skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Add deforestation to drought, get crazy forest fires
Support for Solana and Ethereum NFTs are being added.
Training LLMs with AMD MI250 GPUs
> If it ain't broke, don't destroy it.

That's actually a nice way of putting it! Better than the "fix" version, because this is clear on the consequences.

I feel like it might be applied to everything from OS UI design (Windows 11), web platform redesigns (Google's icons) to whatever is going on with social media (the silly enshittification term describes this) and many other things.
Some older Java application servers still feature a tiny amount of CORBA underneath the covers
I'd like to think human civilization could strive for a bar higher than chimpanzee.
1) Generally the way commerce is stopped is first it is moved via a regulator, then the regulator squeezes it. See the medical market for example.

2) Sometimes we must refer to King Canute and the tide. The idea of "stopping demand" for prostitution seems like a long shot.
Interesting, definitely worth a look!
Most people are not meant to run an instance.
Too much reddit spillage here
how does lying about your salary inflate your ego?

I think HN and this kind of threads are just not representative of the whole industry, but it's still interesting to me
Capitalism destroys everything good in the long run.
> Unfortunately for the believers, new research mostly runs counter to this, showing that offices, for all their flaws, remain essential. A good starting point is a working paper that received much attention when it was published in 2020 by Natalia Emanuel and Emma Harrington, then both doctoral students at Harvard University. They found an 8% increase in the number of calls handled per hour by employees of an online retailer that had shifted from offices to homes. Far less noticed was a revised version of their paper, published in May by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The boost to efficiency had instead become a 4% decline.
The researchers had not made a mistake. Rather, they received more precise data, including detailed work schedules. Not only did employees answer fewer calls when remote, the quality of their interactions suffered. They put customers on hold for longer. More also phoned back, an indication of unresolved problems.
If you hold nothing sacred, I can only assume you'd have no problem pimping your own mother? Would you?
Berkeley Law School dean on bypassing CA's ban on race-based affirmative action
You really can't trust any propaganda from the adl
This could easily be solved by making the unauthenticated access hard for machines to consume, like introducing delays or some kind of captcha or even just proof of work (reverse some hash). While the authenticated get all the snappiness they want.

I'm strictly anti account, so he just lost me as audience. The next walled garden after Facebook and Instagram that won't ever see me again.
We once had an idea on doing large-scale terrain modifications for cheap.

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

(thoroughly tongue-in-cheek)
Haha are you hiring?
So you don’t see any difference between your wife giving a massage and having sex with someone?
Red Hat never indicated that they had any trouble with CentOS, rather the opposite; their disposition towards it has always been very positive until recently. It would have been like using Ubuntu Server and worrying that Canonical might kill it off and force you to buy Ubuntu Pro; not completely out of the question, but also not something you would expect.
And does 2 hours a day include the meetings?
I'll give it 2 months at most until Reddit will claim that their own app is now accessible enough to shut down the other apps.
I use fastmail for personal and o365 for work and if i could gwt work to switch to fastmail i would.... I don't get the allure, especially when you can buy a terabyte on pcloud for very cheap to combine with fastmail.
levels fyi will not tell you how many hours people are actually putting in

I know how high salaries can get, I'm mostly wondering about the effort/salary ratio
As someone who's not a coder, out of curiosity, what kind of services and applications can only work on RHEL, and how hard would it be to make those distro-agnostic?
This works in his favor though, more accounts means higher ad rev and MAU for valuation.
A separate train of thought, but also, GCC was released 36 years ago. RHEL only 23. So GCC was fine without for 13 years. My bet is they would be fine without another 13, too.
I really do understand the plight of victims of scams.

I know of a couple.

I also see people hurt who were chased from communities, or are drawn into these kinds of things right here instead of just working on what they love.
Guns are legal in many countries, but they have different rules about them. For example, in Canada you aren’t allowed to use them for self defense (well, it’s ok against bears), in Germany they have to be locked in a safe when not in use (and the police will come to your home to do spot checks), in Switzerland militia ammunition is kept separate from guns, etc…
Nice example, but to be fair your analogy is flawed since there's no consideration on the GNU Public License, which is at the center of this conflict. Those free food samples were part of the 'contract' Costco made with the food producers... ;)
You may not, there are communities though that might. People who live in the “blast radius” of a polluting entity like a refinery might want to aggregate data over time to see if there’s a slow leak or whether the entity is emitting excessively at night which I recently learned is quite common. Knowing the instantaneous value at one point is not as valuable as owning the aggregate data over a region over time. So owning the data allows contributing to such aggregates which allow speaking truth to power about the reality of particulates in the air.
Measuring air pollution is increasingly becoming a political act.
Doesn't change that the cops in my county are 100% college educated, cause my county is richer than other counties so we can afford it.

