skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And there's a whole certification process around it too. I wonder how they got their gear and if they had a guide/instructor. Those are the more pertinent points of the story when trying to relate it to the sub story.
> BTC added no value to the retail experience.

You’re missing the point entirely. Bitcoin will gain usability parity with the US dollar. And bitcoin is a better currency that anything mutable and controlled by governments. Bitcoin is a currency that is not subject to the whims of unpredictable central government financial policies. Bitcoin’s buying power fluctuates because we are still dealing with The Fed monetary policies. In time that will smooth itself out. Aside from violence (US military), what is the US dollar’s features that make it better than bitcoin in any way?
Back when I studied these videogames were much simpler. I was explained instead calculating areas and volumes for various functions and that was enough for me to get it. The thing is that not everyone was confused and some can take in theory without a practical application. They’re different modes of thinking and I appreciate both, I just happen to fall in the practical group.
Great inside look into the psychology behind a big acquisition like this. I can't help but feel Noam's ego was bruised by the poor due diligence experience he experienced at Facebook, causing him to lash out at the company within the post. Otherwise, really insightful details, especially that Instagram was acquired for $1B, which is what he was anchored on.
We might also wind up kinda like the book "Rainbow's End", where the internet just has too much crap to parse, so people subscribe to a "reality sphere" that filters the internet into a single view that is shared by anyone else who wants to see that sphere.
> I don't agree with your assertion that suffering is anathema. Learning to accept and endure difficulty or pain or discomfort increases one's resilience.

Resilience is only necessary if there's some purpose to it.

> Soldiers are trained into this mindset and can accomplish much more as a result. Athletes train this way as well.

Right, as a means to an end, for lack of a better solution. If we could accomplish those goals without suffering, we would. Suffering is a last resort, not good in itself. It's a compromise. An all-powerful entity doesn't need any, thus loses any justification to resort to it.
> Giving users the ability to have a choice in the direction of "enterprise linux" is the entire reason CentOS Stream exists.

Pretty sure it's just for free beta testing
i have a hard time imaginging it taking longer to compile than chrome, but yeah, I havent.

but like... there are two great pacific garbage patches, i guess its possible there are two software garbage patches bigger than the combined output software output of many countries.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C5LXloS...
Isn't the last thing the key thing?
But in Google-land, doesn't that mean it's next on the chopping block?
Innocent and dependent people being brutally exploited and abused by evil and greedy people, being brought to justice by society.

What's your sentiment after hearing about a story like this?
I don't agree with your summary. I specifically talked about "the cobbling together at a large org", I didn't say it wasn't actually cobbled together.

The point is just that any system that's being used successfully in production at scale has already been tested, has already broken in myriad ways both in testing and in production, and those issues have been addressed somehow - quite possibly by more cobbling together.

This doesn't somehow make the system "not actually cobbled together" - as I said, the implementation may still seem horrible to engineers. It just means that the points of failure that have actually arisen, whether in testing or production, have been addressed somehow, so that the system is able to function at scale.

A key point in all this is that factors like survivor bias are at play: you're not looking at an org that failed because of their cobbled-together system, you're looking at one that succeeded. Large orgs are also more likely to have more testing to help catch the issues with their cobbled-together systems.

This all means that if you try to use this approach on your experimental submarine that you're selling tickets for, you're trading off the almost certain loss of life of some of your passengers against the short-term time and cost savings achieved by poor engineering practices.

To quote Lord Farquaad, "Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make."
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No, GPT-4 is 1.7T params in the same way that an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X is (24 times X million transistors). It's not wrong to say GPT-4 is 1.7T parameters, your statement is wrong. Parameters can be configured in different ways, just as transistors on a chip can. In the same way that having 24x transistors does not imply 24x performance, having 24x parameters does not imply 24x performance.
Get out on some state highways and county roads and you'll find them all over.
Dropbox Dash, AI-powered universal search, and Dropbox AI
Why? There are millions of Mexican and Central American origin Catholics there.
Probabilistic, to a staggeringly high certainty. I used to think "meh, how accurate could all that possibly be?". I now know it's close enough to 100% for the false positives to be negligible.
> Idk but it seems generally not trivial to compare salaries because te hole shebang of social externalities and work environment.

