skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> on call, with no talk of compensation bumps

Is this legal where you live?

In my previous team, when we got on-call it was roughly 1 week per month (we were 4 in the team), we got an on-call phone, and we were compensated 600€/week of on call without counting the actual interventions. Just being on-call was paid. Having to intervene was compensated on 15 minutes « slices » based on our salary. So if I worked 5 minutes I was paid 15. If I worked 16 minutes I was paid 30. Also we legally needed 11 consecutive hours of sleep, so if I stopped working at 6PM and had to intervene at 0AM, I wouldn’t come to work the next day before 11AM. Oh, and week-end/holiday interventions were paid double.

All of this made sure we almost never had to intervene, because making sure the prod doesn’t break, ever, was top priority.
Chain of thought: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11903
ReAct: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03629
Reflexion: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11366
Tree of thoughts: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10601

Good video on "Tree of thoughts" which also reviews / puts it in the context of other methods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut5kp56wW_4

Completion vs conversational interface is something you can read about in the OpenAI API documentation.

For the remaining things I don't have single specific pointer at hand.
https://vishalsodani.com

I infrequently post about anything I feel like. Some older posts, which were exported from the wordpress version of the blog, are a bit badly formatted.

I am using Zola and github actions to publish.
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What is introduced without evidence may be dismissed without evidence. The singular proof of a link between vaccines and autism is a study we now know was a fraud. More generally since no vaccination was undertaken worldwide in a day the correlation would be evident and spoiler alert it is not.

Please don't respond with a YouTube video "proving" your case.
They never stayed contained I their own subs. They just needed to go out of their way to subs of their perceived enemies.
We all confidently write bugs and discover them in testing. The same process has been implemented for GPT, for example GPT Engineer, you can also instruct the Code Interpreter model for it in GPT Plus and it works. I see some people are not up to date here.

What I base my guess on: the fact we already have GPT apps that write apps and clearly it works fine, and as we like to say "this is the worst it'll ever be". When people say "it's not very good right now, it produces garbage" I only see people who are not used with the speed of progress right now. Midjourney a year ago produced weird abstract doodles that only looked like images from distance. Now it produces photorealistic art that's taking jobs. One year.

What we need: Bigger context, expert models in constellation and scale. You need nothing else. Of course some architectural modifications will emerge in the journey of achieving this, but that's a comparatively trivial constraint to solve, it's just normal software engineering as we've done for decades, but this time for models.
Which problem? Of the massive breaking changes between 0.8 and later, and then between 1.x and 2.x? Not to mention InfluxQL to Flux?

Also, they did remove clustering in the open source version which was a very poor move from a PR perspective. And in my view, they have never recovered from it - years ago it was Prometheus vs InfluxDB for (non-SaaS) observability metrics, nowadays the only question is which backend for Prometheus to choose.
Perhaps service shutdown is also the only valid case where it can be okay to intermittently fail API requests?
>I've seen better communications around company-internal services

Our team maintains an internal CRM. When we plan to delete data or deprecate features, what we usually do (beyond sending emails):

- hide features/data from the UI without actually deleting them - if no one complains, after a few weeks, proceed with the removal

- for critical data, make sure there are backups, store them for about a month - if no one requests them, delete them
Trust cannot be bought or ordered. With oppressing behaviour of centralised power, naturally we'll go back to decentralised, local way of communication.

We just need to reuse town squares we have in real life.
Reminds me of the Linotype - mechanical perfection for a single task.
RCS

It's still getting rolled out a lot of places. Google sees it as the successor to SMS and it's built into native messaging apps. I recently saw cross-carrier support get enabled locally and that made it universal enough that so far anyone I message that's running Android is already connected via RCS.

