skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had my eye on this for a while. Looks promising but as far as I can tell it's paid-only? Not mentioned anywhere on the repo but on the marketing site it doesn't appear to be possible to check it out without subscribing. Which is a hard pass from me, for one.

EDIT: I see you have binaries available from the repo for the July 2022 version, but not for the most recent 2.0.0 release? Is this just an oversight perhaps?
Even before Hsieh left Zappos, anecdotes I heard from the fringes of his circle, including people who had worked at Zappos, made it clear he operated in a very heavy-drinking culture.

For example, both media & employee reports mention well-stocked office beer fridges & toleration of drinking during the workday in the office.
Another distinct set of similar tips that I found useful https://medium.com/productboard-engineering/eight-tips-to-re...
If you are serious about self hosting email then buy a static IP address from a reputable vendor. Rotating ones from a cloud host are going to be flagged for spam on every service.
My need for homeostasis is independent of the economic system in which I live, certainly. But that does not refute GP's point that it's difficult "to create legal organizations that help people without the assumption of a profit motive" in our society.

For example: if my basic necessities were covered by something like a UBI, I could spend my time teaching math/art/code/whatever. If I were a medieval peasant, to take another example, I'd be subsisting on my own farm and after the harvest (and after paying the lord a hefty amount of it) I might have some time to help neighboring villagers repair their tools. That is to say: the need for survival does not necessarily imply the need to have a society organized around profit-seeking.

That we _do_ live in such a society today is a matter of history, not logic. The structuring of human society around profit-seeking (or capitalism more generally) is a relatively recent historical phase (what, about 600 years, maybe?) -- it was not inevitable and there's no logical reason to assume that it will go on forever.
Ask HN: How to Think Continously?
I am a Software Engineer and one of the things I most struggle is with thinking continuously (for the lack of better words).

Whenever I face any issue that I had not already anticipated (like framework X won't let me do Y), I have to just stop there and get back to it after few hours. I know that if I spent just a little bit more time thinking about the problem, I can find a way. But it seems every time I sit, I can only get myself to solve the problems I knew before sitting. If it's new, it can only be covered next time.
I want to be able to continue working even when I face issues which I had not anticipated.

Do you face similar issues? Is there anything that worked for you to improve the situation? Or any general thoughts?

Thank You
Universeodon uses Fastly as a CDN. My masto admin experience is 80-90% CDN caching though obviously that’s images and static content.

Bandwidth is a function of the number of connected servers for remote followers. A popular person like George Takei makes a post and 15000 servers ask universeodon for the text. IMHO some sort of smarter fan out or message relay capability would help, much like email infrastructure.

Having said that, you can run 10k Mastodon MAU on a $200pm cloud resource budget, though double that adds headroom, a dynamically scalable architecture, a staging instance, elastic search and translation, more admin tooling, etc. Yes, some instances spend multiples of that per 10k but if you budget $400pm you’ll sleep well.

(Thing is, a 1k MAU would cost $100+ if you want to start with a scalable footprint).

Universedon had 70k MAU after the November surge and AIUI is still easily scalable to 100k+.

I don’t know about you, but a cloud running cost of $0.02-$0.10 per MAU sounds cheap to me. All large instances can cover it with donations. The “real” cost is moderation and administration labour.

> And the cruel thing is that it still doesn't work properly. Likes/boosts and replies do not properly synchronize.

It works exactly as designed. Personally I am fine that on someone else’s post I don’t need to see every reply across the world and fully synced like counts, but I can respect the POV that many users expect just that. This is not an activity pub limitation but rather a software choice by Mastodon. Many users, including @supernovae, push for functional changes around this.
They might say they are, but I think whether they believe they are is a different animal.
Elon Musk seems a lot less sure about how Tesla could benefit from Twitter/X app
I understand the concern, but it makes me sad.

The internet itself is a network of relays that store and forward traffic for other nodes, unencrypted.

With that modern perspective, the internet would be unthinkable.

And, yes, these days you might have to "explain", but even the law says you are clearly not liable for passing other people's traffic. At least until recently, that was the principle. In the US, that's e.g. DMCA §512.
According to this definition then Iraq’s man-made river (Saddam’s river) is longer at 565 km. the official role of the river was to collect irrigation water from Mesopotamia fertile land all the way to the Persian Gulf, though the real reason Saddam built it was to dry the Arab Marshes as it was difficult to contain the rebels in the marshes. https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%A8...
And yet Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have all tried to compete. There’s no shortage of money there.
Any study that isn't replicated at least a few times, should be called into question.

That goes double or triple for psychology studies where it's not exception to find that less than half of a set of studies can be replicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis#Prevalence
It’s almost like the best thing is somewhere in the middle. What a surprise.
MySQL InnoDB does I believe...
Because in this market there is a set of oligopolies not a monopoly.
The standard warranty is not 1 year in all countries.

