skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what they meant by asymmetric warfare is that it's already not a supply issue; that's just not where the bottleneck is.

The whole reason it's called asymmetric is that you're not going blow -for-blow, so you have to optimize for different things like information, allies, and maximizing hitting power per soldier
For many people disgusted by seeing a person like Holmes having it easy despite being egregariously guilty of criminal offenses against others in several terrible ways, it's not hypocrisy in the way you try to describe. Instead it's simply being angry that a justice system which regularly hammers much poorer people into the ground for often very minor offenses then treats a wealthy criminal like her with kid gloves in specific ways.

One can support reforms against punitive justice and still be disgusted by something like this, or one can also support prison reform while considering Holmes's crimes bad enough to merit a fairly strong degree of punishment in this specific case. Basically: complex subjects like this are full of nuance, and strawmen need not apply to and honest debate.
I struggle to understand what the point of this comment is.

Yes, we know, opinions are like assholes, everyone has one. You don't have to believe him or agree with anything he says. That's ... how it works.

I generally find his posts quite helpful and useful. Even ones where I might not agree with him.

Your comment is noise. It's just blind criticism without actually saying anything. I don't find it helpful or useful. "His value system could be valid or not valid". Also, water is wet and British food sucks.
A can’t miss awesome thing for people on the precipice of the dependent type theory rabbit hole is 1lab: https://1lab.dev/#lab

1lab is the future for mathematics research that deserves to happen.
I unironically prefer Valheim's graphics to any AAA game I've played. The scenes it sets are just perfect. I really enjoy the art style in the OP too.
> Getting a refund for an AppStore App is near impossible.

Don't know what you're talking about -- I've done it several times when an app turned out not to work or not have a feature I needed. The refund was processed every time.

Obviously if you needed to refund 100 apps in a week you'd probably have an issue, but normal occasional refunds seem to present no problem whatsoever.
Fun fact about SVGs: you can drop-shadow an SVG and it will work fine. See https://poggers.website
If someone cross-breeds these with Japanese mountain hornets, I'm out.
The Legacy of Aaron Swartz: The Freedom of Information Movement
This is a somewhat weak argument.
Judging from the problems my boss has had with them lately they are anything but "transparent".
The article is foolish from top to bottom.

It says exactly one right thing: you can put a reservoir on a hilltop, and the "head" is the height of the hill, not the depth of the reservoir.

You do not need a mountain. You do not need a high valley. It is cheap to build an earthen dike around the top of a hill, leveling off the hilltop peak for material.

The hill does not need to be steep; a shallow slope just means a longer penstock, which costs more.

A 300-meter hill is high enough for practical use. In most cases only a few hours' storage is plenty; you only need enough to make firing up a gas generator an occasional event.
RIP screen readers
But will a union lead to a better product? As a consumer, unions concern me because they could raise prices, and disrupt whatever thing I have going on (think teachers and flight union strikes). So, as a consumer, I don't support unions.

On the other hand, I think employees who are not treated fairly by their employer should form a union. It's the best thing they can do for themselves as an employee.

Consequently, when there is a tech union, I am concerned what that means for me as a customer. Will that lead to better products? Will it lead to higher prices?
Funny enough tech workers are already part of a collective if they live in a country with a democratic government. As voters like minded people band together push for changes, directly or through representatives.

So why would it be illogical for tech workers to form a union as companies grow in power to rival nation states?
It's really not that hard to work out that it's true when given 3 dice with this property, especially if you already know that it's possible or if your suspicion level is high due to the framing.

All you need to do is look at each pair of dice and compare. Especially for some sets of dice the comparison is trivial. Like look at the ones in the article with five 3s and five 4s, you don't even need to think to figure out which one wins more.
This is the main excuse for companies when they get flak for their anti-consumer behaviour, that the comments on the internet don't matter. It is somehow rooted in emotions and/or irrational status seeking through imagined Internet points. If people show up in the comments they could have something to say! I know that this is a place of terminally online people and we have seen sooo much bullshit in comments but we can't turn a blind eye to some of the bullshit that big corporations pull and not tell people why we think it is wrong. One of the best examples is that I had to fight Intel fanbois defending software unlocks for CPU performance. It is anti-consumer behaviour where they are artificially segmenting the market to build fewer models. The car manufacturers are doing similar things now where they always put in heated seats in the car and tries to sell the ass heating as a software subscription... when I buy the car I'm paying for the heating coils in the seat and I should be able to turn them on at any time since I bought them.
what keyboard is that?
It is not a good article, at all. See above. It is cleverly written to fool the unwary.
Amount of religious people on HN is very surprising to me. I expected engineering community to do better.
The last artificial flower factory in NYC crafts designs for celebrities [video]
And that's why they worked. The addition of those tokens selects for similar content which leads to a better distribution of results (maybe)
What an odd article, also the whole paragraph about the update having been scanned for malware and is stored on secure computers, isn't that just boilerplate for all downloads?
Hmm, after reading your warning, I was hesitant, but gave it a go anyways. It is definitely disturbing, but not in a visceral way that is hard to stomach. I don't feel "disturbed" and I definitely don't feel the kind of regret about reading it that you did. Not disagreeing with you since that wouldn't make sense because this is totally subjective. It's just interesting to note how differently people react.
"Shin chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation" is a relatively new game on steam and switch. And of course the major slice of life games like stardew valley, animal crossing, harvest moon, rune factory etc. The Japanese quite like these stuff.
The Wikipedia article of J Pollock has 0 photos of his work
> Following a religion improves your daily actions, feels wonderful, and connects you to a worldwide community. These are better reasons than insisting it’s absolutely true.

