skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Anyone else see the irony there? Without middlemen? Spotify was trying to cement itself as the middleman in as much podcasting as possible, right? Or maybe it's not irony, it's exactly that, Spotify saw a space without middleman and thus an opportunity to lock itself in as the middleman.

wasn’t Spotify co-founded by the creator of Napster too?
Types exist for a reason, and one is the desire for consistency (or uniformity) of representation: say, I want to be able to store the result of an operation in the storage element which looks the same as those where the operands came from (think of an array, for example).
Yeah, also while ECC is mostly transparent to the software layer, virtualization support is in itself a huge software layer that comes with this kind of equipment. MIG ( https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/tesla/mig-user-guide/ ), there's also software made to expose GPU inside containers.

This software is mostly supplied by vendor, and it mostly cares about vendor's tech, and will usually require special features exposed by the hardware, so, won't work with consumer-grade GPUs.
In the story I posted, there's an expert who's diligent, disciplined and aware of the area his expertise is valuable. The other one has none of that.

First one never worked for FAANG, the other one aimed only for that level.

One lost the job, the other kept it.

There is a deeper meaning to the story, it's not for no reason that the first one managed to get through 2 economic crises, pandemic and yet again - round of layoffs.

Take what you will from the story, but maybe it's not as shallow story as it seems.
This is one of those things that makes sense in the airless vacuum of a message board that has no connection to ordinary life; the mythical "touchless grass" as the tweeters say. In reality, people in all walks of life form deep emotional attachments to their jobs. Plant closures disrupt the identities of entire cities. People are emotionally attached to jobs as checkout clerks. Hit songs have been written about the phenomenon. You can't just tell people not to have human connections to their work. It's like telling Glen Campbell that the Wichita Lineman doesn't own enough of Southwestern Bell to be identifying himself as such.
The case for frameworks
Not sure what studies you are finding, but adverse childhood experiences have studies with an n of over 10,000 people. We can directly correlate specific traumatic events to lifetime outcomes and mental illness.
This. My indicator on the success of a technology has been the volume of disagreement among the HN crowd. Just look at React / Javascript frameworks. HN will hate on those with a fiery passion, while literal trillions of dollars are generated with them.
And even if we did have nutritionally stable food for this long, there's a growing amount of evidence that even just mechanical food processing is enough to make it _unhealthy_ – if it comprises the majority of your consumption – and that it causes metabolic problems (irrespective of additives). And that's on Earth.

If we are to eat just processed food in space, we'll need a lot more research on this. It would be better if we just grew food from plants.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8747021/
As a coincidence other day I resized my desktop's win10 partition, installed PopOS taking care to make my own partitions instead of the default clean install, and found a guide for steam, protonup and lutris. I think a lot of the steps would trouble folks that haven't used Linux extensively before. Dualbooting, pip as a user not root, flatpak vs deb, saving some Nvidia settings elsewhere, and I still can't figure out why my identical second monitor doesn't display anything until I change the resolution once after boot (Nvidia, working one is dp, other one is HDMI if anyone has ideas)... but overall I'm impressed with the few games I fired up and they just worked. Good stuff Valve. That was not the case last time I tried.
Hopefully in a secure location.
You can't. At some point disaster and dumb leadership conspire to push the people and elite to revolution. We're no where near that now, but don't be fooled that governments are untoppable. They aren't. Every former regime had its peak.

You can see how structural faults in US government could produce the tinder. The threefold and interdependent issue of the US Senate and subsequently Electoral College resulting in Presidential and Legislative and ultimately Judicial representation by a smaller and smaller group of constituents. The reason we have legitimacy narratives today stems from this very structural fault.

But tinder alone does not produce a fire. An unforeseen event poised to exploit the flaws of the fault and uniquely incompetent leadership conspire to make régime ancien.
Disinfection is harmful unless absolutely needed.

Same as overuse of antibiotics - it only breeds more resistant strains and harms the immune systems because of lack of less resistant strains.
When I was looking at machining in China (I built some aluminium guitar prototypes) the cost between European fabricators and China wasn't just significant - it was an order of magnitude.

I got a handful of absolutely impeccable prototypes from my Chinese manufacturers, for about 350 USD a piece. The few UK machine shops that even bothered answering my emails and phonecalls quoted about 10-15k per unit.
https://archive.is/gUsAC
You gotta look out for #1, because nobody else will.
I'd like a stencil that can be configured to display an arbitrary QR code so you can do it with spray chalk.
> I am an entrepreneur & a small business owner in India. I did a small manufacturing in China & was blown away by their professionalism. The article mentions - `Chinese suppliers had a totally different attitude, aiming to exceed the Cupertino company’s expectations` - this is so true.

This varies massively from one CM to the next.

