skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The speed difference boils down to flexibility and tool usage. In the startup, I could swiftly create a new service, harness Kubernetes for deployment, and seamlessly integrate it into the existing architecture. Data computation used tools like Airflow/BigQuery, storing results in production PostgreSQL.

In contrast, with a Golang monolith, service integration often involved complex, time-consuming conversations due to rigid NIH abstractions. And given the tendency of senior engineers to resist changes, progressing became challenging. A developer like me would be caught between resistant seniors and a product team demanding immediate feature release. Additionally, data processing often required extensive custom coding, slowing down operations. And if more than one machine was needed, it would mean a total overhaul and a long wait.

In comparison, a lean startup allowed me to use apt tools (like BigQuery), containerize it with Docker, and then let it be - without involving anyone senior. Moreover, in case of a new feature, we could simply replace the entire component instead of struggling with additions.

The agile startup emphasized less on seeking senior developers' approval for every change. In the monolithic Golang environment, senior devs often fixated on code quality without acknowledging that, in a microservices context, it's frequently more effective, faster, and simpler to reboot and rewrite parts instead of altering the existing solution. Hence, the intense focus on solution maintainability becomes less critical.
How long have they been working on a stable RAID 5/6 implementation?
This wouldn't stem the requests; it would just lead to data analysts figuring out how to algorithmically filter the junk data.

... which is fine. Incentives to refine data analysis are always welcome.
> they pushed the launch when Elon was limiting tweets.

Isn't Musk hinting that twitter implemented rate limits because Meta/Threads were scraping them agreaaively?
Language Server Protocol for Plugin Developers
> Actually I think they're onto something, the company being required to get insurance [too] means they have more financial skin in the game.

No, a company that is liable has skin in the game, insurance mitigates rather than enhances that—its the whole point of insurance, swapping out risk for a fixed cost.

OTOH, the insurer then has skin in the game.
Am the only one who doesn't make profiles on these things and just goes directly to the URL of the people whose posts I'm interested in reading??

That way I'm only reading people I am actually interested in. Might reduce discoverability but eventually the people I "follow" in this way will mention/reply/retweet someone else worth following as well.
Nutrient Density Chart
The people who are savvy enough to jump through those hoops are savvy enough to rock a phone that is modded to feed fake data already.
> Statistically, these advertising segments will be very fuzzy and there will be outliers (probably many of them?).

Someone who goggled matresses and then bought one is hardly an "outlier" - it's probably more common than someone who googled mattresses and hasn't yet bought one. I guess the ad-tech companies don't let their advertisers de-select prospects that have already shot their load?
Then make the setting a power-user opt-in, so that the uninitiated wouldn't even see the option.
The lower the conversion rate the lower the profit margin influencing the company to cut additional corners that they may be able to get away with.

This whole ad driven philosophy encourages the absolute bare minimal product that the customer will still pay for.

As a consumer that is bad for me.

Ultimately “voting with your wallet” becomes an inefficient communication method with all the layers of bullshit in between.
Russia confirms BRICS will create a gold-backed currency
Horse Breed: Kazakh
I always prefer the notation CAD$82k over $CAD82k
The 14-inch MacBook Pro pricing quoted in the article seems wrong.

Looking at the US Apple Store right now, it has the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M2 Pro (10-core) cpu + 32GB ram and 1TB storage as US$2599, rather an US$3099.

Seems outright cheaper than the Thinkpad x13s.
Maybe advertisers don’t actually get signals when people click pay in some third party site? I mean, why would that third party want to expose your purchase to the advertisers?

So, you’re left with this great signal that someone is shopping for a mattress. Seems like a very good reason to recommend other mattresses to them.
This is what tests are for
What did Amazon rip off from you?
Definitive guide to [constantly evolving technology] is never a good idea for a title.
> Kubernetes means you don't have to learn each clouds way of doing a deployment.

So instead of learning how to deploy on GCP, AWS, and Azure, which is only 3x more complicated than deploying to a single cloud, you should learn K8s, which is 10-15x more complicated, in addition to still having to learn about all the various ingress controllers and weird quirks that are completely different on each cloud provider. Doesn't really track for me.
> Anger and hate are two different things. You're attempting to conflate them to garner sympathy

I am not. The word "and" isn't the same as "equals."

> As for hate being effective, these people got a "kill the gays" bill passed in Uganda, so it seems that was pretty damn effective.

It is really? Uganda is being ostracised as a result. Did this law convince anyone, or merely galvanize the opposition?

> These are in no way equivalent and the juxtaposition seems to be implying that if we're OK with one we need to be OK with the other.

If be "we," you mean "society" or "governments" (as opposed to individuals), I am, indeed, implying this, and that's almost my entire point.

