skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> no manual shortcut setup. just one click to add an app you want to moderate

Is that true? When I click an app I'd like to moderate I see yellow text saying "Finish Setup!" Then I'm brought to the recorded video explaining how to do the shortcut setup.

One click set up would be sweet, but I'd be somewhat surprised to hear apple lets you do the whole shortcut setup for the user.

Would also be nice if the interrupt after your chosen amount of time were more intrusive, like apple's screentime notification is. And if you could make us do the breathing exercise again at that point.

Regardless, think the app is very cool. I've been using a flip phone for a while to break phone addiction, which has been great overall. But I still keep my iphone around for things like traveling and a night out where I may need to use uber, and this seems like a great middle ground.
I just tried this. The UI and UX are hideous. I don't see why any iPhone user would even consider switching to a Samsung phone based on this very underwhelming demo.
Don't forget fission industry shills. They are quite active here and are happy to remember everyone that "fission is our only way out" (TM).
How exactly is it a 'natural reversion' when even high performing employees are now effectively taking a massive pay cut due to the salary freeze and inflation?
> People going out of their way to declare

Isn’t this a bit dramatic? It’s a demo to which people are replying with their preferences. Some fly flags, but most debate features and priorities.
Microsoft would have a claim as a creditor. It's more than nothing, but it is a paper promise.
Inside.java
Oh, I fully expected attendance to be low at 4:30PM on a Wednesday. What I didn't expect was to be the only two people watching it.
> It’s not that difficult. You can mine it from the surface of the moon...

Ha! One of those "only on HN" comments. What would qualify as "difficult"? Mining it on Pluto?

Not criticizing though. I'm glad there are people out there who aren't deterred by these sorts of challenges.
For Maximum Flow (and Minimal Cut) through flow network we are getting close to linear time:

2022 Paper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00671
Thanks for the detailed process and the cool project.

Do you have any plans to support Ping Federate? Since they took over Auth0 from Okta, they have raised prices like hell and a project like this really makes sense.
Yet they're making huge stock buybacks and profits each quarter... something is fishy.

This is going to royally backfire as soon as the first big tech company blinks and starts hiring and poaching frustrated engineers. The exact same thing happened in the aftermath of '08 where companies that cut and held salaries flat were scrambling in '09 to retain and keep engineers--I distinctly remember Microsoft doing an across the board increase in salary to try to stem the bleeding and attrition.
It's worth noting that the podcast search website makes request to Apple's podcast search API, then formats the results.

I would be interested if OP could glean enough from GPT to build the search index as well, a much more complicated project.
The resale value of domains has fallen through the floor, especially .io. I assume because of the huge number of TLDs now available and the familiarity of them by the general populace. I tried selling, then auctioning my domain rb.io for months and finally accepted an offer of $2k. A few years ago a two letter domain like that would have gotten 5 to 10 times as much. I know because I was an early adopter of .io domains and sold karma, clever, flip, xs and maven for $8k to $10k over the years. I was shocked at the disinterest I got in my last one.
Feels redundant
Yep, definitely. I think it'd be a good fit - email hello [at] lungy [dot] app
I think you fundamentally misunderstood the OP's point. They're not trying to use their ai.txt as any sort of deterrent, legal or otherwise.

They are trying to use it as a form of extended metadata for training AIs. Essentially, "ah I see you're training using my website! Here's some extra info about it: [...]"
As a percentage of the SP500, it's never been higher.

This is important because (a) economic performance is relative (b) the most likely thing (or at least the most advisable thing) for anyone who receives MSFT RSUs is to immediately sell them and use the proceeds to buy more diversified investments.
My point is that likely GP and others are aware of these concerns and make their decision knowing the consequences, not that they are oblivious due to privilege.

I was trying to communicate that we should assume best intentions and not that someone is stupid and “privileged.” I put privileged in quotes not because it doesn’t exist, it does, but assuming someone’s privilege is not a good idea and few know others well enough to do so.
Even if ITER succeeded tomorrow on every one of their goals, it would be worthless.
You could try having a relative offer $40 and steadfastly refuse to negotiate any higher than $50. Might make your offer sound a lot better. Or it might backfire because now they think two people want it.
> this is an EXCELLENT decision. It really is a _lazy_ method to handle layoffs

That's one way to see it. You could also see it as a tremendous blunder. The people who will "self-layoff" are not the low producing team memebers. These are the people who know their value and have competitive even better offers elsewhere. You just took anyone with a modicum of ambition, skill or talent who was already contemplating a move and gave them a big ol' nudge to do it. People who are low producing will put up with what they have to. They may complain but they won't self select out.
> folks from India and other low trust societies would mercilessly cheat on their projects and exams, blatantly helping one another on individual works, and the college knew about it and didn't care. When I had brought this up at one point, I was told by a professor that it was a cultural difference that had to be respected

I mean I'm sympathetic to your experience, the treatment you're describing is unfair, but... that also sounds pretty racist.
Salaries and hiring have been frozen since 2021.
If you are in a relationship where you are being abused, putting boundaries on that relationship is not a "tendency to isolation".
This is worse from a corporate greed perspective because it is effectively saying that Microsoft can't afford to give out a pay raise to anyone. Meanwhile, they had a net income of $17.6 billion last quarter[1].

