skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're building that ourselves at Ergomake (https://ergomake.dev), and have been implementing EaaS for a few people.

The major problems our users have are:

* They can't run the whole application on their machines

* They have complex infrastructure setups, so engineers can't spin up environments themselves

* Engineers often don't have access to cloud resources and it's expensive to waste time implementing fine-grained access control

* Non-technical people can't see the application until it's in staging. By then, it's usually too late to give any feedback, as developers would have to go through the entire development/review/deploy cycle again.

Once people start using EaaS, here's what I've seen happening:

* Engineers cease to depend on Ops, making them quicker and allowing Ops to tackle more important stuff

* Non-technical folks can "shift-left" on the feedback and participate on the review process, shortening cycle-times and diminishing rework

* Fewer bugs get shipped because people actually test things manually instead of just looking at the code

Besides that, many folks also significantly accelerate onboarding times by having these environments handy.
Liquid Death is counter culture, deliberately rebelling against the status quo (and collecting a price premium for doing so). Even here they lean into conformity - their cans are shaped and styled like beer cans - partially for marketing and partially because that size of can was already made. The lettering on their cans leans into existing tropes about rebellious brands.

In one of my marketing classes I learned of 16 different archetypes brands mostly fall into. Usually all brands in a category use similar archetypes. You look at Liquid Death using an atypical archetype for the water category and see a unique clever choice. The author of this piece would probably decry that they use similar branding techniques to every other rebellious archetype brand.

It’s challenging but rewarding to buck category archetypes. I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a niche for an aggressively branded toothbrush with an attitude problem.
The problem with Nice/Jerk is it's purely subjective. Whenever you hear a peer review that says "They're a jerk" you, as a people leader, need to be very on guard about the situation

1. The person making the claim maybe poorly calibrated, burnt out, or have an ego

2. In so far as peers compete for political will and promotions they have a vested interest to use whatever weapons they can against others, subjective / data free ones are the low hanging fruit

3. The person being called a jerk maybe desperately trying to fix something -- the tech debt, the broken culture, overwork/oncall etc. attacking their character in this scenario is the work equivalent of victim blaming

The truth is it's maddening being the only (or minority) competent ones in the room, and with apathetic peers suddenly you're the jerk because they'd rather rest and vest than do effortful things to improve the situation.

In my matrix doing the job is the base line. Can you do the job? Are you doing the job well? Are you not being blatantly terrible? (disagreeable is fine, abusive is not) Veing able to do the job is necessary, else there's not point carrying your dead weight.
So, it is not encrypted? nice
> governments can regulate it

Sure let me regulate it and slow down development of US based OpenAI while China doesn't and takes over the world.

There is no stopping it now, it's an uncertain negative outcome whereas a nuke blowing up is quite certain. For that reason alone the arguments won't be unanimous enough for development to be paused.
@dang - please change the misleading title of this article from "Senate Bill to Ban Tik Tok" to "Senate Bill to Criminalize VPNs and Enhanced Governmental Wiretaps"
Poor Hacker's Ergonomic Keyboard
I’m sorry about these replies they’re so funny. I’m an engineer and wish more of us understood that these aren’t workflow replacements, we’d build much better tools. Been in AI art for 2 years so I also grok that we’re not one more model away from reading your mind and always perfect results
I’ve often thought that when a company, especially one as big as Alphabet/Google, gets fined, it’s simply seen as an operating cost and not as a motivator to do better.
At my work we have a Prusa mk3 as well as a $20k Markforged Mark2 printer, which can add carbon fibres for stiffness and strength. The Prusa is about as good when we don't need those features, similar speed and the slicer is actually better.
That's cool. Still, I had a difficult time stomaching the exposition, though...all this "our harsh cruel capitalist world stifled me so I took a journey within..." (and then made some neat toys, apparently). It honestly feels very spoiled and self-righteous.
Ask HN: Have you tried the Hoffman Process? Would you recommend it?
I have a hard time differentiating when I should use grid and when I should use flex-box. In this case, setting up a grid seems like overkill.

Seems more like a browser default issue than a tool choice issue.
The sheer sense of entitlement and superiority in this comment is astounding.

I will not even go into how drying clothes on a line is far kinder to clothes and makes them last longer.
I’m sure you could run some targeted ads on pornhub and figure it out.
So how much does the "ugly" factor into your purchase decisions?

for me functionality and ergonomics decide the purchase, if the device is "pretty" is very much down the list. I'm aways surprised by people who purchase computers for work worrying about what colour they are. Who cares, you're looking at the screen and keyboard, not the case when you are using it.
> One of the few very real regrets I have about the way we've run our business is not getting rid of a brilliant asshole sooner.

