skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on personality. Some will be excited to give him an earful about everything that makes their job difficult.

“And the handles on the carafes! You see this injection molding seam? You see where it is when I pick up the carafe for tbe 500th time today? You see these callouses? You’re not going to have callouses, you’re going to have blisters! Like everyone in the first week! And the packaging on these cups! You see this…”
This is interesting, thank you for the post. From the abstract:

> Oumuamua began as an icy planetesimal that was irradiated at low temperatures by cosmic rays during its interstellar journey

I think this is interesting for one more reason: Oumuamua is considered to be of extra-solar origin because it moves faster than solar system's escape velocity. When I started reading the abstract I thought "wow, could it be that radiolysis accounts for the extra speed and the thing is actually of solar origin?", but no, it still comes from outer space :)
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"An aperiodic tiling is a non-periodic tiling with the additional property that it does not contain arbitrarily large periodic regions or patches" [1]

So, it has "islands" of repenting combinations of tiles, but these islands do not repeat / translate in a regular way.

1: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Aperiodic_tiling
In one of his memoirs, Feynman empirically tested his own sense of smell and came to the same conclusion.
Does that exist?
> That would probably be the safest place to work, can't fire anyone with the risk of bad PR.

Why? Just as long as they don't fire someone on the spot, live on social media, I'm sure their PR team can handle it. E.g. make a statement "Joe Schmoe had persistent performance issues and was fired a month after the CEO visit, there's no connection to the CEO."
Do you have any citations for schools having Gender Queer in the ciriculum? I wasn't able to find any
A new WhatsApp desktop app for Windows with faster speeds and improved calling
Correct.

A scam here in Baltimore that keeps occurring is that the squeege kids will run up on someone unsuspecting and start cleaning their windshield.

They will pressure the driver for a tip, and the driver will say they don’t have cash of course.

They will say that’s cool, you can send me a tip. They ask the driver for their phone so they can look up their cashapp for them, and bam the driver got scammed.

What’s happening is that the squeege kid is looking up his account on your phone, and then sending himself like $2,000.

People have complained that cashapp won’t help, and their bank isn’t letting them dispute the charge.

In my opinion, this is clearly an anti pattern on Cashapps end, and I would imagine at least one engineer would have spotted this vulnerability by now. I would think that Cashapp would build in a simple pin confirmation before a stranger could wire themselves a couple thousand dollars. This has bugged me for the last 2 years lol
> The report is extremely long, but having gone through the bullet points, the case seems quite overstated.

I've gone through it fully, not just the tl;dr. It's not overblown. They're not saying Block is doing anything illegal, only Block is valued much too highly.

The bulk of it is Block skirting regulatory requirements to acquire more users easily, and those users doing illegal things with their Cash app accounts. And this is already crashing down as they're now, for example, required to collect full social security numbers for the Cash app debit cards (previously only last 4 digits).

Considering the Cash app is Block's largest consumer user base, and a large reason for Block's high valuation they have a good case for why Block should be valued closer to PayPal than as a disruptive growth stage company.
Happy if it is it different for sure. And It's not quite there yet, but if it keeps going the way it is this will be the first time a tool will have significant impact and a single person can do the work of 5 in a lot of industries and domains, not just software.

This might be a bigger evolution in the coming iterations and might be the biggest thing since electricity and the internet.

Pretty exciting, but I would also have options or be deep in the thick of it if I were younger.
Nice strawman, but vs modern government bureaucracy that takes significantly more for middle management? Seems about the same, to be perfectly honest.
This is pretty common in industries like this. In the aviation industry, manufacturers record the tension with which each screw is torqued. That kind of fine grained logging is required for maintenance reasons and audited in case of e.g. accidents. Some modern car manufacturers use a similar level of detail in their manufacturing records. Common in both worlds is having very complex supply networks and just in time deliveries for these parts.
Here's a newer one: https://www.dfi.com/product/index/1502
Wow.
"K8s is simple", it has the same vibes as Linux user vs Dropbox:

'...you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem'
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/25/google_kubernetes_aut...

