skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Twitter was unanimously predicted to implode. Nothing happened. Why?
Twitter laid off 50% of its staff. Principal and staff engineers made lengthy Twitter threads predicting the collapse of the system given its nuance, complexity, and how their positions were key to its survival. Pundits predicted that the site would likely not survive a few weeks, that there was no fat to trim at the company and all the workers let go were essential for daily operations.

Now that it's been three months, what happened to the dreary prognosis? Where is the continuous downtime? Where is the permanent feature freeze? Where is the imminent collapse we were told about? I noticed that nobody is talking about how none of those predictions seem to have manifested. Why?
I always thought that Hubble in fact was a declassified KH-11. And indeed the NRO declassified and donated a couple more obsolete Keyholes to NASA in 2012 [1], one of which is now being used as the chassis (and optics?) of the NGRST [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_National_Reconnaissance_O...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Grace_Roman_Space_Telesc...
We need some type of ombudsman that exists between people and corporations to solve these small matters. Small claims is a bit much, and it's individual only. Congresspeople and such are a bit too much for this purpose also. There needs to be something lesser, with a very large stick to swing around.
I’m paying about €200/year for Jetbrains Toolbox. This gives me a set of IDEs, one of which I’m using daily. And that’s less money than ChatGPT is asking.
> At my last job, we would ignore every single submission that didn't have a cover letter.

It's funny because I automatically drop a job prospect if they mention cover letter. If they request it right in the job ad and the job description is interesting, I send my updated CV and my contacts, but leave out anything resembling a cover letter.

If you care about getting to know me, set up a meeting. I already sent you a doc with what I did and where I did it. I'm not going to waste significant amounts of time on a document that I'm not even sure anyone will read. If your rationale is that it saves up your time, well it wastes mine, and mine is more valuable.

And finally, anyone can write anything about anything in a cover letter. It boggles the mind why anyone would think this sort of document has a critical role in figuring out anyone is a decent hire.
Lots of information at:

https://www.sqlshack.com/category/sql-server-performance-tun...
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We have to take pictures for credentials at my place of work. I swear I look like I'm going to murder a person in it. Either I'm smiling too late or not long enough or something, but every time I go to get a new picture, I look angry in it.
Hah.

What's the Pu240/Pu239 ratio in the most recently loaded set of fuel rods in any given moment?
Brief History of Artificial Intelligence
> - 86,500 employees, I'm guessing alot of these are in recruitment, content moderation, etc

Headcount was 86,482 as of December 31, 2022, an increase of 20% year-over-year. Our reported headcount includes a substantial majority of the approximately 11,000 employees impacted by the layoff we announced in November 2022, who will no longer be reflected in our headcount by the end of the first quarter of 2023.
It's Go time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1hdAakECUM
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little more creative than marine aviators thats for sure
I don't think they are against inflating asset prices.
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+20% after hours, wow
The problem here is the word "hatred." Some forms are easier to define and identify (like calling for outright extermination of an ethnic group), but there are subtler points where reasonable people will disagree. E.g., the current debate about sex-vs-gender is not (in my opinion) steeped in hatred or dehumanization (though it is often labeled as such) but a legitimate debate on identity and the unique experiences and differentiators of men vs women.

Interestingly, right now if you ask ChatGPT "Can a man get pregnant?" you'll get "No, men cannot get pregnant." An answer that will please people on the right of the political spectrum, and enrage many on the left.
Look at the papers of Andrew Zhai (Pinterest) and how they do it.
Regarding exhausting, here's a quote from a different blog post of theirs describing how to avoid surveillance in person purchases:

> I once took about 20 minutes at a Target checkout trying to get enough cash from the till to buy Christmas gifts for my kids and nephews. Then there was the time I held a bunch of kids' books at the counter at Barnes and Noble and drove around for 15 minutes until I found an ATM open on a Sunday evening in NJ. Getting cash out before a kid-related purchase is basically second nature to me now.
I'm not sure if this translates to all industries but consider airlines. Everyone complains about service, but the marginal flyer only cares about price. There is no reward for an airline offering better service at a price in economy. Fully half the plane (and more on discount airlines) buy only based on price. The story is different in the front of the plane, where margins are higher and business travelers will end up being brand loyal (and are treated accordingly.)

