skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We went from "We're going to the moon" to landing on the moon in under a decade. We could make this transition that fast if we really wanted to, the problem is there are a whole lot of entrenched interests in not making this transition.
Amazon of all companies, a Covid sweetheart, is just devilish.

I have no words for this one honestly. Watch what a mega profitable company does during a recession and you’ll know everything you need to know. They are not good to workers, from top to the warehouse bottom. I believe every last story about the warehouse workers, all the way to the PIP nonsense.
Private companies can be treated as infrastructure, and of course private companies are free to operate in a way that reduces faith in their reliability.
The grey checkmark is only for government agencies. Individual lawmakers have blue check marks.
Have they doubled the number of employees at AWS? During what time period?
Has anybody written an actual spec for logfmt? I noticed that different implementations handle escaping of quoted strings subtly differently
Very doubtful on SEO and/or alternate content. BleepingComputer also notes the August 2022 notice, which is 'noindex' on all versions.

This is most definitely to burry the notices.
Agree with the first half, but the integrations is a moat for Slack. First, a comparable integration needs to exist or be created on the new platform. Second, in largeer organizations, you end up with many vested interests (individual teams) that have important integrations and the cost to migrate them takes away from other work they need to do, and creates a chorus of voices against a migration. On top of all that, employees generally like Slack.
What's your justification for saying that it's the US with a profoundly distorted market and not places like Utrecht?
Where I am, there are frequent power cuts or Internet is down because of a storm. We do have a generator so we can keep on living. I hate the fact tho that I'm not able to pay for content I paid for : movies, fitness classes, music etc.

So looking to build a media server full of content, via legal means or piracy!

Another motivation is while I'm ok paying now, what about in 20 or 30 years time? Maybe there will be a time where I want to discard my credit card, but still want to be able to enjoy movies. I would have paid then thousands of dollars to streaming services. A media server with my favorite content sounds like a better bet.
> They claim they want to destroy Israel and call the US the big satan. They aren't famous for rational decision making.

Both of those are very rational ways of ginning up domestic support in a way that commits to absolutely nothing meaningful on the geopolitical stage. There's very little reason to believe Iran's power brokers are privately suicidal.

The US says all sorts of things it doesn't really mean, too.
Cobalt isn’t essential in the way lithium is. We already have working cobalt-free chemistries in EVs, e.g. LFP.
> And so far, Twitter has not given any special marks to the accounts belonging to U.S. senators such as Markey.

> As of press time, Markey’s real account still has a blue check mark that says, “This is a legacy verified account. It may or may not be notable.” My fake one, meanwhile, says “This account is verified because it’s subscribed to Twitter Blue.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://...

> On the left, Ed Markey's real Twitter account. On the right, the Twitter account Geoff created impersonating Markey.
I don't know of any possible future for such attacks. My point is just that it's really hard to estimate the probability of unknown mathematical advancement so especially for secrets that you want to keep for a while, it's sensible to build in some buffer for mathematical advancement. I'm not an expert, but I would have a hard time being 99% sure that no one will come up with a sub-exponential algorithm (e.g. some sieving technique) that speeds up solving discrete logs (but doesn't make it trivial). If the cost of the improvement were high it would be a hard tradeoff, but I really don't see a strong argument that the extra couple nanoseconds are that important here.
I mean we live in a completely insane world:

Companies logic:

- subscribe to 10 different streaming services to watch all the tv and movies that you enjoy;

- you like music? They don’t care they will shove podcasts down your throat just because it’s cheaper for them to produce;

- ebooks? Let’s make customers pay the exact same for digital products as hard cover physical books just because it makes totally sense;

- games? Let’s put ridiculous drm that acts more like spyware, also let’s charge for 10 years old+ games the same or more than new games.

Yeah punish consumers and reward pirates, that’s their logic.

