skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought this might be of interest to the HN crowd because bad UX at Amazon is impacting an author.

Will Wight, a popular niche Fantasy author, had all pre-orders on the final book of their series canceled due to bad system design. Amazon is telling the author there is no way of reversing the pre-order cancellations. The author stated on reddit

> Bottom line is, you have to click “Submit for Pre-Order” by a certain deadline even when there’s already a pre-order up and the manuscript is uploaded, but our team member didn’t know that.

> They were thinking it had already been submitted for pre-order since there was a manuscript submitted and the pre-order was live.

This seems like a situation Amazon could design their system to avoid, "there’s already a pre-order up and the manuscript is uploaded" should be sufficient to deliver pre-orders. At the very least, some sort of notification to the author could have prevented this. Canceling pre-orders is devastating to author and I'm sure Amazon is losing money as well. I'm surprised they let this happen to a series with books in multiple "top 10" categories at Amazon.
Here's hoping people will finally stop propagating the myth that SpaceX had donated Starlink to the Ukraine.
I only follow a few accounts on Mastodon, but I follow dozens of hashtags I am interested in. This way I see what I am interested in instead of every post from an account where I may only be interested in some of the things that account posts.
The education your children get affects me if I have to encounter your children. If you live in my community, then it is also likely that my tax dollars pay for your kids' educations. The medical decisions that you make for your children (vaccinations) can also affect me.

So no, that's a non-starter.
Well, he's right that his publishers will never see another word from him.

A decade before that quote, Dahl was convinced by the NAACP and others to revise the Oompa-Loompas to avoid the implications of their being "black pygmies".
I imagine if that ever happens it will only be used to nickel and dime consumers and you'll end up paying even more through forced upselling than with the inefficient VRAM we currently have.
Here's an idea -- there is already a sizeable number of users that get to Reddit via third party apps. Would it be feasible for a would-be Reddit alternative to form by having all the third-party apps switch over to the new platform overnight (as soon as their API access to Reddit is cut off)? That would get you a large enough user base to bootstrap.
And so they would...continue...to work...for things that cost more than food and shelter do?
More importantly, follow hashtags. This is the real power of Mastodon.
How does one actually enable AVF on UTM?

I've got some Ubuntu VMs set up already, and as per [0] I cannot find an option called "Use Apple Virtualization" neither in UTM, nor in the VM settings.

I am on Intel Mac.

[0] https://www.jamesarmes.com/2022/12/linux-mac-utm.html#once-m...
That’d piss off a lot of mods who moderate huge subreddits in their free time for Reddit…imagine if those mods got mad and decided to let inappropriate things through that drew negative media attention? Doubt Reddit wants that press when they want to IPO soon
> It uses TSMC’s 6 nm process, which won’t provide the performance and power savings that the cutting edge 5 nm process would. In prior generations, AMD fabbed x60 and x600 series cards on the same cutting edge node as their higher end counterparts, and used the same architecture too. However, they clearly felt a sharp need to save costs with this generation, compromising the RX 7600 a bit more than would be expected for a midrange GPU.

It's also so they only need to design one memory controller for 6nm. I believe I remember this corroborated from an AMD engineer interview around the 7900XTX launch. Memory controllers aren't just logic that can be "compiled" to whatever target node. They have specific electrical requirements that take substantial design work. For this generation AMD has a 6nm memory controller that they use both in this 6nm monolithic design and in their 6nm memory controller chiplets on the larger designs.
It's a weird article. The focus on productivity is odd, especially comparing productive parts of the country to others.
A lot of those parts of the country serve as dormitory towns to London, it's simplistic to say they are not productive - yes, but it's ignoring that all the jobs are in London and a few other places.
A bad thing about many of these places is they don't have much "place" to them, there is barely any investment in the things that would make that happen.
Even in places that don't suffer this there is short term thinking that means compared to London there is virtually no investment in transport outside of roads.
Using text to transfer that knowledge?

Text as in a comment here on HN?

I thought you just said that can’t ever work.
Then it sounds like you’re just describing normal persuasion, rather than using state power or violence. At that point, the heart of the disagreement isn’t over methodology (“censorship is bad”) or broad human rights (“freedom of speech is good”), but simply over whether you personally like the first version of the book or the new version.
USB 3 type A has extra pins. It is backwards compatible with pre-3, but you don't get the USB 3 features.
What an incredible story – unfortunately for their investors, it reflects very poorly on them. It reads like there were quite a few prima facie yellow/orange flags that merited deeper due diligence.
What?

