skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The whole reason I’m writing this post is that I have a client at the moment who is using document.write() late in the <head>. As we now know, this pushes both the fetch and the execution on the main thread.

Is there any tools that you can use to help detect stuff like this? In order to do performance optmizations
The RESTRICT Act won't improve Americans privacy
What would it take to harness the water? Is it a viable source of water if a people doesn't have access to rain/other bodies of water?
My company has a 400 hour cap, and i bump along it for half the year.

Maybe one week of actual vacation a year, it takes time to plan and money to actually go anywhere. And then you need a staycation after to recover from the "vacation" anyway.

Bigcorp though.
The simplest explanation is that the small team of people who ran Future Forum probably just didn't want to deal with Benioff and Salesforce's bullshit anymore. Either that, or they got laid off in one of the recent rounds of cuts.
The more powerful your military is the less likely you will need to use it to defend yourself.
Best of luck, hope you succeed!
>The immediate implications will be decided by Sam Altman and his team. I hope on behalf of us all that they’re up to the challenge.

Will they really be determined by OpenAI? So far what Altman has accomplished with OpenAI is to push a lot of existing research tech out into the open world (with improvements, of course.) This has in turn forced the hands of the original developers at Google and Meta to push their own research out into the open world and further step up their internal efforts. And that in turn creates fierce pressure on OpenAI to move even faster, and take even fewer precautions.

Metaphorically, there was a huge pile of rocks perched at the top of a hill. Altman's push got the rocks rolling, but there's really no guarantee that anyone will have much say in where they end up.
US Congress Moves to Ban Chinese Crane Software
Members of the House China Select Committee, under the leadership of Chairman Mike Gallagher, have convened at the Port of Miami to examine the issue and propose legislation aimed at inspecting port cranes and banning the use of cranes with software susceptible to Chinese control.
I appreciate that idea, I did so myself during my last vacation (I stay on slack and email as I report to c suite). But it is my job to defend the quality of life of my direct reports, and we can spend some more cycles as an org if needed versus bothering people OOO/PTO/Vaca. If we are so reliant on that person that we need that ability, we’ve failed (processes, documentation, cross training, etc).

We’re not saving lives, we’re just moving bits.

Edit @ghaff: Love the CEO anecdote in your reply, I’d work for that person! Priorities set properly.
The more we remember the possibility of true collective self determination, the more likely we are to survive all this mess we're making.

These days we are constantly bombarded by this contradiction of individualism being primary and desirable, but at the same time impotent in the face of the world this individualism has wrought. And its all a convenient way to demoralize us and let us forget how effective motivated collective interest is. Real history begins and ends with the collective!
More than that. Most state ran things (in the US at least) are started to benefit the many, and end up getting manipulated to benefit the rich (police, taxes).
The one-sentence solution to almost all procrastination (no, really) (2012)
That's a good point, although the phone usage could have a multiplier effect and cause proportionally more trouble in the US due to the bigger cars and more-car-oriented environment.
The Next Mainstream Programming Language: A Game Developer's Perspective (2006) [pdf]
I didn't mean books accounting, i meant in studies like these and others. Since the guidelines become murky, how do you really account for how much workers are taking off more broadly?

It leads to an obfuscation of the data over time, I think.
From my perspective as an individual living 8-9 miles from the office, there is no practical difference. It’s not like I’m going to go out and shovel it.
Well, every time you get a raise they're worth more at least.
We somehow have this belief that the "market" is some immutable law of nature like say, gravity. The "market" is based on behaviour, albeit behaviour that is heavily manipulated and controlled (somewhat invisibly - complicity or otherwise - to, seemingly, most people). We acquiesce and, when life is good for us, ignore the fact that we have to the power to change our behaviour and our beliefs and values and, thus, the market. But that will take hard work over time and much sacrifice. And so it goes ...
This performance conundrum reeks of excessive (incidental) complexity. I've warmed up to Javascript over the past 15 years, but forcing website authors to concern themselves with such details becomes less and less appealing and grows ever more ridiculous. I hope the future of HTML+JS will involve to a better way.

