skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the whole anecdote sounds like a story that's been told a few too many times (including variations of Toshibas helpless product department making stuff they didn't know how to sell), because finding "that one thing" that made a difference" makes for a good story.

Rubinstein saw the drive and realized that the price level and size was perfect for their product idea. And he had buy-in from the higher ups so they could negotiate a certain volume and price that made the project feasible.

That doesn't mean another company couldn't have been successful with a smaller 1GB drive (seeing the success of the smaller iPods later on) or a physically bigger 5GB drive (people were still carrying around walkmans and CD players).

What Apple managed to pull off was making a device that was easy to get music into (with iTunes) and easy to use (with the clickwheel) and, yes, compact and with good design and marketing.
Does an empathatic email that was created using the assistance of an AI have more value than an insensitive one, or none at all? Definitely.
Genetic differences don’t mean it’s not made up. It’s not like we studied people’s genes and went “hm yes you can divide this ethnic group into four subgroups, Science!” People made a system where they divided themselves, and over time that division resulted in some small but noticeable amount of genetic divergence.

But there are, like, trillions of different genetic differences between all of us, and you could draw totally different lines around people and find a genetic basis if you really wanted. The genetic basis is used to justify the arbitrary groups; the groups are not an emergent phenomenon of the genetics.
In regarding the Mammoth there is some who claims that bringing the Mammoth back would help recreate the northern subarctic steppe grassland ecosystem that flourished in Siberia during the last glacial period. This would increase the animal density in Siberia and so on.
Not so much peak content as minimum friction.

If things are more localized, you can build up more momentum as a home team kind of competitor and gain skills.

If you have to compete on an even playing field with everybody else in the world from the word go, it wildly distorts things and produces really weird results. It's still optimized, but it's optimized for a mass audience that is SO huge, and applies more pressure on anything that doesn't comply.

That's what the Angry Birds thing is like. The original has to compete on the grounds of 'produce more money', not just proliferate. As such it's cannibalizing stuff that produces more money.
In America, should the caste reservation system give more good jobs to lower-caste Indians at the expense of higher-caste Indians, or at the expense of all other demographics, or at the expense of white people?
I got a Mech Eng degree after high school and did that for a few years. That was my plan A. Never had a plan B until I started learning to write software. Now the Mech Eng stuff is maybe my plan B (although Im not sure how good of a fit I'd be after this long).
>my medical data is with HIPAA.

Except your searching for medical conditions on google or amazon is not protected. They know.
Are those tech jobs? Or just normal jobs in a tech company?
The British introduced that system, aligned on the Western European system (not everywhere, though, Iceland is an outlier). That's why you have people like Padmasree Warrior, one of her husband's ancestors put his profession as his last name when the British asked for one, and it stuck. Then again, many English surnames are also based on profession, one of Jimmy Carter's ancestors literally made carts.
A Tesla battery seems to cost around $20K per Google. So if your is at 50% life, do you get a bill for $10K?

That doesn't sound like a thing a lot of people would want.
It's actually quite popular among environmentalists. We need to make progress on sustainability, and we will. We CAN sustain 8 billion people because of the immense progress humans have made in food production and efficiency. Pretending the only solution is, less humans, is antithetical to everything humanity has accomplished.
plan A - startups

plan B - big tech co

plan C - tech at investment bank

plan D - tech at walmart/mcdonalds/etc
ChatGPT Won't Kill Google
A rapid covid test is ~$10. Penicillin is ~$10. That leaves $30 for the telehealth.

That's doable. The thing I don't like about this approach is that I'm not sure how it works on the margins. A rapid covid test has a lower accuracy than a strep swap processed in a lab. What do the people with very sick throats but not strep do? How does it catch people that have a more fundamental health issue? Are there common pitfalls that the system might snag on, like individuals not carefully reading dialog boxes and quickly incorrectly clicking that they do not have a antibiotic allergy.

I'm privileged, but my personal bias is to pay more for higher quality health care instead of paying less for lower quality healthcare.
Reasonable-ish counter concerns but way overinflated in each case & loses it's persuasiveness by trying overhard to sell fear.

Plenty of people run their etcd on their control plane. If you are indeed a startup you might even consider not having dedicated control plane nodes. The idea of side-cars taking up another 100% more resources is perposterous, absurd. Running ingress takes up some overhead, but it also allows you to consider running a wholeot less load balancers if you have multiple services, letting kube do all the routing; this can save a good chunk of change on infra costs if you go for it.