Also, calling ahead and telling them you're a streamer and to watch out for Swatting (and other such protocols) are well established for my area. So its not something we really worry about.

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Cops are in competition with each other. The cheaper areas who don't pay as well do not get the college-educated cops and instead get an entire force at the high-school level. With only a TV-education on how telephones work or the fact that you can't just trust caller-ID (and other such factoids).

I'm more than willing to bet that the counties where "Swatting" is an effective tactic are full of the lesser educated, likely underpaid, cops that are missing out on the latest Police training. (Training is also expensive, and some people think that good police training is a left-wing brainwashing mechanism anyway so they don't trust the police academies, sensitivity training, or so forth)

But the surplus military equipment was literally free, so they got that.
> Mastodon was not designed to be cheap to host

Is there a reason for this, though? Need to be able to iterate on features quickly? Maybe not being able to tackle various complexities with the total available resources? Or maybe federation is just inherently expensive?

Why couldn't we have an alternative written in a more performant language/runtime with maybe things like lower quality images/videos or something?
Show HN: SwitchFeat – An open source feature flags and A/B testing platform
> Making a server call from the client was transparent. It looked like any other function call

That is a very bad idea and one of the reasons this kind of thing rightfully died out.

Because a server call isn't like any other function call. It has orders of magnitude higher latency, and additional failure modes that you actually have to take care of.

It shouldn't look like any other function call.
I like the idea, I wonder how long before cheat software recognizes these mirages? I wonder if that software could in turn make these mirages pop up for other players causing confusion for their anti-cheat team
"the building currently is in a safe and stable configuration"

Just like they said all previous times.

First took them decades to 'discover' there had been 'accidents'. Then they 'just let it sit' for another 7 years, before being forced to do 'something' because the building was planned to be demolished. Then they try to jungle-rig together some contraptions that might scoop out the spill without too much cost
Then it takes them another 5 years to accidentaly stumble upon the spill not being so contained as they 'hoped'. But hey, trust them. This time they promise its all safe and stable. Once again.

This is the same comedy capers fly by night operations we see time and time again in each human endeavour. Yet somehow, the nuclear lobby wants us to believe they are exempt from human failty, despite being disproven time and time again.

Nuclear power might be great, but humankind just can't handle the responsabilities.
"but that’s no surprise"

I mean excuse me but it kind of fucking is when the headset costs three thousand dollars.

I am not impressed to be seeing commentary like "crippled VR" coming from real users.
When there is a value exchange between the two entities that are relatively similar then I think it is ethical. People trade Google making money on ads for their site being found when people search. It is also possible to opt-out.
> Why is this a thing in America to begin with?

Probably the same reason why it's a thing in many places across the world, even in parts of "progressive" Europe.

However, I do also think that making this legal would help more effectively fight some issues surrounding sex work, such as violence, human trafficking, etc. I think this to be the case for drugs, too.
Additionally radiation combined with rain and snow in an open mine would add a new twist to a known problem when mining.
How about Retype? https://retype.com
Lotus Notes/Domino supported it for IPC and it worked pretty well, e.g. from .NET which did not have a vendor language binding.
> That said GM is dropping Android Auto and Apple Carplay from it's 2024 EVs, I assume to sell their own services.

They think they’re going to tap into a lucrative market, but really they’re just selling trash at that point.
I can't vouch for the quality but squabbles.io has gained some traction, and likely more after today
Sounds like outright banning is a stopgap measure, maybe they will implement one of these solutions
There's a lot of lies in tweets. The point was: he's been disparaging OpenAI. It doesn't matter how much he donated or if he donated.
I was about to opine that this title was an homage to the 2009 GI Joe movie, but then I realised it had been written prior to the film's release. I can only assume that in actual fact, "GI Joe: The rise of COBRA" was in fact an homage to this article.
Good find. Relevant part starts from 11m10s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi1uQcshSbQ&t=11m10s
Trustpilot also has paid subscriptions where the business can pay to send "review invitations". So a shitty business can get a high aggregate score because they've gamed when to ask for reviews.
That’s what they are trying to do by the sounds of it. Get rid of the worst of it then cap it.

Rain and snow force the radiation toward the river - this needs managing before the building collapses.
> Is there no other choice than to kick back and take it lying down anytime you go on a flight?

Nope, you can thank GWB for that too. Move along citizen before I have to taze you.
A100 was TSMC N7[1]; only consumer Ampere was Samsung 8N.

[1] https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-ampere-architecture...
That’s because those jobs are highly theoretical.

Being a street cop is not.
I'm quite wary of talking about "average people" in general, at least without specifying what exactly is average about them, and having concrete data on where that average lies.

