skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Foley never seemed to fully understand the responsibility that comes with leading people. He never seemed to understand what it means to be accountable.

Seems to be a lot of that, going around.
Programming Languages Festival – 2024 February 23-24
"fuel and labor expenses are higher now than before the pandemic.
“Spot rates are at a level that in the long run are not sustainable, with costs up by 25% to 30% since 2019"

We all speak English here and read the same article right? Shipping fees are back to prepandemic levels but operating costs are much higher.

Why doesn't that count as a crisis or as something worth reporting?
It seems more likely that they/their understood the GP to be projecting unrelated political grievances on this usage issue without having the courage to just utter them.

What exactly is the "top" in this top-down relationship?
Hotter Heat Pumps Could Help Electrify Industrial Heat
Maybe name the little Pis after moons? Seems fitting somehow and they keep finding more too!
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LegendAI is created by Kien Le Trung and Jason Ang (2 University of Florida students) and launched on Feb 2023

How do we collect our data?
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How are we using AI?
Amazon makes it very difficult to web scrape (sending web requests and interact with automation technology), and we respond by using LegendAI. Our AI learns thousands of Amazon marketplace website's HTML/Javascript layouts and can respond to any changes Amazon make to its website. It's the engine that collects valuable data for you. Additionally, we uses our AI to recommend best products for you to sell through feeding its our huge Amazon marketplace data.
Haley's comet is a good example. it gets really close every 87 years
> This will worsen the UX more often than not. Guaranteed.

Experience shows that this is not the case, provided you keep load times as lowest as possible.

In business apps, this has the additional advantage of allowing users to share information among themselves by simply sharing URLs.
Didn't Jobs bring in Sculley himself before getting ousted? It's not as though he was removed for any particular disaster, it was a coup.

He returned and continued doing exactly what he had done before. Investing tons of resources into new products that have cutting edge features bundled into an aesthetic package.
I don't understand why we need to introduce this planet. Is the Sun not our neighbor? And it's closer than Mercury, isn't it?
I'll never unsee clock spider.
So I grabbed the sources, built r9. When I run it under QEmu it hangs. I looked for documentation but didn't find much. Any ideas?
As a theoretical exercise, you could also choose to "lavish" funds on the developers of the OSS platform instead of a recurring license fee for use, accomplishing a more outreach oriented use of funds than paying non-profit "employees" north of market with remarkable packages. If funds get tight, you can simply stop laving on the OSS, while enjoying ongoing use. Such a license can definitely be arranged -- I've done it at scale.
AM radio is for listening to baseball, arguing about sports, arguing about politics and listening to oldies music in really low quality.

Even liking AM radio I have a very hard time seeing the reasoning for compelling car makers to support something that is nearly the equivalent of mandating support for CD players.
> let add_closure = |a, b| a + b;
let sixty_six = add_closure(42, 24);

Woah woah, how did it not occur to me that I could just…construct a closure that directly in Rust? This feels like one of those “incredibly obvious and reasonable in hindsight” things. I don’t know why I was labouring under the assumption they could only be invoked in very special and specific places, but it’s good to know I was wrong.
I was thinking the opposite. A terrible idea greatly executed by a great management team in times of loose money.

I cannot blame those who were able to cash out.
What are good alternatives? I like <details> and collapsible panels.
That's underselling their innovation, they also made an expensive treadmill that was uniquely prone to eating children and pets.
You’ve never encountered COBOL because it sounds like you’ve never worked on the part which is usually referred to as the “core banking system”.

Many legacy banking cores are still in use and the legacy ones are all written in COBOL.
Large parts of financial industry IT are just in a hopeless, terminal state.

There are a few exceptions of organizations that have serious in-house knowledge (mostly select parts of investment banks) but, by-and-large, this sector has never really thought of information technology as being core to its mission. So everything related to information processing has been outsourced, from Microsoft's excel, to IBM's mainframes and COBOL. In this world Java is the epitome of sophistication and modernity.

It is a monumental error in vision and leadership given that finance is nothing but information processing. In any other sector this level of incompetence would have brought swift and merciful disruption and obsolescence. But this is not any other sector.

This is the highly-regulated inner sanctum where society keeps its precious Monetary State. As the experience with crypto amply demonstrates, leave that door ajar to fast-talking, white-paper writing financial "innovators" and a madhouse ensues in dt.

It is entirely unclear how things will develop as the last COBOL developers retire to blissfully sail around the Balearics. Maybe banks will move from COBOL to blockchain, asking chatGPT for instructions every step of the way.
I'm 31 and my first job was in COBOL for a big mortgage company.