I thoroughly enjoyed the spiritual essence and relative purity of HyperCard at the time in the 1990s.

Edit: @ly: Apologies, I should have been more specific and clear.
Referring to the complexity matrix in terms of what may or may not cause page rendering to block at any given moment. Complexity in this location all but ensures you will make a suboptimal decision during development unless you run every release candidate through Google Page Speed.
It was a genuine question, and from your response I'm guessing the answer is "no". If you're wondering what provoked the question, it was the crying about "unregistered" ICOs - at that point it was clear that you're either a child or an adult with a child-like need for external authority to make you feel safe.

Pro-tip going forward in life: try not to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Same here. But the meaning of a "latchkey" kid is a kid who has to unlock their door to get in their home (because nobody is there when they get home from school) -- this is independent of the concept of a "free range kid" (who may or may not have a parent at home but are just allowed to roam)
More like a one week vacation, if you're lucky. You're forgetting that most of us don't have separate sick leave so PTO has to get used for sick days, dr appointments, etc. My first company I worked for wouldn't let you take any time off unpaid until you were out of PTO, so if you got the flu and were out for a week, there goes half your yearly vacation.
The actions that idnoviduals take on behalf of government are a direct reflection of the "abstract" policies and laws of that government. If you cannot discern this from 20th century history I don't know what to tell you.
And it's still fast in spite of that, which speaks to how far behind Mozilla is.
It gets complicated with longer sicknesses. But with something sort term like hard hitting flu or food poisoning the person isn't probably doing much work anyway. Being stuck in bed or bathroom likely means that not much work is done. And it is more humane to just give that time off straigh and not count any days on those cases.
Google Page Speed gives actionable insights into page loading bottlenecks.

https://pagespeed.web.dev/

Off-topic: Apparently the URL flavor this month is infected with the .dev TLD proliferation g-corp agenda (as is golang.org -> golang.dev). Do cool URLs ever really change?
IANAL, perhaps de jure, but I would disagree in principle and de facto.

Nonessential-to-life property isn't worth taking a life.

Drawing a firearm without firing a shot in defense of oneself (not property) from imminent great bodily harm by a group of subjects still results in a near automatic AWD charge and presumed costly legal fees.

Texas isn't the "wild west" and overincarceration is rampant.
ChatGPT Reciting Dickinson
I asked chatGPT to recite a poem by Emily Dickinson. It recited it correctly but then added its own made up lines. The poem actually ends with the line “till acclimated-to”.

So why would it then tack on additional invented stanzas after correctly reciting the full poem? Seems strange and misleading.

Here is what it recited:

The Province of the Saved
Should be the Art—To save—
Through Skill obtained in Themselves—
The Science of the Grave

No Man can understand
But He that hath endured
The Dissolution—in Himself—
That Man—be qualified

To qualify Despair
To Those who failing new—
Mistake Defeat for Death—Each time—
Till acclimated—to—

The Lesson being taught
As stated by the Grave
Authors of whom, Himself was one,
But He whose Tomb—the Be

The Mourner—best described—
As failing to sustain
The length of Consciousness—
And lacking all the strain

Of Stimulus to keep
The Eyes distinct and free—
As Moss had quickened on the Eye
And Closed them—Natives He—

Of Tolling Bell, who for the Grace
Of them who died, at last—
In Covenant with them
It was a fault of Blast

If Angels were as men—
They'd seek no Pelican
To die for—then!
Themselves can be the Saviors—
Themselves alone—

I asked why it added to the poem and its response was:

I apologize for any confusion. I have not added anything to the poem "The Province of the Saved" by Emily Dickinson. The text I provided is the full and original text of the poem as it was written by Dickinson. If there are any discrepancies between the text I provided and other versions of the poem that you may have seen, it may be due to variations in punctuation or formatting, which can sometimes differ between published versions of Dickinson's work.
The rule of thumb in evolutionary biology is if it has a cost and lasts through evolutionary time, it is beneficial. Because otherwise a similar organism that doesn't waste that time/energy on the useless thing/behavior will outcompete. Here's some odd and obvious examples.

