skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oxo is one of the finest examples of mass-market consumer industrial design and quality I've ever seen. Every product of theirs I've purchased has been exemplary, even years later after heavy and extensive use.
I disagree that the benefit is either for the lawyer or others and that the utility calculus can correctly capture this.

I have a good friend who is a lawyer who does a mixture of family law and immigration law. He is wealthy, and spends most of his time around other wealthy people. Sometimes he volunteers to do (non-lawyer) work with immigrants.

He doesn't do it for fuzzies. He might explain it as attempting to better understand his client pool. He has to understand, to a good enough degree, their lives and mental state to best work with them.

There is a calculus here. Some omniscient entity could work out a grand formula of "How much does this time spent with immigrants help him become a better lawyer to help immigrants". That is a knowable variable..

But it can't be known by us. It's too much of an internal state. Even if we had high quality assessments for "skill as an immigration lawyer" and tested him before and after his volunteering, we wouldn't see a linear correlation. He is hoping for "aha" moments of understanding.

Thus the problem is a utilitarian problem. There is a calculus of how much he improves the lives of others. Yet the utilitarian calculus can't capture the value of these volunteering events yet they do feed into his ability.

Utility calculus always has this flaw. Humans are not cold logic utility machines. We require a mix of soft (culture, religion, emotion) inputs and hard inputs (training, logic) to do our best. Even though we can have mathmatical conversations about the soft inputs, we can't actually run the utility calculus on them.
Wow, I had no idea, thanks for the tip. I've been snatching up old PYREX in thrift stores when I heard the new stuff is no good. Now I know...
What Stack Overflow is telling employees about the strike
Anchor Hocking is still around. For now. But if this pattern of private equity destroying trusted brands continues, one can only imagine how difficult it will be as a consumer to purchase well-made household commodities. I do not want to navigate a world where the provenance of every product is unknown, its white-label manufacturing origins hidden behind an alphabet soup name like MALACASA, KOMUEE, or M MCIRCO (all actual names of oven safe glassware products for sale today).
This is true, though in practice I so often find large, non-trivial examples of the former, but very seldom find examples of the latter.

The barriers to entry are lower with python, and so I think there tends to be a lower standard for deployment.
Worst thing is when interaction with scrollbar is considered enough to enable video autoplay and another annoying features.
Thrift stores.
i agree, to be a truly independent thinker means your ideas won't be acknowledged for a period of time if ever, to not care what other people think seem to be the hall mark for truly creative people.
They're still going in a different direction:

> Senate Bill 553, which was submitted by State Senator Dave Cortese, has been passed by the State Senate and will now progress to policy committees in the State Assembly. Cortese hopes the proposed law will prevent workplace violence and protect staff from being forced by their employers to step-in during robberies. But some store bosses are furious about the plans, with the California Retailers Association mocking the move as an open invitation for thieves "to come in and steal."

https://www.newsweek.com/store-retail-violence-robbery-theft...
Yup.. If I go search for Pyrex on Amazon Spain, I find the real borosilicate stuff made in France since 1922. They never decided to cheap out on the materials.
I built a hierarchical note-keeping system for myself and have been intending to add tags to it, but I've never gotten around to it -- because the hierarchy is generally "good enough" after I added two features: linking, and grep.

Grep is self-explanatory. Linking works like hard links in Unix, where the same note appears as a child of multiple different parents (added a command to find "orphans" in case you unlink it from everywhere).

At this point I might not even bother adding tags.
It’s mostly about watching “moar porn” and selling ads.
There's a lot to dislike in GTK 4. I'm hoping that it gets used by fewer applications.
the US Government Warned Ukraine Not to Attack NordStream 3 Months Before Attack
Is it not fair to say those of us using adtech in our work are also complicit? I work in a highly regulated industry where consumer data is protected - except the data they unknowingly let f*cebook harvest by visiting our marketing sites.
Thinking Like Transformers (2021) [pdf]
> It is not unreasonable to ask who (whose mobile phones) were in an area during a riot

Would you expand on why you find this reasonable? As a city dweller, I often don’t have much choice about the routes that I take, and don’t find it reasonable that someone happening past an event of interest automatically places them under suspicion.

