota request process. Any GCP user is familiar with providing a basis for your quota request, etc.

But I'm not even able to file a request. It just says to call sales for any limit above "0". Lol.
I previously had little issue with the fees because I assumed they went back to the parks due to the .gov domain. Now that I know it's just a private 3rd party collecting them and our parks and public lands are still underfunded is infuriating.
Sorry to hear all this. Honestly, given what you've gone through, I'd just avoid the start ups and go for 'boring tech', in an unambiguously useful and established industry. Maybe energy, telecoms, banking etc. Go for a well established company but one with a good stack and modern ways of working. They do exist. You can have a good engineering culture and engaging projects, combined with a stable business model and sane management.

Startups are high reward potentially because they're high risk. And a lot of these companies are doomed-to-fail, snake oil-peddlers. Choose carefully if you do carry on down that path.
Someone in any organization is allowed to install apps or have them installed. More relevantly though this also bans use of the website on the devices too.
Can you recommend some resources to achieve (b)? Just basic stuff without going full guru on every little detail.

Or do you just mean using indexes basically? I'm just not sure how many unknown unknowns I have wrt sql.
Snap format is just a single compressed file. They could literally just replace it, remove the old one and due the way of which Linux filesystems work, any new call to app will run the new one, but the old one would use the old file.

They could do it basically seamlessly, with maybe notification only if you keep app running for days. Hell, that's how package manager does updates, just remove old libraries and put a new one in place, old programs will use the old one till restart, and when last filedescriptor closes it will be unlinked from filesystem. It sometimes can cause problems in "normal" apps but fact snap is just a single file removes pretty much all drawbacks of that.

It's not just bad decisions but incompetence on top of that
I work for a lumber company in the PNW.
Africa is waiting for what you promised, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey
If the battery lasts 2000 cycles (reasonable for good chemistry… some chemistries can last over 5000 cycles), then that’s 1 million miles. (Tesla’s powertrain is certified for that much, too). At electric 19cents per miles and diesel at 82 cents per mile, that’s $630,000 in savings just for fuel, not to mention Diesel Exhaust Fluid, oil changes, and brakes.

The 500 mile range Tesla Semi cost $180,000 at launch. Let’s say they’re off by nearly a factor of 2, so new Semis will be $315,000. That means you’ll be able to buy 2 500 mile Tesla Semis for just the fuel savings from one.
So in China the algorithm is partially regulated, but in the rest of the world the algorithm (asia, europe, africa, americas) is just showing people what they want? Instead of what they government thinks is best for them?
Lots of great application ideas, thanks for sharing. I'll think about it when expanding the tutorials.

Same as you, I think it would be nice to have editable dataview tables; but I'm not sure this library is the answer to that. That type of feature should be directly implemented in dataview. I believe the DB-folder plugin solves this problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibarYqG4W5I

But I haven't tested it yet. The video presentation seems very instructive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibarYqG4W5I
My understanding is the polls are tests to flush out bots and campaigns.

Highly contentious questions that are sure to bring out the bot campaigns so they can be identified and potentially negated.
Called Sales. Sales said no. Asked why. "You're not a business." "I'm a sole proprietor." "Fine, email gcteam@google.com and wait up to 24 hrs"

emails gcteam@google.com, it bounces

Amazing
How would Joey know he was a philosopher?
It'd be good for John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad theory to make a comeback

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/green-blackboa...
The standard government employee is a project manager whose main job is overseeing contractor work. Funding cycles make it nearly impossible to hire in house staff to actually do work, and there is firm political opposition to the federal government doing anything on its own.
these comparisons to whatsapp are really tiring, twitter is a totally different product. twitter is more similar to facebook than whatsapp from an engineering requirement's perspective, messaging is a minor feature of twitter's. even from a non-tech perspective, the presence of public data & the moderation requirements that entails alone makes it operationally different enough to not be a good comparison...
I don't think America (as a collective) "wants stupid Americans", I think people are generally of the mind that "intelligence is good". Unfortunately, I think what that means is largely subjective in many cases, and tends to be aligned with their own interests/preferences.

