skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (Also, I’m not sure if you were aware, but technically you can split the cost with multiple people (i.e. friends or relatives) if you set up an Amazon Household account)

It's just two adults now (and a limited "teen" program which doesn't acknowledge the realities of kids living at home past 17). I have four adults on my account, but two of them are grandfathered in and still receive my "prime benefits", but aren't shown anywhere in my Amazon account that I can find.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
It blocks requests for ad and tracking requests (configured properly) which aside from video streaming, accounts for the majority of internet traffic.
Chief Vitalstatistix from the Asterix comics has only one mortal fear — That the sky will fall on his head tomorrow
Yeah, but again, this isn't as damning as it sounds. Teaching kids to play sports, you definitely start with the "stand out there and watch the ball in motion." Ideally, you want them to engage with the sport, but just getting them there with the gear is a big part of it.
Uber also has a bunch of regulations to follow that are different everywhere. Each city will need it's own operations teams to deal with drivers, local authorities, etc. Then a country operations that that deal with payroll, taxes, etc.

You then need to have a customer support service. That is probably 5,000 employees right there.

Just because a company has 36,000 employees it doesn't mean they have 30,000 people working on the tech. There are lots of jobs that need to be done just to operate day to day. That most people on here wouldn't even think about, like cleaning staff for example. How many people on here even thought about cleaning staff?
you asked "What are we supposed to do?", and i just told you.

its your own fault if you choose to be a selfish unsafe & uncourteous driver who only cares about themself
Acnestis – my simple idea of aggregation and processing tool
This is a very raw idea I've shared in this repo https://github.com/oduvan/acnestis

It includes only very basic usage but those simple tools is enough already to show the general idea.
Maybe here I can get some feedback about it. Maybe it is useless; maybe it can be useful for someone.

But the very general idea is that you can create a folder and declarate in that folder(s) where the data will come from and how it will be converted. In such a way we can generate a complex inheritance between different data sources and use it for the generation of complex results.
Startups Funded in the Week of June 12 to June 18, 2023
By that definition, we've always been in a post-truth world.

Yes, access to truth lies on a spectrum. Post-truth references pop up in this moment particularly due to the quantum leap in dis/misinformation. Any layperson, anywhere, can soon convincingly fabricate media of nearly any form: images, video, audio, legit-looking websites, etc. To me, it's justifiable to regard 2023 as an inflection point for truth. My predictions are less catastrophic than many worried folk, but I definitely see why the post-truth moniker is appropriate. Crazy times!
We're best positioned to rise above the racist stereotypes yet here we are struggling. We know operations is hard, really hard, and that it's oftentimes harder to keep systems running than it was to build them. Part of it is funding was allocated for the building (wealthy people built it) and we often lack funding for maintenance (poor people trying to maintain) and the system falls into disrepair as a result. Most of us here see this in our work everyday, so I'm curious as to why we can't recognize that same pattern when it's happening with real objects instead of our abstract ones?
> The “work” element in Proof-of-Work mining directly refers to a hashing problem.

> The goal in Proof-of-Work is to find a hash that meets the criteria for a new block.

The "hashing problem" is a specific choice of Proof of Work algorithm known as Hashcash. There are other possible Proof of Work algorithms [1] that are more like solving a jigsaw puzzle, like the Cuckoo Cycle problem that looks for fixed length cycles in random graphs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_work
Although not evil, adult content should be opt-in, and should be able to be opted-out at a platform level... hence, the need for censored models. Imagine a restaurant booking AI app, built on GPT, that accidentally doubled as a bomb-making tutor or an adult content generator. It's a lawsuit waiting to happen, if nothing else, and it's worth making these use cases harder (if not impossible) to implement in mainstream, commercially available products. Note that for many of these products, the age and consent for adult material has not been already established.

So far, the open source ecosystem seems to be doing a good job of providing both censored and uncensored LLMs - and it seems there are valid use cases for both.

Think of this as similar to Falcon LLM being launched in both 40B and smaller 7B variants - the LLM often will need to match the use case, and the 7B model is a good example of making the model smaller (and worse) on purpose in order to reach certain trade-offs.
When were humans ready for anything?
It didn't have cgroups, because at the time it was thought of as a distributed system meaning it would run a single service, authentication for example, and there was no real ability to share resources in the way we do today.

Remember CPUs were largely single threaded, and you had expensive multi-cpu systems that ran 2, 4, and 8 CPUs. Compute heavy processes consumed entire systems, or CPU since SMT was also not common. You couldn't effectively microsegment CPU usage, because you were only really multiplexing idle time. Additionally, your OS had to consume more cycles to do that resource sharing.

Today, the story is pretty similar, but we have systems with multiple cores, and SMT. We can share resources more effectively, but its also that our systems have 16x more scheduling slots.
> and the preponderance of the evidence is firmly in the "pro" category.