To me, it's impossible that people lack COBOL skills, I was ready to push code to production in less than a week, so I started with a one-week self-teach COBOL which included the specifics of working with this particular mortgage company with its way of naming files, separating DB2 SQL requests in files, never using GOTOs, etc.

So when I see this kind of news, once or twice a year, I know it's probably more about sysadmins willing to run mainframes, setting up compilers and stuff, JCLs scripts, relational and hierarchical databases, than just developing in COBOL. Of course there's also the problem that nobody wants to learn and write COBOL when there's "good" and "pleasant" modern languages around. But that can be solved with a 20%-30% increase in salary (and I don't think they are actually paid more than other devs at least nowadays in my area (France), so it's probably fine for now).

PS: It gets better, I'm a web developer now, only did 1 yr of COBOL. Good to know it exists, and some people are miserable, makes you enjoy simple things, don't take anything for granted.
Companies reach records profits: invisible hand of the market.

Wages go up: crisis that could destroy our economy.
You can say it depends, if the entire point you are making is just that it depends!

It's unrealistic to outline all the different thought processes that would go into such a decisionn in a short comment on HN. And you could not hope to cover all the different things it depends on.
Super cool. Now, moving on to one of my deepest hopes and dreams... Can someone please please please create an open source alternative to solidworks?
Those are certainly important questions and the answer i like is probably USA shouldn’t meddle in other countries concerns. But I think it is true that at least some of the often listed examples of USA supposedly interfering in democracies are not quite black and white.
more like 30, def not 18
I have serious doubt there were any tablets shipping with Android 4 that used a resistive screen. At least not any that didn't come from some no-name manufacturer for eighty bucks.
“Affirmative action” as an American legal concept emerged in 1961, 3 years before the Civil Rights Act and 14 years before women in America had a legally-protected right to apply for credit.

Feel free to argue that affirmative action was a mistake or is complete or has overshot its goal, or that it’s used as a tool of corruption in some instances, but you are simply incorrect when you suggest that these reforms originated out of some spontaneous ambush on reformers’ “enemies.”
The official formation of the CIA was also only a formality, it essentially already existed in its components and other forms, e.g., the OSS. You can’t get so fixated on the official title, it’s the underlying people and their motivations that are the thing. It’s why people have such a hard time understanding and believing the “deep state” and why it hates even being called that because it identifies them.

What the worst people hate the most is being identified and named and associated with their nefarious actions. It’s why they like “classifying” to keep their evil deeds covered and hidden behind an vail of authority. It is how a minority of evil people control the majority of the world, often while claiming to be the good guys.
it doesn't even need to be open source, just reprogrammable.
https://sebgroup.com/sv/karriar/vem-ar-du/nyexaminerade-och-...

Only formal requirement to apply is some professional development experience or a degree in something programming related.
I truly love ground news, but it constantly forgets where you are in the feed when you open an item so you'll be reading down fifty items or so and open one then go back to the list and have to start scrolling from the top again. It really, really wears on you. I wish they would finally fix it. Despite that major annoyance (it really makes me wonder whether they even dogfood), the Blindspot is so interesting I still power through.
> I think most people are critical of him because he's richer and/or fitter than they are

> hey're missing out: his self-experimentation is fascinating.

Sorry, I have to ask again, did you miss the bit where HE IS HARVESTING HIS OWN SON?
What does accountability even mean? You can drive a company into the ground, destroy the livelihoods of thousands, and make off with tens of millions of dollars. With no consequences whatsoever. What would accountability even look like under the system we have?
You are right, though kind of easy to miss, relative to everything on that page. Maybe it should say English translation or English Readme in larger letters for the non-attentive people :-)
> In addition to being close to the Sun-Times offices, the bar came with an unexpected perk—a business broker who informed Pam and Bill he would help them cheat on their taxes and buy off officials.

...

> [...] he was going to steer us through the process of getting licensed and getting inspected and getting our inspections approved—he would be contacting the building inspector and the fire inspector and whatever inspector we would have to deal with and we should leave an envelope with a certain amount of cash, and he told us what the cash amount should be for each inspector.

...

> [...] And we looked at the entrapment laws because we knew people would say it was entrapment.

> Pam: The rule we followed the whole time was not to say anything, or pressure anybody to do anything they weren’t normally inclined to do.

I don't understand how they go from hiring a guy to bribe inspectors for them (or teach them to bribe inspectors), to saying they have a rule "not to say anything, or pressure anybody". If I understand correctly the reporters were the ones initiating the bribery, offering the envelopes of money (as opposed to the inspectors initiating by asking for the money). So I can see how the question of entrapment is complicated in this case.
People bought them in droves, and those that did broadly seem to enjoy it. I certainly have a few mega fans in my circle. The execution though was just terrible. They just kept pumping the things out after it was clear they saturated the market. They could have had an excellent business with a smaller market but instead didn’t know when to tap the brakes on their growth and built a bloated mess that may be impossible to unravel.
I can't tell you that, but I spent 27 years at a Japanese corporation.

