skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Customer obsession my ass: counterexample is turning a blind eye to the pervasive listing of fake versions of legit products.

disclaimer:

I say this as someone who worked in one inner sanctum of Apple engineering for several years, where we never talked outwardly about customer obsession, but it arose as an emergent phenomenon of obsessive engineering.

I also worked for Amazon engineering and it was a joke, the lip service paid to cleaning up customer experience with fakes etc.
The distribution of consequences rather than discovery of violations is what I expressed my cynicism about.
> prof. of Econ at Columbia

He was one of the insiders in the world trade system.
Well, that very much depends on the UNIX in question.

If one defines UNIX as POSIX, then, for the most part, or at least a pretty good part, Linux IS UNIX, because Linux implements much of POSIX, and in some cases does it better, e.g., certain functions for which POSIX is quiet or negative about thread safety are thread-safe on Linux, and there are almost always TS versions, e.g., strtok_r.

Outside of POSIX, one has to conside OS specific features, two of which come to mind as superior, though this is a judgement call: Solaris Zones and Mac OS.

I was a Linux desktop user for years, but I found that over time the desktop just started getting in my way (this was tennish years ago, so I am sure things have changed). I’d curse how gnome or KDE had once again broken my UX, then I’d help my wife or daughter with their Macs, enjoy the experience, the curse when I got back to my machine.

One day, after a particularly frustrating battle with whatever desktop I had then (I’d gone from Ubuntu to Mint to Debian to I cannot remember what, trying to find the sweet spot), I cursed, yelled that I would be back in 90 minutes, and bought my first Mac.

They’ve been a joy to use since. If Apple does something stupid, e.g., stopping at an old, brain dead bash, well, homebrew, et al, to the rescue.

Solaris Zones were wicked. One could get full MAC with labelled networking and restricted root with ease.

It’s finally possible to get close to Zones with a mix of capability management, namespace management, SELinux, et al, but not as easily.

So, yeah, there are individual UNIXisms that are better than Linux, but overall, at least on the server side, Linux is UNIX improved.
> When India and Pakistan developed and tested nuclear weapons, we didn't see proliferation or development of nuclear capability in the region.. therefore... So in the event Iran gets nuclear weapons, it's likely nothing of consequence will happen.

Whether the domino theory is at play depends on the balance of power and specifics of each geopolitical region. It simply doesn't follow that because India-Pakistan was contained such a thing won't happen in the Middle East.

In fact you'd notice that is a pair. The counterparty to Iran having a nuke would be Saudi Arabia having a nuke, an extremely likely outcome.
I never spoke with any authority. I'm just another name on the Internet. In my originally comment I intentionally didn't speak in concrete terms about whether it's appropriate or not for that photo to be used (I actually personally believe it isn't appropriate). I simply stated based on my reading (which was enough to satisfy me that Lena Sodersburg wasn't exploited by Playboy) that the photo isn't unethically-sourced as the article title implies, and that that fact doesn't actually hinge on whether she changed her mind later or not or whether people have a problem with its use today or not. I'd suggest you read my actual words and not try to attach more meaning than there really is.
Good to have standards, best practices, warranties, accreditations etc.

But then there's a whole industries of middle-men who don't build and by most accounts don't add any value (other than keeping you out of jail due to the laws they themselves pushed) -- who love the boring and start licking their lips at the possibilities.
Combine with revolving door, regulatory capture, lawfare etc to take your competitors out.

So that's what this article is about. We need details to know which side of the line we're walking on.
Maybe this was better not as a response to you but I already started typing it lol.
>Why just repost my sourced link?

I didn't.

As Cyphase said [0], I posted the non-mobile link which many people -- including myself -- appreciate.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35007189
I like exercism, but the CLI can hide things like what a sane project structure looks like in that language.

I wish it generated a project with unit tests and told you which command to run (i.e. not an exercism command) in order to run those tests. That way you've got a more similar experience to what would happen if you cloned a project in that language and wanted to contribute.