Don’t get me wrong; I understand why LEO finds this to be valuable, but I don’t see how this translates to being reasonable.

> But this is about balancing right, not one absolute right trumping another.

To me, “balancing” looks more like requiring a sufficiently high bar to get clearance to track individuals, and the availability of a much more invasive mechanism (geofences) does not mean that a balanced solution must include it.

I think there’s an analogy in the militarization of police departments. Some would argue this is “balancing” power between police and gangs, but there are far stronger arguments that it’s an inappropriate and dangerous solution to begin with.
By definition most continuations won't be wildly divergent under a stochastic model because its following a bell curve.
He probably doesn't want you to see the bullet list because it gives up his agenda.
The Design Principles of the Elixir Type System [pdf]
>in the name of “simplification” and/or “performance,” it deprives us of the correct answer to the problem,

Is not a universally useful way to think. For many, many problems computers can not give you the right solution and thus the most relevant question is what is a good (tradeoff between fast, accurate, small, implementable, etc.) approximation.

In fact Euler's Identity is very hard to get out of a computer. Just telling it what 'pi' is, is not trivial in the slightest. Certainly 'pi' isn't a floating point number and if you import the mathematics library of your favorite language the thing called 'pi' is just a slightly more sophisticated version of 22/7.
> Even ignoring classified information, there are quite a few things we can't even put into a Google search
This doesn't say very much, Google is a public service. Government cloud providers have special regions just for the government that are compliant with data security policies.
What i would really love to see in a developer email service is also some workflows baked into the emails. There's a ton of times you would want to wire up a service and just set it for transactional events but also as sequences and with a default set of templates wired up. Think Zapier meets Sendgrid for emails and a set of templates maybe wired for default dev flows like Signup, Verification, Billing receipts.

We do use SG for transactional emails and their email DX is frankly abysmal. Also not a big fan of html for transactional emails but sometimes you gotta do it.
> downsides

I dread the weaponization of this tech.
I never felt speed was the primary reason for me to use i3wm (or my preferred tiled WM awesomewm). It just felt more convenient. I never had to worry about placing windows, which just removes a bunch of cognitive load. I want half a dozen terminals open (hell, make it a dozen) but I want to be able to see all of them? It's automatic. I want to open a document and a browser next to it? Automatic. I want a video in the corner, some terminals in their own corner and browse the net on the other half of my screen? Automatic. Couple that with virtual desktops and it becomes second nature to create context-specific desktops, and switching between projects with minimal overhead is just how things are.

I think my interfacing with my computer is infinitely worse now that I currently don't use Linux on a daily basis and so don't have access to that kind of well-implemented tiling anymore. Also, while tiling WMs are overall an immense joy, none of them are desktop environments and in most distros there's a lot of fiddling to get a tiling wm to function remotely as well as a standard DE (I used to use the awesomewm flavor of Manjaro, which hasn't been maintained in years, unfortunately).
There are now definitive studies that sleeping with a blackout mask greatly improves sleep quality. I just got my spouse onboard with wearing one and she says it is night and day difference for her.

I have to wear a cpap so I haven’t found an eyemask that works with my cpap headgear.
Our Instant Pot makes great rice - I barely use my Zoji anymore. The IP clearly beats it for brown rice both in speed and flavor as the Zoji's seem to be optimized for white. My Instant Pot also has a slow cooker function as well that works just fine.

