skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which makes sense. Startups don't like signing 5-year lease agreements, so renting individual offices with all infrastructure taken care off is very attractive, and there are lots of companies offering that. But WeWork tried to sell a very specific brand of that, notably open-plan workspace with great interior design. Which is the opposite of "cheap office space where people can get stuff done", putting them in a tough spot when money isn't plentiful for startups. And it didn't help that was run like a Silicon Valley startup, but in a business where there are very little efficiencies of scale. Just about anyone can start a viable local competitor, allowing the market to adapt far quicker than any one company can.
The price can go to zero with no transaction taking place. And commonly does so.
How much work would it be to convert either Firefox / Chromium / Nyxt into this instead of starting from scratch?
Yes, the US which is what this article is focusing on.
> Its impossible to resize images or hash passwords on Cloudflare workers: the CPU time limit is too low.

You're thinking of years ago when the CPU time limit was 50ms. These days the limit is 30 seconds, plenty of time for these tasks.
And the industry is so brutally cyclical. They'll hire thousands, work them into the ground to get some machine or line done, then let them all go, then hire them all in a flurry next time they need to build something. It's also very toxic in my experience, lots of mean people.
How did you like Montreal?
It's very unlikely a machine like this will ever end up on (or under) a desk.

For a while the server space fed on consumer technology, but that seems to be ending and we start to see pure-breed server gear that's not at all designed for single-user operation. We're back to the minicomputer era.
WeWork proved the Theory of the Bigger Fool in the stock market.
VC Bill Gurley opens up about why he stepped back from Benchmark and next act
It's quite intriguing that Google doesn't offer full-text search capabilities for YouTube, considering its position as a leading search company. However, I think there are several reasons for this, some of which may not be immediately apparent.

Firstly, if Google did offer this feature, it would likely be targeted by Search Engine Optimization (SEO) exploits. In essence, any time a new search parameter is introduced, there's a risk of it being manipulated to prioritize certain content—especially by those interested in gaming the system for increased visibility or monetary gain. If YouTube's search feature were to be plagued by such spamming, it could severely degrade the user experience and lead to Google having to strip it away. While not a guarantee, it's a probable outcome given the history of SEO misuse.

Secondly, YouTube's primary focus is on its recommendation algorithm rather than search functionality. With billions of videos hosted, the key goal is to keep users engaged by serving up content they're likely to enjoy, thereby increasing view times and ad revenue. The search feature, while useful, is not as integral to this objective. Further, offering full-text search could provide yet another avenue to manipulate the algorithm, which YouTube surely wants to avoid.

Finally, implementing and maintaining such a feature would require substantial resources. It would necessitate hiring teams of high-salaried employees to moderate and ensure fair use of the feature, adding considerable operational costs. Considering these factors, it seems that Google has made a strategic decision to avoid this feature for now.

That said, the fact that third-party solutions are emerging, such as the one shared here, shows that there's a demand for full-text search capabilities. It also underscores the potential that these solutions have when unencumbered by the constraints faced by a tech giant like Google. This provides a fascinating insight into the dynamic relationship between third-party developers and tech corporations and the way they can complement each other.
G7 leaders confirm need for governance of generative AI technology
My religious sister is anxious to move on to Heaven. She's not suicidal but at 60 tired/bored of her dull life. Since Heaven is the end goal she doesn't have much motivation in enhancing her life.
The problem with this is that it works differently on each OS. Every day I use Windows, Mac, Linux and FreeBSD. I need an input method that is unified in every OS or I'll constantly mistype. Apple's different shortcuts for copy paste are difficult enough already.
Why birds and their songs are good for our mental health
Well put. The socio-technical system gets so much neater if you take all the socio bits out of it.
So would you have considered Bernie Madoff successful?
>a tiny fraction of stock trade

In which the rich have been getting richer, and asset inflation has been growing ever higher.

>If you're happier with a unique personalized reddit

The question here is this depends. Simulacra of which Reddit? Of the one that shows you a good world where we try to become better people? Of the Reddit that tells you "They" are out to get you so you should be afraid? Personalized of the 'Real' world, or just made up and trending towards the imaginary?

I mean, when I play a video game, I know I'm not playing reality. The line starts breaking down as the level of fidelity of reality is neared.
So, I noticed this past week that u-block is blocking browser error reporting on their hosted product. I tested a custom subdomain using their relay container, as well as just a sub-path on primary domain and both were also blocked. This seems like an Achilles heel for sentry.

Any thoughts on how to get info on front end problems for people with ad-blockers which would appear to be in use by ~40% of users? I almost feel like we need some web framework level error reporting that isn't as obvious that it get's picked up by ad-blockers.
They could, but then they'd lose out on strong deals.

