skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This echos so much of the world it seems right now.I have seen this in engineering, analytics, and the restaurant industry.

New people and outsiders still have so much hope for what the paths they choose offer them and once they enter and progress are faced with the "city full of crime...(with) no police" and very little recourse. Engineers that are berated and bullied to output test results that conform to desired product specs, management that wants data that conforms to "projected" trends and bully analysts to "massage" the data accordingly, chefs that are told they have to work 12-16hr 5-6 days a week. These are just the examples that I have personal experience with.

It seems that this structural corruption has everything to do with financial rewards and who holds the purse strings. The group/s that dole out the rewards seem to have played their hand miraculously and convinced everyone that this is the only way.

As I write this it reminds me of threads I was reading 10 years ago about surgery and surgeons and what it took to become apart of that field. It was described as being fraught with super high stress, high precision, high physically demands such as super long shifts (24-48hrs) lack of sleep, and a huge drop out rate. So many of the posters from the industry were saying while it was toxic and terrible it produced world class surgeons and that culture of training and gatekeeping was what kept the profession the best in world.

Would you say that possibly the people maintaining the "structurally corrupt" culture are doing it to maintain a perceived superiority and relevance both financially and socially? What about the political winds constantly undermining the output of the profession when it becomes politically expedient to do so? Do you have any ideas on what change would look like? What are some of the solutions that you and your friends have discussed?
Legislation can be surprisingly efficient, even if not 100% efficient.

There's a borough in my city that decided to ban big billboards. Everyone hated them, they were ugly and everywhere. The advertising lobby sued, it went all the way to the supreme court of Canada, and the city won: advertising was declared a form of visual pollution and therefore banning them was an acceptable infringement to free speech (https://www.scc-csc.ca/case-dossier/info/sum-som-eng.aspx?ca...).

Another example is forcing influencers to disclose when content is sponsored (and apply local advertising laws). If influencers receive money, they are therefore freelancers (in most jurisdictions) and subject to many laws. I have seen them enforced in my jurisdiction.
They're usually flipping the least important bit, so the video compressor will probably ignore the dithering. It does turn a perfectly stable image into an unstable image, though, so it could potentially be harmful if you're compressing video of static text and geometry - I haven't tested this before, so it's an interesting point.
If we continue down this road, not letting your kid smoke pot with their peers also counts as "subtle social isolation". Some things your kid should not do!
_On Lisp_
They used to require installing a proprietary driver, IIRC, which meant you'd have a bootstrapping problem with your new laptop if you didn't have an Ethernet port handy.

For that reason I'd usually replace the WiFi chip in my Linux laptops with an Intel 7265 or later, as those had in-kernel support.
Both of my kids being completely toilet trained.
It's not like kerosene has been banned completely, though, and the right solution for something that you want people to avoid using but not ban completely is a tax on it, not selectively banning certain uses.
it's all grifting to me...
Can I use Bing in ChatGPT to call ChatGPT in Bing?
AI is great but how about fixing start menu search? Search that was perfectly working on Windows 7 but was lobotomized in subsequent versions.
But scarcity also adds prestige.

Frankly I think its much simpler. Its a high income to effort career.

But even if we do think this is good because it weeds out people worried about prestige, why stop at 200k layoffs. Why not more? You probably don’t really want that.
Whenever I'm sitting in front of a computer that isn't using ad blockers, I'm shocked to see how polluted websites are, practically yelling at me, vying for my attention. How can folks concentrate on an article without ad blockers?

Then there are those ads in YouTube videos and blog articles purporting to offer the reader something valuable when, in fact, they're packed with falsehoods ("xyz changed my life, and if you want to check it out, please click on this affiliate link").

While I can't block ads on the radio, on the internet, I make a point of blocking every ad I can.

There are other ways to reward an author or a website. For instance, I block ads on sites like Haaretz, but I do subscribe to them because I believe quality content deserves compensation.
I block ads in Google search results.

And I don't use Microsoft operating systems.
Reverse that. Raspberry Pi started with a Broadcom SoC that the market rejected.
To see it a little bit in action...
"Adobe Photoshop (beta) x Adobe Firefly: Announcing Generative Fill"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVTyLYupECI
I think another thing with pgp is that it's in this awkward place where it's bad enough that few people use it, but good enough that it prevents someone from making an alternative.
I block the page visibility API.

I'd love to find out more information on how to prevent web pages from knowing if they are visible or not.
Ehh, the ad networks want advertiser to believe that but they also do sketchy things like intercepting (and taking credit for) customers who already had an intent to purchase. There was a big story about Uber cutting lots of ad spending with little impact a while ago: https://thehustle.co/01072021-uber-ad-spend/
Blocking cookies. As in, the cookie gets ignored instead of being stored. No cookie returned to the server on future requests. Of course there’s also “use the cookies for this session and delete them later.”

