skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been playing with Twilio recently, and it's certainly not the lean platform that it once apparently was. In the Java client SDK for example, I count 7 separate Message classes. There are multiple APIs with overlapping functionality; you can send SMS and whatsapps several different ways each. The documentation is likewise byzantine and bloated.

I get that scaling tech organizations is hard (Stripe is another company with abysmal bloat in their APIs) but jfc, get a competent chief architect who is opinionated, please, and aim towards coherency. If you launch a new API that's intended to replace older ones, then stop exposing the legacy APIs in the default SDK.

(That said, better than MessageBird, who don't even have SDK support for the APIs they're promoting as the correct way; on the other hand, their documentation is markedly better than Twilio's).
> If you were calling the shots, what would your next growth move be?

In biology, tissue that keeps growing indefinitely is lethal to the organism.
Well, Last Week Tonight isn't airing, that should give you a clue :D
Also the cornerstone of recommending diet and exercise as health advice.
They're not mutually exclusive.

FOSS software has vastly different incentives than commercial software, yet suffers from many of the same problems: bugginess, poor performance, lack of documentation, feature misprioritization, bad UI.

That alone indicates that the problem is not merely "misaligned incentives".

Actually, you can reduce most problems down to "misaligned incentives" if you're overly reductive enough. That doesn't mean that it's a useful way to think about the world.
Which is pretty bad value for whoever will do more, since they're working more for less.
Do we know they are fixed length? They could e.g. use a table with offsets to instruction boundaries in the cache?
There is this: https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/602518, or do you want a paper? I don't have a paper link, I am not that deep into it.
What are some other reasons to choose kbin over lemmy?
You know, I think this is correct. I was using them to do some Email workflow stuff with Pipedream, and ended up replacing it with my own Gmail SMTP since I'm just emailing myself and it's low volume. Apologies for getting that mixed up.
We had good Polycom conference mics. The problem isn't tech. In person meetings have latency and bandwidth advantages that tech can't overcome. Conversation flows between participants more naturally. Speakers overlap. Body language indicates flow.
Problem is that many services denylist “data center” ip ranges, making these vpns neigh unusable for things like watching Netflix or in some cases even logging into eBay and such.

I’ve run a private vpn for extended family off of my residential connection for this reason. It helps them and me.
> "65% always" is _very_ different than "35% never"

That's some hilarious new math right there.

I wonder if Jared always tips 35% when he goes out to eat.
Yep, I assumed you didn't, which is why I said it. My point was that if pressed, the lawmakers responsible for overriding these "bag bans" would say something similar to you, essentially that bag bans are bad (though I suspect their reasoning would look very different). Yet one can easily find them advocating for local control as a reason why <issue not going their way> shouldn't be decided at the federal/state level. Local control, until "local" does something they don't like.
Hi, one of the authors here. Good question! For this benchmarking, we evaluated performance on popular open source text datasets across a few different NLP tasks (details in the report).

For each of these datasets, we specify task guidelines/prompts for the LLM and human annotators, and compare each of their performance against ground truth labels.
Oh, I will most definitely be checking that out. Thank you so much.

It's funny, I've heard of radarr and sonarr, but I never looked into them because I was learning other stuff.
The main imaginary problems I commonly see are wheel reinventions.

For the most part, the software I see works well for what it does, and either has far too few features, or else all the extra stuff they added is stuff that people actually use.

On social media things are different, that's been bad and unsalvageable from the moment endless scrolling made it into something people spend significant time on.
Ah, the true purpose of democracy right there!

Also, TIL...
(for the record, I didn't downvote you)

Curious, what in GP's question rubbed you the wrong way? To me it seemed like a legitimate question. I'd actually like to know the answer myself because in the end it always comes down to incentives. But maybe I missed some nuance? (not a native english speaker, obviously)

Anyway, hoping for the answer to the question, and that it is taken in a positive way.
Reminds me a lot of erlang and the core features of where the function runs is unimportant.

This is solving microservices via dependency injection.

I'm not against it, but honestly if you not gonna be thoughtful about it.. Why not just monolith it? Monoliths are only a problem at large scale, and at that scale you have the manpower to create a reliable messaging service for inter service communications.
Moderates on both sides are adverse to appointing people to executive positions if they are nakedly partisan. These people are supposed to implement the policies written by Congress to their best ability. If the appointee is acting like a politician and not a civil servant, they should consider running for some political position.
Please don't cross into personal attack or be snarky in HN comments. You can make your substantive points without that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Some data is self annotating. You can count occurrences of features in context and then you know with increasing confidence that a feature occurs in a context. You can also build up meaning with more observation of events in context. Sounds circular, but notice no human is required in this process. Sure, in other cases or for other steps humans can be useful, but they aren't always needed for ground truth.
They at least have leverage to ask for more in return.

