skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How leadership has handled rto is more what makes it the peak example. The bureaucracy, the company's stagnation, the crippling slow response to a modern market and digging their head into the sand. Rto is the peak example because it has exposed how when it matters the executives (L10+) abandon LPs, refuse factual discussion, and are choosing paths that aren't good for customers or employees. It's exposed all of their current efforts for employee connection is a farce and pointless. It contradicts Amazon's core company culture that employees are "leaders" and shows how delusional these people are as they have started calling employees who don't want to rto "selfish."
> Recent research has hypothesized that the earliest evidence of human lip kissing originated in a very specific geographical location in South Asia 3,500 years ago, from where it may have spread to other regions, simultaneously accelerating the spread of the herpes simplex virus 1.

I find the implied thought process here hilarious: the first stone tool industry is three million years old [1], fire a million years, modern humans 300,000, and agriculture about 10,000 years old.

But kissing? Yeah that’s gotta be high tech invented 4,500 years ago, a hundred years before the Egyptians gods invented felatio [2]. Yeah that tracks.

At what point can we say without concrete scientific evidence that the likeliest scenario is that we were too busy making out for tens of thousands of years to record the invention of kissing?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldowan

[2] https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/worlds-first-documen...

Edit: thank you for the correction on age of controlled fire
I'd argue that, in some sense, their accountability comes from two places: that if they try to enforce a price--as you are claiming that they are actually setting the price--that is non-sensical, then people will fleece them by taking advantage of the arbitrage opportunity, and--and I'd argue that this is particularly important as this is part of the narrative of this whole concept--that there are multiple of them and the only thing preventing there from being a lot of onramps are government regulations trying to prevent such: decentralized systems and markets get their trust from having options and backup plans in the case that a bunch of people are (and they always are) corrupt.
So they did even more work on the Sabbath in the Syriac cut. Spicy.
I think tech workers are people who work at tech companies. Including non technical roles.
Learned something new. I feel though it's better if most programmers didn't know about this. It looks like cursed knowledge.
Perhaps so, if universities cut back on overhead. Much of the grant funding is taken away to pay administrators who don't directly contribute to research. There is a huge amount of waste and no real pressure to control costs.
Depends on the genre. I think few people can seriously say Red Dead Redemption 2 doesn't have deep gameplay, and it is beautiful.
I haven't seen the FBI's response to this report yet. I'd like to hear their side before forming an opinion.
Yeah if I click on an interesting article title and the first thing it pops up is some stupid "do you agree to cookies" and "do you want to subscribe to the newsletter" at the same time on top of each other I usually just click out. I'm lazy. If they aren't watching their bounce rates, their loss.

I use blockers too, but they don't catch all of them, especially the stupid cookie popups.
They tracked journalists before even without the excuse of a war. Nothing will stop them now.
Yea, everyone in that shop was a little crazy, but we were never sure which way the causality pointed.
I'm still not seeing any sources to the high failure rates.
Yes they do. especially in the delivery area they need tons of ops people to deal with the restaurants.
If the government prints money and spends it on things that are less productive than the free market would, it results in inflation.
Usually people not in cars have other convenient sources of information. (Portable radio, TV, public transit announcements, etc)
I was stuck at an airport. I downloaded a free backgammon app on my iPhone, to kill some time.

It showed me ads between every game.

The ads were mostly for other apps. Most of those apps were games. Games that involved implied incestuous rape, non-consensual voyeurism, and other highly repulsive things.

I just wanted to play backgammon. I uninstalled the app (thankfully, that's an easy thing to do on iOS, for now...).

My main reason for blocking ads at this point, is because the ads that get served on what should be otherwise inoffensive websites, contain vile imagery or otherwise offensive content. Seriously, I get that they put one ad for toe fungus next to the ad they really want you to click on because the toe fungus draws your eye in, but I don't need this shit in my life.
>Now Ithkuil introduces a new word that is defined as that concept.

You are assuming the consequent. How exactly did Ithkuil 'define' a new word as that concept if the concept can't be expressed in Ithkuil ("any language")?

Even assuming you could do such a thing, why couldn't every other language define a word to mean that concept in the same way? Why wouldn't English - in particular - just make the new Ithkuil word also an English word?
A key difference here is that Jansport backpacks don't come with the additional baggage of huge risks to mental and emotional health, self-esteem, and increased suicide risk. It's interesting that you are framing immersing children in externalities as the choice to avoid suffering.
Thanks for sharing, great story. Thinking back, for me it's incredible just how much more energy I spent as a kid with computers and games. That patience really allowed me to discover and explore much more than I do today.

