skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1412850761231392773

Cabel Sasser emailed Phil Schiller ideas on the app review process in 2016. A good chunk of it wound up getting implemented. I'd love to see a sequel.

Unrelatedly, I think the tone in his email is a perfect example of giving successful constructive criticism.
Not sure how you got from what I wrote to any of that!
Ah, yeah, there was a rule requiring apps to use a native GUI toolkit when the App Store first launched over a decade ago, but that rule is no longer there.
Fun question to think about what you have to rewrite vs not. This reminded me of my last firm where we had a C# system with tons of Task Parallel Library code, nearly all of it written poorly or not written for the correct use-cases. My colleague and I weren’t part of the development team responsible for putting it together but it was clear it has been haphazardly built that way over time.

We were quite convinced the team needed to rewrite but then things like cost, time, priorities stepped in. We needed other areas addressed. So, the code stayer because it worked, enough, unfortunately.
A new ring system discovered in our solar system
Eventually Americans won’t really have that choice because they just won’t be able to afford it.

But I do want to mention you can have a huge house with a backyard and garage. In fact the suburbs can be retrofitted to be more walkable - you just need businesses and such there.

It’ll take a while but you can see the fragility of the car-only infrastructure coming to bear. Eventually it’ll just cost so much money to drive everywhere you’ll be begging to walk.
PSA: Only CSV reports are being deprecated, traditional consumer UX reports will persist.
Right, thank you for the update.

Personally, I don’t feel the need for privacy at this level of the protocol stack, and if I did, I would not consider IPv6 Privacy Extensions to be adequate. Also, I might like to keep TCP connections alive for more than a day. Therefore, I personally prefer regular MAC-based SLAAC, or even hard-coded addresses, over randomized and rotating addresses.
There are a lot more people in the field today so the standards have dropped as is necessary. Principal is top x%, senior is top y%, etc. It's not capability based.
I still use Pidgin regularly to this very day. Of course I only really use it for XMPP, but I did actually configure it to connect to my old ICQ account a while back. Unfortunately is seems to have quit working sometime or other. Think I'm being bit by this:

https://github.com/EionRobb/icyque/issues/27

No big loss, I think there was like 1 other person in my ICQ contacts list that was still showing as online every now and then. Still, it's a neat nostalgia indulgence to connect to ICQ after all these years...

EDIT: I rebuilt icyque from the latest sources and it appears that I can once again enjoy the wonderful world of ICQ!

If anybody wants to chat, I'm 17109168 on ICQ.
That was certainly far more interesting than my answer for why I am not terrified of AI, namely that I am not a panicky idiot who doesn't know fact from fiction. That and I react to being told what to feel with contempt.
Given that L5 is a terminal position, and thus a mark of seniority, the title of “senior” would appear to be the correct title.
https://archive.is/RvKsb
Plato said it best, "Those who tell stories rule society." The art of storytelling is inherent in all of us and a skill we should all try to master.
> There seems to be a lack of drive (judging by forum posts) to enable IPv6 on internet services by admins, either because they don’t care to, or it’s more work to manage a public IPv4 and public IPv6 presence

Yup. I work at a large, complicated infrastructure organization. Our firewall guy has a lot on his plate. Having him manage the security concerns for IPv4 and IPv6 is a bad idea when considering the tasks we have and the labor available. Similarly, having the networking team implement IPv6 on top of their already significant projects results in less time available to do other things.

I look forward to the day when IPv6 is easy and universal, but I can completely understand why many admins aren't bothering.
docker compose up and you're gtg.
We also have helm charts and it can also run from a single binary and a postgresql url. Everything is documented on windmill.dev
Fossil reveals complex ecosystems on Earth much earlier than previously thought
> It's mind-boggling that the free market is not enough to regulate a gatekeeping monopoly into irrelevance.

The Mac App Store is not a monopoly. Mac developers can independently distribute their apps.
What's more fun is imagine pointing this thing at earth instead of an asteroid. Soon the whole crust of the earth is turned into paperclips, or trusses or whatever. oops.
They're all huge because getting anything built at all is a Herculean lift, so to make it worth your while it's going to be big and expensive. Blame red tape.
Panic are multiple time Apple design award winners/nominees.

(Mac & iOS) [1]

2003, 2004, 2005(x2), 2013, 2021

Perhaps Apple was overselling how good they are?
/s

[1] https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Panic
"Hard science fiction" doesn't seem to mean for this author what it has for me, "close adherence to known natural laws and plausible explanation." How you would characterize what "hard sci-fi" means to the younger generation?
Increasingly "those people" also make major American cities dangerous and disgusting (living on the street without an address, trash services, and often very real problems that got someone there) undesired destinations.