If you can get your foot in the door at the higher tier CMs, the professionalism and attention to detail will be exactly as you described. If you can get in contact with an ambitious smaller CM looking to grow with you (their customer), you can also find great attention to detail.

OTOH, some of the smaller CMs in China will gladly tell you whatever you need to hear in order to send the wire transfer, then you'll get back whatever they feel like delivering. That is if you don't get bumped by a higher paying customer taking your spot on their schedule. You might also get great first articles and have great success on the first prototype run, but then they'll take the A team off of your line and have the night shift run it next time with much less attention to detail.
Very bold move but if they don't provide clean electricity for those electric cars it won't change anything as far as emissions go.

12 years to transition the EU to clean electricity and increase grid capacity is going to be quite a challenge.
It's always been an issue, but now the doors between low/middle and the wealthy class are closing even tighter as wealth and opportunity become more scarce... The methods to use in finding success are becoming convoluted as well by certain members of the wealthy class in order to discriminate in ways against other wealthy people too... Rather crazy how things at the top work.
We have been writing software for decades. Still majority of the software engineers are only good at copy & paste. Things are actually getting worse as most answers you can google, when you can't they are just stuck.
I would strongly suggest not calling India's pharma industry a success. It is rife with terrible quality and government-sponsored coverups.

Here is one book that goes into some detail:Bottle of Lies: Ranbaxy and the Dark Side of Indian Pharma

Many children lost their lives in Gambia and Uzbekistan after consuming tainted cough syrup made in India. The worst part is not the error, it is the fact that indian regulators and the indian government don't do anything to solve the problem.
The "paperless office" was a complete mistake; we need to go back to printing everything on paper. Daily newspapers even. Netflix can produce comic format versions of whatever.

Mowing down forests to produce single use paper that then gets landfilled will be Carbon Sequestration and save the planet. This time fer sure.
Show me a demonstrably provable example of either.

In an "infinite worlds, infinite possibilities" sense it's possible that something, somewhere in the universe is alive and/or magical. But there is no telling that 1) that's actually happening, and 2) that we'd ever encounter it before the heat death of the universe.
Well I just found the name of my new sci-fi technology.
You also have GPT J 6B and BLOOM but to be honest they are not like ChatGPT.

https://huggingface.co/EleutherAI/gpt-j-6B

https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom
I agree, I think it’s a failure of the system in place that if a parent has gripes over XYZ books, then that shouldn’t prevent everyone from reading it.

The core of my argument is to keep the state out of the decision process on matters such as these.
The author said he updated the article, so if the link changed then maybe; however, I can tell you somebody definitely reposted it last night and it got almost 100 points. Too funny.

I assume you tried punching in keywords like “fake NPM package hack” or something like that?
As someone who was into making electronic music back before Fruity Loops and Hammerhead—-a time when one coveted actual hardware, but was always searching and dreaming about software drum machines because they were cheaper or free, I always find it amazing that we can do this in the browser. I always love seeing cool projects like this come about.
> They're already, slowly, winning?

but maybe they're actually not? if they're losing, this is how it'll be reported to you: they're winning -> they're winning -> they've nearly won -> *silence for years* -> ukraine is now part of russia, bringing the decades-long quagmire to an end.
So you need to setup a bank that both the sender and the buyer will use.

That’s one order of magnitude harder to do right.
Unemployment insurance isn't welfare. It's insurance that you ultimately pay into via your employer and employment taxes.

You can't claim unemployment if you quit.
Running Visual C++ 6 long past its prime was qiote a nice experience, before I had to switch to VS2005. Sure was nice to be able to have for-loop variables not spill out the loop scope but it was depressing as hell to see a very nice and responsive machine keel over.

Spending hours upon hours every day getting an app snappier and snappier and watching the VS hog making everything so slow and sad.
Awesome job! I've bookmarked it for future use, can't wait to fill the time before meetings start to jam out!
Teams screen sharing annotation is abysmal. Other than that I can live with it, but as an engineer, not being able to annotate a live screen is really frustrating.
You mean Olympic? Same design and specs as Titanic.
i am pretty sure that every few weeks I see floating up yet another article about some generic made in India recalled due to whatever reasons. So while they did capture a big market share, i think it's acknowledged that they have quality control issues
Text book blame game now after realizing the cost.
Often, the builders and contractors have dealings with politicians to get favors and perks.

I am not accusing or calling that there is corruption between politicians and builders. But one of the criterion that Turkey is measuring for its inclusion in EU is corruption. It would be interesting to see impact of this on corruption scores in EU progress report. It has already been noted that there is no progress in fight against corruption [^a]

a. https://web.archive.org/web/20220121110007/https://ec.europa...

b. https://web.archive.org/web/20201218132551/https://ec.europa...
A Versa costs 20000 and won't be here until March.

https://www.melloynissan.com/new-vehicles/versa/

The lightly used one is also 20000 but at least I could drive it off the lot.

https://www.melloynissan.com/used-vehicles/?q=versa&_dFR%5Bt...

