skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak too much to the first several points, but noting

- agency micromanagement of contractors
- general red tape

is very fitting and a direct contribution to

- too little competition

I worked with a startup company ~8 years ago that wanted to go after government contracts. According to the owners, everyone they demo'd the product to said it was very clearly superior to what they were currently using.

Unfortunately, the people who would use it are not the people that sign off on paying for it. Those people had checklists of irrelevant requirements, slow response times, almost certainly pressure to select "certain" vendors (i.e. those who threw money into lobbying the right folk). It got to the point where they seriously considered hiring a consulting company whose sole purpose was to help others navigate all the red tape that gets thrown in your way when you try to get government contracts.

In the end, they realized that they were better off pivoting entirely to the private sector instead of doing a half and half approach.

I seem to recall a similar tale with the lead pipe retrofitting in Flint, MI... contractors to do the job were picked not necessarily by speed and capability, but by other qualities. Regardless of how they were chosen, though, the city failed to deliver. Despite the crisis starting in April 2014, residents and activists had to sue the city in 2017 to actually get the work completed, and it still isn't done. Mostly done, but not completely... 8 years later.
Nice work, thanks for sharing!
Easy enough to have the app check the regular file system first, then fallback to the embedded fs. You could have the best of both worlds.
> court" is a perfectly reasonable outcome

its miscarriage of justice
The difference is SF has amazing weather, some of the best in the world. Detroit is a windy frozen wasteland 6 months of the year. I think they need to do a whole order of magnitude more self-destruction before they’ll really be able to keep people away.
That coin may have a promising career ahead. You should foster its potential and mentor it.
K8s, Docker and AWS/GCP/Azure are to ops what React is to web development, ie. rarely the appropriate tool for the job. Trouble is you now have a generation of devs who have no experience with anything else.
Should be possible to make it work on AMD. CUDA is just easier to work with.
> What's more likely is just the incompetence with liquidity management, incompetence with the crisis handling.

no, what's more likely (if what has been said between the two of us comports with reality) is that the incentives for the officers of the bank are in conflict with the healthy management of the bank.

Bankers running a bank into the ground cannot be blamed on regulators or the accounting profession which only "review" what has happened, they never have their fingers on the levers (although additional accounting and banking regulations may be required to avoid this type of problem in the future)
SRAM eliminates derailleur hanger w new direct-mount T-Type Eagle Transmission
As mentioned in another reply, in the "Customize" list you can literally add "Feels like"
Reaction: Ask an old programmer - who has parented a few teenagers - how long a shell script would be needed to simulate a teenager's responses, on a "not in a communicative mood" day.

If Alan Turing had been a parent, his "Turing Test" would have been quite different.
Much better is Robert Caro's masterful _The Power Broker_.
France has French unions, America has American unions. Each are run according to different sets of rules and in different social contexts.
Fairly long discussion (and good Nytimes article) a couple weeks ago.

tl;dr It can be done. You're better off with older styles of office buildings. It's expensive so you end up with luxury apartments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35120366
but is thw chance of getting caught >25%?

I doubt it
That's the delivery part. There is no room to stage anything on the site, so the mad 24/7 logistics nightmare has to happen during the entire construction process. There are 2 million more people in NYC now than there was in the old highrise heyday and that doesn't count commuters. That's a lot more traffic to have to negotiate. Not being able to physically deliver enough materials during the construction phase is an enormous slowdown. Coupled with the new smaller footprint/higher elevation slowdown it winds up being a slog. You can only fit so many workers in a given area. There are other differences that add time and complexity that the old buildings didn't have to deal with as much as well, like the thousands of miles of additional cabling that goes in now for higher electric loads and data. I would also imagine that inspections weren't near as thorough and time consuming in the past. It's death by a thousand cuts. Hundreds of little things add a little time and complexity and it all adds up.
Getting hit in the head a lot might do that
Regulation is a public-private partnership.

Most companies in crypto want to be regulated but haven’t been able to reach a shared plateau of understanding with the SEC.