Religion has a cost (lots of resources and time are spent on them) and they have lasted through time, therefore it is evolutionarily beneficial.

A small percentage of the population is psychopaths, this has an obvious cost to communities, but the pattern has lasted through time, therefore has a benefit. Likely it's for war/fighting/hunting.

Growing light sensitive cells has a cost in energy and materials, and has lasted through time, therefore it must have a benefit (sight).

This strongly suggests that SOMETHING is listening to that plant make noise and it either directly or indirectly benefits the plant.
was thinking the same - can't do this with a job, spouse, children or pets. who the flip has 3 to 5 months to spare?

if you're lucky enough to live to retirement age I can't see long distance walking and camping being much fun with 70-year-old bones (and bladder)
Imagine the state did this instead using taxes and eminent domain. Congrats, you’ve invented Vienna, one of the most beautiful cities in the entire world.
Do strings grow on their own and sexually reproduce, though?
I believe they are referring to the cumulative elevation gain [0], which is essentially the sum of all increases in altitude during the route, without subtracting loss of altitude by descent. While in theory this implies potentially different values depending on which direction the route is taken, overall the difference between both values is just the difference in sea level between each end of the route, which may be negligible.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulative_elevation_gain
That's really cool :)

How big is your cluster?
I think they have a bug here here: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92...

Code:
(
"has_gte_10k_favs",
_.getOrElse(EarlybirdFeature, None).exists(_.favCountV2.exists(_ >= 1000))),

Should be:
(
"has_gte_10k_favs",
_.getOrElse(EarlybirdFeature, None).exists(_.favCountV2.exists(_ >= 10000))),
I prefer unlimited PTO. I can see toxic workplaces making it worse than the alternative. But I’ve only worked in places where it was no issue for me to take 4-5 weeks off per year on their unlimited vacation policy.
> if SJ is so underfunded and police overworked, how it manages to be a comparatively safer city than other comparable metro areas?

My personal theory is that crime has little to do with policing and mostly related to how people feel in a society and whether they can meet their economic needs. Throwing money at police departments improves neither unless the department focuses on those ends.

SJPD’s use of Community Service Officers takes low urgency work away from sworn officers for less than half of the cost of a sworn officer and requires fewer trigger-happy people to interact with the community. The numbers I mention are sworn officers, excluding CSOs, so I suspect that augmented force helps each dollar go further.
The market should absolutely be looking after the collective interest. That’s what the we the collective created the market for in the first place!
That sucks. I bet it was stressful as heck having issues with $2200 worth of kit.

I've started to treat all purchases as a bit of a lottery. Things vary so much between product cycles and support quality.

Sadly, I resigned to buying tech that is cheap enough I could replace without losing sleep.
I agree that physical access is a major limitation, yet it is something that could easily be resolved with an OTA firmware upgrade or by simply informing users how their password is stored. I personally think that physical access should still be considered when designing products like these, even if it is a more remote possibility.
For those interested in "alternative" RSS Readers, I'd welcome you giving a go to my opinionated RSS (not only) reader - https://lenns.io. It supports tracking articles by headlines in those cases when a blog or a website doesn't support RSS. Plus a few other goodies, like assigning priorities to your feeds (and topics) and limiting the number of posts per source.

Enjoy.
> person who runs the business I saw works 12 hours a day

Oh OK, so if you work yourself to death you can make slightly above average income.

Cool, I guess.

I'm not seeing how it's relevant to GP's point though. Candle makers still exist yes.

But are you really arguing the light bulb did not cause that specific job to become less common?

I also thought it was fun how, you asked for a citation, then when you were asked for to provide one yourself, you respond with "gOoGlE iS yOuR fRiEnD".
>> I don't understand your derision. Where is the "straw man"?