If I play a game today, I just get straight to it. I don't wander around too much in the open world or try to game the mechanics for some weird bugs or try the same thing over and over again.
I honestly don't see any benefits to the Dev Home app as is besides Dev Drive, which could be cool if it is that simple to just create a drive that is sandboxed.

Perhaps the community will whip up (most likely not), extensions for stuff like Sentry or CI/CD. Could be a neat thing then.
I think this is really the key. “Metallica was a great band, and they had a drummer named Lars” is a perfectly reasonable take. He did what was needed for the songs, most of the time. If people want to extrapolate from that take to “and therefore he’s a great drummer,” that’s a bit more of a stretch. He’s not known for being a technical guy like Peart or Kollias or Adler. And we know he can’t play songs like “Dyer’s Eve” in one take, live, when I could go to a local death metal show, wave my arms around and hit three sixteen-year-old kids who could do it cold. Supposedly he couldn’t even do it in one take in the studio. But he puts the drums where they need to be. He can do enough of the standard “heavy drumming” to get by (“One”), but he can’t really push it too far (“Dyer’s Eve”, “Damage Inc.”)
AWS RDS for PostgreSQL now supports Rust to build high performance functions
This is the business model of Business Insider, CNBC, MIT Tech Review, etc. There are many more we could list. Then there's the obvious manufacturing-consent style truthmaking like you see in The Economist, Financial Times, NYT, WaPo, etc.

I've found immense value in studying media criticism to improve my literacy of what is "genuine" journalism (of course still colored by someone's ideology, just maybe not one so hamfistedly handed down from above) and advertising dressed up as "news" or conveniently shaped and styled narratives that mislead the public into believing something that will only be true if enough people believe in it.
I pay for AdGuard (not an ad, I promise!) for Android. Other than that unlock Origin like you said, plus SponsorBlock on mobile and PC. ReVanced patch of Twitter and YouTube on mobile to block ads there (though I also pay for YouTube Plus), and "Orange TV Ad Free" for Twitch.
To play devils advocate: I don't think conscious intent is relevant to the argument
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_v._DeSantis
You can start with this. Every article is biased, so read a few from both sides if you want the full picture.
Quite.

Also, here in the US, gas stations have begun to play particularly loud/obnoxious video advertisements at the pump. I cannot stress how angry I am about this. One of the last places where I could just day-dream has now been deemed "up for grabs" by the lowest form of shit-peddler in the modern world.

Pause for a second to consider the absurdity of being blasted with advertisements while paying for a product. Talk about double-dipping...

Suggestions welcome.
Author of Yjs here. I'm all for faster data structures. But only benchmarking one dimension looks quite fishy to me. A CRDT needs to be adequate at multiple dimensions. At least you should describe the tradeoffs in your article.

The time to insert characters is the least interesting property of a CRDT. It doesn't matter to the user whether a character is inserted within .1ms or .000000001ms. No human can type that fast.

It would be much more interesting to benchmark the time it takes to load a document containing X operations. Yjs & Yrs are pretty performant and conservative on memory here because they don't have to build an index (it's a tradeoff that we took consciously).

When benchmarking it is important to measure the right things and interpret the results somehow so that you can give recommendations when to use your algorithm / implementation. Some things can't be fast/low enough (e.g. time to load a document, time to apply updates, memory consumption, ..) other things only need to be adequate (e.g. time to insert a character into a document).

Unfortunately, a lot of academic papers set a bad trend of only measuring one dimension. Yeah, it's really easy to succeed in one dimension (e.g. memory or insertion-time) and it is very nice click-bait. But that doesn't make your CRDT a viable option in practice.

I maintain a set of benchmarks that tests multiple dimensions [1]. I'd love to receive a PR from you.

[1]: https://github.com/dmonad/crdt-benchmarks
The soundtrack to SC3000 is a straight banger. I wish they'd make an exact port to the iPad (instead of that gimped version they released years ago that didn't have subways or highways or anything like that)
Last time I checked, it was just a Safari webview, and missed a lot of features compared to Firefox on Android. Has that changed recently?

Other nice thing of Firefox on Android: being able to listen to Youtube videos even when the screen is turned off.

(I'm sure there are solutions, but many seemed sketchy or didn't work well)
That's totally fair, and it might be partially a function of price point. If, say we can help our customers close a bunch of deals at $20k each, that's very different than a company who has an average price point of $1k each. You're always welcome to use the agreements for free separate from our software.

One thing I'll note is that we do support importing contracts on customer paper / or deals executed outside our system. We only have a subset of our features for those, but all of your contracts can be together in the same system.

