skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are starting to corner the market and are able to use your leverage to block competitors in a way that threatens to undermine their business, then the EU (and to an extend the USA) will regulate you.

I can flip your question around and ask "should you have the right to play dirty?". Which is what Apple has been doing, there's exactly zero good reason to not license out access to the protocol.

I don't own Apple, I am a consumer. If this leads to me not having to install 5 different chat clients, I am grateful. It was the exact same with all the proprietary charging plugs for smartphones.
Exactly this. Financial situtions change but you still haven't to honor contracts that were signed. The 8K employees didn't have the same contracts as a long term spokesperson...that is not unusual at all...
Infinite Jest?

Of course, the first chapter is about one kid's final inability to communicate.
I bet Apple will include a switch (off by default) to allow side-loading.
Less tech-savvy folks will not even know how to enable side-loading.
Maybe I haven't been reading too closely and have missed the answer, but how many of the laid off employees were on work visas that are now also looking at having to leave the country? Since it's tech companies, I'd assume there's a decent percentage. How do those types of numbers affect the unemployment stats?
To put this into perspective, assuming the average salary of the 8k employees is $125,000, that would only save 80 jobs.
100%, and calling aesthetics an appeal to vanity and ego is a reductive take. I love that individual’s websites have different styles which reflect either them personally or their brand.

That can mean going all out in design, or having an HTML-only page like nothing. Both have value in their own way, and should reflect the creator to some extent.
That's a bad comparison because the power dynamics are wildly different.

To quote another commenter:

> Employees can’t 1/35,000th quit the way Starbucks can close 1/35,000th of its locations.

https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=34997971
nope, it's definitely just for vanity. it will be hard to explain that on a forum dedicated to people whose work revolves around upholding this myth, though. html not being readable without css is a bug or bad positioning. i would never design a document format that requires something as complex as css to be readable. anyway i find sites that use just plain default html readable. one big mistake people make is to let their browser take up a full widescreen monitor on such pages. the fact that the browser tries to be the OS discourages them from resizing it (windows+left on windows or gnome or the equivalent on windows is enough). its mostly the tables (iirc) that look like crap, even though they didn't have to
What exactly is "a build process" for you. For me, it is a process which results in an artifact. An artifact that is, in the best case, automatically tested, optimized, signed, and ready to be deployed. Compilation is a rather small part of it. But since I need to run all the other things anyway, why not compile there, and remove entropy from runtime.
Tangentially related, but I'm ordering a vehicle logbook from the DVLA at the moment. I'm a millennial/Gen-Z straddler, so it's been a real blast from the past-I-never-had.

I need to pay for my tax online. In order to do that, I need a number which is found in my logbook (V5C), which I've lost.

Can I do that online? Nope. To order a new log book, I need to fill out a V62 form and post it to the DVLA, along with a cheque for payment. That process takes 4-6 weeks. They don't accept cash. I don't own a cheque book. Guess I'll order one.

Can I do that online? No. I can't even get a cheque book from my normal bank, Monzo, as they deem them obsolete. I need to book an appointment with my old bank to pick one up.

Can I do that online? Of course not. I need to call them and find a spot. They don't have an appointment slot for the next couple of weeks.

The UK Government's website is normally wonderful. The fact I can't just pay for and order a new logbook online, or better yet, have a digital logbook so I never have to go through this pain in the first place, baffles me a little. I guess I'm not driving anywhere for the next few months. Suppose I'll be getting the train. Guess who's striking at the moment?
> I believe people have in fact been routinely living in groups of far more than 30 people for tens of thousands of years

Ok but could they follow 500 influencers, watch people die everyday, get the ever up to date flow of new disease, earthquakes, terrorists attack fed 24/7, compare themselves to the best of the best, see the worst of the worst, &c. ?

For people who lived/grew up before the 90s/2000s it is very obvious that things changed in a massive way extremely quickly, a lot due to internet but eve more due to pocket computers.

I think you're massively underestimating the scale of the issue. People don't thrive on social medias interactions, they're addicted to them, depending on the survey/study you look at it's anywhere from 4 to 9 hours per day on average.
I agree. Seems like more words spent on the Hawaiian thing than the actual story.
My heartfelt sympathies...
more like PHP circa 1999 honestly
I'm imagining a small, lone device mounted to a post somewhere in the wilderness. Probably solar powered.

This could work for alerting/notifications in such a case.

A larger sensor array installation probably has enough power and space available for better options.
Ed Davey,
Tom Hunt,
Rupa Huq,
Ben Lake,
Ian Levy,
Alan Mak,
Lia Nici,
Naz Shah.