Things like errors devops, ci/cd are presented in the scariest possible terms. But it's not like these are non-issues without kubernetes. I've seen man-year of time go by building AWS Beanstalk and AWS ECS scripts, just to deploy stuff (build wasn't any better!). There's such a universe of mature & solid tools for Kubernetes that encompass a much more end-to-end handling. Plenty of gitops starter kits. Many of these you can try out in a day or less, see if you like the look & feel. And abandon and swap-out just as quickly. There's a much better base of options here than there is anywhere else.
Instead of breaking ABI compat for `unordered_map` why not define a new type given that it's so different? It can even be called the same thing and just exposed through a different namespace version (something that's been supported for a while). About the only thing real is intmax_t. The rest feel resolvable within a library without changing ABI / breaking back compat.
> Strict yes, but a company with the lobbying budget of Amazon can easily get around those laws.

They don't even need to lobby. They can just pay the fines. The fines are capped by statute at an egregiously low value, which to Amazon is chump change.
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You can add verbs.
Tell me about it. I'm an iOS engineer at FAANG, but I've been shipping my own apps since 2011. It's depressing that there's no longer a market for paid, high quality, ad-free, fully packaged apps and games. I actually interned at a mobile games studio for a summer and it was made clear to me what the profit model was: pander solely to the whales, ignore the free users.

Something like 70% of our revenue came from 2% of our users. Super bleak and helped contribute to my realization that there's just not reliable money to be made as a solo iOS dev anymore. Better to collect a paycheck building someone else's app.
The analogy doesn't work for the nature. It already went through very drastic changes, at least some of them attributed to activities of living organisms, and while it was bad for some species, it was good for others. It's even more so when we're talking about less than cataclysmic changes. It's hard to find any clear logic why disappearance of dodo bird is bad, and e.g. extinction of horses in America is ok.
It's simple. Raises aren't there to reward you for what you've done. They are they to keep you working at the same company. Meeting a goal of what you did last year is inconsequential to the business trying to keep you. You got paid last year to do what you did. The raise is to convince you to stay and do it again the next year. The business has to decide if you are worth investing in to further its objectives.

Here's an easy example. If you were going to get rid of someone in 4 months after their review, would you give them a raise? Of course not, you'd allocate that funds to someone else.

That's why it's hard. The business has to judge which people they are going to focus on keeping.
Restricting employees from typing confidential company information into a third-party system with zero enterprise controls, auditing, compliance etc seems like a normal reaction.
I guess it would behoove this stance to put some sort of limit on the span here - are you saying that first movie of the horse running is equally effective as the latest A24 art-house horror flick, because I doubt it, so I'd like some bounds on these sort of statements that movies have not improved?

Also, keep in mind survivorship bias - we largely ONLY think of the great movies from the 50's and 60's but have plenty of bad examples of modern cinema to easily draw from.
That's... also what I'm saying, yes. I think we agree?

iPod was not successful because it was the only thing offering high storage capacity. It wasn't the only one. iPod was successful because it offered a touch wheel, iTunes, and Apple's brand recognition. As you point out, it also had very good build quality. None of these things have to do with some exceptional storage capacity.
Echoing some of the other people here... I didn't really have a plan B. I started programming around when I was 12, and fell in love with it - I knew it was what I wanted to do for a living.. looking back now, even when I was going through college for my Comp Sci degree, it didn't even cross my mind to have a plan B if programming didn't work out.

I'm actually not really sure what I would do if I wasn't doing programming.
...maybe? Has anyone tested the desktop version on ARM?
Then why only do that on iOS, and completely remove it from Android? The Play Store also supports renaming listings...
"On error resume next" is a perfectly fine default error handling strategy.
Dark mode on the website is funny
100% agree with your entire comment. That is exactly what I believe too, based on the evidence I've seen. That anecdote is entirely too clever to be accurate. It was probably built on a kernel of truth, but it has been embellished to a degree that appears to make it contradict the reality that existed at the time.
I saw this and went back to the black book to read up, and yeah, type 1s are limited to a certain subset of PS because the font is pre-tokenized.

Interesting I never noticed that before now.

FYI Type 3s were totally widely supported, and supported by everything that supported Type 1s. Type 3s may not have worked with ATM, but I had a huge collection of fonts and never remember seeing a Type 3 font that didn't render correctly. I did have commercial fonts from real foundries, so maybe the ones made by people didn't render.
TLDR: Because if you did, you will likely blow through that VC cash you were given, then you'll ask for yet another round of funding.

Maybe they will throw more money at you after blowing it up on K8s operational costs for your startup. But what if they say no this time? That is always a possibility and even today is a high likelihood than previous years.