If layoffs come, they’ll be kept over lower performers.

When it comes to setting direction for the company or team, they’ll have more political capital.
I agree it could go to court but then it is up against this process [1] which is harder than it appears as written. Judges at every level have no authority to do anything beyond starting the amendment process. The member states of this process would have to see a significant benefit to put in that kind of effort and probably a lot of money and back scratching to amend the constitution. The constitution has only been amended 27 times of the 33 proposals in 247 years. I think the closest one could get would be to appoint Arnold as Secretary of Defense. That is just below commander and chief secondary military command role of the US president during peace time.

Perhaps an interesting study would be to determine if the US being as divided as it is currently would help or hinder the amendment process.

[1] - https://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_index_subjects/Co...
It's the latter case; Nord used a third-party residential proxy service that they sent traffic through, but there's no serious evidence that they used their own users as proxy nodes or endpoints.
Water can be recycled easily. Like it's done on ISS.
The degrowth folks are used to the critiques ( https://twitter.com/timparrique/status/1430155819404963841/p... ) and have responded to Noahpinion's piece: https://timotheeparrique.com/a-response-to-noah-smith-is-deg...
> You obviously can't have local nut jobs passing insane laws but same applies to top down federal powers

Honestly, I struggle with this.

Constitutions, bills of rights, or similar documents in various democracies exist specifically to protect fundamental rights of citizens that can never be trampled on by any level of government.

Beyond those codified rights, why shouldn't local nut jobs be allowed to pass insane laws if that's what people vote for?

If those laws are truly insane, then isn't that what constitutional amendments are for?

To me, the real problem is that those documents are so frozen that it's impossible to renegotiate the contract periodically, and so you end up being forced to hand over strong powers to higher levels of government (see: the voting rights act).

> In regards to freedom, New Hamsphire/Florida ranks #1 or #2 usually in the freedom index across the board: https://cdn.freedominthe50states.org/download/2021/print-edi...

Yeah, sorry, you'll forgive me if I discount this immediately. The Cato Institute has a very specific definition of "freedom" that I fundamentally disagree with.

If you're a small government, anarcho-libertarian, Cato is gonna be your jam.

If you, on the other hand, believe that government plays an important role in protecting freedoms (for example, Cato believes occupational licensing is fundamentally antithetical to "freedom", while I'd argue that it plays a critical role in reducing information asymmetry, thereby protecting the rights of consumers), you're definitely not gonna agree with Cato's approach. I know I don't.

And, by the way, I would expect (hope) Cato would disagree with what Texas is doing, here, as those actions are trampling on the rights of local communities to govern themselves.
I love the Vehicle Signage part of Apple’s 1987 Logo Standards

https://archives.design/post/641804140335464448/apple-logo-s...
As other comments suggest, this might be due to transcoding. There is tool Tdarr which transcodes media in advance. h264 could be the safest choice for mobile (hw support) and web.
This warning was issued by the TPA - the Taxpayers Alliance - a nut job right wing lobbying organisation funded by libertarians. Quite why they think they have cybersecurity chops isn’t clear, the normally whine about NHS funding or corporate tax, but the report should be taken with a large spoon of salt.
I should have clarified I'm looking for user engagement numbers, not stock price. There are dozens of Tech stocks that have had prices slashed: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/07/here-are-10-of-the-worst-per...

>If that isn't abject failure, what is?

Users fleeing the platform and no longer providing revenue would be abject failure. Companies pausing advertisement dollars as rates rise and tech generally having a tumultuous time in the market isn't an "abject failure".
> If that's me just standing up and saying "hey A, B, and C, you guys got a sec? Here is a problem I found, mind going to the whiteboard real quick" will always trump "shit, let me look at everyone's calendar and schedule a 30 minute meeting" then get an email asking about agenda, and 2 people who have personal conflicts and someone asking to reschedule last minute.

That's a big fat strawman. The same way I can gather some people from the office for a five-minute adhoc whiteboard session, I can start a quick group chat about a topic and turn it into a video conference if necessary. No scheduling or agenda required.
For some discussion on how to have the LLaMa tokenizer (properly) handle repeating spaces, please see this discussion: https://github.com/openlm-research/open_llama/issues/40
Good question - one followup question there is value for who?
If it is to train the LLM that is labeling, then I agree.
If it is to train a smaller downstream model (e.g. finetune a pretrained BERT model) then the value is as good as coming from any human annotator and only a function of label quality
Don't forget equity agreements that effectively prevent you from owning anything unless a "liquidity event" happens.
I think what he's trying to say is that footers and infinite scroll do not mix well. I agree.
The carrier terminology for this is "A2P 10DLC", and yes, absolutely everyone is involved.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/sns-settings-regis...
I'll look into it as well. Thank you.
because 9 out of 10 times I'd ping someone saying "Hey X, got a minute we want to discuss Y and Z" then I'd get a response 40 minutes later of "sorry I was focusing on W. What's up? How can I help?". Then I look around and 2 of the 4 people are not at their desks anymore and it's all just a shitshow.

