skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having been inside this sausage-making process a little bit that is absolutely not the case in any situation I've ever seen.

Reality is more like:

Big co buys a big IP because they are excited to sell stuff to that fan base

Producers scurry around trying to find people to attach to the project

If they find a good director and/or team of excellent writers who are genuinely passionate about the source material, they are worried the artistic vision will frighten the exec producers and fat cats funding the movie.

If they find big name writers or director, that person frequently wants to make their mark and doesn't care much about the source material.
If they can't find big name writers or director, the people they get are second-rate and can't help but butcher the source material whether they care about it or not. After all a film/series is very different from a book/book series and so some changes/adaptations have to be made to accommodate the new medium.

Along the way the project drifts while different stars and funding fatcats are attached to the project causing writes/rewrites, additions, changes etc. Later the project drifts when people see rushes or tehre are test showings etc and they decide rewrites or reshoots are needed.

It's very seldom that a talented director and/or team of writers is given a genuine chance to produce something true to the original source material. I mean if you think about Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson, prior to LOTR they were most known for writing and directing a pretty non mainstream horror movie. The sort of risk-taking that it takes to greenlight them doesn't happen very often.
The same way every other site on the internet does: a report button.
Couldn’t this be solved with some vigilantly style justice. (Since Amazon are not dealing with it proactively)

If a large group of individuals buy these hard drives (~1-3k) and then all file for refunds on the basis that the product is a scam / not as advertised (providing the evidence from the blog post).

Isn’t the result that everyone gets a refund. The seller loses the sales. They get 1-3k bad reviews. And they lose the merchandise (unless they’re sent back, but it seems like lower value products like this don’t require a return).

Surely that would quite quickly make this an unprofitable venture for the scammers.
Chobham Armour
>The only missing part from your example is supporting custom properties in selectors

I figured it was implied some rules would have to be made which might be properties used in selectors are scoped to ancestors of element.

>I'm not sure I totally understand the specifics of the example

example is probably too fanciful but assuming you have a match of selector

.modal .message .error

then element with class user which is on a totally different part of the page - like

body

header

....stuff .user

/header

article

section

.modal .warning .error

then user has color red. Do I personally want this, not much, just considering the people who sometimes say they want if ( selector exists) then bunch of css.

another more likely usage for something like this (a match function that takes a selector) might be the various CSS logical operations things people do sometimes https://css-tricks.com/logical-operations-with-css-variables...

however, as I noted before I don't think it makes sense for css performance reasons, despite how interesting/amusing I might find the idea.
Here's another thing to blow your mind: Gorbachev was the only Russian leader in history that resigned himself quietly, and then lived his life as a normal person.

In all of Russian history.

You could argue that Medvedev did, too, but this increasingly deranged puppet is sort of back in politics now.
I’d like to chime in and say we’ve been using Signals for probably 4 months now. We have it setup to send every two weeks. My company is 20 people.

It’s been really good to get quick feedback on the happiness of our employees. It’s been interesting the ups and downs that come through. A lesson I’ve learned is you don’t want to be too reactive, as things change quickly depending on the week. But you can pick up trends over a few iterations (for us, it was people wanted more social events organized).

One thing we really wanted to solve was allowing people a chance to break out of management hierarchies and go direct to founders. Even in a small company like ours, we had some middle management that blocked feedback. This has allowed people to bypass that. It’s a modern “my door is always open” system that seems to work so far.

On the anonymity discussed here, I’d say it’s anonymous in terms of the platform hides everything from us. But when you’re small like us, you tend to be able to guess who said what based on tone or writing style. But I think the point about the kind of company that wants to use this is a good one. We are using it because we care about what our employees think, not as a way to trap people and use it against them.
Jazz sheets often write 7 assuming it may be played as 9, if not 11/13 even. A triad in the left hand being a bit too pedestrian, a rootless “Cmaj7” is virtually always played as a rootless Cmaj9 (EGBD), or more commonly a rootless C69 (EGAD) especially if the tonic. Inversions may include the root instead of a 9th, e.g. BCEG.
> Unlike a lot of stuff from the 1990s or so, the Rust core itself doesn't care about localization. It speaks Unicode fluently, but it doesn't try to think about locale problems at all.

The design of Rust's standard library is to be as minimal as possible. Full localization support would be too much for a tiny standard library such as Rust's. Contrast this to Java or Go.

In the library ecosystem, there are full implementations of fluent available, and the compiler is being translated. It's not ergonomic to use yet, meaning you have to put the strings into a separate .ftl file (maybe it will never be), but it's quite powerful and developed by a lot of experts on the topic.
There are definitely some pathological situations where vim becomes unresponsive even on a beefy box. Usually there's exceptionally long lines of text involved, esp. with syntax highlighting/:setf active IME.

