skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think traditional media needs to go deep and needs to go local.

If I open up the local paper and see associated press articles that’s not the right content for them. I can see that anywhere, probably before the newspaper is delivered.

It needs to be local journalism about things that matter. Actual local issues, hard journalism about local politics and city hall and whatnot. That’s what’s missing from the big sites and when it is there its sort of after the fact. They need to be investigating not just repeating press releases.

I don’t know about cable tv - its essentially a syndication not a local thing. I think the internet will kill it off. Now that the lines to the home aren’t a moat around being a cable company every video website is the new cable company. They need to have content you can’t get on the internet and I don’t think that’s going to happen. As old people die who couldn’t adapt to internet tv, so cable will die.
>At Tesla we believe that security and privacy are core tenets of any modern technology. Customers should be able to decide what data they share with third parties, how they share it, and when it can be shared. We've developed a decentralized framework: "Fleet Telemetry" that allows customers to create a secure and direct bridge from their Tesla devices to any provider they authorize.

Complete non-sequitur.

“We care about your privacy”

“Here’s a way to share private information with others”

Also, un-stated “there ain’t nothing you can do about sharing your private data with us”

Cool that they give you a way to access some of your data at all though, I guess
there will be "physics professors" in 500 years, I see we are being optimistic about humanity
Blender in Docker
exactly. like how else they'll get the money? do you the random people donate?
My understanding is that Australia created a similar law and both FB/Google came to the bargaining table.

Does anyone know what’s different this time? Is the law different? Is Canada a less valuable market?
> there is a structural imbalance between content creators and content brokers

As seen in Twitch.tv vs Kick.com where streamers are dropping Twitch and migrating en-masse to Kick. Abusing the content creators can backfire. However Google is in a different situation; they have a virtual monopoly on content discovery and not existing on Google basically means not existing at all. How do you fix that? Is Google an internet-utility? Should it be regulated as such?
> But the new National Geographic seems to have shunned its past and largely turned to identity politics, with a healthy dishing of geopolitics on the sider, into their bread and butter.

When about do you think they made this shift? In my opinion, 2015, when Murdoch got ahold of a majority of the company, was the shift to identity, narrative, rhetoric. You seem to have a better grasp on their history than me, though.
It's not really advertising when the user is specifically searching for news content. That's like saying the halibut fisherman is getting free advertising when you go to a restaurant and ask to see the menu.
Cell phones.

The shift away from desktop and laptops to cell phones is a major factor as well.
> Thomas didn’t report any of the trips ProPublica identified on his annual financial disclosures. Ethics experts said the law clearly requires disclosure for private jet flights and Thomas appears to have violated it.

> Justices are generally required to publicly report all gifts worth more than $415, defined as “anything of value” that isn’t fully reimbursed. There are exceptions: If someone hosts a justice at their own property, free food and lodging don’t have to be disclosed. That would exempt dinner at a friend’s house. The exemption never applied to transportation, such as private jet flights, experts said, a fact that was made explicit in recently updated filing instructions for the judiciary.

> How many times Thomas failed to disclose trips remains unclear. Flight records from the Federal Aviation Administration and FlightAware suggest he makes regular use of Crow’s plane. The jet often follows a pattern: from its home base in Dallas to Washington Dulles airport for a brief stop, then on to a destination Thomas is visiting and back again.
Yeah. Companies hire you to do A, but they let you do B, and then you find a new company that will hire you to do B, but you end up doing C, etc. Your job title is always the thing you were doing at your previous job, not the thing you do now.
> It's as if I asked "do you want company growth, or customer happiness?" Try both!

Obviously, both are "good," but again, what's the end goal? To truly be the problem solver, you must make the hard decisions and tradeoffs. Companies trade-off growth versus customer happiness all the time. Right now, a lot of the largest companies are the ones that prioritize growth.

To loop back to the point, obviously employee morale and a good end product is "good" and can have synergy, but again, what's the end goal? At some point, you must prioritize. A lot of companies have been very successful prioritizing the end product versus making their engineers feel good, which is why I think this topic recurs.

> I disagree they're solved! Again, this is in response to a 3-part series basically saying "everything is expensive and everyone is miserable and fewer businesses are succeeding."

I some ways, I think the 3-part series and your article are basically saying the opposite. The 3-part series acknowledges the market conditions and overabundance in the past, and says that in order to get the same results, we need to be smarter moving forward. Whereas your post is (in general) saying that it use to be really good in the past when we were treated like rockstars, we should return to that.

And returning to the point, technical problems being "solved" is not mutually exclusive with a general market downturn. That is to say, you can't point at the general market downturn to say that deploying a CRUD app is not a solved problem.

