skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If every time you add a new feature to your application you also have to add new infrastructure, I feel very, very strongly that you're doing it wrong. Sometimes? Sure. Every time? Embarrassing.

I have to call out your take because it's either outright wrong or is overgeneralizing, to put it politely.

A lambda is just someone else's computer running your function, which you call through a fancy rpc interface. There is no infrastructure.

Just because you can and should deploy a lambda with infrastructure-as-code tools such as CloudFormation or CDK, it still does not make a lambda "infrastructure". It's just your function running on space CPU cycles of someone else's computer, which you call through RPC.

Running your lambda as a background task in someone else's computer does not make it infrastructure, just like running code in your own server is not adding infrastructure.

Also, it seems you're missing the whole point of offloading background processes out of your servers. If they are computationally demanding and your servers are well provisioned them a background task can lead your system to scale up. You don't change the way your system is deployed or is operating if you run your background task as a lambda. You make a request and things run just the same. Zero potential for alarms and being paged in the middle of the night.

And more importantly, for some usecases lambdas are entirely free. Does this have no value to you?

Some people feel compelled to criticize everyone around them just to feel self important. A little humility would serve them well. Just because you fail to understand something's traits and properties that does not mean everyone else around you is wrong and you are the only enlightened soul who is right.
In senior roles I’ll only hire people that have had some longer stints for exactly these reasons.

If you’ve never worked anywhere long enough to have to live with the fallout and consequences of your decisions, you’re not senior in my mind. You’ve never received useful real world feedback to be given a chance to refine your approach.
Unless you have some information I don’t, Twitter is way below its pre-pandemic staffing levels. Obviously hard to tell exactly how low they went as they’re not public anymore, but this is quite different from Meta and such that really did just go back to pre-pandemic level. CNBC say Twitter is at 1300 people, a drop of 80%. It’s mind boggling.
Thanks for the thoughtful advice. Agree on it being tool, same as LLMs. I guess my point, beyond the practical, was that there are some aspects to the tool-less experience that are hard to replace.

I'm thinking patience and, I guess, the other meta skills and behaviours that aren't directly related to the washing itself.

That said, your pro-dishwasher explanation talks to some of these too.
If you already have an H1-B and are in the US there is a transfer process that is not identical to the original application process.
I have always used old.reddit on my phone. I use no other reddit client. Just checked it right now and it looks the same as always. If old.reddit.com goes, I'll definitely go too.

I support the protests so I'm trying to use reddit less for news and stuff. But for certain needs I'd scour forums for, since those forums no longer exist, I kind of need to check reddit for some stuff. Things related to my health and such.
It depends on if the reviews agree with the chairman's 
employer
 strongly held beliefs.
They were legitimately a group of mentally ill losers sharing edgy memes. The FBI got involved (see Josh Sutter) and began producing those well-crafted propaganda materials, including videos featuring actors wearing identical clothes to actual members. A lot of them got spooked and jumped ship. Those who stayed were literally drugged as part of "occult initiation" rituals, and, yes, some were finally convinced to carry out murders.
That wing of the FTC wants to use a different penalty schedule.

https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2023/05/15/fake_net_neutrali...
Name another tech company that lost 80% of its employees.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/01/20/twitter-is-down-to-fewer...
A lot of corprotation have a very hard time moving workloads to the cloud due to regulations alone. In some places it's a compliance nightmare, a landing page with "trust me, we're secure" from AWS is far from enough for legal counselors, auditors and the CISO.
All Elon had to do was leave it alone and, oh, right, the 44 billion.

Hahahahaha! Man, Parag Agrawal and his team knew exactly what they were doing. A fool and his money are soon parted, indeed.
It's a cloud in a rack.
Only without the main attraction. Always seemed like a weird strategy, that.
The proposed rule prohibits disseminating or causing the dissemination of a testimonial... about the business or one of its [the business's] products or services (when the business knew or should have known that the testimonial was illegitimate).

That would catch Amazon if fake reviews were left on sold-by-Amazon products (and Amazon should have known that that was happening), but that seems unlikely unless Amazon is trying to violate the rule. Amazon disseminates a lot of fake reviews, even fake reviews that it has reason to believe are fake, but those are presumably not for Amazon's own products.
Maybe OP doesn't travel a lot. Or is a taxi driver :)
The images at the start are meant to shock and contrast the truths that they go on to explore, context is import. The rest of that video goes on to talk about how wildlife is now thriving in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, that the mutations can only be seen on the genetic level and that those mutations are part of what is allowing wildlife to thrive there. They are not using mutation as anti-nuclear propaganda, they are exploring much larger and more nuanced topics.

