skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The true reason is that sharepoint - I mean the sites not the storage (ok the links that can‘t be changed) - is really bad.

I can understand why the typical HN reader would call SharePoint “bad”, but it’s honestly fine. In my experience it’s certainly no worse than, say, Confluence.

(BTW, the trick for links that don’t change is to link to Document IDs. It’s pretty easy to learn how to enable them, and to create site collections.)

> I wonder why the article didn’t mention it would replace all sharepoint sites in the future.

Because it’s a “collaboration space” rather than a “publishing space”, my guess is that it’ll eventually replace Teams rather than SharePoint.
Well what are companies, if not collections of individuals? Nobody has a crystal ball, nobody can know what'll be needed next.
Using LuLu for so long I actually forgot that I have it running! +1 for LuLu.
AI is not very good at music yet, it can do things like decent imitations of composers like Bach who have a massive catalog for it to work off of and wrote under a fairly rigid theory but that is about it. Pop music is largely emotion based and does many nonsensical things (from a theory standpoint) based on emotion, AI is not good with that. The more rigorous types of music are far too fuzzy, every "rule" has an infinite number of exceptions which AI is not very good with either.

Played with riffusion some, not at all impressed by it. It is mimicking without understanding and while it occasionally did something interesting it has no real comprehension of time scales over short loops, no understanding of larger structures and fails completely on the prompt if it is something it can not easily research. This is about where AI generated music has been for a decade now and can not seem to push past. Part of this is probably because AI was integrated into composition a good long while ago, composers tend to treat it more like an instrument or a filter than something which writes music and most of the work with AI in music is towards those ends, not towards getting AI good at composition.
I'm happy with my usage of k8s, but I think it's unfortunate that current container abstractions are so oriented around imperative assembly in "layers". I want a way to run NixOS in a container and have it feel first class— existing approaches either require installing everything every time with no caching, or pre-building and manually lifecycling your container (streamLayeredImage), or knowing upfront what you're going to need (Nixery).
>Coinbase taking money from depositors, loaning it out, and giving the depositors interest from the loan, is a security product.

What Coinbase product does this? I was under the impression all of "Coinbase earn" was just staking-as-a-service.
It seems a bit confusing. Here's some context:
https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/175
I'm the one who gave hard numbers showing that men make up the majority of victims of violent crime, which you tried to handwave away by blaming gang members...

Agreed that this discussion is going nowhere useful though.
It’s really hard to convince a Bitcoin stan that labeling something as “crypto” doesn’t bypass all laws.

Coinbase lawyers understand it perfectly well, Coinbase PR understands that their fans aren’t able too.
LlaMa was trained on 78 GB of StackExchange (I assume StackOverflow was included in that).
Our rationale:

1. They had some GUI functions that other banks didn't -- like a lot of fields to optionally fill in for wires (instructions for intermediate internation banks etc). Yeah we didn't use those, but for a power geek its nice to know it's available when we need it. Frankly, they killed most of those with their new "SVB Go" UI unfortunately.

2. More control on users permissions (e.g. approval limits).

3. Diversification -- one more bank is good.

4. Just the name -- we operate from Silicon Valley. :)
Thanks! Initially I tried just scraping the headlines but the outputs were questionable: sort of propagandic poems about
Putin and Xi. There just wasn't enough nuance in the headlines alone. So I added the brief descriptions on the homepage as well and that seemed to do the trick.
It's surreal, to pay for the internet on a monthly basis, ...

and then pay for parts of your computer to NOT talk to the internet on a monthly basis!
New profession? My understanding was that we were discussing evolving our existing professional skills to stay relevant in the workforce.

But yeah, I think there are many books on spaced repetition and deliberate practice such that it's hardly a secret.

Besides, does everyone have a right to every single one of those things you've listed all the time? I wouldn't argue so, considering we're talking about people who are providing less value over time to their fellow human being.

When time conflicts exist, you must prioritize, and I would imagine "remain able to contribute meaningfully to society" (with caveats around capability) ends up being more important than, "maintain multiple hobbies".

And no, I don't think people are, generally, perfectly optimizing their time.
ESP8266 is more than enough for many of my projects.
I generally agree with you so I looked it up.

In-App Purchases:

Yearly Subscription $13.49
Monthly Subscription $1.49

That's surprisingly modest. 3-4 years of subscription approximately being equal to a license sounds reasonable.

The real question is, is little snitch rent seeking? Given what happened after Catalina, I am giving them the benefit of the doubt at the moment. Paying for updates before receiving them definitely creates a conflict of interest.

Having looked at their website and seeing SKU-ification (Cutting a product different ways to try to hit different price points) and other business over product decisions, I am definitely feeling shaky about the future of little snitch. SKU-ification is 10x the red flag that a subscription model is.