Definitely an insane world.
Hindsight is 20/20. Back in 2020, the perspective was very different. It was very realistic at the time to see the world going much more digital/remote, and for good.
I'm sure the warehouse workers can easily be retrained to work on AWS. There's even data warehousing which would be a natural transition.
how exactly would this work if you have multiple small children, or are disabled, or a variety of other things.

Why is there this insistence that Americans are just 'big dumb'
> There is no legitimate reason so many very profitable tech companies need to fire so many

Both hiring and terminating more than they need, depending on which direction they feel the wind is blowing, is the norm; on the termination side, notification requirements (e.g., WARN Act) exacerbate that (I am not saying they are a net negative, just that they encourage pushing the numbers up.)

> They cant say "we are making record profits" and in the same breath say "we need to fire people to survive" that's not how that works

Corporations don’t optimize for odds of survivial; if they are making record profits but could, in their assessment, be making bigger record profits, that’s what they’ll go for.
The model of teams is fundamentally different than Slack, "fixing" it to compete directly would be a big product shift.
... at least until interest rates go down again
I'm using every day on multiple erver and application. It a MUST
Those people are called hoarders.
Never stopped, never will. Radarr and sonarr already give me superior UI/UX than the godawful streaming service UIs, plus I never have to worry about a favorite song or show or movie suddenly going poof out of existence.

Plus, y'know, free.
I was thinking of the Pytorch supply-chain issue as well: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/pytorch-discl...

I can see someone working at Slack try a nightly, they surely work with ML.
The documentary series I spent 10 years working finally landed 6 weeks ago on NBC Peacock. Guess how I saw the final cut? That's right. I pirated it. I pirated my own show.
> most people as possible read it

You said "most" and not all. So the best was to reach most people would be to do what tech or media companies do. Create a viral campaign and entice news media with click-baity headlines so that they get more views and make money. You will have to translate the "Hello World" sentence into local languages for maximum reach.

Also, you did not say to do this cheaply. So for people with no internet, I would fly air balloons with massive "Hello World" banners.
Thank you! Best of luck!
Do they layoff at all levels or just it is more less experienced engineers?
It's also interesting, i frequently use `lol.` as a sort of combination emotion, where i'm signalling laughing but also abruptly stopping. Meaningfully different than a `heh`. Likewise `heh` and `heh.` have a very distinct feel.

Language is weird, it just comes naturally and organically and i go with the flow. Though i find this style of writing mostly done in texting. Long/medium form doesn't benefit as greatly from it.
APS-C sensors are still more than twice as big (in width/height) than the 48MP sensor on the iPhone 14 Pro Max, so if "simple physics" was all there was to it, you'd also expect APS-C cameras to deliver much better results. "Full frame" is just a marketing term.
Which is odd in and by itself. Whenever you have a review with me as your employee and we discuss salary, consider this as a from-scratch negotiation. Just as if I just had quit, left the company, and now somebody new (me) showed up at the doorstep, about whom you have from a very trusted source super-reliable info about their capabilities, work ethics, etc. How much would you pay that person? If the answer results in "10K more than you today" then that's the raise I'm expecting. Anything lower is trying to trick/cheat me and banking on momentum/laziness on my end. Which ultimately would be quite offensive. So, just offer me that money and explain why. (Same goes for salary reduction, obviously. Better that than building a grudge and then suddenly firing me.)
Withings – U-Scan Home Urine Analysis
> You got it right the first time.
No, I gave an example of inductive reasoning common in science. Induction means concluding from the particular to the general. So in this case we might have observed something happening in the past, induced it happens in all of time, deduced that future time is part of all time by definition, and finally concluded that it will happen in the future. Induction is not restricted to time, it can equally be a generalization over time or any circumstance really.

We don't check each and every room in the country to see if general relativity holds there, and then fall in despair once we realize it might have randomly stopped holding in one of them yesterday.

> No, it does not. It observes that the world behaves according to general rules. It does not presuppose that it does.

