skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know this is different than what the article is talking about, but I've wondered if something like a GPTZero would be possible. Train a model to reproduce random sequences, and see if it's able to learn any patterns that are also useful for language or other real-world tasks.

If there's nothing to be gained from training on pure noise, what is the most generic and generally useful sequence we could train on?
Every “win-win” most certainly produces side effects, usually unmeasured, which leads to naive statements like “it’s not zero sum”.

We may no longer be peasants (hard to prove), but a large number of extinct species and ecological disasters would like to argue the “not zero sum” point.
My thoughts exactly. Unsure why your comment is being downvoted…
The cookie name and login/registration URL (realm) gives it away immediately.
Stock price increase benefits workers quite a bit though.
edit: playtime came to an end, over 100 sessions created in 30 minutes. Lots of demand!

If you want to run it yourself, I have a fairly easily modifiable docker-compose[1] file for you to adapt to your needs.

1: https://keeb.dev/static/docker-compose-jellyfin.yml
Yes, Django is a quite some decently sized CMS framework, with it's occasional security quirks and attack surface. I expected it to be some lightweight go application to be honest, based on their domain.
I'd say this is partially because creating something genuinely original and free standing is a rare occurrence. You're usually coding against some api or framework or whatever...and that interaction leads to common patterns so copy pasting makes sense.

Perhaps that's the appeal people see in writing their own coding language? It's somewhat free standing
Yep, this is why I have been evaluating it recently. Have a customer that wants SAML 2.0 support, others that want LDAP support, 2FA support, and multi-tenancy support, while being something we can self-host. The other main suggestions I have seen - ORY or Zitadel - tend to be missing at least one of those (from what I can tell).

Keycloak looks like a big complicated monster, so I would prefer to stay away except that it looks like I will be required to have all that complexity to support all the use-cases we are looking at.
Well we are at very different points in our careers—-I am approaching my fourth decade in tech and have been from entry level all the way up to senior leadership levels at orgs, been an owner/founder, and am now serving in more sales engineering position. I did an intentional step downward because I want to work to still fatten my bank account a bit, but no longer want to manage people before I take that long walk in the cursed earth to bring law to the lawless. Also prior to my entry into tech, I held some shit minimum wage jobs so I come at my opinion from a pretty holistic and pragmatic position. A floor to ceiling one if you will.

My opinion boils down to the following: Just because you feel you are exploited doesn’t mean you are actually exploited. Exploitation should be protected by the government. If the company is following the law, they are simply not exploiting their employees. However, if you can’t get over that feeling of exploitation you have a couple of options: You can quit and that ends the perception of continuing exploitation. Alternatively, you can convince enough fellow coworkers of the grievance and unionize to try and force change.

If you cannot or will not do either of those things, you are choosing to trade your labor for a paycheck.
> I'd like to pay attention to your manifesto on how CCS type 2 Combo is a bad thing when the European EV market is bigger than the North American market, when all brands of charger charge all brands of EV in Europe, when CCS type 2 Combo is deployed in many countries outside of Europe

Incumbency doesn’t imply a superior standard.

CCS2 is winning in Europe not because it’s better than NACS, but because a technocratic EU committee decided it would win, many years ago.
JFC this sounds like a horrible idea. Have you seen how people handle driving cars, in only 2 dimensions?
You're implying the author and associated publisher have some kind of agenda against Israel, if that's the argument you're making, then you need to present a little bit more proof. I don't see anything in the article that says "unlike other western countries… Israel does X, Y, AND Z bad things"
I literally just read a very convincing post, with good examples, on why relying solely on natural keys is rarely a good idea. Nothing in that repo convinced me otherwise (and alarm bells certainly went off when I saw a table called Species where the primary key was a varchar field "Species" with values like "cat" and "raccoon", neither of which are species at all).
It's been a few years since I went there, and now I'm sad to see it's gone.