If I need the 6 of us to be on anything I need to send a meeting invite for a specific time to eliminate that type of bullshit. Then deal with all the bullshit that entails
Common misconception, thanks to the all-too pervasive influence of the horribly inaccurate King James translation: the word used in Hebrew does not actually mean "kill". It's more akin to "thou shalt not commit murder" or "thou shalt not kill without justification". Of course, there's a whole new can of worms opened up there to debate whether any killing is justified or not. The Bible itself gives a number examples of when killing could be lawful - capital punishment, war etc - and you'll find much more to read in both Jewish and Christian philosophical traditions. A superficial dismissal based on perceived hypocrisy, however, doesn't stand up to even the most cursory examination.
I think some of these 13B models may only be pretrained and may not have benefited from RLHF. So it’s not clear how much of the difference is due to parameter count.
In all seriousness I wouldn't be surprised if Taco Bell were the only restaurant to survive the Franchise Wars either. Their product is consistently good (as far as large-cap fast food goes, i.e. excluding Del Taco and In-N-Out), their marketing is savvy, and they aren't afraid to experiment with new concepts. McDonald's looks downright medieval in comparison
I don't know if holds for everyone, but I would say that it was more innocent, more intellectual, less comprehensive, and therefore less apathetic because everything hadn't "already been done".

There also was no pyramid scheme vibe because advertisement hadn't taken hold as kind of an important part of all things. Paying for hosting and thinking about like becoming viral were not concerns that I recognized then.
I don't get why people buy cars anymore when there's Lyft and Uber. The transportation landscape has changed dramatically over the last few years.
If you think Cloudflare only does DNS, you don’t know what Cloudflare is

They do way more than just DNS
Meanwhile my issue with it is that the story got so popular online, given it feels like a normal day with most security auditors. I have to have worked with dozens of guys just like this. The only thing consistent is that they are the ones being listened to.
Counterpoint: Ajit Pai
With this alternative it would mean that Instagram will be the biggest (Mastodon-compatible) social platform out there. Just like what happened with Gab. Henceforth, centralization wins again [0], even worse with the Mastodon admins going under NDA's with Meta to be corrupted with opaqueness and little to no transparency.

As it stands unsurprisingly:

"Instagram's success on ActivityPub is also Mastodon's nightmare and it tends to more centralization." [0]

So I should be expecting mass instance-level bans and the de-federation of Instagram then?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36012434
The reason is that I'm trying to keep my messages effective. If I complain against everything at the same time, I risk being ignored.

I don't like the closed nature of GitHub neither. I hope the free software world move away at some point.

The open source world can't seem to avoid locking itself in those closed tools, I would really like if we stopped doing this.

I chose Discord because I see it as a bigger issue than GitHub, with which one can interact with standard tools like emails and git, and basic stuff work without JS. So one can both refuse to run non-free code and interact with GitHub. Still not ideal and concerning.

Try to go back to the early 2000s and tell someone that the open source world is going to trust MS to host all their stuff. You would probably have difficulties to be taken seriously.

(Although it is to be noted that back then many people used SourceForge which was also proprietary)
Oh yeah I'm fully aware, I just want to give it an honest shot, but everytime I did it sounds the same as or worse than stereo, even watching/listening DolbyTM AtmosTM Certified ContentTM on DolbyTM AtmosTM Certified DevicesTM
I tend to think of any kind of contemporary creation as BS. We are the filter who will decide what will become test-of-time validated legacy.
That's GP's point, I suppose - that people may have plenty of good moves available, but they've also built up near-instinctive defenses and repulsion fields around them - so even if they accidentally think or read about one of such options, they'll reject it as fast as it registers to them. It might be that the only way through those defenses is for someone else, or some situation, to force one to consider the option for a few more seconds or minutes.

I know I have this problem myself - some steps seem unavailable until some third party just plain tells me, "yes, you are actually allowed to do this, and you already know nothing bad will happen".
Not the first time the issue has been pointed out:

> Simplify the problem you've got or rather don't complexify it. I've done it myself, it's fun to do. You have a boring problem and hiding behind it is a much more interesting problem. So you code the more interesting problem and the one you've got is a subset of it and it falls out trivial. But of course you wrote ten times as much code as you needed to solve the problem that you actually had.