I'd like to see you explain how you can you observe a rule. Are you God? Can you see all of space and time and all possible dimensions? Science observes particulars and tries to formulate general rules based on these observations. If science would not use induction, any observation would be meaningless, because the exact circumstances the observation was carried out in would cease to exist the moment the observation was concluded.

Therefore, science is susceptible to the induction problem.
I don't know about anyone else, but I also feel miserable with low energy when restricting calories heavily. It's like my body would rather partially starve itself over of adding too much body fat to my "energy mix".
is this a proof of the atlantidae culture, an ice age nation which center was the Atlas mountain, that evolved in North Western Africa (maybe around the richat structure), Sicily, Spain and up to South Ireland? i guess the rising sea and climate change made them migrated to the near east and they bred with local sapiens to form the neolithic revolution, and then some came back.
Never stopped pirating.

I've used friends logins for a few streaming services, but I prefer to just torrent the content.
And it's even worse: people working in white collar level Amazon type jobs will survive, but not all people are at that level.....and, combine this sort of thing with various other sorts of sub-optimal things that exist within the system in large quantities and you might end up with a lot of angry and confused people assembling at prominent political buildings on special days.

Perceptions of this can easily be wallpapered over with "Haha, those people are [just] stupid, they should [just] be laughed at [for their stupidity - yours is fine]", but that does not eliminate the problem, it only eliminates awareness of it.
To use a deeply HN metaphor, it's kind of like pulling in a 3rd party library into your source code. No matter how convenient it is at the moment, you have to account for the cost of the ongoing maintenance over time; sometimes you look at that and decide just to never pull the library in the first place.

Similarly, if I'm on the fence about some service, this is the tie breaker for me; the risk of forgetting to cancel it. Even though I do scan my bank account around once a month, I do naturally pay more attention to the bigger transactions and can easily skim past a $8.99 for a few months before noticing I accidentally left something on.

(Fortunately, where I am, it's just an annoyance. Affording individual subscriptions to all the things I may conceivably at some point want to use would be a noticeable kick in the pants, what with the proliferation of them, but accidentally leaving on one service is just an annoyance.)
I haven't figured out how to effectively search my HN favorites, else I'd probably be able to find a few more of these, but this was discussed recently:

https://git.herrbischoff.com/awesome-macos-command-line/abou...
> Of the 52 components Ukrainians removed from the Iranian Shahed-136 drone, 40 appear to have been manufactured by 13 different American companies, according to the assessment.

> The remaining 12 components were manufactured by companies in Canada, Switzerland, Japan, Taiwan, and China, according to the assessment.

Not a single component produced in Russia? Somehow strange that a country that can send people to space and back is not capable of producing a single component for a military drone.

> According to the Ukrainian assessment

Ah, ok. So the source is trustworthy and objective, not a war party telling whatever they have to tell to support their cause.
Cathie Wood is not going to like this. I think her bear case is TSLA is a $7T company by 2026. I can’t say I agree with her.
Pragmatically, OpenAI was a mechanism for Microsoft to try risky things with AI without incurring the liability and reputational risk of doing it themselves. They became very conservative after Tay.
Amazon's economy has only improved in the last 10 years.

These firings are coordinated across large tech companies to reduce salaries and benefits, make employees work longer hours, and in general shift the power away from employees and back to the executives.
U.S. moves to bar noncompete agreements in labor contracts
That's what I think too! It's like a star dying releasing its heavy materials that are then the basis for new stars. Think of all the raw talent that will be now be released to coalesce into new lean startups, released from the gravity of technical debt.

We're all able to do more with less people. IMO It's only a matter of time before we have a one person unicorn company (>1billion revenue). So let's goooo with the innovation!
> age verification for any website that contains 33.3 percent or more pornographic material (a digression: we're seeing a strong opportunity here for sites featuring only 33.2 percent pornographic material).

