skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't be surprised if the actual story underneath was that they got to a "works well enough" implementation and then forgot about the inefficiencies until someone looked at costs, connected the dots, and went "ok yeah we need to optimize this architecture."

I've seen some staggering cost savings realized because someone happened to notice that an inefficient implementation that wasn't a problem two years ago at the scale it was running at back then did not age well to the 10x volume it was handling two years later. The reason it hadn't fallen over was that horizontal scaling features built into the cloud products were able to keep it running with minimal attention from the SRE's.
I really wish I could get rid of my FB account. It's so pervasive in my social life that it would things difficult and I would miss out on events with my friends. My family uses it for video chat, my friends use it to organize social activities, I'm on a recreational kickball team that uses it for team communication, etc.

I recently deactivated and a few weeks later a friend asked if I was going to an event he invited me to. I had no idea anyone invited to me anything. I had my invite me to an event and it let her invite and didn't tell either of us I was invited to something... If you invite a deactivated account there's apparently no indication the person won't see it.
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FreeOTP supports backups itself these days.

Backups can go to local or cloud storage.

Backups are encrypted with a passphrase that you enter when you set the app up, so the cloud storage providers can't grab your keys.
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Hi there! I wrote this as a way to share my enthusiasm for QUIC after spending 2 months enhancing the main Rust implementation of the protocol. Let me know what you think!
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/facial-recognition-too...

imagine this but now you are being evicted because of "lease violations". You see the footage and none of it is of you, but they dont really care to bother with manual error correction.

Oh, and do you think Ring is the only private surveillance company with a police integration?
At their origin? How so, when you can just keep calculating and you don't get exceptions, just more and more NaNs?

Edit to add: like, if the error is "distance was zero so I couldn't invert the matrix", I want that to be the error feedback; not "the screen is black because the final result of all the camera calculations was NaN".
MedusaJS - may be worth the try
The fallacy is that organizations as a whole can only do so many different things efficiently. Capital allocation becomes less efficient if a single hierarchically structured entity has to decide on how and where to invest its capital, compared to the alternative of free market competition for capital (as usual ceteris paribus).
>16 weeks severance per year of tenure.

I know this sounds insensitive but I am slightly envious

Edit: am dumbass. plus one week per year of tenure as corrected below. Still not bad IMO
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> IMO "bad for Facebook" ~= "good for society" has always been true.

I'd say there is a case for it being neutral for society for a fair chunk of time in its early days. Things don't have to be good/bad binary.
This website is in itself state-controlled, if only on a second degree (or 3rd degree, if one wants to get technical and not call the Atlantic Council a state-controlled entity):

> The Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) at the Atlantic Council
There's no point in migrating to avoid ai training, OpenAI is going to train on every line of code out there, no matter which platform.
Fair, not sure when the new data comes out.
Just came across this project, and I have to say, it's really impressive! It's intriguing to see how you've used GPT-3 and GPT-4 to create iTunesify while also learning more about AI and LLMs along the way.

Your approach to developing the project showcases the exciting possibilities that AI-powered tools can offer, and it's evident that you're passionate about exploring this technology. It's inspiring to see developers like you embracing AI to create innovative solutions and pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved.

I'm looking forward to trying iTunesify and seeing how it performs in organizing and tagging my own music library. Thanks for sharing your project, and I hope this sparks more conversation around the potential of AI in software development. Keep up the great work!
One day all this will happen ... The infinite timeline is doing all the heavy lifting.
Not saying downsizing does not make sense, but its a stretch to say that its a service to our society to downsize one's company.

> As a society we allow layoffs because it reallocates skilled workers to new areas that actually need them

This more sounds like a trap mindset to me to be honest. Its associating some sort of morality to what is just regular part of running a business. Companies do what's best for the company and its investors first and foremost.
How are python list comprehension in any way more weird than Java streams?
I already do pay for customer service from a human but those humans are just automatons blindly following policies that they do not understand but their job requires them to enforce.

What I would support is national legislation that companies over a certain size must disclose their policies in detail. Any violations of their policies they must disclose in detail for the specific violations dates and times that they occurred and the specific remediation actions that may allow to be taken. These companies want to be arbiters of who can interact in the online communities but then they want no responsibility to have transparency to how to properly interact in the online communities.
He is also a co-founder and owns 7% of the company.
Brilliant Pebbles seemed to have always been a legit idea, probably the only real solution to the MIRV/glide threat. Something that can respond to the launch immediately close to the launch site. It's just always been crazy expensive and diplomatic kryptonite having weapon systems floating over countries 24/7.
It's like when neighbors in an apartment building get a Ring. I immediately think less of them.
https://github.com/phil294/AHK_X11
Ok, but the question still stands. The government doesn't pay anything, but it does it get a cut? Usually contracts are written in some way like "vendor will keep first $10M of fees, thereafter sharing 50% of fees"
Game tutorials are also almost always better in text + image form.
I'd add probabilistic languages like Figaro.
Can you share a bit about what they did well in the behavioral interviews? Do you have specific examples? Would love to learn some best practices
I don't think there is any reasonable route you can fly from Tokyo to New York without going over some land...
Since I recently tried Nostr, I am much less worried what goes on with Twitter and Co. Nostr is crazy cool and feels a lot like it could become the future of publishing.