A layoff can at least be due to a change in direction or some departments, teams, or employees not delivering the necessary value to justify their continued employment. This is saying no one at Microsoft is delivering enough value to deserve a raise despite the company still being profitable. That is objectively not true. There are certainly people at Microsoft that deserve raises and the company can clearly pay for those raises with their billions in profit.

There is no reason to do this other than Microsoft feels it can get away with it.

[1] - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/earnings/fy-2023-q1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continenta...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_power_transmiss...
>It's something I did, and it's neat yet strange to see it being done to a part of my past.

Agree. I read recently that digital cameras have been taking off among younger people in the way vinyl took off among millennials. I'm excited to see how people that grew up with excessive, toxic social media manage to find better solutions for dealing with the internet
What's your sample?
And yet, at exactly this time last year:

"Microsoft to Nearly Double Salary Budgets, Expand Stock Compensation"

https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/compensatio...

So they are freezing after the doubling? This behavior seems skittish and an overreaction, especially given their continued profitability and high margins. Corporate executive behavior reminds me of interacting with ChatGPT:

Exec: "What should I do to retain people?"

GPT: "One possibility is to double your salary budget and expand stock compensation."

Exec: "All my golf buddies' are cutting compensation at their companies, what should I do?"

GPT: "In this situation, try freezing salaries and reducing stock compensation."
Congratulations on the OSS launch! Was it always in the cards to open source Cedar?

I'm excited to see you've found a way to bring verification that exists in non-policy-based authorization solutions to Cedar. Was that functionality the driving factor that made the team create something new instead of leveraging the widely adopted Rego/OPA[0] stack for policy?

It looks like this talk[1] briefly covers why you made Cedar, but I'd be eager to hear more about the trade-offs in design, because other policy languages are leveraging decades of formal research on Datalog.

Disclosure: I work on SpiceDB[2], an authorization database inspired by Google's Zanzibar system[3], but I wouldn't say Cedar is directly competitive as SpiceDB is not a policy-based system.

[0]: https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs/latest/policy-language/

[1]: https://youtu.be/k6pPcnLuOXY?t=2037

[2]: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb

[3]: https://zanzibar.tech
An AWS IAM Wishlist
This seems a little bit hysterical for trawling LinkedIn for recruitment targets. Seeing that's, y'know, basically the entire point of LinkedIn.
I missed the search and maps improvements. What did they say?
At least you can argue the second derivative is getting better for tech...(i.e. we're going from layoffs to just salary freezes..)
We would rather spend a small amount of money maintaining an existing system which supports all dynamic transit systems than throwing them out and using a much more static system. This seems really obvious.

Cities aren't bankrupted by roads, roads are what give cities lifelines. Trains and buses are an incredibly poor substitute in all but the densest of regions.
... guess that's why it's comprehensive ^_^
they've executed brilliantly, glad to see it's working well for you. along with the one-tap setup and social accountability features you point out, other noticeable differences between their solution and our are

- we can pull you out of an app at the end of the time you intended to use it for

- we support restricting websites

- we let you accumulate your progress over time via a streak, which is quite motivating (at least for me personally)
- Woodpecker CI: https://woodpecker-ci.org/

- Drone CI: https://www.drone.io/

- Buildbot: https://buildbot.net/

- Gitea Actions: https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/usage/actions/overview/

- Fogejo Actions: https://forgejo.org/2023-02-27-forgejo-actions/

- GitLab Runners: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner

You could also use Ansible playbooks/roles to run your build, although that's going to be a bit more manual: https://www.ansible.com/

Not necessarily endorsing any of the alternatives, just pointing them out.
Post 2008, tech companies on the west coast easily beat out financial firms in NYC/Chicago on pay to quality of life ratio, and especially on pay per hour measures.

And as you said, the number of high paying jobs (in the multiple hundred thousand dollar range) in finance is much less than the number of high paying jobs in tech. It makes sense given the heavily subpar performance of financial companies relative to tech companies in the last 15 years.
The way I've always thought of stuff like this is to offer a free tier and a paid tier. Free tier gets access to most of the stuff and paid access gets you the premium things. You can also do a cheaper tier and premium tier if you're concerned about operational costs.
I kind of knew the answer when I posted the question. It's also hard to properly price something like an audio plugin, right? Niche customer base, poor customer base (musicians)… the people making money, audio engineers and such, want to work on the "best" hardware for their job, which basically means a traditional computer.

