skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was Google really a beloved employer? I feel like that was vapor marketing hype most real people saw through as bs, you'd pretty much see constant stories of overwork and toxic teams run by incompetent "project managers" just like every other overvalued Silicon Valley FAANG shop
Pretty much par for the course, Linux distributions don't do per user configuration of tools beyond appending to PATH or setting some essential environment variables using scripts in in /etc/profile.d/. They will most certainly not mess with login scripts.
The mathematical realm is a purely human construct.

There's no such thing as "one" in nature: there's not "one" apple. An apple is a monstrously complex collection of cells and dynamic chemical processes, it's not "one".

The concept of numbers are a tool that humans use to categorize, summarize and model the world around us.

The "truths" we discover in math are only true in the mathematical realm, which is an inexact model of the physical realm. Useful, but undeniably a human construct.

So yes, math is invented.

Though we constantly discover new ways to use it in the physical world.
Yeah that's fair. Probably could have been more clear and just said "allow their teams to build new experiences faster."
Consumer price increases are inflation whether or not they are caused by “late stage unregulated capitalistic greed”.
Funny enough, the cost overruns for the Big Dig weren't even the main problem. The main problem was that the solution of adding more roads to solve traffic issues was already known not to work because of induced demand.

Traffic engineers have known this since one lane roads were expanded to two lane roads. The real question for this project is why a solution known not to work was chosen over solutions known to work.
I wasn’t trying to write an erotica.

Sure it’s a private service. But how long until you are at a huge disadvantage if you don’t have access to it for work?

What if getting banned means loosing your job?

Would that be ok?
Spoken languages are linear. Sign languages are not. The grammar is very different.

Sign languages have multiple articulators: two hands, face, eye gaze direction, shoulders, trunk. These can all work together to show multiple things at the same time. Spoken languages can really do only one thing at a time (with a few minor suprasegmentals such as tone).

You can construct a signed version of a spoken language, which may be useful for things like quoting book titles and other cases where you need to represent the exact words of a spoken language in signed form, but it's not common to use that for everyday communication, because the hands move a lot slower than the small muscles of the mouth and throat.

(Linguistics is a fascination of mine. Sign language linguistics are especially interesting.)
Black Boxes Help Solve Plane Crashes. Why Aren’t They Better?
lol... that cat is not coming back unless the owner signs a document guaranteeing that young man is coming back every again (not even to the same postal code!)
Underrated advice.

I do this all the time.

You would be amazed at what quieting yourself down for 20-30 minutes a day will do for you.
What are some good primers to understand the prominent new Java features? Not just in 20, but since, say, 8. Asking as someone who would like to be cursorily familiar with Java, but does not use it day to day. I'm very familiar with things like auto type inference, pattern matching, multi-line strings and structured concurrency from other languages, so I'm not looking for an introduction to Java. I'm looking for something like "Modern Java for the experienced Rust/Python/C++ programmer". Thanks!
I usually use my left thumb after taking it out of my left pant pocket.

I also use a TPU screen protector, not glass. I've read that various glass protectors can interfere.
Looks like the UI could use some work. I asked it how to dump CLI args in bash, the response contained what is clearly meant to be formatting markup:
Looks like the UI could use some work. I asked it how to dump CLI args in bash, the response contained what is clearly meant to be formatting markup:

To dump the arguments of a bash script, you can use the <span class="math-inline">@\ variable. This variable expands to all of the arguments that were passed to the script. For example, if you have a script called `myscript.sh`, and you run it with the following arguments:
```
myscript.sh foo bar baz
```
I've yet to hear very many stories of TikTok randomly and capriciously demonetizing videos as one often hears of YouTube doing, so there is that?
Oh, so you were referring to the specific syntax in the current proposal, rather than pattern matching in general?