Talking about gross amount as fully remote contract with no taxes paid by the company.
When you put it that way, it sounds as if building and/or operating fab uses much more water than, say, an average factory or a golf course. Does it actually?
Would this have happened if IBM hadn't bought Redhat?
Oh, 2023 Internet… it’s so difficult to just “display a page of static hypertext” when you’ve got so many microservices to write, then to rewrite in Rust, so many react components to create, so many lambdas to execute serverless in the cloud, and of course so many adtech components to integrate on top of it all.
When (most) people talk about the shitty controller, the options in their heads aren't "3rd party Logitech" or "$10,000 bespoke controller". They're "$200 elite OEM controller", "$60 standard OEM controller" or "$30 notoriously bad piece of shit Logitech".
I'd recommend you not look at awk/sed then.
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I think the concept we're looking for here is not actually "bland" but somewhere between inoffensive and without surprise. If something is being sold as a creamer for coffee, for example, most people want the product to turn out like the coffee they're used to. No surprises.

I think it explains the success of fast food franchises. A burger from McDonald's may not be particularly inspiring, but it'll be pretty much exactly what you expect, time after time.
Congrats. I’ve made some progress on the abstract axis but still with some faint endgoal to make some progress in the practical realm I feel more grounded in.
Huh, I wonder what other problem it’s having. CCS implementation issues perhaps?
Alternatively, tablets with the Kindle app work quite nicely for textbooks.

I replaced physical textbooks with an iPad with the Kindle app on it, since whether it's an iPad or textbook it's something that stays at home. It works really well, especially side by side with Goodnotes for studying.
apple were massively popular in canada long before we had any apple stores, and in fact I've never been to an apple store and still own apple products. I don't think what you're saying is true.
I use Warp, and it's ok. I used iTerm with Fig before it but I was too cheap to pay for the AI features in Fig so when Warp offered that for free I switched. The AI is very useful. I'm someone who doesn't live in the terminal so I forget commands I don't use often, and AI neatly augments my 'I can almost remember but I need a hint' approach. But there are a few UI 'niggles' that would absolutely stop me paying for it (examples: focusing on a terminal with my mouse doesn't always put me on the command line if I click a history item instead, sometimes links in the history panels aren't option+click clickable for some reason, etc). It's certainly worth a try but it's a long way off being a Must Install app right now.
The Travel Show – Take Me to Titanic
> You can program a website to use local storage and submit a token on every URL click with a fairly simple handler

That still falls into the EU Cookie definition in the law. [0] If a website is doing this regardless of the user choosing not to allow cookies, it's committing a violation in the eyes of the law (in the EU at least).

[0] https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/295212
From the appeal (download): https://www.bvger.ch/dam/bvger/de/dokumente/2023/04/B-4493-2...

Just using Google Translate, it seems like they want the image of a true-to-life apple to be a trademark, but still only for "Essential sound, video and film recordings and corresponding data carriers". Nowhere in the appeal does it sound like they're trying to extend it to more classes of goods like actual fruit.
If almond milk tasted like marzipan it would be in my fridge all the time. In its current form it's too boring and I never buy it.

As for making microwave oatmeal, a bigger bowl will help.
It’s called “risk management” in corporate speak.
If the URL is https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/us/naep-test-results-educ... then you can find a version without a paywall at https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/us/nae...

Deriving a general algorithm for forming the second link from the first is left to the reader, whose test scores are assumed to be nonzero ;)
Uni of Manchester alum here. Would be fun if they had personal data on former students as well, and by that I mean me. Can't wait to find out :)
In 8th grade, long ago, my buddy created a hotmail account: deepthroat50005.

he thought it was based on Metal Gear Solid's reference to the Watergate thing. Didn't get the other connotations -- at least not at first. He disowned it, and we laughed about it for a while.

I still use that email for anything that requires an email but I DGAF about. Hasn't been rejected yet...
Eweka hasn't come up for renewal this year yet but the last year, I had to cancel my sub and set it up again due to the renewal issues. You may want to try doing the same since their BF promo is valid year-round: https://www.eweka.nl/en/landing/unlimited-usenet-special

Newshosting was the one that got renewed a few days and it went through fine without any manual intervention.
That doesn’t make any sense to me. The amount of fuel a trench can hold is its volume, not its area.
How do I choose between Rocky and Almalinux? Or is it just not a big enough difference to worry about?
There's a difference between a well prepared Everest expedition and someone selling a submarine experience in a poorly designed craft. There is a difference between inherently dangerous activity and wanton stupidity.
I wonder if I can use this strategy to stop paying the church tax in Germany.