Unfamiliar languages are much easier to deal with than unfamiliar tool chains IMO
Neat idea. I wanted to try it, but it wanted me to create an account (or at least provide my email address) first. If I could have tried it, I might have eventually signed up.

If you can’t realistically allow unlimited public access, two alternatives:

* 5 requests per day per client IP. (Obviously there’s still room to abuse it, but nobody’s likely to bother as long as ChatGPT itself is still free.)

* Not as good, but much better than nothing or a video: a real-looking version of the interface that has 10-20 example questions. When I click a question, your app fills in my query and the response. It feels like a demo but uses static (real) data.
and yet Apple/Google/Valve can take 30% :)
Way to Boost Your Immune System [video]
>A while back, I read a Sun patent on not implementing some instructions and emulating them in the kernel's illegal operation trap handler. The whole patent seemed obvious to me, but I'm glad that it was patented and now expired, providing obvious prior art in any attempts to patent it today.

I understand opensbi runs in M mode, taking on that role among others.
Some people just don't get the fact that CRT images were pretty sharp. LCDs were crap due to high persistence.

Old games look horrible on LCD monitors.
Well, what other way to influence behavior do we have?

If a dependency update breaks my code, it reduces my opinion of that dependency. But if it's the least-worse option, and it's free, I can't do much other than think negative thoughts.
I've been wrestling with this decision for a couple years now. I've slowly knocked off remaining pre-reqs, but haven't fully dived in - which would be leaving my job and becoming an MA or ED tech and doing dedicated MCAT studying.

I work for a tech company that you and your fellow classmates have no doubt used during medical school.

The massive financial hit is one of the big reasons I haven't made the jump. It doesn't feel fair to my wife to uproot our life. I always say if I won the lottery, I'd go to medical school.

Congrats on graduating and matching! I hope residency treats you well.
>The claim isn't that trans athletes are cheating.

Let's be honest, that's what most of these bills are marketing themselves on.
All the extra red tape and auditing doesn't come for free, so startups and SMEs without huge amounts of cash somehow lying around will struggle.

Also, nothing about compliance is actually about "consolidating security debt" or "quick decisions". It's about paying someone to go through checklists and, like a reviewer of a scientific paper, find something, anything, no matter how inane, to criticize, before handing you a certification. Any slightly unconventional new idea to improve security in your product will be suffocated beneath the blanket of compliance.

> I'm totally rooting for this because its the only thing that will improve security.

So does the author. Well, they strongly endorse a sensible version without the vague phrases and open-source-killing blanket statements, and without brain-dead sentences like "your product must be un-DDoS-able". I do wonder, though, why you're rooting for legislation that would kill any open source project that might, conceivably, be used in a commercial setting?
Oh definitely. Some of this goes back to my 6502 assembly days when there was no hardware multiply instruction. So to multiply by 40, for example. I would shift right 3 bits, store the result, shift right 2 more bits and add the stored result.

Similarly, a fast divisibility test (we’ll assume we’re dividing n by some odd prime p):