You're implying a lot of things here, so I'm struggling to follow all of them, but I find it especially odd to suggest that being anti-Nazi is somehow unfair to them or otherwise unprovoked. I can think of at least one rather conspicuous example of a time when Nazis "started it," so to speak. Some of my relatives didn't make it out of that one.
> Comparing a research role in mathematics vs "boxing a big shipping co" is not the same.

But the equivalent of moving your mouse/clicking buttons would be the equivalent of moving your hands and not actual box packing. Why would you measure that instead of completed work, if as you say that work is easily measurable?

I think this software is mainly targeted at busy bee companies where nobody has a clue what the employees or any is supposed to be doing and therefore mouse activity is the only thing they can measure directly..
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> Neither the US nor the UK media have any significant consistent left representation.

Do you mean people, or publications? The likes of The Guardian, New York Times and Washington Post are pretty good and have existed a while.

I’d say they were centre-left at most, but that is a political statement that the right would likely disagree with.
Friend, every person gets benefits from the state. Be thankful that all the help you got was education, policing, infrastructure, community wealth, tax policies that favor asset owners, indirect subsidies, or privatized profits from public research. Or policies that would be obvious redistribution if Russia had done them in 1950 but because America does it it’s capitalism. If you look at where America’s defense spending goes it is rather obviously an employment and welfare program with a side hustle of war profiteering and global power projection. Closer to home, there would be no Stanford or Silicon Valley without massive, sustained defense spending in the Cold War.

Bribed? You seem to think that the homeless actively use their immiseration as some kind of protection racket. Maybe there are social services and non-profits that we can legitimately criticize for that (see OP’s article) but the people themselves? Really?

Alternately, we could say the Americans have decided to make the lives of poor and addicted people as bad as can be achieved without actually killing up them. Perhaps they serve a vital function as an example to others about what can happen.
water snow and ice will readily destroy anything solid, better to drain it away - this is partially why roads need constant repaving
> Personally, I like places like HN

What are those places?
They key to Mastodon isn't to follow accounts, but to follow hashtags. This way you see posts that you are interested in without having to find accounts you are interested in. Most accounts post other stuff I'm not interested in so that's just excess noise I don't need. With hashtags, I see what I want and none of what I don't want.
Couple of points, which as a former seller I suspect you know, but students often do not.

1) There is no best book for a subject. What suits a class in Elementary Statistics in one place or program might be all wrong for another.

2) There's a lot more to developing texts (or, as you say, curriculum) than people think. Besides a book, there are exercises and answers to the exercises. There are in class slides, perhaps programming components, and the elephant in the room is integration with the most popular LMSs. And all this has to be kept up to date.

It really requires money. At least in the US, I'm unaware of funding.

I'm an Open Text author so I'm sympathetic to your thoughts but it proves to be complex, IMHO
For downvoters, consider that CNN is as neutral and trustworthy as Fox News. You should be aware of how manipulative both sides of the media decorum is. This is a massive problem in the US.
People use those things because of people they know in the real world, reddit isn't like that.

also I dare say it was more 4chan than reddit who got trump elected
It really is missing some functional programming paradigms.

Something that makes (a) you appear smarter than other developers and (b) your code so complex it is unmaintainable.
Hi Weston, congratulations on launching. You've done a great job of explaining what the project is and how it works. I'm not in the ecosystem you've built this for so I can't comment too much on the project itself, but nice work communicating it.

EDIT: after reading through the linked docs a bit more, I have to say that they are quite confusing. I'm not sure what the difference is between Ratifier, Kulvert, and SQL Simulator. I'd recommend finding a potential user and watching them go through the setup/install process and see where they have questions.

If anyone is interested in something similar for postgres, I recently released https://github.com/peterldowns/pgtestdb. It uses template databases and advisory locks to give each test its own unique database with a near-zero marginal cost for each additional test. Combined with a ram/tmpfs-backed postgres server that is tuned for performance, it goes extremely fast.

Currently just for golang but I'm planning on releasing equivalent-capability libraries for Python and Typescript over the next month. If anyone has any thoughts/comments/feedback/suggestions I'd be extremely thankful.
That is explicitly not what they argued for and is a misrepresentation of ‘focused protection.’