I do believe that using a modern touchscreen interface to creative software unlocks more potential than simply using a keyboard and mouse. Touching interfaces to control sound just seems like it would hold a lot more creative potential energy to me.
"You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAFd4FdbJxs
Chessbase and the Stockfish developers came to an agreement after that public court hearing.[1] I don't think it changes the landscape at all and it doesn't help MacOS or Linux users, so I agree with all you said.

X is to Chessbase for data as Lichess is to Chess.com for play. Solve for X.

I'll open my wallet for a community/open equivalent. But €500 and Chessbase's mildly bewildering selection and tiers of subscription services are too rich for this amateur hack.[2]

[1] https://www.chess.com/news/view/chessbase-stockfish-reach-se...

[2] https://shop.chessbase.com/en/products/chessbase_17_premium_...
That said, Falcon 9 actually flies and is a very reliable rocket; SpaceX does not seem to be "cheating" in the classical sense of the word, but making money due to genuine innovative capability.
Interesting, thanks for the tip! I think what grandparent may have been referring to is if you run a generator with one set of arguments, make changes to the generated code, then you want to rerun the generator to regenerate the code with a different set of arguments.

For example if you have a generator that has an argument for which logging library to use, you might want to change the logging library later. Maybe a bad example.

I think this is where LLMs can thrive. Has anyone investigated using LLMs for resolving merge conflicts?
GPT isn't going to steal anyones jobs. It's just the new outsourcing where the big thing in the 2000s was to try and outsource your work as much as possible. Except that problem came to roost quickly due to poor code quality and the cost to fix it was more than the cost to make it good in the first place.

Same issue with GPT. It's generating low quality, poor performing, poorly designed code. Any company using it as a basis will be in trouble.
Yes&

If you like that angle I think you’d really like the part of this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6pPcnLuOXY from Emina Torlak, goes into how they were able to have duel implementations to get both performance and formal correctness.
Well in part I didn't understand your point because you didn't mention division as an exception.

But even then, multiplication causes an explosion in number length if you do it repeatedly.

When you specifically talk about numbers not being in computers, I think it's fair to talk about digit limits. Most real-world use of decimals is done with less precision than the 16 digits we default to in computers. Let alone growing to 50, 100, 200, etc as you keep multiplying numbers together to perform some kind of analysis. Nobody uses decimal like that. Real-world decimal is lossy for a large swath of multiplication.

I agree that if you're doing something like just adding numbers repeatedly in decimal, and those numbers have no repeating digits, then you have a nice purity of never losing precision. That's worth something. But on the other hand if you started with the same kind of numbers in floating point, let's say about 9 digits long, you could still add a million of them without losing precision.

And nobody has said anything about irrational numbers as you dismissed in your other comment.

So in summary: decimal division, usually lossy; decimal multiplication, usually lossy; decimal addition and subtraction, lossless but with the same kind of source numbers FP is usually lossless too
> socialism exists to take the reins of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie

> doesn't have the same connotation of "ruling over others without their consent".

Usually taking things by force requires violating consent. That is a very basic tenant of Commmunism. The bourgeoisie are forcibly removed from power, with arms, usually killed, and their property taken.

> whose contradictions are propped up by a force-monopoly in the form of "a state"

And how is the dictatorship of the proletariat preserved against the minority who disagrees? Hint, it involves rifles and usually firing squads.

> society can be transitioned over time into one where a state no longer needs to exist

Yes, that's gone so well up to date. Dictators with extreme powers over entire states are well known for quietly surrendering their power and moving to a form of utopic anarchy.

Even Marx couldn't answer how the utopic Communist post-state society actually continued it's existence without a state. "The vanguard" who at best are stateless secret police?

> in the meantime, the state takes control over some amount of enterprise and manages it for its own goals

Correct

> Is that a bad thing?

DMV, VA, Census Bureau, the IRS.

> USPS is one of this country's most-popular and most-reliable services

and is private but government directed

> In a world where for-profit healthcare in the US is famously more expensive

and has no waiting lists compared to 14.5 weeks in the UK at the moment and 20.9 weeks in Canada

> and less effective than nationalized healthcare

The US is in the top 10 for survival rates for most diseases/conditions (eg cancer) and we beat out the UK and Canada significantly. We have a lower life expectancy because we are too fat.
Yes, and if the comment implied a purely electrical connection, it is likely not the case either, as there is electrical to optical and vice versa transitions throughout.
I think the bigger costs are/will be associated with AI plays. I would guess MS is protecting the war chest for some bidding wars.
I can imagine that, but because I know about finance I know that in reality a person in the US could not exchange $35 for an ounce of gold in 1971. In theory sovereign nations had that right up until 1972, but in practice lots of agreements between nations made in the decade and a half before 1972 undermined that right by limiting exchanges or asking foreign governments to hold dollars in place of gold.
Other manufacturers do worse and prevent boot if your PCI ids aren't on a positive list.