Those reviews helped me get some excellent bang for the buck headphones years ago.
Man, Steve really needs to either recuse himself from any public discussion about the API changes OR have an objective third party review his responses to questions before he says things publicly.

Let's do a little back of the envelope calculation – the wording of the original quote is a bit vague ("Folks have made millions"[0]), but for the sake of argument, let's assume that reddit determined that an app like Apollo has had $3 M in total revenue. We also know that Apollo launched in October of 2017, which was around 5.5 years ago. That would imply that Apollo has made, on average, ~$550 K per year gross (I recognize there's probably a growth curve and revenue was lower in the early years and higher later on, but don't think it matters for the sake of this argument).

Now, let's take a closer look at that $550 K:

– 30% goes to app stores right off the bat..but let's call it 25% to account for some of the revenue coming from ads

– That leaves ~$412 K per year in revenue. To be honest, I have no idea what other expenses the devs have to build and maintain an app like Apollo, though I assume there's database/hosting fees, fees for other APIs (e.g., Imgur), designer fees if needed, etc. Let's call all of this $50 K a year

– Once you subtract out other expenses, you are left with $350,000, which could presumably be going directly to the developer. To me, that feels like completely reasonable compensation to provide in exchange for an app that's being used by so many people

There's one other piece of data that's important here, and that's the fact that Steve has also publicly stated that "the 'pure infrastructure costs' of supporting these apps costs Reddit about $10 million each year" [2]. Let's assume that Apollo accounts for 30% of all third party app API usage, which would mean Apollo's cost to Reddit is ~$3 M annually (feel free to correct me if someone has a more accurate breakdown here).

So, armed with the knowledge that Apollo costs them $3 M a year and that the Apollo dev makes ~$350,000 in profit, Reddit comes to them and essentially says, "you need to pay us >50x your current profit, aka ~7x more than what it costs us to provide you with the API, or else you will no longer have access. Oh and BTW, you have 30 days to figure it out."

That request is essentially the complete opposite of what Steve said in the Verge article: "we'll allow them to continue to exist if it's fair, if they're on equal footing, which is paying for their data in the same way that we have to." Sorry, Steve, asking third party apps to pay 7x more than what you are paying is NOT putting them on "equal footing." It's very clear that this is an emotional issue for him, but he's just digging is own grave deeper and deeper with each interview…

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762868/reddit-ceo-steve...
[1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/10/23/apollo-reddit-app/
[2]: https://apnews.com/article/reddit-blackout-steve-huffman-ceo...
The `nice` command alone (a.k.a. setpriority) doesn't do much. The verynice() function is similar to saying:

#!/bin/sh
exec ionice -c3 nice "$@"

Since it uses SCHED_IDLE i/o priority too. It's intended to ensure that no matter how much you bog down the system with i/o and cpu usage, my Emacs session and login shells will remain interactive and in control.
You can, but then you generally do not try to build a first in class telephony service.
US govt offers $10M bounty for info on Clop ransomware
My grandpa had a pulse-dialing phone (aka rotary dialing) and he was strongly against learning how to use a different type of phone. I tried to have him use a cordless phone but he strongly refused.

So each time the phone rang the guy had to stand up, then slowly walk to the phone and answer. He did fall a few times as he got older.

That was not his cause of death but I can imagine that if you call enough people for long enough as those robocallers do it is not hard to imagine it happening kind of often. A lot of older people have no idea how to use a smartphone and new technology is particularly hostile to them (small fonts by default, complex menus, tech jargon, etc.)

As robocalls became more frequent he was really pissed off at the situation.

Just call your grandparents and ask them what they think of robocalls.
People need to stop throwing around 'Premature optimization is the root of all evil'. Simple > Complex <--- Look at that. It's optimization! Complex != optimized
Apparently because it is very easy to setup and offer a place where people can join.

More and more open source projects are using it and I don't really like it, but what easy alternatives can you recommend to them?