You really should have watched the video before posting instead of just finding some propaganda to repeat. I have no doubt you can find an example which will "prove" you right, but it will take you a fair amount of digging most likely and is about as common those heavily mutated births caused by radiation exposure.
Because that's not how controlled substances are grouped and regulated, and for good reason.
Most xiaomi camera and white labels mostly work. I side load the customer firmware on a Yi camera and it’s been a solid wifi camera. The VLAN it’s on has zero internet access.
To be clear, I think writing prompts is an important skill. And people can be good or bad at it, and they can get better.

I think prompt engineering courses are good as long as they don’t imply people can likely then get a full time job as a highly paid prompt writer.

And I don’t think prompt engineering is snake oil, I think it’s a good skill with high variance.

But, there needs to be counterpoint to the news articles that hyped up $300k/yr prompt engineer salaries and implied that it was something that required only prompt writing skills.
I gave some insights on the SQL thing above. For the refactor broadly, it's useful when I have something that's a bit too squishy for my IDE refactoring tools/multicursor editing/vim macros, but easy enough to do or provide an example for. One thing I mentioned is having consistent variable names.

I would highly recommend taking a piece of code (any code) and then just start experimenting. Here's a few prompt ideas:

- make this a singleton
- use more classes
- use less classes
- create more functions
- use lambdas
- rewrite in a functional pipeline style
- extract higher order types
- use fluent APIs
- use a query builder
- transform to a state machine
- make it async
- add cancellation
- use a work queue
- turn it into a microservice pipeline
- turn it into a text adventure
- create a declarative DSL to simplify the core logic
- list the edge cases
- write unit tests for each edge case
- transform the unit tests into table-driven tests
- create a fuzzing harness
- transform into a REST API
- write a CLI tool
- write a websocket server to stream updates into a graph
- generate a HTML frontend
- add structured logging
- create a CPU architecture to execute this in hardware
- create a config file
- generate test data
- generate a bayesian model to generate test data
- generate a HTML frontend to generate a bayesian model to generate test data and download as a csv
- etc...

If you are not feeling inspired, take a random computer science book, open at a random page, and literally just paste some jargon in there and see what happens. You don't need correct sentences or anything, just random words.

There really is nothing that can go wrong, in the worst case the result is gibberish. The code doesn't even need to build or be correct for it to be useful. These models are trained to be plausible, and even more importantly, self-consistent.

When prompted with code in-context, these things are amazing at figuring out consistent, plausible, elegant, mainstream APIs. Implementing them correctly is something I usually tend to do manually instead of bludgeoning the LLM.
I understand where the author is coming from and respect their contributions to Commonmark.

But...

There are tons of markup languages for prose that have well-defined specs.

So, why did Markdown win?

IMO, because it does not have a well-defined spec. It is highly tolerant of formatting errors, inconsistencies, etc. If an author makes a mistake when writing Markdown, you can always look at it in plain text.

Whereas a perfectly-spec'd markup language would probably evolve toward an unreadable-to-humans mess in the committee-driven pursuit of precision.

You see this theme in so many places in tech: "less is more", the Unix philosophy of everything-is-a-file, messy HTML5 over "XHTML", ML extraction vs. explicit semantic web, etc.
I worked there. Services running on GCP are a significant part of the internal service infra (ml platform, etc.) and it's not impossible that the abrupt loss of GCP would cause user-facing problems. The GCP spend was many, many times the AWS spend. Unless things changed since last November, AWS is not a meaningful part of the internal or user-facing infra.

With respect to DynamoDB specifically, Twitter has its own custom distributed key-value store: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2014/manhattan-... that twitter.com itself runs on.
Exactly. The guy makes it sound like good mentors ( which he strangely calls 'personal teachers' ) are hanging around every street corner waiting for someone to procure their services.

It's strange to see the obvious so heavily upvoted. Really? Nobody knew that a good mentor is worth his weight in gold?
Hi, throwaway account here. I just witnessed today an H1B fraud from my own circle.

Yes, its possible. Yes its happening.

This person file for 3 different companies. All of the companies are owned by the owner who provided this H1B fraud service.

This person got the lottery with one of the companies. Turned out this company doesn’t even have an address. So this person rent a 6 months office, made the website as well.

They will pay this person salary, but the money will be transferred back to this company through other means.

In a few months, this person is trying to find another job which this person can transfer the H1B to.

I don’t want to be too specific. But I want to say that these companies are not of Indian origin, and this person is not an Indian. Think of some countries that are more “legitimate” in the Western eyes.

Just because these countries have low probabilities of fraud happening, doesn’t make it free of fraud. Quite the opposite. These people know this. They know that they aren’t being investigated as much as Indian/SouthEast Asian/African origin.

The craziest part? This person isn’t even in a highly paid technical profession. Its just some low end management role. The pay is shit. Obviously won’t contribute to the society both in taxes or in skills.

Shame on them. But it is also the stupidity of USCIS of letting this system abused.