About the only place the Instant Pot falls down a bit as a pressure cooker is when you need the full 15psi, like the Modernist Cuisine recipe that pressure-cooks squash with a bit of baking soda to kick in the Maillard reaction. The recipe works great in a stovetop pressure cooker that hits 15psi but fails in an Instant pot that only hits around 12.5psi or so - you can always taste the baking soda when it is done cooking. The pressure difference might also impact making stock but I haven't tried a side by side (though the Instant Pot is non-venting so I'd expect it's stock to at least have superiour clarity).

If I could only pick one out of the four, it would be the IP. No question.
Shamelessly sharing my own writeup on how to set this up on your Mac

https://www.greghilston.com/post/tiling-window-manager-on-os...
When the interest rates bump up, that's not a per company thing. Where's the "next victim and repeat" opportunity going to be when there's no 0% available?
I don't plan to use this, but I think I get why it might work.

(1) Although it's just a hierarchy/tree, which is nothing new, its size and shape is (supposed to be) a sweet spot. There are trade-offs with hierarchy sizes and shapes, so a sweet spot is a plausible idea.

(2) By limiting the size of the tree, you force people all across the organization to share the same parts of it rather than giving them private spaces they control exclusively. This means they are forced to work together on how information is organized. This could encourage there being one coherent idea of how information is organized. Everyone will have to agree on how it's organized, and everyone will be more familiar with how others' stuff is organized.

(3) The numbers are small enough that you can remember them and talk about them. When you ask someone where something is, they can give you the answer directly instead of promising to send you a link. (It's like how you can read an IPv4 address off one screen and go type it into a config file on another computer, whereas unfortunately this is not easy with IPv6.) This increases the odds of success in finding the info.
Everyone who wanted one has one and whoever wants one now gets their friends' cast-offs or duplicates.
I first visited San Francisco almost 20 years ago and I loved it. I last went in late 2019 and I was horrified. The change was night and day from my perspective (and depressing as I saw this place that used to have a special vibe to me turned into what felt like, as an outside with limited experience to be clear, a dystopian wasteland)
From my own circles nearly all of my friends have left SF. Even the ardent progressives are now noting increased rates of crime and are demanding for more police presence.
>You're thinking from a Terraform 1st perspective.

You can use Terraform without CDKTF.

>Except Pulumi doesn't support makefiles?

Everything and nothing support Makefiles ;-)

> So yaml is a simpler DSL

Yaml isn't a DSL. It's just that 5000 different projects use it in 5001 different ways to express something randomly (e.g. Ansible) INSTEAD of creating a DSL.

> pick a language that is used more often

I would argue that Terraform is among devops people the most widespread tool for this purpose, so you'll have an easier job finding staff searching for people who know terraform than to find people knowing Pulumi + your mandated choice of language. Remember this is for the "central devops team supports multiple dev teams" scenario - for the other scenario of devs running their infra code themselves I've already said Pulumi makes a lot of sense, and then you don't need to mandate anything, and everyone will be able to reinvent their square wheel independently - until they're bought by a bigger company which has a dedicated SRE team that takes over Prod responsibility from the devs, and you'll find them searching for a tool to convert Pulumi into TF ;-) .
My big side project right now is YOShInOn which is a smart RSS reader. Today it ingested nearly 2000 articles, picked out 300 for me to look at, I might really look at 200 of them. The main interface looks like ‘TIkTok for text’ or like Stumbleupon. If you look at the articles that I post to HN almost all of them were picked by me working together with YOShInOn.

Right now I am tuning up the duplicate article detector (as much as I want to dev for Apple Vision I don’t need 30 articles about it) and I need to build a search interface for things I’ve favorited, with that it will be worthwhile to build a bookmark let to import individual articles, …

A similar system could filter other streams, I really want to remove angry toots from my mastodon stream and ideally make YOShInOn become a personal agent that takes a look at everything before I look at it.
It doesn't have to be that way. Singapore is essentially half city-state/half-mall and manages to avoid this problem pretty well.
I have both but we use the instantpot (EU name) more often because it fits more jar when canning, but mostly because of the electronics controls that makes it reach the optimal temp for pressure without making any noise from excess steam releasing. You can achieve it with an analog pressure cooker by it’s harder and you can’t get it completely silent like the instapot without running the risk of being under pressurized (and under temp), which affects cooking and sterilization effectiveness.
> Where do people get off saying no one has any idea what consciousness is?