It's worth considering that viruses now days will check and see if programs like this are running and then delete themselves rather than execute the payload.
How often are you seeing bogus documentation? I see that concern often mentioned. I tried ChatGPT and the first question got an obviously wrong answer. That seems worse than stackoverflow to me. Maybe I'm not holding it right?
To be fair that served them well in the past: the reason why anyone knows about 37signals is because they reinvented the wheel back in 2004 with Rails, but what a great reinvention it was. Who knows what can come next.
This is a simplistic take. European and East Asian democracies build infrastructure far faster and cheaper than the U.S. Often with even more stringent safety regulations and higher standards of quality.

The question we are tasked with answering is: why?
> If someone got into wine or baseball cards because their boss liked them, we might call it a smart career move. But much of the time the underlying psychology will be exactly the same.

Is the underlying psychology the same? As you mentioned, one is a smart career move. Your desire to emulate your boss may stem from your selfish desire to promote your career, not a desire to connect with important members of your community.
Concentrating on metro areas seems like it would hide some of the impact. There are properties that were targeted toward industries like call centers, which seem likely to end up fully remote.
This Wells notice is not about Coinbase lending out money but rather about staked assets. Coinbase is not doing any lending.
because if i can't see you sitting in a chair in the office how can i "know" you're working? You could be slacking off! Why you're probably slacking off on HN right now!

If your butt is in an office chair then obviously you're "working" and not slacking.

[sarcasm]
It also doesn't do anything that Right-to-repair advocates asked for; worst of both worlds[0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aKw5pSR5uk
Rgr. Thanks again for the balanced moderation.
Based on comments here, because they called it “staking as a service”.

But apparently that nomenclature bypasses this very clear and explicit definition

“The term ‘‘exchange’’ means any organization, associa- tion, or group of persons, whether incorporated or unincor- porated, which constitutes, maintains, or provides a market place or facilities for bringing together purchasers and sellers of securities or for otherwise performing with respect to securi- ties the functions commonly performed by a stock exchange as that term is generally understood, and includes the market place and the market facilities maintained by such exchange.”
interviewed there once

was confounded by the high headcount, also confounded by the amount of commercial RE they held in Austin

even after these layoffs, their headcount seems curiously high for a listings site
How come Indeed has so many employees? 15K doing what? SpaceX is sending people to orbit on reusable rockets that can land on a moving platform on the ocean, with 4K less people. How is this even possible? Are most of Indeed employees sales reps?
Regardless of the merits or drawbacks of "de-clouding" for this particular company, it seems to me that their ops team is just really bored or permanently unsatisfied with any solution.

They say that they've tried deploying their apps in all of:

* Their own Datacenter

* ECS

* GKE

* EKS

* and now back to their own Datacenter

Even with their new "de-clouded" deployment, it seems like they have created an absolutely immense amount of complexity to deploy what seems to be a variety of generic Ruby CRUD apps (I might be wrong but I didn't see anything different in the post).

They have a huge list of tools and integrations that they've tried out with crazy names; Capistrano, Chef, mrsk, Filebeat, traefik... It seems well on par complexity-wise with a full K8s deploy with all the bells and whistles (logging, monitoring, networking, etc.)

Google says that this company, 37signals, has 34 employees. This seems like such a monumental amount of orchestration and infra stuff unless they're deploying some crazy complex stuff they're not talking about.

Idk what the lesson is here, if there is one, but this seems like a poor example to follow.
Oh for sure (and I meant O_CLOEXEC, not FD_CLOEXEC) ...

We are fairly thorough with using dup3, pipe2 etc in our own code, on platforms that support it. Of course hard to control other people's code.
Apple further cracks down on remote work by tracking employee attendance badges
You're correct, it is just a fact, but he's presenting in a misleading way. The statement presents the issue as if a third party "open source" group is responsible, not OpenAI. In reality, anyone who uses open source code is 100% liable for all its faults -- their bugs are now your bugs. It's not a bug in an open source library, it's a bug in ChatGPT.
UBI can also go different ways. It's one thing when everybody gets an equal share of some reasonable proportion of what society as a whole has produced. It's quite another when the elites (= the people who own the automation) maintain UBI on the level just enough to prevent social unrest while still maximizing profits otherwise. The latter can still be a very shitty place to live in; for a sci-fi example of something like this, consider The Expanse.
When it comes to the staking side of things - Coinbase's position is that they are simply providing a technical service to their customers to do something that their customer's could do themselves. There isn't a borrower that Coinbase is lending the coins to. It is a protocol that locks them up.

Where this gets messy is with things like Eth when they stake amounts less then 32 Eth from a customer, which inherently means they are providing a pooling operation on top of what the protocol expects. Does that pooling make their activites a security?