Java and C# show how the syntax can be done in a fully backwards-compatible manner. It looks like it's just not the JS way by choice - apparently every new keyword that was added since ES5 is an actual keyword reserved in all contexts, not context-dependent?
I learned a lot from DPReview about photography, but I also learned a surprising amount from them about what excellent writing looks like. Sometimes I read long reviews about cameras that I wasn't even interested in just because the writing was so good.
And there's one of the biggest differences between public and private sector scope changes. When the private sector decides to massively revise what they're doing on a project most of the decisions take place behind closed doors and the guy with the most impact on the scope creep probably puts in on his CV as successfully scaling up operations. When the public sector project balloons it's people's tax dollars and there's an opposition party and lots of journalists pointing out the original budget.
I do not understand why Google makes it so difficult to pay them for a custom email domain.
Not just cryptobros. A100s are the current top of the line and it’s hard to find them available on AWS and Lambda. Vast.AI has plenty if you trust renting from a stranger.

AMD really needs to pick up the pace and make a solid competitive offering in deep learning. They’re slowly getting there but they are at least 2 generations out.
Ah, yes, but think those olive drab steel Ammo Cans. These are a simple, cheap, tried-and-true tested method of preserving military supplies; heat proof, water proof, dust proof, (somewhat) nuke proof, biological proof, and fire proof.
AI Should Be Allowed in Interviews. Now It Can
I think this is something Bing had been planning for months, so they had time to do all this review in advance?

While Google was caught flat-footed and has had to rush this in response.

I'm basing this just on what I've read, of course.

And if that's the case, I don't think my explanation is invalidated at all, nor "trivially".
Frankly this is not anywhere comparable to ChatGPT/Claude for Coding , even Ask AI app on IOS from some not so famous startup - Codeway from Turkey is Way better. They should just buy them instead. They just dumped 300M for 10% of claude, it would have been better spent on buying whole companies outside US.
Yes, I've never heard of a private company that has absolutely useless security protocols, let alone one that was broken into as a result of complete incompetence of their security architects and admins. /s
There is also the concept that once corporations reach as certain SCALE, then they ethically have some responsibilities towards the principles society asks of government.

In 1776, a person shouting obscenities in a pub, would get duly thrown out. He had the freedom to shout in the park, at a coffee shop, in the library, or in any of a thousand other places in town.

Today, political discourse takes places almost entirely online and via private corporations. Google isn't a pub on 2nd ave and 54th street. It's ALL THE ESTABLISHMENTS IN TOWN. ...or at least it, along with 3-4 other of the global tech oligopolies. It's important to note that while massive global tech companies are not formally part of government, they are very integrated with gov't through lobbying, gov't contracts, and direct political sponsorship, and a variety of other individual contacts and arrangements.

As a result of their SCALE of their control, they implicitly inherit some ethical obligations to allow uncomfortable speech to occur.

I don't believe in limitless speech rights - but the current limits are vague and selectively enforced and thus easily susceptible to political bias - which is the most dangerous kind of censorship.
> Regulation and liability.

How do you coordinate across countries (in particular for AI, coordinate between China and the U.S.)? Because if you lose that coordination, you're back to all the classical problems of the prisoner dilemma.
Crazy new spy robot gathers intelligence and then melts into a puddle
There are plenty of Caribbeans that eat black beans with plantains or bananas.
Dart lang is still missing union types
where did you get the peleton reference from The Matrix? even the machines realized that was wasted. you spend your entire life cycle in a sensory deprivation tank with the computer telling you how much of a good time you are having. wasting energy on actually moving muscles is absurd! that's not thinking like a machine
Not really, we keep moving from project to project because we're discovering no value in the initiative or it's outcomes after testing things out.

It's not necessarily failed management, it's just the nature of big tech. You have the OG money maker. Then you have all the other stuff to try and continue to grow or expand revenue streams.

It's fine in a good economy and hopefully you get a few big wins in amongst all the failures (think of it like vc / angel funding).

But in a downturn those excess experiments are weighing you down when you just need to stay afloat to the next upturn.
Windows Snipping Tool is vulnerable to Acropalypse too
> If a company does not provide source code on request, they have broken the promise provided by the offer, not the license, and can be sued for simply failing to uphold their promise.

By whom? In what way is the promise binding on that company? I can see some sense if the offer is provided to anyone receiving the binary from the company, in which case you could argue that it is a part of the distribution contract between the company and the recipient. But a third party doesn't seem to have any relationship, even if the promise nominally mentions ant third party.

At best, you could argue that the original receiver of the code could sue the company for not providing code to a third party as per the promise.

