skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a letter of credit. Not a line of credit. Not an escrow account. Not a prepayment. It's not obscure like the author of the article thinks. Letters of credit are a very common arrangement.

Effectively, it's a guarantee provided by a bank saying, "if Twitter doesn't pay, we will". Now it's up to the bank to get repaid by Twitter.
Hello, [restaurant name], this is Alice from [brand] calling. Would you be interested in our premium marketing package? Features include enhanced filtering of "anomalous" (negative) happiness-score(tm) readings. The subscription costs only 1,337 credits/month.
You yourself imply there are different degrees to how acceptable the two terms are.

Why else do you spell out one word but censor the other?
Thanks, we did a podcast interview this past Sunday on TigerBeetle, also looking at safety as a philosophy (beyond what any language can provide), that I hope you enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pHHb6ONTbw
Good thing it's not.

We still have the downdoots for uncritical thought termination, as consolation.

Shut out bad thoughts and let the corporate $$$ spice flow!
Ask HN: Discord account disabled, no response from support?
I mostly just lurk around and only read HN, but I need some help with an issue that's been plaguing me for the last 2 weeks.

I use my Discord mostly for talking in tech communities and messaging people. But somehow I got my account disabled on Discord for being involved in "malicious hacking, fraud, account or credit card cracking, and/or attempting to damage a computer network or machine". I've never done anything remotely close to that on Discord. However, contacting support just gives me an initial bot response and 0 follow-up replies.

For some reason Discord also starts deleting these disabled accounts 14-30 days after they're disabled, and I can't find any way to download my account data.

I would really appreciate any pointers from people who've dealt with these kinds situations before, whether it's on Discord or on some other platform that had similar issues.
Running an LLM every time someone clicks on a button is expensive and slow in production, but probably still ~10x cheaper to produce than code.
Because it is unavoidable at the moment... but wouldn't (any) GPT/LLM be a candidate for "Dumb and Gets Things Done"?

In my experience, chatGPT tries so hard to write convincing and plausible answers that it has no problem to compromise on the correctness of the content. Well, I know, it has no sense of correctness at all. On the other hand, it could be useful as a foot soldier…
Bill Gates in China: Microsoft Co-Founder to Meet Xi Jinping
https://archive.is/pod1b
I'm not saying engineers can't do the job; many engineers certainly are capable of working as product owners, and in most cases startup founders are their own product owners, regardless of ability (for better/worse, but usually for better if they're succeeding).

Rather, the point is that it's an extraordinarily critical function and not something to assume everyone is just good at because they say so or because they're "smart" in some sense.
Pretty sure the problem would be far worse with VoIP. You're now getting several packets per second to measure.
Thank you for you thoughts! I greatly appreciate them!

I understand 100% now what you mean, and as a non lawyer but technical person, I would easily argue the points above if did ever find myself in that battle : )

I've also learned in my couple years of being an innovater that patents, copyrights, trademarks, and licenses are only as good as the legal counsel you can afford to retain to fight your battles.
The takeaway for me, is that the moderation tools were neglected, despite the site being essentially dependent on them. Note the accessibility complaints from blind subreddits. They couldn't be bothered to make it work with a screen reader.

Important to remember some of the people moderating this stuff have had to deal with spam/bot activity severe enough to make the news (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wallstreetbets-reddit-bot-activ...). It's unsurprising some ended up dependent on external apps.
How is a 104-key keyboard “special hardware”? And what makes it the “worst”?
Do you mean semicolons and whitespace?
I want everyone to come back to work in the office. If your office is no longer available, neither is your job.

That point?
The closer you are to the money, the more you make. Here, the leadership (esp those who report to CEO, and the underlings of these EVPs) get paid more even in the bad times: remember, retention bonus. The farther you are to the money, the less you make, the more excuses you get from your management. Their logic is: better remove raises/promotions for 1300 people, as it adds up in savings.
Twitter has had a Boulder presence since 2014, when it acquired Boulder-based tech company Gnip Inc.
Sounds like he fixed the glitch
GPT-4 was already a massive improvement on 3.5 in terms of replying consistently in a certain JSON structure - I often don't even need to give examples, just a sentence describing the format.

It's great to see they're making it even better, but where I'm currently hitting the limit still in GPT-4 for "shelling out" is about it being truly "creative" or "introspective" about "do I need to ask for clarifications" or "can I find a truly novel away around this task" type of things vs "here's a possible but half-baked sequence I'm going to follow".
It's not temperature, but sampling. Output of LLM is probabilistic distribution over tokens. To get concrete tokens, you sample from that distribution. Unfortunately, OpenAI API does not expose the distribution. You only get the sampled tokens.