But the SEC is not providing any kind of clear lines on any of this to identify where there is a line when "IT services" becomes a security.
Subscriptions add up. And there’s no guarantee they won’t jack up the price at the most inconvenient time and leave you hanging (LastPass, for example, has done that). For users, a subscription mean loss of control.
That's probably because most people can't code algorithms in one shot either.

What if there was a text based debugger and you had it generate a bunch of test cases then had it iterate and try different version of the algorithms. from what I've seen it's not too bad at coming up with code changes based on errors and descriptions of the problem its running into.

this was pretty interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dBq9sKTKTY
> Ok…do you have some other proposal by which we can judge systems that use mechanisms to do things?

The way we tend to judge whether things fit into legal categories is by the criteria specified in the controlling law (including relevant statutes, administrative regulations, and case law.)

While cryptocurrency enthusiasts are fond of an approach where the mechanism is all that is relevant, mechanisms may be all, part, or none of what is relevant in law. While only tangentially relevant here, an amusing example in securities law is what something is commonly called can be relevant, even decisive, because the definition of a ‘security’ in statute includes (but is not limited to) ‘any interest or instrument commonly known as a “security”’. 15 U.S. Code § 77b(a)(1)
I've been beta testing Little Snitch Mini for the past 6 weeks and I have to say it's exactly what I wanted. Really happy with it, the development team should be proud of such a great product. It does a few things, and it does them very well.

However I don't love the SaaS nature of the product post-release, because tying my security posture to a credit card payment isn't something I love. Sure, I can make it so I only have to worry about it once per year - however what value does this continue to bring me beyond the current capabilities?

It seems the last iteration of Little Snitch from 4 to 5 added a CLI, some of the traffic stats we can see in Mini, but was mostly compatibility-related updates. MacOS went through some pretty major changes going to Ventura and all of the Extension-level changes which affected so many security tools, so I feel like the work there was substantial and justified the new license. For $69 (or $30 on-sale) every few years, it definitely makes me question the value the original version provides a power-user or technical user, over a monthly subscription which I'd need to monitor over the years in this new product, LSM.

Now I'm unsure what market segment the LSM product addresses. uBlock Origin seems to serve the majority of use-cases for a typical casual user, and network-level filters really don't seem relevant for the everyday user - particularly with the increasing adoption of DoT/DoH, making DNS-level filtering less useful. I originally assumed this product was for power-users who didn't need the full suite of LSM, and liked the MVP-style interface. But just for the sake of not having to worry about an on-going fee - I think I'll be hard-pressed to adopt it.

As a workaround - I'd love an option to pre-purchase 3 years up-front.
I am very willing to be shown to be wrong, however let's simplify this. Indeed charges per candidate, and therefore is incentivized to provide the maximum number of candidates. Hiring companies want the smallest number of candidates, that are most likely to be right for the job. In other words, if you had an AI with infinite capability and resources, it would only recommend 1 candidate which would be the perfect person for the job.

How is Indeed's interest in the most candidates and a hiring company's interest in the fewest but most qualified not a conflict?

FYI this isn't speculation. I hired for hundreds of positions for years using Indeed's platform. Maybe the pricing model has changed in the 2 years since I used it. If that's true I'd be happy to hear it.
GDocs is a toy as well. Maybe worse than O365. If you only know those two, then I can understand your opinion.

Try using offline office suites, best not MS Office, and use their writing tool. So many things are missing in these online office suites. I assure you the post is serious and I have used multiple online and offline office suites. Perhaps you should explore more and make use of styles and all that. You will quickly notice how many things are missing in the online office suites.
If no one is building things, Society collapses pretty fast.

Doesn't matter how many shares in bread companies you buy and sell. If nobody is baking the bread, people will starve.

A society cannot exist without makers, and neither can an investment Market in the long run
sorry I'm with the parent poster on this one - Indeed was bloated
So which assets on coinbase do you believe are securities?
I can understand declouding, but getting rid of Kubernetes seems like a lot of work for little gain.
funny, back to call a cab?
Thank you for this! I’ve fortunately never been in that spot but knowing how that plays out helps reduce my concern about new deals outside my social group
So you get studies with very confident titles like this: Genome-wide association studies establish that human intelligence is highly heritable and polygenic

Then you read the paper and you see:

A total of 3511 CAGES (2115 females) participants had DNA extracted...Individuals were excluded from this study based on unresolved gender discrepancy, relatedness, call rate (≤ 0.95), and evidence of non-Caucasian descent...

Analyses of individual SNPs and genes did not result in any replicable genome-wide significant association. A gene-based test for association27 showed one genome-wide significant association (P = 9.2 × 10−7), with formin-binding protein 1-like (FNBP1L) on gf (Supplementary Figure 7). This single genome-wide association result for FNBP1L did not replicate in the independent NCNG sample (P = 0.211, gene-based test)...