Furthermore there's the whole intentional delay on ESC exit from modes like an aborted search query... that can make it feel unresponsive but it's just a timeout. Try it, hit '/' in vim, then ESC to abort the search, count a full second of unresponsiveness.

This blog speaks to such ESC delays one encounters in vim:

https://www.johnhawthorn.com/2012/09/vi-escape-delays/
My contention is "how do you determine if someone was 'as good'?" Very likely the people in the position to make a decision will not be qualified enough to even make that decision. IF (and really only if) such a determination is possible, then sure, I agree, find harder problems etc, but I assert that people will not make that determination (which is close to impossible to make) well, if at all because that wasn't the point in the first place.
I'm not insisting on any specific solution - just wanted to inform other options exist.
yeah I'm familiar, but that wasn't at all what I was talking about. :)
> Because Amazon is an online store that makes money when things are being sold through it. Including fake things.

Yep, and it uses this money to pay reviewgeek.com for their affiliate links on this article, and the circle is closed (to be fair, at least they did not post an affiliate link to one of these fake drives).
In 20 years of me being a customer with Amazon, I have never once had a problem with them. Returns are quick and easy. Payment systems work.

I can't say the same for other stores. And thus, other stores successively lost my business (with the exception of some seriously fringe stuff, like speciality tea, electronics components ... and computer parts)
Except non techies never get close to the real capacity and never realizes they got scammed
Last I tried eigen, adding those headers to the project added a full 3 seconds to my compile (it was under a second before), seriously harming ability to quickly play with the code, as you would say in NumPy.
Can't say anything about secure boot, but we have HP at work and the BIOS is the most brain damaged thing ever.

Just the built-in update process... It doesn't always find the latest version, ie lags behind the website by weeks sometimes. Then when it checks for updates and finds there isn't a new version available, it offers you to downgrade to the previous version but apart from the text being a bit different, the blue button below still says "UPGRADE", so the first time I accidentally started a downgrade. So it started flashing the BIOS, then something like the nic firmware, then came to the Intel ME firmware and suddenly said "uh no, I cannot downgrade that" and just aborted the whole update process. No idea if it would've kept flashing other stuff after the ME, and evidently it didn't break anything, but holy crap that looks like a half-arsed feature.
I've been saving money for future smarter self who will know what to do with all the money. Here I am almost a decade later and I am not any smarter. I'm scared sh*less to invest so the 2x annual salary that I managed to save is just rotting in a savings account.
This is probably not a smart question, but why isn't Amazon sued or otherwise held accountable if this happens repeatedly?
Also the average pay still went up. Doesn't seem that bad a future.
Why is Amazon doing thing? Cash, of course!
I had to move my old iPhone 7 to trash box and move to something else back in the days.
One day it started to ask to my iCloud password every time i wanted to download something. Not just the password, but the password multiple times and security questions, finishing that flow did not make the prompt go away, essentially trapping me inside some kind of never-ending auth loop which was not going away even with full factory reset. The support at the time was not answering any questions, leaving me with generic responses that i need to go thru that flow.
Apple is king of bad UX loops and frustrating experiences in software, don't know why they got hardware so right, but the software is magnitudes behind
Was nice to read your story, thanks
Because is a money making super mega corporation with no values. Best is to stay away from it and find alternatives. Yes it will cost you more, but not under the expense of someone else. And yes, it is possible have not bought anything there for 5 years or so.
After reading the article, I think they should be put out to sea as per his wishes.

Yes the man is long dead and yes the bones are no doubt medically interesting. But they've had them for two centuries. Why not one final positive gesture to end the chapter?
The same for me, and the interface is actually better than many websites, including pretty much all larger warehouse-style stores.
How does it know I want CSV? – An HTTP trick
> If I had a bowl of tickets with these links, and was offered to select one (lottery style), only then would I trust in anonymity.

Actually a really great idea perhaps.

In the HR space there is definitely a place for pseudonomous feedback/issue raising. Not anonymous where a disgruntled employee can raise 10 separate issues and appear as 10 disgruntled employees.

Not sure how your idea would work in practice but letting the employee choose a "ticket" sounds like a nice concept.
It looks like our best hope is market forces, as people stop buying from Amazon after seeing this constant drip-feed of Amazon's poor quality control.
It’s the fish John West rejects that makes them the best.

I expect Amazon to control quality so that new sellers will have vast reach instead of Amazon becoming a toxic swamp that nobody goes near.
That's the point, no
US dollars can only be held in proper by US entities. All US dollars are either actually held by a bank, which has a US entity responsible for those US dollars, or as an IOU for another US entity. Despite them being on the balance sheet of a non-US entity, they are ultimately in custody of some entity under US law, unless we're talking about literal cash.