One way or another, we’re going to end up with regulation soon.
One challenge about office space is that it can be a very narrow margin business. It’s often cheaper to not operate than to slash rent to get anyone in. High turnover is even more expensive.

I do like the idea of a No Frills We Work. The Holiday Inn of office space. Clean. Beige. Functional. No “culture.” No common areas. Just shared entrances and hallway like your traditional office complex.
We asked the SEC for reasonable crypto rules for Americans
Wow. It’s unfortunate that so many programmers dedicate their time to breaking systems like this all for spam. It’s pathetic the lengths we have to go to protect even the most basic parts of systems like sign up forms.
At a low-earth-orbit level: the government is hostile to crypto. Period. That seems like the best explanation for the SEC's actions.

If their goal is to make anyone considering investing NOT do it, then this is the way: just create fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Don't lay down any clear rules anyone can follow. Just communicate: "We hate you."
I don't understand why someone would like to live in New York.
Higher stock value helps companies achieve things. See GME
I wouldn't be surprised if you could bit bang ISA these days. ISA ran at 8MB/s, and (e.g.) a Raspberry Pi runs at 1.5GHz. That's nearly 200 cycles per ISA clock. All you need is a couple of i/o pins.
Astronomy.AI to hunt hubble and JWT pics for interesting differences between multiple photos over time and log all the areas of interest.
Ah, another excellent posting and freely-given advice stream from the esteemed law firm of Guy, Guy, Guy, Guy and HackerNews.

Anyway, you nailed it. If you walk into Internet Archive Headquarters and go over to the Jason Scott statue and click his little top hat, a door opens in the floor and you're immediately lifted down 40 stories to a glowing LED-and-pulsating techno music lair containing dozens of Archive Team members, desperately gathering all the data they can from the world because [fill in the blank here, I'm sure you've got something].

Basically, Men in Black but more awesome and with more red bull.

Never change, Hackernews
A head to head comparison makes some amount of sense. Fly.io is a platform-as-a-service provider, and natively handles stuff like like building/storing images and orchestrating your services across their DC.

MRSK is a direct competitor to Fly's own orchestrator, and is meant for use when hosting on your own hardware or on a VM rented from an infrastructure provider. So it's still a "use either A or B" situation.

I guess a better title would be – Hosting on the Fly.io platform vs. on your own servers/VMs with MRSK.
> 4 bits per RGB pixel

That sounds inferior. From the article:

> ThumbHash: ThumbHash encodes a higher-resolution luminance channel, a lower-resolution color channel, and an optional alpha channel.

You want more bits in luminance. And you probably also don't want sRGB.
The alternative I've suggested is rather different than the suggested alternatives of accepting results or taking them for granted. In another comment I said:

> I'd suggest reading every paper critically, realizing (as most people do) that the results are tentative, and either letting it go at that, or dig in and do the hard work to figure out what may be flawed in the work presented. Then work with the authors or publish a paper of one's own pointing out the flaw and the new resulting analysis.
It's not a really apple to apple kind of comparison.

MRSK won't handle your load balancer, SSL, etc.

Btw if you are interested in Rails config for Fly.io, I have one:
https://businessclasskit.com/docs/how-to-deploy-rails-sideki...
> its miscarriage of justice

So every civil suit filed should be forced to go through trial even if the parties arrive at a mutually acceptable resolution that both sides prefer to trial?
Capabilities of GPT-4 on Medical Challenge Problems
Coinbases response: https://www.coinbase.com/blog/we-asked-the-sec-for-reasonabl...

HN Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35269659
Fed funds futures traders are expecting a cut at the July meeting by a slight margin, and a 95% chance of a cut by the December meeting as of tonight.

https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/interest-rates/cme-fedwatch...
GPT-4 Turkish Carpet Salesman
you cant blame slowness on wages
Justin Roiland, 'Rick and Morty' creator, cleared of domestic violence charges
> Counterpoint: I think our writing in general has vastly improved, but because it happens slowly we don’t notice the absolute difference.