I'm not "getting off" saying that, but I do say it often.

For me, it's important to know:

If we think an artificial neutral network can have consciousness and we're wrong, then there is a risk of all the people who want to have their minds uploaded having a continued existence no better than the one of TV stars reproduced on VHS tape. There is also a risk of this being done as a standard treatment for lesser injuries, especially if it's cheaper.

If we think an artificial neutral network can't have consciousness and we're wrong, then there is a risk of creating a new slave class that makes real the fears of the Haitian slaves in the form of the Vodou concept of a zombie — not even death will free them from eternal slavey.
"They're not trying... Power here, those of the voices in our heads..."

Who is the "They" in "They're", in "Power", in "those"?

And FWIW I don't have any voices in my head except my own, which is laughing right now. It is pretty infectious laughter!8-))
Disclaimer:

I had worked for Red Hat prodsec for 6 years doing the kernel work. It is common that I regularly resubmit rescores requests to CVSSv3 to NVD, they seem to be pretty good about it when it is clearly explained.

NVD will sometimes consider flaws scoring it the 'general' use case not in the specific use case which can make scoring libraries environment and usage specific.
> systems of this complexity

I'm amazed that any of this stuff works for more than a couple of minutes at a time, or at all.

I mean, if you think of items with 99.9999% reliability, and do the math for a whole chain of them ...
> Gee, I wonder if there’s anything that can go wrong here, when it’s handed to unskilled, underpaid employees who don’t care and are used to just following instructions?

Since when are Government employees underpaid? The salary is typically competitive for the work being done and the benefits/pension are outrageously generous when compared to the private sector.
It doesn't seem to me like a simple ML system, it needs to be able to extract tags from all kinds of filetypes (video, games, images, assets, text, ...), at a decent speed and then it has to assign tags to what you would also assign, because if it doesn't do that then it's even worse, because you can never find anything as your mapping and the ML mapping would not be the same.
Will LLMs improve economic productivity?
London has a mall (also called Westfield, incidentally) that is a perfect counter-example.

The problem in SF isn’t the mall, it’s the laissez-faire approach to crime and public order.
I’ve had non-technical users, who used the application daily, ask me to implement a large form where every input was a radio button.

When I suggested using a more appropriate mix of drop-downs, checkboxes and radio buttons they readily accepted.

It turns out they thought radio buttons would be easier for me to implement. They aren’t stupid people, they just don’t have any idea of how things work outside their domain.
I've been skeptical of the Wirecutter for a few years now. It seems their reviews are starting to lean away from quality products, and start pointing towards companies with a bigger marketing budget. Example, their handvac recommendations are entirely Black & Decker, but I've tried a few of them and found them vastly overpriced compared to others on the market.
John Oliver did it[1] and "blackmailed" congress to act. Still crickets.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqn3gR1WTcA
and some still say that AI isn't being overhyped.
This is certainly not my understanding. After production left USA quality is worse. Breaks more often and when it shatters, it doesn’t just break apart. It’s like a kinetic blast sending forth hair and bigger sized razor sharp glass shards in a surprisingly wide radius. It’s like a mutually assured destruction event and will require heavy clean up and you still might end up with glass in your feet and eyes.

I remember reading the Amazon reviews and the amount of 1 star stories about how a plate landed them in the ER was concerning.

I bought some vintage Corelle at a private sale and it seems different to me at least but maybe I am buying the wrong contemporary stuff.
> (Not 'How can we give them what they’re asking for?' because that isn’t the right question to answer.)