In any case, “blocking” cookies is not the same as blocking ads.
Vast areas of the Americas are barren of any FM radio reception but receive AM well. The manufacturers that want to drop AM radio seem to find that fact inconvenient.
If your kid is never isolated, how can they possibly develop healthy behaviors around boredom and isolation?
Ford reverses plan to ditch AM radio after congressional attention
> No communication with me without my consent

That's not practically possible unless you choose to live alone in a controlled box. Even the infrastructure you're forced to interact with is a form of communication that manipulates you into certain behaviors.

But then, maybe that's where we're headed as a society with the explosion of one person households, remote work, and delivery services. It's increasingly possible for the majority of people to actually live a completely solitary life, controlling their information input by restricting it only to a screen.

https://ourworldindata.org/living-alone
so if we want to evolve the most intelligent ai then we should make it a carnivorous pack hunter
It would be at the benefit of being more useful for readers.
Not really the chorus, but mostly the instrumental part at the beginning (after the, let's say, acoustic-slow part). I think there's some short timings there too.
I appreciate the candour, and understand you’d rather these measures be restricted to a very limited number of platforms.

Ultimately, you’re right, our debate here will have little effect on the outcome, given that members of the Spanish government stated in no uncertain terms they would indeed not restrict it to the large social media platforms. I was pointing to the specifics mentioned in the article instead of pulling it in a theoretical debate like you said.

Alas, whether their stated intentions are the true ones, I trust few legislators to nail some platonic ideal state of authoritarianism, even if they’re benevolent. Too much power stands to be concentrated in too few hands for this ever to go our (society at large) way. When we shift the debate to the problem of the integration, we’ve already lost.
Apple Announces WWDC 2023 Schedule, Including Keynote Time
We are a Podman shop. Podman itself works fine, but for Compose we kinda have to use docker-compose (and very soon "docker compose" due to the former getting deprecated in a week). I found several major and minor issues when I fed our Compose files to podman compose, I even created a pull request for one that was easily fixable with a single line change, but I'm weary of using it for production right now. Hoping Podman compose gets some love from a big player, b/c it seems RH is only focused on Kube.
> At this point when I read about $megacorp moving production to the US, I see an indication of globalization-level exploitation and profits being applied to the US labor market.

What do you expect or want to happen? Companies will pay the lowest price they can to adequately fill the role they need to fill. As everything it comes down to demand and supply. If lots of folks are available who can fill the role well, the comp is gonna be pretty low. Do you want companies to pay more just out of charity? When apples are on sale, do you ever just pay double the price because it feels fairer? The only place where we do this is with tips and that's usually already priced in.
I think software engineering is like math that requires a peculiar personality and certain talent. However, there's actually a massive pool of these candidates who allocate themselves between different industries as demand ebbs and flows.

They end up in medicine, consulting, engineering, manufacturing, academic research, Wall Street, etc and often switch whole industries mid-career too.
Perhaps the concern should be directed toward mobs of ignorant humans following a new found religion created by AI
https://theconversation.com/gods-in-the-machine-the-rise-of-...
Unverifiable security is not "strictly better" than plaintext.
It has deeper micromanagement than, say, Planet Coaster, but it is not on the level of gameplay loop micromanagement as the like of SimCity or Roller Coaster Tycoon
>Which Apple thing are you referring to?

The App Store and exploitative the models it's design perpetuates.
PGP signatures purpose is to remove the dependency on trusting PyPI, i.e. protecting against PyPI getting hacked.

(Note: PyPI protects against MITM with HTTPS.)

Removing this is predicated on the idea that is a low priority threat vector.
Lan Lam is great! Be sure to check out her out content as well!
3-7x is a bit more realistic than x100, which would make basically zero difference to the comparison even if only imported electricity was used.

So pro-nuclear that I prefer airplanes to electric trains is a new and exciting angle on the climate discussion though.
If you are curios here is the real time French electricity data platform:
https://www.rte-france.com/en/eco2mix

and the German one:
www.smard.de

Not sure about yearly data but France seems to export lots of electricity right now.
As you say, France has very low co2 emission per kwh compared to Germany, that is due to the atomic electricity production.

The ban is relative to "how long does it take to go there by train", I agree it's weird to compute that. Especially thinking about the potential of SNCF and AirFrance maybe considering their impact respectively. It's a good concern and we need to watch that.
There isn’t really a way to take away ad blockers. Of course, a site can be made to not work with ad blockers, but then that’s their decision I guess. I’m happy to not use a service in that case.
UTM tags in that sense are collected on the client side by tag manager or google analytics, which would be blocked by an ad-blocking extension anyways. UTM tags can/often are collected by the website themselves to do first-party near-100% confidence campaign analytics.
> It’s just not what it used to be, the new wave of job taking threats and AI harm news

That’s what happens when crypto bros turn ai experts over night. Their marketing strategy revolves around fud. Sam Altman at some point that tech has created huge income disparity and that needs to change. What he meant to say is that tech workers should earn less, not that others should earn more. And this philosophy reflects in openai’s toxic campaign.