Also, when asking people, framing is a huge confounder.

If you ask a bunch of people of average or below average tech literacy if they care whether they own the data from their fitness trackers, the majority would probably say no.

But if instead you asked them whether they like the fact that they have to pay a monthly subscription fee to Google/Oura/whatever, the distribution would likely change quite a lot.

We of course know these questions are secretly the same question.
They did this particular gimmick again early last year. This time, the offering was a choice between the "better of two sci-fi franchises." The correct answer was of course STAR TREK, but STAR WARS would have fit too.

edit: archived copy (from jwilk) https://web.archive.org/web/20230614093839/https://twitter.c...
You're making a very good point. I looked at lemmy stuff before but I moved to kbin instead. It has a more familiar interface (to reddit) and it is federated with lemmy. This all sounds good and it is. But even there I basically have no idea what's going on. It has more content than the lemmy instances you visited but every once in a while when I remember to visit I only look at whatever landing page I configured and can't figure out what's kbin, what's lemmy, what "magazine" I am looking at etc. To be fair, it's already a pretty good product and it is likely to get a lot better. That's exactly why I keep trying.
Nice to know Vitess may be supported & TiKV is on your radar, we'll take a closer look. Not sure if the Business Source License is considered an OSS license, but CockroachDB proprietary license and enterprise feature segregation does pose some challenges.
> Doesn't change that the cops in my county are 100% college educated

You misunderstand, what I’m saying is that US police forces generally consider college education to be over-qualification outside of high-ranking officers.

It’s not (just) that they’re expensive, departments literally don’t want them.
The second point is just confused. It isn't about if people would do it, it's on if Musk should be doing it. His antics include boosting misinformation like vaccine skepticism and fringe political theories, that's obviously wrong and worth criticizing.
Is there an easy way to modify one of the existing crossword generators to produce such ambiguous ones (with two or more possible solutions)?
Ooh ooh is it guys?
a $2000 phone in 2023 that software-wise is light years behind the first iPhone in 2007
For actual OLTP workloads using an async framework is more important than language.

See "multiple queries" tab.
They benefit mutually from their symbiosis. Financially, AI bro model #1321 doesn’t bring anyone value except their owners.
Terra (YC W21) Is Hiring AI Engineers in London
One that's slowly ageing away though.
Well, it's very very simple.

Does a sharp pointy thing poke a hole in a surface more easily or less easily than a big flat thing?

The "list of academic and government citations" is all just finger-in-the-air unscientific "we think it works like this because it fits our primary school child view of the world".
I am trying…
That's what they said about the coins and the tokens too.
My uncle is a NukeE. Got his first job at Hanford and finished his career working for a French inspections company. Still lives in the area.
The old adage: "the first rule of distributed objects: don't distribute your objects". DCOM and EJB also came unstuck by failing to observe this rule.

It's impossible for young'uns to appreciate just how obsessed the software world was by 'objects', OO and the chimera of reusability in those days; I subscribed to 'Object' magazine, and still recall one article breathlessly predicting that in the future bespoke development would become bunk as folks would just buy e.g. an Aircraft object off the peg and plug it into their application. The fact that such blatant silliness actually met with knowing nods gives the insight into how technologies that promised to wire this brave new world together became hot properties almost regardless of their details.

It is telling that J2EE became at least mildly sane when people started ignoring entity beans and working exclusively with session beans, inching towards the realisation that the api was the thing that needed to be remote. Imo the current status quo with REST (in its usual bastardised guise) and json as the language neutral representation, alongside aids like Json schema and OpenApi, while by no means perfect, are workable enough and certainly light years ahead of these earlier fumbling efforts.
Exactly what I ran into at Oxford. The more decorated the prof, the less interested in teaching.

In the end the core of a degree is not going to change a whole lot, of course options will be slightly titled towards demand. Everyone who studied engineering did a bunch of math courses and a bunch of physics courses, just like everybody anywhere.
I’ve been here for 6 years and the format is still a breath of fresh air when I come back from things like Twitter or Reddit.

It’s not that I’m opposed to change really. I love good ideas, and being surprised by new and unfamiliar things is usually a joy. Communication via text is hard to improve upon though, and I’m not convinced any major social media platforms have found ways to improve this in any meaningful ways.

I want to read interesting things and discuss them with interesting people. This is hard on most platforms. HN makes it easier than everything else I use.
This is the site I always point to when the pro-nuc crowd likes to tout how safe nuclear energy is. Sure this is weapons, but I’d be a whole lot more confident in our ability to handle nuclear waste if we didn’t have a ~100 year old active ongoing nuclear disaster that we can’t manage to fix and we don’t even know the full extent of.