I basically just started posting on the first random client I found on Google (iris.to) and ... it works:

https://iris.to/npub14cxhrehjln8r4fqgc8uvatkjv5dlwzxvua2ym93...

No signup, no decision to make which host to use, no nothing. Just save the private key (which iris.to creates for you) and you are good to go forever. The content you post gets relayed everywhere:

https://snort.social/p/npub14cxhrehjln8r4fqgc8uvatkjv5dlwzxv...

So it does not matter if the client you used changes their policies, their algorithm, deplatforms you, goes down or whatever. You can just use any other client and keep posting.

And since the protocol is using websockets, one can write a client in a static html page without any server backend. And it needs surprisingly little code to do so. I really enjoyed this video of a guy writing a Nostr client in a simple html file with like 50 lines of code or so:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbicnlCXg_Y
it's 16 weeks severance + 1 week per year of tenure
Now /that’s/ some bureaucracy
Thanks for appropriately labeling this a conspiracy theory. As a Mormon in Utah I find this absurd, but conversations on Mormonism online are pretty tricky, so you come to expect absurd claims like that.

I support this law on its face, but I also don't have an issue with laws like this keeping those that might not successfully integrate into the existing culture of Utah from moving here. I imagine there are others that probably think like me.
“16 weeks severance plus a week for every year of tenure at Shopify” is what it says, which isn’t what you’ve stated there.
That's bizarre or just shoddy IT. Every major platform has remote wipe and self destruct capabilities, control over full disk encryption, etc. I guess they let people bring their own devices and just not follow solid IT practices?
>"Venus Aerospace has been working on the hypersonic aircraft concept since 2020, having raised $33 million to build the plane. The firm will now begin hypersonic flight testing with a 20-foot drone that the company hopes will reach Mach 5. After that, it will build the Stargazer prototype, though no date has been released."

Is it me or it reads as a scam? Another Theranos.
It's very European.
I was impacted. I still will speak highly of the company.

Good people. Very few assholes. The mission feels good, like it's not a net negative on the planet. Lot of churn internally, but often handled in a positive way.

I'm fortunate that I've got a decent nest egg set aside, and I can afford to spend the rest of the summer just being with my wife and daughter. It sucks that it's happened but I'm not worried about the future (yet).
A minor technical nitpick: the article, and the activists it quotes, make the claim that facial recognition discriminates against minorities because it is inaccurate. The state of the art in facial recognition technology has been superhumanly accurate (e.g. telling apart identical twins better than humans can, finding pictures with significant weight or age differences) on all subgroups for several years now, and the racial disparities in accuracy are minuscule relative to the level of noise. It will keep improving: e.g. it is quite plausible we will be able to infer parts of a person’s genotype from ordinary pictures of their face.

I call this a nitpick because “face rec discriminates because it is inaccurate” vs “face rec discriminates because it very accurately reproduces society’s bias” doesn’t make much difference to the activists’ argument; after all, it matters little whether the discrimination arises by bumbling incompetence or by efficient indifference. But I thought I would mention it so that the more technically-minded are not accidentally misled about the technological progress in the area.
US diplomats famously fly coach, not even first class (not even business class!), and for cost reasons are often required to take circuitous routes with multiple layovers. I would expect the same of any country where attentive taxpayers are footing the bill.
No One at my firm has had success either. I’m guessing they were overwhelmed by responses. It’s possible that they’ve gotten millions.
It makes a lot of sense for the languages to be harmonized with each other. Differences like noreturn versus [[noreturn]] does nobody any favors. C++ has all these wacky things you can do with constexpr functions, and C is getting a VERY LIMITED version of this that only applies to constants, addressing a long-standing deficiency, where C provides only a way to define named constants as int type (using enum) or using macros, and you really want to be able to define constants as any type you like. The "const" qualifier doesn't do that, you see... it really means a couple different things, but the main one is "read-only", which is not the same as "constant".
One common solution to this type of problem is a (different kind of!) lottery. You should register for one or more time slots (up to N), and there should be a lottery to decide who goes (just randomly). After winning, your other reservations should reset.
Not to defend Facebook, but this headline is misleading.

