skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi. I'm with Packet Clearing House, which @elp mentioned. I would second all of their technical advice, but note that PCH is a public-benefit non-profit, so exists to provide service at no cost to governments (ccTLDs) and critical infrastructure operators (mostly IXPs and CERTs) but, as required by the IRS, charges market rate to for-profit private-benefit organizations.

A few additional notes:

- You should keep what's un-politically-correctly generally referred to as a "hidden master" for your zone data on a machine that's somewhere that won't be targeted by a DDoS that's aimed at you or your ISP, and have an ACL that only permits zone transfers to your authorized secondary authoritative servers.

- You should probably get a few other organizations to act as public-facing authoritative servers for you, so all your authoritatives don't share any avoidable common failure modes. Different people administering them, different technology stacks on different hardware in different places.

- For servers you run, consider running DNSdist in front of them. It's a DNS load balancer which has very efficient internal caching, and which will allow you to answer a lot more queries per core than a full-fledged nameserver would. Run it in front, even on the same machine, to get more bang for your buck.

- A high TTL will indeed help a lot with DDoS against your nameservers (since everyone will cache answers rather than being dependent on getting a live connection to your nameservers. But it will also make you less nimble in responding to a DDoS against your actual content servers, since you won't be able to move them quickly to a different provider. I tend to favor high TTLs, but reasonable people support both sides of that argument.
> In response to the city’s struggling downtown, Breed said she plans to introduce legislation that would modify the city’s tax structure to make San Francisco businesses more competitive. The plan would include pauses in tax increases for existing businesses,and three-year tax breaks for companies looking to open in the area.

Gonna go out on a limb here and speculate that taxes are not the problem.
Off topic but the “More Tweets” section under this tweet is just…full of trash memes.
>> why do employers feel entitled to continuously cut the effective wages of employees?

They are entitled to offer anything they want, as it's their own money they are offering. See this is the sense of entitlement I'm referring to, which is implicit in your question.

I spent years spreading the "gap between productivity and wages" graph on the internet. I later learned that this supposed gap was a distortion of reality, created by bad statistics:

https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/sources-of-real-wage-stag...

The reality is wage growth slowing since the 1970s due to slowing productivity growth. Where productivity growth is rapid, wage growth is rapid:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/743509/china-average-yea...
Shopify appears to be integrating a tipping feature into checkouts. They even have the same % breakouts as the POS terminals.

It's unclear why any sane person want to contribute tips to an online merchant who hasn't even fulfilled an order?!

There's also this new IRS program going after the service economy that's reliant on tips https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-introduces-new-service-indu...
Very uncommon for people to do ML locally nowadays. Almost everyone uses either cloud or has an cluster they ssh into. NVIDIA is still king for ML, very few people use AMD / M1, although hopefully that will change.

If you want to buy a GPU for ML this is a good resource: https://timdettmers.com/2023/01/30/which-gpu-for-deep-learni...

Basically buy the NVIDIA GPU with the largest amount of VRAM that's in your budget.
PLEASE also just make this happen when I next have to go in to renew my State Drivers License/ID AND/OR my passport (years from now).

Then login.gov can support the addition of known crypto IDs as alternate signatures and a review that can also happen at any of the interaction points (some USPS branches, DoL/DMV, Homeland Security offices for enhanced passport ID stuff).
Now you have three problems.

But you know what it’s actually good at? Explaining why it’s not so great at writing accurate regular expressions:

> Complexity: Regular expressions can become very complex and hard to read, even for experienced users. This can make it difficult for me to generate an accurate expression that meets the specific requirements.

> Limited context: Regular expressions require an understanding of the context in which they will be used. If the context is not clear or is ambiguous, I may have trouble generating an appropriate expression.

> Limitations of my training data: The quality and diversity of the training data I was trained on affects my ability to generate accurate regular expressions. If my training data did not include enough examples of a particular type of regular expression or if it was limited in some other way, I may not be able to generate an accurate expression for that scenario.

> Human error: My training data includes examples written by humans, and humans are prone to making mistakes. If the training data I was exposed to contains incorrect or poorly-formed regular expressions, I may learn and replicate those mistakes in my own outputs.
> The missing text problem from NLU is an example of a problem that is thought to be impossible for Turing machines/algorithms but is trivial in most cases for humans.

I'm not aware of any mainstream researcher who thinks the missing text problem[1] is impossible for Turing machines. Perhaps some think neural networks are insufficient to achieve it, but this is a different thing.