On the options making sense together, the standard agreements are created by 40+ attorneys specializing in tech law and commercial contracts. They design our contracts to reflect what is industry standard with a focus on creating a fair and balanced starting point. That being said, each company chooses how they want to configure their own cover page. We provide tooltips and help articles on what the terms and variables mean, and companies can work with their attorney to set it up initially or include them in the workflow. We can intro our users to attorneys who are familiar to with the standards and do good work.
I'm not sure how padded pushup bras, glossy lips, and tight fitting clothes became "largely expected". I don't think any father or husband pushes the women in their lives to do this, so I have to assume it's done by women for their own reasons.

I like to think of women as intelligent people so I assume they are aware of what they are doing.
Progress cannot accelerate infinitely. Literally nothing in the universe does. It accelerates until it slows down again. It's going to slow down again, and we won't reach anything like what these claims pretend in 10 years, or even 20.

Most technological progress is based on one of two things: 1) obvious commercial viability combined with a strong economy, copious capital, and a novel business solution that saves labor cost+time, or 2) warfare. We're not in a large-scale war right now, so that one's out. The economy is slowing down, and we're on the down-swing of the hype cycle for AI, seeing as everyone has bought something called "AI" but there's no new business value. Without a real business case or a decent war, the investment in innovation is going to falter.

The 3rd way we get technological innovation is after decades of very slow incremental progress. That's what led to GPT. But just because decades of research eventually lead to something useful doesn't mean it's immediately going to lead to yet more utility in the near future.

Another example: the elevator. The parts that comprise a simple elevator - a rope, pulley, and ratchet - have all existed for over 2,000 years. And for 2,000 years, people have wanted to lift heavy things high in the sky. But it was always dangerous because the rope would unexpectedly break, so nobody used them. Until one day, some random guy in the 19th century combined both a ratchet and a rope+pully, and suddenly it was safe to lift things very high. All it took was one moment for something we could already have done before to become a viable product.

That was 171 years ago. So how come that one innovation didn't shortly lead to a space elevator? We've known since 1895 that it's possible, and as far as we can tell it seems pretty straight forward how to do it. But still nobody's done it. Why? Not because it's impossible, but because there simply isn't enough money and will to do it. Progress doesn't happen just because it can happen.

Doesn't matter if you believe me or not. Check back at this thread in 10 years and tell me I'm wrong then. I won't be.
The several trillions of deficit spending the government engaged in in the last couple years more than explains the inflation.
...and? You just described several hundred members of Congress. There's nothing notorious about any of that. It's swamp-standard.
I can't agree more, totally opaque data will almost certainly be sent to an ever growing number of locations. If I so much as ask about it I'll be labelled a nutter.
My brother was in a punk band... and I was in a metal band...

The punk guys couldn't care less about music theory or whatever, they cared about having fun with the music and playing skills were almost irrelevant, almost frowned upon (you don't hear a lot of guitar solos in punk - it's mostly 3-note, fast paced music with rebelious lyrics... I feel so old describing it like that :D ). For a time, "broken" timing was in vogue, both in some punk bands and in a lot in metal (not sure if Metallica was a pioneer with that? I am too "young" to remember).

The metal guys were not completely different, to be honest, except for playing skills being much more important, as it's integral part of the music to have endless solos and complex riffs... but at least in my circles it was more about raw skills (how fast you could play more than, say, how much "feeling", though that was important too) than theoretical knowledge.
GPTGladiator: Make many draft responses, use second model to pick best
We are experimenting with ways to use ChatGPT to get better answers more reliably, remove hallucinations, etc.

This little library will generate multiple draft responses and then use a second model to judge the answers and pick a winner, which is then returned to the user. Google's Bard uses this same approach.

With this library you can apply the pattern to gpt-3.5 and gpt-4.

Drafts are generated in parallel and all drafts are evaluated with a single prompt.

This will use a lot of tokens. For example to generate 3 drafts, you are at 3x + you need to feed those drafts into another prompt + get that response, so >7x.

Streamlit demo: https://theoremone-gptgladiator-streamlit-ui-5ljwmm.streamli...
Nope. An unverified TLS session still cannot be examined by a third party. You know you are communicating with exactly one party, even if you don't know who that is.

Your attacker may share the data with a third party, but that's true of verified connections too.
Ah yes, not like we have tried to deregulate finance in any way and had three "once in a generation" economic events in 20 years.

Maybe, just maybe, the damn actor from california didn't know much about economics?