FTC proposes banning Facebook from launching any new products, which is a huge deal. Also from monetizing youth data, which is likely not a serious revenue stream.

It’s clickbait to claim it’s the youth part that made company furious, no matter what you think about Facebook.
And even if you don't consent in writing, they'll just do it anyways because they're too lazy to special-case your request, and they'll bank on you not figuring out that they're doing it anyways, and then not bothering to drag you into court even if they did do it.
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BigCommerce is up and coming and basically a "better" version of Shopify. Having managed multiple 7fig stores on Shopify, you're in a constant state of battle against the platform to have it do what you want.
Awesome. So they are “abusing themselves” and as a result to “protect them” from that we all have to accept weakened protections.
OK. yeah maybe dark pattern was a too strong term for just the annoyance...

Just I'd try to stay away from amazon if I could
> My family goes hiking in Shenandoah in Virginia almost every year (probably 15 times in my life) and we don't reserve entry or trails or anything, and there's no lines.

I went to look up hikes in Shenandoah since this sounds like it could be part of a nice road trip with my family, and ironically I found that the most popular trailhead requires getting tickets through recreation.gov: https://www.nps.gov/shen/planyourvisit/faqs-oldrag.htm

So perhaps the problem is spreading?

Luckily it seems it's not nearly at "The Wave" levels of scarcity, you can actually get tickets on most days: https://www.recreation.gov/ticket/10088450/ticket/10088451
> I am young enough to where I "discovered" the existance of news groups within the last year.

I am sorry to report to you that even chunks of Usenet are missing. Specifically, significant chunks between the UTzoo archive and DejaNews are just... gone? There are posts, for instance, to alt.video.laserdisc to which I can find only replies and not the OP.
Land Ownership Makes No Sense
https://archive.is/dh6Zb
Just give me all your PII, and Ill do it for you for the small fee of your full bank account! Easy.

-

On a serious note - there needs to be an easier way to remove any and all PII from across the web, period.

It should be illegal for ANY site to harvest PII and host it for ransom (credit/social credit site, for example should be fully illegal)

Also, with "relevant prompt" -- how can I use my own account to test to see if I have PII in the system?

Do I just need to attempt to prompt for my own PII to check?

How do you prompt to check for your own PII without ADDING PII into the system via your testing prompts?
Netflix uses “between six to twelve “ in its most recent culture document.

https://jobs.netflix.com/culture
>For example sometimes you forget to change all the relevant types from uint32_t to uint64_t when refactoring some value and stuff breaks weirdly

Use size_t
Has PR expressed something to indicate board member fury?
All of those things are already indexed at your workplace. But the indexes and search suck.

I know that I've wasted hours searching Gmail, docs, Slack, and Jira, or just given up entirely before finding what I want.

Think of an LLM for biz docs as just being incredibly good search. Where you don't have to know the search terms anymore.

Nothing to freak out about here.
It's getting to the point where areas that are under consideration for becoming National Park land get significant pushback from locals — we don't want to become another Yellowstone, they say!

In the Northeast you do see some spots getting a little crowded but it's absolutely nothing like the tourism-industrial complex that are the big western national parks. Acadia is about as bad as it gets here, but mostly it looks like "theres a lot of folks here." Yellowstone is a mess of badly driven RVs, yahoos ripping around on rented side-by-sides, just a lot of really ugly concentrated MURCA.
Shopify is a Canadian company, Canada has laws around if you do work on your own hardware vs company hardware being what classifies you as a contractor vs an employee. If I had to guess, I'd imagine the lawyers are worried employee classification based on hardware.
Are there any plans on making linear algebra, numeric operations and so on first class citizens, the same way Julia does it? I believe that also a very compelling characteristic from Julia, for people working in Physics, Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is all the "sugar syntax" Julia gives you, is not the same translating a formula from a paper to numpy than translating it to Julia, in Julia writing the expression from a paper is almost a one-to-one mapping. I believe it will be a huge point in favor to Mojo, since UX when writing mathematical code in Julia is a huge advantage to it, the same way Python gained popularity as a General Purpose language because it is almost like writing plain English
From my experience, not many people set boundaries between work and personal tasks and the number of people who have personal software projects outside work is tiny.

I too am guilty of using work laptop for personal work like shopping etc couple of times.

Personal anecdote:

one of my colleagues was recently discussing about replacing his 6 year old laptop that he rarely uses, one of our architects commented : "I don't understand why anyone would need a personal laptop at home. We can use our work laptop for anything that our mobile can't do". I was surprised to hear that from an architect and even more surprised to see many others nod in agreement.