That's sort of the problem though. You didn't say "according to our highly empirical and well-scrutinized methodology, the only objective conclusion possible is X".

Instead, you use the word that, as best I understand the English language, signals political support. They could have saved themselves the effort of these "studies", if you ask me. These people already knew which conclusions they wanted to reach, and it does little to convince someone like myself. Not a big fan of the social pseudosciences.

> is to continue to have access to the health care

I've yet to see how anything you refer to is "health care" in any useful meaning of the word. On a good day, I might concede that it's close enough to cosmetic surgery to not nitpick that description. But on less generous days it's closer to tattoos/piercings. "I want my body to look like this" isn't health care.

> they need for survival

How is it necessary to their survival? "I'll hold myself hostage with threatened suicide" seems like a peculiar definition of "survival".
> I would love to know what the 4000+ staff do there

Usually when an engineer asks this question, they are starting with the assumption that most everyone who works there is an engineer. That assumption is usually wrong.

I have no inside information at all, but my guess is that engineers make up less than 1/3 of the employees. I'm sure the sales team is large, the product team is large, and the community management team is large. They probably also have a bunch of legal, and we know they have a lobbying group as well. And of course if you're taking people's money, you need a bunch of customer service to handle that.

When I worked there 14 years ago, we had at peak six engineers, and three non-engineers (one sales, one product, one community). But also we had the parent company providing legal (and there was a lot of legal requests even back then!), HR, facilities, finance, and basically all the other support tasks. And also we the engineers did a lot of it. We managed customer service for ads, we managed making t-shirts and plushies, we managed customer service for reddit gold payments, and a bunch of other "non-engineering" tasks.

The site is big and is transactional, which makes it a harder problem to solve. With the near-real-time display of votes and listing changes and comments, it's a lot more like eBay than Slashdot (which is what I would say at the time).
There's a huge difference between Rocky/Alma, and Oracle.
Oracle actually tries to steal RHEL business. They offer support, which I think is ludicrous when they don't even build the product.

Alma/Rocky aren't to my knowledge offering any support (and if they plan to, they shouldn't). Are customers cross-shopping RHEL with Alma? You either want support, and buy RHEL, or you don't, and you use something else (Alma/Rocky, or Debian/Ubuntu etc..)
it takes incredible engineering to make a 10s video have 360p visual quality but still require approximately 500mb of data to load
I'd argue there is reasonable evidence that we were ready for the printing press. Everything beyond that, not so much.
Ah...find's "swiss army chainsaw" mode. So, so useful. :)
Let me put it this way:

Sony funds developers = PlayStation gets “extra” games that otherwise wouldn’t exist. No one else is affected.

Microsoft buys Activision = long running Activision franchises (eventually) become MS exclusive. Xbox gain nothing but everyone else lose out on franchises they used to enjoy.
High-Fidelity Testing on a Shared Staging Environment
Linux is GPLv2, not Linux GPLv3. V2 does have a similar line in it:

> You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.

But I expect we'd have to see litigation to determine how broadly that can be interpreted.

Is applying a consequence as a result of an action the same as restricting that action?
It sounds like you're simply arguing against free speech.

Should people be allowed to purposefully disseminate false information? Or should speech be regulated? What regulations do you propose as to the speech that people should and shouldn't be allowed to make?
I was thinking the same thing. Maybe the author should be comparing his $15 toe socks to a $15 pair of non toe socks because his post definitely sounds like he was wearing super low quality socks before.
This is a really cool project. I'm going to play around with it. I love the fact that it's Open-Source!
> Though many of the details are proprietary, the basic formula to produce cultivated meat is clear. They began by extracting cells from animals using a needle biopsy. Food scientists no longer need to go back to the animal to extract cells every time, since there are lots of cells stored in a cell bank. The companies can select the cells they want to grow. Then, inside the stainless steel tanks, the cells are fed a mix of the same nutrients an animal would eat, a combination of fats, sugar, amino acids and vitamins, which allows the cells to proliferate and grow into meat.

I do wonder how vegans will feel about this needle biopsy. And while they say there are lots of cells stored in the "cell bank," it does seem like it will need to be replenished with future needle biopsies or there will be genetic drift if they recycle cells from the vat (which might be fine or even desired). Does this mean we can eat whale and, I dunno, bald eagle?

Edit: or, excellent point raised in a dead comment... human? Sounds ick to me too, but bear with me: is the height of ethical meat consumption to have personal meat-vats grown from your own donor cells?
I’ve found myself doing the opposite when working from home, but I have a backyard office that doesn’t have a bathroom. I make a number of trips inside each day and taking shoes off each time can be a pain. Having a puppy who will steal my shoes also adds to the annoyance.
May very well be a dust allergy
If I understand correctly dev mode access is $25/month instead of $45/month for a designer.