Nah, obviously fintech just wasn't free enough to explore weird money games!
> We have added native support for additional archive formats, including tar, 7-zip, rar, gz and many others using the libarchive open-source project. You now can get improved performance of archive functionality during compression on Windows.

This is easily the most exciting part of the whole announcement.
WASM being used to exploit your PC isn't much of a risk, because it has a really robust security model. It's been used in exploit chains before but my understanding is that the number of times people have found holes in WASM sandboxes is much smaller than the number of times people have found holes in JS runtimes. So it's pretty fit for purpose there.

Unfortunately, the design of WASM and common compilers targeting it means that your security is at risk as a user, even though your PC is safe. Applications compiled to WASM have a wide variety of fun security vulnerabilities that have been gone on native targets for decades, which means that if (for example) Gmail moved to WASM, it would now be possible for malicious parties to attack your Gmail tab even though they can't attack your PC. Some examples:

* Address space layout randomization is gone - if an attacker gets a write-anwyhere primitive, it will work 100% of the time

* Function pointers are densely packed - any possible value within the correct range (0 - function count) is a valid function pointer, as long as the signature matches. Even worse than not having ASLR.

* Page protections are gone - all data is mutable, even things that shouldn't be like string constants compiled into the binary

* Zero page accesses don't trap - while compilers go out of their way to try and make reading/writing from null pointers fail in WASM, the actual runtime happily allows you to do it. This makes attacks easier to execute because while stray nulls would kill a native application on dereference, in WASM they will just yield a 0 and execution will often continue.

* Most stuff is static linked - for native applications, it is common (albeit less common now in our modern era of Electron Hell) to pull in services from the OS and its packages, whether it's zlib or https or whatnot. The WASM runtime model generally offers a very limited set of capabilities in comparison, and there's no equivalent way to dynamically link against vendored packages that get security updates automatically. So every application ships its own ICU (for time zone and localization data), ships its own zlib (for compression/decompression), ships its own crypto (because the browser crypto APIs are extremely limited and async-only), etc...

Ultimately WebAssembly runtimes are very secure, but you have to protect everything else from the code you're running, because the code itself can easily be attacked by uncontrolled input.
I dunno I clearly hear a four beat in the drums! Feels really natural to count 4 anyway until you run into that bar of 2.

The map’s not the territory though
> It comes down to initial belief that they can be helped.

This part is definitely key. The other part is believing they need help or should work on something.
> Each AM HD station uses 30 kHz which gives 40-60 kbit. That isn't enough for full fidelity music

That's part and parcel of station management's programming decisions for HD Radio subchannels on the AM band, hence the focus on ''talk''.
You can do whatever you want, it doesn't mean that Bitcoin is suddenly useful to people for grocery shopping just because you opened a stand. How do you plan to be profitable when the currency is constantly deflating? You presumably have to purchase your goods in USD, so any goods you sell have to be converted, which constantly loses money. No one is going to pay you in Bitcoin because they don't want their money to deflate.

The cause of the thing is more than 'there are no shops'. There are no shops because no one wants to do it.

Prove me wrong. Open a Bitcoin grocery store.
> The market is still incredibly strong for SV caliber devs

Perhaps if you're comparing it to other industries, but compared to tech's own (recent) past, it's most definitely not "incredibly strong".

Not trying to be snarky, but have you actively searched for a role recently, say in the last 2 months or so? Recruiters reach out far less frequently now on LinkedIn, the common theme even among many experienced engineers these days is instant rejections, or if not that, then being rejected after goin through the final round. Very few are able to land well paying, interesting roles within weeks (or a month at most) of starting their search like they were able to even as recently as a year ago.

It's still possible to find work, but you'll quite likely have to accept a lateral move (at best) or accept a pay cut these days if you've been laid off.
If they set prices they are not legal.
> you don't really need a stupid app to interact with them

Yes, you do, because they will not want to interact with you if you're not on the preferred app. This is the case even with adults: I somewhat regularly meet people who will flatly refuse to talk to you if you don't have a green bubble, or an Instagram account, or whathaveyou. These are educated professionals in their 20's and 30's.
Personally, I’d never buy a car without AM radio. It’s often the only signal available when out in the wilderness, and even within civilization it’s the only readily accessible chunk of the EM spectrum that seems to still allow free speech. (edit: would love to hear people’s experience with CB/shortwave/ham/etc radio)

I don’t know that we need legislation guaranteeing it, but I’d hope the invisible hand of the market sides with me anyways.

That said I don’t see myself getting a new car regardless, at least not one made after the law requiring a television screen in your field of view while operating multi ton machinery at 60+ mph was put in place.
Which state is that? I didn't realize that was a thing in the US, but it sounds great.