If you can't isolate the brilliant asshole in a back office somewhere, you need to get rid of them.

I'm always amazed when brilliant assholes are allowed to directly manage customer relations or co-workers.
I agree with your comment but if you think banning TikTok is about stopping China's psyops you are not paying attention. This is protectionism for the US social media industry. Removing American made content from TikTok will also make it less appealing for other western countries as it will have less of the wealthy empire-grown "influencers" everyone loves, hence giving an alternative to US alternatives by Google/Facebook/Snap to cut into their market.

China can psyops on any social media platform, Tencent owned Reddit for longer than anyone in congress has been worried about this only that no US based Reddit competitor makes enough money to pay for national security lobbyists in DC.
Then we're talking past each other because our experiences are at odds.

I have never met, what I imagine is, a gratuitous asshole in the workplace.

I've met people who were just all-around cantankerous assholes outside of work, but I quickly distance myself from them.

Maybe it's because I've never worked in a corporate environment -- but only small, close-knit teams where that shit isn't tolerated. Or maybe I've just been lucky, I don't know.
The bowl (and the table, for that matter) move enough for useful measurements to be made wrt things inside the milky way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_in_astronomy
I think social media - which is not so much about media but about performative competition - is just part of the problem.

Reality for kids seems so much more competitive and ruthless in every way. And there are so few resources available to them to help them deal with it.

At the same time opportunities are shrinking and pressure to perform is increasing. It's not enough to be adequate, you have to be outstanding in looks, talent, ability, work ethic, party ethic, lifestyle, income, and education.

But you can't be. Because you're not competing with a small group of relative peers, you're competing with the entire online world.

At the same time there's incoming doom in the form of climate change, Covid mismanagement, outrageous and crippling economic inequality, various wars, and now the threat of AI.

It would be strange if kids weren't getting depressed under these circumstances.
> since nearly every other mk4/mk3s clone that has been out there really really sucks except the ones from Prusa

I have had an Ender-3 V2 for a few years and it definitely doesn’t suck. I did add a BL Touch sensor for auto-leveling, and OctoPrint for remote printing/monitoring - which are great convenience upgrades. But the printer itself is very reliable and the only maintenance I’ve needed to do is to replace a few clogged nozzles.

For anyone just getting into 3D printing I would definitely recommend an inexpensive i3-style printer vs spending two to three times as much on a Prusa.
That's why we control the amount of their power. On most of the world, corporations can't genocide their employees.
Of course there's a room for non-AI, or even non-technical products. AI is a fun toy, and might make a lot of sense in some places, but don't believe that the hype surrounding AI reflects reality.

You're seeing AI mentioned everywhere, so that must mean life as we know it suddenly fundamentally changed and everything is different for almost everybody, right?

The funny thing about hype to remember is that this is the media's business model. Scare and outrage people, find the news stories that get lots of attention and clicks, and blast it into public consciousness until something comes along that's even more profitable.

AI works as "The Current Thing" because stories like Terminator and others are very far ingrained into the public consciousness, and the current weak economy makes people scared when they see that they could be replaced by a robot. I bet media organizations are getting a lot of traffic blasting AI stories out there and this is affecting everybody right now.
> And of course, the depressing string of live-action remakes which, if they're all quickly forgotten, often hit the 1 billion mark

Live action Aladdin was surprisingly good—it was best went they stepped away from the original animated movie, and switched to remaking Hitch.
For much of this article, I know nothing.

But on the one area I can speak intelligently about, video games, this article is dead wrong. There has been an explosion of experimentation in terms of anything measurable: genres, art styles, etc. And from a product/ company point of view, this can be seen by the diversity of who is winning. The largest game in the world in terms of revenue AND number of users is Minecraft, which looks zero like the next best selling game.

This makes me think the whole article is wrong.
The Thermosphere Is a Drag: The 2022 Starlink Incident
Oh there we go, thank you
I mean "RELIGION" in and of how it normally goes hand in hand with stronger and closer communities it disappearing is probably a large factor in the current issues. I'm not religious but even I can recognize that for the vast majority of the population this support structure going away with nothing to replace it hasn't been great for a lot of people.
Overall this is a cool project. Not personally my favorite aesthetic, but super cool work.

I take issue with his characterization of japanese vs. western homes, though. Western homes are typically expected to be renovated over and over and last many many decades. Though the most modern ones may not last you 100, ask any buyer and they'll say they expect it to appreciate in value, be renovated and resold to someone else with no clear end date.