That taught me some serious personal accountability.
A few years ago GNOME started doing this all over the place. Modals are spatially coupled to the parent window so moving the modal moves the parent too. Drives me crazy that I can’t refer to the information underneath.
I just think that practically speaking, a community will probably be able to decide on a train project before the nation decides on gun control.
The endgame is either the elimination of jobs or the elimination of human beings.

But yes, what you described matches my experience. I'd say Copilot benefits those "tedious but relatively strict" languages the most.
>It looks like leaders can never be honest towards their employees.

These aren't leaders. These are toddlers in authority positions.
Your mentioning the pantheon gave me a flashback to how one of my old companies named their non-prod environments. The dev environment services were named after all the Greek gods, and the QA/demo environment services after the Roman gods. It was so horribly confusing…
That sounds incredible! (Even though I could never do any spelunking) I have only been in one cave really, and what amazed me was the supreme silence. Like hear your own heartbeat silent.
I also often find it hard to get the information I actually care about from privacy policies. We tried to make it clear while checking the legal and compliance boxes we needed to, but I agree we can do better on that front. I'm also optimistic that this is an area where standards might be able to help, but I'm not a privacy policy expert and would need to do a lot more research to know for sure.

The short answer is that a subset of our team has the ability to access a user's contracts in order to provide support, fix bugs, and improve the product. We log instances when that access is used.

You're absolutely right that there are important differences between the attorney-client relationship versus the relationship with us or any other software provider. If that's not something you're comfortable with, then using the standard contracts without the software will probably be a better option.
I think he means development speed: with high-quality code, you get faster development, and not the other way around.
Ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica hits new record
Qdrant 1.2 Release
Yeah I'm always shocked at how frequently it's used by my colleagues. I will say it is used in a lot of non-writing disciplines, but I remember my first English class putting that thing in my hands and ugh.

It's part of a broader issue in writing instruction that mistakes etiquette for style.
Being hackable considered a "bug": if someone founds a way to tweak the infotainment, they will "update" it in no time to block such tweaks. They all pretend to have their own apps, yet they never do. Just in case, block users from creating their own and sharing them. E.g. https://mazdatweaks.com/
I assumed your parent commenter was referring to domestic air travel.
I'm about as old as you can be and still be considered a millennial and I've only run into mainframes twice in the wild, at my 1st and 3rd jobs. The 1st was that way because they were leasing the software written in FORTRAN by 1 guy in the 70s and doing a couple very small things on top. All the core edits had to go through that one guy (this was ca. 2009 or so), it was basically a black box with a 6+ week turnaround for even minor changes. 3rd was for a warehouse management system and logistics shop that was so old they had multiple full-time employees whose job title was "Computer Operator" and basically just babysat the mainframe - zero programming, sysadmin, or networking skills, I still have no idea what they actually did but whatever it was it was enough for 3 or 4 full-time people.

Despite the Computer Operators, the advertised pros of the mainframe are often very little maintenance and being able to write code and let it run for months or years without interruption. I've heard the performance is also very very good.
"gasoline is very hazardous"

Battery fires aren't?
Hopefully we have one of the devs reading hackernews :)
That’s true. Everywhere I’ve worked has been evil in one way or another. Amazon is no exception. It also has its bright spots. For now I am willing to disagree and commit.
Cheap shots aside, this was a very unconvincing set of arguments. Would it have not been a better use of ones time, both the author and reader's, to have documented both the pros and cons of modals instead of this lame, "trendy", You don't need takedown?
There may be a time in the future when you will be suspected of a crime if you are looking for a local hard drive to buy.

- Why do you need local storage? Do you have anything to hide?
My system was to have the machines be the planets, and then their drives would be the moons. It made it easy to remember which drives would be available on a given machine. However, it was also a problem when I wanted to add a second drive to Mercury and didn't have any options...
> It's not enough to guarantee the code has not been copied from somewhere / can be released in the public domain.

FWIW, within the sqlite project we have a very strict policy against copy/paste of anything from outside sources. If we don't write it ourselves, it doesn't get added to the canonical source tree, no exceptions.
European Commission Calls for Pirate Site Blocking Around the Globe
WebAssembly for the Server Side: A New Way to Nginx
I agree that news/journalism should be accessible to everyone.