Apple intentionally doesn't support RCS in order to keep imessages from interoperating with android.
It is agood thing that US presidents don't write ahistorical self serving bs like this. Not that they would be saints, but not being Putin is a good thing.
The goal of this piece is nothing but to portray Geller in the best possible light. The way they try to smear Randi removes all doubt.
You need some form of moderation. In the real world we interact with few enough people that we just ignore and don't be around people who don't contribute to the conversation.

The internet doesn't allow this, you are talking with what a hundred posters in a single thread sometimes? Going across multiple threads it will be thousands of not tens of thousands even if you tend to focus on niche threads.

Thus somebody needs to filter.

And before somebody brings up OPs broken "if everybody talks we will be fine" argument the simple reality is that isn't true.

The reason is filtering doesn't just happen on a person to person level. Much more importantly it happens on a site level.

If people find what they are discussing isn't valuable they will leave the site.

Once a group forms of those who want to cause chaos they will push away normal users.

Thus your choices are choosing who you leave on your platform blocking those who would push away your user base, segregating your user base (ideally in a way that allows some cross pollination) to allow the chaos to be isolated from most users, or becomes just pure chaos ala 4chan.

Note I am not saying you can't have good discussion without moderation. Certainly you can. It just isn't what the majority of content becomes.

After all low effort content is low effort.
If I'd made this claim you would have a fine point. However, I have not made that claim, so I think I must be missing a point?

Possibly relevant:

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM2xGsh3U/
> I guess a lot of people stick with it just by reason of tradition.

Or nostalgia, or muscle memory. I kinda learned this one by heart as a kid, and could still recite even in my sleep: "int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine, ... " - well, I forgot about nCmdShow. And don't ask me about WINAPI vs. APIENTRY (which is used in the article) - I've seen both used, and I'm pretty sure I picked the former from Petzold (i.e. Programming Windows, edition ${whichever it was that I found in a library in around 2002).

There was also the other one, let's see if I remember. "Something something WndProc(HWND hWnd, UINT uMsg, WPARAM, LPARAM)"? That one I usually copy-pasted between projects - as all I ever needed is a window to draw on with OpenGL.

On that note, WinMain() isn't the only case I've seen of substituting main(). MSVC/Windows had at some point _tmain(), as in:

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])

It's there so you could write code generic wrt. short/long character strings - which, in the usual Microsoft fashion, was achieved by #define-s - depending on a flag, _tmain() expands to main() or wmain(), then _TCHAR expands to char or wchar_t, etc.

Speaking of - in GP's example code:

MessageBox(NULL, "Hello, Welcome to Win32 Programming",
"Hello, World", MB_OK | MB_ICONINFORMATION);

The function MessageBox() also doesn't exist - actual system DLLs provide you with MessageBoxA() and MessageBoxW(), and MessageBox is again a #define, in the style of _tmain().

Anyway, back to overriding main() - SDL[0] also encouraged you to write an SDL_main() instead of main().

Thanks for the morning nostalgia trip and for filling back specifics of APIs I learned as a kid, without understanding much of them.

> Windows 95 introduced this bizarre abomination in which 32-bit console apps were supported, but their IO was routed via a DOS program called CONAGENT.EXE. So your Win32 console app would call some DLL, which would spawn CONAGENT.EXE in a DOS Box, and then there was some VXD which the DLL and CONAGENT.EXE used to communicate, so your IO would go via the DOS Box.

You mean 16-bit console apps running in 32-bit OS, or 32-bit console apps using 16-bit I/O?

Funny how those problems never die. I only recently learned about "DLL surrogates" and Windows mechanisms for mixing 32-bit and 64-bit code by having 32-bit DLL proxied by a system-provided executable. I even wrote a DLL-proxying executable once, because the nature of legacy proprietary code is that sometimes you really need that 32-bit DLL the vendor, for whatever reason, refuses to rebuild for 64-bits...