Genuine question, as it is an open issue for me. I want to focus on my project, not setting up and maintain a forum, mailing lists, etc. on top of that.
Nobody I’ve been locked up with felt ‘proud’ of their illness
Definitely.

I’ll say one thing though: all of those skills you mentioned as not being valued are extremely useful for indie dev/taking ownership. Shipping simple + correct code frequently is extremely possible with sufficient practice and discipline.

More to your point, this is why I switched toward being a research engineer. There is a higher barrier of entry, projects are quite technically challenging, and constraints often force thinking of a world of computing beyond the tiny sphere of the web browser.

It’s hard work, but I love it.

If this resonates, you are in the US, and looking for a change, drop me a note (see profile).
Thanks for the insight. In that case, I'm wondering what would your preferred network be, if you're looking for a cofounder?
> Service (A): pick a random username

> Service (B): click 'here' to generate a random username

(A) is claiming to not require any "personal data". (B) is claiming to not require any "personal data".

I'd agree with both A and B's statement. Neither of them are "disingenuous". (B) makes it bulletproof for the stupidest of the stupidest of users. If you use the username "DreadPirateRoberts" across all online services you use. Then act surprised because someone was able to correlate DPR between service X and service Y, It's not service X or Y's fault. You're just a dumbass. Mullvad didn't want to be even remotely in that business. Whether or not their users are bonafide dumbasses or not, they said "fuck it, you morons don't even get to pick your usernames". Which I'm honestly all for. People are stupid and will often and frequently (including the original DPR) get themselves into trouble by being stupid. But I don't see anything that's disingenuous as OP put it about them marking themselves as "don't require personal information"
> I didn't want to mess around with JVM dependencies and 100% didn't want to start messing around with k8s for such a small project.

That's what the docker image is for: https://www.keycloak.org/getting-started/getting-started-doc...

docker run -p 8080:8080 -e KEYCLOAK_ADMIN=admin -e KEYCLOAK_ADMIN_PASSWORD=admin quay.io/keycloak/keycloak:21.1.1 start-dev

And off you go
That's not infinite either. They are already starting to run low on tanks and artillery. But yeah, this war of attrition has to go for some time before they run out of it to the critical level. So they put a lot of effort into pushing "negotiations" since they know they'll lose if this will continue. Good thing is that most understand it well and no one is buying their "negotiations" whining.
> Exactly. Pick a lane. 100% remote or 100% in office.

I don't entirely agree, I think hybrid can work well. It's just that like your colleague Robert the remote workers need to realise that there is a trade-off. You might save on commute etc but the price you pay is that in-office staff might make more decisions etc without you especially if there is a critical mass of workers in-office.

People who prefer the office shouldn't force their preferences on those who prefer remote but remote workers shouldn't try and force the company to be structured around them. Life is all about trade-offs and so long as people go in with eyes wide open it can work well for everyone (in that more people get to work in ways more closely aligned with their preferences).
> I run it in Docker at home and through a reverse proxy on a cheap VPS (don’t want to expose any ports at home)

What is the benefit of running the reverse proxy vs just opening the port? It would seem whatever attacks viable on the directly opened port could just as well be carried out on the proxy port.
> Since the max power delivery of CCS2 is 350kW

It is not.

> Tesla’s V4 Superchargers, on the other hand, can deliver 600kW

Gee golly! Let's see how well that works currently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEJ2KtzMeh8

Hmm. Outperformed by other chargers and even outperformed by a Tesla V2 charger. Pretty lame. Tesla must try harder.
Marketing/sales is fine. As long as they sell what we have, not a pie in the sky that we might at some point in the future have.
This whole request for more remote work is the clearest example. It has been requested across companies with little-to-no support from management.
Why do they do it though? Do they really believe in Moloch?
The topic of claiming a seeming abandoned property, often referred to as Adverse Possession, is specifically detailed by the laws of many countries. The specifics of those laws can vary a lot between countries. For example in some countries "a few" years of satisfying certain conditions is enough, and in others, it may be 20 years or more. Different countries have different box-ticking lists, before your claim becomes valid.