Once we demonstrate ability to clean this mess up, maybe then we might be able to trust ourselves with future nuclear projects.
Rental Person Who Does Nothing
Airtel Store
I want to use Reddit Sync like before. Now I can't even if I was willing to pay for it.
> Shouldn't we be able to determine the age of the spill using the cesium half life?

How? If you don’t know the size of the original spill can you work it out from whatever it decays to?
This can be useful in India where Briar is banned and in Manipur state, Internet is banned for more than a month now.
Call of Legends 4? Is that some AAA pokemon game that was never released to public?
Being indexed by google is optional. Twitter could stop it a any time if they thought it was a bad deal for them. That not comparable to a startup company trying to scrape the entire site to train their AI and using sophisticated techniques to bypass protections Twitter has put in place
There are dramatically more guns in the US than any other country; the US has about 120 guns per person, Falkand Islands comes second with about 60 guns per person, and it drops off to 20-30 per person pretty quickly after that. In addition, in many places where guns are more common-ish they're usually for hunting, rather than "to protect me and my family": that is, more (hunting) rifles, less handguns, and less of a culture to use them for defence.
> Right, if you aren’t already doing this, you’re about to have to screen every single comment online in a fucked up game of ‘human or robot’

Hah, this might mean that we'd be one step closer to the dead internet (conspiracy) theory actually being reality: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

What an interesting concept.
Higher ad rev only until the advertisers realise your users don’t buy anything and ads are wasted and your ARPU drops through the floor.
> That is a very bad idea and one of the reasons this kind of thing rightfully died out.

I agree, but, like everything else that is a bad idea, naming conventions help.[1] Namespacing helped too.

I used naming conventions to ensure that network calls looked different, and namespaces that kept network objects in their own module.

[1] Right now we rely on naming conventions in most codebases to differentiate between #define'd literals and variables (C), between constants and variables (Java), between variables and methods (Kotlin, Java, everything else), between interfaces and classes (C#, C++, everything else too, probably), for everything in Python (pep8).

Using naming conventions to identify remote calls is no different than using naming conventions to identify interfaces.
Any change to the compiler can break or cause unintended side-effects to bootstrap. For example, adding an import to a module in the compiler might break bootstrap if the imported module uses syntactic constructs the bootstrap compiler doesn't support. The problems are often very subtle.
I think it's just a play to bump up their in-app DAU for increased IPO valuation. Fuck the users, all about the short term gains. I'm curious what the percentage of people accessing the site via the official app vs all other avenues was before all this shit
Surely anything over a network is async? Unless you block on every call, which REST doesn't stop you doing.
It’s a sad day.

I just deleted the app.

Starting to delete all my Reddit accounts now too.

I’m so tired of poor managers ruining good products.
The argument is basically if a billionaire can afford to do it then it’s ok. It’s more than confused, it’s crazy.
From the perspective of Musk doing whatever he wants with his money: It's his money, it's none of our business what he does with it. If someone has a problem, he can compete against Musk in getting the deal instead.

From the perspective of free speech and expression: He and everyone should be able to speak whatever he and they so desires.

This is the United States of America, not Russia or China. Even if you argue it's merely ostensibly, we espouse freedom around here.
TIL there are legal brothels in Nevada, the IRS briefly operated one (through a Trustee) but failed to obtain a county license, and then was duped into selling it back to the original owner at a fraction of the price.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conforte#Forfeiture
I'm not an English native, but how is the IRA a provider of support?
In logistics, there is 3PL, third party logistics where you outsource your warehouse. Are there similar things for datacenters? Also, if it existed, would that differ from general cloud providers?
>...flashbanging a crib at dawn is A-ok, rushing a mass shooter in a school in broad daylight is, you know, maybe later

Oh that's not fair. The official count is the police only waited 74 minutes[0] before attempting to engage a hostile situation. However, they were effective in blocking parents from entering the scene, tackling and threatening to taze anyone who dared disrespect their orders.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robb_Elementary_School_shootin...
This was so well edited, I could only tell that it was fake since the sofa didn't have a reflection
Things that are not free.

- My time.
- My cognitive load.

The above sounds like a nightmare to me, but you do you.
Haven’t we seen an uptick in gun & other violence from MAGA boomers? Could this be part of the story?
I think the idea is that it should be impossible for the client to know if it is a real or hallucinated player becomes from its point of view it is just a player that nobody else can see.
The choice is not between no change and drastic change, but selecting a rate of change that is appropriate. Things which do not change, die, as the only thing that is constant is change. Change or be changed.
The worst way to measure it is inequality. How the top person is doing relative to the bottom person isn't important. How the bottom person is doing now compared to the bottom person 100 years ago is.
Individual Retirement Account
The first 3 is every RPC API which is not complete dreck.

4 and 5 are limited to the schema-based ones.