Anyone can verify this via a quick search.

But in any case I never specified 'standard warranty' only 'a warranty'.
There is so much misunderstanding about the amortization of software dev costs rule (and yes, I see your correction).

I've worked in large and small companies in my career, and nearly every large company desperately wanted devs to count as much time as possible as capex (vs. opex). Reason being that, if you're a growing software company, counting dev salaries (often your largest expense) as capex can make you look a ton more profitable, which is of course good for your stock price and valuation (indeed, counting opex as capex is one of the oldest frauds in the book - it's what brought down WorldCom 20 years ago). It's just that, in a modern software company, it's really hard to separate any individual dev's time into separate capex vs opex buckets. The reason I hated capitalizing my time as a software engineer is because the line between capex vs. opex is gray beyond belief for modern SaaS companies that do continuous delivery.
This is pure speculation and not practical advice, but if you were trying to get in to your accounts from a 'starting from nothing' situation, I wonder if you could get a passport etc. and then make a GDPR request for your data from google?

Obviously you wouldn't be able to get in to your account to use google's built in tools because you wouldn't have access, but if you sent a letter to their legal team with proof of your identity then they would be obliged to process the request by law (as I understand it).
The more I read of Deming, the more I got the picture that Deming just wanted businesses to be run holistically. But - this is the critical part - the employees need to not be morons. They need to be smart enough to understand how the business works, how to do their jobs well, and how their jobs relate to other people's jobs, and whatever the business is producing or servicing. Everybody from the janitor to the CEO needs to not be a moron. And obviously that's hard, because most people are not super smart, and we get dumber in groups, and businesses are groups of people.
mrustc assume all rust code is valid and skips all those heuristics checks.

gccrs on the other hand, aims to be a full implementation with all those checkers.
> How old were you when you learned that a violin and a fiddle are the same instrument?

Today!
>So I told myself when I could manage people that I would not micromanage them. Big mistake, some people need more of a guiding hand.

I am fighting this same issue. I want to give as much autonomy as possible, but some are woefully ill-prepared for it. Sadly, it feels the best option is to over-manage until proven otherwise.
anyone looking for a summary of the points and diseases, they are laid out on his website:

https://deming.org/explore/fourteen-points/

https://deming.org/explore/seven-deadly-diseases/
It's hilarious (in a way) seeing USians comment on this post. The rest of the world has had contactless payment for at least a decade.

As an explanation, there are two different things called "Apple Pay" in the US.

One is the use of the secure element/wallet in an iPhone/watch to store an EMV card that is tokenized. The other is the Apple branded credit card issued by Goldman Sachs.

Leaving aside the branded credit card, the Apple Pay process is a standard that Apple worked with Visa/MC (and Google and Samsung) to develop. Essentially, a customer of a bank enrolls their card into Apple/Google/Samsung Pay and there is a tokenization service that provisions the phone Secure Element with an EMV "application" and the tokenized card.

The card has a different number to the actual issued card, maintaining the first 6 (issuer ID) and last 4 digits of the issued card (CPAN - Customer Primary Account Number) to establish a "DPAN".

When the phone is tapped, as far as the reader is concerned, it is a standard EMV card. The reader will go through its standard business rules for floor limits, PINs etc and process the transaction.

The merchant only gets the "6+4" digits of the card, the DPAN is sent over the network to the tokenization service, which translates the DPAN to the CPAN and sends the transaction to the issuing bank for authentication and payment.

The lack of being able to get the "real" CPAN is why some US merchants still refuse Apple/Google/Samsung Pay, specifically because they lose the ability to track customers.

The problem in the US, is instead of going to "Chip + PIN" like the rest of the world, the US went to "Chip + Signature" which removes the benefits of Chip+PIN in terms of fraud reduction etc.
Authorities are already working together with companies in lots of ways to filter out illegal things, and it doesn’t look like they are putting CEOs for prison as long as they try to filter these things out with the tools available.

What Nostr changes is the backdoor deals that are happening and Elon was showing: FBI, CIA and other governmental organizations censoring politically sensitive, but legal content, which incentivises governments to be more transparent (and of course CSAM will remain illegal, there’s no controversy around it).
There’s always the iPhone SE
The human nature of cognitive dissonance permits arbitrary beliefs and the denial reality.

The income security of 2000's software engineering, 1990's trucking, and 1940's farmers will evaporate eventually.

Long term, the only people with large amounts of power and money will be a handful of *illionaire owners and their hangers-on in government and media. The vast majority of humans will be poor, dying, starving climate refugees continually looking for their next meal. It will be a regression.
> Of course new SD models are also on the horizon…

SDXL is available at https://beta.dreamstudio.ai/ though they say they're going to release more variants.