Tangentially speaking - regarding the subdivision, or 'carving up' of property - it's notable that younger countries/cultures, such as Australia and New Zealand, have relatively tight controls upon how land can and can't be split up. With a long term view to preventing messy, piecemeal land arrangements, particularly in urban and productive rural areas. (naturally such arrangements are their own pros/cons can-of-worms, but that's another topic...)
Wtf… 100 people and you’re still doing 18 hour days? Y’all are past the point of needing the switch to sustainability.
The "anet" pledge says that "this allows to accept, but not initiate socket connections"...but then still appears to allow for creating new AF_INET SOCK_DGRAM sockets and sendto, which allows for sending UDP packets without an established connection. That's probably a sandbox escape on a lot of systems, since you could sendto localhost UDP daemons.

In general the pledge syscall filters are very permissive, which makes it hard to be sure of security; Chromium libsandbox is insanely restrictive in contrast, because that's really what's needed to be confident in your attack surface, especially if you start worrying about kernel privilege escalation exploits like Chrome does. I wasn't aware of the landlock LSM before this, though, which seems pretty neat and a lot less intrusive than selinux for application specific white/blacklisting.
> Incumbency doesn’t imply a superior standard.

Superior results imply a superior standard. All brands of charger charging all brands of EV is a superior result. Anything less is substandard, backward, and primitive.
I noticed that there's a huge negative effect from COVID times too: interviews are all done over Zoom.

That doesn't sound like a huge deal, but when you have an active day job that is potentially not close to your house and doing RTO, it can be very hard to find a good place to take these interviews. Especially now that 5 interviews is considered normal, and since they're "online" people seem to expect that they can schedule them "whenever."
We ask of AI more than we ask of humans because AI can have a much greater reach than one person at the same task.

If you're just one guy who's face blind, no one really cares and you can't cause that much damage unless you're a border agent or something. Even then, it's not like you're affecting every single person passing through your country's border, just the ones who happened to be in the right (wrong?) place at the right time.

But if you deploy a face-blind AI as a security system that discriminates against minorities in thousands of establishments, suddenly it's like having thousands of clones of the same face-blind human and it can affect millions of people. If we're effectively making that many clones of a human, it better be good at its job
I was an active participant of the 90s web, and in fact a lead editor and forum moderator for a popular turn of the millennium news site, so I understand the frustration you're sharing.

That said, I'd argue it's not the "cozy web" that's out of control, but instead the "dark forest" that has forced the creation of the cozy web. The cozy web is the only bastion of the internet left where there's still some semblance of the pay it forward community aspect of the early web.

Yes, it is at the cost of not being indexed, but it's the only way of having the genuine sorts of conversations and creation with people of shared interests that typified the early web now.
hasn't changed

yes gov has free language lessons avail to foreign residents
Haystack is an unlimited data visualization design service
Same.

I think bad management are people who got into management because it pays better, it is necessary for career advancement or social status. Those people do management because that is what they have to do to get their personal goal, money, promotions, fame.

Good managers are people who do it because they like it and they excel at it. Some might have started doing management for different reasons, but stayed because they discovered it to be their thing.

That is the reason for that bimodal distribution and why it looks as it does.

I think tons of jobs that pay very well, make you famous, etc. actually don't have a bell-curve-distribution for the same reasons.
What the hell do you want with 14 people in a meeting? I thought you wanted to solve a problem, not found an Union?
> This is an insane device to sell to someone without requiring any licensing or training.

Large boats are like this too (over 80ft requires salaried captain though).
Taking the example from the OP, do you really think it would be better to slowly come to agreement over 12 meetings or to have some more senior person say a few words to skip the ego soothing or whatever in those meetings? Your second two paragraphs seem to imply that you think the former is better. Do you think that (and why)?