[1] https://thegradient.pub/machine-learning-wont-solve-the-natu... (Ironically this badly needs updating in a post ChatGPT world, since ChatGPT can solve many of the things this article claims are impossible)
I would be interested in reading the FOIA responses. Maybe you can redact your mail address and post on some doc share site. Crowd-sourced open government helps others, also.
So, why doesn't the boss always fire all employees and not pay any salaries?
The internet had been on the path of destruction for some time, this is just another step towards the corporate controlled cheese grater.
This is probably because Wine created a .desktop file in the directory for registering default applications. I don't remember what the directory path is but your package manager is responsible for it, not Wine. They can't put it in .wine because it's a standardised location.
Maybe there's some nostalgia value here, and although this game was innovative in that it used video disc to display unbelievable eye-popping graphics compared to video games of its era, as a video game it absolutely sucked, was not fun, play was too short, options astoundingly limited, and ultimately it was a ridiculous waste of quarters. But whatever makes people happy.
> Liking someone is based on how similar we are in aesthetics, politics, philosophy, and world view

I’m a pretty social person, and have great relationships both at work and outside of work: this list you’ve provided made me recoil in disagreement. The first two items are aesthetics and politics!? Even philosophy and world view I cannot strongly agree with.

Not saying that this isn’t true for you, and that’s genuinely fine. But I wouldn’t agree that you can generalize your preferences in relationships to others if the quoted sentence is genuinely true.

Mutual respect, friendliness, interest, shared experiences come to mind for me, though I admittedly typed that up in a few seconds without thinking very much about it.
having blur set to extreme probably doesn't help but I haven't messed around with it
This comment is like a Fox News parody of what tech companies are like.

I've worked for a few and there definitely wasn't 1000s of people in the Legal & Compliance departments constantly getting sued and harassing managers and engineers about travel expenses or diversity training.

Instead, it is the exact same problems you see at every large company i.e. excess of middle managers each trying to grow their own fiefdom and duplicating capabilities across the organisation.

Or it's too many poorly conceived and managed product and R&D adventures.
It’s very efficient in processing strings since it’s linear time with respect to input string length if implemented properly.
" The US government does not own our energy industry and is often at odds with the gas and oil industry here, "

For someone who is not American, this statement is amusing. The US govt and US military are fully in bed with the US energy industry, when it comes to actions outside America.

US still occupies the Syrian oil fields btw. No one talks about US territory grabbing there - it never even makes the news.
Chiang's short stories are beautiful; he reminds me of Stanislaw Lem, brilliant, creative, and ahead of his time. I was surprised they made Arrival into a movie (and that it was as good as it was).
> You're still tying your connectivity to a single provider. That's dangerous considering internet isn't regulated as a utility.

Dangerous also because the media industry insists that ISPs permanently cancel the service of customers after multiple unproven allegations of copyright infringement and without a single conviction. So far, the courts have been completely agreeing with them and ISPs who refuse to bow to the wishes of the media industry and terminate these users are being sued.

Anyone can lose the ability to have an account at the only ISP they have just because some third party P2P snoop, hired by a movie studio, forwarded a DMCA notice to their ISP with their IP address on it too many times (with "too many" being entirely unspecified in law and up to whatever the ISP thinks won't get them sued). Those third parties haven't exactly always been so careful about avoiding false accusations either. Actually doing anything to deserve a DMCA notice isn't required.
Google literally has a C-level Chief Diversity Officer. Her LinkedIn claims an org size of 130+.
America needs a broad popular front to stop the revolution from above
I don't understand why that matters. The end result is nicotine in your system.
PageRank worked well at first by defining quality by the number of backlinks, or sites that linked to it. Essential if you had good content, it was likely that many others pointed to it. Ofcourse this was quickly gamed, but they were able to leverage their search engine usage to observe how users interacted with results, and later pages.

I imagine that you could have a quality measurement by finding the chunk embeddings that are most popular, and then finding the sites that have these in the highest concentration. User interaction will still likely be a very important feature in the quality space.
You certainly don't sacrifice ride quality with most modern pickup trucks. They are usually built on the same chassis and suspensions that the manufacturers use for their luxury SUVs. And most pickups seat the same number of people that a family sedan seats. But yes on the other stuff.
As opposed to what alternative explanation?
Such a shame. A combination of NIMBYism, progressive policing, and underinvestment in efficient mass transit has put SF on the edge of destruction instead of along the path of becoming the most economically vibrant, culturally diverse, and tech forward city in the world.
Of course, the problem is that the trade is on offer at all.

