skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes, Linux, Amazon, Meta, and a company that's been running a map service for seventeen years in a failing attempt at direct competition with Google maps. This is just the Bing show with new guests, isn't it?
Rupert Murdoch has sway because he owns the most watched news network in America. He could give away all his money tomorrow and his sway would stay the same because he controls a major news network.
> I have no idea when "design by committee" became something to emulate.

When we renamed it with a catchy name: Agile. The Manifesto's entire deal is highlighting the key considerations an organization must take into account if they want to move to a flat organizational structure.
How do you lose so much money when your business it to charge fees? You'd have to do something really stupid to not make money.
I think the argument in this (narrow) discussion would be you haven't fixed (or identified / addressed) the problem.
How would unionizing prevent you from being replaced by a machine? Striking isn't a threat when you not being there is what the company is going for anyway.
All very calm and cool until "it yeets off into fucking wherever" on C2 continuity. I LOLed at that.
This isn’t true in the case of bankruptcy. Note that in early 2022, Coinbase updated it’s disclosures to include that customer coins could be used as collateral to pay debts. That would leave customers as unsecured creditors (ie, stuck at the back of the bankruptcy line).

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coinbase-keep-customer-balanc...
There's two ways to unionize: roll your own, or UaaS. Rolling your own requires a lot of work, time in committee meetings, and has a risk that you'll overlook common issues or flub negotiations due to inexperience. But there's a lot of flexibility, and it can be done on the cheap. A lot of people pick the second option: a big union can send a rep, draft a contract, negotiate with your employer, etc., in exchange for the dues it pays its employees with.
GameStream End of Service Notification
So the screeching voices of the minority techies that have 'left' with the remaining 200M+ daily actives normal users, still on Twitter every day then.

This so-called 'disruption' has been greatly exaggerated and has hardly made a dent on Twitter.
https://archive.ph/UbT6U
My employer actually forks quite a lot of money over to Red Hat to do just that.
you wait for court cases to see what can be taken
Maybe I misunderstand what flat hierarchy means, but I don't think it is the same as "design by committee". It can still involve a single person making all important decisions; only that person isn't the one with the official title but rather whoever wins the most respect, has the most persuasive vision, etc.
Hm, I cannot decide whether this advice is useful or not
Mazars has already been cautioned - together with BDO - regarding their oversight on crypto, the regulators have essentially told them to improve their quality before they grow these branches of their corporation further. That puts them on petty thin ice.

Arthur Andersen messed up big time, not in the least because their Chinese walls failed in every way imaginable but the parallel is pretty close: all of these companies are chasing new markets with abandon when in fact they should out of caution rather than regulatory pressure slow down and do their jobs properly because the financial world depends to a very large extent on that.
See the full text from the SEC filing: "due to the novelty of crypto assets, courts have not yet considered this type of treatment for custodied crypto assets"

Basically, there's no legal precedent. It's anyone's best guess.
It may not hold up in court. But at that point, you’re trying to claim assets back from a bankrupt entity.
Nice project. You can also do

pandoc -i Readme.md | w3m -T text/html

if you need web links, etc., to work.

Or if you just want cool, colorful markdown rendering in the terminal, and some management of MD files, but without link following or other interaction, there is glow:

https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow
I get the sentiment - somewhat. However , protecting resources like water, considering the affects of impacts from carbon , and waste management - plus a look at past environmental disasters I can’t see how anyone looks at our current situation and says let’s live for today and worry about tomorrow when the time comes is a appropriate response.
Getting rid of the ability to export highlights has been insanely frustrating and has meant I can only use this app for reading fiction that I don’t generally highlight.
With Apple: complain loudly and make a case, there are countless examples of that working, including on massive initiatives.
Despite their shortcomings they do indeed read everything sent to /feedback
I personally dislike cloudflare for not dropping KF, not sure if that's a majority opinion.
Very glad to share that AI Excel Bot has reached 200 active users!

Found the first ~100 users on Reddit and other social channels / directories.

Once the AI Generated output started to look more and more accurate started with Google Search Ads. The the results are stelar!

Within two days of starting Google Ads, we have doubled user base. The most important metric that I was looking for is the traffic => user signup conversion. The conversion turned out to be decent 30%.
I suppose that makes the case that Bitcoin is a fiat currency. I have yet to see strong indicators of that.
Looks like you can get e.g. a Xiaomi 11T Pro for $425 on Amazon. You can't do much better than that for a mobile camera sensor (Isocell GN2), and I can't imagine any modular phone that will be cheaper once you've upgraded the camera.
So what do you use? Vanilla JS?
Find warmth this winter. We're building an online directory of ‘warm banks’
EmacsConf 2022: Results of the 2022 Emacs Survey (video)
Most start up founders have high opportunity cost but lose nothing if the start up fails.
So true, when to interrupt or work together or stay focused is the biggest productivity challenge for teams. Technology is just a communication medium today, intent is the holy grail of collaboration.
Well for starters they have over a thousand employees, plus office leases, plus I'm sure cloud provider fees, marketing, and more. There are expenses for sure.
BlackRock’s use of HPC techniques in new Aladdin economic scenario simulator
This is an intrinsically Marxist framing.