As an example, on the link JSON schema is defined such that recipe ingredient unit is one of grams/ml/cups/pieces/teaspoons. LLM may output the distribution grams(30%), cups(30%), pounds(40%). Sampling the best token "pounds" would generate an invalid document. Instead, you can use the schema to filter tokens and sample from the filtered distribution, which is grams(50%), cups(50%).
Amazon just locked a man out of his smart home for a week by accident
A Quants Approach to Running
It is actually a common practice, if you want to terminate the lease, to stop paying and get evicted. However, they may still be liable to pay for the three or four months they used.
Additionally, once you start creating a paper trail it starts to look more and more like a concerted criminal fraud operation. Yours is a good idea.
The drives are relatively cheap. I picked up an LTO-5 drive for about $150. I don't care that it's used. At that price I can buy 3 of them so that I have spares. And the next gen tape drive will always read the previous gen tapes. So it's an easy upgrade path. I'll go to LTO-6 when those drives come down a little in price on the used market. Then LTO-7 if I'm even alive lone enough to need that much storage. Realistically, I have about 30-40 years left in me and after that I don't really care what happens to my backups. They're encrypted, with parity files, so it's not unreasonable to think that these backups will last me the rest of my life.
He did specify that the listed servers only blocked on evil bits, implying they didn't block when other private bits were used
Which is why I don't think that moderator strike will have much effect. All these popular trash filled subreddits are moderated. Moderators just don't do that good of a job. Managing a community is hard and I sympathize with people doing it for free and failing. But as result, the number of subreddits that will actually be destroyed by their mods leaving is too small to affect company balance sheet. Vast majority of Reddit is already pretty low quality and its users are fine with it.
Bud light accounted for over 9% of Americas domestic beer sales last year.
I am on some Facebook neighborhood groups which I think are similar enough to Nextdoor, but there are plenty of scammers about and also, it’s hard to trust people’s judgment given how many idiotic posts you see floating around.
What's a good alternative when more than a few people are involved in the conversation?
>You do realise you're describing 99% of the iOS app store here right?

I do. And I also realize how much worse it'd be if Apple didn't gate user data behind OS-level user consent dialogs.
No, strikes have always been the way to effectively deal with these things. Setting the dogs free is not a strike. You can read up on how effective strikes have been executed ethically when critical care is involved; this isn't one of them though. It's naive to call it a "power play" though since literally every alternative by every actor involved is a "power play", just some are more effective than others.
Tell that to Softbank
So far he seems to be right. NB I’m not Musk fan, but it’s pretty amazing how far vendors and landlords are willing to bend to maintain the prestige of having Twitter as a client
What point are you trying to make now? You just said:

Parallelism is a physical thing, concurrency is a logical thing.

So by your own definition, wouldn't multi-core concurrency be parallelism?
I'd go a step further: APIs shouldn't exist.

I know, it's a hilarious sentiment in these times. But I really feel that most of the problems today around walled gardens and surveillance capitalism stem from not using the web directly as it was originally envisioned.

If we had properly formatted HTML, little/no Javascript, a standard auth mechanism that isn't terrible (HTTP auth or a cookie like the good 'ol days), automatic sitemaps or semantic representations without manual intervention, best practices around site updates and maintaining previous versions, etc etc, then why would we need an API?

Since that stuff will never happen, I'd vote for third parties to provide open source APIs for existing sites. Companies could even hire those third parties to maintain APIs for them.

Disclaimer: I'm paid to write APIs and I'm just so tired.
> but to keep someone (be it a fellow employee or a 3rd party attacker) from impersonating you without authorization.

Aside from a third party attacker (which is well-covered by my normal practices), that's a threat model that I'm personally not worried about at all, really. In part because I've never seen or heard of that happening and in part because if it did, I am confident that there are enough records to be able to prove it.
What if you ask it to include comments in the JSON explaining its choices
I wasn't able to reproduce this with 10k iterations on arch, I'm probably doing something wrong. Does the host kernel matter?

Host kernel: 6.1.33

Guest kernel: 6.4-rc6

Guest config: http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/config-bz2213346

QEMU: 8.0.2

Hardware: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X CPU @ 4.2GHz
"for making an absolute mountain out of a molehill"

Well, it obviously wasn't a molehill if it had this effect on their sales, was it?
> Why is this true? If someone is making $200k and leaving to make $350k, an employer may well be able to afford the $100k for 6 months to prevent them from immediately handing over IP, but not be able to match the $350k their new employer is offering.

Sorry, I worded that poorly. I meant companies could keep the ability to impose non-competes if they originally compensated employees who were let go.

I know it gets muddled when it comes to employees moving around for increased pay, but non-competes aren't supposed to be a mechanism for holding down salaries. They're only intended to protect vital corporate secrets that, if they were released, would be so costly to the company that they'd risk bankruptcy. The value of those secrets would likely be enough that many competitors would be hesitant to hire those employees because they might fear opening themselves up to future litigation for patent infringement or IP or whatnot.

