skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That is not exactly true. It sounds like there was a genuine misunderstanding during their call.

This is false.(1) What I've written there is accurate. Why? Because while there was a misunderstanding, it was immediately corrected including Huffman apologising for his misunderstanding. Despite this Huffman later made the extortion/blackmail claim.

No part of the conversation supports extortion or blackmail, hypothetically even if Selig was serious about being bought out, that still wouldn't be extortion or blackmail.

(1) https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_w...

Transcript of the call here: https://gist.github.com/christianselig/fda7e8bc5a25aec9824f9...
Aren't transcripts subject to the same copyright as the original work?
RISC-V with extensions probably qualifies.
> Plex might have been stagnating,

It's not stagnating, so much as they have decided that their initial market doesn't interest them. They were writing software for end users that let end users set up their own person Netflix. But maybe the revenue was unexciting or just insufficient, and now they want to be their own streaming service.

Their streaming service sucks (they're probably at least two orders of magnitude too small to be able to afford to do it right, maybe even 3 or 4), and contaminates the searches on my server with their junk.

Also, it might be true that they're just afraid of the liability of doubling down on their original market. Contributory infringement and all that. This is almost certainly the reason they haven't expanded to include media like ebooks and audio books and karaoke. I mean they have the perfect paradigm for all of these things... the same software that keeps track of where I am in a season of shows, or halfway through a movie could definitely keep track of where I am in a book, if they wanted to.

This isn't entirely speculation on my part... at some point someone had asked them about preroll trailers for new seasons (Archer might be the most fun for these), but they said that they wouldn't add the feature because there was no legitimate source for those videos (even though just ripping them with youtube-dl is dead simple).
> Where it can be logged, inspected and dealt with wholesale.

Just as it could be in the backend? I don't follow that point.

> apps that evolve through their development usually have most changes UI driven.

That's a fair point certainly, but isn't completely generalisable - if you offer a third-party API at all (or think you might) then maybe don't special-case your own frontend.
This is inline with a Zen practice called "beginner's mind", and is so useful in many areas, thank you for this inspiration.
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What a naive take. Simplifying the WFH discussion to be just about the physical location of people doesn't make sense. WFH fundamentally changes how teams and companies have to work. It's reasonable for people to be opinionated about how they like to work. Comparing someone to a 4yo because they might not like how remote teams work is obtuse at best and offensive at worst.

(I say this as a 100% remote worker who's very glad of having had the opportunity to move close to family without losing my job)

> And I don’t think it’s symmetrical: WFH people don’t have a reason to insist that their colleagues WFH.

As if.

WFH people might not care about the physical location of their coworkers, but they certainly care about what their teammates can or cannot do. Every team process needs to be tailored to remote workers.

If you join an in person team and then request to WFH you are basically expecting everyone to adapt to your way. "But hey don't worry, you can still sit the zoom meeting from the office if you want". How generous.

> There’s a very “my freedoms trump your freedoms” mindset to this.

Pot, meet kettle.
I don't think any platform has ever successfully done this. It would require too much auditing to ensure impressions are being tracked correctly.
It's a lot easier to look around, see that 1 out of 6 has headphones on, think "they must be busy", let's wait for them to put their headphones down or the next major office interruption or to pull people first thing in the morning next day when we're all are getting in vs everything you've mentioned.
Nobody had a plan to get vaccines out of freezers and into Americans’ arms–except VaccinateCA. Its CEO tells the story of how a small team brought order to a chaotic rollout.
My favorite was the one person who said they saw the call and just let it ring. Legend. I know I couldn't have resisted the temptation, if only to find out what kind of pitch it was. I'll bet that's something Mr. Zuckerberg (or more likely his admin) doesn't experience every day.
If it cuts down on spam to my phone, I am willing to let others pay for that cost.
They are not "goroutine local", they are essentially (at least the way they are used) a request-local variable. Which in itself is useful tool.

My only real issue with them is lack of type safety so you have to remember which contest var is what.

For example I'd like to have User context variable that is set somewhere early if user is authenticated but now at every subsequent call there needs to be a bit of fluff to check whether it is right type, else you risk runtime safety.
> If you launch a new API that's intended to replace older ones, then stop exposing the legacy APIs in the default SDK.

They might want to alienate and break things for many of their existing clients who use the older APIs. Plenty of companies contract out dev work until they have a working product and keep it as is. They don't have devs on hand to update them if they deprecate older APIs leading to a completely broken app despite all the old functionalities being perfectly adequate for the task.
I actually don't have a strong issue with Twilio, and I think it's a good question that concerns me about other larger companies which also have problems with bad actors on their platform. It is potentially something that CEO could use as a huge differentiator if they want to as well. It definitely wasn't meant to be attacking in style, and I also wasn't aware this was the CEO. =)

That being said, I'm not a scary individual, I assume I am softballing compared to what a CEO faces day to day.
Our world needs more of this. Bravo to both of you.
We already have the concept of a primary residence. I'd strongly support laws that impose fast-ramping tax burdens on further ownership. Possibly with a more modesty burden for a second home—say, a family purchasing one to pass to children, or preparing for retirement—but I don't feel that there's any acceptable reason for owning several homes.
"The company was great when it was just engineers, but then they hired account managers and sales reps and business people and marketers who ruined everything."