1. Shift the bits of p right so that there is a 1 in the last position.

2. If n = p then p∣n, if n < p then p∤n, otherwise continue.

3. Subtract p and go back to step 1.

(One of my ADD habits during meetings is to find the prime factors phone numbers or anything else very long. I do something similar with the numbers in decimal, but for this, I’ll subtract multiples of the potential divisor to get 0s at the end of the number in decimal. I remember co-workers puzzling over a piece of paper with my notes I left behind in a conference room trying to figure out what the numbers represented and how the process worked.)
All software or just important software?
Oil arguably started the tensions (particularly, oil was the impetus for the CIA/MI6 orchestrated 1953 Iranian coup, which arguably set the ball rolling with all that followed.) But I don't think oil is the reason tensions presently continue; if oil suddenly somehow became a total non-issue that interested nobody, I think tensions with Iran would continue because at this point it has become a grudge match between Iran, Israel and America, with America strongly siding with Israel. These grudges would not be automatically resolved if the matter of oil were no longer a concern.
I think the comparison is windows ISO image, not the source code. Code used to train LLAMA is open source, but it still requires money to use that.
Significantly less, but not debilitatingly less. For a panel in direct sunlight and adjusted to point directly at the sun, the ground value is 1,050 watts per square meter.
> Mice and rats have long served as the preferred species for biomedical research animal models due to their anatomical, physiological, and genetic similarity to humans. Advantages of rodents include their small size, ease of maintenance, short life cycle, and abundant genetic resources.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3987984/

It's almost as if research is done on mice on purpose. Of course you're going to see new discoveries, positive or negative, come out of studies involving the most widely used test subject on the planet.
Weights are more valuable to random individuals who want to mess around with the model. Training code is more valuable to other companies that have the resources to use them, because then they can tweak/modify however they want. But even then, you still need the training data, which in the case of OpenAI and DeepMind is a big part of the secret sauce (not just the raw data but also the process for cleansing and de-duplicating it).
My position is simple...An unelected and non-adjudicated EU commission bureaucrat can't micro-manage my software -- or tell me how to write it -- just like I can't open source all of their calendars and tell them how to manage their -- unlikely -- busy days and off-the-books meetings.
Nope. Not CTRL+Z/X/C/V.
this is "GOOD BUSINESS" and bad (evil) everything else. oh the humanity
Very strange indeed! Likely an issue with date-fns or even date-fns-tz, both of which are used depending on whether I need to show a client-facing timezone (e.g. countdown timer for you) or a global/UTC timezone (e.g. that New Years Eve is always December 31).

Time zones are hard. Thanks for the headers, that will help with testing

I’ll look into this, thank you
I always wonder how these companies price their services, because my initial reaction is always "$Q/month? That's insanely expensive to do XYZ!" That is certainly my reaction today.

If I was looking to pay to securely sync notes in the cloud, I could see $10/year (note: not $10/month) being a completely reasonable fee for 1GB of storage. Maybe $20/year just for the convenience factor alone.

Convenience is a critical differentiator, because it's possible to sync notes with end-to-end encryption in the cloud completely free via any number of methods. I personally use Obsidian and the "remotely save" plugin. Obsidian charges $96/year for its own sync service which while much cheaper than Standard Notes also strikes me as wildly, offensively, overpriced.
Heads up: the gray_code function does not return the results shown in the table of correspondence above it.

I suspect that this is because both the table and the code used were sourced from Wikipedia, and they correspond to different Gray codes. The table is for the BRGC, but the implementation isn't.
It's a friend now, remember?
Joe Rogan and Russell Brand Discuss Benefits of Rumble
Even crazier is that the structures in the Great Pyramid were built larger than what was needed, with empty/semi empty spaces in between that were later filled by smaller blocks [1].

1:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science-advance/20/12/...
VisionFive 2 is the fastest money can buy while also being under $100, making it about the automatic choice today.
I don't know about about this model, but usually with these ML models you download the static weights, but nothing is stopping you from fine tuning them to your needs/new information.

It's not automatic, would require some ML Engineering, but nothing is stopping you if you have the Pytorch graph and weights.
Medieval Babycare
Iran itself is an aggressive and expanding regional power. What is to deter Iran itself from invading others? Oh that's right, more nuclear weapons. So next Saudi Arabia will absolutely scramble to get one. 'etc.
> Now that I'm in the system, the other stark reality is that little of this system design matters. Most of the challenge is understanding the internal technologies and figuring out who to talk to to get stuff done (like pretty much every big company).

A few years ago, I did my round of "big tech" interviews as a manager and was somewhat naive in that I did zero prep work, but I did have almost 2 decades of actually building systems. I found system design to be the "easy" and fun part of the process (including at Google). However, if I didn't have experience with scaling and redundancy in web applications, it wouldn't have been nearly as fun.