The fact that many HR
departments apply them to every single rank and file employee and don't explicitly define what constitutes a direct competitor or what explicit activities/information are protected by the NC is why they're a pretty useless legal tool in most circumstances.
So setup a gateway that redelivers SMS messages, preferably though some other protocol. The gateway of course sets up another possiblity for exploitation.
Recent and related:

Function calling and other API updates - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36313348 - June 2023 (154 comments)
Yeah, my goal for this would be to develop an open protocol (similarish to email) that can solve reddit-like use cases. I think something along these lines could accomplish both lowest common denominator and specialized use cases (perhaps needing users ability to have separate 'personas' with different follow weights).

I think there could be different clients for different kinds of users - do you want to curate your follow list and transitively republish? Or do you mostly want to only consume and only publish your direct upvotes?

But I haven't gamed out the network effects very deeply, could be some pernicious scaling problems I have handwaved away.
If you operate in GDPR land there is a requirement to provide all that data (by the user) by law already. It's not unheard of.
I mean, and i’m no elon musk fan, but i got taught a long time ago in a business class at secondary school, pay debts late but recover your own bills as fast as possible.

Let’s say twitter is a dumpster fire circling the drain, if they recover, they’ll have to pay, if they fail, the landlord will have to fight for the debt in a bankrupt company.
Zig is very popular for WebAssembly: https://wasm4.org/blog/jam-2-results/
The Pros and Cons of Federated Learning
Well, sure, some will react that way. But some guy kept calling my wife and trying to intimidate her over my review. That probably works at least some of the time. And how many people want to go to court to defend themselves over a review? Seems like it’s not worth the effort.
You seem confused as to what shareholders are
considering the Grove and the Americana/Galleria wipe out 15-17 acres each of potential high density mixed use residential/commercial space in the heart of LA, all in the name of luxury shopping/parking, I would say they do.
That's fair and fine. You can call the three levels "beginner - expert beginner - experienced", if you don't want to use the ranks.

Doesn't matter. This still happens in the middle of the career and way more often than it should.
The simple solution to the "censorship" problem is to not have a landing page that aggregates the highest voted content: the only content users should see should be from the subreddits they are subscribed to. In this scenario, there is no need for censorship or vote manipulation to reach the front page (because there should be no front page).

Some might say this approach would result in echo chambers, but guess what...echo chambers are going to happen anyway, whether it's restricting your intake of news to certain news networks, restricting internet browsing to only specific websites, or your local/offline real world community gatherings. There is no way to stop echo chambers.
> iSteamDeck

Apple just doesn't make game controllers, at all. They made a big deal about game controller support in iOS way back when, but it's always been third-party stuff.

I think they've had multiple opportunities to directly compete with Nintendo consoles. They could have evolved Apple TV into a serious Wii-style console, but they didn't. They're not interested. If Apple ever makes game-specific hardware, it would be a radical change in their approach to games.
Tcl/Tk was fairly amazing for getting a simple UI going.

Back in the dialup days, my modem was plugged into a homebrew Linux firewall/router so that I could use the Internet from multiple machines at once. Which outside of a large business or college campus, was considered pretty much advanced wizardry back then. The problem was that I had one phone line and couldn't tie it up all the time. I wanted to be able to open a program on the desktop of another computer, click a button marked "connect to internet" and have that talk to the server to start the dialup process. And then also a "disconnect" button to hang up later. With a little text box to show any errors and whatnot. There were some half-solutions to this in existence at the time, but nothing that fit my exact use case.

I had been beating my head against various Perl experiments which weren't getting me anywhere until finally someone on IRC said, "oh, have you tried Tcl/Tk?"

Tcl was so easy to learn that I had a working proof of concept by the end of the day. Another couple of days to tidy it up. Used it daily for a few years until DSL came to my area.
Please explain to me where Reddit is no longer free for Joe Consumer?

It's the subreddit mods who are making the data inaccessible to you, NOT Reddit.
92% of programmers are using AI tools, says GitHub developer survey
Sorry, not sure I understand the question. Part of what I’m saying is the default sort tends to be fairly generous to the business.
This model makes every user moderate their own follow list: if you're transitively pushing spam/hatespeech/garbage to the people who follow you, they will unfollow you or be at risk of pushing the same to their followers. Upvotes are effectively 'vouching' for content, and so you should only upvote judiciously.

Attention is the reward for moderation.
So, dumb question incoming:

How hard would it be to make a thing with the same API as Reddit so the apps that are currently about to shut down can instead change base domain and keep going?