A systemic problem needs a systemic solution. Not just a focus on livable spaces, but a serious __political__ reform and an approach that has the big picture in mind.

The American Dream cannot survive when it's foundation has become a land-lord rent-seeking, do no actual work, income source that is predicated on renting the basic needs of life to those less well off.

Historians might well compare at least the roots of some of the protests in recent years not just to civil rights and persecution about race (which is an easy thing to point to as a root cause) but also about classist divides between the wealthy rent-seekers, and those who are forced to rent.
So the domain is just a shortcut for the DID, in practice?

That's interesting!

And you're actually following the DID. I wonder how you present this to folks so it's understandable.
Meritocracy has never been about that. It's always about filling the necessary roles with the best qualified people available. The purpose of meritocracy is not about rewarding people who meet arbitrary thresholds with fake titles and higher compensation. It's about giving the organization better chances to reach its goals. If you have the ability to perform at a higher level but there are enough people with even more ability, you won't get promoted in a meritocracy.
ChatGPT Prompt Engineering SubReddit
ChatGPT is amazing, everyday I learn something new, Please share your best prompts here, I will keep adding mine.
This is one of the foundational concepts behind microservices.

A service small enough that a team or engineer can rewrite it in a cycle/sprint.

When it’s bigger than that, you have the compounding effects of other systems that interact with each other.
You're asserting feel good propaganda fantasy talking points, but no credible analysts see path to unconditional UKR victory and if history any judge, some sort of settlement where UKR likely end up as broken buffer state carved with balamced RU geopolitical interests in mind, i.e. territorial loss with some parts of west UKR having chance of EU integration. So far UKR maybe overperforming operationally (battle layer) but doesnt mean it's winning strategically. RU can afford to keep UKR as a prolonged frozen conflict, preventing UKR reconstruction and keeping her as broken buffer state which is still net strategic win for RU position, granted a pyrrhic one. UKR demographic loss alone makes future incredibly bleak, country HDI was shit before war for region while UKR refugees had unusual priveledge of settling in developing countries - most already said they have no plan to return. UKR will be stuck in demographic/conflict limbo for generations and there likely won't be any peaceful settlement conditions where it can rebuild without RU cooperation. TW lesson will be she can fight to prevent occupation but exist as a greatly reduced society i.e. not high income semi producers but low income pine apple farmers. And they may well still choose the latter.
First: Congratulations! I've just sent an early access request.
Second - I've got questions!

Here is my use case. We have hundreds of clients who each have dozens of videos on our platform. Videos are grouped in collections. For each video we have structured content (think of it like a complex mashup of transcript + other info).
I would like to be able to send the API a group of 13 documents, grouped into a collection called "User123_collection2" or whatever. And then run natural language queries against that through an LLM.

A. Do I understand correctly that you allow to send and organize documents programmatically? Are there any length restrictions?

B. In your demo, Vellum simply grabs the top 3 most relevant snippets (and those seem to be relatively short snippets). Can this be customized (longer snippets and more of them?)

C. Can I get the "sources" cited with the answer?
Let's say I run a query on these snippets such as the ones in your demo. (An "end user" kind of question). Similar to how Bing's chatbot will give the links to the pages used to build the answer, I'd like the response I get to tell me it comes from Document 7 in collection "User123_collection2". Even better if I can get the response to tell me where in the document (otherwise I'd have to split my documents into smaller pieces when uploading).

D. Do you offer any guarantees of privacy of, not only the data, but also the prompts? I think that these prompts might be one of the valuable "trade secrets" for startups who want to add LLM features. If the prompt is leaked publicly or to another Vellum customer/stakeholder then it makes the feature replicable.

E. How much latency does this additional layer tack onto typical response times? If I was going to make an API request to OpenAI, how much longer does my app wait for the response?

I'm impressed by where you're going. It's a brilliant idea and I hope we get to be a customer, rather than build the whole LangChain/GPT-Index idea we were going to run with up until I read your post :)
Has it been that long? Time flies. Regrettably the person with the time, energy and familiarity to invest into OSX is now gone. Oh well.
I'm aware that hard science fiction is a no true Scotsman sort of thing. But some of these books have no place on this list.

Enders Game is a lot of great things, but hard science fiction is not one of them. I've never heard anybody describe it as such. The sequels get pretty into metaphysical, religiousy weirdness. They are excellent reads, but not hard sf.