Studies show that the majority of Americans can't read or write past a 6th grade level. (https://www.barbarabush.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/BBFou...)

If they got there by improving in their jobs as adults, they must have started out so much worse.
What our engineers learned building Stack Overflow (Ep. 547)
I think some people think you are being facetious. Coinbase lists both of these but only allows SHIT to be custodied in your Coinbase wallet.

PonziCOIN (Symbol: PONZI) - Down 98.8% from high - https://www.coinbase.com/price/ponzicoin

I will poop it NFT (Symbol: SHIT) - Down 98.5% from high - https://www.coinbase.com/price/i-will-poop-it-nft

Coinbase lists 17,028 "assets", as it calls them, but only allows trading of 254. While some of the meme coins like the above only have a market cap of $703, the smallest asset Coinbase currently lets you trade has a market cap of $3M.
I'm not sure about the specifics but we had an account at SVB and weren't able to get it all out because of such limitations. I don't know exactly how the limits work because we definitely did ACH transfers in the millions before.

Also, it's not a cash withdrawal. We just wired the money to other accounts. Cash would require tons of paperwork.
How does the overall cost of infrastructure compare, at the end of something like this? How fast does the move back pay off in terms of ROI?
They have been trying for years, the SEC does not want to engage in good faith discussion. They wrote a response about it here: https://www.coinbase.com/blog/we-asked-the-sec-for-reasonabl...
Knight Institute Comments on Proposed TikTok Ban
no bank is going to give carte blanche to large customers to run the bank, they can't, and even if they promise it... As with all businesses, like a restaurant wants you to enjoy your food so you come back, the bank wants to provide the services the customers need. But everybody can't have everything especially all at once, and banks can't provide liquidity that has dried up.

sure, customers will periodically get mad and take their business elsewhere, but it's a fever dream to think that elsewhere is any different.
Siri isn't a language model, AFAIK. I'm sure it's using machine learning on the back end, but it's doing something very different.

The thing is, a voice assistant needs to actually perform Natural Language Understanding -- it has to understand the intent of what's being said to it. That's actually a very different AI problem than what LLMs are doing at this point. Samsung's Bixby -- yes, the one everyone turns off -- can handle a "conversation" like this: (This is run using the "Space Resorts" sample capsule, a fictitious hotel booking system)

---

User: Show me hotels near Mars

Bixby: I found these space resorts on Mars. (Shows two, “Martian Oasis” and “Space Y”)

User: [taps Martian Oasis] make a reservation for Christmas week

Bixby: Which habitat pod would you like? (Shows two)

User: Honeymoon

Bixby: Are you sure you want to book this trip? (Shows the hotel, “Number of astronauts: 2”, and the dates for Christmas week)

User: change the astronauts to 4

Bixby: (Shows the sam confirmation screen, with the number changed)

User: Yes

Bixby: I hope you have a great time at Martian Oasis. (Shows booking info)

---

Now, in some ways this is no great shakes, but I don't think "all [Apple] needs to do is integrate some OpenAI APIs," because they don't have an API for NLU and deriving intent. GPT4 et. al. aren't currently designed for this kind of problem space. You could use them to make Siri (and Bixby and Alexa) better at answering general questions, but you can't use them to make the voice assistant do something, just respond to something.

Bixby 2 (the current version) is, incidentally, what came out of Viv, the voice AI startup that the Siri folks made after they left Apple.
> I did have a source for that, but it was in a podcast and I can't remember which.

Was it maybe on the What is Wrong with Hiring podcast?[1]

> At least in an opaque world, there's skills you can learn to become an outlier. With transparency the average could hinder your salary growth even more than it already does.

We can also reasonably expect an opposite effect. Salary secrecy could push down the pay of even high-productivity workers.

Searching for a new job is costly, both in terms of time and stress. If you don't know how little you earn, you are less likely to be dissatisfied with your current job and pay the search cost. This means that you are less likely to collect outside options that your employer would need to match by giving you a raise.