USCIS better get their shit together.
> And in a year, the Earth rotates on its axis ~366 times ?

Yes, exactly.
I'm using the Racket webserver, but each page is it own rkt file. I'm using no continuations, just storing and reading everything in the hard disk. (I'm not sure it's optimal, but I prefer that approach.)
In the world’s largest wetland, this old river boat attracts just all
> Does it mask the company later subbing in a cheapened, shittier version a few months later to float on the large number of five star reviews? Yes.

What does that have to do with the proposed rule? There is a rule against substituting in an unrelated product to get credit for reviews that were originally written for something else. Making a new batch of your product that is cheaper and worse than the old batch is allowed.
https://archive.ph/Lg3Pw
It's still not forced to work, unless going back to your home country is worse than working at Twitter?
I would think Amazon would have more of an incentive to purge their site of counterfeits, fake reviews, etc., because training customers to not trust their site is going to hurt sales. And it'll be very hard to regain that trust.
It was mentioned, the striving for the best bit, but may have been me reading in between the lines.

The little bits in the article really resonate with me, in particular what I spot in my field (software dev / distributed systems) is that at high level there looks like many great solutions exist, but when you look deeper in you see that many of them are inelegant, and only reason they weren’t done better was because no one actually spent time on that particular minute thing. it likely got implemented as part of a bigger patch and still deemed “good enough”.

I theorise that many fields are similar if you look deep enough
"As many as 30 percent to 40 percent of online reviews are fabricated or otherwise not genuine,"

LOL. Put a decent or at least nearly decent product on sale on Amazon. Accrue positive reviews. Switch product to pile of cac. Positive reviews sell pile of shite.

I do occasionally bother to leave a review for a product I have bought and I always specify it. Otherwise I am allowing Amazon to treat me and their other customers like a twat, which they do, with monotonous regularity.

It would be nice if Amazon didn't treat me and everyone else as twats. They will continue to manage to make more money than pure avarice in its wildest dreams could contemplate. You do have to wonder what on earth happens at a board meeting in these monsters.
Somewhat famously the i686 designers boasted about the amount of automation used in the design (and the DEC's marketing department got a lot of traction from presenting Alpha as “hand designed”), so it makes sense to assume that earlier intel chips were mostly hand designed.
> The Federal Trade Commission proposed a new rule to stop marketers from using illicit review and endorsement practices such as using fake reviews, suppressing honest negative reviews, and paying for positive reviews, which deceive consumers looking for real feedback on a product or service and undercut honest businesses.

> Review Hijacking: Businesses would be prohibited from using or repurposing a consumer review written for one product so that it appears to have been written for a substantially different product. The FTC recently brought its first review hijacking enforcement action.

The scenario is explicitly part of the new rule, even if you'd otherwise have given it a five star review.

They're not giving you free products just for fun. One of the reasons is to get hundreds or thousands of good reviews
I run frigate (mines runs off their Docker image but you can use other alternatives like home assistant plugin). I also pair frigate with scrypted so you can tie the cameras into HomeKit. It’s pretty much the best of both worlds, online storage and detection using iCloud (if I trust a company when it comes to privacy, it’s Apple) and local storage and detection using frigate.
That is addressed by § 465.3, "Consumer Review Repurposing".

> It is an unfair or deceptive act or practice and a violation of this Rule for a business to use or repurpose a consumer review written or created for one product so that it appears to have been written or created for a substantially different product, or to cause such use or repurposing.
Mattresses make me wonder if, stupidly assuming the rule is enacted and enforced, there might be knock-on effects. TVs, mattresses, electronics, etc like to sell distinguishing SKUs to different platforms. That is, Target may get to sell the Sony 59" ABC123, but Walmart only ever gets the Sony 59" ABC456. Rendering it impossible to get stores to price match products from other marketplaces.

Big if, but if these rules go into effect, I wonder if maybe reviews being harder to solicit could result in more consolidation of model numbers to concentrate the review scores?
Focusing on the technical issue at hand - can anyone tell the exact issue at play? Is this an issue of client retry logic that on a 429 without backoff? Hence, the self-ddos?
I was downvoted this morning for suggestion that developers need to focus on objectively measurable results and stop insisting on using their favorite language or framework or paradigm. I guess things are much worse than I thought, because the headline here simply assumes as a given that "serverless lovers" are a thing that exists and are worth taking seriously.
> The story that anyone who knew anything was let go is just that, a story, as the number of employees by year shows Twitter, and other tech companies in the same period, overhired and then went back to pre-2020 levels.

Citation needed. Show me the 2020 Twitter headcount. Show me the 2023 Twitter headcount.

> The only difference between then and now is that there is a big personality at the top who now personifies everything Twitter does, especially if things go wrong, whereas before it was mainly just a faceless bureaucracy whose Trust and Safety lead at times had more visibility than the CEO.