My suspicion, which is mostly just me thinking out loud and is based on no real evidence, is that folks are (a) largely desensitized to stimulation due to aggressive "marketing" (in the loosest sense of the word - whether ads, click/viewbait, or other quasi-exploitative attention-grabbing things); and/or (b) have observed that, culturally, a lot of "dumb shit" is mainstream enough (in terms of critical mass within their social microcosm) to warrant conformity, and thus may be a preference that is adopted for identity or inclusivity purposes. Similarly, it may be seen as a pathway to some form of success or recognition (see: IG/YT influencers, tiktok fads, etc).

I'm sure other, much smarter folks have actual evidence or have performed studies (and I would be interested in learning more), but based on my personal experience, the above seems to hold true, generally speaking.
I more meant the mid range engineer work to just buckle down, test, and fix things. As in, just owning and cleaning up a lot of important projects, including third party ones.

Designing the ultimate everything sanitizer with zero performance overhead would surely be impressive even at Google. Especially if it was actually adopted across the org.
Tizanidine.

Before I was prescribed that for unrelated reasons, quitting caffeine did a lot for my ability to sleep at night. I do want to try the whole 'use bed for only sleep' thing but my apartment is cold and I have a heated blanket on my bed which helps.
The Rolling Stone hasn't met the journalist height test since the 80s...
You must not work in tech if you think Twitter and Whatsapp are in any way comparable
Which defeats the object when the URLs change so often, and we're back to the original problem.
I'd stand against a government doing that.

If an individual book owner decides to have a backyard barbecue of all their pro-Nazi propaganda or an individual theater owner doesn't feel comfortable running Jojo Rabbit, that's up to them.
WASM is entirely unrelated to that issue. If you want to "solve" cross-language interop & ABI surfaces, you want something like COM.
One underrated way to jit is to write some code, spawn a compiler, then link to a shared object. Takes 2 mins to write and sidesteps a lot of complexity
And the CCP doesn't have ties or influence with them...
I wonder if the existence of a stable overclass of alexandrines distinct from the native population pre-prepared Egypt to be a Roman vassal state: it was already functioning as an analogous model, they just replaced the top set, but kept the governance model as-is.

Egypt was a breadbasket for Rome long before it was incorporated as were Tunisia and Sicily. I suspect "do not break the supply chain" was huge in not altering the governance
I see also that you've written on your website about why there's no 'tip jar.' Thank you.
Sure, but I'd say the same about smartphone manufacturers.
I've been doing small level contracts just like this for 20 years for a small business.

What in your experience tells you it's not possible? Do you read solicitations? Make proposals for govt projects?
This was taken using an iphone 13 mini (not pro) in regular mode.

https://share.icloud.com/photos/0dectlquUI6Ur6vDCWrYw6oHg

Not so bad IMHO.

Edit: this one is more pronounced, again not in portrait mode.

https://share.icloud.com/photos/0c9pBN5Fy2yL0fuSYrX4j3BnA
That solidifies my opinion of canonical just picking good distro as base then going around breaking shit...

Like... wtf ? They'd had to patch apt to even do that...
To be clear, the assertion is that cops do immoral violent things often enough that enabling them to be violently immoral more easily is a bad thing.
The Orthodox would quote Revelation 22:18-19, and suggest using a different example for your chatbot in the future :)
hmmmm, howto rob a bank.

https://twitter.com/noisegroove/status/1598810268150243339
For those who are interested in tremc, also check out stig. It's amazing.

https://github.com/rndusr/stig
I guess but yeah usually the hot databases will be encrypted. When moving to the data lake / warehouse its all unencrypted. I think it really comes down to What kind of data you're working with.

Last Password was hacked twice this year. How many data breaches are there on a regular basis. The reality is the cost of trouble worth the possibility. As much as everyone wants to say they care about users data, the reality in most companies is very different.
Really interesting, so it sounds like they want to be able to move up enough to dodge those times?
One of the better changes I’ve been able to (imperfectly) implement is passing by and/or refusing to engage some comments. I can understand why some people get a rise out of particular comments, and I don’t blame them for engaging. It’s a reasonable way to react. But I’ve found it better to just pass them over - whether the person on the other side really believes what they believe or is trolling or whatever else.

This necessarily means engaging with fewer people and, of course, not offering my opinion on everything (or, to an extent, self-censoring).
The above comment is not right. How do the registrar come into this?

I don't know what you base your experience on, but it is not representative of the better ccTLDs. The oversight there are beyond what you have in any CA. That much is a fact.