I love HN's disconnection from reality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdiHNIgrHmI
On the one hand it's obvious that the Hindenburg people are right on this when they say that Block's app is used for criminal activities and money laundering. On the other hand that's what we get for trying to push cash itself more and more outside the boundaries of modern society. That video in a way made me root for the bad guys, a no-cash society where petty crime doesn't happen because the powers that be control it all is a not a society I personally want to be part of.

And then there is also the racial-related aspect of it all, not sure the Hindenburg analysts were aware of it. As in there is no white rapper in that video of theirs.
I used to work in tech for a large retail company and when you joined the company you had to work 3 days straight at one of the stores. Honestly it was brutal and they put me to work. It made me thankful to work at the corporate office if anything.
For example, you can't replace these tiles with just rectangles. For regular shapes you can, for example if you tile your bathroom with squares there will be a repeating 2x2 square pattern too. Similarly, hexagons and triangles can be replaced with rectangular tiles (where every tile is the same). You can't do this for this pattern.
The best people have job mobility, and some or many of them like to work from home.
And just skip any major business meetings in that month?

If you think he’s a bad CEO, you shouldn’t want him there at all. If you think he’s a good CEO you shouldn’t want him dropping his work for a month.
Are we not already insane?

Do you not see sociopathic tendencies in our industry already?

Has our humanity not already been tested by existing and conceptually simpler technologies?
Wow, this was a fantastic read!

I have no idea what’s going on in Nigeria, but I hope the truth (whatever it is) will prevail!
For people like me who are not very familiar with some of these corporate terms, can someone explain exactly what "back office" means? Is it IT?

I understand sales, delivery, etc. Dev is software development teams? So I presume back office excludes software development teams? Any concrete examples of teams that belong to back office?
I really don't understand all those concerns. It's as if people saw a parrot talk for the first time and immediately concluded that they will take over the human civilisation and usher nuclear annihilation upon us because there might be so many parrots and they migh have a hive mind and ... and ... all the wild scenario stemming from the fact you know nothing about parrots yet and have a very little skepticism about actual reality.

ChatGPT can't do anything until you elect it for president and even then ... you already had Trump. This should show you that damage potential of a single "intellect" in modern civilization is limited.

In few decade humanity will laugh at us same way we laugh at people who thought riding 60km/h in a rail cart will prevent people form breathing.
Being able to earn money whenever you want so you don't have to build your life around your work would be huge even if it makes you earn a bit less. Developers earn a lot already, many would take that trade.

Edit: That would make game development much more palatable, since gig work implies no overtime unless you want it. Just do some game development and earn money rather than doing it for free on a hobby project. And since it is just a gig you can easily try it out and do something else if you don't like it.
As a life-long fan, Star Trek has always had plenty of garbage writers and terrible episodes. (The original series is hilariously bad by modern standards.) The only thing that's held the series together are amazing actors and that the good episodes are really good.

Strange New Worlds has had an amazing first season. Hope that continues. :)
Have you tried Solana? You can check this article that talks more about it: https://www.ratherlabs.com/post/how-to-build-and-deploy-smar...

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Reminds me of the parody in Scott Alexander's article "If the media reported on other things like it does EA"

> Some epidemiologists are worrying that a new virus from Wuhan could become a wider catastrophe. Their message is infecting people around the world with fear and xenophobia, spreading faster than any plague. Perhaps they should consider that in some sense, they themselves are the global pandemic.

Like, yeah, people did consider that idea, and the "corporations are the real unaligned AI" idea, and the "capitalism is the real extinction risk" idea, and all the pseudo-clever variations of the concept.