That is not the 'only difference'. There is also the matter of all the hate speech. Which I guess you don't really notice, as you're not one of the targets, but I sure am. This is like Trump going 'boo hoo everyone hates me because I'm Donald Trump,' when in fact there is this small matter of an armed insurrection. You are writing off the valid political concerns of your opponents as being rooted in personality, rather than in odious politics.

> The subtext is that Twitter changing hands also involved trimming a lot of the dead weight, particularly hitting the softer managerial/diversity/HR side.

This is the most reality-defying way of recalling that the entire company basically quit on him overnight, but ok, bro

> Now a lot of people are rooting for the site to fail because it has gotten too "bro-ey", as the era of trust-and-safety and $15k backchannel bluecheck deals has made way for free-speech and monthly subscriptions.

That is not the reason we are anticipating its failure. We are anticipating its failure because we understand how people, platforms, and software interact. 'Hope' has nothing to do with it; we just read it off the verniers.
As a software developer, I hate the way he treats his employees. Politics are secondary.
> You just don’t let an engineer ask whatever they want.

In my anecdote, the data structure engineer was indeed tasked with evaluating the candidate on his data structures knowledge. Except that the candidate had guidelines that went in the line of assessing basic understanding and proficiency in following an algorithm, but instead opted to make it a game of Trivial Pursuit.
Haha that shows how long it's been since I looked into this stuff!

I did a clearout recently and gave away 5 Xiaomi Xiaofang cameras that I'd flashed with samhacks firmware years ago, but never gotten around to using.

If I'd known about Frigate, I might have kept them. But I guess there are better cameras available now?
I'd argue that it won the adoption it did in spite of parsing ambiguities and the lack of a spec. Not because of it. There are plenty of examples of well specified things that have gained mass adoption, so I think you are confusing cause and correlation here.
Why I don’t disagree with these proposed rules, I find it scary that a government agency outside of our elected officials has the power to enact these rules. I see this infringing on freedom of speech, but perhaps a lawyer would disagree with my opinion.
Valve said there will be no steam deck 2 for quite some time, so go for it
> they wanted economic opportunities, and they weren't getting that in Pakistan. An uptick in aid wouldn't change that either!

I did not say aid/investment by accident. It could well be charitable investment, i.e. into farming or other equipment, with no expectation of payback.

As for corruption - if the aid is in the form of food or equipment, that's harder to turn into weapons than cash. If corruption is an issue, the aid can go to their less-corrupt neighbors that accept the migrants, or it can be handled by the same NGOs and such that help immigrants in Europe, if the local authorities are too corrupt to be trusted with anything.

And if none of that works, then why it would work in Europe, if the people involved are the same?

> Decades of this casual attitude

Calling massive humanitarian aid "casual" reeks of trying to blame foreign corruption on those trying to charitably help.
privately owned weapons of what state?

plutocratsia?
Also, "worse is better"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
Schrödinger's logic. If only they'd kept their mouths shut.
Oh, the marketplace where players sell to each other! Got it, that's a neat trick
Lots of FAANG developers here hate Musk because he has shown that 80% of them is a waste of salary.
Because the US is not a direct party to the conflict and has zero troops fighting in it.
You claim with a straight face that, had Musk not taken over Twitter, it would have had the same rate of outages and level of degradation as it does now? It's completely obvious to anyone familiar with the stability of Twitter pre and post Musk that his takeover was an inflection point. You're ignoring reality in order to support a claim that fired non-coders and "diversity hires" contributed nothing.
How Gab Deals With Scraping on the Open Web
to be fair i would guess that a lot of the engineers there are also stuck because of visa issues. plenty of sychophants too i’m sure.
I mean what's it matter though? HALO is just one option for insertion, the point is that there are multiple avenues of attack.
The fact that you can't trust it makes it a problem for novices. My view has been that it can help experts remove some of the mundane stuff that takes time but needs to get done. You can think of it as an assistant you always need to check on but since you are an expert you can recognize when there is a problem.

Lately, I've revised my view a bit. AI can get novices started on getting a project done and it can be a source of information for the project. Googling works but I think it's much faster querying an LLM. It's good for certain types of projects but I wouldn't trust it for important projects unless I can double check but the double checking will make it a drag to use. I think LLMs do have a place for novices but you have to be careful.
The scenario is not part of the new rule. Review Hijacking refers to transferring reviews from one product to an unrelated product, not transferring reviews from one product to the same product assembled on a different manufacturing line. The new version of the product may be obviously worse, but it is not a substantially different product.
Using WebAssembly to turn Rust crates into fast TypeScript libraries
Russia could blow up a nuclear plant they've been diligently defending for more than a year, with IAEA oversight. Or this could be more Disinformation. happy 2023
I love how hyper specific this project is, once complete it will run only 3 games. That is unless some of the code made it to the PSP games.