And this gets to my main point (which I think the author of the 3-part series would agree with): returning to the "rockstar" era will absolutely not bring software companies back to the crazy valuations and money. The "rockstar" era was the result and not the cause of the crazy valuations of the past.
It can certainly help pierce the shroud of qualia and aid knowledge transfer. Other forms of communication like diagrams, portrait sketches, and maps prove this out.
How long would it take for all the peat to burn up and be gone?

1 year (obv no)

5 years

10 years

25 years

50 years

100 years

1000 years
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based on the photos, they did pop the slides on this incident. but evacuations are often not called in these situations if there isn't a fire or something.

there's a real risk of injury from evacuating, so it needs consideration by the pilot.
> Europe in the end was an American project and is simply untenable without US support

I think this mixes up past and present.

"Europe (in the 1940s) was an American project" is not something worth arguing the import of.

But "and (today the EU) is simply untenable without US support" something that doesn't seem sensible. Why do you say that? Do you mean the the EU would ... collapse if the US pulled out? Of where?
It's a blurry line, I think.

Imagine a prompt "Photo of person, Shutterstock ID 132456, with blue eyes instead of brown eyes, watermark removed"

If the prompt returns Shutterstock photo #123456 without the watermark (and with the different color eyes) but otherwise a near identical photo, I think most people would agree the output shouldn't be free to use without buying the original photo license from shutterstock.

To a certain extent, we're betting that these models won't accept or reply to prompts that are that specific (e.g. referencing a specific image for sale on shutterstock by its ID number). Or even just providing the photo in the prompt and asking the model to remove the watermark and upscale the image to a higher resolution.

I'm fearful that LLM's will become (or already are?) an easy copyright bypass tool that can be abused, in the example above, to put companies like shutterstock out of business.

This is the sort of problem regulation might help with.

I haven't read OpenAI's TOS, but I'm curious who owns the output of the model and whether OpenAI is transferring copyright/licensing liability onto the user or if OpenAI is representing that output from the model is 100% free to be used in any way the user wants.
I've switched domains four or five times now. I started with gamedev, went to finance, then pentesting, then machine learning.

The key is to have a strong portfolio. Every successful switch was based on that. Even in areas where you can't really show a portfolio, like pentesting, I was good at it and was able to demonstrate it.

It's really that simple. Be good, and show that you're good. Don't wait for someone to show you what to do.

Oh, as for the mechanics of getting the job, it's the same as any other: Forget the resume process. Find someone in the industry you want to work at, flatter them (everyone likes to be flattered, and you should lean on this tool as much as possible) and show them you can be useful.
Waiting for the LLM version of ye olden IRC hazing/trolling of: "oh you can fix that with rm -rf /"

Edit: Typo
> Unfortunately, I do not think you can force racists to stop being racist. Bigotry is perfectly legal.

Why should the affected groups, or society at large, accept this? Why shouldn't we band together to try to make things fair in light of this fact?

> It's also kinda racist.

Can you explain why? You cited MLK Jr. earlier. He didn't think that AA is racist. Where do you disagree with his position?

> This is one of the valid reasons to discuss race. However, I do not see why this means people need "help". What kind of help? How are you going to help? I still have no answers.

No, you've gotten answers, you just don't like them. I've explained pretty clearly why this means people need "help", what kind of help and so on.
Is the Go example even valid? I've never seen that (arr: [[]]int) syntax.
a piece of meal is normally the case of adsense.
the problem i guess is either flat fee (which would break the bank in Google's local account) or big overhead fee (e-invoicing, regulatory auditing, etc)
Pablo Rodriguez, is that you?

For those unfamiliar, Pablo Rodriguez is the Minister of Canadian Heritage under whose auspices all these censorship and control schemes are being pushed forward.

Ironically, Pablo Rodriguez is the son of an Argentine Peronista (the far-left populism that cripples Argentina to this day). The family fled the country when the war broke out. Pablo was old enough to see first hands what happens when there is no free independent press, and now he's eagerly fostering those same conditions onto Canada.
Yes. I was sort of lumping redlining in with Jim Crow, although I guess it's technically a distinct thing.
This is just plainly false.
Are you sure about that? I don't think there has ever been a tennis match played under normal rules where a top pro woman has beaten a similarly ranked pro man. In the most recent such major exhibition, Karsten Braasch easily defeated both Williams sisters even though he was only ranked #203. The difference in speed and power is enormous, to the extend that at elite levels women and men are playing totally different games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Sexes_%28tennis%...
Google News does just show the title.
You'd think the phone companies would care about this. It erodes people's need for a phone number. Why even bother any more?
Or what about just incorporating this into the telemarketer aggravation bot? Reduce the volume, they'll have to turn their headset up to continue to conversation, then blast them with a bunch of highly clipped distortion.