Even if inequality is rising, so is wealth overall. That’s what Marx misestimated, although it wasn’t his most grievous error.

Poor people in the United States are far richer than rich people of 150 years ago.

I am personally willing to accept the he existence of some billionaires if that’s the price we pay for all this wonderful ness.
I don't mean that the literal English language is the problem, but rather the entire legal system, cultural norms, and evolving attitudes about housing that spread through English language countries with cross pollination of media.
In other words, the problem isn't capitalism, it is that capital often ends up in the hands of those least equipped to wield it well.
> even though it took me an average of 3-4 hours to process each refund

Interesting. Why?
Indeed, although some languages achieve the same by defining multiple falsy values, e.g. JS has 9 such values: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Falsy
If something needs to be done, and it takes less than two minutes to do, just do it right now.
I read the book after seeing the film which I loved. It’s insane how incredibly good at making you feel in the sort of haze you feel after smoking the book is. I could never thank PTA enough for making me discover Pynchon.
Only a hundred years ago, a bunch of immigrants from places like Germany or Spain or Italy could arrive in New England (including New York City), perform manual labor, provide for their families on one income, and pool their additional money to _build whole buildings_ as social or fraternal clubs.

That really puts things into perspective for me.
Everything you hold a position in translates into risk on the books. If some of those positions (or even a majority of them) ends up losing you will need to make up the difference.

On top of that KYC and other operational costs really add up, and without another revenue stream than the transactions themselves it may simply not be enough of a slice to be viable.
I don't know... i frequently see dang linking to old posts of the "new" repost.
It was kinda fun in 2010 for a few minutes I guess. But it certainly isn't something worth chaining your book purchases to Apple products for. If you REALLY want this though at least Moon+ Reader on Android has it, both one mimicking Google's and Apple's!
It is more accurate to separate software from the people operating businesses that use the software.

There are MANY (so, so many) scams in crypto, but the underlying protocols are just protocols.

Just like there are MANY (so, so many) scams that operate with dollars and in the traditional banking system.

Humans are gonna be humans.
Another nice addition would have been debuggers such as gdb -p PID to hook into the running code, see for instance https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2308653/can-i-use-gdb-to...
Source ports to Linux are actually pretty rare. Most big games with a 'native' Linux version are non-native in exactly the same way as Proton ports— they run using a custom compatibility layer based on WINE or something similar. Often the port is of such high quality that you wouldn't be able to tell (Feral Interactive has done a ton of great ports this way), but this is still how most are done, especially for AAA games.

(In that sense, developers (or Linux porting studios) switching from their in-house compatibility layers to Proton isn't really a change in terms of those ports being 'truly native' or whatever.)

I wonder if what we're starting to see, rather than the inferiority of source ports, is actually that some of these alternative compatibility layers are just no longer keeping up with Proton, since Proton/WINE has such wide use/testing and rapid development these days.
> when they 'pause their activity' that means that they are not going to tie their name to yours

A parallel that might help people understand this is a "no recommendation" for an employee. When someone is enjoined from saying anything actually negative, silence can speak volumes.
When inflation is due to supply side challenges it’s unclear how restricting credit is going to help.
Yeah, every time is a huge exaggeration.
Likewise, I have been using Zettelkasten method for my own notes written in markdown on the terminal. Which are then later searched/consumed/linked via search tools like ripgrep and viewed in the terminal.

These notes contain diagram code like plantUML/graphviz and mermaid. I have been resorting to also rendering them in ascii to still gain value out of them if viewed from the terminal only.

This should complete my setup where diagrams/math rendering and all code could be rendered together.

Thanks for sharing!
https://beta.openai.com/tokenizer

Test with:
6f6b25515e18b4c41927e2dce3ffc589

You'll see that it spits out single character tokens.
Yes, Polygamous_bat below made the same observation, I wasn't aware of this at all.
Renewables don't need baseload help, they need dispatchability. So nukes would not help at all. Nukes will be mothballed in a few years as they become unable to attract bids sufficient to continue operation. (In some places they will continue getting their massive tax- or rate-payer subsidy.) As operation time falls, cost of every kWh they ever produced grows as the massive construction cost is amortized over fewer lifetime kWh.