Now, ai is excellent tech and will stick around but there’s no reason openai should. That company should be replaced, or freed, by open source competing products asap.
I occasionally tear down ads in public spaces. I'm sure many will disagree with me, but I do think we should be able to move through public spaces without the incessant assault on one's attention and head space. I haven't been caught yet, though I'm sure I someday will, at which point I'll pay the fine and keep doing it anyway.
Not really. If I want to travel from Paris to Lyon (300mi - like San Jose to Los Angeles) via TGV, it take 2 hours. A flight would take a similar amount of time.

If I want to travel from Paris to Marseille (500mi - like San Jose to San Diego) via TGV, it takes 3.5 hours.

When factoring flight prices and time to commute to the airport, it evens out. The only way you're trying a €40-50 flight ticket from Paris to Marseille is driving an additional 1.5 hours north of Paris to BVA, at which point the entire travel time is the same as TGV, with the added downside of dealing with Ryanair.

France is the perfect size to leverage rail transit nationally.

Edit:

Why the salty downvotes? Transit in France is different from Transit in the US.
Meanwhile in Europe: https://www.worlddab.org/dab/emergency-warning

Oh, and also https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/security-and-em... for good measure (unrelated).
Sure; they're all technically legitimate, but they can be decieving.
When I was a kid I made an AM radio simply by connecting a 3 foot wire to the phono input to the amplifier.
https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1047223162

Use whatever you want re: iOS or Android, but there are plenty of ad blockers on iOS.
Have you considered you might be wrong?
4/4 would probably indicate a large stress on the one and smaller one on the three of each bar.

11/4 would probably indicate a large stress on the one and small stresses on the three, five etc

I would play them differently anyway
> fusion is a pipe dream, and we need all the renewables we can get to transition away from an oil-based economy.

That's a load of nonsense but to address your question: with one Bitcoin transaction, with Lightning, you can have millions of transactions with little than hashing a few numbers each. There is no theoretical limit. With one single Bitcoin transaction that you claim is killing the Earth.

This information was just a Google away if you really wanted an answer, but crypto has become like football or party politics: my camp is always good, the other are the literally Satan. Since you started by saying I am immortal and should feel bad for even just talking positively about Bitcoin, there is no intelligent discussion to be had here. I don't even own Bitcoin, for crying out loud.

I'll go back causing climate change or whatever you think I do.
Big companies are very good at letting bygones be bygones when behaviors and circumstances change. Look at the changed relationships between any number of companies and Microsoft.
On-Demand Container Loading in AWS Lambda
I just listened to Hey Ya again - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWgvGjAhvIw

To me the drums have no cycle of 4, it's a "double time" beat, a cycle of 2

But I can see where people are getting the 4 from in the vocals -- there is 4-beat repetition in the vocals

But I would still say the song has a cycle of 22. That's the salient feel.

---

Also a cool thing is that the "Hey Ya" background goes in 12 beats and then 10 beats. That actually supports my point. It's 22

- Drums are 11 repetitions of 2

- Background vocals are 12 + 10 -- I hear the 10 as shortened

- Main Vocals are something like 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 6 -- I actually hear the last one as lengthened, not shortened

So yeah it definitely has a polyrhythmic feel to me; calling it 4/4 and then 2/4 is imposing too much theory on reality :)

---

I hear the vocals as a variation on

- 2 cycles of 12 = 24

- 6 cycles of 4 = 24

These ratios are very common for "12/8" or "12/4" polyrhythms.

But the second cycle of 12 is shortened; the last cycle of 4 is lengthened. Great song!
Same reason as the last 5-6 crashes. People still believe in its potential or are using it to transact today. Bitcoin is not a "bizare house-of-cards" anymore than the web was after the dot-com bubble. All the failures you have heard of were fraudulent or badly run businesses that had very little to do with the actual protocol.
There is some security even if they provide the public key. Bootstrapping is a problem, but clients can keep track of a mapping from package names to public key and issue a warning if that ever changes. That’s how SSH and RDP works and while I’ve never had an actual security hole plugged with this, I’ve had cases where my remote machine went down so the DNS didn’t update yet the IP was reassigned so the warning about mismatching keys was actually helpful.
YT was relatively cheap and much stronger network effects. Uber does not.

Google is so much more integrated in to people's lives than 15+ years ago.
Google Maps + Waymo or "Google Taxi" would have millions of customers immediately.