> Countries don't ask for US dollars in order to trade. Although it is common for some goods to be priced in US dollars, companies (rather than countries) will price and trade in whatever currency suits them, often with assistance from banks providing foreign exchange services. The banks don't need to be US banks, and goods priced in USD do not need to be paid for in USD if you go through an intermediary, which is common practice.

Countries do ask for US dollars in order to trade. You can notionally trade in another currency, but the value of this currency is related to the number of US dollars it can buy, and eventually that is what ends up happening. Some countries will set up currency swap mechanisms in order to allow for trade without relying on the dollar, but these are few and far between. It is generally not possible to do such trade without at some level going through the US dollar. This is a natural consequences of the fact that the US dollar is the only dominant reserve currency, meaning that it is by far the currency with the largest trade surplus. The structural reasons for this trade surplus, which I won't get into, are the reason why international trade ends up with the US dollar. For these reasons, the threat if being banned from using the US dollar, if your assets aren't seized, is sufficient to greatly dissuade trade.

Cuba is not the only example of this. American secondary sanctions on Iran led to the cancellation of contracts between European companies and Iranian companies en masse, and were cited as the reason why it happened.

> The parent comment stands up. The embargo is not a reasonable explanation for the poor circumstances of the Cubans.

Cuba has a GDP per capita of 9500$ USD nominal (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...) - which is above the average for Latin America and the Cardibbean. We can look at Iran for an example of a country under an identical sanctions regime, which suffered a 50% fall in GDP. The thesis that most of its economic problems come from the sanctions regime seems strong, as the closest analog suffered a halving of GDP and because it is nonetheless economically a strong performer for the region.

If you look at a microscopic level, the lack of access to specific products is a common theme in Cuban economic problems, and this is certainly attributable to the sanctions regime.
It seems like companies are trying to combine multiple positions into one position. They're surprised they can't find that one person to do all these jobs at the same time. Invent new tech on a deadline while maintaining a legacy full stack and remotely mentoring a team around the world.
If something is small and high volume then it’s a fraud risk.

I haven’t done the math but I do nearly all of my shopping on Amazon. I do this because I know I won’t have any problems with returns or refunds with Amazon.

I tend to avoid the random all caps six letter companies when I can though.

I also don’t pay much attention to positive reviews. I’m interested in the people that had bad experiences. So I go to the 1 and 2 star reviews and see if anything looks like a problem I would care about.
We just refurbished our house here in Norway. New windows and 10 cm extra insulation. I am shocked how well the windows perform! Ice on the outside, but nice and warm on the inside. Amazing!
This post strongly resonated with me. Recently I have had no external life commitments for an extended period and I've constantly had the impression that I'm wasting my life. Most days I wake up trying to grasp at something meaningful to do with my time, but no matter what I accomplish - say on personal projects that I more often than not eventually abandon - it doesn't feel enough. I routinely ask myself, "What am I doing with my life" but I don't know how to answer these questions. I tend to fill my days with consuming media, personal hobbies, socializing and physical survival (cooking, eating, sleeping) but it all seems trivial. I wish I had something meaningful to do, like working towards a cause that I deeply believe in, or raising a family, but those things just haven't happened for me yet.
I'm in my second or third project facing this very issue right now.
We run a lot of Java and C# and have migrated most things to various cloud solutions. But, we ofc still run some medium sized iron for all the COBOL. I doubt we'll migrate away from it since we have the devs, but for similar systems I think it could prove useful.

We'll all take a look at it later today! Fun with COBOL news that aren't paywalled =)
From the picture it looks new break pad is thinner, but at the same time longer?
If the surface area remained similar, have the brake been really downgraded, or just changed?
> allowing new sellers to have vast reach

Right now new sellers do not stand a chance unless they work in a niche (and even then you can't find anything on Amazon anymore unless you already know brand name + model name).

These fake/spam sellers are clogging up everything.

Amazon could easily combat this, maybe not 100%, but 1-2 quality well trained human moderators (nothing outsourced, only focused on this single job, no other support roles) would probably be enough to signicantly improve the situation.

I am going to make the claim that I could clean up a product category by myself in a few hours.
Why is embedding ten times more expensive ($0.004/1K tokens vs $0.0004/1K tokens) than base models on Azure, but the same price at OpenAIs api pricing page (https://openai.com/api/pricing/)?
highly in demand engineers need unions a lot less than minimum wage employees whose terrible wages are subsidized by your taxes so that they don't starve to death.
On the contrary, I'd argue all the switching probably kept you sharp
Don't scratch your head too hard you'll get a bold spot.

It is nothing but a sort of well intentioned sounding yet ultimately meaningless corporate speak instituted a long time ago by Bezos - kind-of sort-of true for a while and then the headcount gets huge.

