skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's some money on it, but not enough to get rich. For example, Imgur was profitable in 2014, but they had to raise money and expand...

Maybe a service like this should start with ads and paid plans (that unlock restrictions), keep their running costs low, and never stop being an image hosting site?

Too many start without ads, get users and some investment and then spend it all on expensive AWS hosting/CDN bills and employees that are hired to create a social media platform... and then they stop being an image hosting website, fill the site with ads, focus too much on growth, and so on. I don't blame them for taking a big pay check, but I don't think the entrepreneur type works well for image hosting.
Lol. How can identity a review as fake if it is based on personal tastes and experience! True, unfounded allegations are fake reviews.
>If people regularly lose access to their belongings when there's an incident, that's not a 1 in a billion billion

It was an estimate for an individual.

>The premise of this conversation is that this is the regular process, right?

The premise seems to be that if somewhere some policy changes, people will not feel insecure in a (purported) emergency and grab their bags.

But they will, because they don't have a time machine to see it will be ok, and they don't trust the authorities, by assumption.
It's the difference between one customer asking a hundred cooks for a waffle and a hundred customers asking one cook for a waffle. The former is the thundering herd (a bunch of processes trying to do something that only needs to be done once, causing resource contention) and this is akin to the latter (with the "customers" being parallel requests from the frontend).
NYC school 'falsifies' English credits with Dungeons and Dragons 'class'
A CTO is responsible for failures in the technology org. A CTO who describes himself as responsible for "sysops" is specifically responsible for failures in SRE/ops. Leaders are responsible for work they didn't personally do. If they don't want to be responsible for their reports then they can always go back to being a junior IC.
The interfaces are probably well defined. The seeker head should plug into the rest of the missile via some well defined connector and some well defined mount point. The new unit has to be compatible, but not identical.
> the people who told him that he was needlessly endangering people's lives were experts in their fields

Turns out engineers and other experts disagree with each other all the time.

I assume you are an expert in your field. Do you always get listened to?

> just because there are often naysayers who claim some big projects are impossible doesn't mean that there aren't situations where they should absolutely be listened to

I didn't say that. People expressing concern, is not enough evidence to say the management was wrong. All good managers consider criticism. It's then up to them to use judgement to decide what to do.

> This guy played fast and loose with safety

I guarantee if he spent 10x more on safety and still had the same outcome, the articles would be the same. Risk is just not easy for the public to reason about.

Maybe you're right, but once again the gossip the journalists dug up doesn't tell us that.
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If I were hiring someone to do a job requiring major ethical judgment, exposure to academic thinking on ethics would be immediately disqualifying. My experience is that it is corrupting: it equips a student with a vast array of theories they can use to justify anything.
If I recall correctly former reddit CEO Yishan Wong’s tweets on the matter, it was ordered by Alexis Ohanian directly. Yishan went on to describe how Alexis let the at-the-time CEO, Ellen Pao, take the heat for the decision.

In my eyes, Reddit’s distaste for their own users emanates from the founders directly.
Is Glassdoor included?
Same. Then I delete it 24 hours later.
GF(2^n) Galois Field numbers are actually somewhat inefficient at multiplication. At least, in the 90s when AES was invented (today we have pmull and carryless-multiplication that speeds things up, but its still overall slow compared to normal multiplication).

Because of this, modern ciphers prefer Add-Xor-Rotate ciphers instead of Galois Field operations. As it turns out, Add-Xor-Rotate groups are provably invertible too, and are far, far more efficient to run than Galois Field operations.
Why extends is evil (2003)
> It's enjoyable to blame insurance companies, but the reality is their profits are capped by law - they are not the problem.

Health insurance profits are capped only as a percentage of premiums collected, not a fixed dollar amount cap. The rule is you must pay out 80% of premiums collected, everything else is OH&P.

Turns out, if healthcare costs go up, then premiums go up. If premiums go up, then insurer profits go up.