What Google did to Yelp is what might happen to Uber. I think the main point thing stopping is what others have pointed out. Is it worth the reputation? Instead of running their own service just take a nice cut from Uber and let them deal with bad headlines. Especially when the headlines will read Uber "fires" poor single parent uber drivers in favor of robot cars.
Nintendo updates 3DS to block Bannerbomb3 despite eShop discontinuation
I used to avoid blocking ads on principle -- a sort of "social contract" thing since I'm consuming ad-supported content. Then one day I found my kids' PC had its homepage changed to some scamware site.

Now I block ads on all my family machines. They broke the social contract.
>> but I don't think you actually want this: lots of large packages have multiple release managers (and contributors who come and go); you don't want to manually resolve each new human identity that appears for a package distribution.

Nope, you assume wrong. That's exactly what I (also) want, that is, knowing that the *authors* remained the same, whoever they are.

>> What most people actually want is a strong cryptographic attestation that the package distribution came from the same source as the thing hosting the source code

Nope, nobody really needs more of that, since that's what's your HTTPS certificate is for.

People *really* want to mitigate the risk of pypi infrastructure getting fully compromised, which is very likely, given how many eggs you keep in the same basket there.

PGP signatures were the last ditch, not very convenient but also not as bad as they are painted. But from now on there will be not even that very little.
> purpose-built runtimes

The lift here is astronomical, not to mention that companies just want to get a merch store up. No business person or product manager really cares about the "runtime."

But you dodged my question: do you think that a technology needs two decades to really "mature?" Go and Rust clearly solved real problems (or at least are fun to use) and we see many developers leveraging them. Even React (which I personally hate) made things easier for front-end devs. WASM adoption is virtually zero.
Congrats Jake, Ben, and the whole crew. Another great Philly jawn.
> Binance’s website told customers their dollar transfers were “deposits” that would be “credited” to their trading accounts in the form of BUSD. Customers were told they could “withdraw” their deposits as dollars. These representations created the expectation that clients’ funds would be safeguarded in the same way as traditional cash deposits, the former regulators said.

So this makes sense to me in that users buy a deposit dollars to buy a shitcoin, but the deposit and purchase are a single operation. If I buy BUSD and then I want to withdrawn, I need to sell my BUSD back to Binance, and it it's value has drifted down, then I will get less dollars. How is that commingling and how is there ab expectation of safeguarding deposits?
Yep, I realized that right as my post submitted! That's what I get for replying too fast before coffee
I'm picturing energetic and socially conscious "hip" 20-somethings doing a country-wide elementary school tour where the whole school gathers in an auditorium to watch them rap about the dangers of social media.

If it works for cigarettes...
Your "concerns" are little more than whining about minor inconvenience.

If you value convenience over the well-being of your children, you'll have a convenient life and children who are unwell.

Do what you think is best, but don't pretend it's impossible to live well without social media. It's laughable. It deserves snippiness.
We're using Depot at Hathora, and it's enabled us to focus on our platform development instead of worrying about CI/build pipelines. We're very happy with the speed improvements we're noticing.
I appreciate that, and you're right that overcoming the cold start problem is the key to establishing a standard. We've tried to learn what we can from how YC published the SAFE, as well as other standard contracts like the NVCA model docs, IAB standard terms, ISDA master agreement, etc.

For us, it's about providing day 1 value to the users of the contracts that does not depend on the agreements already being widely adopted. One example of that is our Stripe integration, which enables our customers to automatically bill their customers once they sign a contract. This uses the information already in their contracts, and it saves a lot of manual work and helps them get paid faster, and is separate from the negotiation benefits.

The other thing I'll point out is that our users have been seeing more success in using the standard contract from when we released our original NDA. Instead of losing an arm wrestling match because they have less leverage, they can say something like, "We adopted this standard agreement created by a committee of attorneys." That doesn't work every time, but we've seen some companies cut the percentage of their deals on customer paper in half.

We've seen a big range of reactions from attorneys. While we have some big supporters (and committee members) at law firms, we've gotten more traction with in-house counsel. I think it's at least partially because of the reasons you outlined. I do hope to get all the law firms on board as a channel eventually, but for now, we're focusing our energy on the companies themselves.
So you're a libertarian, I guess. Abolishing protection doesn't bring freedom, it brings anarchy and in its wake, the right of the strongest. Look at the 19th century. Do you want to live in Dickensian horror? Because that's the alternative. There's no bucolic paradise awaiting after abolishing labor and health regulations. There's only exploitation of the weak.

We give up a bit of control to avoid losing more. That's a social contract that has worked very well, and I'd like to keep it that way. I'm sure you also benefit from it.
The context menu too!
Blocking just cookies isn't necessarily achieving the goal of blocking tracking, though, since the idea is that ad networks commonly fingerprint you and combine any of those signals with your IP address to enable cookie-less tracking and ad targeting.
I kind of like your point. Replaceable batteries should somehow be mandatory- i agree. Hot swapping still seems driven by range anxiety.