Perhaps not using K8s as a startup might save your startup in speed-running into bankruptcy, especially when you are not making any money and chasing free users for years.
Not all of them. Momentum is one of my favorites and it just gives me a new start page.
There was no plan B. Failure was not an option, it was only a matter of how long it would take to get there.
> you just reveal more geography

Technically true, according to current theories. The slope of spacetime gets steeper and steeper and you traverse through that spacetime as you go.

(Due to the gravity, you won't be whole to experience it.)

https://youtu.be/8-xODPI1OFg?t=253
With the magic of btdig.com you too can find all of their releases for PC and android alike.

https://i.imgur.com/EcJugS8.png

Another loss for paying customers, another win for pirates.
I tend to agree; I think Apple’s efforts are mostly PR to avoid low quality media outlets ex. vice, etc. from being able to write AirTag stalking articles
AsciiDoc, Liquid and Jekyll
I mean, that's why they are taking it away, isn't it?
> How could an AI model trained on input generated by an AI ever be any better than the original AI?

Like a tennis player practicing tennis with a wall?
While I mostly agree with the implied sentiment of "you probably are better off without k8s", this article makes no persuasive (or at least not objective) arguments to that end. I worry a bit for the HN flaming that is likely imminent here.

Suggestion for OP: expand on your ideas with concrete examples instead of hand-waving in the abstract. There's plenty you can cherry pick from (https://k8s.af has a bunch)

e.g. You say at one point

> "It makes perfect sense with all the network encapsulation over the cloud network virtualization over the real network well things tend to get crazy"

I'm not sure what that sentence is meant to convey. k8s networking is indeed complex, but what is "things tend to get crazy" supposed to mean? It would be helpful if you provided examples for what you seem to treat as obvious for the rest of us.
How long ago? I’ve driven a Tesla two months ago and personally experienced the problem, which required me to correct it manually.
Isnt it funny when you finally realize HN's had you on mute for months. ;)
>And this is why you can’t move your own table or plug in a power strip at tradeshows. The unions have a detailed contract about who does what when.

Aside from safety reasons others have mentioned, these rules could also be meant to prevent replacement with other staff. For example, if a union negotiated a better salary & benefits deal for maintenance workers, the company couldn't fire one and then ask other employees to "Help out maintenance some of the day, because they're short-staffed."
Alternate interpretation: Any multi-user support will be wielded by abusers, and no other use cases deserve precedence over inhibiting abuse, so all multi-user cases result in unpredictable sound and/or push notifications to inhibit abuse.

I expect Apple will eventually add “This AirTag has been traveling with you for a while, are you okay with that?” random pop-up notifications, the same way that it randomly confirms “Always Allow” location access and “Time-sensitive” notifications access.

I explain the little chirping sound the one in my glovebox sometimes makes when I start my car to anyone riding with me who doesn’t recognize it, so that they understand what that sound is and to pay attention and be conscious of what it means whenever they hear it.

If occasional chirps are the price I have to pay to inhibit abuse by a global tracking network, then that’s a small annoyance paid for a great good for others.
Scientists also have a hard time trying to get funding for proving that things don't fall down when you drop them.
Clearly the answer is Rovio should acquire and make Angry Flappy Birds.
There is a saying in Kubernetes "containers are cattle, not pets". That is from a software perspective, the actual saying should be "hardware is cattle, not pets, and your containers are fleas on the cattle's back". If you aren't running on enough hardware for servers to be cattle not pets, then Kubernetes is solving a problem you don't have, and probably won't have for a long time.
So, I skimmed the recent 4th Circuit opinion (copied below).

Ultimately the NSA won on the state secrets doctrine. However, as it relates to standing the gist is that Wikimedia only proved that the NSA had the capacity to copy their communications, but the NSA showed they had the technical capacity to perform the operations without copying Wikimedia's communications. I.e. Even though the NSA tapped the backbones, they could filter out what they did and didn't review / copy independently from Wikimedia's communications...

Is that true, IDK. I haven't reviewed the evidence.

Quote:

Both parties have focused their discussion of Wikimedia's standing on the three prongs necessary to establish the Wikimedia Allegation,[32] which were enumerated in the Fourth Circuit's remand order in this case. See Wikimedia Found., 857 F.3d at 210-11. The three prongs are: (A) Wikimedia's communications almost certainly traverse every international Internet backbone 601*601 link connecting the United States with the rest of the world; (B) the NSA conducts Upstream surveillance at one or more points along the Internet backbone; and (C) the NSA, for technical reasons, must be copying and reviewing all the text-based communications that travel across a given Internet backbone link upon which it conducts Upstream surveillance. Together, these three prongs would establish that the NSA has copied and collected some of Wikimedia's communications in the course of the NSA's Upstream surveillance program, thereby providing Wikimedia standing to sue here.

