skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the long 40+ year history of "social networking" (with that term construed broadly to mean "anything where people contribute") the most stale, boring, pedantic debates have always been "does this message belong on this forum?"

Besides SO have gotten that way, it's why almost no one wants to contribute to Wikipedia.

You could almost graph the decline of a forum as directly proportional to the percentage of content that debates that question.
Microspeak: Light Reading (Ironic)
Someone would think this is larger than Chernobyl if they were critically uninformed on just how big and stupid Chernobyl was. Burning the contents of the train cars will destroy a lot of the dangerous chemical compounds you originally had. A vast amount of the danger by weight is gone. The biggest issue is determining the dioxin output.

With a nuclear fire that is not the case. When things go out of control you make even more radioactive stuff, and you can't even clean up the mess in the first place without dying and killing all of the equipment that is working on it. It is just an unimaginable disaster that most of us can't fully comprehend.
The logical consequence is going to be that magazines are going to move towards much more trust based and private systems as anything public gets spammed with mediocre and borderline plagiarized generated content. Basically the internet wasteland that Stephenson funnily enough predicted in Fall.

Biggest losers are likely going to be aspiring artists who rely on these venues to get a foot in the door. Sad moment for the arts that the publishers of technology probably paid very little attention to, which is funny given that this is one of the topis they're certainly going to find in their training data, if they had read it.
Disclaimer work in Amazon.

That at least doesn't work at all in my situation. I'm based in Seattle and I collaborate regularly with folks in probably 3-4 other geographic locations, ironically no one actually in Seattle.

If anything getting the video conferencing to work in a meeting room is more of a hassle/friction and a poorer experience when you still have to accommodate someone remote.
Maybe for some jobs. But for the majority of software jobs? Not really.
Money. Most states have very little funding for emergency recovery, so it's routine to use a federal emergency declaration to authorize federal funding. In general with civil emergencies, the state has the authority but the feds have the money.
> Am I the only one wondering if this could spell the end of the world?

You're clearly not the only one. The whole field of AI safety is about pondering these kinds of question.

For predictable reasons, it's not a field most HN readers take very seriously.
401K is unambiguously a benefit to every employee. Remote-first or remote-only is not unambiguously a benefit; some people actually prefer to be in the office and interact with people face-to-face. Yes, even some talented ones.

If remote work was all it took, Gitlab (remote only since 2014) would have sucked up every talented engineer on the planet. Yet somehow they're still a very distant second to Github in their space.
> The Model 247 made its first flight on Feb. 8, 1933. It was an immediate success. United Air Lines placed an order for 60...

Note that this was before the government broke up United Aircraft and Transport Corporation into United Aircraft (i.e. Pratt & Whitney), Boeing, and United Airlines. In other words the vertical monopoly "bought" its own planes.
Three-hour roundtrip in congested cities like Boston or Los Angeles is not made-up or even rare occurrence.
I remember learning about this in the 80's, when I got my first modem.
I can't believe I'm defending Google, but all of those things are on their own properties. Aggressive and user-hostile, yes, but they're not abusing their ownership of the browser to modify their competitor's site.
“With the added trust of Microsoft”

Trust? (Eyeroll)
If I pay for a family plan, I expect to be able to share my plan with my family...even if they don't live with me. Thats what the family plan is for, and why most people buy it. If I can't share my account, why should I pay for a family account at all?
Any hash calculations using a "read from stdin or a pipe" strategy, in my experience, is fraught with issues caused by an extra newline at the end of the input possibly being there today, and not in later checks, or vice-versa.

When people claim they wrote a prediction at some later date, they always have to document the EXACT command used to avoid this, e.g. `echo "smart prediction" | md5sum`
Fuck Google and their internet monopoly, but I have to give it to them for not doing shit like this. If I had to pick a tech giant to run the internet, I'd rather have Google than Microsoft.

...although, fuck Google still (and the rest of big tech)
With “sent from my iPhone” it’s an excuse for brevity and/or typos. Consider that the iPhone’s keyboard was a downgrade from the Blackberry that was previously standard among business users. The automatically-appended disclaimer saves the sender a bit of stress.
£?
This isn’t why people are angry at Netflix.
> Haiku seems to solve this problem more elegantly than Nix(the package manager) does(aka without a billion links). It is still great and I use it across many machines, including on OSX.

If Nix's solution were more elegant in this sense, you wouldn't be able to use it on macOS because macOS lacks the required sandboxing features.
That's good. I'll bet you a WinZip license that the option to turn it off has been sunsut within two years though.
0th way: php scripts on shared web hosting. it still exists.
This is wack advice.

There's value in shipping an MVP (or multiple MVPs) fast, sure. Cull the failures and iterate the successes. Better than trying to achieve perfection with a forever-delayed product that never ships.

