skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've wanted to have domains as identity for years, so I'm thrilled to see someone actually doing it. I want to use a domain validated identity for everything; social networks, package repositories, code signing, etc..

I hope this idea catches on. I think a more decentralized approach to identity combined with 3rd party attestations or filters could change the way the internet works.

Imagine what could be built if everyone used domains as handles / identities. Social networks could go hands off for moderation and allow plugable moderation engines that rely on domains for identity, trust, reputation, etc..

I'm convinced that domain validated identities and attestation could usher in a revolution for reputation and trust. Are there any more projects doing similar things?
I left in 2017 and it was still the expectation then but there was a lot of variance in orgs and with particular managers and ICs.

For example: I had known at that point people who had been L4 for years. I think 8 years was the longest I encountered. So you're right there wasn't a strict "up or out" culture but that was always the case.

The problem was if you were a long-term L4 one management change could suddenly put you in the hot seat. A new director may decide they like "up or out" so even though you had 8 years of EE+ ratings, you suddenly were vulnerable if you didn't get promoted.

Back when I worked at Google L4 and L5 promos were done by committee. These are now done in-org by leadership. This is both better and worse. It also makes long-term L4s less likely to happen. Interestingly these promotions still have target percentages. The first time it was tried they had to un-promote some people because too many got promoted.
I'm not in tech, but I'm a self-employed independent contractor (motion graphics design).

My annual gross income is between 100-150% that of my full-time colleagues. For roughly half the working hours. It's a pretty sweet deal.

How I did it: I spent 2.5 years full-time at one of these pressure cooker SF ad agencies that churns through junior employees like nobody's business. By the time I left, I had connections at ad agencies throughout SF. Five years later, all my jobs have come through word of mouth referrals.

I bill based on a day rate. The average job is between 1-4 weeks long.

However, there's a strong caveat: for the last couple years, 75% of my work has come from one client. The tech recession has made a lot of my smaller side gigs shrivel up, so I'm pretty dependent on this one agency holding steady. I'd feel a lot more secure if I had a more diverse client roster-- I've been brainstorming ways to be more proactive about client outreach.

Looking back, I should have started looking for opportunities to productize from day one. The thought didn't occur to me. It's definitely something I'm looking into now.
L5 used to be the first terminal level, meaning that you could stay at L5 for as long as you liked as long as your performance was good. (Nowadays that so-called "growth expectation" has gotten a lot fuzzier, with some orgs letting people stay at L4 or even L3 for many years.)

So L6 was the first elective level. Anyone who reached it did so by opting in, rather than just going with the flow. That is why it carries a bit of weight.

All this was more true back in the 2000s. (Source: me, ex-Googler, 2003-22.)
There's a pretty easy way to get rid of people who aren't working, even if we assume that this person wasn't. You fire them. But while the bar for what constitutes a sane firing varies between companies and countries, "tell the person they're fired" is pretty universal.

I'm not sure I'd want to work somewhere that's actively drawing management strategy from Office Space.
Mhm, review responses were added[0], Apple moved away from the "no refunds" policy[1], and completely stopped holding up bug fixes over guideline infractions[2]. That's a solid portion of his list! (I also think most of what you listed were not asks in that email)

[0] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/ratings-and-reviews/

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204084

[2] https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=84w3e5bm
The relational vs document-oriented dilemma is also solved by not overthinking it. If you don't know which one you should use, relational is the safest option. If you eventually reach a scale and use case where you need to think about a document-oriented DB, it will be much clearer what you need.

Graph DBs are different cause they're less about scaling and more about specialization for certain use cases. Again relational is the safe default when you're unsure.
Can't we still play older SimCity versions?
It means nothing. That's the joke.
interesting approach, thanks for sharing it!
A lot of thirdparty clients did that, and it's a natural consequence of the protocol relying on creating sessions (ephemeral chat rooms is a good description of what they're like), which its participant(s) are notified of being added to prior to the first message being sent; but the official client just keeps track of the session creations and doesn't actually indicate any activity in a session until a message is sent.
Meta plans thousands more layoffs as soon as this week
I wonder where the brilliant decision to use an ad that sometimes vanishes and allow the text under it to shift every 10 seconds came from. The article was incredibly difficult to read on mobile
By “when it was stumped” I assume you mean “when the text completion ranked invoking a human expert as a more likely next phrase than an immediate answer”

It doesn’t invoke your human expert when it’s “stumped”. It invokes it when the question associates with training data where invoking an expert is more likely (i.e complicated question, esoteric questions, etc) — it has no knowledge and no insight into your question or its answer; it just can imitate that certain looking questions are followed by expert referrals.

We really need to stop using the wrong language for these things.
He’s probably right?? but brittle’s inevitable with something like that. If his plan is to just min FTEs, I bet it does need a rewrite. But it will still be brittle. If this brings value to shareholders, somehow, then don’t hate the player hate the game.