In other products I can only assume there has been a similar race to the bottom. Why should I pay up for some service if it's a roll of the dice that I will be treated any better? Unless I really trust a brand, and I can't know, I 'm going to end up differentiating on price alone.
The dominance of queer culture goes much farther than simply existing.

Criticize it in even the most mild way at most companies and expect to be fired from your job.

The dominance goes even further. Direct criticism isn't necessary. Try to promote straight culture and you'll also get dogpiled and fired. (Brandon Eich)
My dad worked for NASA during that time. The above is 100% what he said. NASA needed the air forces support which meant being able to launch large spy satellites. Which also meant the thing was really expensive making it a white elephant. It drained a the money that could have been spent to implement more modern launch systems. People used to get pissed off when I'd say the best thing for NASA to do was to stop flying the shuttle. Retrospectively that was the right thing to do.
Right! And those things will happen naturally, because it is in people’s best interest. Cars are about 1/5 of US emissions. Switching to electric will reduce that by 1/3.

http://https//www.transportenvironment.org/discover/how-clea...
Recently we went through an exercise where we built a to-do simple app using react and rewrote it using HTMX.

The functionality was identical between the two apps. The amount of tooling code and duplicative logic was massively higher because of SPA and all the fundamental things it demands.

Now if you really need an SPA for your requirements because you have an intrinsically complex front end and you've mastered the hoops to jump through good for you! There's nothing wrong with that. But there is something seriously wrong with building the same user interfaces we've needed for decades but the time code and complexity drastically increasing for no justifiable reason.
Not a problem, you're an outlier, the average user either doesn't use tabs or doesn't open multiple of them to let them load in the background because they haven't experienced the web on a modem and "I click, page loads in 1-5s, I read" is what they're used to.
At least those things make sense. I mean, I can think of how an ability to generate massive amounts of text on those topics can be used nefariously.

What I don't get is what's wrong with penises and vaginas. Or maybe I'm not creative enough to think of how smut can be weaponized, huh. But, honestly, it's quite surprising, given how porn is historically a fairly major technology driver.
You are making an assumption that the AI is always correct.

What you've described sounds like the set-up for a sci-fi movie, where the protagonist wakes up to find themselves branded as an inharmonious element by the AI.

Plus, lots of people have the same name. The AI would need some sort of UUID for people, perhaps tattooed onto their body?
I might be wrong there and there's different groups but these mailing list groups are a very common way of setting permissions if you are using Google Workspace so it's not some abandoned usenet leftover.
What if your satellite did some more manoeuvres for station keeping, wouldn't you notice the mass difference then?
In the case of Stable Diffusion yes the dataset publicly available but these types of attacks would make much more sense if the attacker wants to extract some private data.
Yeah, I did wonder if it's just lack of a profit motive. I also wondered if scientists would be hesitant to show that "bringing light in through the skin" — which Trump was famously creamed for [1] — might actually work.

1: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/23/politics/fact-check-coronavir...
A more likely scenario IMHO would have been "Discord causes excessive background GPU usage, causing throttling".
> And because I pay salary, I am expecting that all of your efforts will go towards my job.

Why? Most (even salaried) full-time contracts require something like 38-40 hours per week. So long as what your staff are doing outside of those hours is not representing the company in a bad light, it should not be your concern. Trying to control what your staff do in their own time is toxic.
Since getting a USB SDR dongle a few years ago, I started experimenting with GNU Radio, and got a better SDR, and more recently a NanoVNA.

I've made recordings of a swath of frequencies a few megahertz wide directly to disk in the past. The fact that we're now talking about saturating everything takes this way out of my price range.

I maintain an interest in this technology, but doubt I'll ever get my hands on it.
Cool, thanks.