I daresay "A Mak" or "R Huq" would work too.
XMPP is still around and alive. Have you seen https://sr.ht/~nicoco/slidge/ ? No need to resort to murder.
Books, articles, and videos related to software engineering and leadership
Yes, I’m sure an actor adds more real value to a SaaS company than engineers do. Recognizable talking heads who read lines into a camera are famously hard to find.
The AI Apocalypse would occur on a more general level than current LLMs. It's when we give the next generation(s) of models every more control over society, without proper alignment. And then it makes dangerous decisions we didn't anticipate, because we don't fully understand how the models work and also we don't fully think through all the implications of asking the models to accomplish a task.
In the Northeast, even downsized condos in decent locations are outrageously expensive. Many truly have nowhere to go but hundreds of miles away from family, friends, and the larger community they have lived in for decades.
I think the benefits of leaning on a (very familiar) protocol instead of a central repository outweigh the risks you describe

Like you mentioned- mirrors could become more common, and relying on HTTP makes it incredibly easy to host your own mirror. And import-maps mean you can mirror anything and everything in your dependency tree

Let's not forget, back in the day every major site relied on a client-side request to a jQuery CDN :)
you don't go to netflix to watch a movie at their place

netflix delivers data to you

are you saying the delivery man should only buy his car (AWS) and never help maintain the road (infrastructure)?

why should the customer who order food has to pay for the road the delivery person will use? the customer already paid for the service!

why, to you, this analogy only works when it doesn't benefit the customer?

billions $ are circulating in the market, and our core infrastructures always has to suffer

look at what happened in Ohio
Depending on the temperature of the object there will be a characteristic distribution of wavelengths. It's tricky because a hot object will only radiate specific wavelengths, based on how the heat is generated.

That's why the concept of a black body, an idealized thing that radiates a continuous spectrum is used to reason about heat transfer from radiation.

Bottom line, there's no single wavelength that carries most heat, it depends on how the heat is generated, what the emissivity of the generating body is and what the absorption of the receiving surface is.
> Transpiling TypeScript/JSX to browser-compatible JS.

Which is another way to say it's a form of compilation..... [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-to-source_compiler
$50/year for an llc in Delaware from what I recall hearing a few years back
Full time is 40 hours. Many, many businesses will hire part time then work employees up to the legal limit just to avoid paying benefits.
Fun fact: the "compilation" step in my company's React project is the biggest consumer of CI minutes by far across our entire organization, beating out every one of the Maven compile and test loops

But, since the devs don't care, there's only so much finger wagging I can do
Are you suggesting that 3+3=6 is as axiomatically "truthful" as "regulation is bad for business?"
I think that's a good point. I also think another way to look at it would be to actually understand their marketing and sales spend and look at what this cost represents.

If they've ceased all marketing and just hope MM will take up the slack, it might be a dumb move. If they have too many software or back office or whatever people, the decision to let them go is completely decoupled from what they spend on marketing. It's not an either / or, it's different part of the business entirely.
This is a great summary.

Some comments:

- Service Weaver implements its own serialization mechanism which is very efficient/achieves high performance.

- You write an application as components (where each component is defined by an interface). You can deploy the same application using different deployers: (1) on the local machine as single/multi process; (2) on GKE and we also have an experimental (3) SSH deployer that allows you to deploy across a cluster of machines reachable over SSH.

- However, the abstractions around deployment are agnostic to the deployment environment (local, cluster, cloud), hence someone can improve/write new deployers without deep knowledge of Service Weaver internals.
what does a public recognized figure produce?
Maybe this is something that academics and conspiracy theorists share?
No I don't have data to back it up. I say this because I vaguely recall reading somewhere that the reason why apple/google cooperation broke down was because apple insisted on banning spammers and google didn't want to. I have no idea where I saw that other than it was mentioned in a HN comment somewhere.

I remember that it made sense and seemed plausible to me at the time because I've also actually never received a spam iMessage in my whole life. It never even occurred to me in that moment this was the case until I read that comment and was like, "O yeah, right, I've actually never gotten spam on iMessage come to think of it." I just assumed that to spend spam via iMessage required apple hardware or that for one reason or another it just wasn't very viable.

On the other hand, I have gotten a lot of sms spam in the past, and I continue to get spam on WhatsApp.

As a side note, my sms spam has decreased dramatically after I ported my mobile number to google voice vs. when my carrier was T-Mobile. It's anecdotal but still telling.
given the hype-driven nature of our industry, that may well be the case.
Okay hear me out:

html_page_analytics.js
html_page_bundle.min.js
html_page_tracking.js
html_page_d8fd766d76223ae.min.js
html_page_user.js
html_page_banners.js
html_page_pardot_dfa7s778d9aa.min.js
> there are still going to be plenty of safeguards for things like this for the foreseeable future.

There aren't even safeguards for these things now. Humans routinely do what a computer tells them to, even if it makes no sense. Case in point: all the times people have listened to their GPS when it told them to turn into a river.