The problem is that "understanding that capitalism has problems" isn't equivalent to "having an actionable plan to solve capitalism".
How does it ruin their reputation as short sellers?
> Ethernet, maybe, but it's a stretch

Same delta as the engineers who insist smartcard on laptops is optional; yes it _is_, but only for a subset of cheaper customers.
They didn't indicate they couldn't read the article due to a paywall. They just asked for an ELI5 on something that's covered in the 4th paragraph of the article. My reaction would be different if you said you couldn't read the article and asked the same question.
>In the Ethereum pre-sale they explicitly state it is not intended to be a security or investment offering:

I'm not sure if ETH was completely in the clear even with this approach. Vitalik and other founders seemed to have created expectations of profit in their ICO presentations to US investors in a few 2014 videos.
> and the use of force, including torture of relatives, death

The truth is that all these claims are made by shady groups who cite “anonymous sources” or other bs like that.
New ATLAS result weighs in on the W boson
I suspect they are, but typically TVC is on an annual or project based contract so they might choose not to renew once the terms are up. Also ending a contract agreement won’t make headlines so we probably just aren’t hearing about it as much.
What exactly does Accenture do? i'm wondering what these 19,000 roles are
Yeah the more I learned about these guys the more I told them to go fuck off and unsubscribed and removed their app and forgot about their drops.

They sell crap. If you've bought any of their crap you would know they sell crap.
And usually, the client has money for TVCs but not enough internal resources due to dysfunctional management hierarchies.

Those same hierarchies will then inevitably fail to make proper use of the contractors, just as they failed to make use of their employees, leading to seemingly "useless" TVCs "bloating" the org. Symptom rather than cause of the client's failings.
I have to say, this feels more like a clueless white rich guy trying to seem cool by mentioning hip hop songs he never actually listened to (or understood if he did hear them), that one of his underlings told him about, rather than evidence of "fraud".
Houston is actually losing people, it’s growth occurring in the suburbs:

https://kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/houston-dallas-led-metro-a...
> I kind of miss cgi-bin. If we're ever to get back to a place where random "power users" can knock up a quick server to meet some computing need they have, easy deployment has to be a big part of that. Can we make it as easy to deploy as to post on Instagram?

I'd be happy with a future that takes some cues from literate programming, where if you want to deploy some application, the way you do it is to upload a copy of the software manual/specification. This should be sufficient to "teach" the server how the application should behave.

It's tempting to say "Ah, sounds like super advanced ChatGPT-ops or something approaching real AGI", but what I have in mind is something decidedly less magical. It's more akin to the sort of thing that Rob Pike brought up in his "The Design of the Go Assembler" talk ("you have a machine readable description[...] why not read it with a machine?").

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KINIAgRpkDA>
If you really meant that, you wouldn’t have posted it publicly.

I think that reasoning might have some flaws.
The answering style matches the usual presentation of a Winograd schema, which is a bit of a problem when you actually want to test its general reasoning ability, because it could be that someone already posted your go-to test question and the answer on the internet and the model was trained on that.

Maybe we need to start obfuscating this stuff

import base64;import hashlib;f=lambda s:bytes(k^v for k,v in zip(hashlib.shake_256(b'wOmGLuIVp70').digest(len(s)),s));print(f(base64.decodebytes(b'Iq6VQOBRifQwwwO6gluzzWEnGIICFKKFwM1oMWmBsTrIhMj5AseeNmNUwtEZkthcz8m8v8qKmVIx7nEjPOsqOUimKaTIJ8OKk2STdo/SRZGLAOsBSmgGaNTYEgT3KaayJWmGVf7K/UN06VyosEHfyFZlsS+PHDS6B3bN94qrzdnOA9f12FwWuaTPNJhLGcXFX7r5H8mtWyt9uWq6n5AItEcRXId04ssR8jfvNray2fwFIh5qPHTdQvZ9ogKLJ4Y+nAro7ecRSXXgskAj5EBmo2YobRkfE26er/Tj9DZHNx81N64ujWvN8jiS7aNcYs/oaEyN0oqnZvia9qocrv6CfBr+wGGSG1oxk5mbhAgkQhfuyR6c8MVKNFKp8HFo6SR7auju8vLnYjcObcII88vRbbua/jQmakiWwmS68Y1e1Gqmqg==')).decode())

to avoid burning test questions. (GPT-3.5 gave the answer I expected on the 4th try, didn't test with GPT-4.)
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They have been good decades.
Crazy to say about a company with nearly ten products with over a billion active users.
You missed a line

> Assume we have a finite list,
> Of primes, and that none have been missed.