The basic problem is -- at least on at a societal level -- that we have deep-held moral values, but we have no way of knowing when we're right and when we're wrong. There is no algorithm, policy, or law which can distinguish between views of homosexuality circa 1980 from those of 2020.

The basic value here is “I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,” or the more recent (in the historical scheme of things) and more eloquent “I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.”

The way we make progress is by tolerating outliers. The majority of those will be wrong in small or horrifying ways (flat earth, kill the [insert minority group], anti-vaxxers, etc.). The next major group will have different values (e.g. a Muslim living in a Christian country or vice-versa). A tine minority will be challenging the status quo and be pushing us forward.

Unless you have a clear rule for distinguishing between those, eliminating the bad means eliminating the good, as there is no oracle to distinguish between the two.

Keeping that tiny minority which pushes us forward (as well as tolerating different values, at least in a pluralistic society like America) is far more important than crushing the bad actors. Otherwise, as in this example, we'd still be stuck with 1980 views of homosexuality.
Perhaps, people are sold on the idea that it works even if it doesn't at all, and so the people selling those ideas make lots of money. Like gambling.
I don’t think the community would view "somebody altered my words on my blog" as a valid response to criticism.
Most likely, moderation is on pause at Stack Exchange due to ongoing feuds with management.
I just signed up for threads to hopefully help annoy Elon which is very petty and useless of course but I ended up following a bunch of nat geo photographers who are all over threads and really enjoy my feed at the moment. Nothing wrong with admiring beautiful pics of the world. That sounds like instagram and you're not wrong, but the photographers themselves are more present so you can ask questions which feels different enough. Also, now is the time to annoy anyone famous on their because even the big dogs only have a few thousand comments. lol
> where all the spectators walk around and watch parts of the play

That works because viewers already know Macbeth. If was new to you, it would be frustrating because you would miss key parts of the storyline. This is why in TV and film, even if events happen parallel in time, they are presented linearly otherwise you would miss parts.
Effortless Deployment of Pandas Endpoint on AWS Lambda
Get around the 50MB lambda size limit on AWS lambda easily
I would accept the manufacturer accepting full liability while self driving as an alternative.
Knowing and having worked with several farmers I have a little bit more mixed opinion on the ruling. Many of them prefer to operate without contract, eg, I'll deliver the goods but I won't sign your docs.

This case seems to turn on weather any of these past contracts were actually binding, and maybe they were if there was a clear enough response.

However,if both parties have crappy business processes that run without signatures, I would think that disputed signatures would default to non binding.

>Had he insisted on a more formal process in prior negotiations with SWT, I doubt the judge would have granted summary judgement in this case (and SWT probably wouldn't have assumed the thumbs up was a signature).

Similarly, if SWT had insisted on signed contracts, there wouldn't be any question of if these terms were accepted.

It seems like there is at least some contribution here.
I’ve recently been enjoying using Alive with vscode(and copilot). Everyone suggests emacs+slime but it always felt like too many things to learn at once. Being able to use my usual ide has made it so much more pleasant. Recommend it to newcomers.

https://github.com/nobody-famous/alive
But it’s a good question. I want to know.
I am assuming this is not possible. The only thing i know of is capable of doing so is pegasus. But it’s very expensive afak.
Can the thing France just made legal be done?

> French police should be able to spy on suspects by remotely activating the camera, microphone and GPS of their phones and other devices, lawmakers agreed late on Wednesday, July 5.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/07/06/france-s...

Why would anyone stir up the civil libertarians if the thing you are making legal is not possible?
This entire essay is just full of ideas I disagree with.

First is the old chestnut: Why does company keep advertising product to me after I've already bought it!? This is one of those child-like criticisms that keeps rearing it's ignorant head. Literally, you are ignorant as to why they are doing it. Your ignorance as to why doesn't imply their stupidity. Amazon does it. Google does it. I'm sure Facebook does it. So either three of the biggest companies in the world are full of stupid idiots or perhaps you are just ignorant to the reason they are doing it.

> Their ethos is that if a human can do a task, a machine can do that task better, and not cost them anything such as salary, pensions or or a basic level of respect

No, their ethos is - we can't possibly have any reasonable number of humans do the task. In what universe could we imagine hiring a sufficient number of humans to sift through the data Google has collected? They have immense data on literal billions of humans. How much time would it take any person to understand you as a person sufficiently by painstakingly reviewing your data so that Google could send you perfect ads? The very premise of this is ridiculous beyond reason.

So the conclusion is based on the premise that having humans do the task is impossible. We have no other option than to use machines and algorithms to attempt the task because it is the only viable alternative.