If you have specific criticism, feel free to ask any of the people concerned at for example the next IETF. In my experience criticism is welcomed and listened to. That is, indeed, what builds trust.
It doesn't create anything new.

Who does? This is nothing but a "God of the Gaps" argument in reverse.
Curious if issues of deeply centralized (think: monopoly) storage services give airt time for the several decentralized storage options such as Sia [0], File [1], and tried and true torrenting.

[0] https://sia.tech/sia.pdf

[1] https://github.com/filecoin-project/filecoin-docs/blob/main/...
Why doesn't everyone just fill in African American? Everyone can trace their roots back to Africa.

I'm only half joking, how would it ever be possible to verify such a claim?
If this takes off, it's just going to result in a court order against Wikipedia. Z-lib getting popular on Tiktok = no z-lib anymore. Getting Wikipedia censored will ultimately make it harder for people to find sites like scihub.
Wire fraud, as always.
If you are concerned about the content that American's consume, there is no reason to single out TikTok. Instagram has been shoving the same garbage into the feeds of teenagers for nearly a decade and Reels is nearly exact clone of TikTok. There is little "educational" content on Instagram Reels. The solution would be regulate all the social media companies, like how China does.

If the problem is solely TikTok, then it most likely stems from the fact you don't like TikTok is owned by the Chinese (and you are more likely to believe nefarious claims that Xi Jinping personally told the TikTok CEO to make America dumber) which is sinophobic. You don't like TikTok just because it's a chinese company serving you the same garbage as an American one.

I believe there are valid reasons to ban TikTok, especially on state-owned devices, given the amount of data they exfiltrate, but "they are poisoning the American youth" is not a good one.
I strongly disagree. Prior to reservation systems, it was not uncommon to drive out to Glacier, say, only to find every camp site filled. Now you can be assured that you will have a site prior to taking the week off and hauling your family hours from home. Likewise, several popular western rivers became absolutely crushed with traffic. One year I floated 30 miles before I found a site (which was more than two regular days on that river). They needed a way to lottery or offer permits, and recreation.gov has performed better than what they used previously (though they're often gone within seconds of opening availability -- which converts first-come to a sort of lottery).

I think the solution to the empty camp sites problem is a stiff penalty for failing to release the site to others prior the reserved date. For instance, last year on the John Day they said if you didn't put in on the designated day, you'd lose your ability to pull a John Day permit the following year.
> Personal Example: I needed to sample a bunch of datapoints, make distributions out of them, sample, and then compute the density of each sample across distributions. Doing this with pytorch was rather slow, I was probably doing something wrong with vectorization and broadcasting, but I didn't have the time to figure it out.

You probably were not doing anything wrong. I spent a lot of time trying to be clever in order to parallelize things like this and it just wasn't possible without doing CUDA extensions. But it is now! PyTorch now has vmap through functorch and it works.
GPT's killer app is sales?
The company I work for does exactly small and mid sized govt contracts, the vast majority won on bids with no shady input from us. There's tons of companies like us.
The total cost is how much time it takes to google "temp email" and then click on the first link and use that temp email to get the book. It should take about 2 minutes, maybe even less time than writing out your comment.
Thank you for the explanation! Time to read up on emscripten.
This is like comparing a microwave meal to one cooked from scratch on a stove. Yes, anyone can do it. No, experience with the automatic version does not meaningfully translate to the manual one.
Worth noting the SEC is a civil regulatory agency, not a criminal one.
I recommend going to China and seeing for yourself.

What you read from afar and what you see on the ground are very different. Imagine if all you heard about the US were constant stories about gun violence, drone strikes and homelessness. You'd have a very distorted view of life in America. That's basically the situation with China, if your only point of reference is what you read in the English-language media.
The harm may be obvious, but that’s not the same thing as proving criminal guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Not sure why anyone would think FTX/Alameda would be as easy to investigate as the Fyre Festival.

People don’t get arrested when they’ve done something bad. People get arrested (for federal crimes) when a prosecutor gets a grand jury to believe there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.
I just use Debian Testing... my install is 13 years old, after many dist-upgrades
> 1. Sam Bankman Fried is in the Bahamas

If he's an American citizen, why isn't he being extradited? Because of his connections?
It's not just disk size. Also memory size, and loading speed.

Yes, I agree about the driver situation.
I work on these projects, almost all won with no cozy relationships, simply by bidding on them.

So yeah, it's possible.
Why would he donate to both parties?