Healthcare providers and health insurers have an aligned perverse incentive to have healthcare cost as much as possible, since that is what increases their profits.

This isn’t a hard relationship to uncover if you are familiar with the insurer profit cap portion of the ACA and also how money gets made.
We didn't always use terminal servers in college. There was a cluster of 3B2s, and two were accessible to students from the terminal room. There were probably 40-50 terminals in the room, and I believe they were each hardwired to either "earth" or "wind". I don't know about the connectors or cabling which achieved that, because the servers were located on another floor of the building. But we were definitely hardwired in.

The rest of the university had general-purpose terminal rooms that used port concentrators. These had a rudimentary CLI that enabled the user to specify a resource to connect to, so it was sort of a circuit-switch deal. Among the resources were VAXen running BSD, VMS machines, and Annex boxes which could be used for TCP/IP connections across campus, or to the outside world. These Annex boxes were also frontends for dial-up users coming in over modems.
That doesn't mean it "doesn't work", that just means it doesn't solve all the problems you want to have solved. Insisting this change "doesn't work" and thereby, what... should not have happened? means that a ton of people I don't want in jail end up in jail. And like, that's what you are thereby arguing for: you are saying this somehow doesn't work to actually fully protect people... so you'd rather the status quo remain and these people be charged with a crime? How about instead of saying "doesn't work" you say "not enough" or "what's next"?
It's not just 'having money', it's 'having a huge amount of money in foreign assets'. One entity controlling that much capital is able to manipulate the global economy in some interesting ways. For example, they could strategically pump or dump other countries' currencies, and probably even crash most other countries' economies at will.

This is naturally pretty scary to other competing entities that historically are used to being the ones doing the controlling.
You do know it isn't mega yachts right? It's sail boats. And what they are attacking is usually the rudder leaving sailors adrift at sea.
How many people tell Musk he's wrong every day? From reading social media, probably around a million! Heck, just look at the replies to his Twitter posts.
'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse' Has at Least 2 Cuts
I strongly disagree. I am for follow ups. Don't leave events to nothingness once initial peak of interests ends.

We are nit goldfish. We have memories. Tell us about how investigation continues - whether in this case or others.
>The people at Twitter who understood the system and could predict the side effects were all fired or left

Not necessarily. I’ve predicted bad outcomes for decisions in a few cases and been ignored but stuck around regardless. Mostly because I like my job and the goals of my organization even if it makes bad decisions.

Of course to remain productive and improve my influence in future decision making it is absolutely critical that when predictions come true, I do not go anywhere near an “I told you so mentality.”

Instead I do what I can to clean up the mess with a “how can I help?” attitude. And increasingly over time people take my opinions and analysis much much more seriously.

I wouldn’t say that’s the path everyone should take, especially because some work environments are just too toxic for any progress at all (I ran away, fast, from two jobs like that). And some people cherish having an entirely new type of challenge every few years instead of shepherding something through longer periods of time. All valid paths.
Any reason whatsoever to believe new mods won't fill this role immediately?
Amazon created mechanical turk which would be perfect for this sort of moderation.
Well that's the easy part, and probably like half a percent of the work that goes on at a scale like that
you should sell an application to manage many cams from a pc with a phone app to access it remotely.

The significant other has 4 different apps for cams. They each have silly issues, sd cards are to small and they all charge wild fees for cloud storage that they didn't disclose before purchase.

I can buy new ones but with the cheaper ones it is more likely a repetition of the mistake made 4 times already.

The software can be 6 times as expensive as the cams and still be entirely worth it.

What I also want is someone in a low wage country watching a wall full of cams cycling from one cam to the next. That service western security companies charge thousands per month for. Robbery right there!
One wonders if he imagines writing and selling Viaweb during the dot com time was greatness comparable to discovering new physics.
All encryption, hashing, ECC, etc. etc. is about taking advantage of invertible operations.