> Advertisers, then, are getting served a steaming turd on a plate rather than the medium-rare filet mignon they were promised.

Advertisers are making a value judgement based on the options they have available to them. They can advertise on TV, radio, or magazines. They can advertise on podcasts, YouTube channels or Instagram feeds by directly contacting the creators and doing sponsored content. They can put up billboards and wrap public buses. They can put people in public squares and hand out flyers, do personal demos and offer prizes. I couldn't even scratch the surface of what is available to modern companies for promotional purposes. The fact that Facebook, Amazon and Google are as large as they are suggest there is some value being derived by companies given that they have plenty of alternate options available to them.

> There isn’t any evidence to suggest that an ad targeted to 35 year old men with children with an interest in football is any more likely to result in sales of Football Dad socks than a poster for Football Dad socks at a bus stop. But an entire industry is based on pretending that this is the case.

I really don't think they are. But let's compare the idea to the other advertising avenues I listed. TV ads are broadly targeted based on the time of day the show runs at as well as the content of the show. Magazine ads are broadly targeted based on the content of the magazine. Junk mail and flyers are broadly targeted to people living in a particular geographic area.

But I guess this MSc in marketing knows more than the entire industry they claim to be from.
I’m pretty good at writing code but I consider one of my “superpowers” to be that I also love to read code. I cannot even begin to estimate how this has affected my career and abilities. It’s a task that most seem to dread, but is something that I do for fun.
I’m not disagreeing. Just saying I would have expected Proton to side with the individual users of the account over who paid for it. Not saying I’m right, just that I’m surprised to hear that’s not the case.
Maybe they're just working off the baseline/old/stale data?
Correct, I didn't grab the ARM Chromium build, only Chrome. If you want to avoid using Edge then Chromium or Firefox is the way to go.
I have a client like this. Any 3-sentence email is too long for him to write or read. People ask him "Option A or Option B?" questions and he replies "yes", resulting in 3 more back-and-forth emails to clear up confusion. It's always the other party's fault for being confusing.

I can totally see him approving an $80k deal with a thumb's up then turning into a lawyer when held to it.
Cloud Vector Database Benchmark Result
This question has been in my head recently. How feasible is it really? The answer in the link isn’t comprehensive. Is it really out of the question for manufacturer’s to ship a particular version of a device and software for a target country? Nation states have a history of backdooring or weakening particular technologies.
It's worth highlighting that the GIL will still be available even when compiled with --disable-gil.

> The --disable-gil builds of CPython will still support optionally running with the GIL enabled at runtime (see PYTHONGIL Environment Variable and Py_mod_gil Slot).
Or they could just learn to use Excel and prefix text with an apostrophe.
There are only a few experiences in life that give me a dopamine rush as intense as when I delete code. I used to think I was weird, but apparently I'm just a senior engineer.
All the oil companies investing billions into destroying ecosystem we depend on can't be wrong!
Do you have a good example, other than games, which I excluded specifically?
Woman who knows nothing about digital marketing claims an entire multiple-billion dollar industry is scam, nice.
Do a lot of people use Google Maps on iOS? I ask because the “feed fake data” option is something I could imagine Apple doing but never in a million years would I believe Google would do it.

Apple Maps wouldn’t have this issue. It’s capable of running offline (without a data connection) because it can download maps to the device.
I really wish browsers would take this approach with notifications.

If a website asks if I have notifications enabled, tell them yes, and send them all into the oblivion.

Edit: to clarify, I already disable all notifications in Firefox. I was referring to websites that check via JavaScript whether you have notifications turned on and trigger a pop up to ask you to enable them.
Run MPT-30B-Chat on Vast.ai: Use with LangChain and Gradio
You could fly $300 drones around an airport and that would pose a significant enough safety hazard that would likely shutdown all traffic. Or shine those high powered laser pointers at the planes.

Disrupting society is remarkably easy if you draw outside the lines.
You can see what's available here: https://ev-database.org/uk/

MG have been here for years, and BYD have entered the market this year.

In terms of adoption, Teslas (Teslae? Teslata?) are now displacing Audis as the car of choice for the arsehole driver, and other marques are becoming increasingly common amongst the middle class (in the British sense, not the American). As for 'rolling coal', has anyone outside of America ever done that?
You have to be some kind of madman to make a game in straight C. The controls being what they are is kind of fitting. I mean, it might be a prank, but like QWOP and Getting Over It, I think it's just the product of a certain kind of mind. I'm not going to be able to finish this, but I admire the craft of it.
Yes, the judge explicitly calls out in his decision that it counted as a signature because it was consistent with their prior negotiations (emphasis added):

> In my opinion the signature requirement was met by the {{THUMBS UP}} emoji originating from Chris and his unique cell phone ... which was used to receive the flax contract sent by Kent. There is no issue with the authenticity of the text message which is the underlying purpose of the written and signed requirement of s. 6 of the SGA. Again, based on the facts in this case – the texting of a contract and then the seeking and receipt of approval was consistent with the previous process between SWT and Achter to enter into grain contracts.