Religion terrifies me, I don't feel wonderful thinking about eternal existence in the afterlife. Even if there was some proof that the afterlife did exist, I would most likely pretend it doesn't exist.

You can get a sense of community doing many other things.

> Same with philosophies, nationalities, norms, and concepts like loyalty, destiny, and identity. None of these are true. But they are useful.

I don't know what this means. How can nationalities not be true? Philosophies do not claim to be true, they are just a logically consistent framework.

No idea how it applies to concepts either.
He probably finds that with cheese he loses all the texture and binding in the bowel movements.
Apparently inflation is measured with a consumer price index, which represents some predefined basket of consumer goods.

One could define a coupon, that may be exchanged for said basket and it would be an inflation stable currency, right?

The obvious problem is that most of the goods are perishable. Most coupons that I can think of are only valid for fixed period of time. Also each nation has a different basket and inflation. The entity issuing such coupons doesn't really gain from them. Contents of the basket change over time...

But hey, maybe a CPI basket coin will be created and will be exchangable to a standard measure of inflation.
Who knows.
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You don't need a tower. A boat with a winch and a weight does the job cheaply. For extra credit, more weights.
I don’t like Mailchimp, they won’t allow any emails that even seem to mention anything crypto-related. Super annoying.
Someone explained to me that for an architect, bad architecture is actually better.

One consequence of good architecture is that it is easy to change. When you want to change something, you pick the most easy place, i.e. the best architecture gets modified and the worst stays.

Long term, this is a kind of evolutionary pressure. Bad architecture will drive out good architecture. It will be costly, so the sunk cost falacy guarantees its continued existence. It just has to seem good enough, up to the point that it is too big to fail.

If an architect wants to build a lasting legacy, he or she just has to create software with some bait to give it a few starting years, entangle it with everything else, and give it a disastrous architecture so no one dates to change it. Voila, 10 year longetivity minimum guaranteed.
Yes, obviously we can't change the article headline, but the HN headline needs to be fixed, because it's blatantly incorrect.
Yep. Especially if the reply is a video reaction. Like, congratulations, you are giving platform to the worst things you could find out there.
This article appears to now be outdated. Not a day after it was posted

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/01/20/layoffs-in-some-o...

Apple has become notifying employees in the retail channels of their rights when being laid off.
Of course people prefer not to know. I happen to be a vegetarian. I’m not a preachy vegetarian (I hope!) and people should eat what they want to eat. Willfully blind meat eating does offend me though although I’m open to being convinced I’m wrong. I feel if one eats meat one should know and respect its origins like a grownup. The consequences one draws from that knowledge is up to the individual.
What exactly does Mailchimp publish about their security model that would allow anyone to predict this breach?
One way to have folks realize some of what they believed was impossible to measure is to run a thought experiment: what if one were to clone the org; between a control group and the other, what would X look like?

Where X could be something like employee engagement or the like--something nebulous that could be made concrete, or to reduce uncertainty.

From How to Measure Anything 2e
There is an optimal choice of die, yes. But you still lose more often than you win if you pick first.

The counterintuitive part is that the first player cannot win more often than they lose.
Wow, this story sounds familiar to my own. Moved to NYC 15 years ago and worked in Service (Server, Bartender, Manager) after about 8 years in, I applied to college at CUNY. Went to engineering school part time for 4 years while still working at a bar (6pm-5am 3 nights a week) until I finally just took out loans to finish the last two years.

Graduated with a degree in computer Engineering at 33. During and after school I worked in web doing frontend, then full stack engineering. Now I'm senior at a cloud HPC company designing and implementing things beyond my imagination.

I can 100% testify the soft skills learned from the service industry give me a competitive advantage in tech.
A Type-Based Approach to Divide-and-Conquer Recursion in Coq
(between parentheses, has the renaming of Coq been perfectly abandoned, or has it "just receded into the indefinite future"?)
Comments like this confirm the stereotype that engineers have a one-track mind. Imagine crapping on billions of people for believing something that they cannot prove, but that you also cannot disprove. How arrogant.
You might have set your computer to trust. But there is nothing stopping someone else from making your phone think it’s a trusted computer. That’s the entire point.
I'm OK with that as well! Should be even better.