But piracy of paywalled content just provides a relief valve for whatever demand there is for accessibility, and keeps the 'news' a property of parties like Rupert Murdoch (in the case of WSJ).
I'd also say I've sufficient expertise in animal learning to reject the idea that animals have shallow interior lives comprised of compressions of historical cases.

A child touches a fireplace once -- not a thousand times. Because they are in direct causal contact with the world and their body has a whole-organism biochemical reaction to that stimulus which radically conditions their bodies in all sorts of ways

This is a world apart from statistical learning wherein P(A|A causes B) and P(A|B) are indistinguishable -- and the bridge of "big data" merely illusory
I used Jovian moons at one site because I knew it would be likely I’d get more names later. >smile<
> I have always had the impression that maintaining an open source project is way more work than you get back from "the community" of users
You get a ton of valuable work back from quality contributors.
There is a vocal minority of people complaining that they feel burned out because of contributions but attracking some high quality contributors can help a lot.
Pretraining new hires is valuable and the new hires will also train on the open source project docs.
I agree that correlation is not causation but it's tough to ignore when you see the packs of kids walking to/from the train
Show HN: HelpHub – GPT chatbot for any site
Hi HN,

I’m the founder of a SaaS platform called CommandBar (YC S20). We’ve been mucking around with AI-related side quests for a while, but recently got excited enough about one to test it with some customers. Results were surprisingly good so we decided to launch it.

HelpHub is AI chat + semantic search for any website or web app.

You can add source content in 3 ways:
-Crawling any public site via a URL (e.g. your marketing site or blog)
-Syncing with a CMS (like Zendesk or Intercom)
-Add content manually

The chatbot is then “trained” on that content and will answer question’s based on that content only, not referencing directly the knowledge.

The output is an embeddable widget the contains two things: the chatbot interface for user’s to ask questions, and a search interface for users to search through the content the bot is trained on directly (as well as view source content).

You can play around with a demo on some popular sites here: https://helphub.commandbar.com

Some features we added that make it better IMO than just chat:
-Suggested questions (based on the page the user is on and their chat history)
-Suggested follow-up questions in a chat response
-Ask a question about a specific doc
-Recommend content based on who the user is and where they are

Would love to hear feedback (not lost on me that there are other chatgpt-for-your-site products and we are probably missing a ton of functionality from there) and can also share details about how we built this. It’s not rocket science but does feel magic :)

-James
What's the best way to stay in focus mode at work?
Any productivity hacks, helpful tips, cool SaaS?
International bank transfer is much slower and (for smaller amount) more expensive than PayPal.

No other PayPal-like finance apps cover as much countries as PayPal.
I'm boring. I always just name my computers their CPU name. Like my previous desktop before my current one was "4670K".
Modals and accessibility was a completely solved problem in 1990s desktop UIs. If anything modals were considered the “easy mode” of UI design. (You can see this in applications like Photoshop that retain some of the original early ‘90s modal-centric design.)

It’s crazy how much the web platform’s lack of UI expressivity has set us back. Everything is constantly getting desperately reinvented out of a handful of text markup tags cobbled together by scripts, but it doesn’t solve any of the underlying issues.
> It's 2023 and I still use GMail on the phone to email photos to myself to download onto my desktop computer.

If you use a single IMAP email account, a slight optimization is to not click “send”, but just save a draft message. IMAP, sort-of, is a remote file system.
Please stop waving the flag!
This is a company that wouldn't have existed on this scale without the pandemic events and i don't think that leadership has done business-wise anything wrong except from a moral/ethical standpoint.
>westpac

(Not so) fun fact, Westpacs account password policy requires the following:

6 characters. Not minimum. 6 exactly. (!!!)

Includes at least 1 number and one letter

No special characters, spaces or repeating characters

And it’s case insensitive! Very convenient indeed if your caps lock is broken or something
Thank you for your work! Harmonic is one of my most used apps. It's a joy to use, and I love the design (including the logo)!
People (the workforce) complain about the total lack of respect and honesty. They couldn't care less if the CEO was on or off the company after such disasters, because the CEO usually has plenty of money to sustain his family for a decade without worrying too much. The workforce usually does not have that luxury.
I am no fan of Jack Welch, and I do blame him to some extent for things being frustrating now, but honestly it just feels like he's "yet another horrible leader of a company".

You can look at basically any capitalist during the Gilded Age or the 1920's and see plenty of clear cut examples of them valuing profit substantially more than "doing the right thing". They didn't treat their workers terribly well, they destroyed large chunks of the environment, and they became richer than anyone could possibly imagine.

Sure, people like Carnegie would later talk about "social responsibility" of rich people, and to some extent I'm sure he even believed what he was saying, but that doesn't really detract from the fact that he still fundamentally made most of his money off suffering of others.