[1] https://www.whatiswrongwithhiring.com/
Any thoughts on the various action cameras for underwater? I've got an inexpensive (not GoPro) one that I've taken diving. It's just in looping video mode, cutting a new clip every few minutes, and could certainly use additional lighting. If I want stills, I just grab them from a freeze frame.

While I'm starting to get more into diving, I don't want to just throw money at other goodies before I know what they'll do for me.
There’s an alternative client that already exists for neovim, it’s actually better than the official client IMO, and should be easy to change the URL there!
> > If someone got into wine or baseball cards because their boss liked them, we might call it a smart career move.

> First off, no, we wouldn’t. The boss and the other members of the team will all see that for what it is- trying to kiss ass to get ahead instead of doing your job. Particularly because (as you’re suggesting at least) the person doesn’t actually like those things and is simply trying to get ahead.

The counter-assertion relies on the axioms of

(1) "100% of people are capable of detecting 'kiss-assery'",

(2) "100% of people don't like 'kiss-assery'", and

(3) "100% of all actions of a person copying their boss' likes are due to 'kiss-assery'".

All 3 axioms are invalid: (1) is invalid because not all people can detect it properly without false positives or negatives. (2) is invalid because of the existence of narcissism & (2)'s contribution towards the affirmation of narcissism. (3) is invalid as it excludes the possibility of taking on a new like simply because of enjoying it.

> Just watch the Office. Dwight and Andy constantly try to do this to Michael and while they are occasionally successful, it hardly matters or has a lasting impact. Further, their coworkers all find them annoying (while they continue to “just do their jobs”).

The example given cannot be considered useful as its reliant on using constructed scenarios in a semi-fictional setting, and using it as evidence. Its equivalent would be the usage of the CSI episode "Fur and Loathing" as evidence of the furry fandom always being about sex & deviancy at all times, which is not the case.
> It's particularly frustrating as a paid app just up and disappeared.

Didn't they give two year's notice?

> Is there an instance where Apple listened to customer feedback on a scale of less than a decade?

Is there an instance of them taking a decade?

Five years, for sure. See butterfly keyboards - people could hate it, it could have more widely reported failures but they can't replace it without revising the whole laptop's design (which they do every five years).
Its also, as briefly mentioned in the article, residential use over office use. IMO the two shouldn't be compared theres a big difference in complexity. Residential is much more complicated.
Ha, I'd never seen FreeRTOS – thanks! It looks awesome.
Recognizing your wife's face and recognizing a cartoon character from your childhood are both done with your brain, therefore your brain doesn't have different categories for family members and cartoon characters?
Now you're in game theory territory.

A bunch of competitive companies can (don't say collude) mirror each other's salary ranges and maybe they're OK with not using higher salaries to hire away talent which may or not actually be worth more money anyway. Of course, this happens to some degree anyway as companies research this sort of information.
The mainboard is the card and the part with the connectors is just a passive backplane.
None of these seem like great reasons tbh
Because it’s the best city in the United States
> It’s not just that we hire construction companies, we hire companies to manage the construction companies and then another company to manage the managers. None of those people have an incentive structure that rewards building fast and on budget.

this is a giant issue in the angloshere

And noone own the outcome for quality of the result.

When an issue arises, before anything is foxed there are 15 years of lawsuits between these companies to figure out who's fault it is

In Britain, we had 100's of highroses built non-cpmpliant with fire safety, apparently the builder, the owner, the fire inspector and the local government are not responsible for compliance.

The leaseholder of the individual apar5ment has tonpay for fixing it.