In the antiquated view that the government exists for the protection of the people, rather than to coddle corporations and sacrificing at the altar of competitiveness, it would be simply shut down.
I definitely used Thunderbird for an O365 account that required 2FA and so had to use OAuth, back to.... 2021 at least, I think. Though I think you might have had to know to change the auth method to OAuth to get it working, at least at the time.
I will try to find a way to publish them without connecting them to this handle. I think, like ChatGPT, I’m simply not crafting the correct prompt to obtain the artifacts I’m seeking.

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2018/sep/06/foia-faq-...
Huh? They just make me feel competent at my career.
You can check the increase in energy exports from the US and Norway after the Nordstream sabotage yourself..
That is the most unusual opinion I've come across so far this year. Salutations! Topaz Video AI is great, though
Or it will identify novel astrophysical phenomena. Which is not a bad thing.
Teams has come a long way. It’s totally fine for video conferencing. They are still using slack for chat.
And at google's size, that's a drop in the bucket.
If you had asked me, I would have guessed Yahoo still had at least 30k employees.
Past thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8305486
Should be possible with electronic cash and zero-knowledge proofs.
So for those not in the know, fun fact, solar panels work better when they don't get hot. So things like airflow for passive cooling do matter.

I'm aware of several large-scale solar situated in hot regions with no active cooling, so I guess my answer to your question is no, high effeciency panels in hot environments do not need active cooling.

Roof tiles are a different question. There's no airflow underneath them. So they probably get hot. Hot enough to matter? That's hard to say.
Do they have the same thermal properties as a regular tile? What is the impact on building temperature? These would be factors to consider during construction. More insulation, better airflow, and do on.

Incidentally since they are not flat (at least not in the picture) that likely accounts for the lower effeciency).
The demo video makes me feel dizzy. Easy on the bounce.
Ugh, it’s so much simpler than that.

Everyone’s number one objective in any company is to make their individual life easier. Full stop. The most obvious way to do that, if you have the ability/budget, is to hire people to do your work for you.

Then you can brag about managing higher headcount, you do less work, and you flounder around as a very bad manager with no accountability so long as you keep your workload below the level of your manager (who, remember, hired you just to remove work from their own plate).

Now remember that everyone you hired has the exact same incentive.

It keeps going til the money runs out or until the company buckles under its own organizational complexity.
Compensation and strength of job market? (Yes, even with all these layoffs).
I would like to see some quantitative criteria here, otherwise big == many people.
Tech workers have realized that they too are workers; temporarily privileged, but that it not only did not confer any real power, and that they could not insulate themselves such that the problems would not strike them.

Previously the thinking was "we're unique and special, and deserve all this high pay - it will continue in perpetuity, and as long as your output is good you will be fine. The system works and is just! If you fail, it's your fault". After being struck by algorithmic layoffs, they're no longer sure of their worldview.

They've been put in their place - highly paid, but utterly at the whim of the capital class. For the first time they realize they're as replaceable as the truck drivers they so want to automate out of existence.

Solidarity is in the zeitgeist; let's unionize! We have songs, and can march long; let's smash these chains of our oppression - together!

...would be my guess.
People learn enormous amounts of things that we don’t actually “understand” in any deep way

As long as our minds pops out appropriate thoughts for the given context we don’t even think about the magic machinery behind the scenes that did that.

When queried about our thinking we are mostly creating a plausible story, not actually examining our own thinking.

Also, blind people can talk sensibly about many visual phenomena, having learned about them through language

I think the new LLM are giving us all so many wow’s, because “understanding” is the only kind of compression that actually works at the scale of the training data

I.e. representations are being created that reflect the actual functional, as well as associative or correlative, relations between concepts.
I nominate Euler's Method.
Most people struggle not to lose their credit cards (which can be disabled and replaced without significant pain), much less long-term key material. I shudder at the thought of civil servants needing to understand key revocation.

(That's even before quibbling over whether PGP would be the right choice for civil cryptographic identities, which it probably isn't.)
And her role is:

Lead the Employee Engagement Organization which is a global team of 130+ googlers who are responsible for driving large-scale impact across Diversity, Equity & Inclusion programs; Employee Relations; and Compliance, Integrity & Governance.