That doesn't sound like a bad deal to me. They're not taking away anything from free mode.
> who is selling this???

I would bet money the software is querying GPT4 with a prompt like "Please analyze the contract below and recommend improvements..." Then they turn around and market it enough to make a crypto company blush.

Maybe a very thorough finetune on a massive legal corpus from your jurisdiction, hooked up to a good database, would make something interesting. But I doubt anyone has done this so quickly.
What I find interesting is that the end goal for many companies is to be sold to a global monopoly. It is not a fair competition. But I guess it's good for consumers who get free stuff - but the question is - would we get a better product if there was competition!? So in order to compete: 1) Get to know people working for a monopoly 2) Make a better product 3) Profit (or bleed to death)
I would definitely say that some of the finest and worst people I’ve worked with were in QA. Mercifully usually not at the same job. It can be a great place to push ideals, or to hide from them.

I know why it’s gone, I’m just not happy about it.
Yeah, to paraphrase Stroustrup, there's two kinds of systems: ones people think are elegant, and ones people actually use
These historical overview posts are pretty good:

- https://frontendmastery.com/posts/the-evolution-of-react-pat...

- https://frontendmastery.com/posts/rethinking-react-best-prac...

- https://frontendmastery.com/posts/the-new-wave-of-react-stat...

(Not the author, but read them and I enjoy the content).

I'd also recommend going through the new React docs site for a refresher:

- https://react.dev

and reviewing a couple of the articles I've done around how React works:

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2020/05/blogged-answers-a-...

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2021/01/context-redux-diff...

I also did a post + talk a couple years ago on the migration from HOCs to hooks:

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2019/07/blogged-answers-th...

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2019/09/presentation-hooks...
It isn't just the projections that distort our perception. North being up and south being down is so ubiquitous that it seems like Earth (and the Solar System) has a top side and a bottom side. But that's just a convention.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160614-maps-have-north-...
"how would this impact them? just use figma as usual i would assume"

Since designers share files, whether at the same time, or at later date, if you have someone on the team who is fully taking advantage of all the features, like the new variables, conditional logics, etc.., and you're not quite up to speed, you may not be able to do your job effectively or may mess up what others have done.

Understanding abstractions / reference / inheritance is a skill that developers take for granted. But for non-technical folks, it takes time. Many struggle for a very long time.
Exactly! This article mostly avoids it but the usual popsci refrain of “the map you know is WRONG” is a pet peeve of mine! It’s not like one projection is any worse than another, as long as they are useful for the context it’s designed for. Maps are diagrams!
That first link you gave shows a lot of variation, but doesn't give any info to compare to 1950s because it only goes to 1987, as you said. So we can't use that to make any conclusions about now versus 1950s.

I think we also have to consider the intensity of fires. Supposedly, fires are hotter now because there's a lot more accumulated fuel since there are no longer so many smaller fires. In any case, I don't see any information you presented that leads to your conclusions.
Yes you can, but AFAIK AI doesn't have moral basis and at best the confrontation will be random. Sure you can program the AI to have some moral basis but people will choose to flock with those that have the same alignment with them and keeping the confrontation at minimum, thus the flaw still exists even if it doesn't bore you.

In real life, we need to interact with several people at minimum normally, weekly. Those are having different moral basis and maybe changing daily. It'll be hard to simulate that with AI, that the fact we have the ability to control them means we're in charge of what confrontations are there to stay.
Small typo!

Molar Concenration -> Molar Concen(t)ration
> [on] Blind the users are verified to be working at the company

Well, they're verified to have worked at the company at some point. Blind doesn't make you periodically re-verify your access to your work email account.
I'd argue interval training is more valuable than absolute pitch in improvisation. It's rare you find yourself in a scenario where key is unknown and unknowable, especially playing with other musicians. Being able to hear and distinguish a minor 3rd from major 3rd is much more valuable.
Preserving digital culture is a legit issue. But it's about copyright laws, not about corporate mergers.

Apple have wiped vast numbers of early iPhone games from existence by having their walled garden and limited backward compatibility. Most early iPhone games, from the 32-bit pre-F2P era will never be played again. But nobody really cares about those.

Much bigger games have been lost too. Many MMOs, in particular, as nobody ever had access to the server-side code. And most modern console games have online components and risk becoming unplayable when the servers are turned off.

Classics from Infocom and Sierra can at least be preserved by enthusiasts, as physical copies still exist and individual fans can ignore the copyright question.