Although most of the spam calls I get are bots on the other end - political, police shakedown, lazy leadgen for some company (eg cable TV), etc.

The ones that are actually human are generally outright scams targeted at old people ("microsoft", "medicare", etc). After playing along for a bit, I ask them if their parents know that their job is to scam old people all day and if they consider that success. That usually gets them pretty riled up.
TCP/IP Illustrated is a good start.
I have been ranting about the world losing their ability to distinguish between fiction and reality for quite a while. It isn't even a problem limited to them. You see people unironically citing fictional movies as "proof" because it supports their argument. It is peak bullshit in the "does not care about the truth just what supports their argument" sense.
> Tell me when my loop terminates.

I think the point is that even though one can't determine loop termination for all loops (easily provable), there are a huge number of useful loops that do useful work and for which you can prove properties like termination (and other static properties).
It may be easier if you wait till you have exactly five years experience. I suddenly got a bunch of recruiting emails when I crossed that threshold.

It tends to be much easier changing around what you work on within a company. I started doing embedded and server software in my first job by just helping out on bug fixes without asking.
And here! I switched from Mac to a Framework with Ubuntu/GNOME six months ago. Switched to Fedora/KDE Plasma this week and it's been so much better--everything is so much more discoverable.

That said, Dolphin just got a bug where it crashes during thumbnail generation, and I'm seeing artifacts in Wayland with fractional scaling, but the KDE bug system is very visible and easy to navigate, so that I'm pretty confident these will be fixed soon. (I did know what I was getting into when I left Apple for the Wild West.)
OpenWrt 23.05.0-rc2 – Second Release Candidate
still like the new internet to be honest.
how often are you using LLMs?
As the person in charge of one such page, I’d like to take the opportunity to remind folks that many— if not most—of these status pages are hand-updated, and most bosses absolutely hate anyone having to update them to anything but green.
Yes, this is what csvquote does. It does nothing else, just this so that programs like awk, sed, cut, etc. can work properly.

https://github.com/dbro/csvquote
Translated from non incriminating corporate speak to plain English:

"We have to been seen doing something, the election cycle is fast approaching. What if we go after Comcast?"

"They gave a important senators son a no show job so they are off limits for the time being"

"Amazon?"

"Let me check, actually they haven't done much for us lately, let's shake them down, if they give my cousin a few million for consulting we give them a small fine, if not we give them the law"
If you have time, consider taking a picture of that and submitting it to FTC (https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/#/), in support of https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/06/....
There’s one place near me that sells actual nitrate/nitrite free bacon but its super expensive - $10-12 Canadian for 250grams or so. It like double bacon in the store and its an hour drive away.

Sad to learn about the celery nitrite thing. I’ve been overpaying for it for a while now, apparently. It literally says “contains no preservatives” but has “cultured celery extract” in the ingredients, so its a lie.
Yeah, great experience
Well, the leverage is that some profit is better than no profit, in theory.
If you install a current version of Ubuntu it uses perfectly sane defaults for SSH.
If you go the step further and disable password authentication entirely and only use keys you’ll be very secure.

I fully understand the preference of a serverless platform of course, especially if you’re more of a programmer and less sysadmin.
If you want to be as profitable as Google or Facebook, you probably do need some rockstars, but you also need to be developing a technology or business that produces tremendous amounts of value. You can’t just hire rockstars to work on something low margin or without significant demand and expect because they’re amazing engineers that you’ll make a lot of money. Conversely Airbnb has made a lot of money and is just CRUD - they pay a lot and I’m sure there’s some fancy stuff behind the scenes, but you could probably copy most of the user visible functionality with a team of bootcamp devs.

I feel like the tail is wagging the dog a bit here because if what you’re actually trying to optimize for is building >$100b business, hiring rockstars or creating a rockstar culture is just one aspect of getting there which you may not even need.
"So why worry?"

"not that much investment was lost"

Wow. You must be an AI hallucination, because there's no humanity or facts in you comment.

How about: COVID has an R0 of less than 4, measles is over 12
Hacker News and Twitter
I read an article somewhere about parents "divorcing" before their kids goes to school so that he gets extra points on the admission sheet.