Don't get me wrong the Versa is a hell of a value and all but the car market might not be what you think it is right now
Along with this "how long to spin up the new hire" issue, one of my first (if not the first) questions when trying to help people improve their processes related to software is:

> If the user/client asks you to make a small but not trivial change, how long would it take to update and deploy the program?

I have had answers ranging from "A couple hours" to "A year" (yes, they were serious). Most were in the 1-3 month range, though, which is pretty bad for a small change. It also makes it apparent why a bunch of changes get batched together whether reasonable or not. If a single small change, single large change, or collection of variable sized changes all take a few months to happen, might as well batch them all up. It becomes the norm for the team. "Of course it takes 3 months to change the order of items in a menu. Why would it ever be faster than that?"
1) Cool it with the snark

2) Ebola, Yellow Fever, HIV & Hepatitis aren't airborne, so probably wouldn't be the kind of viruses that the parent is talking about
“Only I know how to fix such a corrupt system as I’ve seen it from the inside”
Can you elaborate on how they are not like ChatGPT? I was looking into GPT-JT (built on top of GPT J you mentioned). If I spend the time to actually finetune and run inference with one of these models, am I likely going to be disappointed at the results?
> I mentioned this as it's an evolving technology that may be closer to prime time

Unlikely. We have yet to master nutrition when it comes from plants, it will be even worse for a bioreactor. Unfortunately, the list of food ingredients that you see listed in minimum recommended intake values is woefully incomplete. There's a whole bunch of micronutrients we get from food that are difficult to replicate.

Bioreactors could be useful for making supplements (say, Omega-3) to offset specific deficiencies.
Hmm.
A commissioner appointed by Trump finds everything objectionable and makes outlandish claims when she can't emasculate the FTC?
That might very well surprise no one.
You can see geostationary satellites if you zoom out. They are more apparent if rotate to look down from the poles. It looks like a faint ring.

There aren't that many geostationary satellites. They need to stay spaced out to avoid each other. The result is a few, large satellites instead of the large cloud of ones close to Earth.
Did you do any modding or use a list?
Step 4: Always carry a towel

/s
That joke is from 80s and Japan.
Prevailing winds in the northern Atlantic are West to East. Even for powered ships the eastbound passage is measurably quicker.
Potentially - though it's a lot harder to evolve resistance to physical destruction than it is to a given antibiotic. The other aspect, aka 'the hygiene hypothesis' still holds, killing more pathogens may well lead to weakened immune response from lack of exposure.
It also makes it harder to terminate. Yes the us is at will, but most orgs do not want to fire someone without cause. Wrongful termination is a thing.
Good luck with that. I just don't see Arris or Sagemcom opening up any time soon. These things are fairly locked down and drivers are tuned for specific things.

I spent a few years dealing with some of these STBs and yeah, they make great little computers. Such a waste. Just like smartphones,
Alternate (and I think more accurate) phrasing: people tolerate bad performance and low reliability when there is no viable alternative tool that does the things they need.

As is usually the case - software, particularly SaaS, resists commoditization. For almost any piece of software you may be using (and I am counting things like social media platforms or e-commerce sites in this), there is no equivalent substitute you could switch to on short notice. Often there's literally none at all. When there is, the effort to migrate your data tends to be prohibitive.

Also, in my phrasing, I wrote "need" instead of your "want". From my observations, almost all interactions regular people have with software are out of necessity, in the sense that they're forced to use it to get what they want, and they have no power to change it.

Examples:

- Software your employer tells you to use at work, which sometimes is quite horrible, thanks to magic of enterprise sales.

- Software your government tells you to use to submit various forms related to taxes, healthcare, childcare, business, social services, etc. This sometimes manages to not be all that bad.

- Software your daycare suddenly forces you to use to communicate with their staff and access CCTV feeds. Software you can't ignore because absence reporting and invoicing goes through it too. Software that's hot garbage, surveillance capitalism optimized mobile app with no web version, created by some bullshit startup with lots of VC funding, which explains why, out of a sudden, every single daycare started to switch to it, despite the app being extremely limited, having abysmal ergonomics, discriminating against people who aren't glued to their smartphones, and likely violating GDPR in more than one way.

I guess you can tell I'm a bit bitter about that last one.
Turkish developers building unsafe buildings that kill people, doesn't mean that preschools should lose their license if they have full fat milk instead of 2% milk (actual regulation where I live). Not all red tape is created equal
HCl itself isn't going to be a direct issue in the water supply. HCl interaction with all those other things in the environment that were otherwise inert is the big problem here. If you dump your HCl in a limestone environment, we'll you'll dissolve a bunch of rocks. It gets more problematic when there heavy metal compounds get dissolved into solution and suddenly people can't use their wells or municipal water has to shut down or work extra hard at filtration.