Common refrain from developers at SaaS companies who don't realize that the party they were enjoying all these years was directly funded by VC dollars, and these other people who they hate so much in fact do critical jobs and are necessary for converting all their work into a viable business.
I got a Shield because neither the Chromecast 4k nor my LG TV could handle HDR content. Shield also replaced my Steam Link so that was nice. I changed the Netflix button on the remote to Plex with a button mapper app and then bought a properly sized Plex sticker to cover the Netflix button.

What issues were you having with the Plex home screen?
This doesn't answer the question at all.
> this "dialect"

Why the scare quotes?
> doing a request to both google and bing with query “what+is+my+ip”. My guess is that the app just parses the returned HTML and figures IP from those responses.

lol
Please don't cross into personal attack.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here? You've unfortunately been breaking them repeatedly, and we've already had to ask you this once.
The answer to any question asking if any part of the observable universe is within a black hole is inevitably, "No."

One of the big hints is that at large scales everything is receding from everything else, rather than converging on a single, inevitable destination.
My personal framework for flourishing
Of course their market share will decrease. No news here. The question is : will they still be the n#1 EV company ? probably yes
Seems really weird to me. Given the secret nature of the event, why cheap out on staff salaries? We can't even be talking about that much money given the net worth of individuals involved.
If the batteries are removable and can only be charged outside the drone, then I can see the argument for not counting them as part of the empty plane (since they are something you put in to fly, analogous to aviation fuel). But I don't think that argument would fly once the batteries have a structural purpose.
And certain GeForces could be turned into Quadros (for use with CAD software): https://archive.techarp.com/showarticleefc1.html?pgno=0

This was a soft mod, but I think there was also a hardware mod involving only a pencil.
I wish we could standardize this as a developer community, but of course there are those who are placed at disadvantage due to their visa status that pretty much have no choice to sign these things, and that sets a pattern that managers expect everyone to comply with..

Is there some way to promote suggested standards in the industry? Maybe if someone like levels.fyi or layoffs.fyi or Blind were to suggest that we all start or stop doing whatever.
okay, so your position is that he should leave because everyone is too mean. that's valid.
Okay, but what, if not promise of future returns, is making you stick to a system that's emotionally costly?

For example, "walking more" or "cycling more" is definitely going to help lose weight in a gradual fashion, but the reason I am walking the amount I am and not cycling at all, is because a) I find these activities boring, and b) I have many more interesting/important (to me) things to do with that time. I can't see myself engaging in an activity I dislike - cycling (or most outdoor activities) - unless I do it for a reason that's interesting/important enough to displace something else I'm already doing. Losing weight is such a reason, but that reason is also a goal.
The GNU project has a page listing common distribution and their handling of non-free software if you are interested in the topic [1].

[1] https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html
https://github.com/twilio-labs/netlify-okta-auth

Twilio authored/published the package GP is referring to.
I find a lot of people conflate both service separation for human factors and service separation for technical factors.

Unless you have multiple independent development teams you do not need to worry about the human factors. Addressing them fully is always going to come at a technical cost in terms of things like latency and complexity.

Separation for technical reasons (generally scaling) may well be a factor but easily addressed without building 'true' microservices, for example with serverless functions.

Don't let the purists sneer at your architecture because it's not true microservices.
> Senators are not beholden to their party leadership

That's because the Senate is an incumbent reelection support group. Party leadership doesn't want to put pressure on its members.

> like for example representatives in the house of commons are

The House of Commons is the UK. The House of Representatives is the US.

> Biden had a trifecta and wanted to remove the filibuster

False. Biden has supported a small number of limited exceptions to the filibuster for specific purposes. He has opposed eliminating the filibuster.

> manchin and sinema refused

Manchin and Sinema were not in the Senate during the first terms of the Obama or Clinton administrations. What about then?

> At that point there was nothing he could do.

Nothing the President of the United States can do...
The holy grail.

https://github.com/brianpetro/obsidian-smart-connections

https://wfhbrian.com/introducing-smart-chat-transform-your-o...
I didn’t take ocdtrekkie’s question as attacking. How would you have phrased it to be more constructive?
Thanks, at least you're honest about your biases. I'll take CATO over anecdotal definitions of "freedom". Discounting it is almost poetic in Trumpian sense; rejecting anything regardless of substance if it doesn't align with his ideology.
Seems like you misread my comment as "there is no need for VPNs anymore these days". I'm merely saying that I don't see the use case for the "self-hosted VPN server" model anymore.