I was baptised Catholic but never practiced. But since the catholic church is internationally integrated I gotta pay the tax perpetually unless I get excommunicated.
Or shove like 3 spares into a box somewhere on the vessel. $30 is not some bottom end falls-apart-if-you-look-at-it-wrong quality either

What's more perplexing is using a wireless one
i didn't expect the embeddings have such simple yet useful application, thanks!
It does, but more slowly. Sperm quality decreases with age.
Jesus Mouse knew all the right words and actions to prove he was the second coming of Christ, but the Catholic Church beat the shit out of him and dumped him outside onto the street.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34405486
According to Wikipedia

> The vessel was expected to resurface at 18:10 ADT.[16] Authorities were notified about the incident at 18:35 ADT.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Titan_submersible_incid...

One could argue that the delay once communications were lost is reasonable until the sub was overdue back.
Cast Nicolas Cage as the priest and you're onto a winner.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/21/dropbox-launches-50m-ai-fo...
While that is true, when I hear of stories like this, the Bible Belt is the first place that I think of...not Norcal.
You vill eat ze bugs…

And the parasites that come with them - but, hey: we tested them on pigs that live one or two years, so we’re certain they’re “safe and effective” for your kids!
I went to one of those in 2016, the first one they had when they moved it to Raleigh (it was actually in downtown Durham). I loved it and sad that it's no longer happening. I saw some amazing acts, including Gary Numan doing a 3 night performance where each night he performed one of his first 3 albums (I only saw one of them)

Here's some more info about the 2016 lineup
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/moogfest-announ/

There is a moogfest subreddit and it seemed like I went to a good one because the following ones weren't as well organized. But of course it's reddit and only hearing from a select few people

https://www.reddit.com/r/moogfest/comments/t3egho/is_moogfes...
Yeah that's basically it. Risk vs. reward, and there is probably a way to make it work, but what's the payoff?

That said, a bikeshare should be able to help tourists / be low-effort. Otherwise I'll just uber.
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I think the point of being offline, for me, is that the global trend is not relevant.

What matters to me is my community.
A straightforward recounting of a negative experience doesn't constitute "lashing out" and I don't see any hyperbolic language or other signs that he's exaggerating. Also - Facebook's offer allowed him to get Google from their original $450M offer to the $1.15B he ultimately accepted. I doubt he's upset over this.
Article has some odd phrases:

If you review a code and immediately say

So you politely ask to code author

Try to build atomic commits will clear and concise messages

Is this just a case of spell check gone wild, or what?
> But please, do explain how the data from "specific foreigners living outside the US" was segregated during ingestion by

It didn't have to be. That was the only data that existed in the Section 702 wiretaps. The government cannot use Section 702 requests to ask a company for a wiretap of an American's account.

> "a genius among geniuses."

LOL. Probably a quote from the Lotus Notes server admin. Remember, this is the guy who repeatedly failed an analyst test before finally passing it by looking up the answers on the SharePoint server. This is a guy who failed an open-book test on Section 702, so no wonder he misinterpreted the documents he leaked so badly. https://www.thedailybeast.com/either-edward-snowden-is-lying... has some choice quotes from an analyst.
It's nothing compared to amount of power to the engines, you don't need kilowatts to "just" hold a ballast
I only have two hands.
and like twitter users, the world be clowned on to no end
Why does Germany have low consumer trust? Like, Italy I can see. And Israel has low-scale firefights happening on an irregular but non-trivial basis.
In my country there a lot of people running scams targeting old people, I still don't understand why there aren't harsher laws for those people.
Hi, I'm Nicol, a co-founder of FinWise. Happy to answer any questions you might have :)
FTC sues Amazon over ‘deceptive’ Prime sign-up and cancellation process
> > There can be a lot of socially induced situations (meaning reversible) from which humans can't get out due to the variety of problems. Poverty is one of them, there are a lot of studies that below some threshold humans are highly unlikely to get out of poverty on their own.

> No, it’s the other way around. Insisting that someone has to stay alive against their own will, when they are suffering for a long time is the opinion that is lacking empathy.

All else aside, that's an easy cop-out for society to avoid dealing with the fixable issues that can cause someone to feel that way.

It like if someone was trapped in a deep hole and can't get out. Instead doing the right thing, which is going though the trouble of trying to get a rope and throwing it down to them (which is a lot of trouble), you walk a way and leave them in hopeless situation, then delude yourself about how moral and empathetic you are by supporting the trapped person's choice to kill themselves instead of starving to death in the hole (which is easier for you). The underlying lack of of empathy is laundered through a twisted, myopic, absolutist appeal to individual rights and autonomy.
I went with Ubuntu because the long-term support Debian at the time would have required me to hand-compile or add package sources for the version of whatever it was (php?) I needed.