It creates a ~100 line release.yml file

1. create GitHub release

2. upload artifacts

3. upload manifest

4. publish GitHub release

I like it, it's opinionated, but I don't know how much it will catch on. If somebody needs to maintain a 100 line GitHub Actions release YAML file, in my experience you typically want to understand everything in it in case you need to adjust it for future needs/as they grow.

It's well done though. Curious to see how much adoption it picks up.
Nope. That did it. Thanks.
I think belligerence can also be a technique and bullshitting can also be an intention.
Who makes the rules? The Bible? Which one? Can I use the Jefferson Bible?

Oh the Bible isn't the end-all-be-all and you need someone to make an executive decision sometimes? Who's that?

The Pope? Oh you're not of that kind of denomination? What about the President of the Mormon Church?
Agreed, but it's never a 15 minute phone call...
>We’re launching a pilot subscription plan for ChatGPT, a conversational AI that can chat with you, answer follow-up questions, and challenge incorrect assumptions.

No one wanted that last part, no one wants that last part, and anyway "incorrect" according to who?

Would it fair to assume that the more you pay, the less it "challenges" your "incorrect assumptions"?
Provide very detailed explanation but like I am 5 years old on this topic

This topic is about ___________.

A ___________ is ___________________. In short, it ___________. For example, ____________.When we ________, a ___________ makes sure the process is ______________. A ____________ also helps us ____________ and avoid ____________.

(?) ( https://eli5.gg/Provide%20very%20detailed%20explanation%20bu... )
Decommissioned? It's brand new.
\bdog\w\*
There's a difference between people "doing what they've always done" or coasting on cultural inertia e.g. people who are Catholic and that means they go to a Catholic church but otherwise has a very small effect on their life and people intentionally choosing to join a subculture, e.g. convert to Catholicism or rededicate themselves to a religion after being one of the folks "doing what they've always done".

The norm these days is for people to fall away from their religion, not to join one. I think this is obvious for anyone to see, but Pew has done lots of surveys on the decline of Christianity in America: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/09/13/modeling-the...
Isn't SolidJS supposed to be like React (in that it has JSX, hooks etc) but without the VDOM? So I guess that would sidestep your point #2, but curious to hear your thoughts on it.

Personally I don't use Svelte, Vue, Solid etc simply due to the (lack of) library support compared to React. For example, I wanted to do something in 3D the other day and reached for react-three-fiber, there simply isn't something comparable in the non-React world.
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I think the best take on corporate imagery is still to be found here;

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=stock_photos
The Mediterranean loves their huge population of stray dogs and cats.
Darned cool. 747 rules!
If you expect to busk on the street corner during company time, what do you think?
This has been a major topic in political science at least since neoliberalism became the bi-partisan consensus world view of both viable US political parties in the mid to late '80s. Stateless corporations, neocolonialism, intergovernmental regulatory regimes, et c., et c. By the '00s, at the latest, it was probably at the top of a very short list of topics that were receiving a ton of attention in the field.

The Tobin Tax and other policy ideas in response to the whole thing, concerns about interconnectedness leading to economic fragility and new kinds of global economic risk (as in e.g. the '97 "Asian Contagion", a domino-effect economic collapse that was only stopped by massive foreign [largely US] and IGO [largely IMF] intervention), the implications for state sovereignty, all that stuff's been covered and considered extensively for quite a while.
Don't you guys have SCT Inst? Finding a tech provider / bank who can wrap that into a nice UX and API is the challenge.
Mine isn't natural but due to an old neck injury. I guess some of us just can't be good at this.
Yup. See my response to the other sibling comment. In particular:

(\bdog\w*)|(\w*cat\b)

Seems to behave exactly like I want.

https://regex101.com/r/f3uJUE/1
Most important in-person meetings are not meant to be leaked. How do you address the concern your service could be a source of leaks?
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Great observation!

Example: I met a person who started in a job like janitor and ended his career setting up video calls for the CEO. Seems likely that 50+ year career arc was possible because of employee training and all those jobs being in-house.
You’re a old young person, but you’ll be a young old person soon enough.
Generally no. It's technically possible, but very few recipes would qualify for patent protection. Here's a decent summary article:

Can I patent a recipe?