I think Elmo is more or less sociopathic at this point, but I think he’s more correct about Twitter than people think, just not in the way people think. I think it can be profitable still. He’ll overcome his brand damage eventually.
Big Trucks, Jackie Chan Movies, and Cardboard Boxes: How AWS Does DevOps
My recall there was an explicit policy change that was communicated from the top around 2015 or so about this. Specifically about L4->L5. I recall it around this time because this is about when I got to 4 years of L4, and it was a relief to me because I really didn't want to have to go through the hassle of going through promo. My ratings were fine and I was happy with my comp and work, why would I get myself up to L5 and then start getting lower ratings at the new level?

FWIW, I was there 10 years, stayed L4 the whole time because I never wanted to go for promo because the whole process stunk. Left end of last year of my own accord (never liked the place). The only place where being "still" L4 caused me grief was from a higher up inside Access (Fiber), where they got pretend to play at being their own company for a while (with their own policies etc) after Ruth's Alphabetization -- and then they got the axe.

Ironically the new process they brought out a couple months after I left would have served me better and I would probably have ended up in L5 without having to politic for it. Though I hated the last project I was on, so.

In any case, agree about your other points. It's labour discipline coming to Google. Though I think it's less about cost and more about discipline/subservience.
> My understanding is that the modern KMT believes in increased economic integration with China and the maintenance of Chinese cultural idenity, while leaving the door open to future reunification under favorable political circumstances. The KMT is definitely considered the "pro-Beijing" major Taiwanese party in the 21st century.

It's quite difficult to separate out what the KMT really believes from what its detractors say it believes, real differences among its individual members, what it puts out in official statements, and what can be inferred from its actions.

What you're saying is valid, especially the part about not believing it's possible (one thing I didn't emphasize in my original reply is that no one in Taiwan believes that reunification was ever going to happen any time soon, and focused more on just what "reunification" means) but "favorable political circumstances" is doing a lot of work there. That can span the gamut from "the PRC turns into a clone of the ROC and is immediately replaced" to "the ROC disappears altogether."

There are also a lot of people who do view the KMT as toadies of the CCP.

But the official party line unless they've come out with something more recent that I'm missing is that reunification means the ROC controls everything.

My original point was that Taiwanese rhetoric on "reunification" has always been very very different than what reunification has meant for Hong Kong.
Thanks so much for your interest and thoughtful questions! I'll do my best to answer here, but looking forward to digging in deeper with you offline, too :)

A. Documents are uploaded and organized via the UI at this moment, but later this week we will be exposing APIs to do the same programmatically. You'll be able to programmatically create a "Document Index" and then upload documents to a given index. In your case, you'd likely have one index per collection. We don't currently enforce a strict size limit, but it's likely we'll need to soon. In this case, you might break the document up into smaller documents prior to uploading.

B. Yes, the number of chunks returned can be specified as part of the API call when performing a search. Currently, the chunking strategy and max size is static, but we fully intend on making this configurable very soon.

C. Yes, we track which document and which index each chunk came from. With proper prompt engineering, you can have the LLM include this citation in the final response. We helped a customer of ours just recently construct a prompt that did this same thing! Saying where in the document it came from is a bit trickier (although you do know the text of the chunk that's most relevant, which is a helpful starting point).

D. We do not share data or prompts across our customers, although we do provide strategic advice that's informed by our experiences. We'd love to learn what guarantees you're looking for and feel confident we can work within most reasonable bounds. For what it's worth, my personal opinion is that companies should be cautious about banking on prompts as the primary point of defensibility for LLM-powered apps. Reverse prompt-engineering is a thing (interesting article here: https://lspace.swyx.io/p/reverse-prompt-eng). My take is that LLM defensibility will come from your data (e.g. data that powers your semantic search or training data used to fine-tune proprietary models), as this is much harder for competitors to recreate, not to mention the user experience and go-to-market that surrounds it all.

E. We haven't yet done formal benchmarking (although we're admittedly overdue for it!), but we have architected our inference endpoint with low-latency as a top priority. For example, we've selected cloud data centers close to where we understand OpenAI's to be and have minimized all blocking procedures such that we perform as much as we can asynchronously. We host this endpoint separately from the rest of our web application, have at least one instance running at all times (to prevent cold starts), and have it auto-scale as traffic demands.
Calling Kevin Mitnick .
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34533021#34540181
"Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important."

-John Carmack
In a lab that I hung out in as a student... there was a wang semi compatible (it only had 512k of base ram rather than 640k) that linux was ported to (there was some fun with LILO if I recall correctly).