My best guesses are that I’m misunderstanding what you wrote, you’re thinking of a different example, or you’re imagining some hidden cost to the actions taken to ‘get it done’.

In my opinion the latter choice seems obviously better, both for the company that gets more productive employees, and for the people who would have been in those meetings because I think sitting in pointless meetings and having some task on the back burner for ages as you go through the meetings is not pleasant. Perhaps there’s some world where you’re expected to sit in the office for exactly N hours per day and so pointless meetings are a way to work fewer hours. But imo even if the choice is an hour of tedious meeting vs an hour of working, the work feels preferable to me.
I can imagine obvious use cases for data surveillance, osint and so on
But happy to see implementation of a semantic search engine powered by LLM
Partially because some of the lots in the area are flat-rate $30-50 and street parking is free or much much lower cost. IMO governments shouldn’t allow private companies to ruin parking downtown like this — cities need to operate their own parking garages with the same rates as street parking in my opinion.
I've been told we'll fail a pci audit unless we go into the datacenter and replace all the blue cat5 with a different colour. Nothing is apparently too silly.
December referendum

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_...

In case you are just trying to apply,

https://www.uscis.gov/green-card

> yes, yes, no, yes - I still remember that song on radio :

https://youtu.be/4FJDwXxfAVE
I've only used docker for local dev environments, so I'm curious what happens if the process crashes? Does the docker daemon perform health checks to restart it, or is that the domain of k8s? It's pretty simple to do with systemd.
That's interesting. I always thought each one had a basic pass-fail test after packaging.
why not link to r/chatGPT anyway, it s more fun

Currently they are trying to get it to spit out nuclear codes
Interesting. What’s the play here for FB? IIRC there were rumors of starting up a Twitter competitor.
Not strictly indentation, any sort of repeating spaces. That expands the blast radius of the mistake a bit.
My mistake, I looked at the article for 10 seconds before assuming that this app is no different than hundreds of other ones, apparently it is a rare outlier. At any rate, there are more effective ways to disrupt service if that was the goal.
This guy is crazy if he thinks "The Cloud Communications Platform" makes more sense to the average driver passing by the billboard than "Customer Engagement Platform". At least the average person knows who customers are and what engaging means.
But...Twilio is a public company, VC shareholders have already sold their stock, so most of what you say isn't applicable, unless you mean to imply that a public company also acts similarly to a VC backed one.
Yes, I am going by both breadth and depth wise. For breadth wise, I am trying to understand how different pieces fit into the whole system. Absolutely, for learning the core concepts, I am going through the official doc as well.

Which books do you recommend ? Are there any other courses out there to ramp up learning ?
Without (yet) having an opinion here, that's not necessarily true: resource consumption is adding value to the system at a level that might offset population growth?
Reddit hackers threaten to leak data stolen in February breach
Once you understand the paradigm that everything is a type of resource, it really starts to click very fast, at least for me.

I’d make sure you have a solid docker understanding then maybe shell out the $15 or whatever for a Udemy course.
Instead of progressively make the tax rate a sigmoid growth curve with a long lag phase so no one monopolizes apples and books.
But the question is, will the kernel enable me to get anything done in a jiffy?
I don't bisect my time in that way.

This is like saying that you have holidays for your nature. I still like to have flowers in the garden or go to the park as well.
Is there not an algebraic function approach to neural networks instead of discrete datasets? Instead of multidimensional vectors, have balanced parametric equations or similar.
I don’t know about Spain but why would these houses need to be filled when Italy’s population has stagnated? There’s no one to live in them!
Are their weird legal implications if you got a key like this from Bing Chat, considering it is part of Microsoft?

Imagine Microsoft's AI giving you such a key but support telling you you have no right to it, when it came from Microsoft itself! Probably covered in some ToS somewhere, but how awkward.
Apollo is also available for Elixir, where I have seen it much loved.