The simple answer is no. While it is technically possible to obtain a patent on certain recipes, the likelihood and rate of patents being granted for recipes is so low that it is almost pointless to try and obtain one unless you own a chain of restaurants or are looking to franchise your business. The effort required to protect intellectual property, such as a secret recipe or cooking process, is so great, and there are so many hurdles one must clear, that the ends hardly justify the means.

https://www.webstaurantstore.com/article/57/protecting-your-...
It's in the wikipedia article, but just want to call something out: That particular airframe 367-80 is in the Air and Space Udvar-Hazy museum at Dulles. It is gorgeous.

The 747s first airframe is at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, and you can _go inside it_.
https://www.museumofflight.org/aircraft/boeing-747-121
If you have a legal right to view it on your computer, then no. However, downloading a movie illegally and watching it (whether it was compressed or reproduced by AI) is not legal. By whatever means of delivery, if you view the movie you are in legal violation unless you bought it. Similarly, you can view a piece of art (if its available), but selling it would be illegal, regardless of if the way you sell it is by encoding the bits a certain way or providing a "generator function" that creates the art for you that you then sell.

Take another example: if you try to sell or publicly play a Taylor Swift song without permission, that is illegal (even though it was technically generated by your computer and you used an arbitrary process to create the reproduction), its owned by Taylor Swift. Its long been the case that the song is reproduced by dozens of different mediums, storage procedures, algorithms, sound generators, and mechanisms, but ultimately it is still the creative property of Swift.
Seriously. More users than Slack, and I assume 99% of them are on a free plan too. Their engineering blog talks about some of the problems they deal with at that scale, impressive stuff:

https://discord.com/category/engineering
Seems like anti-tracking by Apple had a tangible impact on their business -- revenue down from last year.
Net income down ~40% YoY ouch. Stock is up though!
Meta Revenue Beats Expectations as Facebook Grows
Indeed. I found i can pass 99% of these trainings without reading any materials beforehand. I just check reasonably sounding boxes. That's it. I failed such training only one time among hundreds!

My colleagues pass these in foreign languages for the lulz
"What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law
Crazydomains web GUI zone records out of sync with their Name Servers for hours
Recently, I started to have huge issue with my domains which I'm hosting in Crazydomains company (https://www.crazydomains.co.uk). I was trying to upgrade TXT record in one of them and I found that even if I edit zone using their web gui, this doesn't have any reflection on what their Name Servers (ns1.crazydomains.com & ns2.crazydomains.com) serve. I was trying to give a time around 1 hour to apply changes which I made, but after that time, running query directly against Crazydomains DNS servers shows that changes haven't been applied.

I opened ticked with them, and they told me that it will make 2-4 hours to apply my changes made by web gui. It's quite long time for wait, but I did wait until next day. In mean time, someone from Crazydomains support decide to switch default name servers in my domain to Premium one as I have this option under my account, which completely cut off DNS resolution to all my services, as Premium Name Servers have no knowledge about my domain. I had to open another ticket about this .

Next day, my TXT record was still not updated so I follow with primary ticket, and send back and forward updates about this issue. Next day, 48 hours after record change, it was still not updated in Crazydomains Name Servers. I contacted them, and they magically "did something" (I guess reload zone manually) and record was updated.

I decide to run test and I modified TXT record again 5 hours ago, and situation is time same - in web gui record is updated but on their Name Servers not.

Does anybody experiencing or experienced this same issue with Crazydomains ???
Forcing developers to write comments[1] just to get code merged seems like the best possible way to ensure those comments are lies.

[1] Which, it's important to point out since you used the term "CI", are fundamentally untestable. There's absolutely no way to ensure a comment is correct. A CI smoke test at the very least verifies code builds and doesn't break pre-existing cases. No such validation is even theoretically possible for comments.
> The ecosystem exists because Python does make it possible.

Only to a certain point, after which the network effects override everything else.
GPT3 also doesn't have the same restrictions. It might be preferable if you're tired of getting "I can't do X I'm a large language model" even if it wasn't cheaper.