They also "move" to a worse zip code for the same reason.
i hired a true rockstar once. they were the smartest developer i have ever worked with, ever. this individual could singlehandedly put together massive systems, from technical to design, with confidence and flair.

i had to let this person go because they did not know how to work with others. beyond their brilliance, they could simply not empathize with the organization's POV. everything was about them, supporting them, making them feel special, unique, and important.

this individual eventually returned the company laptop, which was bent in half. they told me that they had smoked enough DMT to understand that they had created their own god and that if my org needed further investment, to reach out to them.

i hired this person from HN "who wants to be hired." they still (to this day) add a post to the monthly thread.
Isn't price discrimination the whole point of having a private sector?
> Free market research with the data from your paying sellers, to then enter a market with a product you know will sell, in a position of dominance.

But these are the things that are pro-competitive. So now they make batteries. They're not putting Energizer out of business, they can still sell through Walmart or local convenience stores etc., and some customers still buy Energizer batteries on Amazon, but now customers have a new option for batteries from a well-known brand with lower prices. Obviously the competitors don't like this -- they're losing business to new competition -- but new competition is good.

Where you run into problems is where companies leverage a dominant market position in one area into abusive practices in another. So for example, if Amazon had a monopoly on retail, they could demand huge margins for reselling a competitor's batteries, or just stop carrying competing batteries and charge high prices for their own because customers have no other option.

But they have no such market power. If they tried to charge significantly more than competing retailers for basic commodities, customers would just buy them from whoever has the best price.

Compare this to, for example, mobile app stores where customers in practice have one store provided by the phone platform and if that store charges high margins or doesn't carry something they want, they have to buy a different device for hundreds of dollars, over a $1 app. Also, there are only two platforms of note so if you dislike any practice shared by both of them you're out of luck, whereas in an ordinary retail market there are a zillion competing retailers.
> In the words of Chief Justice John Roberts, the US fought a civil war to end racial discrimination.

That is so ahistorical, it makes me wince. A war to end slavery, yes (though you could argue even that). To end racial discrimination? That is a ludicrous thing for a supposedly educated person to say.

Abraham Lincoln didn't think the freed slaves should get the vote.
Then you get the weird software engineers that are very defensive of spying on their users lol.
The subtitle says it’s the “ultimate command reference” but it’s missing several useful commands such as `networkQuality`, `sips`, and `realpath`. Probably more, but I stopped trying after the first three checks were duds.
No, in other words, an America that isn't guaranteed to be on the same side: opposed to dictators and warmongers.
The United States is a legal entity. It's the one responsible for the harms, and it's the one responsible for the reparations.

Or we could just dissolve the country every 4 years and start over from scratch if you prefer. I don't see how that could go wrong. :-)
No. From the photons perspective, there is no concept of time. Phase speed, group speed, shadows going faster than the speed of light, etc.. will all complicate using the concepts used to teach diffraction

Massless particles being required to travel at the speed of light is perhaps a lens to think about it.
> > he could get a percentage of the $ saved

> I'd take that deal in a heartbeat.

Same! That would be a very exciting and lucrative role. Unfortunately it's basically the opposite of what the industry does today. I think we've all seen the six-figures per month AWS bills to power infrastructure for a workload that could be comfortably hosted on a Raspberry Pi.

If the industry ever goes back to caring about efficiency and cost, sign me up.
See also the post on KDE's website: https://dot.kde.org/2023/06/21/celebrating-25-years-kde-free...

I submitted it to HN but it didn't get any traction at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36430030 /
I disagree that its welcome. I think its just a shakedown.
Musicians were always screwed over by the music industry, not engineers.
> games and artists have been using AI and procedural generated content for decades

These are not the same things. Procedural generation is not the same as feeding different prompts to a model until it vomits up something that looks sort-of like what you want.
Have some thick skin.
>When people are focused on the past, they aren’t focused on the future. It becomes a never-ending argument over history, trying to divvy up blame and virtue and money among people who weren’t even present at the time the evilness happened and who themselves have a mixed heritage.

As is widely discussed and intuitively obvious, "the past is prologue."

What happened in the past is relevant to the present because the past quite literally creates the present.

As Eugen Weber[0] put it[1]:

...we are going back to the old country. We're going back to where many of
our ancestors came from, to see where their stories came from, and their
memories, and their habits and the way they are, which has made us the way we
are.

This is what history is about. Where we come from, what lies behind the way
we live and act and think. How our institutions, our religions, our laws
were made.

Should we ignore all that came before, knowing that it informs and structures our societies, ideas and proclivities? I say, "no."

Because we don't exist in a temporal vacuum (thank you, Second Law of Thermodynamics). Rather, our pasts and the impact of the events of those pasts inform and shape the present. Ignore it at your own peril.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Weber

[1] https://youtu.be/XCyO8meahME?t=410
Where are the adverts on google news? I haven't seen a single advert there in 10 years, and I just looked very carefully in case I somehow missed them, but no, there are none.