Plus, wouldn’t a reasonable critique not matter who wrote it?
The actual cost of gas is actually about the same in US and other western countries, with the major difference being that in almost every other country you pay a hefty extra tax on gas on top of that cost - above and beyond usual sales taxes, often more than the actual gas cost - as means of reducing emissions and/or funding roads. So yes, US has cheaper gas at the pump, but it's not because of market efficiency but because of the differences of government policy to encourage/discourage gas consumption.
"Less Online" is exactly the silver lining I'm seeing from this new era of public facing websites slamming the doors shut, and treating sharecroppers ('creators' in the current lexicon) as inconveniences.
And I was called out for a slippery alope argument when critiquing loosening child labor laws (https://apnews.com/article/child-labor-laws-alabama-ohio-c11...). Seems like we are at the bottom of the slope already.

Either way, disregard for child labor law might not be happening in some of these cases.
Well there you have it: enshittification is inevitable, and it works. Therefore the "easy" solution is to lubricate the ramps away from enshittified platforms.

I do worry a bit when public stockholders (some of which are "regular" people) are the ones left holding the bag.
No problem running lightweight distros on them, though the really thin clients tend to be underpowered for web browsing. Available very cheaply on ebay, and pretty much all support remote boot so easy to run diskless (assuming some minimal local server).
It's only available in managed instances or on-prem. We are trying to use the "serverless" flavor of Azure SQL throughout:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/f...
At this point, it is safe to assume that every single SAAS or online service is not your friend.
oh snap, too late to edit ... you are absolutely right.
No? Unless there's some edge case with that statement I don't know about. That statement is basically tailor made for queues so you can select jobs that aren't currently being worked on by other workers.

Inasmuch as you trust your db's locking correctness it eliminates the concurrency issues. You can very naively have n workers pulling jobs from a queue not stepping on each-other.
Lots of money when talking about serverless.
This is a misrepresentation of ‘focused protection’ and Bhattacharya supported - and still supports - a vaccine strategy, which you insinuate he did not.
They have had it for about 10 years, since Kaveri. See eg https://hexus.net/tech/news/cpu/54709-amds-heterogeneous-uni... or https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/amd-a10-7800-kaveri-ap...
OK, after I managed to get through the tweet, my only conclusion is that this guy is some sort of conspiratorial nut job.

I think this not because of the pros/cons of his actual argument. I think this because his tweet is so rambling I can't really even figure out what his argument is.

First, he never gives a clear summary of what his actual suit is about. For example, I am actually very interested in how OpenAI could start as a non-profit and then somehow "pivot" to be a for-profit enterprise - I just don't understand the details of this. But this tweet just bloviates about how all these boards and people are connected (wholly unsurprising) without making any clear argument about what actual laws have been broken - just some random appeals to "breach of fiduciary duty".

I half expected the post to end with a wide eyed picture of him saying "Illuminati!!!".

BTW, why didn't he just start with a link to the actual lawsuit! I always think it's weird when people post tweets expecting you to have full context on something they themselves just did.
First, Reddit is used by plenty of children (regardless of COPPA). Many have tacit approval of their parents, who don't look too hard at what Reddit contains past the front page. And Reddit most certainly wants to be a place for children (age 13-17). So what children have access to is part of both issues.

Second, does this "Florida issue" include provisions for parents of children that want their children to be able to access those books, to opt out of the restrictions in question? If not, then one can't say the topic is entirely limited to the traditional role of parents deciding what is right for their children. Rather it's also about about controlling what other people's children might read.

Ultimately, both topics are about filtering distribution channels, based on criteria the distribution channel managers deem appropriate - with free speech concerns hinging on how much those distribution channels end up affecting what gets perceived as the total market.
Too pricey due to natural disasters, pretty nuts. Sounds like premiums will creep up excessively if large companies aren’t biting interested in the market right now.
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I can't upvote this enough: just take the sample code and build on it.

I tired of evaluating and learning various wrappers and helpful virtualization applications. Being able to configure directly in a normal language is great, and it eliminates software supply chain concerns.

Plus, I'm finding programs are running faster in my virtualized ubuntu than on macOS "bare metal" (still on Intel, where big memory is cheap)
Numerous scientific studies confirm this, but the meat/dairy industry spreads propaganda and misinformation to protect itself.

The meat industry is borrowing tactics from Big Oil to obfuscate the truth about climate change

https://www.salon.com/2022/11/11/the-meat-industry-is-borrow...

Inside big beef’s climate messaging machine: confuse, defend and downplay

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/03/beef-ind...

The Big Beef With the Meat Industry’s Advertising Tactics

https://medium.com/@jodi_64782/the-big-beef-with-the-meat-in...

Revealed: group shaping US nutrition receives millions from big food industry

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/09/academy-nutr...