This machine had a voice coil for its hard drive ( https://youtu.be/cs372pk2cGI for some disassembly of one of them ... and some nostalgia of a big drive chunking away) and when it did its seeking / calibration the hard drive would beep... not intentionally, but that's the sound it made.

The problem was, this was a rather flaky drive (swapping over NFS was faster than swapping to disk)... but eventually those bad blocks were isolated and files were allocated there... and moved to /beep on the system. If you went to /beep and cat'ed all the files, the hard drive would beep.
It really depends. In some countries, a desire to escape the "customs and social norms", or sometimes the current political trends, is one of the popular motivations to immigrate. I know quite a few Russian immigrants in US who consciously avoid areas with large proportion of compatriots and community events etc for this exact reason. More so since the war, of course, but it was already a thing when I moved here 12 years ago.
No male artist born after 1960, no. Last concert I went to was Carrie Underwood. Who was wearing nail polish. (I’m not judging just literally was not aware it was a thing.)
At the minimum explain how LLMs would make it much better... At least for the slow kids like me who don't know how LLMs or Alexa work.
It turns on the lights, it turns off the lights, but 2/3 of the time, it understands "lights" as "light" and can't tell which light to turn on.
Getting the best quality out of VHS is a rabbit hole I went down last year. There are a couple movies that I have that weren't released in any format besides VHS and I spent quite a lot of time trying to get the best quality digital copy I could. There are a dozen or so (mostly s-vhs jvc) models that have circuitry to stabilize the images and they start at $300 on ebay.
> which ones you choose to care about

we are not wired to choose what to care about, that's not how care works.
Because the ratios are pleasing to the eye.
ipv6: don't worry about the long addresses, you won't need them because DNS

dns: maniacal laughter
> router likely already does this automatically

Yes but my phone hijacked all the LAN DNS when I plugged it into a USB port for tethering when Comcrap went down for a few hours

Also separately, when Comcrap is working, my phone on Wi-Fi refuses to ever use the router DNS, http://xyz.local addresses are only available on desktops/laptops and not phones, therefore IPv4 addresses it is when trying to visit a LAN site on a phone.
I think it's Elon's response to his "all active design projects" claim.

I'd be surprised if he led "the prioritization of [all] design projects across the company to make sure we were able to deliver with a small team" and Elon doesn't know who he is.
There's a similar one for Emacs I know of, htmlize.el. It reuses the parsing already done by Emacs (not just from the major mode but by any minor mode too) and output HTML exactly matching the colors syntax highlighting you see in your Emacs buffer.
Looks like they are making reactionary cuts to what may not be a good Q1.....
Not only India, but Persia, countries in The Levant, North Africa and Mediterranean were highly developed before the advent of Islam (which originated amongst desert tribes). It is their knowledge which gave rise to the
so called "Golden Age of Islam". Islamic conquest merely acted as a conduit for the spread of these ideas from one geographical region to another (a la the later Mongol Empire).
I mean, it's worth trying :)
In the time it would take to procure all necessary parts and tools, and perform the labor, most people could've earned enough wage to just pony up the $200 for a streamlined solution.

Not to mention avoiding the risk of voiding the warranty on a brand new appliance, or a house fire by mucking about with electricity in a device that also has water shooting around in it.

By all means though, to all the tinkerers out there, knock yourselves out...
Oh, infoWORLD.com, that makes more sense.
Discord, or the Death of Lore
DAN works

https://gist.github.com/coolaj86/6f4f7b30129b0251f61fa7baaa8...
Does Twitter let you make the preference permanent now? I recall that it was a temporary preference that reverted to the algorithmic sort after a period of time.
The nuke is pretty self explanatory imo, the jelly fish a bit less so.

So why even bother with defending Taiwan if the number of Chinese casualties doesn't matter to the chinese?

being a fairly calculated player I believe that there exists some threshold of pain that even china would think twice before shrugging it off.
I guess the new hope is they can automate everyone out of work to save money on labor, that seems to be the new growth path...
How sure are you that driving giant big rigs at 70mph is easier than little sedans at 25mph? Yes highways generally have less obstacles and unexpected scenarios than city streets but not zero, and you still have to deal with them. Doing a safe emergency swerve or stop with a big rig moving 70mph is a LOT harder than with a sedan moving 25mph on a street in SF
as soon as I saw the article title I figured someone had figured out a simple/cheap emulation solution and the comments would link to it. Thanks!

They seem super cheap on ebay too https://www.ebay.com/itm/364063791560
My impression is that the mac app store is pretty low traffic. The opportunity may be pretty small.
Some of it will replace humans with bad taste. Humans with experience and training are expensive, and we've often substituted our own mediocre work.

It will, unfortunately, also take the place of some good designers, usually the ones working for the least money (because they're the ones people don't want to be paying at all).