So far more than just specifically diversity all for a company of 200,000+ people.

i.e. 0.065% of the total workforce.
Glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed that nifty little PC language trick they employed.

As someone who has lived in both “squeezed on top of” and “more dense”, I’ll take the “squeezed on top of” over the “more dense” any day of the week. However my preference is “no one else living within a mile in all directions”.
It takes some time to read a RegEx, but I find them quite useful because the alternative would be a bunch of if statements, splits, looping and whatever just to do a match on a string. It's very neat and concise!
Designing a Creative Culture [video]
Both. FedNow is promising! Excited to give it a try when it goes live. If we can't build + distribute a product better than the federal reserve, we've got bigger problems :)
Can confirm it heavily depends on org.

In my case, I only go to office 1 day a week (to talk to people irl), and in my team only very few people go everyday, everyone else hovers between 20% to 100% wfh.
Yahoo Japan is probably the most visited website in Japan. They are known for more than just Auctions.

Yahoo Japan is a separate company from Yahoo. It used to operate with licensing for the "Yahoo" brand, until it bought the brand usage outright from Verison a couple years ago.

Therefore, Yahoo's operation has no effect on Yahoo Japan. It is more affected by its parent company Softbank. When Softbank faced losses from its Vision Fund, they reorganized Yahoo into a subsidiary (in lieu of being a sibling company) and therefore consolidated its profitable accounting as well.
I was wondering about how Amazon has grafted itself to the U.S. government so looked it up and found that government agencies rely on AWS. Is that what your referring to?
As an MBA actually running a medium size business, this article makes my head hurt. I think all these layoffs will be a healthy purge for the better allocation of resources, aka the economy.
Dunno if it was incompetence or malice, but the straw that finally broke me over to Linux permanently was a privacy setting in Windows that appeared to work until you re-entered the menu and it wouldn't persist. In my time at YouTube though, privacy issues were an immediately fireable offense, and even when my role required data, use was gated and then still logged, and misuse was handled. That's an n=1 apples-to-oranges data point, but I personally trust Google a bit more than MS with my data.
Second that! I was a big fan of "On the Metal", and was bummed when it ended. Stumbled upon "Oxide and Friends" almost by chance, and was happy to discover it kept the same style (and even better, with more voices).

You made my commute a lot more enjoyable. Still going through the old catalog -- the episode about NeXT and Objective-C (S1E8 July 5, 2021 [1]) was excellent.

Keep up the great work Bryan!

[1] https://pca.st/ydtxspr6
Or start a career!
> Just don't try to frame your conclusions as objective truth, or known scientific results like the GP.

To clarify this objection is to @nyrikki's (incorrect) claim that "NLU is an example of a problem that is thought to be impossible for Turing machines/algorithms" and not to anything that @drdeca said right?

I think you are agreeing emphatically with @drdeca but it's possible to read this comment as an objection to @drdeca (NLU may not be as trivial as claimed - ha).
I'm excited for the rebuild, glad to hear things are moving well. Looking forward to checking out when available.
Exactly, except for a minor typo. :s/vim/nvim.
Key Authentication
Assuming it could be done, I think you'd activate the reservoir, then bombard the patient with anti-retrovirals until the virus was eradicated?
That doesn't explain the useless engineering theater that these companies engage in, like code review and "readability", that drastically reduce IC velocity. If FAANG supposedly "only" hires the "best and brightest", then why are they so untrusting of their contributions?

I mean, I've never worked in a team that large. A big part of that is because I can't imagine asking someone else's permission to write code. If a company can get so big that they can't trust their developers to release code, maybe that company is just too big?

Companies like Google are a joke. All the Cap'n Crunch you can eat, but do your job and write some code and get it into production? Can't have that!

EDIT: the largest company I ever worked at only had about 300,000 employees.
Yeah doubt companies will allow parking spots to get bigger, you're talking about coming companies coming up with thousands of square feet of space. And turning a likely loss leader of some sort into a bigger one.
Hoarding ‘Britcoin’ to be banned under UK digital currency proposals
If I remember correctly there were a number of giant penguins here in New Zealand along with the world's largest bird, the Moa, and the world's largest eagle which preyed on the moa.
Writing code isn’t hard, maintaining it is.
it also means cheaper products for you and me
Then why do all agreements prevent you from working on your side projects or take ip from them if there was no fear?