skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really have issue with the roald dahl edits. They're books for children, not for adults to appreciate the art and historicity of the story telling. Kids books are usually about morals and entertainment, and they model their language and behavior after books to an extent that adults don't. So, edit away I say. But also make sure the originals are available somewhere(which they are, since they sold into the millions)
The article says “about 16%”. I don’t think the number in the article should be taken as an exact count.

> it makes me think that they decided "how many people do we need to sacrifice to appease the finance gods" rather than "how many of these roles are really needed to achieve the goals we set ourselves".

Any big layoff involves, or is possibly the result of, shifting goals. Company goals change, especially as changing economics makes them more or less possible.
FWIW Free Pascal's FCL has the fcl-passrc package that provides units for scanning FPC code, building syntax trees, resolving identifier references and writing/formatting source code.

Free Pascal comes with pas2js which "transpiles" Free Pascal code to Java Script and is written using fcl-passrc so it should have enough functionality to parse most FPC code.
I wish Signal would enable this.
Hyperdimensional Computing/Vector Symbolic Architectures
Does Telegram have servers or offices in Brazil?
I have a "Daily" tab folder that I start my day with it. It contains HN / Bookface, several subreddits, and NYT, local news, and Ars Technica.

Over time, I started to remove subreddits that are no longer relevant to me (e.g. location I moved away from). Nowadays, typically spend 30 minutes or so reading news and discussions.
While it's unfortunate that neither this nor any other amount of evidence are likely to convince Lindell et al that they're wrong, at least we can hope that they'll continue to hoist themselves on their on petards.
In Russian, Czech or Slovak, I have never ever seen or heard it being used in the context of an innocent camp. It just means bad kind of prison and sometimes military barracks - when you want to imply you don't like those military barracks.

I do not know how in German.
I took that to mean the form provided by the authors - eg the "binary source"
Excelscript
When I was growing up in the 80's, people would often look at TV and movies and say, "man you couldn't have gotten away with that 30 years ago". Now, people point to TV and movies from the 80's and 90's and say, "man you couldn't get away with that these days".
Maybe your rain is different from the rain where I live. Being able to adjust speeds is critical so I get maximum vision with minimum distraction
How so? Impossibly large constants?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism
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The AI thing is transparently a fake excuse that will pass the sniff test for their finance department.

Also, what were these 500 people doing anyway? Dropbox has basically been the same product for years.
Syncthing does encrypted nodes now, so I have an encrypted laptop node running offsite; that, coupled with a mostly-on desktop pc and an always-on headless mac mini running void, and I have a 100+GB 'cloud' with syncthing.

Honestly, the best way I found to prevent sync errors is to make sure there's continuity...that there's always some computer, somewhere, that's running and knows what the latest version actually is.
How do you look up all those files, though? Remember that picture from that thing with the guy? Back when all that other stuff was happening?
Uhh what, Prohibition was a progressive and pro feminist movement.
These are all the controls that I use while driving, and these are pretty consistent for other cars I've driven (these are just off top of my head - I'm sure there would be more if I looked). And my car is fairly old at this point. I've driven newer rental cars that have a lot of extra features.

- Climate Control:
-- A/C On
-- Circulate / Outside Air
-- Temperature Up
-- Temperature Down
-- Fan Speed Up
-- Fan Speed Down
-- Dual Mode
-- Dual Mode Controls ( 4 buttons - Repeat the temp/fan buttons for passenger side)
-- Front Defrost
-- Rear Defrost

- Lights:
-- Headlight mode
-- Light dimmer
-- Brights on/off
-- Foglights on/off
-- Flashers on/off

- Driving
-- Gear Shift
-- Turn Signal
-- Cruise Control
--- On/Off
--- Set/+
--- Resume/-
-- ESC (Electronic Stability Control) on/off
-- Tripometer / info - check mileage to empty / range / etc

- Wipers
-- wiper speed
-- spray
-- rear wipers
--- spray

- Entertainment
-- On/Off
-- Volume Up
-- Volume Down
-- Mode (Switch between radio/android auto/sirius/etc)
-- Next / Radio Tuner Up
-- Previous / Radio Tuner Down
-- Radio Presets (6 buttons)
-- Play/Pause

- Calling / Voice
-- Initiate Voice Command
-- Answer call
-- Hang up / Decline call

- Mirrors
-- side mirror switch left/right
-- side mirror adjust

- Windows
-- front driver window up/down
-- front passenger window up/down
-- rear driver window up/down
-- rear passenger window up/down
-- window lock

- Locks
-- lock/unlock
"These transitions are never easy, but I’m determined to ensure that Dropbox is at the forefront of the AI era, just as we were at the forefront of the shift to mobile and the cloud. We’ll need all hands on deck as machine intelligence gives us the tools to reimagine our existing businesses and invent new ones. And I'm committed to doing everything in my power to best position ourselves for the future and unlock our full potential."