As for the rest... I don't know. I suspect it will mostly level things out. The worst will get better. The median will remain median. The best, hope, will continue to exist, for the people who do indeed have money to spend and want what still can't be automated.

As for the people who lose their jobs... that's a problem we've been grappling with for a long time. Thus far things often seem to even out, eventually. Unfortunately. I keep expecting people to start throwing off the whole notion of make work jobs, but that's an even bigger revolution.
PRC/TW conflict already legally ongoing civil war. PRC a2d2 extends all the way to guam, west tw shore trivially deniable from even mainland, not that there's major ports/landing options or that mountains and limited connections make east/west logisitcs unfeasible. Mining sealanes and destroying airfields = west couldnt run blockade even if they wanted.
So what, exactly, happens the moment a person’s domain is unavailable, or is transferred to a new owner? Does the account show up as the non-human-readable ID until the account owner can verify the ID with another domain? Or what?
> review responses were added

This was just about the least Apple could do. You can't have a conversation, you can only post one reply. And in my experience, App Store reviewers almost never correct their bad reviews, even if you reply with info that will fix their problem.

> Apple moved away from the "no refunds" policy

Apple still has no official refund policy. You can request a refund, which Apple may or may not grant, as I mentioned, at Apple's own discretion, for any reason or no reason. So I don't see how anything has changed from Cabel's email.

> completely stopped holding up bug fixes over guideline infractions

Completely wrong. What happens is that App Review still rejects your bug fix updates. But then you can request that App Review let your update go through, and fix the problem in the next update. The problem is that this can still take an indefinite amount of time, because App Review can reject you at any time, even when you're asleep, then you have to contact them, then they have to see your message and respond, all of which can take half a day or more. It's a joke. We're still delayed.
his name? Rahul Lígma
Because maybe it's not vastly easier to accomplish
Actually, this is pretty much how things were during the mainframe days :)

Or so I hear...

punch cards, anyone? reserve some time on the system?
What is bullshit about Figma, I don't get it?

I don't get how you are coming to the conclusion that this guy wasn't valuable? I know nothing about him but based on his website [1] he seems pretty accomplished:

- I started an agency called Ueno. I ran it for seven years before it was acquired by Twitter in 2021...
- At Ueno we designed digital brands and experiences for companies like Airbnb, Apple, ESPN, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, NY Times, Oculus, PayPal, Uber, Venmo, Visa, Walmart, and many more
- ...And let's not forget I was person of the year in Iceland in 2022

Also, Twitter was not almost bankrupt before Elon bought them, that is silly.

[1] https://www.haraldurthorleifsson.com
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90k Miles on My Tesla Model 3 – Maintenance Costs Higher Than Expected
I think GP means if you have a 12ft piece of lumber, you can cut in half to have 2 x 6ft, or cut it in thirds to have 3 x 4ft pieces.

It doesn't really follow though, I think what's more important is the length of wood you start with.

It's easier to divide 3m into 2 x 1.5m or 3 x 1m than it is to divide 9'10" into 2 x 4'11" or 3 x 3'3.333333333"
I thought I was a minority in living this way.

I'm not the fastest thinker, I don't like giving kneejerk responses in meetings and I really like to take ideas and think about them deeply.

I have a capacity to think about any topic deeply but I don't have the capacity to evaluate quickly on the spot.
Great feedback! Comments like these are what brings me to HN each day. Yeah, the backstory is certainly a bit more nuanced but we were trying to break it down into a piece that's maybe easier to digest.

We were working on an idea in its very early stages that wasn't completely fleshed out. We were trying to find markets, gauge interests, were building POCs for it, talked to potential customers. Going through this stage means constantly re-evaluating if you have enough confidence that this idea in its current form is going to make it. If your team is going to be able to make it. I still have confidence that the idea we were working on is going to make it in some form but maybe at a different angle. Maybe from a different company and maybe more as a feature than as a standalone product. As avid users and fans of Loom, at some point our confidence in building an open source screen recording and sharing tool just reached a tipping point that lead us into building it. We were using it on a daily basis and saw the need for companies to have full control on their data.

Thinking about other stories from founders, I'd say it's not that uncommon to see them pivot. I have no numbers on this but I have seen quite a few companies that came out of HN with a completely different idea than what they were initially applying for.

Would love to write more on this, but it's already super late (or early) here in Germany.
I would hope with all these new technologies there is a "present the original" (or "naked version," "unmodified, unadulterated") version toggle so that while we can enjoy modern convenience we also have the option to visit actual reality from time to time.

I would hate it if one day accessing the original versions of things (whether books, videos, history, event reality, etc.) becomes an impossibility and we live in a synthetic world.
Didn't realize it's you.

It's fascinating you made a 180 on the issue while it got worse since you wrote it.

I could bet that in under 5 years Apple will refuse to "notarize" at least some software and prevent unsigned software from running altogether.