It's assuming that the finite list contains all primes and then noting that you can construct a new number which has no prime factors, which is a contradiction.
The claim is that this tesselation is aperiodic, meaning that the entire pattern does not have translational symmetry.
At Mercedes-Benz we offer factory tours you can just sign up for. Agree with OP, well worth it!

Developing and iteratively refining a production line from pilot factory to network scale is not entirely unlike software development.

Here's a few clips of a modern one, including a longer doc:

https://youtu.be/UdDvDKC8FVM & https://youtu.be/TWLyRQbvr6o
Data from the World Inequality Database refutes your statement - https://wid.world/world

Every single socialist European nation (including the Scandinavian ones) has a
better wealth distribution than the USA.

> So unions didn't really help that much with that...

Can you back your statement up with facts instead of hand-waving away paragraphs of meaningful discussion that came before this comment?
That, and allowing other players to dictate things --- in particular, the dumbing down of active styluses in Fall Creators Update so as to match the behaviour of Android for the sake of the Surface Duo is bizarre.

I had to turn of Windows Ink so that Macromedia Freehand/MX would work.

I need to find a web browser where the stylus selects text, as it has since Windows for Pen Computing, rather than scroll (why is this desirable? Can't one just scroll w/ touch?).
Could always be both
It is a pretty cool bag of flesh, I didn't rule that out.
Not enough people, especially on this site realize this when they generalize about consultants being lazy, stupid, parasitic, etc. - the majority of the folks in SV could never cut it at an elite boutique consultancy. That said, consulting at an elite level doesn’t scale well, the equity multiples aren’t good and the lifestyle is a grind at best and mentally and physically unhealthy at worst.
Yeah pretty much just because it's Chinese. China doesn't allow American internet companies access to their market either though.
If the app is the primary business driving profitability growth you can use it to indict the company. The stock price isn't based on non-performing parts of the business.
Had a similar issue with another other Ford vehicle with a battery, there were 729 vehicles worldwide. They knew exactly what was wrong: error in a temperature sensor of a specific welding unit which which could result in a damaged busbar over time due to the poor weld. The vehicles were worldwide, mine was originally from Germany but that causes issues: I never received an email/mail from anyone as it went to the original dealer which did not know me. I did get a warning though the local DMV equivalent so that worked correctly but by then it was already fixed as I read the ford service site from time-to-time.

Was replaced without cost as with this thing, no questions asked. Though the garage failed to bleed the cooling system (they said they did, but you can see if they did it in the Ford online systems, they didn't), resulting in the vehicle stopping once an air bubble reached the coolant pump and it overrotated (it will run for about 30 seconds before stopping).

In my case this also means I got a new battery after two years which is nice, but Ford probably tried to talk their way out of it thus it taking so long. If it's not a fire hazard it goes slowly ...
Oh, you're not taking these depictions of drug payments and assassination payments literally are you? This is all artistic display for a persona and a set of practices that only exists as a performance.
It's a nice gesture, but this sort of ear-to-the-ground work is something that everyone over a VP level should be doing in such a high-touch customer-facing business.

When it's just the CEO for one day a month...it's like when you see a frontpage news article declaring that your governor recently undertook a choreographed ride on the local subway to better understand their constituents' public transit concerns. Instead of making them seem relatable and trustworthy, it highlights how grossly out of touch they are.
hey thanks. I know there's always many actual people behind all these projects trying their hardest. I hope nobody takes my jeers personally. I'm playing a character.