Most homes in japan depreciate and are torn down in 20-30 years. Buyers want new homes.
https://www.archdaily.com/980830/built-to-not-last-the-japan...

yeah it doesn't jibe with a lot of folk's expectations...
I had to lay off an employee who was incompetent but nice. She was constantly anxious and paralyzed by blockers. I did everything I could to reduce her stress levels, give her mentors, ensure her work was reasonable and achievable. She could not make forwards progress unless she had a pair programmer basically doing the work for her.

She was in the wrong job at the wrong time. She didn't have the skillset to have a successful start. Her work patterns were unhealthy and ineffective. She couldn't learn how to unblock herself within the org, and became paralyzed by stress.

We had multiple people to compare her against who did not suffer from any of these challenges. I am sure she can find a job that will work for her, as she was nice and did have successful moments, but a fresh start was clearly needed.
Is it unlike schizoposting or apophatic[near paradoxical] religious literature?
There is this concept of antilibrary https://nesslabs.com/antilibrary
Show HN: GitHub Annotations for flake8 with my plugin
I made a plugin for the Python linter flake8 that turns it's output into Github Annotations by invoking it with `flake8 --format github`.
People who directly contributed to destroying evidence should also be arrested the same way you would for destroying evidence in any other crimes. (Even if you’re claiming negligence)
> I should know — it's been my livelihood since I graduated from college in late 2019.

Yeah... no comment.
All of those examples do look the same, as long as you ignore the ways in which they look different. If you do that, then it all makes pretty good sense as an argument. If you start pointing out how they aren't all the same, then the argument breaks down a little bit. Take your pick of approaches, depending on whether you are predisposed to agree or disagree with the thesis.
Perhaps the solution then is to identify every individual who chose to keep chat history off despite awareness of the litigation hold (particularly those where evidence exists here showing it was an intentional choice), charge them with contempt of court, and put them in jail for a year or so. It's a crime, you can get jail time for it, and if you do it enough times, people will pay attention to it.
Lenovo's anti-consumer behavior makes Apple look like a charity with a perfect rating on charitynavigator.org.

Any time I'm at an open source thing and see someone with a Lenovo I smirk because they're oiling the gears the machine they're also raging against.
God damn it - I just bought a MK3...
FWIW, that data is being stored on Oracle servers in the US, with provisions on how it can be accessed as part of some of the agreements reached under Trump.
It's a useful reminder not to pay attention to legal commentary from HN, most of the comments were saying that Google did nothing wrong w.r.t. these messages.
192kHz/24bit is definitely overkill but I wouldn't call 16/44 overkill; I'd say it's just about perfect and the engineers who decided on that standard when the CD came to market knew what they were doing.

The frequency range of human hearing does cover all the way to 20 kHz, and maybe a tiny bit beyond especially for kids and teenagers. That says 40kHz minimum sampling rate, 44.1 is enough to cover the full range, give a tiny bit for the antialiasing filter rolloff band, and the exact number was chosen IIRC because it fit well into repurposing existing 80s video recorders for digital audio.

The dynamic range of human hearing from threshold of audibility to threshold of pain is slightly wider than the theoretical 96 dB of 16-bit audio, but with dithering the effective dynamic range can be > 105 dB. Of course most popular music only uses a tiny bit of that range, but movies and even classical full-orchestral music can use 60 dB and beyond, for which 10 bits wouldn't be adequate.
I learned now at least that our parallax measurements have been improved but they are still limited to tens of thousands of light years, i.e not reaching out of the galaxy, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_parallax#Space_astrome...
The bill doesn't directly ban data sharing but instead focuses on foreign ownership in US companies. It would be enforced similar to anti-trust laws today, by preventing Chinese nationals from purchasing or having an ownership stake in certain large technology companies deemed a security risk. I don't like the bill because I think it's unnecessary but it has nothing to do with searching people's phones or regulating actual data in any way.
Not many things are as fulfilling as doing a job and getting paid for it.

Sorry, I don't get fulfillment from a job, nor do I base my personality on it. A job is a thing that I have to do to live and do some stuff I like.

That's it, nothing more. I'd never do actual work unless I had to, and I'd never work full time if I didn't have to. I'm never going to be motivated to work harder for a fancy car if I can have a reliable, efficient car. I'd like more space, but it needs not be huge or pretty (though, I'd like to cook and make art).

Making art is fulfilling. I enjoy making food - work means I eat more convenience foods. I don't need to be paid to help folks, either. I can get a sense of accomplishment by doing things that are difficult, from projects to playing games.
This idea sorta goes against this other HN post i saw today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35359271
>I guess I'm just good at working with them and ignoring their jerkiness, so I keep ending up working with them?

This is definitely a skill. You can have, what seems to be, a bunch of jerks working together but they all have thick-skin so being a jerk to one another doesn't really affect any of them. Effectively hiring for this team is an exercise in finding people who think like they do.