What has AI got to do with me putting my files in the cloud so I can sync them across my devices?
Learning Agile Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot [DeepMind]
Facebook and Instagram do a significant amount of automated filtering. People from scammers to spammers to pimps have incentives to try to bypass the filtering. It's a cat and mouse game Meta has a significant incentive to stay ahead in; everyone from advertisers to app store owners to users will punish them for having too much of any of that, or even legal adult content.

Policing is the job of the police. If criminals are advertising sex with children on Instagram to the point that child molesters can find it, police can find it too. They can then use the low-tech method of posing as buyers, witnessing illegal acts, and arresting the offenders.

Instagram should provide assistance when legally required and technically possible of course, but should not be expected to perform law enforcement functions. That's not just because it would be some sort of undue burden on the huge corporation operating it, but because it lacks the checks and balances we apply to police agencies.
I don't know how much of the MS turnaround can be attributed to him, but if we take it at face value that the CEO is responsible for everything, then MS definitely has had a dramatic positive run following Nadella taking the reigns from Ballmer.

MS still lacks a industry leading 21st century consumer device and Nadella has not been able to change that but his bets on cloud computing, embracing of Linux and open source and the rise of VSCode are something to behold.

As an "older-school" dev, I am constantly amazed that I can open a linux prompt on windows or do VSCode work with a local gui on a remote computer or inside a docker container.
So when people go to buy a bottle of water, they really want the bottle itself, and not what's inside it?
Compared to my mindset a decade ago I've become so cynical about the whole SV tech scene. There's value there, of course: Dropbox was a fantastic service when it first came out. But these companies are incentivized to keep expanding until they occupy the entire universe. Now Dropbox wants to be my word processor. Next it wants to use AI to touch up my photos or whatever the hell because AI is the New Hot Thing tech companies must do to please Wall Street. I'm tired of closing modal boxes promoting a service I never asked for.
Yeah, it's a fire hazard when improperly installed, what I meant is that people were responding as if any nvidia card would just burst into flames even with everything properly connected.
Or maybe happy for employees 501 through 504 who were on the chopping block, but because Round Numbers Are Nice(tm), got to keep their jobs!
2017, https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.04434

> IMSI Catcher attacks are really practical for the state-of-the-art 4G/LTE mobile systems too. Our IMSI Catcher device acquires subscription identities (IMSIs) within an area or location within a few seconds of operation and then denies access of subscribers to the commercial network. Moreover, we demonstrate that these attack devices can be easily built and operated using readily available tools and equipment, and without any programming. We describe our experiments and procedures that are based on commercially available hardware and unmodified open source software.
What if they had a little animated AI assistant that watched what you were doing and would say helpful things like “Hey! I see you’re writing a document, perhaps you should store that on Dropbox?” or “Hey! I see you’re making a meme, want to share that using Dropbox?”
How does this compare to Mountain Duck? https://mountainduck.io/
Not complaining about the actual announcement itself here: seems pretty sweet all things considered, But: the "Is it Open Source?" section should lead with "No." It's not a complicated question, and it's not a complicated answer. I think it's weird to talk about having "all the same rights" without explaining why that matters particularly (it does matter, it's just not explained much!) but it is somewhat tangential to the question being posed which has a very clear and straightforward answer.

I hope more companies consider this unusual arrangement at least as an alternative to other approaches. Permissively licensed binaries can come in handy, though it certainly comes with it's risks. For example, Microsoft released the binaries for its WebView2 SDK under the BSD license; this is nice of course, but the side-effect is that we can (and did) reverse engineer the loader binary back to source code. I suspect that's unlikely to happen for any substantially large commercial product, and I am not a lawyer so I can't be sure this isn't still legally dubious, but it's still worth considering: the protections of a EULA are completely gone here, if you just distribute binaries under a vanilla permissive open source license.
How does async Rust work?
In the UK whenever I go to some public event - e.g. some of the anti-Brexit marches or something like the Fully Charged EV show or any other big event I start to have trouble connecting and when I am able to move away from the crowd far enough I can use my phone again.

This is dangerous - when you're in a crowd you need your phone more to be able to find out what's happening and where your friends or family are if you get separated.