The only problem is that this project is about 40 years behind in budget and political will in most European countries. It's a travesty which is being paid for in Ukrainian blood as we speak.
...because Haskell isn't ivory enough anymore.
Yeah, no idea why people are upvoting this. Reads like a listening to the internal jokes of a tight-knit group that you don’t know.
Opinion: The World Has Fallen for the Taliban’s Lies Once Again
Even that doesn't work - some companies do exactly that with regular phishing exercises etc.

Employees get really good at spotting the tests.
Prompt engineers: $250k – $335k and equity
I love some of those early 16 bit windows games like ski free, solitaire, and all the boatloads of shareware games of the era. They played like the simplicity of Atari 2600 games, but had crisp clipart style graphics. Castle of the Winds was a rogue clone of the era that I remember sinking a ton of time into playing.
It seems that ChatGPT is incapable of whatever we experience with the “ohhhhhh!” eureka moment.

I give it simple riddles that it doesn’t solve. I then point out the obvious answer and it just doubles down like that really stubborn friend I had in high school. It never does the, “ohhhh! Aha! Yes that’s the answer.”
Cable Matters cables. I’ve ran them for years across several machines without issues.
If nothing else: it doesn't model the problem correctly. There's only one of each type of die, the second person can't pick a non-existant copy.
A lot of things are religions if you squint hard enough. We humans believe all sorts of stuff without much explicit evidence that it is in fact true.

For example: New-ish research is showing that some surgeries are no better than placebo. https://www.painscience.com/biblio/four-orthopedic-surgeries...

Another fun example is that allergy drugs, which clinical trials have shown are effective in double-blind studies, are less effective if you watch an ad saying that drug is bad right before taking it. Nocebo effect. If you have a strong belief the drug works, it will work better. Placebo effect is strong even in drugs we know are not placebo. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/is-the-placebo-effect-for-r...

And then you have the whole field of management and business books. Very close to a sort of federated decentralized religion.
> Plus users that use this stuff are self-selecting as the exact kind of users without the technical knowledge to know what they're doing, why, or how to undo it (or else they'd just make the changes "by hand")

Or the exact kind of users at the other end of the bell curve, who are fully capable of "just mak[ing] the changes 'by hand'" but recognize that to be a massive waste of time when an automated solution can do it with orders of magnitude less time and effort (and do it again, when - not if - some Windows update undoes the changes).
I was in the Davis mountains at the McDonald observatory out in West Texas a few years ago. It was a new moon and after about an hour of letting my eyes adjust what was visible was almost overwhelming. Seeing satellites zoom across the sky under the backdrop of the entire universe was surreal.
Man, your's is a lot more fun.
Unions only have power when they are the majority in an organization and can do collective bargaining. There is simply zero utility to be had from that in tech industries as these folk are already paid too much and can walk elsewhere for opportunities.
I interpreted it to portray security personnel checking people's bags for contraband at an airport; where Microsoft is the security guard, and individual computers are the bags.
I love the internet dearly
Reddit is best known for terminally online people. The place where one person leaves a boilerplate comment for another person that they will never interact with again.
They're ever so slightly different.

Scream test is to discontinue service entirely and see who screams, akin to pulling the plug on a server in a rack when you've got no idea what's running on it, to then plug in back in when you find out it's the finance team running payroll software.

Brown outs are typically short-lived purposeful errors or aborts to either shed load to prevent a failure due to capacity exhaustion or cause issues that are investigated by a human to find the service has been sunsetted which raise awareness that something needs to be fixed before it's totally broken.
Why are so many companies so hostile against self-hosted versions of their product?
You should visit big telcos. Things chug along not because there is a great competent army fixing anything. Institutional knowledge is regularly lost thanks to changes in tech, ever changing fortunes of the biz, divisions getting sold off etc etc. They chug along because people make do with what ever works. It sort of like your OS crashing. You keep backups, reload, reboot. You dont debug and fix. The older systems get that's pretty much the norm.
Is it hundreds or is it thousands, you say thousand+, the site says hundreds.
> But the iPhone maker has been better positioned than many rivals to date in part because it added employees at a much slower clip than those companies during the pandemic.

I wonder to what extent that was what Apple meant to do, vs. to what extent it was forced on Apple because of supply-chain constraints? Apple was constrained by Chinese manufacturing in a way that software tech companies weren't.