Perhaps performance and capability to negotiate is sometimes downstream of, but not always not 1:1 correlated to, intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation.

In my experience, the top performers I've hired and worked with who have had the highest performance and highest compensation have all been intrinsically motivated. YMMV.
The way that toxic prof treated the class makes no sense, but the barrier to entry in industry makes a lot of sense, even if we don't like it. Semiconductor is just insanely capital-intensive. Now that it's become a major issue of strategic concern for the USG there is finally some capital available for it.

People have finally begun to realize that if all you do is build software, you're completely dependent on your hardware suppliers. It's like being a commuter society that doesn't make their own cars.
So they say, attention is all you need.
This is really neat!! Love how you have a sample library for one to experience how using emdash is like.
I think there is a rather large class of people who are just fine with oppressive regimes, as long as it doesn't affect them. The pretense is always "reducing crime".

This includes a lot of self-proclaimed pro-freedom types, as well. They'll support an oppressive regime so long as their own freedoms aren't restricted, and the problem grows.
India outlawed the usage of any bill larger than the equivalent of a $US 5 (500-rupee and up) in 2016, which was intended to force people into the digital payments system. This is much more coercive than the Euro-US approach. For an overview and pro/con arguments in the global government-led war on cash:

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/021816/why-g...

It's also an attempt to collect a percentage of all transactions, which will be funneled to the usual suspects, here's what led to this:

> "NEW YORK, September 19, 2012 — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Citi, Ford Foundation, Omidyar Network, U.N. Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and Visa Inc. announced today the launch of the Better Than Cash Alliance. The new initiative will call on governments, the development community and the private sector to adopt the use of electronic payments..."
Patterns in Register Map Design
> those same agencies have very public crimes within their ranks

Do you think the problem is too much transparency? To use your example of the NYPD in the 90's (though I think you've probably got the wrong part of the decade if you're looking for the high water mark of crime), was it notably less corrupt than it is today, or was it just more opaque?

But how did the NYPD deal with crime in the 90's? Wasn't it by the kinds of privacy abuses called out in this report? By shaking down suspected criminals through stop and frisk?
I wouldn't know. I'm a vi user. I don't know how much more productive I am with VI than non-modal editors, and even if I did know that would just be anecdotal, but I feel more productive coding in (Neo)vi(m) than I do in any non-modal editor, and it's much more comfortable anyways.
Could you expand on this? I am unable to see the connection.
You sound like you're 13, not 22. I'm 38 and nothing what you said is true for me nor any of my friends.
Game Wallet: Turn any GameBoy into a secure offline cold wallet
The Changing Faces of the Romans
A month is a very short time scale, but I agree that the next big step is probably not around the corner, and maybe a different paradigm altogether
I agree and disagree. I do think that the purpose of legal documents is to take a given set of inputs and dictate a predictable output. But (1) sometimes ambiguity is deliberate (for instance, to kick the can on a business point and hope that it never actually manifests itself after the deal is signed) and (2) as you note, sometimes totally unexpected circumstances arise.

Wouldn’t any constructed/logical language (is that the right term?) also be susceptible to unpredictable future developments?
I’m willing to bet that the features you’ve seen removed are taken out because their utilization is low, and there’s some associated maintenance cost. I’d also like to know what other features were removed. I had never heard of subscription collections, for example, and a search returned [this video](https://youtu.be/qGSHPhR8k8g) (I wish markdown worked on here) that says collections were a test feature (I’m guessing it didn’t do well enough to make it to prod).
Please stop pushing these baseless conspiracies.

The Indian government has no reason to track 500 million people in India, it would be more data than they would be able to handle.

Also most people don't care enough about this, yet the RBI is thinking about adding anonymity to UPI.

"The RBI may also test anonymity, security and privacy related to digital currency, It is possible to get a legal provision to ensure anonymity."

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/gadgets-news/heres-what-...
While OP's reply answers your question, it's important to not apply current costs to predict the future of AI. Hardware for LLMs is one step function away from unimaginable capabilities. That breakthrough could be in performance, cost, or more likely, both.

Imagine GPT-4 at 1/1000th the cost. That's where we're going. And you can bet your ass Nvidia is working on it as we speak. Or maybe someone else will leapfrog them like ARM did to Intel.
In fairness, it was pretty reckless to just "update" the existing method without providing a dummy "throw an informative error if anything attempts to call the old method" fallback method
Embedded development is substantially worse when it comes to out of tree unmaintainable kernel patches, compiler forks, binary blobs around terrible hardware etc etc.

Completely incomparable to web, enterprise and mobile (android and co is a part of the embedded trashfire of course). They all have their problems but are minor league compared to embedded development hell.