I think ControlNet is a lot more interesting than just "better tuned models"; it means there's no line between creating something yourself and asking an AI to do it anymore.
Hours of sunlight per year is really a misleading metric. For solar to be effective, you need consistent, direct sun. Disregarding the massive consistency problem, even in the summer Northern Canada will have a much low angle of incidence for the sun. You tilt the panels significantly to compensate, but the overall energy hitting the panels is still much lower.

See the map here, for example: https://natural-resources.canada.ca/our-natural-resources/en...
> The bias problem is also relatively easy to solve

No, its not.

> (Midjourney has already made massive improvements)

Maybe. But it hasn't come anywhere close to solving it even in its domain, which is probably the least concerning domain of AI bias, and not necessarily transferrable.

Actual ML systems that are deployed in production by governments in important roles have massive bias problems, as do SOTA LLMs (including, very much, GPT-4.)

> The AI ethics people have had shockingly little to say on copyright/job loss issues.

The AI ethics people have a lot to say about the first (well “ethics of sourcing without consent” is probably more to the point than copyright, copyright is a component, but that’s more legal than ethical).

They have some to say about the second (well, again “job loss” is the wrong framing; “skill devaluation” is probably more on point), but that’s frankly not an AI issue, its an economic system issue and effects all technological change the same way. Solving capitalism is mostly out of scope for AI ethics. EDIT: Specifically, increasing material output for labor input ought to be, in and of itself (and leaving aside ethical questions of how you do that, which the sourcing issue addresses) a good thing; if there are material losers in that, it is because the economic system to distribute output well, which is not an ethical issue of the system which enables the productivity gain but an ethical issue of the economic system.

> Large organisations systemically overestimated the risks from bias

No, they didn’t. Those aren’t even really risks any more, they are massive current costs of existing adoptions.

> and underestimated the actual AI risks that society actually cares about.

That society (as weighted by social power) doesn’t care about the kinds of bias problems AI manifests is exactly why it is an ethical issue.

> I think the answer is also simple, because accused of racism, will cost any executive in a large company their job.

The large companies that have supplied systems which manifestly suffer from racial and other class biases and which are, in fact, being used in production to implement government policy around the world have not lost their jobs, and neither have the government officials procuring them and responsible for the programs they are deployed in, so this is clearly false.
I have been roasted before on the internet for suggesting that bleeding disc brakes was inconvenient. I think this distinction between riders and overhaulers actually explains a lot!
Or cut a pocket in a thicker handle, and just press the stone into the pocket. Add some glue (from sap) to keep it from falling out.
I have an example from my ISP. While it theoretically started with IPv6 all the way back in around 2012, their IPv6 infrastructure still remains quite crippled -- they won't even assign you static prefixes, all you get is a DHCPv6 /56 (meaning you can't set a PTR).

And the example revolves exactly around filtering and firewalls -- on IPv4 they drop outgoing packets whose source address isn't a part of their subnet -- they prevent source spoofing of other addresses.

But on IPv6 they do not do that. I noticed this when their router somehow lost the prefix route to me -- I was informed that their DHCP server adds router dynamically to routers -- and I could still send packets. But I couldn't just send packets from my prefix, but also from any other address, including stuff like 2000::.
We had microservices that shared a database, but each got a separate schema. We decided to treat cross schema queries the same as rpc: we export and API from a schema (view or stored procedure) that other microservices can depend on.

The microservice that exposes database level API can do any updates as long as the API stays the same (exactly same as with classical rpc).
Generative AI and deep learning affect all types of office work. Picking on 2 companies would be entirely arbitrary and miss the point of what AI replace.
I don't know about Lemon, but Carlson is heir to the Swanson frozen-food fortune. He'll squeak by somehow.
This seems incoherent. If you have a point to make, write it down in a way readers can understand, else given the bizarre prior comment, it only increases the perception of bizarreness.
I’ve even found “Is not null” queries on a Boolean column to be slow so I made a generated column that’s Boolean.
Yep. And even without the perceptual/disassociative/hallucinogenic aspects of heavy use, daily nitrous exposure, without long periods away, apparently interferes with Vitamin B12 metabolism enough to cause nervous system damage.

Eventual symptoms of such damage can include tingling, numbness, headaches, lethargy, balance problems, memory problems, confusion, anxiety, & depression.

Even medical staff with daily exposure to sub-perceptual trace amounts (leaked or exhaled by patients) sometimes develop problems.
Ask HN: Recommend books suitable for self studying a topic in your field?
Can you mention some books that are perfectly made for self study? The subject and topic may be anything. The only thing that counts is that the book can be read alone without a teacher (maybe with the help of the internet).
Yes, hence why it can go to higher courts and have another judge interpret the case.