Encryption needs to be inverted. So that's easy enough to understand. Hashing (and cryptographic hashes) need to be inverted because of the pigeon-hole principle. If we have a space of 1000 numbers, we want 1000 unique hashes to 'maximize the space'.

Turns out that the easiest way to accomplish this is through invertible functions, because if there's 1000 numbers that hash into 1000 other numbers, that's called a 1-to-1 and onto function, which is also the requirement for invertibility.

Any other setup, say 1000 numbers that turn into 500 numbers, weakens the hash obviously (two numbers collide for no reason), while the reverse 1000 numbers into 1500 numbers, is impossible.

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Once you realize that invertibility is the key to all of these algorithms, then its very straightforward. Its just a bunch of math that most simply accomplishes the goal.

The reason why crypto-math "looks" hard is because no one teaches the motivation behind the primitives. Its not like Galois Fiels are randomly used you know, mathematicians liked the properties of Galois Fields... and how easy it is to invert those operations.
You can't censor content on a federated platform without fracturing that platform.
Being a software engineer in 2023 is knowing that 95% of everything you're doing now will be obsolete in 5 years. By 2028 app creation will be a commodity & coding will be writing prompts that update themselves

Tech was always fast-changing, now we're supercharging exponentially

Humans cannot compete with AI in the long run. Now is one of the last moments in time where as a human you can still have an edge. In a decade, that will mostly be gone.

Human labor being obsolete to AI would be something to celebrate if we had a UBI (basic income), but we don't

10 years ago I thought it was obvious that implementing UBI would be an enormous net-positive for society, especially since it was obvious AI was automating labor. Now you'd have to be an idiot to not see the writing on the wall, yet I don't see much talk of UBI.

Anyways, the golden age of human labor is coming to an end. We can embrace & applaud this, implementing a UBI, freeing the wagcucks, etc. Or we can cry & deny it while desperately clinging on to the last remains of our own waning relevance like luddites & boomer politicians
this may be a huge number, because Evernote and a lot of note applications relying on markdown.
> Anyone who has worked on a challenging project has heard concerns like this at various stages. It's absurd to conclude the project was doomed or reckless, just because someone expresseed concerns about success or not enough precaution.

This is almost certainly what Rush told people and a refutation of this claim is exactly why I think stories like this are valuable.

It's all a matter of degree. When one or two people tell you your ambitious project is doomed or reckless, there's some room for doubt. At some point though the scale tips. When your chief pilot writes a formal document refusing to pilot your vehicle, the overwhelming majority of your close peers tell you in no uncertain terms that you are going to kill someone, a group letter from people ranging from the Coast Guard to other experts again implore you not to dive, then the scale has definitely been tipped.

It is especially frustrating to see the CEO respond to these concerns as "a serious personal insult" as this is an extremely common pattern for how safety gets compromised.

Even if you think that people's safety concerns are overwrought, the absolute worst reaction is to take it as a personal affront, especially if it's coming from all directions. You think they're naive, you think they're not informed, whatever sure maybe. But you think that by raising safety concerns they're insulting you? That is a blaring red flag to me.

Whether you think this story is overplayed or not, in isolation, this article is hardly irresponsible journalism. It is a sober look at how safety gets compromised in the real world.
And stalin was atheist so atheism should be banned because it isn't protected asa religion right? And islam should be banned right.

You changed to this strawman argument so let's have it.

People are responsible for their own actions. You can't blame information people consume because sane people have the ability to accept or reject information as correct or incorrect and killing people is one the most basic wrongs a sane person can discern. In effect your childish argument is that if a person uses some text as their reason for murdering then it is no longer that person who is responsible but the text that is bypassing their ability to tell apart from right and wrong and therefor that text should be banned?

Tell me, what belief system or lack of it do you accept where people who share that belief never harm anyone ever?

> Per capita what's the comparison with porn in terms of number and severity of extreme responses?