And Three-Body Problem.... This one is interesting because it often gets billed as hard science fiction, but it's about as hard as unset Jell-O. That it's derivative, full of tired tropes and utterly devoid of character development is irrelevant to this conversation. The science presented in it make no sense, even at my intermediate layman's level of understanding. It made it impossible to suspend my disbelief, and the whole thing reads like a bad first draft. This is the first book I've ever finished just so I can decide how much I hated it.

What's weirder is that TBP is mentioned in almost every thread on /r/printsf. It's constantly promoted in these sorts of articles.
I was sure this was going to speak of the floppy disk icon for saving; not the actual floppy disks!
Yes. See this article: https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-s...
The US supported the dictators Chiang Kai-Shek and Chiang Ching-Kuo when they were oppressing the people of Taiwan.

US also supported dictators in South Korea and the Philippines, as well as in Latin America.
> This is because App Store reviewers are ignorant of Mac history and of most everything else, as evidenced by their frequently brain-dead rejections

Microsoft's App Store reviewers are vendor staff from the same agencies that provide fungible CSR staff - the App Store reviewers I personally know are all good people (and it's unfair of me to put them in the same category as CSR workers) buuuuuut they aren't all computer culture historians. So I assume it's similar at Apple (though I gather Apple prefers to have FTEs under their direct control instead of using agencies?)

Now I'm curious how Apple handles the reportedly higher-than-average employee churn in those roles, as I heard that 6-18 months was a typical stint at MS's App Store reviews office at TEKSystems on Willows Rd - though I know people that stayed in that job for over 6 years, but they were never able to transition into a blue-badge role and were stuck as Orange Badges - which just isn't right.
Yes at the moment the IPv6 internet is way more secure even without a firewall but there are possible attacks to enumerate the used IPv6 addresses. [0]

[0]: https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Targeted+IPv6+Scans+Using+pool.nt...
> They’re obviously doing recommendations based on IP address

eBay uses IPs showing content, too. I see 'items you've viewed recently' show items I've never looked at, since when on a mobile connection my IP changes fairly frequently and eBay carries over the recently viewed state from whoever else was previously using that IP.

It had puzzled me until I came across this[1] eBay topic where others had experienced this, from shared offices to spouses, etc.

[1] https://community.ebay.com/t5/Share-eBay-Technical-Issues/Re...
It’s the same story every time: “‘you just need this one thing’ doesn’t work. You need a balance of concerns.”
Personally I prefer haml, in my opinion JSX is grotesque.
Yep. The DID is kind of like an internal UUID, so we don't have to show it to them often. The three cases off the top of my head where you'll care

1. You're setting your own domain handle, in which case you're putting it in your dns record. In this case, it'll just be that string you're sticking in the TXT record.

2. You're migrating hosts. We haven't implemented this flow yet, and since the DID will be referenced in your data export you may not even be aware of it in this case.

3. You're a developer
There will be more competition then. This one might get to be part of the story if they get it out soon enough
> The ones in for the rude awakening are the ones who will be paying for more instructors.

That's not going to happen. Too many free alternatives that can get the job done, and people are waking up to that.

*Administrators* might have to go find a way to be productive for once... but people are fed up with the insanely high costs of higher education. Especially given what it's producing.
>trying to make a space heater out of LED lightbulbs.

you're doing it wrong. you should point the leds away from you, and point the heat sink on the power supply towards you
Dear @elonmusk [...] your head of HR is not able to confirm if I am an employee
Domain names as handles are a cool idea, and you can already do a variant of them in the "fediverse" either by hosting your own instance of a service or by configuring a WebFinger alias (which is what I do).

I'm less convinced by DIDs[1], which is what Bluesky seems to run on: I've yet to see an explanation for why the DID standard exists, given that it effectively punts all semantics (including basic things like cryptographic verification) onto unstandardized "methods" in an uncontrolled global namespace.

[1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/
I think framing it as "who cares" plays into the narrative these things have significance to ourselves too much. If you live in a first world country then there's no reason to be distressed by climate, disaster, or political news. Life just isn't that bad in first world countries despite what activists of every stripe will tell you (which isn't surprising because they want your attention the same as the news outlets). But as a society it's been decided that just dismissing things as "nbd" because they don't affect you personally is somehow hateful or ignorant when the reality is that it's just the nature of the issues.
TLDR; there's one company left selling ( and reselling floppies).

And, yes, if you have old floppies in good condition you can donate them.
Must be nice to not have to deal with this shit, at least until you feel like it, because you're doing so well otherwise. Successful indie game devs are living the life.
Fucking brilliant. Inspires confidence.
Interesting to see that fake historical quotes espousing “we will defeat those highly admirable yet lesser races through subversion” isn’t limited to anti-semites
That person is awful at their job, ignore them.
I'm reading these.

