skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So not to get meta but a lot of presumably brilliant people here are showing their ignorance on a topic they have no clue about. I went through medical school and still don’t feel as confident about my beliefs. Is this what’s the Dunning-Kruger effect?
FB actively uses it, so it's a win win isn't it?
I do not know about every case of course, but in any case I know it was a long read ay the notary office where the content was the same each time.

I owned three apartments and it was all the same every time. My brother bought two houses - same. Similar for friends.

I am not sure what can vary from house to house which is not handled by the regulation. The pre-contract and contract elements are all very strict (who pays what, what the engagements are and it is not negotiable), the the house must adhere to the code except when listed, there is a time where you can raise issues that must be fixed etc.

To be clear, I do not doubt that there are edge cases but in the, say, 50 cumulated cases I know of there has never been a deviation from the standard contract. The value of the notary in France is to gather evidence, check that everything is there and read the contract over an hour or so. If it was more digitalized, I think we could bypass that part entirely for standard purchases.
Economic growth would certainly suffer if we insisted that no one could ever be let go.
I'm not trash talking Englebart, in any way, I'm just saying the minimalist web approach was not at all obvious. To many, many pioneers there were a lot of sophisticated features they though would be absolutely essential to any pervasive hypertext system, that turned out not to be.
Not emotionally.
> But now we are at the dawn of the AI era and the new capabilities that are unlocked by that are unprecedented. Shopify has the privilege of being amongst the companies with the best chances of using AI to help our customers. A copilot for entrepreneurship is now possible. Our main quest demands from us to build the best thing that is now possible, and that has just changed entirely.

Most recent layoffs have been framed around needing to focus the company due to economic and market headwinds. This reads like AI has transformed the mission.

What does "A copilot for entrepreneurship is now possible" mean here?
It was only when I started writing my own sxhkd-inspired hotkey daemon[1] for Windows that I really started to appreciate just how _good_ AHK is. Even just for hotkey binding, AHK does some incredibly clever stuff very transparently to provide for such an excellent end-user experience. For example, using system hooks automatically when the user tries to bind a hotkey combination that is reserved by the system (usually win+something) is implemented so well. Really excellent software and I miss it when I'm using Linux or macOS.

[1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/whkd
I don’t think it’s even a token gesture. Someone (the author) just cared enough to do the paperwork and set up the meetings + it couldn’t be monetized in a meaningful way. Most companies are mundane boring places.
It's incredibly easy to game that architecture in a low-trust environment, though. If a team owns the interface definition of their microservice, they can just declare all callers' problems an instance of "holding it wrong".
Or worse, automatically calling the police.
The House Painter and the Architect
> How can a corporation be furious?

In the same way that an agency can propose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche
> Mark is a target. You're not.

Define the word "target".

I would argue that for the likes of Facebook and Google, they consider anyone fair game.

Of course they would never use the word "target", but ...
I make red-cyan anaglyph images

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaglyph_3D

the image processing is something that can be done easily with a shader since you blend certain colors from the right image with certain colors of the left image. There are various reasons why this is good to do on the client device, for instance it is usually necessary to shift the images horizontally a bit to control the depth relative to the screen, doing it on the client means the end user can twist this knob.

Wide color gamut screens are common these days (my iPad and a Dell monitor I have) and these have a green primary that is more saturated than the green primary of sRGB so if you ask for (0,180,0) you really get something like (16,176,16) so a little bit of the green shows through your red filter which is really annoying.