Again, strawmam! You yourself made the claim that porn is harmful to society, not I. But your asking me to defend your assertion lol.

While we are at, let's compare how many conservatives vs democrats are school shooters and pedophiles and I'm sure conservatives are more so let's ban the republican party and conservatism right?

If uninformed childish people like you had their way I am sure you would end up genociding everyone that looks thinks or believes in any way different than you.

You mistake the fact that your belief is popular and tolerated to mean you have the right to persecute others or use persecution as an argument or threat to fend off any disagreement.

Please try to argue in good faith and using sound arguments.

My argument is simple: porn is addicting, sex workers that make porn are not always in good conditions and porn overuse has a harmful effect to the user. So, much like drugs and prostitution people should be allowed to access it but in a way that is regulated and where rehabilitation and help is readily available.

You still get your porn, but your argument is that others shouldn't do it safely or be informed because... you hate bibles? Come on!

Maybe you could have said to me that bibles should have similar warnings and all that to which I would say unlike porn, religion is protected from such things but even if it wasn't, freedom of speech and religion exists and you are able to warn/discourse against the bible or any religion freely. So, unless the platforms that make the bible available to Christians (e.g.: the internet) don't allow your disagreeing belief to be made available (never mind the fact that schools teach things that disagree with thr bible but can't teach the bible!) then all you're doing is displaying your hate in bad faith here.
So, we have found that that really IS correct, though perhaps not in the ways you might think. For example, a major problem with servers today is the accepted geometry: 1U or 2U x 19". In order to drive density, you are either doing dual socket in 2U or single socket in 1U -- but to make that geometry work you have small fans that really have to crank fans to ram air through. (And have we mentioned that the AC power supplies also need fans?). These little screamers are acoustically distasteful, but it's worse than that: they have to do much more work (and draw more power!) to move a fraction of the air because they are so small (air movement is ~cubic with respect to diameter). By changing the enclosure geometry (our sleds are 100mm high) we have much larger fans (80mm). The upshot? Our fans move SO much more air that we can run them much more slowly (we worked with our fan provider to drop the RPM at 0% PWM from 5000 RPM to 2000 RPM) -- which means our rack is not only silent by comparison, it means the power in the rack is going to compute rather than fans.

So, this isn't really chasing the 0.1% -- it's chasing much bigger wins, and it's doing it by changing the power distribution (shelf of rectifiers to a 54V DC busbar vs. redundant AC power supplies in every 1U/2U), changing the cooling (the larger fans), changing the networking (we have a blindmated cabled backplane, obviating the need for operator cabling), etc. etc. These are not just multipliers on efficiency, but also on manageability: once physically installed, our rack is designed to be provisioning VMs orders of magnitude faster than the traditional manual rack/stack/cable/SW install.
The current state of Twitter seems to indicate there's a significant problem with the code, which implies the people who would have either spotted that before it was deployed or fixed it quickly afterwards, are unable to do so. Given the number of layoffs and resignations Occam's Razor would suggest the reason is because those people aren't available to do that work.

We don't kmow it's true but it is a likely explanation.
Unless a Nest camera is trained in Ninjitsu it’s not going to do a damned thing to stop a robber from stealing anything. Cameras are for monitoring spaces, in the best case recording someone doing something bad in enough detail it can be used in court if they’re caught. So long as the quality is decent and the camera successfully records an event, there’s little difference between a hacked D-Link or Nest camera in terms of functionality.
Anytime PG published an article I want to go “sshhhh why are you telling them that you’re giving away all my hard earned secrets!”

Great article
I think even allowing changes from V1 to V2 while keeping reviews is pretty bad. It's not unheard of for hardware manufacturers to release a higher quality product initially and then "cost optimize" it to suck later. A good example is hard drives and SMR[1].

Why not allow linking back to the V1 version and its reviews from the V2 so shoppers can judge for themselves instead of having one take the place of the other?