But even the sloppiest, most minimal MVP has to get something extremely right. You need to solve some problem for the user in ways that others haven't.

If you don't get things right enough, you've just trashed your entire brand. Game over.

And sometimes, getting things "right" is literally your entire unique selling point. Look at Apple nailing the iPod's features in ways that its predecessors didn't. Look at Tesla nailing their vehicles' features in ways that its predecessors didn't. Etc.
I'm angry because I felt trapped scrolling through the same crap under different categories on the same page. It was not relaxing or enjoyable. It was abusing my attention.
> Racial segregation is really a different issue though

How do you square that with the fact that racial minorities are significantly poorer on average?

> it involves excluding a person based on something out of their control

Are you implying that people choose to be poor?
I don't believe this is meant as an OS for personal use.

This is designed to reduce the impacts of a possible collapse in the semiconductor supply chain, by enabling older and scavenged parts to be recycled and reused for critial applications.

You'd be using Dusk OS in some essential piece of infrastructure that has a microcontroller for which no spare parts are available anymore.

I don't exactly agree with the project author on the timeline for all of this, but I don't consider it useless or misguided.

Projects like this might enable reusing that old 8086 forgotten in a drawer for something useful instead of just post-apocalyptic jewelry. Sure, you can use a 8086-era OS as well, but if something far more sophisticated is available, you would prefer that.
> I'll use the term "art" here because there must be some human skill involved.

I mean, there's human skill in creating the prompts but AI alone is capable of this level of quality. You can follow any AI art tag on Instagram and see for yourself.
It's the thing you put in your Duck Duck Go search (but do not do "!reddit" or it won't work) to find content from the closest thing the Internet still has to a reliable and genuine collection of opinions and reviews by actual disinterested humans.
Hey Ben, nice you're starting out and trying to build a habit, wish you all the best!

May I ask which template you use? Is it adapted from the dawn theme or your own implementation? I really like its simplicity.
Thinking like an employer - how can i leverage social norms to get same or more work for less pay. If you’re not an employer, why are you thinking about it this way?
We ended this long time ago our 70 ~ folks come into the office Tuesday- Thursday and work remote Monday and Friday. Specifically because early on we noticed when we let people choose their days we ended up in shitty half zoom half not . My feeling is the time in the office is to bond with co workers and collaboration on new ideas. It’s worked really well for our team as even just by chance bumping into someone on another team and talking shop has fixed dozens of bugs and resulted in at least one or two great features
This is my personal belief, which I have no way to substantiate, and solely statistical, but it helps me sleep at night or so to speak.

Nobody spends more on defense than US. Also, the new technology that you hear about today is essentially declassified tech from ~20 years ago. I remember reading in the past about Boeing doing experiments with a 747 carrying a giant laser that could lock on and fry ICBMs. There was also stuff like this 14 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBMU6l6GsdM

Extrapolating to today, I firmly believe that US (and probably NATO and other countries who share intel) are watching Russian launch sites closely, ready to drop kinetic warheads from orbit at the first sign of activation, not to mention multiple layers of defense with kinetic kill vehicles, lasers, EMPS, jammers, e.t.c. That is assuming, we don't have stuxnet like malware hiding in computer systems that would just magically cause the missiles to fail.

After all, Russian military was shown to be wildly incompetent (which US probably already knew), so that translates to easy infiltration/intel and creation of a safeguard plan to counter anything they have.
> C shops don't want to hire me because I don't have any past industrial embedded jobs.

What were you doing with C professionally that wasn't embedded work?
Toolbar was made back when IE lacked a search bar and omnibar wasn't even considered of.
This is what I don't understand about return-to-office mandates for global software/services companies. Even 10 years ago when I'd visit Google HQ, I'd always end up on a conference room on a Google Meet with other Googler's from around the world. What is the point of going to an office to be on video calls all day?
And that's only the portion the businesses know about.
This mechanism is not doing any serialization, it just disconnects the page from the renderer and puts it into a memory cache, keeping the v8 VM initiated, but paused. It cannot be used to save a tab into the disk.

https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:con...
What if you use the firefox-esr Debian package?
FAANG want you to come back for their real estate valuations. You get to sit on zoom and pretend you are doing this to increase face to face.
The FAANG key competitive advantage is cartel/monopoly status. Getting employees into the office is just middle management ego stroking, it won't actually help them.

The degree to which they maintain market dominance over the next 5-10 years will depend on how well they time buying out startups which threaten their dominance (and which will no doubt be built by more productive WFH employees).
This is great. I tried doing something similar, Takeout can put the files in Google Drive for you. So i tried creating a Cloudflare worker reads the files from Google Drive and streams them directly to backblaze B2 (S3 compatible).