I find it very difficult to believe at this point that you are arguing in good faith.

Your COPY-PASTE example is nonsensical as already pointed out.

Do you also think that a printing press (or a rubber-stamp for that matter) demonstrates reasoning?
Sorry to hear that.

As far as diseases go I guess I'm fairly fortunate. I don't have to manage it day-to-day but it is always in the back of my mind.

If I had known in my teens and 20s I'd end up with this type of disease I'd have done drugs and raw dogged some hookers, at least I'd be able to point to a reason for having a bad liver. /s
Setting aside all that debate about future AI agency and focusing on currently known mode of operation, why not. I haven't tested, but GPT-4 may already know enough to act on "this part of my/your code is too clever, please rewrite it simpler" and "please add this feature to that program, and don't be too clever".
DSSV Pressure Drop sounded like a Culture ship name to me so I looked that up. It's not, but the name of the DDSV, "Limiting Factor", is. Apparently they also named their utility boats after Culture ships.

To those who don't know: "The Culture" is a... society(?) of godlike AI ships/minds from the series of SF books by Ian M. Banks.

SpaceX named their landing barges after Culture ships too, the "Of Course I Still Love You", "Just Read The Instructions" and "A Shortfall of Gravitas".

https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_spacecraft
Yeah, I don't think this will be a corporate thing but a private decentralized thing.

It's probably the worst fear of the likes of google etc, a 100% local "search engine" / knowledge center that does not even require the internet.

I've been running the 65B model for a bit. With the correct prompt engineering you get very good results even without any fine tuning. I can run stable diffusion etc fine too locally. If anything will let us break free from the corporate, it is this.
> for non-violent crimes

I get that a lot of people like to smoke weed and maybe do mushrooms at Coachella, but not all drugs are the same.

Silkroad and other darknet markets sell everything from date rape drugs to fentanyl. Framing it as facilitating a harmless or victimless crime is disingenuous. Not to mention the ancillary services that often pop up like counterfeit documents, money laundering services, guides and tools for scamming people, and other crap.
Pretty cool but I don’t like to tip my hand and prefer to maintain the illusion of an impossibly hard worker.
I'm mostly pretty disciplined. I'm on vacation but if I can spend 5 minutes unblocking something, hey, they pay me well enough.

Though to your C-suite comment, an engineering director at a fairly high profile SV company was telling me that they hired a senior comms person who just couldn't deal with the fact that the CEO would take vacations where they literally unplugged--and ended up quitting.
It’s much easier to imagine progressed applications powered by recent AI that would provide outsized civic weaponry.

Identification of unusual circumstances or anomalous public records seem ripe.

But more straight forward and customized advice on how to proceed on any front—super wikihow—makes anyone more powerful.

Today, complicated solutions can sometimes to require extensive deep research and distillation of material.

So much so that DIY folks can seem like wizards to those who only know of turn key solutions and answers.

At the risk of causing a draft from further hand waving: a bigger tent can mean a higher likelihood of a special person or group of folks emerging.
tnx. No, no IOS. I have Feedly on both macOS and Android, and it works fine. But I'm not a Feedly Fanboy.

RSS was a great idea, and I think reports of its death are greatly exaggerated.
When I was reading this story, knowing how US vacation/PTO is something like 2 weeks per year or less - I was thinking: "This is so depressing, the US is hell for workers".

But then I got angry, and thought: "Why aren't these people forming unions and going on general strikes? They used to do it in the late 19th century... that's how they got the 8-hour working day."

And then I remembered that:

1. large existing US unions are often either corrupt or decrepit

2. US culture is horribly anti-worker

3. US corporations do almost everything to disrupt unionization efforts. Years back they would do absolutely everything including hiring mercenaries/saboteurs like the Pinkerton people

... so I need to cut them some slack.

Anyway, my suggestion is to maybe try the wobblies:

https://www.iww.org/
Historically nothing happens with unpaid AWS bills. At one point I was receiving delinquent bill notifications from a previous client who went out of business for several years before they stopped.