We say some very similar variant of this where I currently work, and also at previous places. Personally, I've never been able to understand this in any other way than:

a.) our users are idiots, we developers know much better then those poor souls

b.) our users are idiots, adding a feature without taking away a marginally-similar feature would be so confusing for them, poor souls

And I think it's why BBEdit gets this historical puff piece that reads like an in-flight magazine piece congratulating Madonna on still being able to dance at this late stage of her career.

I used BBEdit 1.0, and probably every version after that -- including the OpenDoc component[1] version!! -- but I finally stopped paying for it after version 13, after realizing I only ever used it for dealing with my Japanese bank's legacy-encoding CSV files. (Which I still do, to be fair, but the free version works for this.)

I don't think BBEdit has maintained legitimate relevance, in terms of writing most kinds of code, or even more complex text-processing workflows (for which it is better-suited relative to coding), and IMHO that's basically because of this attitude of "our users are dumb! we must protect them, poor little lambs!"

For instance, despite having had rectangular selection quite early, when it was rare (20 years ago? memories get hazy...), I don't think they ever made the jump to Sublime-style multiple cursors and discontiguous selections/insertion-points (later made 9 quintillion times more popular by VS Code) -- arguably the most significant advance in text editors since the introduction of multiple windows.

Likewise language servers and basically everything since 2013 or so.

I might be wrong, though; I look at text editors from the writer-of-software perspective, mainly. TFA references people using BBEdit to write English, and as that endeavor has gotten more complicated ("just write it in Markdown" somebody once said to my father, and he threw a spiny squash at their head) maybe BBEdit's niche has shifted. I don't think it is relevant today as a source code editor, but maybe as a blog post editor, or applied statistics prompt editor, etc?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc
As a user, that’s what I’d want it to do. If someone is trying to bypass the fingerprint sensor by replacing it because they know that’s where the authorization is stored, that’s exactly what I’d want the phone to do.
NVD doesn't publish a patch.
The money was stolen.

This is an utterly textbook private equity play, the kind of thing that has been wrecking American business and jobs.

There's nothing subtle about this at all, it's looting with a pen.

They acquire the business, load it down with massive amounts of debt, do reckless short term things to boost growth (aka "eating the seed corn") and then take the money and keep it leaving someone else holding the bag.

It has nothing at all to do with how much people do or don't like cookware.

It's a bust out, a racket, just an inch away from organized crime. It happens daily in this country.
ChatGPT's censorship goes beyond "not telling the full story." Someone I knew was being insulted by one of their coworkers in a foreign language, and they asked ChatGPT to translate - it refused. It's not hard to imagine that this sort of filtering could cost lives if used in a life-or-death situation as a replacement for a translator.

And what's sad is ChatGPT is really the best machine translator in existence. It's not hard to imagine it making a serviceable substitute for a translator, at least in principle, if uncensored.
The real question to me is: in the next decade, as ML researchers roll out progressively more sophisticated systems, we can expect that generative systems- which may actually be "only stochastic parrots"- are going to create works that would fool any reasonable human being.

At what point does a stochastic parrot fake it till it makes it? Does it even matter? We can imagine that, within 10 years, we'll have a fully synthetic virtual human simulator- a generative AI combined with knowledge base, language parsing, audio and video recognition, basically a talking head that could join your next technical meeting and look like full contributor. If that happens, will the Timnits and the Benders of the world admit that, perhaps, systems which are indistinguishable from a human may not just be parrots, or perhaps, we are just sufficiently advanced parrotS?

Seen from that perspective, the promoters of stochastic parrots would seem to be luddites and close-minded, as well as discouraging legitimate, important, and valuable scientific research.
By that logic, the following industries would not exist: automotive, furniture, computer, kitchen appliances, other home appliances, television, bicycle...

The article itself and mikeyouse's comment explain the situation most clearly. Standard PE financial (over)-engineering was the primary cause of their problems.

Slowing sales obviously don't help, but changes in the macro-environment can typically be weathered if the companies' financials are appropriately managed.