Need to bypass geoblocking, e.g. when traveling? You'll likely need a residential IP -> use your own network at home (e.g. Tailscale or a self-setup solution) or one of the shady "residential IP broker" utilizing commercial VPNs out there.

Want privacy (from visited sites' trackers)? Your VPS is definitely not that: The IP is static, and if you send your entire traffic through it, this is much more fingerprintable than even residential web usage. -> Use a commercial VPN that you can trust (I don't know many) or something like iCloud Private Relay or TOR.

Want privacy from your ISP tracking you (including public Wi-Fis), and only that? Then, yes, a VPS-based VPN might be for you (or any of the commercial VPNs out there).

But my claim is that the last one (and only that) is probably not the biggest concern of most people.
It was actually the appropriate scope for an mvp, it was just an unreasonable time frame to make a solid codebase for anything other than a demo for the complexity of the project. That's fine for a genuine proof of concept/rapid prototype you're going to be disciplined enough to trash, but letting that slip into the role of your core codebase is like pouring a sloppy scaled-down concrete foundation as a test for a house, and then trying to just expand it into what you need.
first of all, big admirer of you.

if you feel inclined, would really love your comment on OP's observation:

> Sadly, us developers are not at the center of everything anymore at Twilio.

it does seem the recent messaging has de emphasized that in favor of "Customer Engagement Platform". as the originator of "Ask Your Developer" (I read your book!) that has to sting a little bit. would love to hear your thinking on how Twilio continues to also engage developers in its next phase.
This is interesting. Does this make it harder to filter/blacklist once discovered? Or is this just incompetence?

If I had a known user agent doing a curl to icanhazip or whatnot, could that eventually be blacklisted?
Or made API access require reddit premium
I’ve worked at many places from ~5-10 employee startups or design studios to mega-corporations with thousands of employees. I’ve only had one boss that I would consider “bad”. And I think that was mostly due to the culture of the company he worked at previously- Amazon. I do think businesses of all sizes are too hierarchical. I would like to try working for a co-op or cooperative or staring my own one day.
I don't know, but as I approach my mid-life, I'd happily trade your experience for my experience, which is that I've achieved shit all, and my time is running short.
Chinese cyberespionage group UNC3886 has been exploiting a VMware ESXi zero-day vulnerability to escalate privileges on guest virtual machines, according to cybersecurity firm Mandiant.

UNC3886 has been using malicious vSphere Installation Bundles (VIBs) to install backdoors on ESXi hypervisors and gain command execution, file manipulation, and reverse shell capabilities.
Partially agree, but it's a continuous value rather than a boolean. We've seen LLM performance largely follow this story:
https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1655994367033884672/phot...

From benchmarking, we've been positively surprised by how effective few-shot learning and PEFT are, at closing the domain gap.

"When it encounters novel data (value) it will likely perform poorly" -- is that not true of human annotators too? :)
I made my third book’s cover with GB Studio to make sure I had the perfect look.

Gameboyessentials.com/book
renters are a liability.
I am the GP you are referring to and - thank you for explaining my point perhaps better than I did :)
No. In reality, I'm more able to find times that work for other people where I'm not disrupting them, by using context clues and non-verbal information to determine what the best time to talk to them is.

And yes, sometimes it is important to let other people interrupt you. For example, if someone else needs their code reviewed, they should absolutely always interrupt me to get it reviewed. Unless I'm in an interview with a candidate or something similarly external, unblocking other engineers on my team is always a higher priority and return on investment than anything I could be working on alone.
Benefits aren't always clear. How old are you?
Sites have a right to try to block scrapers. Scraping can incur significant costs and users may not want it - as a LinkedIn user, I want my profile to be indexed and able to viewed without logging in from the Web, but I also don’t want my entire profile scraped and resold/rehosted for marketing. It’s also often the case that the website put in significant working acquiring/curating/cleaning their data, and they are being scraped by other commercial entities trying to just resell it (blocking that isn’t being greedy, the data is basically being stolen for other commercial entities). So it’s not just being greedy.

Individuals also, IMO, have a right to sell access to their network for scraping-via-proxy. But they should be prepared to deal with the consequences, like a potential IP ban. Most people using VPNs that resell their residential network for scraping probably don’t know that’s happening, and many scrapers are indeed doing something bad, which is why there is a disdain for the practice.
Happy to see this reach it's natural conclusion, in terms of subscribing to moral relativism. I think if this is one's worldview, it's hard to not use a "whataboutism" style of argument whenever questions of morals or ethics arise. Without a strong internal grounding, it's challenging not to resort to comparisons, I agree with you.
The doctor performed the Hippocratic Oath on the terrace.
I'm not sure what Meta or the fediverse has to gain by attempting to get in bed with each other -- a lot of people on the fediverse are extremely anti-big-biz, and extremely anti-meta in particular.