If I process the images ahead of time I can serve up a wide gamut image and really get a pure green, but WebGL can only render in the sRGB color space. WebGPU can, on the other hand, render in a wide gamut space which is great for my application.
I never said it was the purpose. It's obviously not the purpose of them, I'm saying that I find that it adds just a touch more required activation energy to check my phone, so I am a bit less likely to.
US defense firms vow more cooperation
The Word Entropy of Natural Languages (2016)
Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2023
There are a lot of factors at play here (for humans in general).
I myself, in my 50s, painfully clearly experience the contrast between the 'automatic recall' of any random stuff from the time of e.g. my early twenties,
with not remembering anything particular happening a few days ago, unless I focus and luck has it something imprinted (wrong word).
In spite of this, I believe I retain significant parts of my 2049 viewing, which I did appreciate, for what a "II Movie" might be.
My main point if any being, my retaining or not retaining stuff from a particular movie has as much and more to do with my state at that given time, than with the movie in question.
Another thing, to my dimmed sensibilities, is that I view Blade Runner as a more 'clear and basic' film (in a positive way)
- "Hunter track down renegade robots".
I cannot as clearly describe 2049, I assume because it was interwoven of many thinner threads, K or not be damned.
I am not saying that one movie has threads and the other not,
but they are 'cut' differently, differently textured.
The unspoken part in many of these layoffs, is that hiring people based on 5 back to back zooms, 50% leetcode, 50% STAR-method situational questions, means you have absolutely no idea how these people will actually work in the real world
I can copy-paste some of Haskell definitions into Agda source file and vice versa. I can copy-paste some of C code into C++ source and vice versa. Given C preprocessor, some Lisp code can be moved into C or other languages.

The likeness of languages' syntaxes does not mean they are the same.
If you spend time around the FOSS arms of most companies the value they see first is in PR, the second is recruiting, the third is free work. The engineers lead the projects out of passion but what the company sees is opportunity.
It’s declared in a footnote.
Huh, I suppose we're both right. Large language models are markov models since their transition probabilities are completely determined by the input. Consequently they cannot generate and recognize matching brackets correctly.

In practice however the state space is so humongously large that this barely comes up in any reasonable example.
This is not how recessions work.
It's unfortunate that a scope cleanup mechanism, like __attribute__((cleanup)), wasn't introduced. There was a proposal for one but it relied on lambda's which didn't make the cut for C23.
Unrelated to the content of the article, the effect on the left sidebar (white text on green, blending in diagonally with the same text green on white as you scroll) looks visually interesting.
It's explained right there in the same paragraph,

- "she feared aggressive landlords could use the tech to issue petty lease violations against tenants, which could eventually lead to their eviction"

Selective enforcement is a tool for capricious abuses. If you allow landlords to spy on their tenants with automated systems, passively collecting vast amounts of data, it's very easy for them to "find" an infraction if they deliberately set out to find one. It empowers petty tyrants.
Volvo Cars to layoff 1,300
Roads are less complicated and "break down" much less often than buses. They are inherently "better maintained."

The number and type of people who complain when roads are bad means the government pays more attention to that than buses.
Wasn’t a fan of the Three Stigmata, personally.

I quite like to recommend “A Maze Of Death” as a starter, and the short story collections.

There are some very weird (and IMHO great) concept novels like “Flow My Tears the Policeman Said”.

And of course there’s “A Scanner Darkly”

After a while you get a feeling there’s a sort of semi-coherent PKD reality out there, in which continuity is less important than the concept being played with, but the background is consistent in its own odd way.
HDDs typically failed under 3 years in Backblaze study of 17,155 failed drives
To be fair, at the attitude this will fly there won't be enough air for it to breathe anyway.
Low wages a security risk: NSB
Maybe this? but then it has nothing to do with face recognition but with any kind of renovation:

> he saw it as a sneaky attempt to jack up prices in a gentrifying area and force people like him out.

“They were trying to find ways to expedite ways of flushing people out of the building and then try to market new flipped-over apartments to gentrifiers,” Rogers told Gizmodo.
Greenlake?
Very few Americans died over the 20 year war in Afghanistan. In comparison, over 60,000 died in Vietnam.

The military did its job.

If a country can’t stand on its own, the military can’t fix that.