Despite the fact that no specific genetic variants have been robustly associated with human intelligence, apart perhaps for APOE at older ages34,35, our results show for the first time that a substantial proportion (approximately 40 to 50%) of variation in human intelligence is associated with common SNPs (Minor allele frequency (MAF) > 0.01) that are in LD with causal variants...

Only 1% (approximately) of the variance was explained in the prediction analysis due to the individual SNP effects being very small and therefore estimated with much error, which detracts to a great extent from the accuracy (8-11%) of the prediction equation30. Our finding that 40-50% of phenotypic variation is explained by all SNPs is fully consistent with the low precision of a predictor based upon a discovery sample of ~3,500 individuals; estimation of the SNPs’ effects is different from prediction accuracy.

So basically, what they did, was take a bunch of British people born in the 1920's (a time/place famous for its rigid inter-generational class history), and found that members of certain family trees (that's more or less what it means to be British and have similar SNP distributions) scored similarly on tests, despite the fact that there's no real model to express why.

That and twin studies (which also have their obvious limits) are about the extent of current "evidence" for inherited intellect. I'm willing to be proven wrong, but 'conclusive' is hardly how I would characterize the state of true evidence-based research.
The Times Switches to CDC Covid Data, Ending Daily Collection
There's a fun story about pids and TOCTOU. If you start the process then signal it soon after, you are extremely unlikely to run foul of the race.

Except ... on AIX at some time, they randomised pid usage. So it was now far more likely!

The reason they randomised pid usage was because the random number routine used the pid+time+something else!
I think the GPT-3 thing is wrong, but it is not impossible. You can always train an existing neural net to do new things right? Not sure how to handle different whitespace tokens.
They should, but you don’t know if they will, and, when they suddenly crash after two years, whether they will be able to restart. Restarting daily ensures that any problems will be caught early, and that the last known-good configuration is only a day ago and not two years ago.
That's great to hear, especially around the pricing model. If Indeed only benefits when employers do, everything else automatically falls into place. I've been away from the platform for about 2 years, but administered it for about 8 prior to that.
That means being able to buy things. If you can't buy things, it doesn't matter what the number in your account is
I know that talking about the site design itself is discouraged, but that was terrible to read.

I wanted to see what was new (why is this "mini"?) but as I scrolled down I had to wait as it fetched content and slowly made it appear. Instead I closed the tab and hoped to learn that from the HN discussion page.

When I think of little snitch I think of something that makes my computing better. This page was the opposite -- off brand.
Why are you still banking with them?
I've used it for a long while after the credits update and it's been cheaper for me for a few reasons than Lambdalabs, one reason being the spinup/spindown times and being able to switch to a very cheap instance for prototyping. Lambdalabs has a crazy spinup time (comparatively), something like 3-5 minutes or so D: I find them good for the more mega runs where I don't have to touch my instance for several hours and it's worth the notebook porting time/cost. :D

One of those usecases where raw cost doesn't always translate into money saved, at least in my personal experience. :D

It's also nice that you can more easily edit in browser in colab before launching an instance, so you can do development->debugging->training via a single webpage without it breaking the bank or having huge privacy concerns. I think a close second would be Jupyter on vscode w/ a lambda backend but latency + fragmented architecture can add an extra step of complexity (which does matter! D:)
Right, my understanding from following is they should have been run with the sophistication that their size and exposure would have warranted; but were instead still playing the game as if they were the regional bank they started as.
For only $400 per decade, I will handle your Little Snitch Mini subscription.

Longer licensing agreements are also available. ;)
I've been using Little Snitch for years, and it's probably the most important software on my computer. However, I've noticed a problematic trend in modern software development: developers are using the same hostname to serve both functional and non-functional web APIs.

For example, let's say that Apple's Xcode sends harmless data to their telemetry service at telemetry.apple.test. Even though the data is anonymous, I still choose to block it because I believe in protecting my data. But then, I realize that some features of Xcode, such as CI/CD, no longer work. It turns out that Xcode is also using the same domain to host an API for their cloud CI/CD offering. (hypothetical example)

I've been trying to solve this problem by routing my network traffic through my own software and manually inspecting the traffic from time to time. I redirect non-functional HTTP requests to /dev/null and functional requests to the corresponding website. It works, but it's not a scalable solution.

So, I have a feature request for the Objective Development team. Could they please implement an option to view the raw HTTP request in the alert window, especially if the network connection is to send an HTTP request? Sometimes, it's hard to decide whether to click “Allow” or “Deny” based solely on the hostname and port.
From the article, it isn't clear whether a pay range of minimum wage to 1 million euros would be in compliance with this new rule. This is an actual tactic that many US employers have used to follow the letter but not the spirit of salary transparency laws.
The Graph, the Gardener and the Architect
How good are the LLMs at creating tests?