> And, of course, if a company provides neither the source code, nor such an offer of source code, they have already broken the license, and can be sued immediately

Yes, but only by a copyright holder of that source code, not by a third party (not even by the person who received the binary code without a copy of the source or a promise to provide it on request).

By the way, it should be noted that, per Stallman, it's perfectly valid for a company to sell GPL-based binaries and only distribute the source code to those who buy the binaries (though of course they must be allowed to distribute it further). So it's absolutely clear that a random person who neither purchased the product nor holds copyright in the GPL work has no standing whatsoever.
... okay, I reread it for a third time and you're right. Not sure how I managed to miss it the first two times I read the comment. Yeah, that's nonsense.
To split the difference a bit...

They have him "on tape" IMing multiple other suspects, talking extremely graphically about pedophilia, and exchanging images and video of same.
> For Alt+C, are peoples’ file and directory layouts such a mess that they need to search entire directory trees to find what they’re looking for?

Have you ever joined a new project? Usually they're both messy and you don't know where anything is.

Besides, even now with plenty of familiarity in my current legacy code base I can use fzf to type filenames or directories without typing the full path.

Ctrl+R is great for those repeat commands in your shell history that you want to use right now but don't want to add to your .bashrc, like repeatedly running a script with some arguments. I think the value of searching your history is self evident.
Your comment makes me wonder if I should give the series another chance. I only read Consider Phlebas and didn't continue with the series because I found the book so frustrating. It felt like there was a ton of context missing. I kept expecting it to provide some details about the culture that would justify the protagonist's antipathy towards it, but a coherent explanation for his world view never materialized.
Problem is that food won’t get cheaper.
Because the experience public school provides is an exceptionally low bar considering class sizes/ratios, commuting to and from school, etc. Also, we can pour resources into our kids public schools can’t or won’t. The data also shows homeschool outcomes to be at parity or superior to public school outcomes. We only have two kids though, and my partner is a stay at home parent. We also rely on Modulo, among other resources, for structuring education delivery.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/522078

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33204988

https://www.modulo.app/homeschool
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> "it's not the tool's job to regulate my creativity. the law exists to regulate the use of my art, not the act of creating the art. I can draw hello kitty all I want and leave it in my drawer, if it floats my boat"

This is very well said. Thank you!
With enough total comp you can be my Beloved Employer.
Does launching it globally break laws of Physics?
if true, one more reason i don't miss mailchimp...

they have made it IMPOSSIBLE to take them seriously.
#justSayin
The gist of the insight of exercise is that one is conditioned, even if the exercise itself seemed pointless, for the unpredictable in later situations.
The crazy thing about that is they had broken up the Ammonium Sulfate/Ammonium Nitrate mixture thousands of times before the incident. It was incredible that they managed to do so for as long as they did. All it took was one day where the mixture wasn't mixed very well and everyone dies. An industrial version of Russian Roulette.
The article/video addresses this. You have to be careful that images of past efficiency aren't just examples of externalizing costs.

> There is no perfect project that makes everyone happy. So, you end up making compromises and adding features to allay all the new stakeholders. This may seem like a bunch of added red tape, but it really is a good thing in a lot of ways. There was a time when major infrastructure projects didn’t consider all the stakeholders or the environmental impacts, and, sure, the projects probably got done more quickly, efficiently, and at a lower cost (on the surface). But the reality is that those costs just got externalized to populations of people who had little say in the process and to the environment. I’m not saying we’re perfect now, but we’re definitely more thoughtful about the impacts projects have, and we pay the cost for those impacts more directly than we used to. But, often, those costs weren’t anticipated during the planning phase. They show up later in design when more people get involved, and that drives the total project cost upward.
>Yes, that much is likely true. Yet, I maintain that the market dynamics we saw in lumber very likely played out in other sectors.

I agree. The exogenous shocks from Covid (and the shutdowns/working from home) and the money that the govt. lavished on people and businesses caused a lot changes in market dynamics. Some temporary, some seemingly permanent, and some still in flux. As an example, I own rental property on the side. In the town I live in, there hasn't been a decrease in housing and there hasn't been an increase in population. However rents doubled in the span of 3 years. As for why, it seems, they just did it because others where doing it. Taxes didn't go up. Insurance didn't go up. Repairs cost the same. It appears that you can just charge more and people will pay it and so that is what happened.