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[0] - https://www.libsdl.org/
I just want to add https://standardebooks.org/ebooks to the list
The more I saw the "So What" slide after each deficiency exposed, the more I saw it as subverting the whole presentation. Yes, there are problems, but it appears that didn't prevent UNIX&Linux from persisting and succeeding in many forms of computing. The presenter curiously forgot to mention "worse is better" principle.
Here's something I've done in the past when trying to get my head round a new programming paradigm. Start learning it in late October / early November and then you should have just enough knowledge at the start of December to tackle this year's Advent Of Code with it.

Note - if you haven't done all the previous years then you don't have to wait till the end of the year :)
Tell me that you never worked in another Schengen country without telling me you worked in another Schengen country.

Schengen means:

- employees don't need a visa (they also don't need to deal with the insecurity of not getting that visa extended, or being tied to one company that can exploit them)

- employees can use their home countries health insurance (although when they live there for longer it makes sense to get a local one instead)

- retirement funds

- not to start with all the things that are easier for employers

If I move somewhere it is not just my work that moves there, it is my whole life. I might find love in your country, I might have family and for that reason I need security that I cannot be thrown out on a whim just because some clerk decided they don't wanna extend my visa anymore until I jump through 50 more hoops. If I am in a seeked after profession why would I even bother to go there if the rest of the EU is much simpler to go to and friendlier towards me? Because Britain is a great empire? Probably not.

The only thing UK got going for it is the language, and quite frankly it is not that big of an advantage as one would think it is. I guess someone who only speaks english will not have a hard time living in Berlin or Vienna for example.
Would be nice if it had some springs to have the different parts try to go back to their original position by themselves.
Are you trolling or never used email?
Yes - the goal is to give her exposure and teach her a way of thinking through a problem in an algorithmic manner. FWIW -> mom has been into programming a while ago before she picked up growth marketing.
> Not everyone is going to see those emails and even those that do may not understand what they are reading.

If that's the case, these companies/people have no business using cloud services. Fair enough that you might not understand the ramification, in that case you contact support. If you don't see those email... that's on you. We operate out of a number of datacenters, they all communicate via email, giving us one month to three notice regarding service windows. If we fail to plan for an outage because we didn't see an email, that's our problem. I don't know why anyone would expect more from a SaaS company.

For really large customers, I would assume that they have a customer service representative and yes that person should have called. If you're just a small customer (even if you might be big in your own mind) and just have an account that get billed to a company credit card each month, it's a little naive to think you'd get anything more than an email.

We've already seen a number SaaS company just shutting of customers for little to no reason, even AWS has done this. Running things in the cloud is a risk, and it's you job as the operations team to stay on top of things, have backup plan, because you cannot expect cloud vendors to care about some random customer who just signed up using a credit card and a nondescript email. They should, but they don't.

A good rule is: Don't expect a SaaS/cloud company to put in more effort contacting you than you did signing up.
Writing a 'book' early in your career definitely sounds like it could open doors but that's a clear edge case. I'm talking about internal documentation. I don't think it's reasonable to put the entire onus of communication on the writer and I've never seen a company value engineers who put large amounts of time into perfecting documentation.

It's completely alien to me that people here seem to believe engineers should be spending time making requirements and architecture documents more engaging. You're paid to read the thing, just read it.
FWIW, I'm under the impression (while not being an expert), that plastics actually have pretty good recyclability and just suffer an "image problem" for reasons unrelated to the actual physical properties of the material. -- e.g. "Great Pacific garbage patch", but that's just because plastic floats and someone didn't take the trouble to recycle stuff before dumping it, not because it's impossible to do that kind of recycling; Or "Microplastics" which are nasty because of their form factor, not necessarily because of the material; Or because of applications where there are paper-based alternatives and paper has a leg up due to being a renewable material.

For example, according to a very entertaining little book I have [1] that debunks greenness-myths, you need to use a cotton tote bag 130 times before you reach a break even in terms of economical footprint with using plastic shopping bags. Ironically, people's homes are filling up with cotton bags now, because you keep getting them as advertising gifts by every brand that's trying to brand itself as green, and you're often forced to buy them when you're at the supermarket and forgot to bring yours, and they've run out of paper bags and are not offering plastic for fear of perceptions of un-green-ness.