Maybe lean hiring plays a part and maybe it doesn't, but I'm pretty sure "no free lunches" has nothing to do with it.
Would it be anywhere near as contentious if folks weren't either constantly misinterpreting the scale of the original study involved or else going No True Scotsman to death on the definition? Would anyone care as much if the job interview process in our industry wasn't also infamously infuriating? Or if enough of us weren't familiar with egotistic assholes whose productivity wasn't necessarily the result of any particular innate skill? There are a lot of confounding factors for any given anecdote.

Whether there's any fundamental truth doesn't much matter, everyone wants to bend the idea to fit their own agenda.
Huh? No. As I understand it, GP is making the point that implicit in Sivers' idea is that there actually is, at bottom, a notion of objective truth that is more than merely this sort of utilitarian notion of useful. Because in order to even judge whether something is useful or helps to achieve some beneficial end in any way that we'd care about, one must have some axiological conception in mind.

Also, I really don't understand why your comment is so biting and aggressive and how you finding his posts helpful and useful is responsive to GP's point? Did GP offer some general critique of his posts? Maybe GP also finds them generally helpful and useful, but had a point to make about this specific post? Your entire response is generally strange and the rudeness is unwarranted.
It’s legal for her to try to profit from her Theranos patents?
"and out of the strong came forth sweetness"
You underrate the value of belonging to a community.

As an entrenched atheist (and by definition an atheist is also an individualist), by love, I attended mass most sundays for several years. I understood that I underrated the community part and that to belong I didn’t need to believe only respect. I didn’t convert (and most likely never will) but it softened my views.
> fiduciary duty is to maximize shareholder profit

This keeps coming up and is kind of true, but not really.

To quote the U.S. Supreme Court opinion in the Hobby Lobby case: “Modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.”

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/13-354.html
LibreOffice finally digests Microsoft's financials.
The whole concept of software engineers putting a “name” to the phenomenon of gifted individuals is cringe, in my opinion.

Mathematicians don’t go around talking about professors in quantum physics with PHDs like they 10x high school teachers, etc.

I don’t understand why this is a topic that keeps coming up.
A Dump of the Raw Stadia Controller BT Firmware
I would delete it (and upvote the original post).
I’ll back out then/leave the debate to those who have the time to sort through all of this. The gist about the enormous amount of space needed in that article seemed accurate/more than I thought.
The thing with some surgeries being no better than placebo is that this can be shown and behaviors can be adjusted.

With religion, "god did it" and "god works in mysterious ways" is always the answer and behaviors can't be adjusted.

Why do we do these needless surgeries? God works in mysterious ways.
Winning the lottery is even rarer and still people play and think they win.

And keeping the life vest metaphor, we are not on dry land, we are on a calm sea but still on the water.
Truly, I would like to read this but it’s behind paywall. I can only assume that Russian efforts, even if they are successful with military efforts, will continue to fail because they would not be supported by the people. This appears to be a formula for failure they keep applying. lack of support from the general population can make it difficult for a government to maintain control and stability in any region.
wav2vec2, whisper, HifiGAN, Stable Diffusion, and Imagen all use BatchNorm.
Except they don’t know who they can and can’t do this for, so the entire exercise is a bit useless.
Use your Stadia controller wirelessly with any game
> Animals are tortured today like they have never been

I'm not sure that's true.

The Old Testament has spells out that if you want to eat part of an animal, you have to kill it first which is a huge step forward in being kind to animals if hacking off part of an animal to eat while keeping it alive was something that happened enough to need a prohibition against.

It wasn't that ago that Edison electrocuted an elephant as part of a marketing stunt and it wasn't particularly quick. I don't think that would fly today.
>>> I come in when they are ready to throw one away, but aren't sure what to replace it with yet.

Perfect - yes.
A lot of different explanations here and they're probably all true as it is a combination:

1. Interests going up means less economic activity (at least how our current financial system is setup)
2. Everyone else does it, so you can trim down without stigma.
3. We are hitting an economic recession and the companies remember how bad times can go so they want to prepare.

A more cynical thing is, as we are hitting this economic troubles ahead, things will most likely get cheaper.
If Google have more money they can buy more of their competitors and ensure to bigger marketshare for cheaper.
Nationalities are a social construct, a bit of a shared delusion we all believe in. If we all stopped believing in them at the same time, they would cease to exist. That’s how they can not be “true”. Whether or not it’s useful or relevant to think that way depends on the situation. And that doesn’t mean they don’t have real consequences.

As for philosophies, he’s referring to living your life by any particular philosophy, whether or not it’s “objectively” the best way to live.
100%

I'd say the primary reason to post on a forum is so that other people see it. It's funny when I get spicy somewhere and then the person tries to lecture me on "maybe I should say my point nicer so the person I'm arguing against is more likely to change their mind," as if that were the primary goal.
Farmhand: The open source farming game that’s fun for 30 seconds or 30 minutes
Feedbro shows the tweet quoted as well. It's also the best RSS reader I've found.