IMO all Meta has to do to succeed here is to create a better managed Twitter. They don't need to get all fancy with it by trying to bolt on fediverse compatibility.

Disclaimer: I work at Meta, but not on IG or Project 92.
AHAHAHAHAHA! There is approximately a 0% chance that the big companies paying for data annotation will be far-sighted enough to avoid LLM-automated labeling of their data, for several reasons:

1) it will work well, at first, and only become low-quality after they (and their budgets) have become accustomed to paying 1/20th as much for the service

2) even if they pay for "human" labeling, they will go for the low cost bid, in a far-away country, which will subcontract to an LLM service without telling them

3) "hey, we should pay more for this input, in order to avoid not-yet-seen quality problems in the future", has practically never won an argument in any large corporation ever. I won't say absolutely 0 times, but pretty close.

Long story short, the use of LLM's by Big Tech may be doomed. Much like how "SEO optimization" turns quickly into clickbait and link farms if there is not high-urgency and high-priority efforts to combat it, LLM's (and other trendy forms of AI that require lots of labeled input) will quickly turn sour and produce even less impressive results than they already do.

The current wave of "AI" hype looks set to succeed about as well as IBM Watson.
Can you list some of that "wrong", since there's a lot of it?
Eyes wide shut.
I'm in the same boat as GP. I work in finance. CTO said he wanted to keep things simple and stable, so I do it.

It is only possible because I'm a technical manager myself and I have a very competent (and technical) product manager working with me.

But for every person like me, there are 10 other devs trying to cram every pattern from the GoF book in their corner of the codebase, so I have to spend my scarce time reviewing PRs.
> isn't the app "done"?

Netflix is an ecosystem, not just the frontend app for Apple TV. Netflix is pretty close to a vertical monopoly for some of its content. Fund-raising, planning, development, post-production, translations/dubbing, preparation for distribution, and distribution. Your idea of viewing a video content on the app is only the last 20%.

Also worth reminding people that the AppleTV app is not the only app Netflix supports for viewing. There have been dozens/hundreds of different apps and most are still actively supported.

Also, they are a company, so they are always looking to be able to optimize and cut costs.

It’s worth staying curious and asking why before assuming you know more than the engineers who have to work “behind the curtain”.
This is one of the most stupid things I've ever read.

Ever heard of trade secrets?
I’d say Imgur is remarkably better than Reddit for the purpose of cute animals.
Language is an always evolving thing.

It looks like a (huge) drone so it's called a drone.
Flow instability is one of the biggest challenges to get them to operate for long time without blowing up. Of course, there are others.

Any progress on the control of chaotic flow is great news. Even at subsonic speed.
What, like Boston? Way overpriced, no parking, shit weather....
I'm sure are aware of the criticism and have a response, but that doesn't tell us whether their response is compelling.
Interesting. There are similar unconventional grammars in use by English speakers of Cajun descent in Southern Louisiana (“put groceries up” instead of “put groceries away”).
Quite likely. Considering the "bugs" that exist in hardware which the security auditor has no control over which is a "forced to trust hardware" exercise, before even looking at software bugs, it seems like a job to keep someone occupied whilst most of the population drinks from the kool aid decanter.
Visier, a people analytics software company, has launched Vee, its first generative AI assistant that allows managers, HR leaders, and employees to type natural language queries into commonly used apps and receive near-instant insights about their teams.

Vee transforms conversational queries into Visier’s query language and provides accurate and succinct narrative answers without depending on proprietary customer data.

Vee can be used to generate explanatory summaries from data visualizations, and build reports automatically, converting intricate people analytics into easy-to-understand responses and narratives.

Visier’s new #askvisier command allows managers to gain valuable insights into their teams and departments simply by asking Vee questions in their regular workflow.

Visier guarantees the most advanced security model and permissions available, ensuring that the results provided by Vee are only available to authorized end-users based on their assigned security model and associated permissions.

Visier also announced Smart Compensation, a product designed to streamline the complex compensation planning process using a user-friendly, data-driven approach.

Visier was founded in 2010 and has grown to reach over 25,000 customers in 75 countries, including BASF, Bridgestone, Electronic Arts, McKesson, and Merck KGaA.

Vee is currently available for customer and partner preview and will be widely available in autumn 2023.
Man, what a masterpiece, even the title gives me chuckles :) Thanks for bringing it up
Sure there is. Require apps to be approved by reddit, actually approve them, and monitor API usage to see if it's all reads or a mix of reads and writes