“There were 2,402 United States military deaths in the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021). 1,921 of these deaths were the result of hostile action.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casua....
technically they're all throw away after the heat death of the universe
Companies Should Hold Offsites
Track 61
There already is a Tesla jailbreak scene. Guess more cars will start having jailbreaks.
>> I fail to see how management and leadership at companies still have jobs and huge bonuses

I definitely agree in situations where the company is doing poorly. If a company has found a way to become more efficient then bosses probably do deserve bonuses.
Landscaping is a perfect example of how an individual can instantaneously create value in the economy. Banks can create currency, but individuals can magically create value.

How? Decide you want your yard to look different. On a whim. Just decide you want a hill over there with a ring of bushes on top. Congratulations, you have created demand. Pay a local crew to have it done, money flows into the economy, everybody eats.

For greater effect, manufacture a cultural preference so that entire country clubs of people at a time decide that all hills need bonzai trees at their crest -- have all the clubbers pay all the landscaping crews.

A golf course is just a jobs program /s
I wonder what the environmental impact of this would be, and I wonder how much different it would be if the trip took an hour and a half, or two instead. Because, like, probably not very things are actually in /that/ much of a rush.
Isn’t a waitlist the #1 way to kill your startup?
That is absolutely disgraceful. I have been furious after much smaller things like being told an interview will be system design when it was actually a LeetCode style interview. Can't imagine how that must have felt.
That machine taught me Wordstar... but I agree, otherwise, it was a mess.
The fastest "real aircraft" was the SR-71, and it was already ridiculously expensive to keep it running at just above Mach 3. The program was cancelled due to costs, too expensive for what it was providing in the age of cheaper and better satellites. We (as in humans) couldn't even keep the expensive Concorde going, and the Concorde was delivered free of charge to British Airways and Air France. This project is just a wild dream.
This was a pretty terrible article.
Despite the interesting factoid it was a slog to read.
I don't think it is. The AI would indeed tell you how the OP would feel if he were given the same news and asked the same question.
>Do you need a screenshot and red box around the text or would you believe me if I tell you it is written on their lambda pricing page near the beginning ? It's also written in docs about configuring lambad functions so at this point it is PEBKAC/RTFM issue, not "them not being upfront"

Simple CPU time calculator on the pricing calculator page when you enter the RAM would be sufficient, linking to the said docs. Trivial to implement, really cleans up things when planning resource costs.
I had almost an identical experience, except I was local to Ottawa at the time. Literally a full day of back-to-back interviews. They asked which languages and technologies I was comfortable with, and then gave me a pair programming session with someone who didn't even speak to me, in a programming language I wasn't comfortable in, leading me to have to look up a lot of syntax. Radio silence for a week, then I called the original recruiter and they just basically said "no."
> No. Money is what enables ordinary people to produce creative output and feed themselves while not depending on others.

Money is the embodiment of being dependent on others. You can't eat money. Money has no use except to exchange for something else.

> We're living in the first time in human history where producing cultural output is now available to most people, rather than a privilege of a minority sponsored by patrons at a royal court or privileged heirs.

There was some "high art" that wan't available to everyone but saying the majority of cultural output was. Sharing it was just not as efficient as it is today.

> This is because, not despite the fact, that culture is now a business.

No, it's because copying digital content costs nothing.

Also because farming has become efficient enough that we don't actually need everyone to work full time to survive. Not even close to. But we are still stuck in an economic model that is based on trading scarce resources.
Facebook (and much of social media) is the modern day Philip Morris peddling addictive experiences...except the harm is way less obvious. Folks arent getting cancer, but they are wrecking their mental health. The difference is social media falls under the first amendment and is much harder to regulate.

It's a borderline national security issue, too.
Smartening up a whole-home humidifier
There, fixed. And what’s the elevator pitch for your killer app written in elixerust?
> would it be possible to come up with our own bill that addresses CSAM in a way that is compatible with our general values in technology

Who is the in that 'our'? That's exactly what this bill is for specific values of our.
Tide is changing friend

I'm as surprised as anyone how quickly, but I think it's a great thing to see
Sure; but you’ll need to learn all those other features if you want to read other people’s code.