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/caveat-emptor-smr-di...
Hey this actually looks pretty good
Dust3D – Low Poly Modeling Tool
Plus, health care spending is like >10% of GDP. You don't rewrite the rules like that with upsetting a great deal of corporate interests. An appreciable number of people benefit from all the inefficiency in delivering health care.
No, I'm not being unreasonable. And yes, it is a silly argument. It's not a practical solution. It's akin to telling someone without a license who lives 10 miles from their place of work to walk if they are not happy with the bus service.

The maintainers view is absolutely incorrect and flawed, ultimately it doesn't matter because distributions pick up their slack.
Mostly that's india blocking Chinese comms.
Levels.fyi has one
That social network shut prominet scientists voice during the COVID that's why many people like me hate it
This felt somehow complementary to Dr Seuss’ “Oh the places you’ll go”, specifically, part two and/or a commentary on part one. Thanks for this.
I just Google like "7pm EST" and it returns it in my local time.
OceanGate, FTX, and Cambridge Analytica were not headquartered in Silicon Valley. Out of the companies on your list Silicon Valley can only take the blame for Theranos.
This seems like the correct approach. Two or three large instances with slightly different flavors that keep each other in check, then a long tail of specialized instances.
I'm not making anything up. Certification/licensing is the way it's done in most developed countries and for good reason.

Nothing irrational for pushing for it either. Plenty of advantages. It's mostly irrational cranks arguing against it because they think they will lose some degree of freedom.

As I said though, it will happen eventually, and inevitably.
If I were rich, I would try to buy some big clusters like that now but only if they were full of MI300Xs (and some MI300As). May ten or twenty deadly cabinets. Then (ideally) train a record-breaking multimodal model and (hopefully) take over the planet before they all become obsolete in 2-3 years after tinygrad puts out their ASIC design and Intel and SiFive adapt it for 2nm.

I guess to be truly turn-key it would need to come with a special model or two adept at training and commanding an army of LLM agents.
It's a waste of space but in overall it looks amazing
Octal on iOS and Hack on MacOS for me.
> the visa is attractive to foreign techies as it gives them a route to eventual permanent

Tell me you are unfamiliar with the US visa rules without telling me you are unfamiliar with US visa rules.

> are largely run by Indian-born CEOs.

Like Microsoft & Alphabet?

As bad as US immigration is (I know, I passed through it), this story stinks of racism & bigotry.
Titan is fairly akin to modern software engineering, there's a lot of behaviours in the company that certainly resonates. Mechanical and structural engineers don't behave like this 99% of the time.
Well my comment is a bit tongue in cheek. Tone doesn’t come across online sometimes.
And yet here we are
If it's okay for Côte d'Ivoire or Réunion then I don't see why Türkiye should be snubbed for making a similar request.

Also it's 2023 and people know how to deal with tricky alphabets and stuff now.
Tping – Ping with a Timestamp
So essentially requires less journalists in the end, or at most 3 for reviewing.

All it needs is a human to check for the links needed to cite and we can already see how LLMs and the killer use-case (summarization) will be very disruptive in journalism.

They know about other attempts [0] but the reality is, it won't stop and the owners will push on anyway.

Perhaps these journalists should learn to adapt.

[0] https://futurism.com/bankrate-ai-generated-article-errors
"Critics say that submersible should have been tested with poorer passengers first."[1]

[1] https://www.theonion.com/critics-say-submersible-should-ve-b...
This is the real advice here. There is always balance that needs to be done between short and long term benefit.
It was a crazy day for sure, my city was the hottest place on planet Earth for that one day.
If you inform your manager that doing X could break the site and they still push for it, then it is in fact their fault when it breaks.

The point of a decision-maker is to make informed decisions, if you fail to do that, then you fail at leadership.
Wikipedia's definition is not official anything. It's a commonly accepted (and rather expansive) definition of the phrase. I did not invent my own personal definition of it.

I'll stick with that.