Now it something you might hear at Uncle Enzo's CosaNostra Pizza HQ.
The application still needs to communicate the things it needs, the things on which the OS/the user should make choices. And if the application can communicate this, it can communicate it again. And again. And again. Or flat out refuse to work with "incorrect" choices, and bully the users into compliance.

You'd think that would be really rude of the app. That may have mattered 20-30 years ago. Today, most consumer-facing tech companies - big corporation and small startups alike - adopted "being a rude, obnoxious asshole" as a business model.

Note that this includes all the major commercial OS vendors too - i.e. Apple, Google and Microsoft. This creates a new challenge: how do we design secure systems when neither the apps nor the OS itself are trusted parties? How do we develop this security framework, when untrusted parties are the ones gatekeeping adoption, and also most likely to be developing it?

In other words: how do we maintain security for hens, when the foxes are guarding the hen house?
Yes, this is the problem. They are convenient for the customer. It does not mean that their business model is close to what man can call «evil»
Almost like they have collapsed into a cesspool of backstabbing, overwork, turnover, burnout, betrayal, hire-to-fire, stack ranking, inevitable pip, etc.

Even if you survive that, they'll fire you right before you vest.
Accounting systems for non profits are hard to find. They have donors and donations not customers and sales.

Also non profits have too small of a budget for tools.
Is it though?

In a way that we care about, or in the “we can use it but you can’t” way that it is already there?

Given that currently the only way to access existing models is by filling in a request form (https://aka.ms/oaiapply) and “who knows?” … don’t hold your breath.

Saying the open ai service “is now generally available” seems like… a creative interpretation of the situation.

(Yes, I know they keep saying “generally available”, but if you actually try to use it you’ll see: “Azure OpenAI Service is available with limited access during the preview. Apply now“)
Perifractic and Ladyfractic are legends. They just keep pushing out quality content. I cannot understand why they don't have 1 million subscribers yet.
Their seller systems are complete garbage too - a real jumbled mess of options scattered through various pages that have been upgraded by different parties over the years!
Why don’t they just stick to mini series? Best invention since the movies imo.
Java seems to have just as much if not more available in its standard lib.
I can barely understand what you're saying.
I buy from Amazon, although much, much less than I used to a couple years ago. Bullshit reviews are mostly easy to spot, and real reviews stand out too. If I get something I don’t like, or is crap quality, whatever, I return it. I return around 25% of purchases. Without that return policy I would never shop at Amazon, not a chance.
The uneven spots may indicate the presence of leaks. The leaks can have an effect on the average temperature.
I think the best way to go about this is to think about what you do. No matter what it is, consider if maybe there's a better or easier way to do it. I've come up with a lot of great small projects to solve personal nuisances over the years. I've only implemented a fraction of them, for two reasons: Way more ideas than I know what to do with and ideas can easily snowball into a much larger project that becomes difficult to set aside time for.

It also helps to look at projects that already sort of address your issue but you think could be solved in a different way that you think suits your needs better. I've also written some small command line programs that fill some unfulfilled need yet aren't meant to be a complete solution, more of an additional pipeline for other useful CLI programs I use like z.

No idea about monetization though.
"Note that querying LLMs and making the outputted code conform to specifications is probably a lot easier than writing the code yourself"

This overestimates the time developers spend typing text and underestimates the time spent thinking about problems, verification and locating bugs/code, etc.

Just because the output of a model is text doesn't mean it is a replacement. You would need extraordinary "single shot" functionality where the LLM always outputs correct code and knows how to deal with any potential specification. The moment it fails then you wouldn't want "paralegal" developers, you would want normal, maybe inexperienced, developers.

Single shot functionality is very impressive because humans can't do it, they build things incrementally, but once your program gets large, it can only be written incrementally, which at least implies that the AI needs to keep track of unbounded context.
> What should be shown instead?

The list of apps that I select to be shown.
In the land of C++, we have a sparse standard library and no standard package management solution
I guess it's one of those shows you need to mentally prepare yourself to watch. Maybe I'm just trying to make excuses now to feel better, but there's something different about watching a mystery show where I have to pay close attention if I really want to get it, and something like Wednesday which I can watch in whatever exhausted state of mind.
You can always go faster (if you know where to risk it)
Even on nVidia cards you can literally edit the V/f curve.
Not to mention the bizarrely bad search engine which is so utterly useless it can only be deliberately bad. This is an example of the consequences of monopoly you've nowhere else to go so they can ignore your dissatisfaction.
Who wants to face Amazon lawyers?
I could say something like this about the Nordics. The countries that brag over superiour healthcare over the dumb american capitalist.

Today, unless you pay private insurance, you can wait 13 years ( not a typo, you wait a teenager ) for hip surgery.

Sweden today. One of the richest “socialist” countries on the planet.