So what they can just add a bunch of free content that isn't porn and get away with it? Seems like a poorly thought-out law.
This is an obviously fake story. Similar to the consumer drone panic that's been going on in the Nordics.

A few months ago all the Nordic medias seemed convinced that this guy with his "4 terabytes of encrypted data" must have been a Russian spy, of course that turned out to not be true. (Russia has satellites, the idea that they'd need people to go scout out Nordic infrastructure with consumer drones was and is preposterous)

https://www.vg.no/nyheter/i/xgJ238/dronedoemt-russer-til-vg-...
Ooh, fair.
All of them would have found work elsewhere. Or what's even more likely -- already had work, but Amazon lured them with slightly higher comp.
It's almost as if that everything that I have said about why you should not host on GitHub or go all in on their services is essentially self revealing.

From the repeated unreliability of GitHub and GitHub actions [0], how "private" repositories are not private [1] and now sloppy account bans like this one is more of an indication about why self-hosting makes more sense and my comment going against 'centralizing everything' has aged perfectly and still applies today. [2]

If hobby projects like RedoxOS [3] can outright move off of GitHub and on to a self-hosted GitLab, so can you. It seems they were smart enough to move off of GitHub during the Microsoft takeover and avoid the carnage that they have brought on to the site.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32752965

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34258431

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803

[3] https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os
> There have been many times where I've found DRM encumbered products inferior: trying to stream anime on Crunchyroll during primetime only to experience slowdowns; trying to screenshot something for a wallpaper only to get it blacked out; trying to download offline shows with subtitles, only to find subtitles didn't get downloaded with the video. Compound that with The Streaming Wars, I can't help but feel like a lot of people will turn to piracy out of necessity.

Piracy is not necessarily better. Languages are very few (english essentially), subtitles may not exist at all, quality is variable, and speed can be a problem as well, since it depends on how popular a movie is.

Most importantly, malware push from pirate websites is a very serious problem. I warn non-power users not to download from pirate websites.
Ask HN: Did My Eyesight Improve?
Ever since I saw this other HN post [1], and this speech on Myopia [2], I've been experimenting with trying to improve my eyesight. Primarily, I've been taking off my glasses when working at the computer throughout the day and placing my monitors so that they just begin to become blurry but are still readable. I also purchased glasses with sphere slightly less than my prescription. I began experimenting shortly after the last visits to the optometrist mid-2022. I went to the optometrist yesterday, and my sphere did decrease in both eyes, but I'm having a difficult time of telling whether my eyesight actually improved since the astigmatism numbers changed as well. Additionally, these are all different optometrists, and I went in the morning this year instead of in the afternoon after working on a computer all day in the previous years. Could you help me interpret this data? Did my eyesight improve?

Contact/Spectacle Rx,Date,Eye,Sphere,Cyl,Axis,BC,DIA
Contact,2023-01-04,OD,-1.75,-1.25,30,8.5,14.3
Contact,2023-01-04,OS,-1.50,-1.75,150,8.5,14.3
Spectacle,2023-01-04,OD,-1.75,-1.25,33,,
Spectacle,2023-01-04,OS,-1.50,-1.75,152,,
Contact,2022-05-03,OD,-2.25,-1.25,30,8.6,14.5
Contact,2022-05-03,OS,-2.00,-1.75,160,8.6,14.5
Spectacle,2022-03-08,OD,-2.00,-1.50,35,,
Spectacle,2022-03-08,OS,-2.00,-2.00,160,,
Contact,2019-01-11,OD,-1.50,-1.25,30,8.5,14.5
Contact,2019-01-11,OS,-1.75,-1.25,150,8.5,14.5

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31711990
[2]https://youtu.be/x5Efg42-Qn0
Why then, did they make the decision to do so?
probably one of the dark horse reasons for success is its "open source but not open contributions" model and strong personal leadership from Richard. that clarity of vision and very personal stewardship of the project (listen to him talk with pride about SQLite's aircraft certifications.. not a joke) is something very few open source projects ever have
I've addressed the technical side of this argument before, but I want to address a side that bother's me quite a bit but I don't see addressed often.