The judge makes a decision on their interpretation of the case and the law. This is a very important distinction in decisions.
Audio stutters when memory pressure is high on Apple Silicon Macs
It doesn't has to match rustc on nightly, only the 3-yearly releases. That seems doable, considering Rust has slowed down a bit, compared to super fast pace of change in early years. Regardless, it is always good to have alternate implementations, C++ has only benefited from it.
I’ve tried once with MJ and it looks OK. I’m not even surprised anymore.

The devil, though, is in the details.

It’s hard to control the outputs. The scene will look 80% OK, but then you want to add some cat somewhere and that won’t be trivial (at the moment). There are already a lot of impressive tools to help you out, like ControlNet, but it’s a bit difficult still.

You also have to do cleanup, because some random animal in the background of the illustration will be horribly mangled. This all basically requires you to actually be a (digital) artist to fix properly. Again, for now.

Edit: I wanted to add that this, to me, is similar to AI coding. On a good day, it might be 80% OK, but you actually need to be a programmer to catch its lies and/or incompetenties.
I think you're a bit out of touch with the mobile gaming landscape. Even 3D mobile games are quite prevalent now (e.g., games that are technically better than the N64 or PS2/3 depending on the phone, games that are comparable to PC/console games at low graphical settings).
if you purposely pick savings account that are not meant to be high yield, and compare them to a high yield offer, of course you get that. these savings accounts aren't meant to hold large sums or accrue interest. they're meant to save up a couple of paychecks and move the money into something else. because believe it or not, people don't use savings accounts to earn interest. it's a temporary place to park a small liquid amount of money.

here in the real world, interest rates were increased, so all the high yield savings interest went up. mine is 3.5% w/ sally mae - like capital1's rate.

citibank is at 3.85 while discover is 3.75. less known ones like citbank are 4.75 and bask is 4.65.

apple is providing APY in response to the current interest rate, just like everyone else, and less than many others. it has nothing to with market response and media coverage, it has to do with Sachs being able to lend your savings back out as mortgages and loans an an increased rate. when the fed rate goes back down, so will all the rates offered by all the banks. this is literally how it does and always has worked.

the only thing apple is doing is inserting themselves between you and your savings account at sachs, for some god unknown reason.
This is total nonsense. By your 60s, a smart person who has been in the trades since their early 20s should own an independent business or at the very least manage a team of people / apprentices who can do the heavy lifting. This is no different than the fact that most software engineers still working in their 60s are almost all either managers, senior architects, or independent consultants with a solid client base.

My appliance repair guy works every day with his father who is in his early 70s, and the younger guy does all the hard physical labor of lifting and dragging dishwashers, refrigerators, etc. and you can tell the old guy would rather be working every day with his son than sitting on the couch twiddling his thumbs. The other version story is my uncle who built a local landscaping company. He did backbreaking work every day sunrise to sunset when he was young, and then by middle age he was hiring crews to do the labor. In his 60s he is fully retired with money for a second vacation home in Mexico and lots of toys.
This really isn’t that hard to do for us techies, even without being taught, just download some guides and watch some YouTube videos. The real problem is that your work probably won’t be inspected, which is a problem in some jurisdictions.

I did my own upgrade to Lutron smart switches, and…it was easy (just turn the fuse off first!) but…I will probably have them redone when I rewire my kitchen someday.
Verified accounts are now prioritized
Same feeling. I was writing games and small applications C++ for fun as a teen in the 90s. I was so fascinated by it, but found ultimately, it really depressed me. Probably just spending too much time thinking, not socializing, etc.

Didn't touch code or an editor again until 2009 or so, on accident so to speak trying to debug something for the boss. Found out a couple years later that I could get paid to code...had no idea. Then saw what all those kids at Stanford did and were making, and immediately felt like I missed the biggest opportunity of my life.

Oh well. Millions of what could have beens in life, no sense in wondering...
"free database", except the images in it may not be so "free". even their "open" 400M dataset makes a caveat like "if we found a CC license, we put it there, otherwise, well, we just don't know.", so there's still a bunch of data with no license information, that got included anyway. their 5B dataset simply does not have license metadata, at all. a little bit misleading, a little bit malicious. completely enabling copyright and license violations of data it 'only links to'.
How and is 1Password 8 an abomination?
My paranoia is such that I'm sure I would require my watch also have some form of "be unlocked." And since this is largely, "be unfolded and have seen my fingerprint recently," feels like a non issue?
eh, apple pay's been available for 9 years now. ROW had more POS's that were ready to go day 1 because of the existing contactless support but if you had a supported US bank you could use it.
It’s the normal, default state of affairs when you have seniors and managers who feel they are competing with each other and so hoard knowledge and techniques, and assign themselves all the interesting work while juniors are left bored doing rite work. In several workplaces when I’ve tried to organize shared spaces like a commons, lunch-and-learns, etc., management had been actively hostile. I had one asshole manager who would even shut down any water-cooler conversation. I finally wound up mentoring a co-worker who needed help with C++ entirely off-site during lunches.