Problem is the only way you know if this is occurring is constant sampling and testing over the affected region by a competent and trustworthy set of testing groups.
I remember being on the deck in that mighty breeze. Lost my hat :-) My mom had a death grip on my hand.
The "entrenched players" are usually just other homeowners and the protections come in the form of zoning and incentives to not rebuild and/or relocate (prop 13).
> In contrast, this is a big scary smoke cloud of a well-understood volatile compound that we've spilled into the ecosystem in the past

In past events, vinyl chloride was not burned, and minimal amounts of it went unrecovered. We also know that hydrogen chloride is a byproduct of burning vinyl chloride, and when combined with water, makes hydrochloric acid, which is not good to come into contact with, and has killed many of the fish in East Palestine. We know vinyl chloride is a cancer-and-birth-defect-causing carcinogen. We also have seen some evidence that animals nearby are dropping dead and humans feeling sick.

We also know that the rail company, purposefully or not, did not accurately tell officials which chemicals were released. We also know in the past that corporations responsible for ecological disasters have repeatedly downplayed the incidents. We also know that a reporter was wrongfully arrested for asking questions about the incident.

We also know that rail union leaders were talking about the exact safety concerns that led to this derailment, and were told to suck it up by strikebreaking federal officials.

The correct thing to do is not dismiss concerns, but to put in place measures to stop corner-cutting and provide guidance to residents of East Palestine that isn't just "don't worry about it". There are real concerns here and no one is providing real evidence that things are safe.
Magnoflorine improves cognitive deficits in AD affected (outperforms donepezil)
We're in Australia and after reading that book we'll go out of our way to not buy generics manufactured in India.

Weirdly, it doesn't seem like a regulatory requirement to print the country of manufacture on the box. All of our food is clearly labelled but not pharmaceuticals? An odd omission.

I speak as someone who worked in India -- Bangalore, in the IT sector -- for 2 years. I loved the place and the people. But for sure the work ethic is ... different to Australia.
Speaking of product, Ben Thompson mentioned in his podcast that Google planned to use their low-margin GDocs suite to undermine Microsoft Office's dominance. I wonder what happens to that strategy. If any company can pull off an office killer, I'd imagine it's Google. Yet somehow I'm still bitching that Quip is better than Google Docs.

On the other hand, Microsoft CEO is saying in unequivocal terms that Microsoft can use low-margin bing to undermine Google search. I'd not imagine such a day, but here it was.
Makes sense that it was called the Sea Witch, after all witches are also made of wood.
“ and Joe Rogan, whose rambling, hours-long podcasts had somewhat confoundingly become the biggest hit in podcasting since Serial.”

WTF is “Serial”? And how can Rogan be the biggest thing since something I have never heard of? And how can it even be since “Serial” when he has been doing this for over a decade, before podcasting was a legit thing?
they're saying the west is willing to sacrifice every ukrainian to weaken russia.
Story time: many moons ago i was in the sane situation, and decided to stay because i loved the team and had a very good work relationship with my boss/team leader… despite the company being kind of a circus on fire.

What I didn’t know was that the company that was trying to hire me was also in contact with my boss/team leader, which actually accepted the offer and left.

We still have a good relationship and I still consider him a friend (hope it’s the same for him) and we meet from time to time for a beer with other former colleagues.

Needless to say, that was a very formative experience.
Almost 24 years ago, a massive earthquake struck Turkey (the so-called Izmit Earthquake). Tens of thousands of people died. In the wake of that disaster, an earthquake tax [1] was instituted. Billions of dollars were raised. Where did that money go? How was it spent? Well... nobody really knows [2]. The smart money is it disappeared in corruption. Contracts awarded and paid but never built, kickbacks to key political leaders, that sort of thing.

Interestingly, this same type of corruption has crippled Russia's military [2]. Contracts awarded for the next generation of tanks. Those are never built. The money is returned to generals who steal it and then a contract is awarded for a replacement. The existing contract may be cancelled when the new one is developed and those funds just disappear too.

Unfortunately you see this pattern play out a lot: a democratically elected leader corrupts the system they were elected in to ultimately become an autocrat. The scary part is a good chunk of the population in any of these countries cheer this on since they've been successfully manipulated and propagandized into this would-be dictator being the only solution to some imagined cultural moral failure.

In Nazi Germany there was cultural bolshevism [3]. Interestingly, this particular one is resurgent today rebranded as cultural Marxism [4].

What we are witnessing in Turkey, Russia and even the United States (as well as many other placces) is the rise of fascism.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_tax_(Turkey)

[2]: https://www.npr.org/2023/02/09/1155647266/turkey-earthquake-...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art#Cultural_Bolshe...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_th...
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