Some people bought partial ownership, i.e. 25% of the apartment, the rest is owned by investors. Well, theybare responsible for 100% of the maintenance (this is a government scheme)

So some people have bought an asset for £40k and now much pay 100k to fix it. And they cant say no
Bash-GPT: Natural Language to Bash with Keyboard Shortcut and Zero Dependencies
bash-gpt rewrites natural language as a valid bash command when triggered by a keyboard shortcut (does not run the command automatically)

hadn't seen any projects that integrate this type of functionality into the command-line experience in the way i wanted, so here it is
Wework still exists and prevalent.
Yes. Depends on terms. But I know of a few that can have their entire credit line called for SVB as part of the bank's closure if needed. Kind of wild.
Yes, and that's what you'd expect in an Econ 101, "land is just like any other commodity" situation.

The problems with this are several:

- The value of a commercial building is a function of rentable value times expected ownership period. If you own a machine that prints $40k/mo for 10 years, then it's value is $4.8m.

- Most landlords do not buy the land outright but instead buy everything with mortgages. This is true for both commercial and residential real estate. And everyone is leveraged to the hilt.

- The reduction in commercial office rentals has caused a reduction in the actual value of the real estate in question[0]. Since landlords are leveraged, they can't sell without going underwater.

The entire real estate market has an interest in keeping land prices high - it's a sort of class collusion. So there's a lot of systems in place to deny the inevitable, kick the can down the road, and so on. For example, banks will actually agree to repayment pauses when a building is between tenants, because it beats having a landlord liquidate a bunch of underwater properties and actually realize losses on something that is literally government-engineered to stay expensive.

[0] There's an interesting wrinkle to this in that normally you actually wouldn't be allowed to do this. When you buy a building to rent it you also agree to a price floor set by the bank. If you rent for less your mortgage explodes - as in, you immediately have to recollateralize (pay back) the building value that you destroyed by undervaluing your rent.
To me this article is almost the equivalent of claiming that Nvidia has stayed out of the generative AI discussion so far. Apple's investment in AI is absolutely massive, they just haven't focused on first party B2C products right now, and they don't necessarily have to.
The article seems premised on a misunderstanding that OpenAI is a research lab. For all intents and purposes, it’s a for-profit subsidiary of Microsoft, and there’s little financial incentive for it to maintain old models for others’ benefit.
Yep. You can tell what someone really means by protection when you ask them whether or not it should be opt in. Other forms of supposed investor protection include various violations of privacy in the name of transparency, such as banning privacy coins and mandated transaction tracking.
Salary is just one part of total compensation. It's also pretty normal, at least in my experience, to know what your competitor is paying. In my field we are often poaching talent from each other, so closing a deal often comes down to not only a bump in salary but to better benefits and work conditions, say more PTO, higher bonuses and/or less amount of travel.
It's hard to describe downtown/fidi as the heart of the city. It was already pretty dead on weekends compared to the rest of the city in 2019. OTOH, rents have been stubbornly flat or growing in other parts of the city. Places like the mission, hayes valley, marina, north beach and polk are very lively now and I'm back to struggling at getting reservations at some of my favorite places outside of downtown. I think what suffers the most is tourism - as places like Union Square, downtown and fisherman's wharf are relatively empty.
Even during the 90s, arguably at the peak of "make everything GUI", this was also a thing in Windows:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Scripting
> To find it, you need to know that tapping on the hourly weather view gives you the temperature graph.

To find it, you need to know that the interface is interactive the same way as other interfaces like control center are - clicking a 'tile' pops/navigates to more details.

You don't have to tap on temperature - tapping on the precipitation forecast will drill down to precipitation estimates.

Just know that Apple Weather (like Dark Sky before it) uses multiple different models, so the forecasts 15 minutes, 2 hours, and 1 day out are likely to be reasoned about entirely differently.
Yeah, Yourdon DFDs (with something like fairly low-formality Cockburn-style use cases as the minispecs for process bubbles) äre an awesome tool for understanding and communicating about systems, and are super accessible.
If you read the forum, it links the gerbers.

https://e2e.ti.com/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussion...
Same, I bought a couple waterproof temperature probes under the name of a reputable manufacturer and wound up getting what turns out to be notorious knock offs. It was way harder to set up and the actual sensors measured within several degrees C of each other, haha. I'm a lot more careful of where I order components from, now.