Remember: the original AI is the organization. How often do organizations make horrible decisions? How often are they stopped by safeguards?
Capitalism creates these situations but what should be talked about is disincentivizing them not that we should accept them. That is enough money for 100 workers to not be laid off for an entire year. Merits a discussion on how much value he’s actually creating. Same goes for CEOs getting paid many millions.
Though it's not the whole government who's against but really the two smaller parties in the coalition: the FDP (liberal party, 11.5%) foremost, and to some extent currently also the green party (14.8%)…

… whereas the largest party in the government coalition, the SPD (25.7%) of chancelor Scholz is not only largely in favor of such client-side scanning (of course there are also exceptions within the party), but also the party that holds the relevant ministry (interior) and thus the participation in the EU-side negociations.

The current coalition contract kinda forces the SPD to oppose such client side scanning at the EU level - and we'll see to what extent they keep their word or try to play foul against the contract, but there is no doubt imho that if the next government was again a "grand coalition" of SPD and CDU without the liberals to block such stuff, then such client side scanning would be waved through by the same SPD that currently is contractually bound to oppose it.

The danger of such attacks against our liberties is still very much there, and it takes a constant watchful fight for our liberties to prevent the authoriarian statists from getting through with such stuff. They never stop trying to push through ever more of their liberticide ideas.
Was probably meant sarcastically. ;)
I fail to see why there’s a penalty for a refund. A chargeback would be one thing, but a refund is a totally normal business process
> You're telling me it's harder for a worker to change their working time or productivity by 4 seconds a week than to close a store?

This seems deliberately obtuse.

The point is that employees only have one or two jobs. If they had 35,000 jobs that that they spent 4 seconds a week at each, then yeah losing that 4 seconds (job) wouldn't matter.
"That's capitalism, guess y'all gotta suffer while ten people add to their hoards, nothing we can do"
> it has lower house prices and drastically lower property taxes than just a few minutes down the road in Pensacola.

? Both Redfin and Zillow peg Pensacola at only around $250-275k, considerably less than Gulf Shores, not more, and only about 1/4 that of San Jose.
This guy. Of course now that his political allies are beating up on big tech he's going to come around.
Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Remote: Yes

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I’m Joey, a Software Engineer based in Cleveland, Ohio. My focus is on writing clean, maintainable code that is efficient, reliable, and easy to understand. I'm always up for new challenges and tackling interesting problems.

I recently co-created Armada (https://team-armada.github.io/index.html), an open-source container orchestration tool that allows administrators to automate the configuration and deployment of development environments in the cloud.
This makes the classic dumb mistake of conflating the machine with the program. The Chinese Room thought experiment says that the _machine_ is not intelligent. It says absolutely nothing about whether the program itself is. For animal internal behavior they are plausibly intertwined (so far), but that's completely untrue for readable instructions.
An employee whose store closes goes from $n income to 0, while Starbucks goes from $x to (34999/35000)x.
https://archive.vn/iomMq
Some people don't have this. A lot of people aren't very curious at all. Last night in Austin I saw a full self driving car from Cruise drive by with no driver while I was at a crosswalk. No one noticed or cared that a car just drove by with no one in it! It was one of the most incredible things I've ever seen, and the people around me did not notice or care.
Yeah, that nuclear winter when Russia launches nukes isn't much of a retirement, and savings won't help much unless you saved in non-perishable canned goods.

Actually, wait. Sorry, that was the reason the previous generation didn't bother to save.
> On the other hand you could never figure out “chad”, and “stacey” without explanation.

Or, you know, context.

I don’t know what a Stan is but could easily understand what they were referring to by the way they used the word.

Incels? What’s that? Pots that call the kettles black?
> I just hope that the industry as a whole will wake up from the whole OOP nightmare.

I agree with that 100%. OOP is a giant mess, no matter where your stance on code clarity or performance stands. It's objectively worse in both regards.
My APU2C2 from 2016 running OpenBSD can.
IME Bitwig is heavyweight enough it doesn't really matter what you're connecting with, plus it "wants" Pipewire (IIRC that's the only thing CLAP will work with?)

And I don't want to sound like I'm dumping on Pipewire; I think the work Wim has been doing is absolutely awesome and (unlike a lot of what FDo puts out) actually solves existing problems rather than hypothetical ones. It's just not quite (yet) what I need as a DJ and looper.
WarSheep
That doesn't address the alignment problem. As Yudkowski has pointed out, the space of possible minds is vast. Humans only occupy a small area. The models were are designing are not animal/biological minds. They don't have the same evolutionary drives. We're creating minds in a different part of the mind space, and there's a good chance they will figure out solutions that are not beneficial to us.
I read it as computers being the primary target for any clock system
Honestly digging into the case a bit more I think the original claim that the store can shut down is actually wrong.