I mean sure, the passions are real but I'm also ostensibly a well behaved sincere adult. I don't actually want to "literally stab the people who wrote [apache modrewrite] repeatedly in the eyeballs" - although a reconsideration of how transparent the flow is would be greatly appreciated.

Perhaps I should add that to my list of "things to do" and you know, fix it myself. Be responsible or something. I've become intentionally unemployed in order to spend some time on stuff like this and regroup. I should do it.

Honestly, I'm probably still recovering from that react project. Maybe I should do some therapy. It was bad.
Italy had a corruption problem a few decades ago. They have done some major reform and things are better, but the reputation remains.

Note that Italy is not perfect. And like all cases of corruption it is worse in some areas than others. The construction costs project is about mass transit where Italy does fairly well, but they don't look at highways so we cannot say anything about how they do highways from the data here. (I'm sure someone reading this knows more than I do about Itally's highways and can comment)
By targeting a SV darling like Dorsey?
Seems like it. I asked it to sort by their second letter and it failed horribly:

Sorting months by the second letter, we get the following order:

1. April
2. January
3. June
4. July
5. March
6. May
7. February
8. December
9. November
10. September
11. August
12. October
> Bob: Certainly. January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.

> User: That's not in alphabetical order. Redo.

> Bob: Sorry about that. Here are the months again, this time in alphabetical order: April, August, December, February, July, June, March, May, November, October, September.

(Also LLaMA, 30B, llama.cpp on x86 Processor)

At least LLaMA sees its mistake and doesn't gaslight you (in this case). "I've been a good LLaMA." ;P
The FTC wants to ban tough-to-cancel subscriptions
Plans to make UK an international technology superpower launched
>No more manipulative designs that trick consumers into paying for services.

The article calls it "manipulative designs", that's a pretty vague definition to me. I wonder if the result will be malicious compliance by businesses. Similar to the cookie banners appearing on websites in the EU to comply to GDPR, that make it easier (i.e. less clicks) to accept all cookies than to reject them.
Maybe some NaOH? Not deadly, but would certainly be very unpleasant to have explode in your face.
Address verification is where the bureaus like Transunion and Experian come in. These vendors have a gold mine of information that should allow a company to verify a host of their users' attributes - not just addresses.
It has already driven me insane. I am the first casualty ;)
Anything can be denied if you are willing or manipulated enough.
Wasn't the deletion of 1984 because some third party had sold bootleg copies of the ebook?

Deleting it from the customers devices is the wrong way to handle it, but I can genuinely see how the mistake would happen as they remove the bootleg copy from the server and then the e-readers would update and see the book doesn't exist so delet it from the device.

A dumb event, but I'm not really seeing it as evidence of the publishers desire for licensed only books, something I agree is happening.
Senator Urges Tech Giants to Prioritize Child Safety in AI Chatbots
Part of the problem is that React was never a "framework" to begin with, but people treat it as if it is. React began its life as a view library for creating custom components. That initial design decision has permeated every attempt to make it more "framework-like."

In a traditional MVC-like paradigm, components would just be views. Discussions would be focused around keeping your components limited to view concerns while using other, non-view parts of the framework to drive things like API integration, business logic, state management, routing config and so on. Which is to say that you wouldn't have a need for "effects" at the component level in the first place since, by the time your data is ready for presentation and your components are initialized, all of that has already been done separately.

So yes, it is a design flaw with the "framework". One that came about by trying to morph what was, initially, a simple view library into something more "framework-like."
I think back office is just a generic term for non customer facing positions, usually supporting internal operations in a corporate environment, not a specific department or function. So a software developer could be back office depending on context.
It would've been a better PR for them to have not publicized it. They really didn't need to, because people would find out anyway.
1.5 onwards I think has been entirely usable; before that I found it bizarrely unstable.
Check out the video of Jim Carrey on the PH page!
Gold fails #2. It’s not a common enterprise. There’s no investment contract to owning a piece of gold. Crypto tokens, on the other hand, are literally defined by contracts written in code.