Why Right-Wingers Are So Afraid of Men Eating Vegetables

https://newrepublic.com/article/171781/meat-culture-war-cric...

How BIG MEAT and DAIRY Fooled You (With Lies and Propaganda)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8xWvJMSFsI

Rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture has the potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels for 30 years and offset 68 percent of CO2 emissions this century

https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding...

If the world adopted a plant-based diet we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

Plant-Based Lifestyles Now ‘Imperative’ For Survival, IPCC Climate Expert Says

https://plantbasednews.org/news/plant-based-lifestyles-imper...
https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart

Looks just right of center to me.
Yikes.

> As an employee, these tools can benefit you by weeding out teammates who present themselves confidently, but don't actually do much.

How many employers "weed out" managers who present themselves confidently but don't actually do much?

Not many, in my experience. The management hierachy in an organisation of non-trivial size will be populated by cronyism and Flynn Effect virtuosos.
>but something like r/personalfinance is an institution that is not easy to replicate elsewhere.

bogleheads?
All the things you mentioned are just a slight improvement over measuring key presses/mouse movement...

Metrics like opened bugs/features and time in meetings can be easily gamed and are only tangentially related to actual output unless the work done is extremely standardized and strictly defined.
Agreed. Where do you guys work to be monitored like that?

I dick around all day at work, I watched YouTube video in the background, I still use paper notes so my cursor can be still for an hour sometimes, etc and I never received anything like that. That's over 4 employers since I went full time remote.

Not saying they're not "watching" me, but they don't seem to care.

Is there a typical profile for companies that go that far in the 1984 crazyness?
(Saving you a click): GE think they have a Ceramic Matrix Composite blade ready, replacing nickel alloys. This should result in higher turbine entry temperatures, and so higher engine efficiency. And gas turbine efficiency is already pretty astonishing tbh.

Cool stuff, pun not intended. My supervisor, who must be retiring about now, was working on this. As often it's bittersweet seeing a different team achieve the same goals, wish it was ours but I'm glad someone thinks they have it productionised.
Got sold to Roku right? Yea, I’m just waiting for the day where they block us out of that one too. I have scripts that download all of their initial data and then daily diffs for a project I gave up on.
https://old.reddit.com/r/theocho/ is a subreddit collecting seldom seen and obscure sports. Right now featuring tree climbing championship, camel racing with robot jockets and scottish haggis hurling.
Wait, so the nearest thing to downvoting a story on HN is to comment on it but not vote it up?
my father is in india where they've been giving lu177 ( and others) before chemo for quite a while ( other countries being germany and australia ) . Forums are awash with 'success stories' .
There are many clinical trials currently in US and canada. Some have published results showing 'non inferiority' in small sample sizes but most are in progress

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8627907/

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04647526 this one was supposed to publish some preliminary results in q1 2023 but i don't see any updates :/
The problem is rising risk, the state requiring Cadillac policies as its bare minimum, and refusing to allow premiums to rise. The only solution to that trifecta is Sacramento buying the risk.
This is just amazing work!

I have a question for you as even playing with this or creating oss project using this sounds like inviting trouble. So if any programmer wants to create an open source project using this data (just for kicks) then apart from using a VPN and throwaway email do you need to be careful about anything else? Any tips?
Atomic Wallet hacks lead to over $35M in crypto stolen
Is it more likely? The most overpriced books I was required to buy were the ones the professor wrote.
And if there were any stray dogs.
Your comment read better when it was just ‘What?’

I’d suggest just moving on - a look at comment history has a couple of similar comments.
But will the users stay if they do that? I'm not convinced I would.
Yeah, I think this is the realistic answer. Technical solution to a social problem etc
I worked for different parts of the national railway company of my country (France) for four years (circulations management and scheduling mostly - briefly on a CBTC system and the first studies on autonomous driving). It’s hard to understand how complicated it is to keep trains running if you haven’t experienced it.
Sure there are some situations where it takes a bit longer. But I was responding to the statement saying there are NO immediate ways to send money in the US and that’s straight up not true because often enough Zelle does work, especially using it with existing contacts as I had said.

Also, Apple Pay is often immediate but has taken like 10 minutes as well so that could vary.
They could still monitor actual output? Instead of the number of words in a word document (I mean software companies which rank their employees according to the number of closed tickets aren't the best places to be at either...)
I believe most people without a screw lose will be negatively affected by such a job, and many of them severely so
I honestly wish courts were allowed to save everyone time and money by responding to these total nut jobs with the same three letter response you did. Some things are so blatantly stupid on their face they don't really deserve additional explication.