[1] http://www.ultratechnology.com/1xforth.htm
Don't do it. Don't past non-request-scoped data through contexts, and none of these are request-scoped. You can trivially pass such values through middlewares using methods or closures.

Also, while I think I know what "unlike Rust, these phantom types appear at runtime in Go" is saying, it's saying it in a really confusing way. These types do not "appear at runtime"; they are exactly like all other types, constructed at compile time and visible when interface-boxed at runtime. They're in no way "spectral".
Waiting for leak…
If Fediverse admins accept the NDAs, it would be a shame. You can’t run open communities while the top is conspiring.
Where is this? Southern Europe?

It makes me very sad seeing so many stone buildings left uninhabited and overgrown with plants when I visit Spain and Italy. I always thought it was just the cost to upgrade them to modern living standards that was prohibitive, but from personal experience [0] with similar situations in the US, I can see partial ownership being an even bigger problem.

[0] One set of my grandparents split their house equally among their 3 children. Because it has immense sentimental value to those children, they have not sold it and currently “rent” it at no cost to one of the children. Depending on the order in which those 3 children pass, the state of the house could easily become deadlocked for decades as I know one of my aunts would refuse to sell it even if the other aunt (who lives in it) passes. Thank god none of my cousins would want to live in it so we probably would eventually be able to sell it. It’s not even close to a mansion or anything… just a regular 1960s middle class house in an area where land is pretty cheap. If I had a shitton of cousins and the property was very valuable land I could totally envision it getting permanently deadlocked.
That's my answer to the argument of "What do you care, if I only work 1 hour a day, so long as I get my work done?!?!?! :emoji: :emoji:".

Which is a stereotypical argument made by some fringe who are ostensibly pro-WFH and responding to an argument of (also not the best idea) "How do I know you're working the full 8 hours?"

So this is an example of discussions getting derailed by a lot of arguments that ideally we'd already be past. But we keep churning them out, in self-sabotaging ways.

(Or, maybe not self-sabotaging, if the writer's goal is actually engagement or thought-leader self-promotion. Or if we've sunken so far on the WFH question that we're starting to get dialogue sabotage intentionally, like we do on some topics involving political power or big money.)
I think nyc used to be an outlook of the subway being for everyone but now its

Busses for the poor

Subway for the poor

Uber for everyone else. Maybe express busses.

The reality is that the subway system is not getting more reliable to a point where my daughter has a harder time getting to school than I did just due to train reroutes and delays daily.

In the US the subway is not seen as an ideal and reliable transportation, even with new York having the best one in the US.

I visited London 10nyears ago and then went back to new york. Was so disappointed the moment I stepped onto the train platform.
I'd prefer see wheel reinvention because it leads to better software.

1) it's debuggable
2) it's fixable
3) it does exactly what you need to do how you want to do it without any extra cruft and nonsense.

Libraries or game engines are too generic to be fast and easy to use because they need to solve for every possible use case. And even then, there are still edge cases where what you want to do cannot be done because of the architecture of the thing and so you're stuck with a slow weird ducktape solution to get around the 3rd party code's limitations.
Welcome back. How does this compare to Linen (https://github.com/linen-dev/linen.dev#readme), which claims to support Slack and Discord? I do see the license difference, but didn't know if that was the major differentiator
Please don't start flamewars on HN, least of all race flamewars, which are the last thing we need here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Falcon 40B is allegedly the closest thing out there. It sure beats the hell out of all the other open source models I've tried, but good luck finding hardware that can run it.
Sounds more like his job is producing tech debt. I saw few people like that, basically none of their code was left as most of that needed to be eventually replaced coz it was shit.
I find it worthwhile to read a book from time to time (I mostly read books from O'Reilly and No Starch Press).
Hmm, in Germany there is a union-company agreed wage for a large chunk of jobs and we still have companies that want to ape the Americans by enforcing RTO. I have no problems with my colleagues living in Saxony, paying 70% of my rent for a bigger apartment while making as much as me. Good for them. Let the people decide; I want to live in Berlin and that's going to eat into my pay.

Also, why would the company really care? They'll pay as little as possible and if there is somebody willing to work for that pay, why should they care where they live?
The rise of single parent households does seem like a legitimate issue to me. If the non marrieds aren't having kids fine, but if they end up having kids and then hating each other thats not.
I’m not sure where I said you shouldn’t criticize both.

What I’m saying is that international “morales” are extremely relative. One day Israel is criticized for bombing houses in Gaza by the US, another day the US bombs weddings in Afghanistan largely unnoticed.

Are they both bad? sure. Is it fair? irrelevant.

However, if you are making an argument for example that asymmetric warfare requires attacking targets in dense civilian population and sometimes mistakes happen, then it is absolutely essential to compare to other countries.

And people that shout “whataboutism” on knee jerk are not helping anyone