>There's been so much discussion of price gouging,

When I think of price gouging, I think of someone buying up all of the bottled water after a hurricane and then selling it for 10 times as much when there is no other option available to people. What these companies are doing is testing new price points. In fact, if they are publicly traded and didn't try to maximize shareholder profits they could be facing being ousted or even legal threats.

On a side note, HN has a funny relationship with "price gouging" because many love dynamic pricing (like Uber uses) which is literally price gouging, but if someone tries a new price point on bacon or a dozen eggs they flip the fuck out.

>I know for a fact the pricing was a product of radically increased demand. It seems very likely to me the same is true for potato chips.

I mean, you know your business. I believe you. But there really are companies out there testing new price points just because it is convenient and they won't face the typical backlash from customers because "inflation", or "supply chain issues", or whatever, but really they are just seeing if they can get more profits. This shouldn't be shocking to anyone but it rubs consumers the wrong way when it happens and when everyone does it, it contributes to CPI inflation which people feel at home.
Clubhouse was a stupid product, it was just putting all the people who were most annoying in school into one room so they could tire themselves out. Nobody wants to listen to that.
Thanks fore sharing. I was also lost reading this article, because I installed with apt (Debian). After searching for "fzf + Ctrl+R" I found about the keybindings part.
Are they really different technologies? It has always been my impression that they are the same tech, but they have a slightly different syntax in some places (DESCRIBE) and different levels of capabilities (Postgres offers more).

If you know the core concepts of one, you are probably 80% good to go with the other.
What do you want to do.

Brusque I know.

But it's important.
TikTok says it has 150M US users amid renewed calls for a ban
Free speech generally does include the right to lie. There are only very limited legal circumstances where a lie could be a criminal offense or cause for civil liability. Even if you could somehow ban people from calling themselves "journalists" that would be meaningless under US federal law as journalists enjoy no more rights or privileges than any other common citizen.
first: the innovators dilemma - AI-based queries are much more expensive than traditional search index queries + no comparable level of monetization, so it would cannibalize googles revenue massively and wall street calling the doomsday that mit outright kill the behemoth

second: there seems to be no capable product management or at least not in charge, so these engineers are a massive waste of horsepower and should do something meaningful for the world instead of tuning advertising profits

third: all these beliefs might turn out like recently the fear of the russian military - only existing on paper. maybe most of these rockstar engineers are long gone elsewhere and nobody notices because huge revenue streams are masquerading it?
Lazard doesn't account for energy storage and grid expansion so it shouldn't be used to compare intermittent and baseload energy sources. If there's political will NPPs can be and are constructed on time, like in ROK, PRC or 70's France.
Your argument about sustainability even more so applies to renewables considering how much more resources have to be mined to build such low density and intermittent energy source. Also, renewables occupy a lot of space that can and should be rewilded.
Using nuclear reactors to produce nuclear weapons is not easy (see Iran) and nuclear waste can be stored underground. Decomissioning of NPPs can be done after 80 or 100 years of operation which is a crazy long time given how short the lifespans of wind turbines and solar panels are.
Germany electricity mix is 50% renewables yet right now it's emitting 8x more CO2 per kWh than France. I wonder why that's the case? Maybe energy policy should be more about decarbonisation rather than building renewable capacity?
Hayes autodial vs. MCI long distance dial-around
Why? I bet a huge proportion of the news outlets page views come from Google links.

This is the same kind of privileged illogic that leads ISPs to try to get legislation to allow them to bill Netflix and bill consumers for the same stream of bytes.

I'll also note that the "tech giant" here is almost certainly Google.
I was just thinking about this site the other day. I was on a trip with an older DSLR Nikon D3200 and a Samsung S21 Ultra. Most of the time I had to look at metadata to tell which photos came from which, a fact that I found staggering. I thought back to how critical DP Review was 10–15 years ago and how much our phone cameras have closed that gap. Remarkable.
I'm not super familiar with spotlight/mdfind. What are the benefits it offers over using the default `find` command with fzf?