Fortunately, most storage technologies are nimbly dispatchable. They are not being built out much, yet, except for extra-short-term load shifting, and hydro cheaply retrofitted with a pump, because there is not enough renewable capacity to charge from. Until there is, combined-cycle NG turbines fill shortfalls. Build-out gradually reduces that expense, but not to zero.

Instead, solar farms in the tropics fixing ammonia for export mean nobody needs more than a week of storage. The NG furnaces will be converted to burn ammonia, or maybe hydrogen extracted from ammonia. Catalytic fuel cells might enable retiring the gas turbines when they get cheap enough.
Orwell, from "Politics and the English Language" [0]:

> Words of this kind are often used in a consciously dishonest way. That is, the person who uses them has his own private definition, but allows his hearer to think he means something quite different. Statements like Marshal Petain was a true patriot, The Soviet press is the freest in the world, The Catholic Church is opposed to persecution, are almost always made with intent to deceive.

[0] https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_poli...
"I have never been able to kill stupid things before they cause damage"

One of the most important things an organization can have is a "no man". A project that I was involved in when I worked at Google was completed on time primarily because we had a very senior (DE level) engineer tangentially involved in the project. He was near the end of his career, and he just didn't give a f* about politics. He'd sit in design reviews and rip stupid features to shreds, with accurate estimates of what they'd cost in terms of headcount and project delays. He was probably the most valuable member of the team because he was respected enough that his objections kept the project focused and on scope, and it was a 20% project for him.
> You’re supposed to lead without authority

John seems to be particularly calling out that he was not able to influence the people with high enough rank to make decisions. So it sounds like he at least thought there was an authority structure there wasn't as flat as you describe.
They are big, but definitely lower tier. They aren’t even in the top 10 globally, so literally lower tier.

For example, the smallest of the big4 had $32B just in its audit and accounting section. Mazars had $2B in its entire organization, including advisory.
I'd agree, but business information is really the killer thing in a maps app a lot of the time. It's a lot of the reason OSM is often near useless even with a good app overlay. Much like most people don't know people's phone numbers any more, I don't actually know the street address for most places I go.

Outside of Google and Yelp, who else has anything close to an effective database of business information, including hours, names, addresses...
>when our industry is producing oligarchs like Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, it means that they are profiting from the things that tech workers produce

The workers that built the foundations of these companies received stock options or RSUs over a decade ago and reached FATFIRE territory as well. Had they unionized, the companies they worked for wouldn't be able to reinvest as much money into growth, which would be compounded by a lack of external investors. In that case, they would lose to an unionized competitor.
It's a nice start but what we also need would be an "OpenRasterMap" project - a project where we collect raster data (more and more data gets available) and store the entire planet (RGBN aerial imagery) in let's say 1m/Pixel.

It might be feasible to store entire planet's raster tiles in 10 years in a (beefy) desktop machine.
iOS 6 on iPad is charming to use. I get that people were tired of skeuomorphism and the bright candy colours sell, but I think the muted colours and texture helped with long term use - making it functionally better.
Railroad workers are covered by the Railway Labor Act, while almost every other job is covered by the National Labor Relations Act. The RLA makes it harder to strike, but the tactics that strikers may use once a strike is declared are much broader than under the NLRA. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Labor_Act#Bargaining_a...
Helion Fusion Reactor Video
Super clever idea of course. But leaving aside how it was produced, I’ll be one of those who is underwhelmed by the musicality of this. I am judging this in terms of classical music. I repeatedly tried to get it to just play pure piano music without any other add-ons (cymbals etc). It kept mixing the piano with other stuff.

Also the key question is - would something like this ever produce something as hauntingly beautiful and unique as classical music pieces?
The global menu bar on macOS literally displays the name of the current focused application. It’s absolutely obvious.
If it was the left wing driving Facebook it would not collect so much data. They’re the ones who wrote about big brother, not the other guys.
This would only have a chance of working if they dramatically improved performance over native I think.
Can you jailbreak the latest iOS? Or you think running outdated OS doesn't create bigger problems security wise? And if not and you run the latest OS on your main device, how can you be sure the app store sends it the same non-backdoored version of Telegram that you would verify on the outdated jailbroken OS?
It is quite surprising how cheaply Conservative MPs can be bought by business and foreign powers. I'm thinking of buying my own Conservative MP.

The Labour party isn't immune from this sort of corruption either. A lot of them have taken money from that old scourge of the working classes, the gambling industry.
Yes. For example you could hook the function that encrypts the outgoing payload and print it out before it is encrypted. And then for decryption you could hook the function that decrypts the payload as it comes in print out the result.

Going further, the API likely uses some secret key for encryption/decryption and you could hook that value out of the app as well.
I want society to get richer. I want poor people (in all nations including China, India, and Vietnam) to earn more money. This is not the same thing as wanting equality.