Including existing OSS servers, assuming there already is some (complete!) open source one somewhere — I can google for the attempts ("plebbit" was submitted here for discussion only last week) but I can't trivially tell if they're any good.
It's the details that are obscure - when or if Twitter ever paid rent directly or if (as some of the other pubs have suggested) it just established this bucket and said withdraw as needed. The setup predates Musk so it's possible there was some mix.
clearly the right language for a social network is to start in RoR and then spend a decade porting to Scala
IMO this isn't a dupe and shouldn't be penalized as a result.
If they really want to make it a work machine, there is too many things that needs to go from iPadOS when using keyboard. For instance, customizable shortcut is an obvious thing that is missing on the iPadOS.
battery "From $237.99". Thats as much as my ebike battery :). Whole thing is a joke
If you allow the company to "send people home" when there is no work then that is the same thing as allowing them to be waiting for work without getting paid. Because uber is not requiring them to be anywhere or do anything while waiting.
Anecdotally, my brother developed long covid, with both physical (increased heart rate, increased recovery time from simple tasks like walking up stairs) and mental (only occasional brain fog). Never had these problems prior to covid. He's one of the most level-headed people I know, and is not prone to over-reacting to pretty much anything (his wife does that for him).

If he says he personally experiences a thing, I'll trust his word over an armchair therapist on the internet any day of the week.
I used to use Delphi over 20 years ago and changed career since.

I'm looking to dabble again. Is there anything similar to RAD these days? It really did make building simple GUIs very easy.
Rich Harris on frameworks, the web, and the edge
The new title-holder is... Modelo Especial? I'm hardly an expert, but I wouldn't have expected it to be in the top 10.

It sounds a bit like a statistical oddity, where a bunch of contenders have split the market, and the single winner is a bit arbitrary.

Socially speaking, I'm a tiny bit sorry that a campaign of bigotry has succeeded even to this somewhat arbitrary degree -- though I guess it's heartening to know that boycotts aren't completely ineffective. I hope that ultimately the moral arc of the universe does bend toward justice, even though I'm afraid my faith in that has been severely shaken of late.
I wonder how much longer the property owner SF is going to wait for rent until they finally evict.
Federated Learning is a way to train a machine learning model on user data distributed across many devices in a way that supposedly allows the data to stay private. In this blog post, we give an overview of the technology and its applications and show how these privacy claims can get problematic very quickly. Any feedback is welcome!
My point is that no matter how much due diligence you perform, there is still a chance to be deceived. No amount of money could get you to 100% diligence and cover every edge case.

There is liability for knowingly passing the buck. VCs have been sued before.
Twitter, YouTube, Google, AWS, TikTok?
Or all the nerds posting screenshots to Twitter or posting screenshots of Twitter to HN and reddit, googling programming related stuff, using services deployed on AWS, and TikTok tech content creators not nerds?
Because I want to write open-source software that isn't required to also be GPLv3 as a result of using GPLv3 software.
> Single core concurrency doesn't have to deal with hardware memory synchronization.

Yes it does. If you have two threads which (for whatever reason) are sharing memory and they can be run in an arbitrary order, you have to deal with memory synchronization. If it's a single core machine, you still need to synchronize your memory access. Mutexes and semaphores predate systems with multiple processors.
The headline hides methane gas beating out coal due to cost. Renewable deployment still has a ways to go to catch up with both non-renewables and carbon energy sources.
A greenfield OS with real aspirations is a moonshot no matter what it's written in, so if we want to see systems-level investment in Rust that yields practical benefits...
Great point. I’ve talked briefly with my manager, but I’m going to have a longer meeting later this week. My impression is that they weren’t expecting this, and that they’re still gathering more details.
In my region of Denmark I think there has been one Go job offer in the past 5 years on linkedin, and it was for some Google PHD job mainly working with C++ where it was listed among like 20 other programming languages.

I think these things will depend a lot on the where. Around here the job market is pretty much all C#, Java and Typescript for "general purpose" development. There is still a strong PHP presence for web and C/C++ owns the embedded market, but other than that you'll be hard pressed to find a programming job. There are quite a lot of Python jobs as well, but they are almost exclusively for mathematicians who work in ML, AI and/or BI.

We did a few proof of concepts in different languages around august last year, Go being one of them, and found the language to be fairly immature and quickly dropped it. This is obviously very anecdotal, but basically every Go package we would look at would be fairly unmaintained. Often it seemed like one or a few developers at some organization decided to use Go and build something rather brilliant, that then went unmaintained as those developers found new work.
This would have been a crazy idea that I (would have) like to see happen. The fact that we're talking about Reddit content in Google searches is an indicator that Reddit should have improved search on their own site.
another great day with method. . yeah i'm really good at pattern recognition and such.
Why are you overthinking it? If you're not getting paid enough, then you should look elsewhere. Get an offer, take it to your boss and tell them to match it or you're leaving.

There is no sense stressing about factors you can't control. And you're at a _public company_, not a startup, where this kind of worrying would be far more relevant. You have comparatively very little to worry about, but if you are worried, then you should find your next lily pad and get ready to jump to it.