That said, once I was in the door (different big tech co), there was absolutely zero need for any of that knowledge. Now that I'm back at a startup, it's all relevant again!
Ion drive thrusters. Not sure how one would translate them into a car, although there have been some on model aircraft, but they are a type of motor with a static magnetic field.
I had a similar experience at that exact same store. Went along with a friend who needed a suit for a wedding. Got first class service, found a great suit off the rack, did some minor alterations, bought accessories. Total bill was ~$1500 (and this was over a decade ago).

If you didn't care for the brand name and service, you could get something of similar quality for 1/3 the price elsewhere. You could even get an online store to stitch something for you bespoke for cheaper. Ultimately that's why Nordstrom isn't making any money. Upper middle class consumers who will spend big money at departmental stores don't really exist anymore. Discount stores and boutiques catering to the elite are, on the other hand, both booming.
> You must have accidentally closed [Emacs]. Closing Emacs or your Web browser are common mistakes, and as you will surely have realized almost immediately, you needed to re-open either program within minutes.

Thank you for this! This cracked me up.
Per your link, proportionality seems to be working. Big fines are directed towards big companies (cf. Fines Statistics). For individuals (“private person” or “private individual”), it seems they mostly are fined 3-digits amounts, with some in the 4-digits, and 3 at 10-11k.
While true, there's other stuff that generates much more tiny dust particles - tires. Heavy vehicle tire rub is cause to roughly 1/3 PM2.5+ air polution, considering all sources. (Used to work for a exhaust emissions systems manufacturer, I remember reading studies about this, can't give you source now). So, the small particle dust from such motors, I imagine, is a minuscule source to air polution, compared to tire abrasion.
Australia sometimes seems like a huge mine with some cities around the fringes.
You raise a good point. I can read COBOL to get an idea of what it is doing and how it is structured takes a little getting used to, but so do most languages.

However, in my company (insurance) we have 3 COBOL systems (thanks to mergers) and one is on a rapid track for decommissioning not because it is COBOL, but because it is COBOL written in an obscure framework that was never popular and also coded in a non-English language, requiring knowledge of that language to understand the business logic. We can outsource some mainframe maintenance but not that one. The other mainframes will be around for at least the next 10/15 years.
No, that's not my position.

Given the legal frameworks we have available, copyright is the right direction, IMO. Patents seem entirely inappropriate.

But US copyright law is a royal mess and is not really a great tool. It needs to be reformed -- but as the last copyright reform demonstrated, not all reform is an improvement, so my position is that ultimately where I'd fall between those two choices depends on what, exactly, copyright laws look like.
The original publication of it at https://web.archive.org/web/20161126015615/http://this.deaki... has some nice contextual graphics to it.

As this was paired with an ethics class, there are questions to be considered about AI driving (and the corresponding instructor's opinions on those questions - don't vote on it right away as the javascript messes up the graphics for the rest of the page since the backend server isn't there anymore)
in natural groups like hobby activities
Are these the only prompts used with the models:

https://github.com/jiggy-ai/hn_summary/blob/master/src/summa...

Also, how did you decide on those specific prompts?

Lastly, is it accurate that the text being summarized is truncated instead of for example streaming it in chunks to create a summary of summaries for longer text. If so, why even process the articles that require truncation?
It's so heartbreaking how many interesting possible things supply side will not make available.
Ask HN: How are you teaching local/online courses?
For anyone who's:

- Teaching local courses for their community, at their own imperative, either volunteer or paid / profitable, or

- Teaching online courses out of personal interest, or

- Providing other training...

I'm interested in knowing:

- What do you teach, and how's it going?

- Are you in-person, online, or both? What tools do you use?

- How do you announce your courses / availability?

- Are you accepting payment / donations and how's that working out for you?

- Anything else you can share?