So if 5G started to fix that I'd say it was an excellent thing.
He debunked the data. He didn't debunk election fraud claims. If someone frauded Mike with bogus data the detective and Mike both win.
Layoff numbers are imprecise and somewhat arbitrary, so any number that isn't divisible by 10 is probably intentionally chosen to seem less arbitrary.
>> “ We’ve believed for many years that AI will give us new superpowers and completely transform knowledge work”

I’ve speculated that this is the rationale behind some of the recent layoffs. Finally we get some confirmation.

As a heavy OpenAI user, I think it is a premature optimization.
They say it's under the Apache 2 licence, so it is open source.

EDIT: I was wrong. They actually released binaries under the Apache licence, not the source code. Which is, mildly said, deceptive. I don't even have an idea what that actually means.
This is comedy gold!
> use ai to store files better?

I mean I wanted to store some old tax returns, medical bills and crap in DB, AI comes in and decides "bah, this is crap!", delete files silently to make space for more exciting stuff. Everyone is happy now!
> To become a full-fledged Fremen, and lead them in a counterattack that will avenge his fallen family and defeat the powers corrupting the galaxy

(Emphasis mine.)

This is a very funny summary.

I of course understand the nature of media reporting and the constraints of a piece like this. And so far Villeneuve has shown himself to be as trustworthy as they come with themes more complex than base moral plays.

But, still funny.
There is a threshold of number of employees let go (maybe at location or total, I dunno) where they have to do certain things, called the WARN act. Companies aren't putting out press releases about layoffs because they want to.
> They wondered if it could be possible to fire 500,000?

> I thought from one of the smaller companies no one would notice.

> Like one of the cab companies.

>> Fire one million.

> But 500,000...

> One million. Fine, sir.

> Sorry to have disturbed you.
You don’t get resistance when you turn the knob all the way up or down. You don’t get confirmation that the button you pressed did something. It’s tactile in the sense that they are physical, but otherwise not a great experience.
How are your friends' MegaCryptopolis investments doing?
> Assume you rely entirely on SLAAC, because that's the preferred way, or so they said.

Who's "they"?

I think RA for addressing/DNS and stateless DHCPv6 for everything else is the way to go these days.
"It is I that must remain and bare the heavy burden of their failure..."

https://youtu.be/u48vYSLvKNQ
At least someone in the audience can now always heckle him with, "What about that $5 million you had to pay for being debunked?"
Netflix created its own demise, and I think that's been obvious since they started creating, and then cancelling, shows left and right with no ending.

I understand content creation is HARD. Like, really hard. I get it. But their strategy in recent years has been "take aim at dartboard, throw, but as soon as something potentially veers off course, even slightly, run and pull the dart out of the air before it hits the dartboard."

They produce and cancel so much content before the content is mature that it turns people off.

Keep in mind Netflix originally grew because they had all the content, and now everyone worth watching has their own platform.
Balmer said it best, 'Developers, developers, developers!'

And then Microsoft bought Github.
It doesn't happen often that I notice, a lot of examples of it end up automatically marked as junk so I only see them if I peer in there for any reason or look at the mail server's daily/weekly/monthly incoming mail report which will list them. Perhaps your junk filtering is more efficient than mine!

It may also depend upon what lists we've ended up on. If only a few junk senders are using the trick, the others deciding it isn't worth it without knowing there is a catch-all isn't worth it and deciding working out there is a catch-all with sufficiently few false positives is too much hassel, then it is quite possible it only happens to some of us.

It could also be that some people have done it to pad out email lists they sell, and so most of the others aren't really using the trick but just parroting the list they have bought. Again, this would explain the issue only being seen by some.

My domain is a .net that has been active for about 23 years at this point, so compared to newer domains its presence in spam mailing lists will have been subject to more fads in the junk industry over time.
Is Elon trying to pull out 1984? Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia?
Congratulations to Zeidman for successfully parting a fool with his money
If I don't have any servers in your nation, I don't see how you could possibly even begin to regard me as having expanded into your nation. Your people are leaving your nation to come to me. That seems quite factually rooted.
It means they are taking the credit for making a good business decision. When the share prices go up because of the layoffs, he wants to make sure everyone knows that he is responsible for it.
You can and some projects do this, it's just not "obviously" better than having a limited version of the glibc build that can build python before bootstrapping itself.
This is somewhat true - economics undergrads do get into grad school, though math+econ or an econ degree with lots of math is better. You can just the check the difference between the textbooks for undergrad and graduate economics, eg Principles of Economics by Mankiw (undergrad) and Mas Collel (grad).
Access is going to be the issue here.