The case (United Textile Workers v. Darlington Manufacturing Co) said that it was okay for the business to close their entire business, but it also said they'd violate labor law by shutting down part of their operations to chill union activity. It seems like that's exactly what's happening in these cases- it's not like Chipotle or Starbucks is completely going out of business.

* https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/UnitedT...
Seriously, if you downvoted this without replying, you're a coward. At LEAST answer the question. Maybe I'm wrong?
> Wouldn't the ultimate intelligence test involve manipulating the real world?

Perhaps, although intelligence and knowledge are two separate things, so one can display intelligence over a given set of knowledge without knowing other things. Of course intelligence isn't a scalar quantity - to be super-intelligent you want to display intelligence across the widest variety/type of experience and knowledge sets - not just "book smart or street smart", but both and more.

Certainly for parity with humans you need to be able to interact with the real world, but I'm not sure it's much different or a whole lot more more complex. Instead of "predict next word" the model/robot would be doing "predict next action", followed by "predict action response". Embeddings are a very powerful type of general-purpose representation - you can embed words, but also perceptions/etc, so I don't think we're very far at all from having similar transformer-based models able to act & perceive - I'd be somewhat surprised if people aren't already experimenting with this.
Tool and design pattern marketing is one of the weirdest traits of software development in my opinion. I don't know if other fields suffer these too but it seems to me we waste so much time and effort because of tooling and design decisions made almost out of taste instead of plain old problem solving.
> the more directed the light source the more damaging for retinas (all other things being equal).

Yes certainly, but in the real world the human blink reflex means that all other things aren't equal. If you walk past a shiny glass building, you might catch a reflection of sunlight but only for a brief instant. Turn another direction and you'll see another shiny building, but you probably won't get a sunlight reflection off that shiny building because the angles are different and the sunlight is being reflected somewhere else.

You can walk around a mirrored city all day and your eyes will be fine. But when you're surrounded by diffuse reflectors, now can't turn away from that reflected light. A city of pure white reflective buildings would be likely be quite painful on a bright day.
Basically they sell Starbucks coffee but they aren’t an actual Starbucks and therefore don’t usually have all the promotions, products, marketing that the corporate Starbucks do.
A bit simplistic of a take, consider games. First client server games made server deal with logic, exclusively.

Modern (post Quake) games make server authoritative but allow server logic to run locally.

What modern JS app do is something hybrid client/server rendering. It's akin to moving/transmitting code from server for faster rendering.

I think they use it for offline web apps and to fix problems with server side rendering (usage of resource, time to first render).
In the UK there are several single-line addresses that would probably work (10 Downing St, His Majesty the King, Blenheim Palace, Chatsworth) but they all use more characters than the example presented.

Could the number of characters be reduced?
Aren't there enough named houses in the UK that you could just write something like "Buckingham Palace" or "Downton Abbey" and it would get there without further need of address?
The question should focus on: is it cleaner to re-refine during recycling than to do new mining of new materials? (And if it isn't yet—like due to economies of scale—is there a clear road with the concept.)
The Martian "timeslip" in Red Mars works exactly kind this, if I recall. I assume that's a reference to the Philip K. Dick novel of the same name.
Mine is more related to climate change.
It doesn't make a lot of practical sense, but basically they want to reuse substantial amounts of server code as client code. A fundamental misunderstanding of the client-server model, methinks.
Isn't that functionally the same though? They're acting in bad faith by closing a store to avoid fair negotiations. It's a move that's meant to punish the workers for unionizinf and have a chilling effect for unionization efforts at other locations.
> How are the big companies going to justify any effort they put against climate change?

Watch what they do, not what they say, I guess. Maybe it's mostly greenwashing?

The pandemic lockdowns were probably as close as we're ever going to get to observing how much a drastically reduced transport-intensive footprint is capable of helping the environment. If a lot of tension arises out of increasing RTO and shrinking labor pools, it will be interesting to watch how it resolves out.
"Now" was 33 years ago!
"But we had to do <terrible thing> because it's the law" isn't an excuse, just a different form of condemnation.
> I would kill for a single client app for signal, telegram, facebook messenger, whatsapp, and more today.

https://www.beeper.com
As noted in other comments, shipping container stacks are a brutal RF environment. Have spent quite a bit of time with Iridium SBD in various applications and it is rather sensitive to the surrounding environment. The wider and less obstructed the view of the sky from the antenna, the better.

From a simplistic view - the satellite is flying over and dragging a beam a few kilometers wide over your antenna. The more time it has hitting the antenna, the higher chance you'll be able to get your messages up/down before it have moved on.

If your antenna is buried under a stack of metal and has a pencil thin view of space - you're not going to be getting a lot of data across.
I clicked on "elaboration" and I feel myself about to go down the wiki rabbit hole... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaboration_likelihood_model