Embedded development takes BoM reduction to the extreme and piles all the technical debt onto software.
That's what I use it for. Nginx just doesn't offer the same features
This is exactly what some VC firms do. They are interested in generating returns for their investors, if the company trades to zero after an IPO they will have already generated a significant return.
Ah, I forgot some context: I use sticky keys, so for me shift is not a problem, but I still have bad habits from before discovering sticky keys so control and other modifiers -and especially multi-modifier combinations- are still a problem for me, and vi doesn't use that many of those.
What causes a neck to crack? (2013)
I tried to read the 7 articles in one go and was impressed by both the illustrations and the way the author explains the whole process (I liked the illustration for submarine referring to U-Boot). I assume that this series is for beginners and not for experts. Am I right?

I would like to better understand the security implications of the Reolink device, I have definitely bookmarked this series. With the last chapter, however, I don't understand whether there will be a continuation or no real conclusion.
https://archive.ph/Qighw
Will there come a time when marginalised individuals must pay a price for their type of cognition being wrongfully assumed?
We seem to be locked into an ever more blatant "cycle of addiction". As with (other) drugs, the addict and the dealer are something like "two sides of the same coin".

Briefly, new tech / markets / apps ... i.e., 'innovation' ... often 'creates' tremendous 'value'*. Money (aka capital) rushes in - there's a boom, everyone's excited: consumers are getting new products, services, conveniences, improved prices; engineers, technologists, scientists, machinists, etc. are excited - building the new tech, exploring capabilities, using it to advance research, improving precision / throughout / etc. Dopamine hits all around, vibrant 'ecosystem', everything's lively, feelings of 'changing the world', etc.

But, then, the space reaches a comparative plateau. The low-hanging fruit is exhausted. The lucky/skilled'VCs' have made their 50x+ returns (that far more than cover the various failed ventures), the technologist innovators are moving into some other space, etc.

What's left are basically the 'landlords' and their crew. There's nothing inherently wrong with that. Those are fine 'occupations' with essential (enough) functions etc. The problem is, there are pressures, with our current culture, towards unlimited growth. There's this need ... this addiction to / normalization of 'neverending exponential curves'. So, you get rent-seeking, forms of 'maximum tolerable extraction' - a sort of exploitative feudalism... Locking up of all the resources now developed in the hands of a comparative few.

There's something of a spectrum, when it comes to economic sectors / businesses, as to how naturally monopolization forms. In general, unchecked, just about any sector / business area can fairly easily trend towards one 'company' controlling everything ... there's more that could be written here, but I'm out of time right now ... [this part should probably be edited / made into a more suitable transition]

Ultimately, every time a given market reaches a certain degree of concentration, the businesses left, particularly these days, increasingly act like "Polyergus" ants, or possibly Cuckoos, or other parasites of various types - organisms that use some degree of parasitic strategies. They 'farm' the rest of us for ever-increasing amounts of 'value'. But, not like responsible farmers, more like the human species as described by A. Smith in The Matrix - "Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area."

That pattern is woven throughout this way overly long comment (that also desperately needs editing) ... sadly, gotta run now.

* Some of these words / phrases are so clichéd / co-opted, it's hard not to put quotes of some type around them - partly calling attention to that aspect, partly calling attention to more fundamental meaning
It may be more important to the author at this point in their life, but that will likely change with time.
Literalism is actually emerged as a significant thing in the 18th Century; its not specifically American or Fundamentalist/Evangelical, but it is definitely a fairly recent Protestant thing that is most prominent in the Fundamentalist/Evangelical space.
I really don't think there is anything like "too much data to handle" in the year 2023. The denizens of /r/datahoarder and /r/homelab probably have enough to do it, much less a government organization.
This is safer-- relying on implicit rowids can break things if you use a plaintext database dump (those don't have rowids), and having a column "id integer primary key" is clearer in the schema.
At over 100km it was in space. Three nukes were exploded in space, probably at orbital velocity too. The fact that this was over Antarctica was almost inconsequential.
"One resident was recorded spitting in the hallway"

Im sure this wasn't the only thing used for the eviction but if it was that is clearly over the line. With that being said, the behavior is disgusting and if I was in a building dealing with such, I wouldn't feel bad to see them go.

Having lived in such a situation before, I could find globs of spit, blood, and who knows what else on elevator buttons, door handles, mailboxes, and entry buzzers. It's disgusting and incredibly unhealthy. It's also discrimination towards people with germ related phobias or disorders.
Remember when a Cray supercomputer was nearly 10 million dollars and had 8MB of RAM. And remember that now we carry something insanely more powerful in our pocket today.