[1] "Is it really green?" by Melissa Hemsley
Keep it simple and stupid
Books and libraries have existed for thousands of years. It’s copyright that is the young intruder.

Most people who write non-fiction books do it because they want to contribute to human knowledge and be recognized as an expert in a particular field, not because they think that writing a differential geometry textbook is their path to riches. With the internet, more and more text books are made freely available by their authors - the reason this didn’t happen in the past is because there was no other way to pass knowledge around than teaming up with a publisher who is able to put your knowledge on to dead trees. It’s fair game to put older books on the internet, so that the whole world can benefit, not just rich people in rich countries.
seatd isn't just about multi-seat. In fact, seatd doesn't even support multi-seat at the moment. See this post for more details: https://lists.sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/seatd-devel/%3C3561460.kQ...
You can't expect anything from version numbers used for marketing purposes anyway, in fact it was also frequent for such products to have internal version numbers that are much more consistent (e.g. Windows). You can do the exact same thing with the semantic versioning---you don't have to increment by exactly one. That practice is irrelevant here.
It all started back in late 2016 (guess why), I'd say that by 2018-2019 the momentum was already strong enough for the general population to also get hold of it.

It all culminated in the summer or 2020 (for the Anglo- and Anglo-influenced world, at least), but, hopefully, I'd say that right now we're in the middle of a vibe shift. Evidence number one is the launch of Threads itself, which feels like the launch of a dead carcass out in the sea.

All this to say that the OP is correct, social media is dead.
> A study of heavily exposed workers

Those are a very small part of the affected ones, probably firefighters or 3M production workers. Remember that the dosage makes the poison.
That still means you'd have to show the user actually made a copy themselves - that's different than learning they possess one.
You'd be surprised to see how much old industrial machinery is still being used around the world, even in other developed countries. Machines like these are a huge investment, so as long as they are still working flawlessly (and I imagine that the Japanese take maintenance seriously, so the machines will be working flawlessly), it's hard to justify replacing them. So they use punch cards for the patterns, what's the problem? And I imagine the computer system is only needed when new punch cards have to be produced, which won't happen that often - for existing patterns, they can use the existing punch cards.
aydyn posted this in the above thread:

"A doubling of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) in maternal serum was associated with a 39% (p < 0.001) reduction in diphtheria antibody concentration in children (age 5 yr), with increased odds of falling below clinically protective values against diphtheria and tetanus at age 7 yr."

> A study of heavily exposed workers (n = 462, geometric mean serum PFOA of 4048 ng/mL) detected significantly increased incident mortality for cirrhosis (relative risk = 3.87, 95% CI 1.18–12.7) and liver cancer (relative risk = 6.69, 95% CI 1.71–26.2)
Thank you so much.

As I mentioned, my definition was just different. And I didn't even mean to gatekeep. My spirit was: "if I can do it, many more people definitely can, too". So I went on and shared an outline of my journey. That's all.

No hard feelings.
There was a small bug with the button on some browsers - should be fixed now :)
It also doesn't help that making a profit is hard especially from user driven content which advertisers are uncertain about.

You can try making your platform advertiser friendly but stuff that isn't advertising friendly tends to be the best way to hook users...
He didn't "run with it". He was actively deceptive.
Because I’m the customer.

> Why do they need to move mountains so that you can avoid any seriousness about your own operations?

You won’t stay in business for long with that attitude.
Kubernetes SidecarContainers feature is merged
Counting Sheep on the Chajnantor Plateau
I simply do not use the reef knot. I instead do a taut knot then a few overhand knots over them then another taut knot in the opposite direction, so that the shoe remains secured to the foot even if it would mean ripping the feet away from the legs.
Like the Trump-Russia files?
> This is certainly a better result than the Purdue opioid lawsuit where the Sackler family received immunity and in exchange for a $6B settlement.