The sufficiency of the evidence with respect to each of these prongs is discussed in detail below. The summary judgment record contains specific facts which show no genuine dispute as to the veracity of the first two prongs of the Wikimedia Allegation. With respect to the third prong, however, the summary judgment factual record contains specific facts that establish, without a genuine dispute of material fact, that the NSA, in the course of Upstream surveillance, does not need to be copying any of Wikimedia's communications as a technological necessity. Thus, the summary judgment record does not contain the facts necessary for Wikimedia to establish standing at summary judgment via the Wikimedia Allegation.
I find it hard to accept that being first to market, capturing a lot of value and dumping it on a greater fool are things to aspire for.

I see this argument in many forms all the time, in a nutshell: monetary gain should be the sole metric of success for engineering. Considering we are killing the planet and perma-exploiting entire classes of society following that logic, maybe we should change approach?

But yeah ship it, pocket it. Why be idealistic if I just need to make enough money to retire and say "got mine, f you"?
It's Apple approach to market segmentation: you want more than 1 external monitor? Buy macbook pro with M1/M2 Pro/Max, for a $1000 more.
FAANGMULA and all companies inspired by them have a completely broken interview process, this is the root of everything

A normal interview these days is 38 minutes (45 minutes minus 2 minutes introductions and 5 minutes for interviewee questions at the end), times 5 or 6.

Some leetcode, some Jedi (cultural fit), a design sketching or 2. People just go hard on leetcode, grokking system design, and memorize a few situational answers in STAR format and they're good to go.

How good will they be at identifying why the Kafka consumer is lagging at midnight? Who the hell knows?

So a broken system brings in thousands of new employees, now you need to define success to all of them at the same time, and figure out how fast you can get rid of those who can master leetcode but not deliverable production quality code
I'm not of that generation, but it's my impression they don't care whether the empty words come from a person, a politician, or a greeting card company; and they certainly don't care if the empty words come from the brain of a university administrator or a website they visited. The words are all equally empty.

The only thing that matters is a cultural change that will lead to fewer mass shootings. Getting angry at university administrators for whatever lack of empathy they demonstrate is myopic. There's plenty enough reason for people to get angry about the way things are, but this is the wrong thing to be mad about.

> Why was the author even considering using AI in the first place?

Maybe because there aren't anymore words to be said about these things. They happen so frequently, that the expectation is words will be said after the fact, rather than action will be taken to prevent the next occurrence. So here we are, days after the shooting, mad at the words someone said after the shooting, rather than the fact there was a shooting.

Who here is still mad about the shooting? Who here is going to do something today to make the next shooting less likely?
Programming actually became my Plan B.

I started off in computers... obsessed but never thought I could do anything with them, and I didn't want to end up staring at a computer screen all day. Instead, I went to university and studied psychology, hoping to have more interaction with human beings. Specifically, I wanted to do something with social psychology and industrial-organizational psychology.. something with the workplace and human psychology.

Fast forward a multitude of social jobs, university life, living in another country, and back home to pay student loans... I applied for any job relating to the psychology field across the board. Bachelors degree ain't gettin' you much in this field.

So with my bills due, I fell to an old friend. A skill I taught myself when I was 12: programming in Visual Basic 3. I landed a job for a software company programming in VB 6 for a year or so. Eventually, I started to have an interest in web design and development, and that's where I've been for over a decade.

I started my own company developing web applications too though I can't say I've monetized them to the point where I could quit any day jobs. So while I'm still in the field of web dev, I'd dabbled in the stock market since I was in my 20s and made enough money to get myself into real estate, and my next endeavour is owning a portfolio of properties with mountain views... and renting them out for passive income. I'm working on my third property right now.
>Captain Cook’s Bean Snail [...] Today, they live only in zoos.

Sadly, the last member of that particular species died in 2016, in Edinburgh Zoo[1]. However, they had some success with other Partula snails[2].

[1] - https://islandbiodiversity.com/faba.htm

[2] - https://www.rzss.org.uk/conservation/our-projects/project-se...
After accounting for the enormous swaths of monoculture land required to grow plants to feed animals to slaughter for human consumption, sure.

If we can figure out how to reduce that though, there’s plenty of land.