The digital preservation issue extends beyond games, too. We may be entering a future were even books, in their digital form, are frequently updated to fit present-day cultural sensitivities. And without physical copies, it may become impossible to reference the original text, or even know whether edits have occurred.
We already used this feature set today in a cross-team/cross-company collaboration and it was very helpful. We are doing design work for another firm that is doing the build and being able to communicate more easily what work is ready to move to what stage etc… improved our workflow, at least from the first glance. I am not sure how much long term efficiency there is to gain, but I suspect for us there will be a meaningful amount.
Of course a lot of the stories science tells are difficult enough that most people haven't internalized them. But, for instance, nobody thinks lightning is thrown by a god anymore -- and that's without even understanding the details of meteorology. It just makes more sense to the ordinary person that stuff crashing into stuff in the atmosphere would make electricity. That is, it's a compelling story, and I don't expect us to backpedal from it.
Isn’t it like all these alternative distributions have to do is buy one license for RHEL and get the sources RedHat uses?
It was kind of cryptic; I suppose I copied it there just to mean whatever the reader thinks it means. But, something along the lines of: much more important than physical birth is spiritual birth.
> , the usage of RMS and his personal image to label the free software movement outdated/fanatical/toxic

What if i love and use the AGPL, but also won't involve myself with the FSF because I think they are runining the movement and also definitely want no direct association with RMS.

I think RMS is an active harm to the cause of Free Software.
Sourced cells can be (and are) immortalized.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortalised_cell_line

This alone removes almost all of the downside suffering.

Additionally, for those of a more more absolutist moral bent, when the animals are small in number, there isn't the same financial pressure to ruthlessly optimize cost at the expense of welfare; you can afford to raise the animal in non-torture conditions without it materially impacting competitive position.
Oh, I just remembered: the onboarding "chat" was specifically advertised as a free, no committal part of the introduction process. After I declined to go further, they started billing me monthly for a subscription to therapy services I had never engaged to use, and I had to email them repeatedly to get the subscription stopped and the charges refunded.

Billed by the month for exchanging a dozen or so messages with a fake therapist. If you're a company leader and get the opportunity to include BetterHelp in your benefits package - don't.
It'd be a less flexible approach, with more lessons oriented around test problems than the underlying concepts they're meant to represent?

So, an equivalent would be learning leetcode programming puzzles to pass an interview, vs. learning to be a well-rounded programmer.
I believe you that some internal names are random, and it's possible that this one is too, but obviously Amazon doesn't have the benefit of the doubt here. What is clearly malicious is that Project Iliad was intentionally designed to reduce cancellations among the population of users that already wanted to cancel (as opposed to reducing cancellations by making the service better). Here's some of the evidence that is redacted in the FTC complaint: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-prime-ftc-probe-custo...

> Internal documents also show that Amazon intentionally drew out the process of canceling a Prime membership. Under a project code-named "Iliad," Amazon created multiple layers of questions and new offers before a Prime member could cancel their subscription, in hopes of reducing member churn. The number of cancellations dropped by 14% at one point in 2017 following the launch of Iliad, and fewer members were navigating to the final cancellation page, one of the documents said.
Fair enough, I have fixed it so that it doesn't break without webgl.
wouldn't call it "shoddy" without proof. The numbers that you link don't come close to cover the 50ies. Yet, albeit showing a declining numbers of fires, do show an excessive growth of affected area; if I would dwell in California I would be deeply worried.
I can't remember the last time I came across "woke" used as a compliment. If it really was originally Trump that twisted it into a slur, he's achieved a genuine widespread (indeed, international) change in the language (along with cofveve and sundry other contributions).
That seems to be a round-about criticism of the design of the individual tests. Ideally, the tests should be comprehensive enough that "gaming" the tests still requires mastering the material.
GitLab does it so that if you're not logged in, you get bounced from gitlab.com to about.gitlab.com but when you're signed in, you can access the app from gitlab.com without the need for any subdomain name for say app.gitlab.com or the like
If anything, I'm amazed that they can run that business with only 2,000 employees.
Company A hires lawyer to write a contract between Company A and Company B.

Company A runs contract through AI software, which recommends changes.

Lawyer spends a lot of time explaining to Company A that the recommended changes are beneficial to Company B and detrimental to Company A, and charges $X for every 6 minutes of explanation time.
A.foo.com can be served by a different IP address than B.foo.com whereas foo.com/A has to be on the same address as foo.com/B.

If you have different DNS names those functions can be on different servers using different technology. One could be in AWS, one in Azure, another on a mac in your office, another on a CDN, another could be some SAAS vendor operating under your brand.
I had my credit card company block all Amazon prime charges a year or two after trying to cancel. The customer service rep said she had to do the same to cancel.
> Maps distort how we see the world

maps give us our only ability to see "the world". Can you imagine what you would think the world looked like as our ancestors did in the world before accurate maps? you think the mercator projection is problematic, I got news for you.