Worker was supposed to run for free as the files were streaming and no CPU time was used but in practice CF workers were stopping because I was exhausting the free limit so I guess something in my code did end up using CPU
That AWS centric idea with Lambda seems pretty reasonable cost-wise too. One issue with Cloudflare Workers is that it is limited in only being able to PUT 100MB at a time to any host, Cloudflare or not, in an undocumented limit presumably for anti-abuse. I don't believe a similar limitation is present in AWS Lambda.

GTR was organically grown from seeing Azure's Blob Storage download API. I got disappointed at the bugs seen and then just patched over it with Cloudflare Workers, but didn't change up to just AWS/S3.

I could see myself also going this route too in a clean slate. With the 100MB limit gone, and having to pay for CPU anyway, maybe we could also get proper GPG public key encryption in it too.
Prompt “engineering” reeks of the A in STEAM
All you need are enough people to fall in line.

Amazon is filled with workers on visas. At least from the subset I've talked to, this isn't the hill they plan to die on. "Come in or fuck off back to {home country}" is a pretty strong bargaining chip.

For me, getting fired would mean taking a few months off to leisurely reset, then slowly getting back on the leetcode grind, and then trying to find a new remote job. Drawing lines in the sand is much easier when "uproot your entire life" isn't on the table.
I'm not angry at Netflix. Are we supposed to be angry at Netflix? I'm not up to speed
I prefer to microwave fish for lunch. Leave your preferences that make me ill at home. Where you belong.
Show HN: Long and Short Any Crypto
As an avid options trader, I fell in love with crypto. The volatility was super attractive. As I got more familiar with crypto, I wanted to trade more altcoins. But, most aren’t tradeable on centralized exchanges like Binance and Coinbase.
Tried switching to decentralized exchanges and perp platforms like Synthetix and GMX, which just support blue chip tokens. Nothing lets me take leveraged positions in the altcoins I want.

Why do I have to wait for GMX or Binance to support BLUR perps? There’s got to be a better way, right?

Turns out, there’s not. So we built www.tumbyl.com - it’s a platform that lets you long and short any ERC20. Meaning, it’s the first one-stop-shop for crypto derivatives.
You choose any token to trade, specify size, and confirm in wallet.

If you have any specific recommendations or tokens you’d like supported, just comment below. Would love to hear what you guys think!
Thanks!
The pitch variants are also highly regional but that’s an interesting idea. I wouldn’t want to give it to learners in use cases I can think of, when correct data is available though (just with licensing headaches/costs)

The correct data already exists, so I'm not sure what the point is besides having a less accurate but freer option
Shameless plug. I open-sourced https://snapdir.org/ to explore how to solve these exact issues.

It's an early prototype to gather feedback around the ergonomics of the interface and the manifest format, and I would love to learn if people might find it useful enough for the use cases where LFS falls short.
Saint Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store
Inconsistent with community behaviors. Same with musk in that the community’s behaviors can’t be entirely owned by management
I'm not sure what to tell you. It didn't make sense. It doesn't make sense. There was nothing technical about what you wrote. Other people don't need to confirm that something doesn't make sense to me. I'm not making a claim, I'm telling you that it didn't make sense. What do you not understand about this?

I'm not trying to insult you or dispute what you wrote. I'm just telling you, again, that it does not make sense.

You keep repeating that all OpenBSD tries to do is audit to find bugs, but that is very obviously not all that they do to prevent exploitation and post-exploitation issues. I'm not sure why you keep doing that. This is one of the parts that doesn't make sense to me.

You say that unveil or pledge aren't enough or aren't as good as SELinux. There is nothing technical about saying that. That's just your opinion that others do not share. I'm not even commenting on whether or not I agree or disagree with you about that. However, you aren't making a point in expressing this opinion. That's something else that doesn't make sense to me.

So, do you want to try to explain what point you're trying to make again? The whole thing. All I'm getting from the things you're saying is that you love SELinux and you have almost no understanding of any other aspect of what OpenBSD does beyond auditing code.
This can work but they can fight fines, or eat it as cost of business. Much harder to argue against a safety-shutdown.
> They have identified in-person collaboration as a key competitive advantage

That's an interesting statement about the relative value proposition of a lot of the technology many in this sector make their money selling firsthand or secondhand.
Eh, the problem here is you're taking 'government' as a single entity, but it's not at all.

If it were up to the singular 'government' there would have been better brakes on the trains and the company would have been following the law on transporting the chemicals. All the issues at hand were well known about for years.

The problem here is very little government but instead for profit corporations going "How can I squeeze more blood out of this penny" and look for ways to get out of the regulations that prevent disasters in the first place.

Really no one does a 'great' job of dealing with disasters, hence why they are disasters. The best regulations/forms of government prevent the damned disaster based on the inevitable outcome of human greed in the first place.
> imploding with despair about AGI

That sounds like a good way to get people interested in their content.