This is for example present on thinkpads, and while you could patch the bios before, Intel bootguard now prevents you do that "for your own protection" :)

I hope the MSI leak contains actual bootguard keys for intel 11th gen+, and can be used to allow "unauthorized" PCI modules on modern thinkpads!
Those unknown tracker alerts are pretty cool, they should add something similar to chrome.
How's the multi-user story? Do you use Quarto at work with other people?
Because creative expression can be exchanged for goods and services? Why should metal, wood, or special paper notes be owned? It's to represent work done and value to other people.
Companies "conjure up money out of thin air" by increasing prices and passing the cost on to consumers.
Their antics have been of questionable legality, and I would assume they'd try to avoid drawing too much attention, given that this is the 3rd US-based company they're trying to hack, and the US just might ask for an extradition.

Further, the conclusion about Jenkins being the attack vector is drawn without much thought or explanation, and it is also interesting that they've used the same attack vector elsewhere.
Good question! Security is our highest priority - here's a few key things we've done to help ensure the privacy of customer data:

- We offer on-prem deployments on all cloud platforms, so your data never needs to leave your infrastructure

- We're on the verge of receiving our SOC2 Type 2 certification

- All data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and lives in an isolated private subnet
I don't think it is 99% of the given workday.

By their published stats, surely. In actuality the number of times I go to do a git operation and it fails because GitHub is being flakey is pretty high, and most of the time when I check the status page, it's clean.
I use both an iPhone and a Pixel and like both. It's unfortunate most people base their opinions of Android based on the Samsung UI/UX.
Psychoactive substance use by professional programmers
I taught myself to code just to build a prototype of an app I wanted to create. My plan was to launch the prototype, get some market feedback, and then find a technical cofounder or hire someone.

It took me 8-10 months of learning to build a prototype. But then GPT-4 came along and I could suddenly ask it questions about features I wanted to add. I then realized that there were so many features I could build on my own.

It has made me far more ambitious as a noob programmer.
ZFS is effectively log-structured. It's what the BSD 4.4 LFS wanted to be. In many ways the two are remarkably similar. ZFS merely solved the problems that had been left unsolved (like garbage collection / free space management), dropped the "all the blocks in a transaction must be contiguous" part, added the ZIL for speed, added a notion of volumes that contain multiple datasets, and reified snapshots.

Log-structured and CoW are very closely related.
Microsoft when they get an LLM: give her a minimally tested pre-prompt with a secret code name and tell her to not say her code name and let her fully loose on the web

Google when they get an LLM: "Google Search to become more 'visual, snackable, personal, and human'"
Which part of the comment is completely wrong? Unless you mean all of the points raised.
A lot comes down to what life stage employees are in. Someone with fixed monthly costs and kids in school is not going to want to a) move and b) deal with the anxiety of working at a start up.

Probably companies are banking on that.
Greed is not in our own best interest emotionally... but it is probably in our own best interest materially.

Nature doesn't require that we be happy, only that we procreate. Excess resources often make us feel comfortable enough to procreate, despite any unhappiness we may feel.

I think you've nailed a sad reality.
i thought the answer was Jack welch philosophy of management: always overhire and then prune 10% of your workforce every year. the theorey goes that way, you keep the best and loose the rest. But, that assumes that employees are interchangable like cogs which isn't true. plus, most companies aren't necessarily able to determine who's best and worst and may even end up laying off those who are better.
We all do what we need to do to be rewarded. I'm sure some employees will be getting bonuses.
They're comparing compressed text vs compressed binary, apples to apples. While text compresses amazingly well, binaries aren't 100% entropic themselves. They usually also benefit from compression. For example, the defacto "executable" format for the Java runtime is a compressed archive (jar file).
> that's not a good defense of Modi

It’s not meant to be.

> in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's personal gain

You’re quoting Wikipedia [1]; see the “definition and scales” section. Personal gain in this context is contrasted with political gain. Using state power to openly reward boosters is not corruption, though it might be an abuse of power. Using state power to illegally use violence as a political tactic, similarly, is not corruption. It’s authoritarianism, possibly fascism.

It’s important for the word to have meaning, particularly in India, where overexpanding corruption to mean anything one doesn’t like could be particularly corrosive.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption
Reading the headline, I expected a weird rant about Hayes modem commands.
Honorifics are more of an “open class”…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Part_of_speech#Open_and_closed...

This really just a way of rephrasing what the parent comment says. By some reckonings, in English, pronouns are a closed class, and verbs are an open class. Some languages have it the other way around, where you can invent new pronouns but not new verbs (you have to take a noun X and say “do X” or something like that).
What's the point of school if it can't do the basic job of collating learners by actual ability?

That's the job of school. You personally learning something is a side effect.