Adding computational aspects into photography means that the images taken on these platforms will all have the same artistic interpretation at the level that that computation works. This is fine for snapshots, etc. Where it hurts is in artistic expression. It's almost as if all photos will go through an artistic AI after being taken.

This process can, and likely will, increase the acceptability of those pictures that we use those cameras for most often. I truly think that computational photography will hurt the artistic expression and the feel of images taken outside of those situations.

Right now, with a "real" camera shooting RAW, you keep as much detail of the image as possible and the photographer (artist) edits it to present what their mind's eye told them was there from that RAW data. With anything using computational photography the computer algorithm has already modified that data permanently, pushing and shaping it towards what that algorithm has determined is most pleasing for the largest number of people. I feel like this is a major win for most people who don't care about the art side of photography, but a major loss we aren't yet acknowledging for those who want to explore the artistic expression of the medium.
It's not tougher than dressing up for going outside.
I do the same thing. The only inconvenience is it adds an extra step when you want to watch something after your subscription runs out (resume the subscription and cancel). Google play and the app store make this super easy.
I have a Tesla and I also hold a short position on TSLA. My Tesla is a great car. The best car that I've ever driven but I'm not sure if it has anything that other car manufacturers can't replicate. I think Apple can make an even better car than Tesla if they build the hardware and software like their phones and computers.

The idea that Autopilot has some magic sauce that nobody else can replicate is laughable.
Aye, aye!
I had it give me book recommendations on a particular topic. It straight up made up a fake book with a fake author and attributed it to a publisher. It did this with confidence. I even emailed the publisher to see if they had ever carried that book. Never heard of it.

The problem seems to be whether or not the content was generated via language modeling or via direct references. When it crosses into language modeling it is just making stuff up on the fly. This sometimes works for programming, but for specific things that connect to the real world it can be phenomenally wrong.
In 2021, Tesla pivoted to become the leading AI/Robotics company in the world. They had an investor day with a robot and everything.
What did Elon do to make Tesla earn so much money that the original founders couldnt do? Is it just about debt loans needed?
These parts are commodities. It’s like saying the drone had sheet metal, rivets, screws, wires, and solder. Even if somehow they had all been purchased in one Amazon shopping cart, it would create zero hardship to “force” them to be purchased separately from different vendors.
At a miniumum, the electric cars could be scheduled to take power only when high proportions of wind energy are on the grid -- thereby causing steep declines in demand, sufficient enough that a few coal and gas plants go offline earlier in the evening (for want of demand).
> if there were an electric car for under $10K

We are very close to finding out, at least for the moment. In Oregon the combined federal & state tax incentives make a Chevy Bolt a $10.6K car.
Brilliant thanks, will binge this all.
That's not true. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Cooperation
There are no standards here - the world of SEO is a weird place of guesswork and testing what works. I think the Google recommendation [1] is still to use rel=canonical however who knows why this noindex is added to alternative duplicate pages - it might be that the SEO person at Slack knows what they are doing.

I think the accusation of foul play is somewhat overblown given there is a version that does not contain noindex.

[1] https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...
In that case, I'm not sure your comment added much to the discussion either. But the OP generically asked what the solution was, and the generic solution as far as I can tell is the long march of progressively better technology. It's very clear that the tech will continue to improve and is only in its infancy. Had the OP asked something like "what specific improvements can we expect to see in battery weight reduction and charging speeds so that this won't be an issue in the future" I probably wouldn't have replied because I don't know the specifics.

It's fine if you think my comment is low-quality or something, but cherry-picking mine to disagree with and then to go off on an argumentative tangent with poorly formed discussion points isn't really the answer either. It's not a big deal, this is all for fun and everything, but I'm not sure what exactly you were trying to get out of my original comment.