Background: I can probably set aside some time for, and have some interest in teaching community courses. I've done this in the past in various ways, but this was years ago.

I'm thinking of some simple topics that have been relevant in my community in the past, like intro to AM/FM/Shortwave radio for emergencies, or let's say how to enjoy geocaching. I could get into some more high-demand general topics but want to start simple.

I previously taught these kinds of courses as part of a service framework in a religion I was a member of at the time. But now that's changed, and I'll need to manage the outreach, venue scouting, and scheduling more directly by myself.

So, some parts of this seem a bit foreign to me, not having a huge organization at my back anymore. Also I realize things are different since COVID.

Thanks for any tips and experiences you can share.
If you don't have a rear brake, perhaps listen to people who have front and rear brakes, and thousands of kilometres of riding.

I have literally seen people flip over their handle bars by solely using their front brake going downhill.
I'm in academia, just underwent this sort of training this week. Not interested in risking self identifying so I'll only go so far as to say that the Sierra Club's language is fairly close to how we are expected to talk with students, faculty, and staff. It is of course a "learning process" and so there is room for "growth and critical conversations", but the die has been cast, so to speak.
I present to you the best Hacker News comment I've ever read (it was in response to another Primitive Technology video): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32697419
People with anxiety could have told you this :)
There’s a brushed electric motor in your refrigerator. How often does that need to get serviced?
My father-in-law Instagram account was hacked, how can we get it back?
My father-in-law have a small business of paellas which he uses to support his family. He have an instagram account called @paellasantamarta which he uses to get most of his customers.

Two days ago some criminal sent a link pretending to be Instagram official account with a phishing link. He was naive and put the account information there.

Soon after some US mobile (+1 XXX) told they hacked his account and want some ransom to return it.

He got some mails indicating that the email was changed and password. The account is now deactivate.

- We tried to undo the change but it's not possible with the instagram emails nor the past login information
- We tried to recover multiple times the account via the face verification but he always get this message: "We weren't able to confirm your identity from the video you submitted. You can submit a new video and we'll review it again. Learn more."

Is there something else we can try? We thought about paying the hacker (the ransom is quite hefty for him) but no one assures that we will get the account back.

He is desperate and nervous, he barely slept in the last two days because he is going to lose his small business of paellas. We warned about the phishing attacks but he is stubborn and was convinced Instagram was going to close is account.
As someone that lives in downtown Vancouver and was a regular Nordstrom shopper we have a very different view of Canadians. I think the real issue if the proliferation of high end brand specific stores, why buy buy a LV purse from Nordstrom when there is an LV store next door. The designer brands are just figuring out distribution themselves.

The luxury market is huge in major Canadian cities.
I gave a range of possibilities and my genuine opinion on them. I'm putting words in my mouth, not yours.

I'm not the one boldly claiming it is impossible for students to underperform.
People were not "all for it," some were for it, and some were against it.

If there weren't people in opposition to it, it wouldn't make for a very good thing to build one's image on.
Some Unices come with things that Linux can technically do, but they were built-in, not bolt-on.

ZFS is an example of one that's recognizable, you can bolt it onto linux and it (now) works quite well, but it was integrated much more into Solaris.

There are also Unix platforms that fully support hot-swappable just about everything, which you CAN do with Linux but it's not as simple.

Most of that stuff is gone by the wayside now, Linux is "good enough".
Why Java in the list of obviously-bad languages? IIRC, Java doesn't do manual memory management nor is it full of old insecure implementations kept merely not to break existing code.
because it is effective in keeping a certain type of people out
For proprietary software you could have licenses. In fact, the reason that IBM first licensed some of its software for the IBM/360 was that it was unclear at the time whether software could be copyrighted.

However, absent copyright, it would probably be impossible (IANAL but have talked to lawyers about these topics) to enforce any usage provisions on open source software where you haven't explicitly agreed to a license. (Open source licenses basically give you rights that you wouldn't otherwise have under copyright law.)