If something is possible but not cheaper than people on a computer today, then is very very much likely it will become cheaper than people in a few years. Computers keep scaling and individuals don't.
According to the article, it is racist to use cameras to catch people spitting in the hallways because apparently people of color spit in hallways more often than people of non-color. So enforcing the rule against hallway spitting is racist. This is the same logic that is used to justify not enforcing shoplifting or vagrancy laws in san francisco and other places.

The fundamental question is whether we as a society are allowed to enforce any standards of behavior even if they end up having racial disparities in enforcement. The solution that is fashionable right now--to just not apply rules to people of color--seems more racist than holding people of color to the same standard as everyone else.
The satellite was in orbit. This is an interview from the Thales CyberSecurity Manager about it. Interview is in French, but its a beautiful language to brush up on anyway, and if you can't, YouTube Autotranslate is also not bad nowadays.

https://youtu.be/g-jHapQl0ks
In full transparency I didn’t do much analysis. At $5 it was trading at 1-2x revenue growing at 20% in a horrible market with a great operator. The issue is too maturities and running out of cash.

Thank you for the note on the link, updated it.
"Well obviously there will be a Harvard Business School case study about WeWork, but what will it say? What is the lesson? It’s a good lesson, right? A lot of kids starting at Harvard Business School next fall will be hanging up posters of Adam Neumann in their dorm rooms. Neumann, the founder of WeWork, will walk away from this corporate bonfire with a billion dollars and a bunch of fancy houses. His great-grandchildren will be prominent philanthropists with their names on museums and universities, the strange origin of their fortunes long forgotten. Neumann did a certain sort of capitalism—one with some cachet at HBS!—as well as anyone has ever done it. It is one thing to build a successful company that creates a lot of value and take some of that value for yourself; Neumann created a company that destroyed value at a blistering pace and nonetheless extracted a billion dollars for himself. He lit $10 billion of SoftBank’s money on fire and then went back to them and demanded a 10% commission. What an absolute legend."

-- https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-23/how-do...
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lolinder 11 days ago | parent | context | on: GitHub code search is generally available

Those numbers are a bit misleading because they split up the JetBrains products, making JetBrains look like a smaller market than it actually is. If you add up all their tools, they hit 94% to VS Code's 74%. Obviously there are a lot of people using multiple JetBrains tools and that bloats that number, but the huge difference demonstrates how flawed SO's numbers are for gauging market share.
Also, I suspect that most people who mark a JetBrains IDE also mark a secondary editor that's lighter weight, but it's hard to tell how that all breaks down with the way they present the data. I spend about 90% of my work day in WebStorm and occasionally move over to VSCode for loading a large directory that I don't want to index. When I filled out the survey, due to they way they worded it, I marked both tools.

If you haven't already, would you mind reading about HN's approach to comments and site guidelines?

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lolinder 11 days ago | parent | context | on: GitHub code search is generally available

Those numbers are a bit misleading because they split up the JetBrains products, making JetBrains look like a smaller market than it actually is. If you add up all their tools, they hit 94% to VS Code's 74%. Obviously there are a lot of people using multiple JetBrains tools and that bloats that number, but the huge difference demonstrates how flawed SO's numbers are for gauging market share.
Also, I suspect that most people who mark a JetBrains IDE also mark a secondary editor that's lighter weight, but it's hard to tell how that all breaks down with the way they present the data. I spend about 90% of my work day in WebStorm and occasionally move over to VSCode for loading a large directory that I don't want to index. When I filled out the survey, due to they way they worded it, I marked both tools.

If you haven't already, would you mind reading about HN's approach to comments and site guidelines?
I wasn't doubting that is a real satellite, just whether they hacked that, or an engineering spare laid out on a table, which seems to be common for satellite hacking challenges.
In the article, the family of the patient cited that his alcoholism was secondary to his depression - a symptom of the bigger thing he was suffering from. The article goes to lengths though (see: title) to put the focus on “an alcoholic was euthanized.”

The brother’s relevant quote:

> "My brother suffered from depression and anxiety and tried to 'cure' it with alcohol. He's from a normal family, he did not want this to happen. He did not take an easy way out. Just a humane one.

> "If that's troubling for Mrs Bruce that's a pity. I am just glad my brother did not have to jump in front of a train or live a few more years in agony before dying of his abuse.

I can’t tell you for sure what is fact, but I’m inclined to take the more rational explanation of the family over the irrational “this was an alcoholic choosing death over rehab.”
No coding. Upload your document. Chabotix will automatically generate JS-CSS links so you can add chatbot to any of your websites. No flowchart.
From a quick google, Uber may have lost something like $37 billion dollars.

$12B from 2014-2018 [https://www.statista.com/chart/17705/uber-revenue-costs-and-...]

$25B from 2019-2022 [https://therideshareguy.com/uber-statistics/]