Active services like EC2 instances will be stopped within months, but data at rest is likely to last many many months if not over a year. My information is several years old.

I had a client who was delinquent on every single AWS bill and went at least six months without paying at one point and their services went untouched.
Very excited for the inexpensive riscv boards
This looks nice, and is well executed, but wasn't really what I expected from the description. I was really hoping for something that would work for courses that _don't_ already have some community tools. There are tons of great university courses out there that have never built out fancy LMS content on one of the big platforms but still have curriculum and content publicly available on a website... they just don't have any of the community tools that those platforms include. That seems like a bigger need, and an easier target, than trying to out compete the ones that are built into the big platforms (which by their nature will always have a way bigger audience than any alternatives.)
It is.

The AGI takeover crew is a bit nauseating. But I sorta understand them considering our daily panics. Sorta a dream of being whisked away by a prince/princess.

But the scared ones are much more organized, and have been at it for a good while now. And they're more of a threat, as they could shut this down for no gain, while the AGI takeover ain't happening with this wave of AI.

Still, I worry about a period in which doctors/lawyers forget their liabilities and decide to consult the great chatgpt oracle. Makes for a wonderful daily fail story. ;)
>Because this tech is somehow >inherently a good thing
Without technology humans are just unworthy bugs.
IANAL, but this doctrine seems inherently problematic and fraught with legal hazards to the would-be pursuer. Civil suits at a minimum.

It's wiser to call authorities. Unless you live in Austin, where most nonviolent crimes are essentially ignored.
Extra? There is no required vacation time in the United States, so an extra week would be one week.
Iran actually has a setup similar to the US, where moral issues are removed from the democratic process and turned over to elites. Like the US Supreme Court, Iran’s Guardian Council decides moral issues in consultation with learned experts. Same shit, different religion. Saudi and Afghanistan, meanwhile, aren’t democracies.

And as to Idaho and Texas—who decides where “murder” begins? Me? You? Someone has to, right? What is the rule of decision? Why should post-Christian secular humanism provide the rule of decision instead of regular Christianity, or Islam?
> I don't know, isn't history really just a series of specific people doing concrete actions?

That is like saying: “Aren’t human brains just series of neurons, firing at specific moments.”

History is as much—if not more—about interactions between people, feedback loops, collective actions, collective reactions, environmental changes, etc. I would argue that the individual is really really insignificant next to the system this individual resides under, and interacts with.
Lol no. Assuming at-will employment, which is the vast majority of the US workforce, "using all your vacation days yearly" is not a protected class so they are absolutely able to fire you for it.
When removed, it reduces the actual 3.6 difference to 2.2, the greatest reduction. Lower numbers are indicate bigger effects in those charts.
The gatekeeping happens because less experienced people who drive to a spot are more likely to leave used toilet paper and discarded snack wrappers everywhere, not because they're "not enjoying nature properly".
There are plenty of more affordable, densely walkable city areas in Sweden. Every single city in the country is built this way, from the smallest to the largest. That's not the factor.

The factor at play here is that these all these people want to have a cheap apartment in the same 10 km^2 that's designated as the cool place. When that can't happen because of physics, they claim society is breaking down.

> Isn't Swedish population also statistically one of the biggest sufferers of loneliness in the world and also one of the largest consumers of antidepressants?

No idea, but it sounds a bit like reverberations from Dwight D. Eisenhower's 1960 speech where he said that "sin, nudity, drunkenness and suicide" in Sweden were due to welfare policy excess, which then quite incorrectly caused americans to correlate Sweden with suicide and depression for many decades.

At the moment the suicide rate is higher in the US than in Sweden but we're relatively similar in this statistic.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rate-from-suicides-...
Right. The National Health, turn of the century sanitation, widespread vaccination and the EPA are just all about "the feels".
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Are you really insinuating that Elon was simply “lucky” when it came to disrupting and transforming two gargantuan and highly complex industries at the same time?