Ubuntu LTS is long enough for me, and seems to work without complaints.

At home I run Gentoo because I like to fomit and funroll.
My fear with using a service like this is that the company will vanish and I'll have hundreds of accounts tied to a dead domain. Or it gets snapped up by a bad actor. A few years ago I had my eye on idbloc.co which as far as I can tell, vanished without a trace. Their domain now redirects to Apple Music.

I wish ProtonMail offered unlimited random addresses.
Will that work? The site mentions that it's not indexed by search machines. So I guess it has a robots.txt (on my phone and did not check...) Would the archive respect that?
The majority of the company was not employee owned.
It's the prioritization of punishment vs restitution. If you can't have both, then which do you want first? For instance, we could have them pay $5000 in back wages, and $140,000 in fines.

Nor is it as simple as "well just toss them in prison instead of fines"... maybe not in this particular incident, but in many of those, incarcerating the offenders makes it even less likely that the employees receive restitution. (In this case, it probably would mean the restaurant closes, and they lose all employment.)
I received an Alumni email from them on the 9th, warning of the incident. So they do...
>There is no foundamental difference between theranos diagnosis and tesla autopilot.

But we're talking about submarine that already dived, not something that never had a chance of working in the first place
> reported that a manager falsely claimed that immigration issues would be raised

> Investigators also found [...] some employees faced “adverse immigration consequences” for cooperating with investigators.

So... The real winner here was the company. The employees involved were warned they would be booted out of the country, and then they were booted out of the country, all for reporting their employer for unfair practices.

So the employee got ~$4000 in back wages, but he and probably his family got ejected from their home country, school, job, friends, and life, with probably a lifetime ban from returning.

And the US department of Labor has no ability to get those employees back into the country.
I don't understand why they don't buy RHEL. Rocky is essentially RHEL. If RHEL isn't supported there is no Rocky.
American Companies Held Hostage by the Whims of TikTok
I was trying to answer the question "why people check online instead of reading the manuals". Again, I was not trying to insult anyone. I don't agree that the answer is "people are lazy and should not be programmers" is correct.

Programming is a vast ocean and very few people are going to know every single detail of ever single nook and cranny. If your day to day involves bash scripts, sure, learn and digest all of them. If you are a python programmer and you just want to compress a file you don't need to know all the flags that `tar` supports.
> Passwords are legally the only thing that can't be forced out of you, to make you login into a computer system against your interests.

Not in the UK, since RIPA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investigatory_Po...

It's been used:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7102180.stm
It peaked while not yet pointing directly at Earth so "aimed at us" seems pretty wrong. The image is captured from our perspective and the peak was in bottom left and I don't see any other evidence in your sources.
Unionizing is hard. Apple blatantly roughs up organizing efforts and after months of nothing, all they get is a 'cease and desist' order.
I'm all about fun/creative aesthetics but this is a terrible implementation of the sketchbook idea. The font, the extremely tortured pixelated rendering, the low contrast, the excessive grid texture background...
It's also worth reading how he ultimately felt about the acquisition. His original post seems to be gone but this is a good summary... https://www.timesofisrael.com/waze-ceo-noam-bardin-explains-...
"A bit like" is underselling it. It is that. Occasionally, I politely ask people objecting to the term "cis" what word they would prefer I use instead. I've had people directly tell me I should refer to cis people as "normal".

Another, much more interesting response I've gotten multiple times is that I should use "man/woman" instead of "cis". Which implies that transgender people either don't exist, or don't belong to either category.
> clearly based on the Apple logo

Uh, the design is clearly based on an apple, which they sell
My favorite thing from that uniqueness website is that it shows cookies enabled as more common and thus more anonymizing. Not that they wouldn't just fingerprint you using those cookies if it was enabled.

The other interesting thing is that it lists my plugins and "do not track" settings. They are both fairly unique. So, someone who attempts to anonimize themselves using plugins or browser features are just highlighting themselves.

I wonder how unique `wget` would be.
You need to pay an enforced tax? Is it levied by the government on behalf of the church or is there official papal taxmen?

Seems like you should try to speed run excommunication. After all, there's a lot of fun ways to sin in the eyes of god.
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That's a reason to switch from Emacs to Acme. ;-)