Edit: fixed a typo
The workflow is actually the exact same for the dev and retail Pockets. Both have an exposed JTAG port, but for the retail Pocket, you just need to remove the "hump" on the lower back. You want to make sure you get an official USB Blaster (https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Terasic-Technologies/P0...), because they negotiate a lower voltage level with the Pocket (someone blew their JTAG port using a cheap one).

For a beginner, the Pocket is definitely easier. With MiSTer, you're building a bunch of other framework code that isn't your own, and that adds a lot of iteration time. I also think the Pocket APIs are more refined, but also more limited. I've already written some info about this - https://www.reddit.com/r/fpgagaming/comments/1318jsr/tamagot...
There is an ongoing spike on downdetector's chart: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/

Web version works for me on desktop right now though.
Are they wrong? Seems like a really solid way to back a ponzi token right?
You are falling into the meta-trap of misunderstanding the Luddites.

The Luddites weren't idiots, nor they were against progress. They revolted because the way the new technology was applied was destroying their specialization, and in many cases, destroying their lives.

The promise of "reallocating skilled workers to new areas" is bullshit at the individual level. What's being reallocated is the new generation, the kids that grow to specialize in the new area instead of the old one. The specialists from the old area aren't being transferred along with rank and pay. They get to restart at the junior level, with commensurate pay, while they retain their age, their living costs, their families and other dependents. Even the kids of those "reallocated" old-timers aren't going to partake fully in the newly opened fields of work - they'll be weighed down by the fallout of their families suddenly dropping a level or two on the living standards ladder.

The Luddites rebelled because their lives were being destroyed. And the people who did the destruction? They didn't give two damns about what society will get out of it. They did it only because they saw a way to cut costs down and increase their own profits. You don't get to criticize Luddites for selfishness when the other side was just as selfish, if not more.
I also really like "We Are What We Behold"[0], Nicky's projects are always clever and thought-provoking.

[0] https://ncase.itch.io/wbwwb
No, of course you’re right to be! I owe myself another lap through this material and this is a good push…
On holding these conflicting beliefs:

"I can just picture myself being examined by a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist says, “What year is it?” And I reply, “A.D. 50.” The psychiatrist blinks and then asks, “And where are you?” I reply, “In Judaea.” “Where the heck is that?” the psychiatrist asks. “It’s part of the Roman Empire,” I would have to answer. “Do you know who is President?” the psychiatrist would ask, and I would answer, “The Procurator Felix.” “You’re pretty sure about this?” the psychiatrist would ask, meanwhile giving a covert signal to two very large psych techs. “Yep,” I’d replay. “Unless Felix has stepped down and had been replaced by the Procurator Festus. You see, Saint Paul was held by Felix for —” “Who told you all this?” the psychiatrist would break in, irritably, and I would reply, “The Holy Spirit.” And after that I’d be in the rubber room, inside gazing out, and knowing exactly how come I was there. Everything in that conversation would be true, in a sense, although palpably not true in another. I know perfectly well that the date is 1978 and that Jimmy Carter is President and that I live in Santa Ana, California, in the United States. I even know how to get from my apartment to Disneyland, a fact I can’t seem to forget. And surely no Disneyland existed back at the time of Saint Paul.

So, if I force myself to be very rational and reasonable, and all those other good things, I must admit that the existence of Disneyland (which I know is real) proves that we are not living in Judaea in A.D. 50. The idea of Saint Paul whirling around in the giant teacups while composing First Corinthians, as Paris TV films him with a telephoto lens — that just can’t be. Saint Paul would never go near Disneyland. Only children, tourists, and visiting Soviet high officials ever go to Disneyland. Saints do not."
Only 1% of Utah practices polygamy while the Majority of Utahans are Mormon.
Separate your personal happiness from your job. Who knows what the future holds, maybe it won't be working in tech. Be ready for anything IMHO. It might get better, or it might not any time soon. But the sun will come up again tomorrow, and the day after and after etc.
They might not care about the teams anymore, but even going to antiquity, modern historians are always busy trying to shoehorn in their beliefs and ideology. A large non-English history publication I follow has in recent years started to explain every new archeological find with "they were trying to impress their neighbours".

Find the remains of a huge ship where you didn't expect it?
- Trying to impress neighbours.

Find fortifications in a place and from an age where you have no record of conflict?
- Trying to impress neighbours.

The reason of course is because these historians all have gone to universities and live in this city where the inhabitants are infamous for their anxiety to impress their neighbours.

So historians might not root for any team anymore, but they see historical research as mainly a tool to justify and spread their own beliefs. Of course there are much more polemic examples than the one I gave above.