In that sense, no I do not support economic equality. Jeff Bezos owning 10% of Amazon worth $X billion does not effect my life in any way. If he owned 50% or 0.001%, instead my life would still be the same.

I'm not sure why I need to be upset about that.
Google Home Hardware and Android are now Matter compatible
You say you will never understand why some American working class workers oppose unions. Well then I guess you will need be able to convince them otherwise. If your starting point is that the union experience is obviously a good one and you must be stupid to not see that, you have lost any chance of a serious conversation. People have reasons for feeling the way they do. Dismissing them as falling for propaganda is once again just calling them stupid.

I'm an American and I admit to having a very negative view of modern unions. When the word union comes up I immediately think of:

1) The Teamsters and their ties to organized crime
2) Police unions that shield officers from consequences
3) Teacher unions that prevent awful teachers from being fired
4) Ridiculous rules around duties on film/theater sets
5) The UAW is seen by many former workers as letting them down. Many other people feel the UAW bears some responsibilities for plant closures.
6) As supermarkets in my area started to unionize the service noticeably suffered.
7) Several friends were Verizon workers and felt that they were screwed by their union.
8) It is common for unions to fund candidates that many workers do not like.

If someone like myself has a negative view of unions it is up to people like yourself to change that perception if you want unions to gain traction in the US. Distrust of unions in the US are not always (usually?) driven by ignorance or propaganda. Unions themselves have done a very good job of alienating workers.
I've checked the three downloads pretty carefully, and the file names match what's on Wikipedia (save for some punctuation): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Remains_of_Tom_Lehrer
I like titra - https://github.com/kromitgmbh/titra
Politics at work. The most infuriating part is when non technical people whose whole day to day work is about expanding their territory win through politics
>>the soldered RAM limits the amount of total RAM that can run in dual channel mode

Can it affect running 3d modelling software, like CADs or Blender, on an integrated graphics card with shared (dynamic) memory?

As mentioned here [1], at least on a Dell XPS laptop while diy upgrading soldered RAM, it is necessary to resolder a resistor from 1 to 0 position on
the board to tell BIOS what RAM to expect.

Maybe for E14 thinkpads it is also possible to perform a similar thing, to diy rewire the board to ignore the malfunctioning soldered RAM and use the socketed RAM instead. But how to get all the original thinkpad system board schematics?

[1] https://gregdavill.com/posts/dell-xps13-ram-upgrade/
Technology is often very, very distracting, and everyone feels it. I've noticed that we've hit a point in my team where juniors don't even feel comfortable asking questions in a team channel, because they think it might add to the noise. It isn't just that they don't want to "look dumb", but they genuinely don't want to bother a senior engineer. So, paradoxically, the low-effort nature of Slack has actually created barriers to communication in this case. (I have no idea how common this is, but I suspect, at very big companies, there are similar dynamics.)

One solution I've found as a more senior engineer is to force a working session with a junior regularly. Like, we're not there to do anything specific, just work on something together. This ends up becoming a much more comfortable space for them to open up with all their questions.

Tech really isn't a direct cause of real social problems, but often just presents distractions, which can add up over time. Phones have just taken us to a point where tech is just always with us, thus, we've hit some kind of "maximum distract-ability" point. But the real solution isn't to really ban new tech, it's just to learn how to identify and avoid letting it distract us further.
One man's procrastination is another man's prioritization.
Dumb of me to distract. With hinges you can also build flat on the ground (as with a paper-with-flaps layout), then start to form the shape, "latching" while you go.
Same thing with B.Y.O.B by System of a Down:

> "B.Y.O.B." by System of a Down is a protest song criticizing the government for sending the poor to fight wars instead of enlisting wealthy people. The chorus and refrains are calling people to "party" and "dance in the desert" to protest the lack of governmental action to keep the poor out of wars. Furthermore, the song discusses how the government lies to people and hands them over to obsoletion. The song is ultimately a call to arms for those in power to take responsibility for their actions and to end the exploitation of the poor.

A whole lot of nonsense except for the last sentence, which pretty much summarizes the song.
That's a very good analogy.
> Otherwise I don't recall the last time that the Murdoch press has had any influence on any policy in either the EU or the United States.

Apart from choosing pretty much every British PM in my lifetime?
Been thinking a lot lately about the potential synergy of personal data collection and machine learning. It seems like an area ripe for innovation and commercialization, but with many thorny problems. Google glasses failed miserably, people rightly don’t trust cellphones, maybe neural-link will be a thing but the ceo seems to be spread pretty thin. I want to start collecting personal info to train the ai but how to do it in a safe way, if you use vi or some other unholy editor.
Museum Releases Early Color Photos of a Vanished World a Century Ago
I don't use facebook. Is this reposted somewhere?