Nothing of note was accomplished. People just switched to fentanyl.
Link to a non-paywalled site?
> They might! There is certainly some evidence of that, but the evidence is not remotely clear cut. This is not as simple as the linkage between cigarette smoking and lung cancer, for instance.

Wasn’t that exactly big tobacco’s and then the global warmers’ playbook? And yet, it turns out that the effects are very real but much damage done and hundreds of billions earned while we were discussing the wrong thing.
I misread your comment.

Ignore mine.
The internet's town square will not exist no more because quasi-normal people will divide themselves by their usage of some brand of microblog thing? What a stupid take.

A great portion of thought diversity got out of Twitter (be it for quitting or reduced usage or using it thinking of the optics) between 2015 and 2017, and hasn't been regained at all during the Tumblr porn ban.

I instead infer that, for that same reason, the Internet's global flamewar arena is dead for now.
ill gladly bang the drum about how insulated the HN bubble is, but this opinion specifically is bizarre to me. why does this have to be one size fits all? when someone walks in and says "i know i want this, let me buy it" how is it unreasonable to expect Apple to realize that it can skip the default flow?
I worked for a fledgling consultancy in 1995, and we spent a small fortune on a 4GB drive for the network server (which was HUGE in those days - in my previous role the entire IT department of 20-ish people had a 4GB shared network space to work off, which was plenty. Having that on a single drive in a single box was cutting-edge!). The drive took ~5s to spin up, and made this incredible "vvvvvvmmmmm" noise as it did so, as the inertia of god-know-how-many disk platters was overcome by the motor. Once running, the machine then took another 30s+ to actually boot up into Windows NT, making clunking and whirring noises all the time.

Booting this monster up was the morning ritual, together with getting the coffee machine brewing and opening the blinds. Sometimes I hear a similar sound of an electric motor fighting inertia, and it always takes me back to those days.
Threads surpasses 100M users
if your account uploads 100 books to bibliotik, it's immune to ratio requirements. world's away.
>>>While that's a nice fantasy, it's not the reality.

I was responding to many of OPs bullet list focused towards the government.

I mean it is the supreme law of the land. So I am confident it is not fantasy. That the people only need to assert their rights, that is the fantasy.
> in the real world, no not everything is in focus all of the time. i'm currently sitting 38" away from the wall, my monitor is 8" from the wall. If I'm focused on the monitor, the objects hanging on the wall are not in focus.

But that is also the case in VR so I’m not sure why one would consider “everything to be in focus” which is what my question is getting at (why do people say that). If I focus on something in VR the objects behind it will also go out of focus. Unlike in cinema where a camera has to choose what is in focus, in VR our eyes choose what to focus on just like in the real world.
I invoke my rights under the 5th…
I hope this point of view wins eventually. It's the only sensible one.
Lemmy.world (and some others) were hacked
Reminds me a little of a lot of interns who all want to "lead". Doing the work is lower class. There is more money in talking about work.
ahhh ok, it's just a matter of concentration. So let's fill up the earth and oceans until we reach the safe concentration level and see what happens.

(and let the future generations clean the mess if it turns out we missed a few factor in the computation of the "safe" level).

come on. At some point we will have to understand that, no, we can not accept an hypothetical risk because the objective gains are bigger. Hypothetical risk should be made objective before starting any kind of production of chemicals at any large scale. The world is already filled with dangersous stuff. Enough is enough.

The big issue is that usually the balance is: "a bit of a health concern" versus "huge economical benefits". We're comparing apples and oranges.
KEP: https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/...

TLDR: Introduce a restartPolicy field to init containers and use it to indicate that an init container is a sidecar container. Kubelet will start init containers with restartPolicy=Always in the order with other init containers, but instead of waiting for its completion, it will wait for the container startup completion.
What you described could be summarized as ”useless”.