The world is always burning down due to one existential crisis or another. Unless you have the direct ability to change things don't worry about it.
If you publish work in a journal or conference that's meaningfully important in your field you are a scientist.
> Work from home has some employee benefits, but has higher direct and abstract costs for the employer.

Ah come on now. Instead of my employer paying for a space for me to sit in central London, the electricity and internet connection, I pay for those things myself. Instead of wasting time on a train I get a bit of work done before most people are online.

The only costs are in the crocodile tears of middle management who cannot advance themselves simply by growing their headcount.
And don't forget that downtown businesses and real estate developers are putting pressure on local governments, who in turn are putting pressure on big employers to mandate that employees commute daily and spend money in the city.
I won’t defend user hostile actions regardless of where it’s done. Google is a bad actor when it comes to abusing their position, so is MS.

I don’t however think there’s a strong argument to be made that MS is modifying the website unless they MITM it. It’s well within their right to make their browser display something they want it to in a specific situation.
So basically, the Bellevue homelessness policy is Not In My Back Yard.
Yeah, the root-reserved blocks are tunable.

Won't save you if someone's running-as-root reporting job goes rogue and fills up the disk, though, while the file might... I mean, obviously one ought not have done that in the first place, but the real world is a whole thing.
If you do the math that doesn't always work out.

The main thing that is cheaper in cheaper cities is housing. Most of the other stuff people buy costs the same everywhere. If you move to a cheaper place and have a lower income, your non-housing expenses will become a larger portion of your spending.

Once you've worked in tech for several years in the Bay Area or Seattle you will generally be well off enough to buy a home in a nice area and still be able to save or invest a large amount every year. Housing will feel expensive but everything else will feel cheap -- even new luxury cars will cost a fraction of your income. Early retirement will be a definite possibility if you have a basic amount of self control over your spending. And if you have children, they will have access to all the opportunities that some of the country's largest metropolitan areas offer.
The thing is these big companies don't really need a lot of great talent. They're fine skating by with masses of mediocre talent and a few great ones sprinkled in.

So yes, they'll attract fewer great engineers, but it won't matter much.
The hotbox detector could have seen the bearing overheating and been ignored, or have malfunctioned or just not been sensitive enough to detect the problem when the train passed. It’s old tech that should have caught this in most cases. The even older tech solution would be adding a caboose on trains carrying hazardous materials. Maybe you don’t need a caboose today but someone watching cameras in a cube could do the same thing.

ECP does not seem like a solution, and addressing how hazardous chemicals are moved is something that needs to be done.
Because they often aren’t rational people. Are you unaware of the conspiracy theory. Ring passed around that people who got the vaccine are now tainted?

https://news.yahoo.com/vaccine-misinformation-spawns-pure-bl...
University administration is a kafkaesque environment where enthusiastic compliance with a ruleset is of foremost importance. In this context, citing a source is covering your ass. If anyone has a problem with the wording, it’s GPT’s fault. It probably never occurred to them that citing the source could get you into trouble.
> they don't wanna waste their time with something that will 100% have no actionable outcome.

It is _their job_ to consider these issues. They have their entire lives dedicated to this task.
I don't like the Four Day Work Week because most of the people who are allowed to experiment with it are working on bullshit. I'm not a big Graeber fan, but I emphatically agree with his idea that the majority of actual hours worked inside the continental US are largely useless make-work in order to justify the existence of a monied consumer class.

Such a huge amount of the actual work that needs to be done so that we live in first-world comfort--textiles, agriculture, fuel chemicals, etc.--is so outsourced to developing countries that use serf-equivalent labor working 6 or 7 day weeks (in the same way that Americans did 150 years ago), or foreign migrant workers, that I don't actually have a sense of how much work is really needed to make the modern world function. If I get a four day workweek to make PowerPoints and write requirements documents for video calling software, is that actually a fair amount of work? If you divided the amount of non-bullshit work that went into sustaining America by the number of workers here, would we have a one-day workweek? A seven-day workweek?

Perhaps it's less accurate to say "I don't like the four day work week" than it is to say "I am suspicious that I deserve a four day work week given my consumption of resources". I of course would like to work as little as possible and would immediately accept a 4-day if it were offered.
I do think we are just in a linguistic wrinkle here. Because "not believing in x" is ambiguous in that it could also obtain those who have never even heard of x. I apologize, that was not what I meant, I thought the context was enough to understand that, but I get your confusion. I really dont think we are disagreeing about anything really!

But if it isn't the ambiguity there tripping us up, very curious to hear your argument for why that formulation is incorrect. I would believe in the fungus if I trusted the authority of the person telling me about it. But before I heard about it, I neither believed nor disbelieved it.