My doctor recently put me on tirzepatide. It needed a prior auth from my insurance despite me being under treatment for type 2 diabetes for the last five years. My pharmacy benefits plan requires all prescriptions be sent to a mail order pharmacy, so I asked him to send in there. The mail order pharmacy accepted the script and offered to fill it for $3,000 for a one month supply. I asked them why, and they said that prior auth was still pending. Two days later, prior auth was denied with no reason given when I called.

Two days after that, prior auth was approved and the mail order pharmacy now wanted to charge me $25 for a three month supply.

Access to this drug for most people will be a nightmare, even for those that could benefit from its on-label use for type 2 diabetes.
> Imagine building a company that lets users store files online, seeing chatgpt released, and then laying off 16% of your company to.. use ai to store files better? I really don’t see how new ai capabilities lead to big layoffs and new opportunities for Dropbox

snark incoming - Imagine thinking you understand the product strategy for a 14 year old, publicly traded company with thousands of employees without working there or having any sort of insider knowledge.

It's also not much of a reach to imagine use cases here. AI trained on a company's corpus of internal documents is an extremely common idea right now. DBX is sitting on a trove of data that is specifically well-suited for building bespoke, company specific AI models.
> and then laying off 16% of your company to.. use ai to store files better? I really don’t see how new ai capabilities lead to big layoffs and new opportunities for Dropbox.

Dropbox moved beyond basic file sharing long ago. I don’t personally use all of their productivity tools, but I know a lot of people (generally business/creatives) who do.

If you try to interpret this through the lens of “Dropbox just stores files” then it won’t make sense. However, there are a lot of AI opportunities in file management. Imagine something like an AI-powered search through your documents or an AI photo search. Would be much easier to find that photo of your family standing in front of the Grand Canyon if you could just type that in.

You may not want that product, but it’s unreasonably snarky to pretend that a big company is dumb for pursuing this obvious opportunity.
> MS still lacks a industry leading 21st century consumer device

The XBox division doesn't count?
Most of the time the hardware team doesn't get to choose their hardware. There is usually a budget and in automotive you can select only hardware that has some specific certifications for use in a car so that narrows the list even further.
Google Drive totally changed the way I locate files. Instead of combing through folders, I just search.

AI is going to be extremely useful when I can query my files as a knowledge base directly. Like game-changer useful.
So much bitterness and resentment around layoffs. Why? It's not personal, it's just business. Everyone got paid great money to do easy work, and the world is still full of opportunity.
This is commercial advertising, a product description. That has of course its place but it's something different from the daily usage, which is what I meant. You wouldn't order at the Theke ein Untergäriges, or would you???
And he's a director! His job is to experiment and use new tools as they come available, and he's realized he made a mistake.

I have no problem with people making new versions of existing works; the problem I have is destroying the originals; even if destroyed by the author. The existence of copyright itself is a "deal" between society and an individual, we give the individual certain rights and privileges in exchange for certain benefits to society.

Only now has the ability to go back and change things resulted in large-scale destruction of personal copies of that original thing.
As an American (with no Anglo-Saxon ancestry), I strongly disagree.

We call them Germans, the Italians call them Teutons, the Spanish call them Alemanni. Those were all distinct peoples who came together along with others to call themselves Dutch. But we use Dutch to refer to different people, and Germanic to refer to an even wider group of people then all the aforementioned put together. I've never heard a non-joking complaint from any of them about that. Granted, they're saying Anglo-Saxon while speaking English, but it's their dialect of English.

I also can't see why Englishspeaking is better than anglophone. Engl- comes from Angl-. -phone means -speaking. They're both English language words with identical meanings.

You haven't mentioned Anglo by itself, but that's even more common. It means English, but disambiguates England and English people from their global influence. If English is fine, Anglo should be fine too. And if Anglo is fine, then Saxon and Jute and Frisian should probably be fine too. But it's not fine when you put them together?

It's ridiculous to say that the actual self-given name of the predecessors of a language and culture has racial connotations.
Conditional Bribery: Incentives from incentivized experiments across 18 nations
It seems that they give the binaries for free but they won't release the source code. Can somebody explain to me what's the point of keeping the source closed in this case? I really can't think of any reason
"I have data that proves there was election fraud" "No you don't".

He didn't debunk election fraud as a whole (not that he should need to at this point), but he definitely debunked Lindell's claims specifically.