Good meshing of personalities can override the predictions of the incompetent/niceness matrix in the article.
No it wouldn’t because the decision wouldn’t be publicized.
Average life expectancy in 1920s America was 54 years.

https://www.ncpedia.org/history/20th-Century/1920s#:~:text=I....

It is now 78.9 years.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1040079/life-expectancy-....

We can deal with the reality that a lot of people are alive today who cannot work long and hard yet still need to support themselves.

Or we can continue to whine about how the world is broken and unfixable and talk about UBI -- aka a universal dole -- as our imagined solution while not actually implementing it, I guess.
Alright, let me be the skeptic here and ask. Honest question, not intending to just dismiss anybody outright. But I have questions.

I've looked up Victor Taelin and his HighOrderCo company that supposedly just raised $4.5M. So here we have this Brazilian guy who graduated university in 2017, and I don't mean that in a bad way. It's just a fact, a data point. Fresh ideas are always welcome. From his Twitter feed seems to be deeply into the crypto space. He is over- or at least heavily upselling this HVM project as the future of computing. Lots of fuzz about interaction nets and linear logic and that this is the next thing after Turing Machines and Lambda calculus. Ok, strong claims. It makes me a tad suspicious though. Outperforming GHC? Running a new chain that's not a chain so it's not a crypto currency, but somehow it's a chain, but it's formally verified, hm, ok. And how can he strongly claim this to be the superior thing if he just announced how to model complex numbers in his HVM project, and that GPT-4 helped him get this insight? I'd have expected Clifford Algebras to be basic knowledge for everybody working in this space.

I'm only superficially familiar with ETH, with Haskell's GHC, with Rust, with HOTT. But, I'd like to hear from people who know more than I do, and who are not already obvious fanboys of HighOrderCo with submarine PR interests -- how much weight should I put into this? Is it worth reading about, getting my head busy? I've spent an hour now trying to check up on things, but apart from a lot of fluff and quite a lot of technical jargon that went above my head, I'm left confused.

Is there something or is this just supposed to confuse me to get into the next scam?

Edit: Just to add to this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35344514 discusses an article written about the underlying tech. It's a terrible article on the level of a newcomer to programming who doesn't know much about functional programming and even admits as much. Victor Taelin comments with "Very well written and beautiful article." This must be a scam. I'll stop wasting my time on this until somebody manages to convince me otherwise.
Even with all these crazy CVEs / new attack techniques, basic misconfigurations are still the cause of most cloud breaches!

I wonder why Bing's cloud configuration checker didn't catch this multi-tenancy misconfig. Or if they did, where did it get lost in the alert triaging?
> Plain Language Summary: On 03 February 2022, SpaceX launched 49 Starlink satellites into staging orbits at 210 km above sea level prior to raising them to their operational altitudes of 550 km. The pre-launch space weather briefing included no information about an ongoing geomagnetic storm. Excessive atmospheric drag due to the geomagnetic storm resulted in 38 of the satellites re-entering the atmosphere on or about 07 February 2022. We use both models and direct measurements of the atmospheric density during the event to show that density values were enhanced by 20%–30% at the 210 km staging altitude relative to values prior to the geomagnetic storm onset, while they were enhanced 90%–160% at higher altitudes. We recommend improving our ability to model the upper atmospheric response to geomagnetic storms to provide accurate forecasts and actionable “nowcasts” of conditions in low Earth orbit to launch controllers, space traffic managers, and satellite operators.
>In a statement, the University of Manchester Students’ Union said that they are not outright banning audible clapping at all school events, and are instead encouraging “the use of British Sign Language (BSL) clapping during our democratic events.” These events include meetings where members are invited to participate in decision making, the union said.
Beeper is a bunch of Matrix bridges run as a commercial service. You can join the wait list or set up your own Matrix+bridges if you want (though that's more fiddling around).

As Beeper is based on Matrix, you can use the standard Matrix API, use libraries like Maubot, and plenty of others in other programming languages. HTTP calls are one way to send/receive messages but there's more flexibility to be gained if you pick a wrapper library IMO.
Speaking from personal experience, as a clinician this describes well my experience of talking with individuals with psychosis whose speech is disorganized.
TikTok disappearing from tens of millions of iPhones overnight (I have no idea about Androids) would probably work pretty well. If I had to guess, almost none of those people can jailbreak their iPhone to get it again, either. Your option would be to switch to Android and learn to sideload apps (which I think is pretty damn easy these days).

The point is not to enforce against individual users, just to remove it from the main distribution channels.
Thanks! The worst part of this is all the comments about social networking when this bill is about punishing people who want privacy or end to end encrypted communication on their devices with 1 million dollar fine and 20 years of jail time.