It seems this is where a better description of what NixOS (and it's module system) is. My suspicion is that by starting with NixOS it is harder to be introduced to the simpler concepts. It is best to think of the NixOS modules as a domain-specific-language on top of Nixpkgs which is itself a large set of conventions on top of the fairly simple Nix language. I think people should be introduced from the bottom up.

> having systemd manage a StateDirectory and creating the unit file/Nomad conf in configuration.nix for the machine

Seems like you did get what you needed working; my best advice to understand that the key abstraction being created is the activation script. Perhaps we never clearly describe all of its moving parts and how it works?

> ... but they are NOT functional programming enthusiasts

I believe the key is for the Nix community messaging/marketing to focus less on the theoretical elegance and more on the practical benefits.
In a comedy world, the results of
Twitter rewrite won't be a website where people can publish 280 characters at a time, but a software that will be able to drive a car autonomously...
Depends on how you think about monopolies and bundling. For the most part Apple's devices and products face a pretty competitive landscape. But there are some areas where they have a very strong market position. The revenue for paid apps in America skews very heavily to the Apple App Store (people make apps for iOS only in the US but never Android only). The alternatives to going through the App Store are really not viable. The switching costs to consumers are very high and people buy phones because of core features (battery, camera, speakers, connectivity, display, touch screen). The availability and pricing of paid apps is such an afterthought for consumers as to be irrelevant. In this one small market Apple exerts its market dominance influence to take a lot of money from 3rd party developers. Of course this is small potatoes compared to all the other markets that they compete in and even as a fraction of their revenue. But this is Hacker News. A lot of developers hang out here. Some of whom have certainly had some bad experiences with the policies, restrictions and fees imposed by the App Store.
I genuinely don't understand what you mean here, and I say that as an American who has done a fair amount of carpentry. I can't think of a single time I've thought to myself that using fractions was superior to measuring straight units in mm/cm/m.
Trump said he could end Ukraine / Russia conflict in 1 day
Trump is back at it with bold statements in preparation for a likely campaign at re-election
Can’t have 1,000s of VPs…
BOE LCDs on non-Mac notebooks are horrible: they almost universally use low-frequency PWM dimming, which gives me a really bad headache.
You’d be shocked how poorly Twitter was run before. So many people just coasting and not really contributing. The transition will be messy, but they’ll come out if it a better product and a better company
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I'm surprised at the number of negative reactions to your take. It just seems like common sense to me:

* 8 billion humans on the planet

* Bad (and good) things are happening to someone on it so frequently that they might as well be infinite

* It's far beyond the ability of anyone to care about all of them

* Ergo the only actual question is which ones you choose to care about, and if your caring is triggering anxiety or depression, by definition you have a problem with your filter

The negative takes are not thinking this through (but maybe this shouldn't be a surprise, since not thinking things through is a hallmark of depressed or anxious thinking)
Wow, I feel like you must have a pretty unique specialization because you are doing incredibly well for ICT5 (Congrats!) There are ICT levels above 6 but I feel like in practice those are very rare and you could easily spend decades working and not make it above ICT6 in many divisions.
> Florida has similar population density and population as New York and more than 3 times as many pedestrian deaths per capita.

The two states have similar density (FL 406/mi^2, NY 412/mi^2), but what is probably more relevant is the average "experienced density". What I mean by "experienced density" is the average over all residents of the densities of their cities.

New York City has a density of 27500/mi^2, and 42% of New York residents are in NYC, so even if we play it safe and assume everyone outside of NYC lives in a place with 0 density, the average experienced density in New York would be 11550/mi^2.

Florida only has one city approaching NYC density, Sweetwater (25600/mi^2), and that only has 20500 people. The next four densest range from 12800-11860/mi^2, and have populations of 38700, 1000, 21500, and 53410. Its most populous city, Jacksonville at 838000 has a density of only 960/mi^2.

Taking all 919 Florida cities that have density data at usa.com [1] I get an average experienced density for their residents of 3096/mi^2. Those cities account for about 68% of the population. If we make the very generous assumption that the remaining 32% live somewhere as dense as the second densest Florida city, we'd get an average experienced density of 6200/mi^2 for the state, just over half that of New York.

If we make the more realistic assumption that the remaining 32% live in places with densities around the state average of 406/mi^2, we get an average experienced density in Florida of 2240/mi^2, less than 20% that of New York.

[1] http://www.usa.com/rank/florida-state--population-density--c...