I was adamantly against Javascript adding OO-style classes and public/private methods and stuff for that reason. More stuff in the language makes it strictly harder to learn. Even if I don’t want to use those language features myself, I will inevitably end up reading and debugging other people’s code which does use those features. So I still need to learn it all, even if I don’t ever see myself using that stuff.
It’s axiomatic. If someone is willing to pay then it’s by definition not useless. Pet rocks are fine as a luxury good. That’s what a wedding ring is.
Missing the forest for the trees is foregoing a decent solution that a single city could implement in 12 hours for a solution that will literally never happen ever.

You think Montana is (or should) expose a complete picture of a citizen’s financial situation so that New York City can issue tickets a bit more fairly in the event that citizen visits NYC?

Won’t happen.

The point is not to punish every single violator exactly fairly, it’s to more effectively deter violations among everyone
I wish ({...}) had been in C23.
Here, probably not (with proper arguments at least; without the parens something like `MAX(1;2, 3)` would compile without errors though), but I'm just used to doing it everywhere.
> I think deliberately manipulating kids is heinous

Religion has entered the chat.
> If you're pissing off Facebook, you're probably doing something right.

^^ THIS !

I remember when Apple hardened iOS so that Facebook & co. could no longer mis-use the system do do evil things such as silently monitor pasteboard contents.

Facebook took out enormous billboard ads at the time in major cities on which they exercised their tiny woe-is-me violin, trying to pretend Apple was the evil one.
I paid for Windows once and continue to get updates. Same for my eInk tablet. Why should my car not be the same?
Not that I would call Wikipedia the epicenter of truth, but...

> what hope will a historian have in a hundred years in understanding the truth of our time

It could be really insightful if it's possible to see how a specific wikipedia article evolved on an annual basis over the past 100 years, assuming it's still around.

E.g. for the most political topics, like "abortion", I imagine an annual snapshot and comparing the page between years/eras would provide a lot of historical insight on how "truth" shifts year to year.
Wasn't it 73 years ago?
How do the 7B, 13B, 30B, and 65B parameter models compare?
> compile speed and debug-ability

I wish people would prioritize this more.

With every new langauge that comes out, sure it brings a few interesting features, but it always takes 5+ years for IDE support, a good debugger, and compile speed (if ever) to arrive.

Good debugging tooling and compiler speed probably outweighs all the other benefits in the long run. Rust is a good example. JavaScript transpiling too. And once it arrives, people will probably be onto the next new language that barely has IDE syntax highlighting ready.

> pythons horrible package management

It really is terrible. The import system is so convoluted, but I guess it's quite old.

Python really needs a good monorepo-friendly package manager like Node's pnpm.

Even though the ESM transition is a clusterfuck, the new module system is actually quite nice and straightforward if you don't need to touch older code.
This is not a synecdoche, it is at best anthropomorphizing.
But but freedom, free market blah blah. That's the argument I receive.
I strongly believe the free market only works when a business is small, but not when companies become big.
Fortran was the first compiled language, that is, the first language at a level higher than assembler. But Algol was a block-structured language in a way that Fortran wasn't, and virtually all languages of that "group" are block-structured today ("goto considered harmful" and all that). So Algol is more appropriate as the "prototype" of what exists today.
No, it won't. It's economically infeasible even if it can be made to work technically.

Companies like that are just scams to extract money from investors and use it to play with toys.
I know that Macs can give that level of assurance. One click from the MDM can brick the machine out to the point where it cannot even be booted from external media without a code, and another trashes the encryption keys and does a factory reset.
An article like this is hard to write. This is a good one. I have a few quibbles, but they are just quibbles.