> This court readily acknowledges that a {{THUMBS UP}} emoji is a non-traditional means to “sign” a document but nevertheless under these circumstances this was a valid way to convey the two purposes of a “signature” – to identify the signator (Chris using his unique cell phone number) and as I have found above – to convey Achter’s acceptance of the flax contract.
DARPA programs are typically not known for large sums of money, especially compared to other defense sectors.
Baseband backdoor. No need to target the OS or the primary CPU.
Right, locking the functionality off to only people with a deep understanding of it would work but it’s sidestepping the problem. People without understanding would still benefit from it so it’s a shame to lock them out of it and it’s harder to justify a feature only 0.5% of your user base will use.
I was curious and started looking at Meetup lately…

At first I was amazed at the number of interesting local groups and their member counts. I felt I missed out on so much, but activity seems to have not recovered since 2019.

Then after browsing around, I realized that there a huge number of single women living in the region, in their 20s-40s, whose main interests are hiking, real estate, and *Kubernetes*.

This seems incredibly odd since I do not live in California…

The dating scene must be brutal for “on-prem” kinds of people…
I'm similar, and I've found AI to help with this. I'm able to guide the AI to write the first draft, then I go in and rewrite it. It's helped remove that frustration at the first draft.
But documentation is only part of it. There's a culture (or tradition) that carries with it the context needed to interpret documentation. You can reduce some of the context, yes, but sola scriptura is wrong for a reason.

Otherwise, you're in the business of archeology, a field which itself requires extra-archaeological context to make sense of its own findings.
This is so full of over generalizations it gets boring really fast.
This answer is dangerously naïve. Phone basebands and radios are full of vulnerabilities, if you don't want your phone to be a potential surveillance device given any minimally sophisticated adversary you should either turn off the radio or preferably shut it off entirely and remove the battery.
Robots say they have no plans to steal jobs or rebel against humans
No, it's not. It never claims advertising doesn't work. It claims that data-driven targeting is a scam on multiple levels. That isn't to say advertising doesn't work, just that "data-driven" doesn't improve its results.
Yeah that's quite toxic. If the project is successful, the top level gets the praise for the vision. If it doesn't, the team gets the blame for lousy execution.

The responsible for executing should have a day in a lot more things, else it's gonna be a blame game.
What context would excuse slavery? Everyone was at it so it was ok? Under certain circumstances it was ok?

I'm wary of critising historical figures for being racist etc ( e.g.they recently renamed the Hume building in Edinburgh because he had some racists views, which is ridiculous). However I don't think it's possible to paint slavery as ok because it was the style at the time.
> So much of the advertising business has always been about convincing the entire rest of the economy that they desperately need more advertising in order to compete, regardless of any actual stats on ROI.

I've never worked with anyone that doesn't measure ROI or ROAS. I'm not arguing that some companies don't need to spend so much on advertising or that it's not needed for some but there's a pretty clear measure.

> Is online advertising—and in particular, the hyper-targeted advertising that fuels the industry's insatiable hunger for every last drop of personal data—worthwhile?

In my experience in eCommerce marketing is that both Meta and Google are steering advertisers towards massive audience campaigns that aren't hyper-targeted. They might be doing hyper-targeted advertising but it's no longer as recommended as it once was.

All that said, I use ad blockers and I think data should not be hoovered up without consent or awareness and sold without consent. On my personal site and even my online shop I don't use GA or any other third party tool (hosted on Shopify so they inject some things).
The US is not actively in a war. Do we not have enough idle personnel who can be trained now so they can handle future uses?
How was Here Lies Love for you and do you think there is opportunity for the format to become a big volume of storytelling in VR?
If they’re already having to deal with fractured organs[1], then I have to ask what’s the point given that an organ can probably handle far greater damage than the brain.

Whilst the dreamer in me would like to believe that all this is possible in the future, I’m not convinced that todays technology is enough to even “freeze” the body, thawing and reanimation be damned.

[1] https://www.alcor.org/library/postmortem-examination-of-thre...
You don't know what code is running on your baseband processor, do you?

Do you know what other hardware your baseband processor has the ability to inspect?
> Also if Apple improves spotlight, I wonder how useful this will be.

Do you really not see the usefulness of a solution that caters to the remaining 88% (desktop/notebooks) of the market?