IMHO* a distinguishing feature of Algol like languages (aka "procedural" languages) is the distinction between expressions and statements. Though personally I've never seen the appeal, that distinction seems to be popular for some reason.

* this isn't even a quibble -- the article is fine without it. Just something that has always seemed weird to me.
I think offsites/all-hands/whatever-you-want-to-call-them are vital - especially* with mostly- or all-remote teams
California’s population declines, again, as state grapples with housing crisis
That's... horrible. How much does it take to keep streaming the show you already paid to develop? It seems malicious to downright delete it and remove it from the digital libraries of people who purchased the show.

I hate corporate decisions. If this show lives on, it will be thanks to piracy. Thank the pirates!
The end of an era. The SPARC ISA was a work of art.
Freetsa.org provides a free Time Stamp Authority
> When Bezos was still at the helm of Amazon in the 2000s, the investors demanded a profit (and a dividend?). Not giving in, he kept reinvesting any earnings back in the business for years to come.

Lots of differences. #1 is Amazon was not losing tons of money. They were also doing something novel and building physical infrastructure. Investing in an online retail business when there were few others (none at Amazon scale) is far different than investing in one with tons of competitors and low barrier to entry.

>The current flavour of capitalism is more heavily tuned for profits over other parameters such as employee satisfaction and morale.

People have always like more money than less money.
Proposal: Alternate spelling of .go in file names
I'm aware - but that's hardly their first foray into the space is what I'm trying to say. I guess 'abandoning expansion' can be read multiple ways :)
Spinrilla Will Shut Down and Pay $50M Piracy Damages to Music Labels
If you fire 100% the business stops working. The stock would plummet.

See: twitter
What do you mean by storage orchestration? Can you give some examples?
It also wouldn’t matter. Financial “gifts” to family members can only be seen as an attempt at corruption/influence. Is that a common loophole allowed in corporate/government employee/ federal judge anti-corruption regs?
I hope this is true, but we’ll see how people treat Russia in a decade.
I’m not a fan of Villeneuve after this and Dune.

2049 really laboured it’s ‘noir’ credentials at points and seemed deliberately slow and ponderous.

And the modern Dune seemed like almost a conscious reaction against the visual excesses of the old Dune. It was austere, there seemed little human affection between characters, little emotion. It was just so dry.
The solution has been explained over and over, time and time again: federal prosecutors need to prioritize investigation of such crimes in a targeted manner. Note the government's record on doing their job on this issue is somewhat problematic:

> "FBI opens settlement talks with gymnasts who survived abuse by Larry Nassar
Updated July 28, 20224:27 PM ET (NPR)"

I don't know why it needs to be said again and again that the existence of criminal behavior isn't an excuse for warrantless domestic mass surveillance, but apparently it does.
Show HN: Bamboo Weekly, Pandas exercises based on current events
How about if the trip never occured at all and they had a zoom meeting? Does this even need to be a zoom meeting, why not a slack convo?
Meanwhile, just play Starcraft 2 to get an internship: https://i.redd.it/amk31bewfxt31.jpg
Of course not. They’re caused by the fed.
Your comment has me confused. First you say

> Google needs to be innovative, build new products and invest in them.

and then

> Take a look at what went on at Meta. They took the money they could've returned to investors and lit it on fire.

You're criticizing Zuck for doing exactly what you said Google should do. Granted the price tag was huge, but you can't innovate without building and testing something first.
Three Stigmata is really bizarre, and probably not for everyone. I do think it, Ubik, and VALIS are the best examples of his "what is reality" explorations.
I completely disagree. Even if you are concerned about evil maids (which are comparatively very rare), it is not the case that passkeys are "strictly worse" than a password. The core advantage is that they cannot be phished. And not only does phishing exist, it is way more common than people stealing your hardware used to authenticate you with a passkey.
I definitely got the feeling when I read Rushdie that I was just reading a Pynchon who was a little too eager to let you in on all his very clever little jokes.